[CBFF] Tank Johnson gets 8 games

[Ross McCoy]

Actually, Philip Rivers did a very good job NOT making mistakes last year.
I agree any young QB who is expected to win a game for a team has the 
potental to get rattled, but sticking to a gameplan of run LT to open the
field for Rivers worked well for them last year. Rivers ended up with 22 TDs 
and 9 Ints for the season in comparison to Grossman's 23 TDs and 20 Ints.
Even with the advantage Rivers had with LT in the backfield, I would
gladly do a swap of QBs with SD... That and the SD game is going to be
where we will most miss Tank due to LTs ability to either jam it up
the middle or take it outside. Our LBs are good, but if they have to
tackle LT every time, SD will win the game. We need to stop him at the
line to start forcing the pass...

Ross

Victor Waldron (victor19 at gmail.com) writes:
> > Chargers hopefully have swelled heads from last year... We will only win this
> >   game if at least one of the following happen:
> >   1) LT gets injured
> >   2) our offense and offensive decision making take a huge leap forward
> >   3) They get very complacent (I don't think this will happen with LT healthy
> >      and Rivera will make sure the D isn't complacent for this game)
> 
> This is a very pessimistic outlook, Ross. I don't think LT has to get
> injured. Maybe LT has never faced as good a LB corp as we have plus
> we'll have Mike Brown in the lineup, so maybe we keep him bottled up
> all afternoon. It could happen.
> 
> Take away LT and they become very shaky on offense. Rivers is prone to
> mistakes (as is Grossman), but I think if we reasonably neutralize LT
> and we win the turnover battle we will come away with a W.
> 
> V
> 
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