Free Agency is upon us and it looks like the Chargers – as usual aren’t interested in making any bold moves. It seems the more things change the more they stay the same.
Free agency has and still is a tricky subject; obviously, we can look back to the recent past and see the process has not been too friendly to the Chargers. To be fair there are a lot of factors and the risk/reward of taking someone else’s cast off and expecting them to adapt to your system and flourish is a lot to expect at this level of competition.
When I was traded to the Eagles it was thought back then and still holds true today that each conference has their own style of players , in essence “styles make fights” for fighters or boxers.
I guess what you find out is – in the AFC west we played more of a finesse passing game where in the NFC east they played a bruising type of ground and pound. So if you have a great NFC defensive end would he be a great AFC defensive end?
Then we have the dire need position that as in all things in life not just football we end up reaching and over paying for, like that vintage Planet of the Apes or Six Million Dollar Man lunch Box on Ebay that you just have to have, but when it arrives you see all the rust and little flaws that add up to buyer’s remorse. (Jared Gaither)
So the NFL’s worst O-line has lost Gaither and now Louis Vasquez to Denver, neither great nor even good in my opinion but if they were the best we had, I can only imagine what was behind them and what is in store for Rivers this year. So as Denver remains active adding and not subtracting to their talent pool what are we doing? Well for one we are still dealing with the mismanagement of the previous management. The Chargers have no Cap space, which would be fine but they also have no talent to go along with the lack of salary cap space needed to add talent. I can see Tom Telesco cast as Barack Obama and AJ Smith as George W Bush -AJ drove the car into the ditch and left it with no gas and totaled, and we now expect Telesco to drive the car out of the ditch and back into the race, hell some of us even expect him to win the race.
I personally think we should have made a run at Reggie Bush, he is local, available and has shaken his injury prone reputation with two outstanding years in Miami. Ryan Mathews is no LT and will never be an every down back; even LT had Sproles to provide a change of pace, Bush –Reggie not George –would be an ideal fit to push Mathews and at the same time offer production. Of course that’s wishful thinking because we spent that cap money on magic beans that never produced a bean stalk.
Free agency has been a bust the last few years as has been the draft, that in a nut shell is why we have not been to the playoffs in three years and everyone was fired. Sadly the opposite holds true for the Broncos. We are miles behind the Broncos. The fact that they beat us with Tebow at QB is proof of that – since that day they have made move after move to make themselves stronger while we have weakened.
Free agency is a wash for the Chargers so let’s look forward to the Draft and hope and pray the Chargers don’t try another one of those “project” picks. My fifth grade Kool-Aid and baking soda volcano Science project was a “project” the Chargers projects have been failures
On a side note while I was writing this article the Denver Broncos got even stronger and have signed New England Patriots Wes Welker – and so much for my Reggie Bush wish, the Detroit Lions snapped him up too. The Chargers on the other hand? I think they hired a new Janitorial company to service their facility on Aero drive.