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Los Angeles Chargers running back Melvin Gordon returned to the team last week and although he did not play in their win over Miami, just him being on the sidelines seem to inspire the team. Now the team can go back to their running back tandem of Gordon and Austin Ekeler. When heathy Gordon is one of the best running backs in the league and he catches passes out of the backfield. The Chargers face the Broncos at home on Sunday at 1 p.m. Speaking of running backs, the Rams need help in that...
Hall of fame football coach Bill Parcells once said that, "You lose with potential. You win with performance." The 2019 Los Angeles Chargers are a team full of potential. But to this point, the performance has been lacking. For the fifth straight season, the Chargers have started the season with a losing record after their first three games, losing to the Houston Texans 27-20 on Sunday at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson. The loss dropped the Chargers to 1-2 for the season. The Chargers star...
The Chargers are 1-2 and they face the 0-3 Miami Dolphins on Sunday on the road at 10 a.m. Are the first three weeks of the season any indication that the Chargers are not the same team as they were last year? They dropped to 1-2 after their second straight loss to the Houston Texans last Sunday at home. What's missing? One of their best receivers from last year is playing for the Raiders, but the key missing part to complete the Charger puzzle may be running back Melvin Gordon. Gordon is not a...
The mark of a good team is to win games even if you are not at your best. That's been the story of the Rams so far this year. They are 3-0 and they face the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday at the Coliseum at 1 p.m. Next week they travel to Seattle for a Thursday night game at 5:15 p.m., and they return home to face San Francisco Sunday, Oct. 13 at 1 p.m. With over 20 new players on their roster, the Rams continue to get the job done under the leadership of head coach Sean McVay and a group of...
It should be stated that the Los Angeles Rams have never been out of first place in the NFC West during the Sean McVay era. That streak will be put to the test this weekend as the 2-0 Rams take on the Cleveland Browns (1-1) at FirstEnergy Stadium in a Sunday Night Football clash. The Rams 27-9 victory over the New Orleans Saints last Sunday allowed them to remain tied with Seattle and San Francisco for the early division lead. "It really doesn't affect our preparation. I think it is a little...
Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers has often mentioned how "hard it is to win to win in this league." He is referring to the competitiveness of the NFL. Each week brings a new challenge and many games are decided in the last minute. The other side of that is how easy it is to lose an NFL game. On Sunday in Detroit, the Chargers showed just how easy it is to lose a football game, losing to the Detroit Lions 13-10 in an ugly performance on the road in Detroit. The Chargers should have...
The New Orleans Saints will come marching into the new Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum this Sunday, Sept. 15, with an eye on redemption for losing 26-23 to the Los Angeles Rams in last season's NFC Championship game. That game will forever be known for changing the way the league reviews pass interference calls due to a non-call late in the fourth quarter, likely costing the Saints a Super Bowl appearance. With the Rams surviving a 30-28 well-earned win over the Carolina Panthers in NFL Week 1...
The Los Angeles Rams announced a major contract extension with starting quarterback Jared Goff this Tuesday, Sept. 3. Both sides agreed to a four-year $134 million extension through the 2023 season. With the Rams exercising a fifth-year option back in April on the NFL's 2016 top draft pick, Goff will be under contract through 2024. Goff, who helped lead the Rams to last season's Super Bowl, will earn $110 million guaranteed spread out over the next four years, establishing a new NFL record for g...
The Los Angeles Chargers finally wrapped up the preseason on Thursday in San Francisco against the 49ers, winning 27-24 behind the passing and running of quarterback Cardale Jones. He completed 10 of 16 passes for 149 yards and rushed for 23 yards and one touchdown. Jones led the Chargers to scores on the first four offensive possessions of the game. Unfortunately, a few days later, Jones was released in the cutdown to 53 players. The win gave the Chargers a 1-3 record for the preseason. Two...
"We're ready to go and start attacking the season, where there's a singular focus on an opponent and I think we're getting closer and closer to that and I think people are ready for that," said L.A. Rams head coach Sean McVay on Tuesday. The Los Angeles Rams play one final preseason game this week at the Houston Texans before preparing for the 2019 NFL regular season opener. The Rams beat the Denver Broncos, 10-6, on the new United Airlines Field at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum last Saturday for...
If the season started this week, the Seattle Seahawks already look in mid-season form. The Seahawks led the NFL in rushing yardage per game in 2018. The Seahawks were the only NFL team last season to run more the ball more than 50% of the time. On Saturday Night, the Seahawks came to Los Angeles and showed that they will be a tough running team again this season, defeating the Chargers 23-15. The game was played at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson. For three quarters, the Seahawks dominated...
When the Los Angeles Chargers drafted Easton Stick in the 5th round of the 2019 NFL draft, they saw qualities in him that reminded them of a quarterback from the New Orleans Saints. No, it was not Drew Brees. Chargers general manager Tom Telesco told the NFL Network that Stick had "a lot of the qualities that Taysom Hill has as far as his toughness, being able to run with the football." On Sunday afternoon, the Chargers got a closer look at some of those qualities that Hill possesses and they ca...
