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1. Kansas City Chiefs (3-0): The Chiefs were impressive in a 34-20 road win over the Ravens on Monday Night. Quarterback Patrick Mahomes threw four touchdown passes as the Chiefs established that they are the team to beat in the AFC. Mahomes was named the AFC Offensive Player of the Week. Next: -7 vs New England Patriots - Sun, Oct. 4 – O/U 53 2. Seattle Seahawks (3-0): The Seahawks are ranked last in the NFL in defensive yardage per game, allowing a whooping 497 yards per game. Quarterback R...
1. Kansas City Chiefs (2-0): The Chiefs needed some incredible kicking from Harrison Butker to pull out a win over the Chargers in overtime. Butker nailed two 58-yard field goal attempts, including the game winner in overtime. Butker also hit a 30-yard kick in in the final seconds of regulation to send the game to overtime. Not surprisingly, Butker was named the AFC Special Teams Player of the Week.Next: +3.5 at Baltimore Ravens - Mon, Sep. 28 – O/U 53.5 2. Seattle Seahawks (2-0): Quarterback R...
1. Kansas City Chiefs (0-0): The Chiefs picked running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire from LSU with the last pick in the first round, shoring up a weakness at running back. The defending Super Bowl Champions are loaded on offense and have a solid defense. They will be tough to beat. Next: -9.5 at Houston Texans - Thu, Sep. 10 – O/U 54.5 2. New Orleans Saints (0-0): This could be the year that the Saints finally get back to the Super Bowl. The Saints added veteran wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders a...
If it were not for bad luck, they would have no luck at all. That could be one way to describe the Los Angeles Chargers. For the second straight season, star defensive back Derwin James failed to make it through training camp without a serious injury. On Monday, James suffered a season ending knee injury and was put on the injured reserve, ending his 2020 season. James missed the first 11 games of last season with a broken foot and this year's injury means the team will go another year without...
The Los Angeles Rams have finally and officially opened their 2020 Training Camp at their facility located at Cal Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks. With the current Covid-19 health policies in place, players, coaches and staff will have a two-week isolated acclimation period to prepare and train. The media will be allowed to physically cover the final two weeks of camp beginning Tuesday, August 17. Having missed the playoffs while finishing third in the NFC West with a 9-7 last season, one...
Despite the coronavirus pandemic that is currently ravaging parts of the United States, the NFL has announced that training camps will open on July 28th for all 32 NFL teams. For the NFL and the TV networks, this is a dollar and sense decision. There are billions of dollars at stake that make the cancellation of the NFL season almost impossible. To enable football in the fall, the NFL has decided to cancel all preseason games and limit the rosters to 80 players, down from the typical 90-man...
The Los Angeles Chargers and the Las Vegas Raiders, two of the oldest rivals in the NFL and two rivals from the original American Football league, will be moving into new stadiums this fall. The Chargers are moving into the new SoFi Stadium in Inglewood and the Raiders will be moving into their new stadium in Las Vegas, the Allegiant Stadium. The 60-year-old rivalry will move indoors and will no longer be an intra-state rivalry, with the Raiders moving from Oakland to Las Vegas. The Raiders will...
Los Angeles Rams and Fuel Up To Play 60 Award Inglewood Unified School District $10,000 Hometown Grant 'Hometown Grant' will support Inglewood Unified COVID-19 Relief Efforts The Los Angeles Rams have partnered with Fuel Up to PLAY 60 and America's Dairy Farmers to provide Inglewood Unified School District (IUSD) with a $10,000 'Hometown Grant' to be used in support of the District's COVID-19 relief efforts. Over the past few months, Inglewood Unified School District has been organizing...
In the 2016 NFL season, Quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeled before games during the national anthem to protest racial injustice and police brutality. It was seen by many as disrespecting the flag. Since opting out of his contract with the 49ers in March of 2017, Kaepernick has remained unsigned. He did not play in a football game in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Kaepernick could not get a job in the NFL because he decided to take a stand against what he saw as racial injustice. As he stated at the...
Like all draft days in any sport, its puts your instincts and gut feelings to the ultimate test. A player who looks good in college may not be able to make the transition to the next level and that's why there is so much pressure on scouts and coaches to make the right decisions. In the case of the 2020 Rams draft last month only time will tell whether the nine players they drafted will make an impact in their first year in the National Football League (NFL). One thing is for sure, the Rams...
The NFL came has announced the 2020 NFL schedule and the Los Angeles Chargers will open on the road for the first time since the 2017 season. Below is the 2020 schedule: Week 1: at Cincinnati, Sun., Sept. 13, 1:05 p.m. PT (CBS) Week 2: vs. Kansas City, Sun., Sept. 20, 1:25 p.m. PT (CBS) Week 3: vs. Carolina, Sun., Sept. 27, 1:05 p.m. PT (CBS) Week 4: at Tampa Bay, Sun. Oct. 4, 10:00 a.m. PT (CBS) Week 5: at New Orleans, Mon., Oct. 12, 5:15 p.m. PT (ESPN) Week 6: vs. New York Jets, Sun., Oct....
The Los Angeles Chargers have officially announced the addition of Quarterbacks Coach Pep Hamilton to Head Coach Anthony Lynn's coaching staff for the upcoming 2020 season. Hamilton brings eleven years of NFL coaching experience with five different NFL teams, most recently with the Cleveland Browns in 2016. Hamilton has been a quarterback coach for four NFL teams. The 45-year-old Hamilton spent the 2017-2018 seasons at Michigan as the Assistant head coach/passing game coordinator under head...
