Believe in the Bolts

"Believe in the Bolts," a phrase coined in the '94-'95 super bowl season. As bad as they have looked at times, we did show improvement, in some areas of the game last night.

On D, everything but the pass rush looked better. We slowed the run, newly signed Ian Scott did his best Jamal Williams impression. Secondary did well considering they had to cover receivers for extended periods of time. Rookie Ellison was in on a ton of plays in the second half (he was either being picked on by the Broncos or he was all over the field), either way, making plays!

On O, everything but the pass protection looked good. Rivers got the ball to his receivers when he had time to. LT looked strong (didn't get the ball at the goal line???). I know we have the largest receivers in the league and can get the ball down field, but can we get a slip screen to a receiver for god sakes. Every team in the league runs those plays but us! Running those type of screens draws the safeties up and opens up the down field even more!

Special Teams, cover your kicks!

All in all, we need to improve pass rush, pass protection, kick coverage and PLAY CALLING!

Let's take a look at the Wild Card picture... Out of second place, AFC Divisional teams, the most wins are 3. That puts us 2.5 games out behind... the Steelers and Bengals and 1.5 behind the Ravens, Jets, Texans and Jaguars. NOT OUT OF IT YET...

Now let's look at the remaining schedule:
@Chiefs W
Raiders W
@Giants L
Eagles W
@Broncos W
Chiefs W
@Browns W
@Cowboys W/L
Bengals W
@Titans W
Redskins W

Let's say conservatively we go .500 against NFC East Opponents. And at least the Chargers don't face the Saints, Colts or Vikings! (Brees, Manning or Favre)

Current Record (2-3). Predicted Record (12-4) or (11-5).

It is a daunting task... Can the Chargers do it? Maybe. If they do? We will have quite a streak going into the playoffs!

Say it with me now "BELIVE IN THE BOLTS!"