Chargers FOF 2k4 Dynasty

[Abe Sargent]

After playing around with 2k4 for a while, it's time for a dynasty. Now, I currently have a Madden 2004 dynasty going as the Las Vegas Copperheads. Normally, when I do a dynasty, I try to include a lot of press releases, news articles, press conferences, and other documents in order to build the story. My Madden 2004 dynasty will continue to be that sort of dynasty.

I'm going to try something different with the Chargers dynasty. Here, it will be more about stats and me as a GM and less about the stories. If you want that sort of dynasty, click on the link to the Madden 2004 dynasty and catch up. Otherwise, the Chargers dynasty is about to begin.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Why the Chargers?

They have a weak roster. 3rd worst in AFC.

They are the second poorest team in the league.

They have few future stars.

Appear to be a challenge.


Here are a few things you'll want to know:

Injury is set at 90

Cap inflation is 30-70 (default was 28-80)

Wall Street, GMs fire-able, Cohesion and Leaders enabled


Arizona renamed Phoenix, Carolina renamed Charlotte, New England renamed Boston.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

The initial roster:





Front Office Football 2004
San Diego Chargers Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Flutie, Doug 7 QB 10 24 30 4 yrs
Brees, Drew 9 QB QB 3 20 52 1 yr.
Tomlinson, LaDainian 21 RB RB 3 68 72 3 yrs
Johnson, Leon 35 RB 6 35 39 1 yr.
Chatman, Jesse 24 RB 2 17 22 1 yr.
Neal, Lorenzo 41 FB FB 10 79 79 3 yrs
Pinnock, Andrew 30 FB 1 34 56 3 yrs
Alexander, Stephen 80 TE TE 6 53 56 4 yrs
Gates, Antonio 85 TE 1 13 27 2 yrs
Peelle, Justin 84 TE 2 12 25 2 yrs
Norman, Josh 83 TE 2 8 19 1 yr.
Boston, David 89 FL FL 5 62 62 5 yrs
Parker, Eric 88 FL 2 17 21 1 yr.
Osgood, Kassim 81 FL 1 15 30 2 yrs
Dwight, Tim 87 SE 6 37 40 4 yrs
Caldwell, Reche 82 SE SE 2 35 48 3 yrs
Mattos, Grant 86 SE 1 11 23 2 yrs
Raymer, Cory 66 C 8 30 33 4 yrs
Ball, Jason 60 C C 2 29 53 1 yr.
Binn, David 50 C 10 26 33 1 yr.
Fonoti, Toniu 71 LG LG 2 33 60 3 yrs
Garmon, Kelvin 63 LG 3 14 33 1 yr.
Hallen, Bob 62 RG RG 6 54 65 1 yr.
McIntosh, Damion 77 LT LT 4 35 61 1 yr.
VanBuren, Courtney 72 LT 1 16 39 3 yrs
Page, Solomon 79 RT RT 5 38 43 1 yr.
Parker, Vaughn 70 RT 10 36 40 2 yrs
Bogle, Phil 64 RT 1 12 32 2 yrs
Bennett, Darren 2 P 9 53 53 1 yr.
Christie, Steve 8 K 14 35 36 1 yr.
Scifres, Mike 5 K 1 18 29 3 yrs
Wiley, Marcellus 75 LDE LDE 7 66 67 4 yrs
Leverette, Otis 93 LDE 3 15 27 1 yr.
Johnson, Ray Lee 99 RDE RDE 10 60 61 2 yrs
Dingle, Adrian 90 RDE 5 26 40 3 yrs
Williams, Jamal 76 LDT LDT 6 49 55 3 yrs
Carson, Leonardo 96 LDT 4 35 51 1 yr.
Cesaire, Jacques 74 LDT 1 25 52 2 yrs
Fisk, Jason 92 RDT RDT 9 54 54 4 yrs
Scott, DeQuincy 78 RDT 4 12 21 1 yr.
Polk, Carlos 52 MLB MLB 3 31 57 1 yr.
Moreno, Zeke 57 MLB 3 18 31 1 yr.
Leber, Ben 51 SLB 2 25 41 3 yrs
Waddy, Jude 54 SLB 5 21 37 1 yr.
Cooper, Stephen 94 SLB 1 16 30 2 yrs
Edwards, Donnie 59 WLB SLB 8 67 67 4 yrs
Wilhelm, Matt 56 WLB WLB 1 16 39 3 yrs
Jammer, Quentin 23 LCB LCB 2 35 61 4 yrs
Florence, Drayton 29 LCB 1 16 34 4 yrs
Davis, Sammy 22 RCB RCB 1 34 61 4 yrs
House, Kevin 32 RCB 3 13 23 1 yr.
Lassiter, Kwamie 42 SS SS 9 70 70 3 yrs
Fox, Vernon 36 SS 2 10 30 1 yr.
Kiel, Terrence 48 FS FS 1 26 49 4 yrs
Wilson, Jerry 20 FS 7 20 23 1 yr.
Milligan, Hanik 31 FS 1 9 19 4 yrs

