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“BOLTS-REAL DEAL”
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Who among you would have thought this possible, anytime during this NFL season?
Who would have thought the Chargers would reel off wins at the end of the season with a badly banged up and sacked Justin Herbert?
Who could have imagined the leaky defense would seize the moment to beat up Jalen Hurts-Patrick Mahomes-Dak Prescott on back to back weeks at the end of the campaign.
And they have. And the Chargers are (11-4) on the season, and headed to the playoffs, likely as a widlcard team with at least one home game.
Herbert was Herbert at his NFL best in Dallas on Sunday. A 300-yard passing day, a wild 33Y-run out of a collapsing pocket that triggered a 2nd half TD drive that broke the Cowboys defense and its spirit.
This coming from a guy playing with a cast and a fractured bone in his left hand. This from a guy behind an offensive line that has given up 49-sacks and allowed him to take the most hits-most pressures of anybody in the NFL.
This is a QB playing behind castoff tackles Trevor Penning and Bobby Hart that other teams dumped out onto the street.
And on a Sunday-to-Sunday basis, someone steps up and makes plays to help that QB, the latest being Quentin Johnston, who had an amazing 1-handed touchdown catch, and then an impossible 50-yard streak down the sideline with a DB hanging on him. All part of his 4-catch-104 yard day.
The RB-duo Omani Hampton and Kimani Vidal continue to put up physical yards after contact.
The pass rush chased Dak Prescott around knocking him out of sync and actually taking the Cowboys out of the game in the second half, making Cee Dee Lamb and George Pickens disappear after a wild first half.
Nothing bogus about this winning streak, they are earning it, because this QB can do what most QBs cannot do.
Get it down the field thru coverage; break containment and run for chunk yards when there is nothing there. Survive lots of hits on a weekly basis.
And find the right guy to make the right play as witnessed by the 16-chunk plays (10Y or more) they made against Dallas. Yes the Cowboys are rated 30th in the NFL in virtually every category on defense, but their front was in Herbert’s face all day, and yet he stared them down and got the ball out of there.
Here comes Houston’s defense, then the season finale in Denver, which could be for first place in the AFC-West, where the Bolts are (5-0)
Who could have believed this year, beset by all these injuries, would turn out like this.
The Chiefs era is over. The Raiders are an NFL-family disgrace. Denver is doing it differently but Sean Payton has reinvented the Orange Crush and the Kid QB-Bo Nix.
But here on the West Coast-this is something to behold game-by-game.
Keep winning and you will see the Sign Post up ahead…”NFL Playoffs”.
Superman at QB-Justin Herbert believes….did, does, and will going forward
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