CHARGERS: Latest mock draft predictions

If we draft an offensive skill position with our #1 pick, we will be idiots. that is not our need to address. WR can be addressed with resigning VJ or free agency, not rebuilding in the draft

Add to that the 3 years it's said that it takes on average for a WR to really develop and it's just a bad move to draft one 1st.

I could see us maybe drafting an heir apparent for Gates as the only possibility for an offensive skill player 1st with what the TEs did in NE in the middle of the field....but IMO even that would be stupid!

We gotta stay in the trenches with front seven help or O-line!

I just want our 1st rounder to be a somebody and with the number of rookies that made an impact immediately last season....I don't think that's too much to ask if we can rightfully identify a real baller!

As for going 4-3......we've been running the oddest 3-4/4-3 hybrid for the past couple seasons as it is. Our base D hasn't really been a true A-gap led 3-4 since Jamal was released.
We might as well switch....since we drafted a decent player best suited to be a 4-3 tackle last year anyway.

I'm in the decided minority that has wanted this for a few years now.

I've read he may be a one-year wonder...

I don't crunch the numbers or anything to determine percentages, but calling the defense a 3-4 is kind of arbitrary. That may be the base defense, which they run for more snaps than any other, but they also have plenty of 4-3 plays, and Rivera used to like calling some of Buddy Ryan's crazy formations, like a 2-5 alignment, or zero down linemen. It's oversimplifying and misleading when people try to use one term to describe an entire defense. I do agree that we lack a true NT, unless Thomas grows into the role. He's made some strides, I think, but he's not there yet. Who would play where in the Bolts' four man front? Martin-Thomas-Garay-Luiget?? (obviously Garay would need to be re-signed) I wonder if Harris will get another contract from the team...

The system of defense you run is not arbitrary at all.

Your base D determines the primary way you plan to attack offenses, the specific tasks of the players in that attack, and the type of players that would normally be drafted and picked up in free agency to perform those tasks.

The base D is the foundation of the whole thing!

It determines gap assignments and what types of players you are likely to encounter across from you. It completely changes where certain stats are compiled, because of specific responsibilities.

It dictates what line calls have to be made by O-lineman as well, since some of them will be covered up differently based on what type of defensive front they are facing.

The fact that plays might be called to utilize the particular skill-set of a particular player...or to take advantage of certain weaknesses of an offense or to counter certain strengths has nothing to do with an overall defensive philosophy.

There's nothing misleading at all about saying what a team's base D is.....it will tell you plenty about the game you will end up watching and what you should be expecting. Getting a team to guess poorly at where pressure is coming from and where coverage will be is the whole point of each defensive philosophy. It's about responsibilities and deceptions.

Buddy Ryan ran the 46 defense. 4 down lineman, 3 LBs, and 4 DBs. ....innovative at the time, outdated against great timing offenses, but nothing crazy about it at all.

What is a 2-5 alignment? It suggests 2 down lineman and 5 linebackers. I've never seen us or anybody else run it.

The only reason you would have just 2 rushers would be to stop an obvious pass....and every team would opt for an extra secondary player or 2 or 3 instead of 5 LBs if facing that obvious of a passing situation....making it a nickel, dime, or prevent defense.

Nobody puts 5 LBs on the field unless they've sustained some odd injuries....or unless it's to stop a running attack and in such cases it would usually accompany 3 lineman as in a 3-5-3 defense....and even then the 5th "LB" is usually a safety that can play in the box and is grouped with the LBs for purposes of nomenclature alone.

As for zero lineman....even in an all out hail-mary....teams send at least a couple rushers so a team can't just stand there and perfectly set up a pass play..........so zero lineman I don't think I've ever seen.

Hester sucks

The thing that absolutely scares me about Perry is he has a history of being injured. Do we really want another first rounder on the inactive list for half of the games?