Gaither expected to start tonight for chargers
 

It appears that for the second time in three games the Chargers will play an offensive lineman who has been with the team for just a few days.

This time, Jared Gaither is set to start at left tackle on Monday night against the Jacksonville Jaguars. He is expected to work there in place of Brandyn Dombrowski, who did not practice this week due to a foot injury. Dombrowski has started the past two games in place of Marcus McNeill, who was placed on injured reserve this week due to ongoing neck issues.

Gaither was claimed off waivers Wednesday and practiced for the first time with the Chargers on Thursday. He was released by the Kansas City Chiefs on Tuesday.

Gaither is the third addition to the offensive line in three weeks. Tony Moll and Ike Ndukwe were signed prior to the team's Nov. 20 game at Chicago. Moll ended up playing 15 snaps against the Bears after Scott Mruczkowski suffered a concussion. Moll started at right guard last week against Denver.

The Chargers had also worked Tyronne Green at left tackle in practice but evidently feel better having Green at left guard. Green took over the starting job at left guard after Kris Dielman suffered a concussion Oct. 23 against the New York Jets that eventually landed him on injured reserve. But Green has missed the past two games with a hand injury.

Right guard Louis Vasquez also returns this week after missing two games due to an ankle injury.

That should be interesting to watch.

FAX

Draft implications dictate that I must root for JAX.

and Barry Richardson gets a free pass for being the worst offensive lineman in the league

Could be a Kyle Orton type appearance

LMAO

We are going to see just how dumb Pioli is.

What's Pioli have to do with this?

well here we go ... not sure why he was released .. surely he was decented enough to be bak-up for the rest of the year .. ....

After Gaither defeats the vaunted Jacksonville Pass rush? Yea...

as opposed to Barry Richardson getting beat by I dont even know who the hell that guy is that plays opposite of Peppers on the Bears?

Yea...

Richardson sucks, but Gaither couldn't take his job. Yea...

Hopefully he stinks up the joint.
Anything else is an indictment of this staff and FO.

He signed Gaither.

If the dude plays well tonight Pioli looks like an idiot.

Gaither doesn't give up a sack, makes 4 pancake blocks that spring Matthews for 125 and Rivers throws for 400 and 3 TDs.

Bank on it.

No. That would be Haley.

Pioli signed him. Haley didn't play him.

You do know haley cant cut people right? thats the GM job

You do know the GM has nothing to do with who starts and who rides the bench, right?

Holy shit, an Itchyass Ndukwe reference. Another sack of shit lineman who was dug in to the starting lineup like an Alabama tick due to his tree connections.

Yup but pioli cut him thats not on haley bud.

What does it matter if he cut him? He never saw the field in KC...

Big loss!

GM takes the hit for players who get cut and play well elsewhere. That's the job.

But you can blame everyone, too. So we'll do that.

I didn't know Buck was playing tonight...

Sure he did. He went in for Albert (think it was the steeler game) and had a false start.

He saw a few plays on the goal line too!

:rolleyes:

What the ****, we have Gaither?

He sucks so bad!

The one play I saw him in last week he came in and had a huge false start.

**** I can't believe we picked him up.

Oh well

Suck 4 Fire Norv, amirite?

Pioli cut him most likely on the recommendation of Haley. I would guess because Mims was getting interest from other clubs and also because Gaither couldn't even beat out Richardson. Its a team cluster if it was wrong.

Or he could play really well and make the Chiefs organization look even more inept.

Well, if that's even possible.

He may turn out to be a blessing. Maybe Rivers gets sacked all day instead of throwing interceptions all day.

Hopefully he plays well tonight so we can say it with me......


FIRE Pioli/HALEY

This all seems eerily familiar
Chiefs cut someone & the Chargers start them

They actually made a good decision with Gaither I think. He's just a sorry lump of flesh with no fire.

That being said, there's plenty of other reasons to fire both of them.

I fully expect him to play well.

One thing I have noticed is that out of all the players KC had dumped over the last 3 years under Pioli, hardly any of them go on to do anything good.

Waters is obviously doing fine in NE but outside of him, who has done jack and shit in the league? I may be missing some players but I can't think of any others.

Pollard went on to get released from like 2 decent defenses because he was such a liability in pass coverage. Jarrad Page has been cut a couple of times too.

Come to think of it, you might be on to something here.

Jason Babin became a Pro Bowl pass rusher and we set a record for rushing futility.

he'll probably resurrect his career in San Diego and confirm my suspicion that Pioli/Haley are completely inept

He wasn't waived and he never played for Pioli.

We owned his rights due his service time and let him walk.
Wade Smith comes to mind as well.

Babin went to the Eagles and was cut and it took until the 2010 season with Tennessee for him to do anything so that doesn't fit the bill of dumping a guy who turns into great player right after leaving KC.

Not sure Wade Smith fits, didn't he get silly $ to go to the Texans as a back up? I think we offered him a contract they just topped it.

The bottom line is if KC doesn't want you, you are getting cut from a team with no depth to begin with. You probably suck.

Yet we still have O'Connell, Pope, Richardson etc.... :facepalm:

To be fair, this is almost invariably true for any team who doesn't cut someone just for cap reasons.

I can't imagine we'll learn much from his play this week. 2 days of practice with a new team at left tackle?

I have to think even great tackles would struggle in similar conditions.

Of course, if he leaves the field after 1 snap for a strained labia, I guess we'll learn something.

What if he happens to dominate? Like he is currently doing. Not that Jax rush is daunting unless blitzing, but for ****s sake, with two days of practice, it doesn't matter.

BossChief and Aturnis have some explaining to do defending these bums all season http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/8676/iseeu.png

I am about at my tipping point Bo. **** you very much!

BTW, nice Carl Winslow drop.

I'm now convinced Ricky Stanzi might be Andy Dalton.

He became a free agent. Last I heard he didn't want to play in a 3-4.

I admit, I overreacted about Gaither. He did have a few hold later on, but then again, his first start... Still upset, I bet he grades out well, and is 10x the tackle Richardson is...

I think it comes down to he wanted to play LT.

wow, i guess i wasnt that far off the mark. Of course he played well.....only the Chiefs... :facepalm:

He did pretty good and he knocked the DE out of the game. Pretty much all you can ask for out of a tackle.

I don't see how anyone can say this is on Pioli. Pioli signed him, Haley didn't play him. So as a GM, you let go of people that are not making an impact on the team. He wasn't making an impact because Haley wasn't playing him. This falls squarly on Haley.

Damn good prediction

Why the **** is chiefsplanet getting so bent out of shape out of some has-been tackle? Jesus.

Maybe it is because we have a glaring hole at RT and it looks like Gaither would have done much better at the position. It might also be that it seems like this staff doesn't seem to want to play the best player for the position for some ****ing reason.

he wasn't part of the "right 53"

I didn't see the game how did Gaither play?

From what I saw he played pretty well. I would like to know what his grade was. I don't even know where you go to get that.