Um USC could be a 10 win team this year.
Still very much a Charger fan, but I'm with Clipper Nation in that I'll have to rethink it if/when they move to LA. The owner is a piece of and my main prerogative for rooting for the Chargers is because they're from San Diego.I see you jumped right off that Charger bandwagon
Mariota may legitimately be a worse QB than Kraep is RIGHT NOW...
Rivers isn't getting traded. End of damn story.
I legitimately will become a Raider fan if it happens.
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JAMEIS WINSTON, QB
RS Sop re, Florida State
Yes, there are legitimate concerns about how Winston will do in the NFL on and off the field. He's now facing a civil suit as a result of the alleged sexual assault for which he was ultimately not charged, and Bucs head coach Lovie Smith has said that he'd be comfortable making Winston the face of the franchise—which he will certainly be, for better or worse. On the field, Winston is regarded as a pro-ready quarterback, but there are things that bedeviled him in the NCAA that will mess him up even more in the NFL—he's not always mechanically sound and he often fails to read more complex defenses. That's common among new NFL quarterbacks, to be sure, but the Bucs had better know what they're getting with this pick. As an upside player, Winston has the potential to be a plus-athlete with toughness and the ability to make every conceivable throw. We'll soon discover whether the risk/rewards leads a team to Winston as the first overall pick.
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MARCUS MARIOTA, QB
RS Junior, Oregon
** Projected trade with ans **Mariota's comfort level with multiple reads is often overblown—if you watch enough tape, you'll see him throwing accurately to his second and third receivers. He is not a generic option quarterback propped up by the system, invariably to fail in the NFL. Instead, Mariota should be seen as a player with a need for developmental time at the next level. He'll need to learn to call plays and embrace a far more complicated playbook than he had at Oregon.
"It starts with the snap count," ESPN's Jon Gruden told me this week, when I asked him about Mariota's inevitable adjustment. "A lot of these quarterbacks don't even have a snap count. They use silent counts in the shotgun, and 'Set, go!' on every single play. They've never used a hard count. They haven't been asked to recognize a problem in the defense and audible. There are a lot of things that are going to be new. That whole process of the snap count, calling plays, recognizing coverages—getting your offense in an optimal display—it will be a process. But some of these coaches are really good, and we have a little bit more time at the NFL level than we do at the college level."
One coach that is very good at transitioning potentially overwhelmed young quarterbacks to the NFL is Chargers coach Mike McCoy, who came into national prominence when he created a first-read open offense for Tim Tebow in 2011, back when he was Denver's offensive coordinator. McCoy will make himself entirely familiar with what Mariota can and can't do at this point, and he'll adjust accordingly.
Considering he just turned down a "serious contract extension" according to San Diego sports radio, he's gone.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/...r-than-a-fact/
Sez Me …LaDainian Tomlinson was a great running back. For my dough — what there is of it — one of the 10 best. And while I may not know much about much, running backs are in my wheelhouse.
But LT as a news source? Well, I know a bit about them, too, and let’s just say he can drop the ball, butter-larynxed.
This past week LT went on Darren Smith’s afternoon 1090 radio gabfest discussing the likelihood of the rather remarkable/ridiculous notion — former teammate, Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers, being traded to Tennessee for the ans’ No. 2 overall pick in Thursday’s first round of the NFL Draft — having more than legs. According to LT, it’s crossed the finish line.
This little transaction of course — naturally! — would allow San Diego to draft Marcus Mariota, Oregon’s Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback.
Tomlinson sounded strong, convinced, knowing what he was talking about. And if you didn’t know better — it was LT, so why think otherwise? — you would have thought he knew this situation cold, things many people (including the Chargers, apparently) didn’t realize.
That is, of course, until he later put the ball on the ground.
Here’s what he told Darren, who is no rube:
“I don’t know if it makes sense. You never want to trade your franchise quarterback; that’s never the case.”
Never, but in this case, yes?
“However,” he continued, “they may have no choice to do so because I don’t know if Philip wants to be there anymore. I think he’s lost confidence in the organization. He’s seeing a lot of changes going on and the L.A. thing is valid; him not wanting to go to L.A., that is very valid.”
Does he see Rivers being the Chargers’ QB next season? “I personally think it is a situation where Philip wants to move on. The reason why I feel like that is the Chargers have already approached Philip about doing another contract and he declined it. He doesn’t want anything to do with it. … That tells me he’s thinking about moving on.”
LT (correctly) surmised the parts around Rivers “keep on moving.”
Then this: “Philip could be looking at the situation and thinking we’re not close to winning a championship anytime soon.”
So Rivers feels he can go directly to stinking Tennessee and win a Super Bowl?
Juicy, but it became dry when Smith asked LT an unsexy question, like, “LT, when did you last speak to Philip?” Tomlinson’s answer: During training camp.
Fascinating. Last August, Carson wasn’t so much as a toxic waste dot on the Chargers’ map. So how could LT possibly be aware of how Rivers was feeling about moving to L.A., much less his feeling the quarterback was hankerin’ to go somewhere he can win a le? There is no sure place.
Bad, LT. Bad. But it’s April in the NFL, so he can be forgiven. …
The future is here.
So much for that Mariota trade huh spurraider21
trading up for a RB is arguably worse
Watch Gordon go for 300 yards on Oakland and Cooper get stuck on Verrett Island.trading up for a RB is arguably worse
never know man... i was at the game when doug martin went ape for 250 yards and 4 touchdowns, and i was at the game where foles threw 6 TD's (or was it 7, i dno)
Those great Chargers teams in the very beginning hd the best running back tantum in the league....Keith Lincoln/Paul Lowe. When they played in their one SB, they had Natrone Means. A strong case can be made that their best player ever was LT.
Smart move bringing in Gordon, they get it!
kiss of death
Now it's all but confirmed to be another atrocious Chargers draft pick.
And let's remember you said this, ok?
You will be reminded of that remark.
it's not that he's a bad player. it's that you can find talent at that position later in the draft... more so than any other
If you watched the draft on ESPN you saw what John Gruden thinks about running backs, he gets it as does anyone who really understands the game.
So why trade up for a RB?
How many times have we read..."if not for Marshawn Lynch"...?
I do agree we don't see the HUGE difference in backs like we do at other positions.
Gruden literally said he liked every pick... he pretty much had no original opinions on anything
Because our franchise is stupid and loves giving away draft picks. Telesco has traded our 4th round pick every single year he's been here, and AJ used to love to trade up as well. Even though history has almost always shown that trading up is re ed, this team keeps doing it anyway.
So you missed him and Kiper arguing about the value of the RB postion, right? How many times did Gruden say...and he was a first round pick? Gruden mentioned....Jim Brown, Tony Dorsett, Eric erson, Jerome Bettis, Emmitt Smith......where were you?Gruden literally said he liked every pick... he pretty much had no original opinions on anything
gruden also thought manziel shoulda gone #1 last yearGruden literally said he liked every pick... he pretty much had no original opinions on anything
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