$$ - player is in starting lineup, ## - player is inactive.

Players Under Contract: 56
On Active Roster: 56

Salary Cap: $75,000,000
Cap Room: $18,640,000
Maximum for New Player: $18,870,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $0

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $68,780,000




-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Number of Chargers on the Green Page: 0


Mentors:

FB Lorenzo Neal
P Darren Bennett
K Steve Christie
RDE Ray Lee Johnson


Leaders:

FB Lorenzo Neal
SE Tim Dwight
C Cory Raymer
SLB Jude Waddy
LCB Quentin Jammer


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Some Financials:

We sold 50,600 season tickets with 71,600 seats.


Qualcomm Stadium (Opened in 1967):
Outdoor/Natural Grass
71,600 Seats
113 Luxury Boxes
Fair condition
Very Good Parking Lot
Very Good Turf



Franchise Value: 311,250,000. Second lowest, only Phoenix is worth less.

Worst Stadium.

Roster is ranked 20th.

Support is second lowest, only Phoenix is lower.

Economy is fifth worst.



City Info:


San Diego:

Pop: 2.75 mill
Growth 1.8%
Avg Inc: $29,500
Poverty: 16.6%
Entertainment Competition: Very High (94%)
Trend-Setting: Very Low (0%)


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

I begin by trimming some fat from the roster. The following players are released:

K Mike Scifres
C David Binn
TE Josh Norman
FS Hanik Milligan


I sign:

QB Emmanuel Merola, 1 year, 230k


I deactivate:

FB Andrew Pinnock
TE Justin Peele
SE Grant Mattos
RT Phil Bogle
RDT DeQuincy Scott
SLB Stephen Cooper
SS Vernon Fox


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

My staff:

Lead Scout:

Roman Root
66 yrs old
280k, 5 years
Offense: VG, VG, G, G
Sp. Teams/Defense: A, A, G, A
Yng Tal: VG


Good offense, lackluster defense acuity, but strong at identifying young talent.



Head Coach:

Graham Sevcik
60 yrs old
1.52 mill, 2 years
Offense: VG, G, Ex, VG
Sp. Teams/Def: VG, A, F, A
Yng Tal: A
Skills: Ex, VG, G, A, A


Only average injury avoidance, not great at calling plays, average with the youngsters, I think we can do better.


Off. Coord.

Marc Hanson
52 yrs old
740k, 4 years
Off: A, Ex, G, A
Sp Teams/Def: A, A, G, A
Yng Tal: A
Skills: G, A, A, A, A


Completely average in almost every way except for his skill with running backs. I'd like somebody better than average.


Def. Coord.

Zach King
54 yrs old
820k, 5 years
Off: G, F, A, VG
Sp Teams/Def: VG, F, G, Ex
Yng Tal: G
Skills: G, A, G, A, G

Solid in special teams and excellent with the secondary but weak in the trenches. I might be able to do better.



What's with all of my coaches sounding like they're the Frat Boy Prep Club? Graham? Marc? Zach? That's crazy.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

The Schedules:


Front Office Football 2004
San Diego Chargers 2003 Exhibition Season Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attendance Weather
Week 1 OPEN
Week 2 at Seattle Seahawks
Week 3 PHOENIX CARDINALS
Week 4 at Houston Texans
Week 5 SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 50,600
Stadium Capacity: 71,600



San Diego Chargers 2003 Regular Season Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attendance Weather
Week 1 at Kansas City Chiefs
Week 2 DENVER BRONCOS
Week 3 BALTIMORE RAVENS
Week 4 at Oakland Raiders
Week 5 at Jacksonville Jaguars
Week 6 OPEN
Week 7 at Cleveland Browns
Week 8 MIAMI DOLPHINS
Week 9 at Chicago Bears
Week 10 MINNESOTA VIKINGS
Week 11 at Denver Broncos
Week 12 CINCINNATI BENGALS
Week 13 KANSAS CITY CHIEFS
Week 14 at Detroit Lions
Week 15 GREEN BAY PACKERS
Week 16 at Pittsburgh Steelers
Week 17 OAKLAND RAIDERS

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 50,600
Stadium Capacity: 71,600



-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

We go 2-2 in the preseason. No players are injured.

