Belcher played as well as I expected TBH. I have liked him for some time now.

I think this DL is gonna make our linebackers look pretty good if Shaun Smith can start and Tyson is OK.

Romeo Crennel is already doing well on his "white horse" if I do say so myself.

Defense had a great game considering they we're on the field 2/3rds of the game. Constant pressure (compared to what we've seen this decade), good coverage, turnovers, defensive stands, run defense for the most part. Very pleased over all. Sure, they had some blown coverages and at the end some bad tackles but that can be attributed to rookies/new scheme/worn out.

Offense...awful. Cassel...continues to suck. Playcalling had some headscratchers that is likely because the QB play. Moeaki impressed to a degree...he didn't die out there and had a nice play for the TD and another nice catch. Charles was good. The line was ok considering Cassel had given the defense to think there was a threat to pass so all they did was try to close the holes and blitz.

Special teams...we all thought something special was in store but wow, arenas and mccluster was everything we all hoped for.

Oh, there's no doubt in my mind that the win was something they can build on. Whether they will or not I can't say, but it could definitely be a foundation.

Jackson played a good game. Better than any game he had last year. I hope his injury is not serious.

Mecca is right on about Belcher, good game, hope he keeps it up all year.

Really for people to say the rain helped us seems to defy the rule of thumb that a sloppy field benefits an offense.

They may have something in Belcher. I think we're starting to see why they were so excited about him after '09's camp.

Kind of hard to credit, but he plays a lot bigger than he is.

I was wandering if we would ever throw the ball on first down. We did eventually but mostly it's run Jones up Weigmans ass. WTF

Do some screens to Charles or Dexter, maybe quick slants to D Bowe on first down once in a while. I had enough of Jones the first couple of series, he had a few good runs but mostly not good enough.

Well, all I have to say in closing cause it is time to hit the sack is, wet or dry, SD could not run the football for shit. That is the biggest thing to hold onto from tonight's game. We shut down the run. ESPN talked up Matthews big time before the game. We shut down their running game. We do that consistently and we will win more than we lose.

Chargers seemed pretty set on defending screens, that one that McCluster got Weddle was sitting on it. Just looked to me like Weis had absolutely no confidence in Cassel at all after seeing the first couple of passes he threw.

Cassel or our o-line? Cassel got nailed both times as he was throwing on his first two passes. I can't hang those on him, that was shitty blocking.

He held the ball way to long on a couple of those...the sack he took from Phillips was completely on him.

That's what I kept saying over and over to the people at my house.

Teams are waiting on the screens and draws and soon enough they will be jumping curls and keeping both safeties within 7 yards of the LOS.

I wonder if this team could make the playoffs with Thigpen. Oh well, wasted time talking about it I guess, but he looked pretty good in PS.

How many games with sub 125 yards passing will we have to endure before a change is made?

I don't know why teams wouldn't do it from the start, what are the odds Matt Cassel actually completes a ball downfield on you?

Even in the passes that were called it was obvious it was how they were playing because he kept trying to go downfield, he just can't do it.

Flip flop the quarterbacks of the teams from tonight and Rivers throws for 350 with our targets and Cassel throws for the same amount as he did for us, on the Chargers.

There is no reason to have confidence in Cassel He sucks. He made 1 good throw downfield and that was to Moaeki (spelling).

He's just ass. There is no way around it. His pocket presence is freaking terrible.