San Diego Chargers

Chargers Head Coach Mike McCoy Says Philip Rivers Can Complete 70% of His Passes

Posted on May 14, 2013 by RJPRICE1 in Local, NFL, San Diego, San Diego Chargers, Sports | No comments

Been a rough couple of years for Philip Rivers. He has been a turnover machine and the Chargers have faltered. They got rid of Norv Turner and brought in Mike McCoy to hopefully changed the franchise fortunes. He has high expectations for Rivers according to Pro Football Talk.

In an interview for Monday Morning Quarterback on SI.com, McCoy told Peter King that he believes Philip Rivers is capable of becoming a more accurate quarterback than he’s been over the course of his career. When it comes to completion percentage, Rivers’ best single-season mark is 66 percent and he’s completed 63.6 percent of his throws over the course of his entire career but McCoy believes that Rivers can connect on 70 percent of his throws in the 2013 season.

Rivers is 31 years old, so it isn’t like his career is over after a couple of bad seasons, but you have to wonder if his fall is...

2013 NFL Draft Round 11 – San Diego Chargers

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Faraone13 in Alabama, Featured, NFL, San Diego, San Diego Chargers, SEC, Sports | No comments

With the 11th pick of the 2013 NFL Draft, the San Diego Chargers select Crimson Tide Offensive Tackle D.J. Fluker. Fluker is considered one of the best offensive tackles of his class. Projected to play as true freshman at Alabama, Fluker, 6'5", 339 lbs, started the season as third-string right tackle, but eventually redshirted his first year. In 2010, Fluker started nine games at right tackle. He missed three games with an injury midseason. As a sophmore, Fluker started all 13 games for the Crimson Tide at right tackle on their way to the BCS National Championship victory. As a junior, he started all 14 games at right tackle as Alabama repeated as BCS National Champions. He was selected Walter Camp and Associated Press second-team All-American and first-team All-SEC. Fluker has the girth, length, and respectable movement skills to become a top-notch starting right tackle. His struggles were apparent against Western Kentucky, but when Fluker can get his hands on...

Statistics show that after just two years of retirement 78% of NFL players are “financially stressed”…in other words broke. This is a fact that is sadly disturbing, and often occurs due to poor spending habits and lack of long-term planning, but another major component to this financial instability is getting and making poor investment choices. Last week, Florida financial advisor Jeffrey Rubin was banned from the securities industry for life after putting a group of current and former NFL players in an extremely risky investment that ultimately resulted in over $40million in losses. The group of players cheated out of millions included: Santana Moss, Plaxico Burress, Samari Rolle, Greg Olsen, Devin Thomas, Terrell Owens, Santonio Holmes, Fred Taylor, Jevon Kearse, Kyle Orton, and Clinton Portis many of whom by coincidence or not were represented by NFL Agent Drew Rosenhaus. Rubin, who operated Pro Sports Financial a “concierge service” that offered everything from investment advice to bill payment services, steered the players...

Editor’s Note: We’ve received messages for years asking for coverage of medical issues facing the NFL and fantasy football owners. We’re excited to unveil this article today and also to introduce a new mailbag of sorts. ”The Dynasty Doctor” will be a series we run on an as needed basis. If you have any questions in regards to concussions, ACL procedures, recovery times from specific injuries or anything else related to medical science, submit your question here and it may be featured in an upcoming article with our own resident M.D., Dr. Scott Peak. He’s a board certified neurologist, neuro-oncologist and is the Director of Neuro-Oncology in the Department of Neuroscience/Neurosurgery for a large health care system. The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) has received a lot of attention recently, both in the NFL and in fantasy football. Years ago, a torn ACL was a career-killer for an NFL athlete. More recently, we have seen several athletes return from an ACL...

by John Huffstetler With the NFL Honors Awards tonight, much debate surrounds the top awards to be presented. With that in mind, here's who deserves to win (not who will win) the major awards that will be given out tonight from New Orleans. NFL MVP Tom Brady- Choosing between Brady and Peyton Manning this season is almost impossible. They have incredibly similar statistics in yards (4,827 to 4,659 Brady), TD's (37 to 34 Manning), and INT's (8 to 11 Brady), but I will give the slight edge to Brady because the Patriots played a more difficult schedule than the Broncos this year. Manning's Broncos had the 2nd worst strength of victory (.385) among all playoff teams this season. In fact, only 6 teams in the entire league had a worse SOV, meaning Manning was beating up on mainly inept bottom-feeding teams. So what about Adrian Peterson? No chance. As I wrote in a previous article, a running...

