Official Charger Season Discussion - News - Roster Moves - Injuries

[blueman]

Not about the number of injuries, but who: if multiple Pro Bowlers are out, no amount of reasonable depth can make up for the loss of top talent. Depth is depth for a reason, elite players are effing elite - until they can’t play. Last year we were missing a Pro Bowl LT, a Pro Bowl CB, a Pro Bowl EDGE, and had a Pro Bowl QB who couldn’t throw downfield the way he wanted to, our mid-round RB pick we were hopeful about was out all year, lost our top two Pro Bowl WRs for significant stretches…I mean shit, of course the team is gonna look pedestrian with all that going on. Other teams lost starters, big deal, not the same as losing top players in the entire league at multiple positions.

[Boltnut]

Its not about the injuries we had last year, its about the lack of depth and coaching. The Chiefs and 49ers, Bills and Eagles all had more injuries than the Chargers last season. We have had poor drafting and suspect HCing! This is why we were 1 and done last season, period ! The Mike Williams injury will always and forever be tied to BS and his coaching.

https://www.statmuse.com/nfl/ask/202...t-injured-team

This is not even remotely true.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/sdg/2022_injuries.htm

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/kan/2022_injuries.htm

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/buf/2022_injuries.htm

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/sfo/2022_injuries.htm

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/phi/2022_injuries.htm

[CanadianBoltFan]

Not about the number of injuries, but who: if multiple Pro Bowlers are out, no amount of reasonable depth can make up for the loss of top talent. Depth is depth for a reason, elite players are effing elite - until they can’t play. Last year we were missing a Pro Bowl LT, a Pro Bowl CB, a Pro Bowl EDGE, and had a Pro Bowl QB who couldn’t throw downfield the way he wanted to, our mid-round RB pick we were hopeful about was out all year, lost our top two Pro Bowl WRs for significant stretches…I mean shit, of course the team is gonna look pedestrian with all that going on. Other teams lost starters, big deal, not the same as losing top players in the entire league at multiple positions.

I agree with you there. There can be stats that other teams had more man games lost to injuries or whatever but NO team lost more impact Pro Bowl players than the Chargers last year.

[dmac_bolt]

I agree with you there. There can be stats that other teams had more man games lost to injuries or whatever but NO team lost more impact Pro Bowl players than the Chargers last year.

I tried to read that statmuse page, I didn’t see the key injury stats on the page.

Granted - I am scheduled for cataract surgery in a month so …

[electricgold]

This is not even remotely true.

https://www.pro-football-reference.c...2_injuries.htm

https://www.pro-football-reference.c...2_injuries.htm
https://www.pro-football-reference.c...2_injuries.htm
https://www.pro-football-reference.c...2_injuries.htm
https://www.pro-football-reference.c...2_injuries.htm

No mater what you can't really blame injuries on losing to the Jags because we were the more talented team! We can always make excuses every season and blame something but the fact of the matter is coaching and depth is the main reason we were one and done, before you start saying it was because of injuries. The MW injury is on BS and if he sits in the Bronco game he plays in the playoffs. TT's pick of Palmer should of came in that game and produced in place of MW, but he didn't.

So this year if the usual suspects like Allen, Bosa, Derwin, MW or JC or one of our olineman or DB's go down we can start using that as excuses again as well. Nope depth and coaching has been our major weakness and lack of response to injuries so far and if a bunch of injuries happen again and we don't have at least 1 playoff win its time to clean house. It gets to a point where enough is enough The 49ers lose their starting QB and still manage to win because they have good coaching and depth.

[powderblueboy]

No mater what you can't really blame injuries on losing to the Jags because we were the more talented team! We can always make excuses every season and blame something but the fact of the matter is coaching and depth is the main reason we were one and done, before you start saying it was because of injuries. The MW injury is on BS and if he sits in the Bronco game he plays in the playoffs. TT's pick of Palmer should of came in that game and produced in place of MW, but he didn't.

So this year if the usual suspects like Allen, Bosa, Derwin, MW or JC or one of our olineman or DB's go down we can start using that as excuses again as well. Nope depth and coaching has been our major weakness and lack of response to injuries so far and if a bunch of injuries happen again and we don't have at least 1 playoff win its time to clean house. It gets to a point where enough is enough The 49ers lose their starting QB and still manage to win because they have good coaching and depth.