Starters:

QB Drew Brees - I have serious concerns about Brees' ability to be a starter in the NFL. This is the last year of his rookie contract, so we'll see how he plays.

RB LT - Our offensive stud is, of course, LaDainian Tomlinson, or LT. He is a true franchise running back. Expect to see a lot of LT over the next few years.

FB Lorenzo Neal - Another stud performer is fullback Neal, with virtually maxed out categories in almost every pertinent stat.

TE Stephen Alexander - Steve has both strengths and weaknesses. He can go over the middle and he avoids drops. He's also a solid pass blocker. However, he is weak as a run blocker or big play threat. I'd like a more well-rounded threat.

FL David Boston - The newest high profile acquisition by the Chargers, Boston was picked up before I took over the GM position. He had great big play ability, with significant speed. His hands are merely average, and he will drop a few balls, but he is above average to good to great in everything else.

SE Reche Caldwell - In camp, Reche beat out Tim Dwight. Barely. Reche is another big play man, but slower. He also drops balls, fumbles, runs the wrong routes and can't read plays that well.

LT Damion McIntosh - Damion has tremendous run blocking potential, and is strong, but he is a poor pass blocker.

LG Toniu Fonoti - Another stong blocker, Toniu still needs to develop but is out best player currently. Toniu will never be great.

C Jason Ball - Yet another player with decent potential but not so hot current abilites. Still, Jason is our best center. He is very strong and a good snapper.

RG Bob Hallen - A decent guard, Bob has good skills but is the weakest starting O-Lineman of our group.

RT Solomon Page - A better pass blocker, Solomon is a poor run blocker. He may be our best current pass blocker.


LDE Marcellus Wiley - Although he is only adequate against the run, Wiley is very strong in every other area, and may be our best defensive player.

LDT Jamal Williams - Jamal is an adequate player who is good enough to keep offensive lines honest. Nothing special, however.

RDT Jason Fisk - Great pass rush, but merely average against the run. Not a punishing hitter and can often get confused by the offense.

RDE Ray Lee Johnson - The best player against the run on our D-Line is an end. Ray Lee simply shuts down runs, and has adequate pass rush skills. However, Ray Lee sometimes gets confused as well, plus he can get bowled off the line by stronger players.

SLB Donnie Edwards - Our good linebacker. Donnie is our best linebacker because he is good in coverage and pass rush, while adequate at best against the run. A quintessential WLB set of skills, but because we have such a poor linebacker corps, he'll lineup at SLB.

MLB Carlos Polk - Not that good right now, and only has potential to become acceptable someday.

WLB Matt Wilhelm - At best, a poor starter. That's generous.

LCB Quentin Jammer - Not as good as the hype, that's for sure. Can get beat right now, but could eventually grow into an above average corner. Not anything more.

RCB Sammy Davis - Strong hitter with a poor zone game. Average at best, and again, that's saying something.

SS Kwamie Lassiter - It seems like each of our defensive positional groups has one stud. Donnie Edwards, Marcellus Wiley, and Kwamie Lassiter. He could be our safety for a long while....

FS Terrence Kiel - ...but hopefully Terrence Kiel won't be, as he is the worst starter of our team. Nasty.

P Darren Bennett - Poor directional punting but good otherwise.

K Steve Christie - Barely adequate kicker. Definately a position of upgrade in the offseason.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 -

We defeat the Chiefs as Kwamie Lassiter is named the Game MVP after notching two picks, one for a TD. LT rushed for a TD as we won 29-13.


Week 2 -

Drew Brees tosses four TDs and LT gets over 100 yards as we defeat the Broncos 35-10. Jason Fisk notched a pair of sacks. G Bob Hallen is probable for next week. Game MVP is Drew Brees.


Week 3 -

The Chargers defeat the Ravens 21-10. The Ravens sole score came on a return of a Brees' interception. Donnie Edwards likewise picked off Boller and ran it 84 yards for a score. Donnie was the game MVP with 2 Ints, 2.5 Sacks, and 11 tackles. Brees throws two TDs but 4 Ints. Tim Dwight goes over 100 yards receiving. Edwards is also the NFL Defensive Player of Week 3. Kwamie is probable for next week.


