NFL 2010 Week 3 Review: Seahawks Survive Generous Chargers

Quick, who out of the Chargers, Cardinals, Seahawks and Raiders had the best opportunity to win during Week 3 of the 2010 NFL season?

If you said the Chargers, move to the head of the class and then step back to the rear please.

Even though they were playing on the road, at hostile Qwest Field, the Chargers expected to move to 2-1 but the Seahawks had a different game plan.

Chargers 518 Yards – Seahawks 271 Yards – Seattle Wins – Final: 27-20

We are so disturbed by the outcome of this game that we are dedicating an entire post to it so everyone understands that this was one of the worst games a singular team could ever play. I am not even a Chargers fan, but my head is about to explode none the less.

Someone needs to tell the San Diego Chargers that the NFL season starts the weekend after Labor Day, in September, every year. In each of the past four seasons the Chargers have had at least two losses by the end of Week 4 or earlier but have somehow managed to make the playoffs every year. Hey Norv! Maybe s few more September wins would help with that thing they call “home field advantage” come playoff time.

San Diego continued their sloppy early season play in Week 3 as they fell to the Seattle Seahawks even though they had a 247 net yard total offense differential. Philip Rivers had a career passing day with 455 yards and two touchdowns but also threw tow interceptions. He wasn’t the only Charger in a “giving” mood though as WR Legedu Naanee and running backs Darren Sproles and Mike Tolbert each lost a fumble.

Chargers Special Teams – Seahawks Entire Team – Both Far From Special

It doesn’t end there for the Chargers and it only gets worse. The Chargers special teams unit must have stayed in the locker room after half time as the Seahawks scored two-second half-touchdowns on kickoff returns.

Are you kidding me? Two kickoff return touchdowns? Some teams don’t get two in an entire NFL season! Leave in the fumbles and interceptions, but take out the two kickoff scores, and the Chargers win 20-13.

We have nothing to say that’s really nice about the Seahawks. We love their swarming defense and their rabid fans that give them a huge home field advantage but, after that, there is very little to like. We’re especially not fond of Pete “Benedict Arnold” Carroll and how he “snuck” out of USC and left their student athlete program in turmoil.

Like every team in their division (other the Rams, how funny is that?) the Seahawks need a reliable, healthy and young quarterback. Matt Hasselbeck is trying but his time in the NFL is over and he needs to retire. RB Justin Forsett and TE John Carlson are spark plugs in Seattle but they are marked men without a supporting cast around them.

Given the lack off offense in Seattle, even their hard working defense is going to break down at some point. Did we mention…..the Chargers had the ball on offense for 36:04 minutes compared to just 23:56 minutes for the Seahawks. No defense on the planet can stand that for very long and my head is now really going to pop of my shoulders.

Along with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Seattle Seahawks are the most fraudulent 2-1 team in the entire league  as we are about to reach the quarter poll of the 2010 NFL season.