Sportsbook odds makers and online sportsbook fans alike had all but booked hotel reservations for the Sand Diego Chargers. So certain were the sportsbook talking heads that the Chargers would be going to the Super Bowl that it was all but a foregone conclusion. However, an injury to Shawn Merriman revealed just how fragile this team’s defense is and brought into question just how likely the team’s quest for a sportsbook championship really is.
Online sportsbook fans will certainly remember back to last NFL sportsbook season when the Chargers got off to an absolutely abysmal start and it looked as though Norv Turner’s hiring was the worst off season online sportsbook move in the league.But thanks to a putrid division, the Chargers were able to rebound and play themselves into the sportsbook postseason, nearly defeating the New Patriots and booking a spot in sportsbook action’s biggest game. And they very well might have if QB Phil Rivers were healthy for that sportsbook showdown.
And so, high hopes abounded for this team full of pro bowlers and some of the best position players in NFL sportsbook play. And you also must admit that you can’t predict a team’s sportsbook fortunes after just one week of play.
But the Chargers looked hopeless in a home loss to the mediocre Panthers in what must have been the online sportsbook upset of the week. One game hardly makes a sportsbook season, but what was most disturbing was not the fact that the Chargers lost.
That’s not a big deal in the bigger online sportsbook scheme of things, but was terrifying for Chargers fans and sportsbook bettors, was the weakness of the defense. The Panthers ran wild over the Chargers without Merriman there to draw double teams.
And aside from that the tree-like Jake Delhomme was hardly pressured at any point in the sportsbook match up. Without pressure the Chargers secondary will be tested to death by much better passing teams on their sportsbook schedule. And unless the defense proves it can stop the run, online sportsbook challengers wont’ even need to pass.
Without Merriman this defense is severely hampered and will have to find some answers in a hurry for its sportsbook detractors. This team is still very good, and very talented, but unless its defense can make the necessary adjustments, the high powered offense will not have possession long enough to put up big scores on its sportsbook opponents.
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