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Give the San Diego Chargers credit. They were forced into a bad situation, and they answered it by securing arguably the best player remaining on the free-agent market. Pushed into a corner, rookie San Diego general manager Tom Telesco responded w...

I want to thank ESPN's Matt Williamson for handling our AFC West Eight in the Box project last week while I was on vacation. The subject was 2013 breakout players. I also wanted to pass my thoughts along on this topic. I chose my players for each ...

During my training camp visit to San Diego in early August, I was struck by how much the organization was looking forward to seeing Ryan Mathews play in 2012. I heard more than one person in the organization say that Mathews was "on a mission" to ...

It's difficult to find young help on the defensive line. But if the first two preseason and training-camp performances are any indication, both the Denver Broncos and San Diego Chargers may have found help on the line through the second round of the ...

Naturally, a big question amongst San Diego Chargers fans Friday is will the team pursue a veteran running back with Ryan Mathews out for 4-6 weeks with a broken clavicle. Well, the question has been answered. According to U-T San Diego, Charge...

It was the first day of the NFL combine in Indianapolis and if A.J. Smith had been nervous, it would have been understandable. He was entering the most critical offseason of his career. Already fired in the court of public opinion, Smith and Norv ...

Now that Matt Leinart has signed with the Oakland Raiders, each teams in the AFC West has a new backup quarterback. After looking at the list, here is my advice to the starters in the division: stay healthy. The AFC West's group of backups is n...

The San Diego Chargers entered the offseason with getting a top pass-rusher as one of their biggest needs. Within the first 24 hours of free agency, San Diego secured an outside linebacker. However, in former Baltimore linebacker Jarret Johnson, S...

Offseason movement starts Tuesday, when the free-agent signing period begins. Let's take a look at the top needs of each team in the AFC West in free agency and in the draft: Denver Broncos 1. Defensive line: The Broncos could use a stout defen...

The two men the San Diego Chargers chose to anchor their defense in 2011 spent their post-lockout time essentially living together. Eric Weddle, fresh from signing a $40 million dollar contract that kept him in San Diego, was in charge of getting ...

Free agency will be nothing less than crazy when it begins and there will be all kinds of names that get bandied about. Lawson Let's look at a name that could fit for the San Diego Chargers: San Francisco 49ers linebacker Manny Lawson. ...

If the San Diego Chargers search for a staring inside linebacker this summer, keep this name in mind: Nick Barnett. I think the Chargers could show interest in the Green Bay linebacker if he becomes available. There has been chatter around the lea...

There are six active starting NFL quarterbacks who have won a Super Bowl. Philip Rivers is not one of them. That fact hangs over Rivers' head and will be the biggest question mark about him until he wins one. There's little doubt that the San D...

Let's take a look at some headlines: Denver This is what second-year quarterback Tim Tebow had to say about his plans during the lockout: "Now that we're locked out, I'm still training, still grinding away. Everyone wants to be there. The owner...

The Kansas City Chiefs and San Diego Chargers will play this season's most important game to date in the AFC West on Sunday in San Diego. If the Chiefs win, there won't be many more important games left in the division this season. Kansas City, wh...

Will Peyton Manning be the best player on the field Sunday night when the San Diego Chargers visit Indianapolis? Usually, it wouldn't even be a question. Of course, he would. He's Peyton Manning, one of the best players ever to step on an NFL fiel...