2023 Official Roster Build Thread - The Initial 53 / Practice Squad

[Boltnut]

You are correct. Saying it doesn't make it true. Witnessing it does.

Studies have shown that mistaken eyewitness testimony accounts for about half of all wrongful convictions. Researchers at Ohio State University examined hundreds of wrongful convictions and determined that roughly 52 percent of the errors resulted from eyewitness mistakes.

The Game Day Threads... LOL! People see what they want to see. Lets just say... I'm unimpressed.

[Boltnut]

Personally, the curse repulses me.

Curses are for the soft-minded.

[jamrock]

And the Bengals... and the Eagles... and the 49ers... and the Dolphins... and the Cowboys...
Do you even remember the number of teams ahead of us for the last playoff spot around Week 13 or 14...?

That was a lot of "Chargering"... only it wasn't the Chargers. It was the Pats... the Jets... the Titans.

None of those teams have raised snatching defeat from the jaws of victory to an art form like the Chargers.

Again, you're including teams that have been dynasties. They've gotten over the hump multiple times. You might be missing the full scope

[jamrock]

The Game Day Threads... LOL! People see what they want to see. Lets just say... I'm unimpressed.

Its all available on youtube. Don't have to rely on unreliable eyewitness testimony.

[jamrock]

Personally, the curse repulses me.

#metoo

[Boltnut]

Its all available on youtube. Don't have to rely on unreliable eyewitness testimony.

Oh... on Youtube. Well now I'm impressed!

[Boltnut]

None of those teams have raised snatching defeat from the jaws of victory to an art form like the Chargers.

Again, you're including teams that have been dynasties. They've gotten over the hump multiple times. You might be missing the full scope

And how did those past dynasties work out for them this last year...?
I guess Eli Manning was better than Tom Brady...?
Earnest Byner called... he wants his ball back...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfWrClt7M2I

Football is a difficult game... sometimes the best teams don't always win.
It has nothing to do with curses... or getting over the hump...
Any Given Sunday... that's what I believe in.
You guys should get together and have a pre-season seance.

[jamrock]

And how did those past dynasties work out for them this last year...?
I guess Eli Manning was better than Tom Brady...?
Earnest Byner called... he wants his ball back...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfWrClt7M2I

Football is a difficult game... sometimes the best teams don't always win.
It has nothing to do with curses... or getting over the hump...
Any Given Sunday... that's what I believe in.
You guys should get together and have a pre-season seance.

Wait is that a YouTube link? Now I’m impressed!!

[Kellyb72601]

Injuries are impossible to predict.
Who are your "fringe starters" at "important positions" this year...?
Because almost every single important position (QB, OT, OC, WR, DE, CB) is pretty solid, starter-wise.

Yeah the starters are better than I can remember in a very long time. I really hope I’m wrong but I worry about the safety depth - D James always manages to knock himself out for a couple of games. Corner depth also concerns me I’m assuming JC Jackson is done until proven otherwise and that leaves us 1 injury away from a catastrophe there with J Taylor having to start outside & someone with zero NFL snaps playing nickel. Defensively I’m concerned about an “old, slow, and soft” vibe. I think Kendricks is overall a downgrade from Tranquill and he plays old and slow. Tranquill was a sideline to sideline speed demon that gave this defense a lot of oomph in key spots and that’s gonna be missed. Bosa and Mack are both getting up there in age & we have nothing behind them. Interior Dline was always going to be average at best.

Offensively Im concerned there will be growing pains with Kellen Moore & the new offense & the schedule is such it doesn’t allow for growing pains. I’m in the process of going through tons of Dallas games and have seen zero evidence of the 3 & 4 wide Air Coryell aerial assault everyone seems to be predicting.

[CanadianBoltFan]

Yup, it’s real.

45 years in as a Charger fan...sadly...yup its a thing

Its also a thing in the national media that wont stop until the Chargers stop doing stuff like the playoffs last year or actually win some big games, not just be close

[SBbound]

Curses are for the soft-minded.

Curses are real except for coincidences and everything else.

[CanadianBoltFan]

I don't look at Chargering as only dumb plays like Marlon McCree or collapses like the Jags, though that is the most annoying kind...but is also covers Charger luck...like ridiculous injury luck many year...like getting to the AFC Final only to have have our big 3 Rivers, Gates and LT all injured...or a big hype year last year and having 6 pro bowl studs injured before we can blink