Chargers Top Jags 24-6, Go Into Bye Week At 4-3
With their first two-game winning streak of the season, the San Diego Chargers head into their bye week on a high note, this after Sunday's 24-6 win at Jacksonville.
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With their first two-game winning streak of the season, the San Diego Chargers head into their bye week on a high note, this after Sunday's 24-6 win at Jacksonville.
With the midway point of the season almost here, the AFC is a strange place to be. On Sunday, the Patriots welcomed back Rob Gronkowski, but lost their second game of the season. The fans of the Indianapolis Colts welcomed back their shunned quarterback. Finally, the Kansas City Chiefs remained unbeaten.
The San Diego Chargers had plenty of reasons to come out flat in Jacksonville.
When I first heard the cacophonous call for Daniel Snyder to change the name of his football team, I cringed. It felt like the sport we worshiped since childhood was under siege, crushed by the tide of groupthink.
With the Colts and Broncos squaring off this week on Sunday Night Football, some are wondering if Indy, at home with a 4-2 record, can deal the juggernaut Broncos their very first loss of the season. Is this the week Denver falls?
Rather than sitting and watching, San Diego Chargers wide receiver Keenan Allen has been playing and producing.
Most coaches will tell you that playing down to the level of your competition is a recipe for disaster. With that in mind, which San Diego Charger team will show up this coming Sunday in Jacksonville?
Injuries can really hurt a team, and the later they come in the season, the worse they are. The Dallas Cowboys and New Orleans Saints both got some big scares on Sunday, but one team is looking to fare better than the other. In Denver, a leader is returning but he has to win back the respect of his teammates.
If the San Diego Chargers beat winless Jacksonville on Sunday, they'll be above .500 for the first time this season.
Lots of changes need to be made for some teams in the NFL, and it all will depend on what is best for the immediate future. Two teams are looking at quarterback situations that could very well help their seasons while one team is doing so well that they are breaking noise records.
Philip Rivers and the San Diego Chargers kept Andrew Luck on the sideline most of the night, giving the Indianapolis Colts quarterback no chance at another comeback.
Arrowhead Stadium is once again the loudest stadium in the NFL.
Raiders coach Dennis Allen insists that Terrelle Pryor is growing with every play in the NFL, even the ones that end up with the young quarterback flat on his back.
In a game that could have a huge bearing on the fortunes of the San Diego Chargers for the remainder of the season, the Bolts are essentially in a must-win situation come Monday night when the Indianapolis Colts pay a visit.
No one could have possibly predicted the way the 2013 NFL season would go. Who would have thought that top teams and players would be in such turmoil just five weeks into the season?
With the seemingly incomparable and record-setting offense set to square off against the monumentally futile Jacksonville Jaguars this week, the line of Denver -28 ties a record for the biggest spread ever set.
Councilman Tom LaBonge led the way as city council members went on record Wednesday to ask the league to locate one or two teams to L.A.
The NFL just gets really strange sometimes, but it never ceases to amaze you. Just five weeks into the season: Josh Freeman is a Viking, Eli Manning says he isn't "lousy," and the Broncos and Jaguars are waging war on Twitter.
Week 5 of the NFL saw a number of big-time things happen, and not all of them were good. A few teams suffered some setbacks and those include injuries that could greatly affect the team's immediate future.
The Oakland Raiders released quarterback Matt Flynn on Monday, just six months after bringing him in to be the starter.
Week five of the 2013 NFL season proved a lot, and it came along with some of the best games of the season. There were three that stood out though, and all involved undefeated teams at the start of Sunday, but not by the end of the day.
You laugh now, but there was a time, very recently, when it was a debate. There was a time, when we thought the kid had commandeered the throne. There was a time when, when we thought it was the dawn of one empire, and the dusk of another.
With a win over a potential playoff team last Sunday, the San Diego Chargers look to continue their winning ways Sunday evening when they travel to the Bay Area to meet the rival Oakland Raiders.
Talk about your strange happenings in the NFL – and you've got this week. One 49er is legally changing his name due to a fine. An Oakland Raider just dropped down two pegs. And the Houston Texans are pleading with fans to stop burning their jerseys.
The thirst for additional wealth among the NFL owners simply cannot be slaked, and therefore those in charge of such decisions will likely push hard to move a team there if it results in even $1 more net per year. The question is, should an NFL team move to London?