Week 4 -

We travel to Oakland and lose. Steve Christie misses an XP. FB Neal caught our lone TD as the Raiders score 27 to our 9. Brees threw 2 picks and LT only had 2 rushes for 13 yards due to injury.

We have two injuries. LT with a hyperextended knee, doubtful, Reche Caldwell probable with a sprained knee. LT should be out for a week or two.


We finish the first quarter of the season overachieving at 3-1.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Week 5 -

We barely manage to defeat the winless Jags 20-17. Drew Brees is stupidly named the Game MVP, despite throwing one TD and 2 Picks. Marcellus Wiley recovers a fumble for a TD and notches two sacks - so I give him the Game Ball. Kay Lee also has a pair of sacks. Our defense led the way today. Marcellus Wiley is the NFL Defensive Player of Week 5, but not the Game MVP. Dumb.


Week 6 -

Bye


Week 7 -

LT is back in the lineup. We get surprised in Cleveland, losing 21-20. Our crappy safety Drayton Florence does pick off Kelly Holcomb's pass and returns it for a TD. LT rushes for our other TD. Brees tosses a pair of picks. Backup RB Leon Johnson is out for a while with a hyperextended elbow.


Week 8 -

We host and lose to the Dolphins 24-7. The Drew Brees of the first few games has all but disappeared as he threw one TD and FIVE picks. Kwamie will be out for a week or two with a strained foor ligament. Solomon Page is lightly injured and will be probable for a few weeks.


Week 9 -

We send Chicago to 0-8 as we win 28-20. Brees throws three TDs and just one pick. Nothing like a winless team to restore confidence, eh Drew? Kiel returned another pick for a TD.


We are 5-3 at the halfmark and well positioned for a playoff run in the second half.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Week 10 -

We barely defeat Minnesota 27-20. I say barely because two of our touchdowns were not scored by the offense. Kay Lee ran a blocked punt in for a score and Kwamie Lassiter, who is back from injury, picked off Daunte Culpepper and returned it for a TD. David Boston had a 100 yard day with the solo offensive TD. Lassiter had two picks and Game MVP honors.

We have several injuries. Probable for next week are MLB Zeke Moreno, LCB Drayton Florence in addition to Solomon Page and RB Leon Johnson. LDT Jamal Williams is out for 5 weeks with a strained patella tendon. LDT Leonardo Carson will start in his stead for as long as he may be out.


Week 11 -

We travel to Denver and leave losers 24-28. Tomlinson registers 104 yards while Brees throws for 3 TDs. Donnie Edwards had 2 sacks and Ray Lee had 2.5. We have no additional injuries.


Week 12 -

We host Cincy but lose 21-23. Brees throws two TDs but also throws a pick that the Cincy defense returns for a TD. One of two picks on the day for Drew. Neal rushes for a TD and he just has to be accumlating a lot of TDs over the course of the year. Reche Caldwell catches both of the passing TDs. LT Damion McIntosh is questionable with a pulled groin. Reche Caldwell is questionable with a sprained ankle. Both may be out in the nest game. Maybe.


Week 13 -

McIntosh will start but Caldwell is benched for Tim Dwight but will still see some play. We need to rally against the Chiefs, but instead lose 14-13. Brees tosses a pair of picks while Donnie Edwards gets three sacks.


6-6 at the 75% mark. We need to run the table to make the playoffs.


Week 14 -

Reche will start again against the Lions. Detroit is the cure for many ills that teams have. For us as well since we win 21-7. Lorenzo Neal and LT both rush for TDs and Boston catches another TD. Drew Brees is the game MVP with no picks. Rare.


Week 15 -

We just hosted the Packers and lost 30-20 to put us at 7-7. CB Sammy Davis returns a pick for a TD while LT ran for a score. Pretty poor week by our defense.


Week 16 -

Jamal Williams is back in the lineup starting against the equally 7-7 Steelers. We lose 10-3. Brees throws up a pair of picks, bringing us to....


Week 17 -

We host the Raiders but lose 20-17 to finish the season at 7-9. Lorenzo Neal scores his 8th TD of the season while Boston catches another score and goes over 1000 yards receiving. Jason Fisk had another pair of sacks.