On Saturday the Chargers and the Rams will play home football games at the same time. The Rams game starts at 6 p.m. at the Coliseum and the Chargers game will kick off at 7 p.m. in Carson. It will be the third preseason game for both teams. Both teams are 0-2 in the preseason. Win and loss records are meaningless in the preseason especially when a team does not player their best players. The Rams and Chargers are two teams that have not played their starters in the preseason which is a good thi...
The Los Angeles Rams will play their first and only 2019 preseason home game in Los Angeles this Saturday, August 24. They host the Denver Broncos at the new United Airlines Field inside the just-renovated Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. And the changes are impressive. The media walk-through last Thursday prior to the ribbon-cutting ceremony was proof enough. "We started this project five years ago with several goals in mind," began Steve Lopes, University of Southern California's COO and Senior...
With running back Melvin Gordon still holding out and starting quarterback Philip Rivers in street clothes on the sidelines, the Los Angeles Chargers opened their preseason schedule with a 17-13 loss in Phoenix to the Arizona Cardinals. Gordon and Rivers were among the many starters that either sat out the game or saw little action. Head Coach Anthony Lynn needed to use this first preseason game to "find the right 53 guys and to get better." The starting offensive line continues to be a...
As the Los Angeles Rams were winding down their 2019 Training Camp at U.C. Irvine this past weekend, the front office was preparing to make a major announcement concerning the LA Stadium site in Inglewood. At a Tuesday press conference, the team introduced American Airlines as its first partner. "As we continue Mr. Kroenke's vision to build the premier destination for sports and entertainment at Hollywood Park, we are proud to partner with an industry-leading business such as American...
The NFL draft is frequently referred to as a crapshoot. But don't tell Tom Telesco that. Telesco is the General Manager of the Los Angeles Chargers and the architect of the current Chargers roster. Telesco was hired in 2013 to turn the Chargers around. Telesco pledged that the Chargers would be a draft driven organization, stating that "we're going to be home-grown." Six years later, the Chargers have built a roster full of home-grown players that has put the Chargers in a position to challenge...
Another NFL season has begun, with the opening of NFL training games in the past week. The Los Angeles Chargers opened training camp on July 24th, with the goal of returning to the playoffs and ultimately winning their first Super Bowl Championship. Expectations have never been higher for the Chargers. The national newspaper USA Today recently picked the Chargers to win the Super Bowl next February, beating the Philadelphia Eagles. NFL coaches like to divide the season into quarters. With a...
The Los Angeles Rams kicked off their 2019 Training Camp this past weekend at U.C. Irvine. Thousands of fans filled the perimeter of Crawford Field on the north side of campus to get the earliest glimpse of the 2018 NFC Champions start preparing for their second consecutive shot at the Super Bowl. Head coach Sean McVay and staff put the players through multiple drills, in synch with the field clocks on site. On Saturday, opening day, the players divided into various groups: offensive and defensive starters, second-team, special teams, position...
Football season is back and not soon enough for the NFC Champion Los Angeles Rams. Eager to complete the unfinished business of losing in Super Bowl LIII, head coach Sean McVay and the team opens its 2019 training camp this Wednesday, July 24, at the University of California, Irvine campus for the fourth consecutive year. The Rams will host their Kickoff Festival for fans this Saturday, July 27, starting at 4:00 p.m. The fans will be treated to giveaways, interactive games, themed practices,...
The Los Angeles Chargers were having a quiet offseason, with a few key additions through free agency and the draft in order to improve on a playoff team that went 12-4 in 2018. It was quiet until last week, when star running back Melvin Gordon, through his agent, announced that he was holding out and would not report to training camp and will demand a trade unless he receives a new contract. Gordon's agent, Damarious Bilbo stated: "We received an offer - talks had been dead - but we received an...
The Los Angeles Rams made it to the top of the professional football world when they played in the Super Bowl in February. Now they are making super impressions in the Southern California communities, hosting football clinics, school improvement projects and many other worthwhile events that benefit kids in the greater Los Angeles area. The latest clinic and school improvement events took place in Inglewood and East Los Angeles. Led by community affairs staff members Jonathan Franklin and Zach...
The Los Angeles Rams spent three days of the 2019 NFL Draft trading away their first-round pick, swapping draft choices and adding selections. Safety Taylor Rapp became the Rams top choice at No. 29 in the Second Round and 61st overall. Eventually the Super Bowl finalists settled on three third-rounders, one fourth, one fifth and two seventh picks. We didn't feel like we would get him, but through it all we're always like, 'Wow, Taylor Rapp,' because of his rare instincts, short area...
The Los Angeles Chargers entered the 2019 NFL draft with just a few holes to fill and filled them quite nicely in the three-day draft that started on April 25th and ended April 27th. Despite having a top ten defense in 2018, there were a few holes to be filled in the middle of the defense. The Chargers used Notre Dame and a relative of NFL football royalty to help fill the key areas on defense. Here are the seven round results of the 2019 Charger draft: Round 1 - Jerry Tillery, Defensive...
If there was any doubt about the Los Angeles Chargers desire to win now, that was erased in the first day of free agency with the addition of free agent linebacker Thomas Davis. A 14-year NFL veteran, Davis is not only an effective defensive player, but his leadership will be invaluable to the younger players on the defensive side of the ball. In late breaking news, the Chargers also signed quarterback Tyrod Taylor to a two-year contract on Wednesday. Taylor started three games with the...
