A win is a win right? Most of the game was pretty fugly especially the 1st half. The Raiders were able to run all over the Chargers and the Bolts seemed unable to do much about it. Somehow we still went into the locker room 10-10 at the half.
Then the Bolts got caught with the injury bug in the 2nd half with LT standing on the sideline with a high ankle sprain. Our offensive line was held together with duct tape after Hardwick and Vasquez left with injuries in the 3rd quarter. Hardwick’s injury happened on a play that was blown dead on a false start penalty.
Rivers, Naanee and Gates were heroes on offense and Sproles on special teams. Shaun Phillips had a great game but no sacks. In fact, the defense only had one sack while the Raiders were all over Rivers sacking him 3x including two sacks from Richard Seymour who’s only been with the Raiders for 2 freakin days. Our secondary gave up a huge 57 yd pass play from Russell to rookie Louis Murphy on 4th and 14 to take a 3 point lead with 2:34 left in the 4th quarter. That shit cannot happen.
A very disappointing performance by the Charger defense.
But, the Chargers offense dug deep and came through with a scoring drive in the final 2 minutes of the game to escape the black hole with a 24-20 win. It wasn’t pretty but i’ll take it. The Chargers have a lot of questions to be answered before they suit up against the Ravens this Sunday.
Filed under: '09 Reg Season
