Chargers Lose Again, Weren't Competitive

I had actually sat down and was ready to get a post up on the past Chargers game yesterday but really had nothing new to say...2 days after the game has ended, I am in the same predicament.  The Chargers continue to lose games in the same fashion as they do each week this season...

Phillip Rivers...right when you think he might be turning the corner and making better decisions, throws two interceptions, with one being at a critical time of the game and was really unnecessary.  The offensive line is awful.  Ryan Mathews, the Chargers 2nd year runningback is doing what he has been known to do and that is fumbling.  Mathews, like Rivers, had a turnover at a point in the game when the Chargers could have made the game interesting.  Instead, with the Chargers lowly defense, the Bears would coast to an easy victory.

Norv Turner pulled a move that I blast coaches for all the time and that is a waste of a timeout...On a questionable play Norv decided to take a timeout to stop the clock and then after the timeout decided to challenge a questionable call which, anyone could have seen, would likely not be overturned...thus, using two timeouts at the same time.  If the play was that questionable, you should have just thrown the challenge flag and not even bother using the first timeout...some have said that the timeout needed to be called and the challenge was an afterthought...well then the coaches need to change their thinking...if you plan on using a timeout, just throw your challenge flag out on the previous play with no reason at all...what's the worst that's going to happen?  Oh yeah, you use a timeout which is what you wanted to do in the first place...

I was hoping that this Charger team would mirror a Charger team of 30 years ago when the Chargers made the playoffs as a wild card and was the team that made me a Charger fan.  That team, 30 years ago, struggled too in the regular season but not in the same manner as this team.  The 2011 Chargers look completely dysfunctional at this time...the secondary is a complete joke...Jammer who once was a shutdown corner is getting burned on a regular basis and Cason and Gilchrist couldn't cover a slug...together.  The defensive line is just as bad as the offensive line and the Chargers are never too shy to get plenty of penalties to help the opposing team.

Tim Tebow is next on the card for the Chargers and Tebow almost beat the Chargers, himself, in the quarter and a half he played earlier this year so I think he will be able to really pile up some numbers this week against a Charger team that has shown it can't stop anyone, anytime.