Official Chargers Blog

• Liberian-born NFL safety signs with Cardinals
  Bhawoh Jue, a Liberian-born free agent defensive back, signed with the Arizona Cardinals on Thursday after having spent the past two seasons with the San Diego Chargers.
• Chiefs, Chargers going in opposite directions
  The laws of time are indisputable, and good thing, because otherwise you might want to double-check this fact.
• Despite a stuttering problem, Chargers return man Sproles is
  Darren Sproles etched his name in NFL lore earlier this month when he became just the ninth player in NFL history to return a kickoff and a punt for a touchdown in the same game.
• NFL salaries report: Ends earn top-tier money
  When it comes to paychecks in the NFL, the ends justify the means.

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• Tackle Olivea loses starting job to Clary
  In what already has been an unusual season, the Chargers yesterday made an unusual move.
• Loose Bolt tightens line
  Nick Hardwick walked through a doorway facing Norv Turner on Monday afternoon as the Chargers head coach was addressing the media.
• Wilhelm awed by production of his predecessor
  Matt Wilhelm replaced Donnie Edwards as a starting inside linebacker in the Chargers' defense and is quietly putting up similar tackle numbers.

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• Sacrifice flies with Chargers
  The Chargers have believed from the start of this season that they are rife with leaders.
• Chargers seek public's views as next step toward new home
  The Chargers' search for a new home in the county is nearing crunch time.
• Boo who? Rivers calls audible
  Not all of you, just the masses booing him and the rest of the Chargers offense.

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• Rivers doesn't deny telling booing fans to shut up
  Philip Rivers didn't deny that he told booing fans to shut up early in Sunday's game against the Baltimore Ravens.
• Those aren't boos you heard, it's fans chanting Leg-uh-dooo
  What is this, Philadelphia? On the second play, the fans booed. On the third play, they booed.
• Tomlinson isn't ready for shelf
  LaDainian Tomlinson seemed absolutely sobered by the idea that he has been around the NFL long enough - seven years - to gain 10,000 rushing yards.

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• Chargers looking for leadership; any takers?
  The Chargers were not as ready for Norv Turner as they thought.
• Struggling QB says Chargers on cusp of breakthrough
  Put away those statistics that show Philip Rivers has thrown more interceptions through 10 games than he did all of last season.
• Chargers win 5th of 7 with flourish, further brushing off start
  It had been a while since the San Diego Chargers looked this good.
• Rivers rises to occasion, carries big share of Chargers' offense
  This week's meeting of the Billy Volek Fan Club has been canceled for lack of a quorum.
• A sinking feeling for Ravens
  A week ago, Ravens coach Brian Billick said he wanted his players to hold on to their faint playoff hopes.
• With Gates open, case is closed by offense
  After a five-game slump, a key cog in the Chargers' offense returned to form yesterday.
• Kaeding happy to finally be a factor
  Nate Kaeding has not enjoyed this season. As his team has struggled, he has not been in position to do anything about it.
• Another lights-out production
  Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman learned something last week, and it had nothing to do with his emotional postgame outburst in Jacksonville.
• Chargers' run defense shows its good side
  Call the Chargers' run defense what you will ---- "Jekyll and Hyde" or "schizophrenic" should suffice for a group that has been inconsistent all season.
• Nothing plain about Merriman's game
  The fans reached a fever pitch just before that, but they weren't saluting one of Merriman's finest performances this season.
• Open Gates is fruitful for Chargers
  On Thanksgiving weekend, the Chargers remembered to count one of their blessings: Antonio Gates.
• Tomlinson reaches another milestone
  LaDainian Tomlinson became the 23rd player in NFL history to eclipse the 10,000-yard rushing mark.
• Chargers finally see team they remember
  Antonio Gates recognized something familiar, and the friendly spectacle made for a fun Sunday of reminiscing.

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• Holding their ground
  While the Ravens struggle in other areas, their proud run defense refuses to yield

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• Are Chargers oversold or underachievers?
  Which best describes the San Diego Chargers, the most disappointing team in the AFC?

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• Bears looking at Chargers' Roach
  The Sun-Times has learned this morning that the Bears are attempting to sign former Northwestern linebacker Nick Roach off the practice squad of the San Diego Chargers to fill their roster.
• Turner unable to help floundering Rivers
  When the San Diego Chargers hired Norv Turner to be their head coach, they had to know that he lacked charisma, leadership skills, motivational abilities and the winning touch.
• It's Powder Blue and Plasma: Chargers Seek Blood Donors
  The Chargers are sponsoring their 29th annual Blood Drive on Nov. 20 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Town and Country Convention Center at 500 Hotel Circle.
• Chargers day of giving
  The Chargers took a few hours yesterday to escape the reality of a season that has so far not been what they hoped.