You forgot Slater. You also need luck to advance deep in the playoffs.
Vato went down against the Jags and I think Pipkens also went down, because Sarrell was out there in the 2nd half.
Bosa rushed coming back and was ineffective.

That's a lot of people out. For starters, your starting outside corners & your starting OTs were MIA in Jacksonville in the 2nd half.
Those are crucial positions.

[electricgold]

You forgot Slater. You also need luck to advance deep in the playoffs.
Vato went down against the Jags and I think Pipkens also went down, because Sarrell was out there in the 2nd half.
Bosa rushed coming back and was ineffective.

That's a lot of people out. For starters, your starting outside corners & your starting OTs were MIA in Jacksonville in the 2nd half.
Those are crucial positions.

I've noticed the teams that usually always win and ultimately play in the superbowl usually always have good coaching and good depth first with a Franchise QB or a QB that doesn't lose games for you. We have the franchise QB but have not had good coaching and depth, to this point. The results have been no playoffs year 1 and one and done year 2... We'll see if this draft has been enough to get us a the very least a playoff win in addressing depth, but our coaching last season was only good enough to beat 1 team with a winning record. I really believe TT needs to do something with bringing in a few more vet players that are out there to give us better depth. Cook or Floyd, could be good signings. BS' first year resulted in no playoffs, do you blame injures for missing the playoffs year 1 under BS? His first 2 seasons here have been pretty similar!

[CanadianBoltFan]

NO excuses for the playoff game debacle. They had enough players and lead to win that game. Shameful

[sonorajim]

NO excuses for the playoff game debacle. They had enough players and lead to win that game. Shameful

There were reasons why we got that lead and reasons why we lost. but I agree, it was winnable. The proverbial one more play would have done it.
It may have been just as well. Herbert needed surgery on his left shoulder and the next hit could have made it much worse.
It was what it was.
Let's play 2023!

[sonorajim]

https://twitter.com/ZoneTracks/statu...brandon-staley

The NFLPA may have done us a favor with that survey. We replaced head trainer Mitchell shortly after the results became known.

[sonorajim]

I've noticed the teams that usually always win and ultimately play in the superbowl usually always have good coaching and good depth first with a Franchise QB or a QB that doesn't lose games for you. We have the franchise QB but have not had good coaching and depth, to this point. The results have been no playoffs year 1 and one and done year 2... We'll see if this draft has been enough to get us a the very least a playoff win in addressing depth, but our coaching last season was only good enough to beat 1 team with a winning record. I really believe TT needs to do something with bringing in a few more vet players that are out there to give us better depth. Cook or Floyd, could be good signings. BS' first year resulted in no playoffs, do you blame injures for missing the playoffs year 1 under BS? His first 2 seasons here have been pretty similar!

9-8 Year 1 roster- a lot of holes,
10-7 Year 2 roster- paper tigers spent too much time out or played injured like Herbert.
A lot has changed, coaches, trainers, depth, off season prep. Player health.
Third time's the Charm!

[dmac_bolt]

No mater what you can't really blame injuries on losing to the Jags because we were the more talented team! We can always make excuses every season and blame something but the fact of the matter is coaching and depth is the main reason we were one and done, before you start saying it was because of injuries. The MW injury is on BS and if he sits in the Bronco game he plays in the playoffs. TT's pick of Palmer should of came in that game and produced in place of MW, but he didn't.

So this year if the usual suspects like Allen, Bosa, Derwin, MW or JC or one of our olineman or DB's go down we can start using that as excuses again as well. Nope depth and coaching has been our major weakness and lack of response to injuries so far and if a bunch of injuries happen again and we don't have at least 1 playoff win its time to clean house. It gets to a point where enough is enough The 49ers lose their starting QB and still manage to win because they have good coaching and depth.

49ers played with a “backup” qb until they had to play an inferior backup QB and then they got beat like a drum in embarrassing fashion. It was a slaughter - despite them still having the same coach. Credit them for picking the most relevant Mr Irrelevant in league history.

if we lose all of our best players again, they yeah we’ll have problems again. Let’s just assume we won’t have so many stars all injured at the same time in 2023. After all, it’s the year of the ….