Quick thoughts on the Chargers 24-20 season-opening victory over the Raiders Monday night, before I go off to bed.
1. This is the NFL and if you're considered a good team as the Chargers are, you're going to take an opponent's best shot sometimes. You just have to survive and the Bolts did. Their manhood was tested and they stood up at winning time in the fourth quarter.
2. The Chargers seem to need a few games to get into a rhythm. Partly why I wasn't too perturbed until the third quarter, when the Raiders were clearly manhandling them. I liked that the San Diego team stiffened their backs in response and won with two backup offensive linemen and no LT.
3. Props to Marcus McNeill for playing hurt. Next game, he better play better or the Chargers are going to be on the market for a left tackle. They already better be checking the waiver wire for a right tackle, because Jeromey Clary is no starter on a championship-caliber team.
4. Thank God for JaMarcus Russell. As long as Al Davis is paying him to play QB, the Raiders won't be a threat over the course of a season.
5. Shawne Merriman is at about 80 percent, it looks like.
6. On my recent post I wrote that one of the backup receivers was going to have a breakout season. I wrote Legedu Naanee, right? Right?
7. Next opponent: Baltimore. The Chargers better respond to the manhood test in the first quarter, because if they don't, standing up for themselves in the fourth won't make a difference.
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