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• Where's the passion? Chargers remain in funk
  For a guy who was rendered invisible Sunday, San Diego linebacker Shawne Merriman certainly made his presence known in the Chargers' locker room following
• Merriman downplays postgame criticism
  A day later, Shawne Merriman called off the dogs.
• Next one off the bandwagon, find a driver
  Here's the deal. The Chargers should get one of those old Marty Schottenheimer cheerleading tapes and play it in the locker room before games.
• Are players pressing?
  For all the things that have been proffered as possible reasons for the Chargers' underachieving their way to a .500 record so far this season...

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• Merriman questions Chargers' commitment
  People have waited all season for the Chargers to explode. One of them finally did.
• Chargers fall back to .500 with loss to Jags
  The Jacksonville Jaguars got a big boost from David Garrard's return.
• Dead flat average
  If the Chargers get into the playoffs, it appears they will do so tiptoeing . . . backward . . . while shrugging.
• Jacksonville's top tackler breaks hand, out indefinitely
  Jaguars linebacker Mike Peterson, the team's top tackler and locker room leader, broke his right hand during the game against the Chargers yesterday and will be sidelined indefinitely.
• Record of 2-2 in past four is small miracle
  While the Chargers are 2-2, the past four games have been pretty ugly statistically for them.
• Who cares why they're not winning?
  If Norv Turner has not yet lost the San Diego Chargers, it might be because some of them don't care enough to be bothered.
• Being better isn't good enough
  A third-down play here, a fourth-down decision there. A shaky penalty here, a debatable play call there.
• Playmaking skills? This Jag caught all off Garrard
  As he gathered his things and headed to the interview room Sunday afternoon, the heckles came in rapid fire at Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback David Garrard.
• Jags send Chargers down memory lane
  The moral of this story is that sometimes it's better to fall down before you get tripped up.

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• Chargers in need of a jolt
  They have a winning record and are in first place in the AFC West, yet they have been one of the NFL's more disappointing teams.
• Chargers face Jags and jet lag
  You fly, say, from here to New York City. Arriving, you sense you are on the ragged edge, not quite with it. You are experiencing what the Chargers have to deal with today in Jacksonville.
• For Chargers fans, good isn't quite good enough
  The reaction wasn't pretty. Fans screamed and they screamed loud and long. They wanted the coach canned, the quarterback benched, the playbook tossed ...

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• Jags' Garrard returns against Chargers
  David Garrard is expected to return as the Jacksonville Jaguars' starting quarterback when the team hosts the San Diego Chargers Sunday at 1 p.m.

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• Chargers tight end has hands full learning from third-graders
  Antonio Gates goes to an elementary school and winds up learning how much childhood has changed since he grew up.
• Chargers quarterback Rivers struggles with consistency, turnovers
  Nine games into the season, Rivers looks nothing like the Pro Bowl quarterback he was last season, his first as starter for the San Diego Chargers.

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• Players have found scapegoat in mirror
  Things look a lot better the next day, when all that matters is the victory, not whether it was aesthetically pleasing.
• Student brings All-Pro Chargers tight end to class with him
  For show and tell Tuesday, 9-year-old Kody Blankenbeckler had a more than just his mother's No. 85 San Diego Chargers jersey and his favorite sports facts to share

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• Did Dungy's delay dampen steady Vinatieri?
  “It's on me,” said Adam Vinatieri, manfully putting his failure to convert a 29-yard field goal attempt with 1:31 to play wholly on himself
• Lucky win can't erase troubling trends
  Peyton Manning, playing with his junior varsity offense, last night threw six interceptions. It was like Julia Child ruining six eggs, and yet, Manning and his Colts kids still had a great chance.
• Breaks of the game
  On a rainy night, as the suspense played out in front of a national television audience, the Chargers were not emphatic.
• Sproles Speaks Up
  Darren Sproles, the Chargers' 5-foot-6 return man, is fearless when very large men rush full speed at him on kickoff or punt returns.
• Nick Canepa chat transcript
  Union-Tribune sports writer Nick Canepa answered questions from readers during a Monday morning chat session.