The NFL draft ended last Saturday with few surprises. Among the players that were taken last Thursday, Friday and Saturday were three UCLA players, tight end Devin Asiasi, running back Joshua Kelly and defensive back Darnay Holmes. The USC players that were chosen were offensive tackle Austin Jackson and wide receiver Michael Pittman Jr. Asiasi is a sure handed tight end that was drafted in the third round by the New England Patriots. The 6-3, 257 pound Asiasi has average speed but what the NFL...
It is not often that a football team can find their future offensive leader and their future defensive leader in the same draft. The Los Angeles Chargers hope that they just accomplished that in the 2020 NFL Draft. The Chargers used two 1st round picks to acquire their quarterback of the future on offense and the quarterback of the future on their defense. Here is a synopsis of all six Charger draft picks from the 2020 NFL draft held on April 23rd through April 25th: Round 1A – Justin H...
During the 2020 on Thursday evening NFL Draft, Commissioner Roger Goodell announced that the NFL will be recommitting to Las Vegas for the 87th annual NFL Draft in 2022. This comes after the 2020 public Draft events in Las Vegas were cancelled due to COVID-19. "I'm pleased to announce that Las Vegas will host the 2022 NFL Draft, where we look forward to holding an even bigger and better event than we could have ever imagined this year," said NFL COMMISSIONER ROGER GOODELL, "Congratulations to...
When the Chargers and quarterback Philip Rivers mutually agreed to part ways earlier this year, it left the team without a franchise quarterback or a quarterback of the future for the first time in about two decades. That hole lasted just a few months. With the 6th pick in the first round of the 2020 NFL Draft, the Chargers selected their quarterback of the future, Justin Herbert of the Oregon Ducks. Herbert has all the tools to be an NFL franchise quarterback. Herbert is 6-feet-6, 236 pounds....
The Los Angeles Chargers will be entering the 2020 NFL draft with the need for a quarterback of the future, the need to add speed on the outside and the need to add depth on the offense. This draft will be focused on the offensive side of the ball. The Chargers were able to take care of most of their needs on defense through free agency, with the additions of cornerback Chris Harris, defensive tackle Linval Joseph and linebacker Nick Vigil. Here is our Chargers 2020 NFL mock draft for the draft...
The world champion Kansas City Chiefs have won four straight AFC West titles. They also have the Super Bowl MVP and 2018 NFL MVP, Patrick Mahomes, as their starting quarterback. He is only 24 years old. This is what the other three AFC West teams are up against. The Los Angeles Chargers, one of those three teams, have an important decision to make in the three weeks at the quarterback position. Of the four AFC West teams, the Chargers have the most questions at quarterback. Denver returns Drew...
When it comes to free agent running backs, every NFL General Manager should remember the names of Todd Gurley and David Johnson. In 2018, Gurley signed a 4-year, $57.5 million contract with the Los Angeles Rams, with $45 million guaranteed. At about the same time, Johnson signed a 3-year, $39 million contract with the Arizona Cardinals, with $31.8 million guaranteed. Gurley developed a knee issue that was later identified as an arthritic knee. In the 2018 NFC championship and in the Super Bowl,...
The San Francisco 49ers had just taken a 10-point lead on a one-yard touchdown run by Raheem Mostert. The score had been setup by the first interception of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes in the postseason. Down by 10 early in the 4th quarter, the Kansas City Chiefs were in the process of putting a scoring drive together to close the gap, but Mahomes threw his second interception of the game. If the game had ended at this point, 49er quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo might have been...
The special Centennial Class for the Pro Football Hall of Fame was announced last week by the NFL, sending 15 individuals to football immortality in Canton: Harold Carmichael, Jim Covert, Bill Cowher, Bobby Dillon, Cliff Harris, Winston Hill, Jimmy Johnson, Alex Karras, Steve Sabol, Donnie Shell, Duke Slater, Mac Speedie, Ed Sprinkle, Paul Tagliabue, George Young. The list consists of 10 Seniors (players who last played more than 25 years ago), three Contributors (an individual other than a...
Tight end Antonio Gates of the Chargers has announced his retirement from the NFL. Gates played 16 years with the Chargers, starting in 2003 and ending in 2018. Gates sat out the 2019 season as an unrestricted free agent. Gates is the NFL all-time leader from the tight end position in touchdown receptions with 116. Gates joined the Chargers as an undrafted free agent out of Kent State, having never played college football. At Kent State, Gates played basketball, averaging 18.1 points per game...
The 2019 season for the Los Angeles Chargers is over and now starts what should be a fascinating offseason in search of answers to questions. There will be player changes and coaching changes. There may be some retirements among the players. There will be key free agents to resign and new players added to the roster. But the elephant in the room will be at the quarterback position. The biggest issue the Chargers need to resolve in the offseason is their offensive line. The offensive line...
The NFL regular season is finally over and this weekend is the start of the wild-card playoff round. Here are the matchups and predictions: Buffalo Bills (10-6) at Houston Texans (10-6) Saturday, 1:35 p.m. PT Point spread: Texans, -3 points This will be the battle of two young quarterbacks. Deshaun Watson will lead the Texans and Josh Allen will lead the Bills. On paper, the Bills are the better team. The Bills have the No. 3 defense in the NFL, the No. 2 scoring defense in the NFL and the No....
The 2019 Los Angeles Chargers statistically had one of the better defenses in the NFL. They also statistically had one of the better passing offenses in the NFL. But too many mistakes throughout the season and not enough plays made on the defensive side spelled doom for the Chargers. After a 31-21 loss on the road to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, the Chargers ended the season 5-11, in last place in the AFC West. It was obvious that throughout the season that the Chargers could not...
