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3rd ? Really ? :rolleyes:

Oh, you meant the Chargers were going to be 3rd, right. This team, had Roaf been healthy was going to win the division and take our chances from there.

With Roaf out, Denver has to be the favorite, we will be right there. The Stuuuupid Chaaargers will falter this year behing a crying River not being able to handle NFL defenses. I'm not worried about Rivers, he has to learn first.

I'm sure he's going to respond "Shawne Merriman blah blah yadda yadda" He apparently is their entire defense.......

Lets set aside the times where Charger defenders were paying rent on LJ's back for all the time he was lugging them around.

That move on the 15 yard line on his way into the endzone in Arrowhead last year?

Amazing.

I'm not as concerned with Roaf's retirement as most people around here. Obviously KC just lost one of the best O Lineman in the game. However, if he doesn't have it in him to come back for another season, I don't want the guy playing. To be honest, I thought Roaf had a pretty sub-par year last season.

It's time for the young guys to step up. Jordan Black, Will Svitek, Kevin Sampson, whoever...We all knew Big Willie Roaf couldn't play forever.

I just wish had made this decision earlier, drafting Eric Winston in the 2nd would have looked alot better than Bernard Pollard right now.

Are you sure you don't mean Shields? Will had kind of a slow start... but when Willie was in the lineup we were a totally dominant offense. The only two games where the Priest/LJ rotation actually worked were the two he started early in the year.

Both had sub-par years in my opinion. I don't think Roaf was that effective at getting out in open space as in years past. I thought both Roaf and Shields were pretty inconsistent in their play last season. You'd get the Roaf of old in one game, and the old Roaf in another.

The loss of Roaf is big, but definitely not as big as the loss of an LJ, Green, Gonzalez, Surtain, or Law would be.

I'd rather have Pollard at this point. Honestly.

I'm not advocating running it 60 times a game. I'm advocating running the ball at better times, like when the Buffalo d-line is teeing off on Green.

For everyone that's worried about Martyball - taking the ball out of LJ's hands and throwing pass after pass in the 3rd quarter after Larry turned out 100+ yards in the 1st half is the DEFINITION of Martyball.

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I understand what you're saying. That was about the only game where we really mucked it up though I think... and even then LJ had 150 some odd yards didn't he. I don't know, I'm just not sure how much more we can really run the football... we were already running it a ton at the end of the year. Especially since we're not sure we have a capable backup yet.

I think they can be. They were 16th in points allowed and if they shave a FG off of that per game, they're easily in the top 10.

Honestly, what we were doing the last 7 or so games of last season is PRECISELY what I'm advocating.

Yeah, I'm interested in seeing how we handle the balance of the running game. Hopefully one of the backups step up and is able to handle getting a few carries a game. As much as Edwards and Solari seem to want to run I'm afraid we're going to run LJ 30 times a game.