Seriously, I haven run out of things to say about this team. Don’t tell me it’s Week Two–not for the fans. Don’t tell me that this is a new team–doesn’t look like it. Kelly C. Hair sent me this last night and I think it sums it up pretty well:
I was trying to post on JIC but I couldn’t figure it out, maybe it’s because I’m half drunk and pissed. I know in the big picture that this game really won’t mean that much come January, but can’t we win at least one of these big games that everyone in the damn nation is watching? The NFL world was thinking that we could play with these guys, but we would find a way to lose, and that’s what happened. I could write a novel going into specifics, but in my opinion we thoroughly got outcoached, and it didn’t take the “genius” that everyone says Belicheck is to do it. How many times do we have to run it on first down? I love Tolbert, and he is a great player, but why do we use our all world QB to hand the ball off to him on the goal line when everyone knows that’s exactly what we are going to do? I’m offically off of the Norv Turner bandwagon. I’m trying to keep the faith, but I realistically predict an AFC west crown against weak competition and getting outcoached in the playoffs as usual. And if you ask me, it can’t come soon enough, because our next coach has to be better than our last two.
I wouldn’t say that Norv has a bandwagon, but I know what Kelly is trying to say. Tolbert is not quite excellent, either. However, he should not have been told to run that play on the goal line. How about the draw I keep yelling for? Then again, Tolbert’s fumble was the final nail in the coffin. Mathews looked like he was really starting to push other guys around, but our history would suggest that if Norv kept him in he’d be the one to cough it up. We are still the cruelest joke of all in the NFL. I have never liked Norv, but I can’t plead for something that should have happened a while back. I still remember Darren Smith asking Kevin Acee before our last playoff implosion where AJ GAVE NORV AN EXTENSION “what if by some chance the Chargers fall apart in their first playoff game?” I can’t remember Acee’s response because it doesn’t matter. Tim Sullivan’s column today in the U-T summed up what we have been saying all along:
“Until that trend is reversed, the Bolts will be prone to look better on paper than in the (extensively inked) flesh. They will continue to be portrayed as a team of extraordinary talent and inadequate poise; too soft in hard times; too susceptible to self-inflicted wounds; too careless to become champions.” The NY Daily News also called one of the most underacheiving franchises in football (early 90s Oilers, anyone?). I won’t say that it is just a hiccup until this team goes 4-1. That’s insane if you have been watching the Chargers. The only thing about them that would surprise me is their winning the Super Bowl. I hate saying that but I hate even more that it’s the truth.
The idea is to Bolt others, not yourself.
RLW
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