7-9.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Playoffs -

Wild Card Weekend:

Cincinnati at Oakland, 28-10
Kansas City at Cleveland, 17-13
New York at New Orleans, 29-23
St. Louis at Green Bay, 27-29

Divisional Weekend:

Cincinnati at Tennessee, 24-17
Green Bay at Washington, 34-37
Kansas City at Miami, 10-30
New York at Seattle, 24-10


Conference Championships:

Cincinnati at Miami, 20-17

New York at Washington, 28-31


Super Bowl:

Cincinnati Bengals

vs

Washington Redskins



Cincinnati 39

Washington 3


Your 2004 NFL Champs - The Cincinnati Bengals


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

2003 in Review:

Awards:

All League First Team:

OLB Donnie Edwards
SS Kwamie Lassiter


Stats:

QB Drew Brees, 3699 yards, 21 TDs, 26 Ints

RB LaDainian Tomlinson, 195 rushes for 879 yards, 4 TDs, 37 catches for 273 yards, 1 TD

FB Lorenzo Neal, 63 carries for 201 yards and 4 TDs, 39 catches for 271 yards, 4 TDs.

WR David Boston, 65 catches for 1065 yards, 8 TDs

WR Reche Caldwell, 42 catches, 461 yards, 4 TDs

WR Tim Dwight, 39 catches, 587 yards, 2 TDs

TE Stephen Alexander, 53 catches for 589 yards and a TD

DT Jason Fisk, 52 Tacks, 21 Assts, 10.5 Sacks, 1 FF, 2 FumRec

DE Marcellus Wiley, 40 Tacks, 5 Assts, 10.5 Sacks, 1 FumRec, 1 FR TD

DE Ray Lee Johnson, 58 Tacks, 29 Assts, 8 Sacks, 1 FumRec, 1 FR TD

OLB Donnie Edwards, 113 Tacks, 18 Assts, 12 Sacks, 2 Ints, 1 Int TD, 4 PasDef, 2 FF, 1 FumRec

S Kwamie Lassiter, 99 Tacks, 35 Assts, 1 Sack, 6 Ints, 2 Int TDs, 18 PasDef, 5 FF, 2 FumRec

CB Quentin Jammer, 58 Tacks, 19 Assts, 2 Ints, 13 PasDef, 4 FF, 1 FumRec



-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

2003 GM Eval:

Team Performance: 28
Franchise Value: 62
Profit/Loss: 68
Roster Strength: 83

Overall: 56


The League has signed an 8 year TV deal, and the salary cap will increase 5.5 million each year over the length of the contract.


Balance Sheet:

Revenues: 70,070,000
Expenses: 62,750,000

Profit: 7,320,000


Phoenix's franchise value has leapt over ours, leaving us dead last in franchise value.

The San Diego economy has declined into the league worst.

Attendance at home games last year averaged 60,900 or 85% of capacity.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Stadium Proposal:

With the worst stadium in the league, I think that it's time for a new stadium. I turn in a proposal for a new stadium with the following features:

Retractable Roof/Grass
High Quality Firm

80000 Capacity
19500 Club Seats
380 Luxury Boxes

Proposed Cost 431 Million

Since the Chargers have languished in pain in this archaic stadium for ages, I request that the public pay for everything.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Staff Hiring:

I take a closer look at our current staff. I think we can look at better staff although we still have all of our staff under contract.

I make an offer to Gabe Shapiro for my D. Coord. position.

Bernie Lester for an O. Coor. position.

And I finally make an offer to the current Bears head coach.

We now have three standing offers so let's see what happens.


After the first week, Chicago blasts our offer and resigns their head coach. Cincinnati outbids us for Gabe Shapiro but we have time to rebut. And we are the highest bidder for Lester.

I make a bid to Shaun Peterson, the head coach of the Titans whose contract has expired. I also offer a position to Stanley Kovach, the previous defensive coordinator of the Chiefs.

We now have three offers out.

The following week, all three coaches sign, and we release our current staff. Here are our new coaches:


Head Coach Shaun Peterson
62
3.39 mill, 5 years
Off: VG, G, G, F
Sp. Teams/Def: A, VG, G, F
Yng Tal: Ex
Skills: A, VG, VG, VG, VG


Obviously, Shaun has very good skills, with great playcalling and injury avoidance skills. He is also amazing with the young 'uns.


