How Talented Is This Team Really?

[ghost]

The Chargers seem to have the talent - but the coaches are not putting them in a scheme that works or coaching them corrctly or they have the wrong players for the schemed

55 plays of over 30 yards in the passing game in 36 regular season games. Thats terrible.

I can count 4 defensive personals fouls off the top of my head in the last three losses. That's terrible.

[Bolt4Knob]

I can count 4 defensive personals fouls off the top of my head in the last three losses. That's terrible.

Bosa had two against the Jags - well both unsportsmanlike after the plays. The second one literally cost a point - when he was 10 feet away where he could have gone ballistic on the water cooler. Such lack of discipline
Bosa had a facemask against Miami
SJD and Murray had late hits on the QBs. SJD hitting Tannehill lead to an extra 4 points,. Murray was added to the end of the play - so half the distance.

So thats 5 right there.

This idea this is a talented defense doesn't square with the actual results. Its a below -average defense of players we have heard of.

[ghost]

Bosa had two against the Jags - well both unsportsmanlike after the plays. The second one literally cost a point - when he was 10 feet away where he could have gone ballistic on the water cooler. Such lack of discipline
Bosa had a facemask against Miami
SJD and Murray had late hits on the QBs. SJD hitting Tannehill lead to an extra 4 points,. Murray was added to the end of the play - so half the distance.

So thats 5 right there.

This idea this is a talented defense doesn't square with the actual results. Its a below -average defense of players we have heard of.

Ask yourself when you saw a championship team commit those kind of penalties: Belichick, Shanahan, Reid. You don't.

[jaguarmanftype]

Tuli is the next Aaron Donald.

[ghost]

Let's remember that some defensive playcalls and execution were money on Sunday. Over-load principles and stunts are effective, but lethal when overused.

[Bolt4Knob]

Ask yourself when you saw a championship team commit those kind of penalties: Belichick, Shanahan, Reid. You don't.

55 pass plays of over 30 years in two years and two games. I can't remember the Jags game - but the last two quarters plus the drive before half - they had there way too

Defenses like the saints, jets, steelers - why can't the chargers figure out a way to get a competitve defense on the field.

[jaguarmanftype]

Let's remember that some defensive playcalls and execution were money on Sunday. Over-load principles and stunts are effective, but lethal when overused.

Man, Tuli pancaked the TN RG with one arm on one of the plays -- just trucked him. Holy crap.

[Bolt4Knob]

Man, Tuli pancaked the TN RG with one arm on one of the plays -- just trucked him. Holy crap.

I will be positive - Tuli is looking darn good! Keep playing him

Give him a bunch of snaps

[jaguarmanftype]

I will be positive - Tuli is looking darn good! Keep playing him

Give him a bunch of snaps

They tried double teaming him on the edge too, and he just high stepped through them. Crazy. The two sacks Bosa got was mostly Tuli's work -- hell, a half of a sack should have been credited to him. Guy moves like Micah Parsons out there.

[ghost]

They tried double teaming him on the edge too, and he just high stepped through them. Crazy. The two sacks Bosa got was mostly Tuli's work -- hell, a half of a sack should have been credited to him. Guy moves like Micah Parsons out there.

Tuli is getting very good reviews, his bend-and-balance ability in avoiding defenders is extraordinary. Would be interesting to design a new wrinkle this week, and line up Bosa and Mack and Tuli and Fox on obvious passing downs. That would draw so much attention, the offense would miss a defensive call to create a gap and let Murray blitz into that lane. Freaking guy is like greased lightning.

[ghost]

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[AK47]

They tried double teaming him on the edge too, and he just high stepped through them. Crazy. The two sacks Bosa got was mostly Tuli's work -- hell, a half of a sack should have been credited to him. Guy moves like Micah Parsons out there.

Tuli made Bosa's job easier + allowed bosa to get re-energize on the sidelines.