Excellent way to place the words:

All they had to do was to keep the Broncos out of the end zone with a fourth and goal at the four-yard line. They couldn’t. So then all they had to do was to prevent a two-point conversion with their vaunted defense. They couldn’t.

point blank

Before the Chargers fans come down on the referee, they had better consider the multiple failures of their fallen heroes, which really caused their defeat.

But they won’t. It figures.

The Chargers wouldn’t have won the game on a Cutler fumble, the Broncos would have lost it on a fluky play. In any case, this game showed both teams to be very evenly matched. That’s a huge difference from last season.

which is almost always the difference between winning and losing.

I think SD forgot that when they beat Indy last year they get a break as well on an early whistle. Indy got an INT in the endzone and ran it back all the way only to have a whistle blow the play dead making them start at the 20 instead.

This morning on the local whinefest, errr sports station they played a soound bite of Jeff Fisher (2nd best coach in the NFL IMO) saying sure a mistake was made, but that it didnt cost Sd the game, He said their defense did by not stopping Denver on 4th and goal and on the duece. Since he is the head of the competition committee the question was posed will there be a change to the early/inadvertant whistle and he said no. Gotta love it when a coach of another team flat says what should be said. My favorite part of all this was when the local hosts said Fisher should mind his own business. It just goes to the point that the truth hurts.

However, with all that happened in last Sunday’s game, there is one thing that I haven’t heard discussed much. Think about how much confidence Mike Shanahan placed in a rookie WR named Eddie Royal to not only go to him for the TD on 4th down at the end of the game but to go right back to him on the two point conversion. Furthermore, Royal was the clear target for the TD on the unfortunate interception throw by Cutler. It is incredible to me that a rookie in his second NFL game has already earned the confidence from Bates and Shanahan to be the go to guy when the game is on the line. I know Royal’s talent has been previously discussed at length, but…WOW!!!

but i’m going to answer the question in the title of this post. yes, they are. for the following reasons: 64-6, 4 out of 5, 1-point loss, no merriman, cooper, hardwick, …, a banged up lt/gates/cromartie, on the road, better defense and special teams, back-back division titles/playoff win, and more experience. i don’t think you can take 1 win and change all of this in our favor, but i’m willing to hear an argument, not based on the potential future. i hate them, too, but we caught them at a good time, and we better improve to have a chance in the rematch when they are healthy and at home. this is not going to go over well in la-la land, but someone had to say it. now, you may punish me

…we had Everclear left over from a large party (jungle juice). So a couple of nights later we concocted one of the greatest drinks I’ve had to this day. We took lemonade and made lemon cider, just as you would with apple juice, and mixed it with the Everclear. The drink was incredible; however, the next day was one of the absolute worst of my life. Needless to say…don’t drink things that you can clean your VCR (remember those?) with!