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• Chargers dismiss head of security
  It likely had nothing to do with the loss, but it doesn't look good for a team mired in an underwhelming season.
• No dynamics yet for Chargers' duo
  San Diego's 4-4 start after a 14-2 season under Turner's predecessor has the doubters stirring, but Smith remains his staunchest supporter.
• Feeling picked and ultimately kicked
  Missing a couple of key receiving options in a prime-time meeting with San Diego, quarterback Peyton Manning found a few alternatives.
• Manning hits new low in Colts' loss
  Peyton Manning threw his bag against his locker and grimaced as he tried to tighten his tie, struggling to make something resembling a Windsor knot.
• The Colts had a chance ... but they deserved to lose - NFL
  Their team fell behind 23-0 in the blink of an eye. Neither was much to look at all night. Would either shape up in time? No!
• Indianapolis Colts at San Diego Chargers
  Peyton Manning was poised to atone for a franchise-record-tying five interceptions.
• Bolts more lucky than good; game more loony than good
  Was Indianapolis vs. San Diego a football game or did everyone watching inhale too many drugs and imagine the whole thing?

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• The Bell Tolls: Chargers are pretenders, not contenders
  That's Bill Parcells speak from way back, but when applied to the San Diego Chargers at this very moment it isn't pretty.

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• Bolts try to reach Peyton's place
  Shawne Merriman ran practically untouched around right tackle Ryan Diem, slipping as he closed in on Peyton Manning but still managing to grab him by the ankle.
• Everybody's talkin' Chargers
  The Chargers are featured on NBC's “Sunday Night Football” this week against Indianapolis, so expect much discussion about why the home team has been one of the league's biggest ...
• Indy puts focus on Chargers' defense
  The tread marks left from that runaway train named Adrian Peterson haven't dissipated. Epic record-setting performances just don't fade away overnight.

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• Q: What's wrong with Chargers? A: What isn't?
  The Chargers have become the NFL's hypochondriacs. Everything's wrong with them.

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• Rivers, Chargers don't need Freud
  hilip Rivers picked a bad day to have a bad day. While the Chargers' young quarterback was misfiring on 11 straight passes
• Chargers Scouting Report: Indianapolis Colts
  Chargers equipment gurus Bob Wick, Chris Smith and Kevin Duddy have worked overtime removing Adrian Peterson's cleat marks from the Chargers' uniforms.

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• Runaway Vikings dominate Chargers
  The Chargers got run over and then limped home.
• Cromartie produces a play for the ages
  The longest play that has ever or will ever be in the NFL wound up being less fulfilling for Antonio Cromartie than the easiest touchdown he or anyone else could have ever scored the week before.
• Would you say Bolts were beaten up or beaten down?
  Give or take a few, that's probably pretty close to the number of errors the Chargers committed yesterday against what previously had been NFL angel food cake, the Minnesota Vikings.
• No offense, but where was the Chargers'?
  While Adrian Peterson was running like no back before him, LaDainian Tomlinson was figuratively - and almost literally - running in place.
• Vikings shut Gates down
  Chargers TE Antonio Gates had just one reception for 10 yards, easily his worst performance of the season.
• Vikings, game plan bottle up Tomlinson
  Looking abstractly, Sunday's matchup between Minnesota's Adrian Peterson and the Chargers' LaDainian Tomlinson yielded much of what most expected on the stat sheets
• Rookie Peterson runs over Chargers for NFL record
  It has been forecasted that Adrian Peterson would someday challenge LaDainian Tomlinson's title as the NFL's premier running back.
• Cromartie's record return takes back seat
  In the midst of a first half largely void of offensive production, it was a special teams outburst that generated the most excitement.

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• Vikings' Winfield, Wade and Williamson questionable vs. Chargers
  As if things haven't been tough enough for the Minnesota Vikings' secondary this season, they may have to play Sunday against San Diego without their best cornerback.

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• Chargers player fined $15,000 for hit on Schaub
  San Diego Chargers cornerback Drayton Florence has been fined $15,000 for the hit he put on quarterback Matt Schaub during the Texans' 35-10 loss on Sunday.
• Peterson meets Merriman in Chargers-Vikings matchup at Metrodome
  Adrian Peterson and Shawne Merriman met this summer in California while Minnesota's rookie running back was on the West Coast for an endorsement deal.
• Chargers' All-Pro linebacker frustrated by lack of sacks
  Shawne Merriman was enraged. He was yelling before and after plays.
• Florence fined $15,000 for hit
  The NFL announced yesterday that Chargers cornerback Drayton Florence was fined $15,000 for the helmet-to-helmet hit that knocked Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub.

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• It's winning, not whining, that matters
  Surprise. Football fans are upset. They're ticked at New England coach Bill Belichick for running up the score on Washington.
• Vikings no longer Purple People Eaters - just losers
  The Vikings don't often lose by many points, but they do lose often – five times in their last six games and 13 of their last 17 going back to last year.
• Untapped dynamo
  The Chargers have a weapon under their trench coat, and it's time for them to start using it for more than one or two shots a game.

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