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**Jags02** · 11-23-2015, 03:22 PM

The Chargers are as beat up as ever right now, they have to travel across the country for this one, and are reeling on the field. We need to keep them reeling.

Gordon is proving to be an absolute bust so far, but I say that with a slight word of caution only because the Jaguars have allowed a few RBs their breakout performance that puts them on the map. Jerome Bettis made his claim to fame as a rookie with the Rams against the 49ers, but it was his breakout performance against the Jaguars with the Steelers that really got him going. Shaun Alexander was a virtual nobody with the Seahawks until one day he broke out against the Jaguars and kept it up the rest of the season. I recall their being another RB within the past could years doing the same, but it escapes me who this was. I doubt this would happen with Gordan against the league leader in yards per carry, but to be on the safe side we should treat Gordon like we would any big name RB by making sure we stop him.

On the flip side the Chiefs RBs were having a virtual field day against the Chargers defense, and I kept picturing Yeldon tearing it up. This might be a game where we want to feed our young RB a bit more, but not at the expense of being the downfield passing team we know we are. I'm hoping for once we can win decisively so we don't have to worry about a missed kick or a bad ref call. There's reason to believe this can happen provided our pass rush holds up. The only slight threat the Chargers brought against the Chiefs were a few player where their pass rush got to Alex Smith.

'02