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Chargers vs. Rams Pre-Game Party Thread
Still the traders made em look pretty pedestrian in the first half of their game.I personally think watching Goff that the key to victory is puttin pressure on him.Can we do that successfully?We will see.
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I guess one of the advantages we have against this defense is familiarity with Wade. He has tendencies that we can certainly try to exploit and the defense as a whole is weak at middle linebackers and edge rushers. I would certainly try to run on the perimeter more and exploit the middle of the field with throws to RBs and TEs. This is one of those games where we need to make up for the loss of HH. Maybe have two RB sets with both Gordon and Ekeler on the field.
Sean McVay is a little harder to guess but if you go by last year's film, he seems to be pass heavy when falling behind in a game and ignored Gurley. All of their losses last year has happened because of this. I'm also curious about their loss to the Falcons last year in PO since Quinn's defense is similar to Bradley's.
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Upon rewatching vs Bills in Condensed Slo Mo Stop Action,
I am convinced that our offense is capable of staying with LAR.
No one should be prepared to presume that the LAR defense is far superior to our young, up and comers.
It will depend how the game plays out, and may come down to Rivers vs Goff.
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Looking forward to this with serious trepidation. It's the perfect stage to say "we have arrived....look out" or "were not ready for this..."
Which team do we get????
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As stated elsewhere, Rams vs Falcons 1.6.18 NFCDiv Playoff game is our template, X Man.
We are not dissimilar to ATL.
Balanced offense.
Several sacks of Goff.
Otherwise you are "Cooked."
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One more thing, PR you should probably stay away from Marcus Peters
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This will be the game that either embarrasses our coaches or could be the challenge chargers are looking for.
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Gurley's avg in '18 is 20 carries for 75 yds and 1.5 TDs.
If the Chargers can hold him to that avg or less while not allowing LAR's passing game to go wild, LAC should make it a good contest.
I just hope Rivers can successfully fight the compulsion to throw the ball to Peters.
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We've got some talent & weapons for sure, I don't know how we match up across the board as I don't follow the Rams, I think if the Chargers play a solid game with limited miscues, penalty's, turnovers we've got a real chance.
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Rams haven't beaten anyone this season, yet we have no chance.
It's the same Chargers logic that says we suck because we were competitive in a Chiefs game where we handed them the game and very easily could have won and blew out Buffalo.
Got it. Makes perfect sense.
Do I think the Rams will come to play? Yes they will. But they aren't out of our league. Not even close.
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No way.I think we come out and hit em right in the mouth!I think we match their intensity and show them we actually arent just preseason hype.Just gotta feelin we come out swingin this go around.
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That we aren't in the nfl's elite zip code or even close. If people can't tell that after watching this D, special teams and our coaching, someone needs to take off their rose color glasses. We will probably finish 3rd in our division, all hype and no execution will be the way this year will be remembered !
I just call it the way I see it, I don't get blinded by being a fan of this team. I look at the execution of players, teams and coaching of teams to come up with my results from all equations, not hype like a lot of people posting on this board, we'll see what happens. I say we don't even come close to the playoffs.
