San Diego Sports/LOCAL SPORT: There's Still Hope For The Chargers

Nobody expects to start 2-5. “Not even the worst team in the league,” says Chargers DE Luis Castillo. The San Diego Chargers

are not the worst team in the NFL. Remarkably, despite their record,(nfl jerseys

cheap) they come into this week’s game against the Tennessee Titans with both the number-one overall rated offense and the

number-one overall rated defense. No team in NFL history has ever sat at 2-5 with that accomplishment. That fact and the team’s

unity in these disappointing times bring hope the team can still turn things around this season.

“The Chargers issues have been of their own,” says Titans head coach Jeff Fisher. “They are still a very talented football

team.” Meaning, in each of the Chargers five losses, they have beaten themselves with a toxic combination of poor special teams

play, costly penalties, and most importantly, too many inexcusable turnovers. It all adds up to a poisonous concoction of mistakes

that would lead to a flurry of finger pointing in most locker rooms.

“We are not going to point fingers at anybody,”(Dolphins Jersey) says ILB Stephen Cooper. QB Philip Rivers concurs, “We win as a team, and we lose as a team.”

Those may just sound like words, but take it from somebody who is in the locker room nearly every day. The Chargers players have

not turned on one another; they are united and they most certainly have not given up on this season.

“All of our goals are still in front of us,” says Rivers.

Where does that solidarity and this belief they can turn it around come from?

First and foremost, they have done it in the past. Although it has never been this bad, in each of Norv Turner’s previous three

seasons as head coach the team started 2-3. The Chargers have been able to comeback and overcome their slow starts to capture the

division in each of those years.

Secondly, the Chargers are behaving as a team both on and off the field. “We know the type of dedication that every guy on this

team has,” says Castillo. “We spend time off of the field in so many different ways, whether it is hanging out or doing charity

work or just working. It all adds to the fact that we all have a lot of confidence in each other and we like each other.(Miami Dolphins Jersey) We like spending time

around a lot of good character guys who love what they do.”

That has never been more evident than in the past several days that saw the players significantly involved with four separate

charitable events. Despite the team’s current record, each event brought smiles to fans and players alike and helped ease the

tension of the team’s record.