In case you weren't aware, the Pro Bowl was played on Sunday. The NFC won that game scoring a lot of points to the AFCs a lot, but not nearly enough points. In the week leading up to the Pro Bowl, the internet was abuzz with people telling us why they wouldn't watch, why the Pro Bowl was a joke, and why the NFL, if it had any self-respect would cancel it. And then, on Sunday, those same people helped earn the Pro Bowl a TV rating equivalent to an NBA finals game. Clearly, the Pro Bowl is a polarizing topic, so let's talk about it, shall we? My first thought is: who cares? The Pro Bowl is no different from the NBA, NHL, and MLB All-Star games. They aren't, in my mind, meant to be serious replicas of an NFL game. They are, for the most part, held for money and for fans....

TERRY TATE - OFFICE LINEBACKER It's SB time and half the world will be watching for the new commercials which can make or break a company. Companies will spend millions for 30 or 60 seconds of air time. I was reminded of this commercial and have to laugh every time I hear the phrase TPS Reports. Love it. Enjoy! ...

It's East Coast versus West Coast. It's SF Bay versus Chesapeake Bay. It's brother coach versus brother coach. It's Ray Rice versus Rice-A-Roni. It's Flacco versus "Fabulous". It's the retiring future Hall of Fame (and shame) LB versus the upstart 2nd year QB with some serious jailhouse tattoos who has never been. It's the legend of Joe Montana versus the legend of the 'Old' Cleveland Browns. Count how many times you see "The Catch" in the next two weeks. Break 20 and you will get a cookie. It could be a good SB and it may not be. The fans in the two cities and elsewhere are jacked up but what abut the rest of us whose teams did not make it? Will it be a good game? Maybe, both teams can score. Nothing worse than a 9-6 sleeper. Will the commercials be better than the game? Maybe but I bet we spend more time watching them than we do watching game play. Even during...

Last weekend treated us to a nearly full slate of action-packed NFL playoff excitement. From the opening game at Denver Saturday morning, to the Colin Kaepernick highlight reel that night, through the Seahawk heartbreak Sunday afternoon, the National Football League never let us down. Sure, New England ended it on a sour note due to their domination of the Texans in Foxboro, but for the most part it was a home run for the league, and for the viewers another in the long line of memorable Divisional Weekends. There were long runs and longer passes, fantastic plays and finer finishes, and those who made a difference and those who wish they’d hadn’t. But like most NFL games, there were also injuries on the field, but it’s the ones you don’t see that have me thinking now, and how they’re dealt with that has me thinking about later. Half-way through my first cup of coffee Sunday morning, I dazedly...

San Diego Chargers axe GM A.J. Smith and head coach Norv Turner

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Syndicated Feeds in Local, NFL, San Diego, San Diego Chargers, Sports | 6 comments

The San Diego Chargers were another NFL club which was disappointed with their 2012 season and head coach Norv Turner and general manager A.J. Smith paid the price for their 7-9 record as they were both fired on Dec. 31. As is the custom, the franchise thanked both men for their efforts over the years as Dean Spanos, the Chargers’ president, said they brought integrity and determination to the club, but winning is the bottom line and they understand that’s why a change needs to be made. Spanos said the team has just one goal and that’s to become Super Bowl champions and he’ll make whatever changes are necessary to achieve it. It was San Diego’s first sub-500 season since back in 2003 and the first for Turner, who joined the club in 2007. The team made the payoffs for three straight years under Turner, but has now missed them in the last three. He leaves the franchise...