StoneCold":2ybx5825 said:
Attyla the Hawk":2ybx5825 said:
Offensively, they look good on paper. Seems a bit of a mirage. They seem to be able to get a lot of chunk plays when defenses make mistakes. Their ability to convert 3rd downs is really quite poor. Worse than ours. They also can become one dimensional pretty easily. Their red zone efficiency is also quite bad.
I feel like this is a very good matchup on paper for us. Offensively, they don't seem to be the kind of team to maintain drives down the field -- which can present a problem for us since we like to keep everything in front of us. So what they do well, we also defend well.
On the other side, their team struggles against power matchups. Teams that like to physically beat them down have good success at that.
Given that and it'll be at home and you should always expect the better defense at home to win -- I really like the matchup we have in front of us.
My concern is Rivers dinking and dunking us to death. Because we like to keep things in front of us it leaves a lot of short routes open and Rivers is very good at avoiding the rush, and ours is not as strong as in past years, and finding that open guy at the last minute. Think of the game a few years back in SD when it was so hot. He wore us out.
I have a feeling it will be high scoring. The Over/Under is 48, I'm taking the over.
What concerns me about this game is if Seattle isn't able to hit the long ball and the run game gets bottled up, we may lose.
My thoughts are the Chargers back end safety play is good enough (Derwin James) to stop the occasional deep pass to Lockett and Moore.
Without the deep ball pass and if Carson/Davis doesn't get 3 or 4 rush TDs, this game may be end up a loss for us.
The Hawks run game needs to carve the Chargers up!
