The Chargers Don’t Stink, Because the Real San Diego Chargers Haven’t Played Yet

San Diego is 4-8 after getting sonned by Atlanta at home on Sunday. Do not take this to mean the Chargers stink, however. Quite to the contrary, in fact. This is all an illusion. Listen to Antonio Gates: ↵↵⇥“It was not the San Diego Chargers. We were not playing to the level of our capabilities, and it showed.”↵↵I assume most of San Diego’s losses would fall under the same category, perhaps excepting the rough Denver loss resulting from Ed Hochuli’s trigger-whistle and Mike Shanahan’s enormous cajones. San Diego’s offense has been, in large part, brutal. Considering the team has an above-average QB, a great tight end, the league’s best back and a decent-to-good receiving corps, there’s no reason to look so bad week after week after week.
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↵Gates might be right. Are we certain that Ryan Leaf-Terrell Fletcher-Jeff Graham Chargers of 2000 haven’t been reanimated? Norv Turner needs to stop playing with the time machine on game day. You can’t go back to 1999, Norvell! Give up the past, and get caught up in life.↵