Off. Coord. Bernie Lester
51
890k, 3 years
Off: A, G, VG, G
Sp. Teams/Def: Ex, VG, F, A
Yng Tal: VG
Skills: A, VG, A, A, G


Bernie is an amazingly good special teams coach. He's great with the youngsters as well, plus he can really help receivers.


Def. Coord. Stanley Kovach
37
1.16 mill, 4 years
Off: P, F, G, G
Sp. Teams/Def: A, G, G, G,
Yng Tal: VG
Skills: F, VG, G, G, A


Obviously not an offensively minded player. Yet another coach good with the newbies. He's solid through and through at all defensive position groups.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

I slightly increase ticket prices. We have the second cheapest tickets in the league after accounted for by various economic factors.

We have 32 players under contract, but have only 12 million in cap room. I need to make some adjustments.

I release Doug Flutie. He didn't take a snap last year, and I free up 5 million in room if I cut Doug loose. I head into free agency with 17 million of space.

At the beginning of Free Agency, I take a look at renegotiating some contracts. Marcellus Wiley has a 9.64 mill cap hit this year. So I call up his agent.

We sign a new contract that will convert a bit of his current contract to a signing bonus, but not so much as to bankrupt us in future years. The cap hit goes down by 3 mill.

I release RT Vaughn Parker, since we didn't even play him last year.

We now have 24 million in maneuvering room.

I offer Drew Brees a managable contract - 3 years for 7.6 mill total, with a cap hit this year of only 1.28 mill. Since Drew was a restricted agent, we sign immediately.

We sign another restricted free agent - C Jason Ball for 2 years at 2.26 mill. Cap hit this year of 1.01 mill.

There are a lot of interesting free agents available and I have to peruse them carefully. With a limited amount of cash to work with, I want to focus on the players that make my team a bit better, not the superstars like Warren Sapp and Champ Bailey.

The positions I have of serious need:

Right Guard
Both Tackles
P
K
MLB
SLB
FS

I make offers to:

P Darren Bennett
T Everett Lindsay
T L.J. Shelton
FS Victor Green


We await word from the agents of these four players. Darren Bennett and L.J. Shelton take our offers after the first week.

Combined they have a cap hit of 4 mill for this year.

Houston has outbid us for Everett Lindsay, and we are currently the highest bidder for Victor Green's services. I decide to up our bid a bit.

Buffalo signs Victor Green and we are the highest bidder for Everett Lindsay.

I make an offer to FS Keion Carpenter and wait.

The following week we sign Keion for a small cap hit this year.

Everett waits five weeks, then signs with New England for less than we offered.

I make an offer to RT Matt Joyce. He signs with us two weeks later with a cap hit of a million.

I am content with our free agency moves thus far, we have 15 million under the cap, and I move to the draft.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Areas of need pre-draft:

2x QB, both backups
2x RB, both backups
1x RG, starter
2x G, both backups
1x K
1x LDE, backup
1x RDT, backup
1x MLB, starter
1x MLB, backup
1x SLB, starter
2x CB, both backups
1x SS, backup


We draft in slot 11.

The linebacker we were eyeing went pick #10 to the Panthers. Yuk! I don't want to reach for a poor G or LB so I go for the stud TE in the draft, Chester Curtis from U of M.

In the second, we have an interesting choice. I have decent guards and linebackers to choose from. I decide to go for SLB Pat Larrabee from Nicholls State with a very low volatility.

In the third I take the first kicker off the board - Roman Perkins from USC.

In the fourth I take MLB Leslie Alstatt from Purdue.

QB Thomas Long from UTEP joins us in the fifth.

RB Mickey Baggette from Notre Dame in the 6th.

SS Stanley Blaine from Washington in the 7th.


The Stadium Vote failed by a 2:1 margin. Ah well.

We received a B for the draft.

I release TE Stephen Alexander post draft we no longer need him nor his big contract now that we have a first rounder joining us.

I resign MLB Carlos Polk for two years at a cap cost of 580k this year and LDE Otis Leverette to 480k and one year.

All of our rookies sign on the first round of offers. No holdouts.


In the second round of free agency I make offers to:

QB Chris Chandler
RB Amos Zereoue
LG Kenyatta Jones
RG Josh Warner
RDT Ryan Pickett
LCB Dale Carter

I sign G Brian Waters after Tennessee takes Jones. The rest sign with me.

I then sign G Jamar Nesbit.

Training Camp is around the corner.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

I decide to bring in TE Christian Fauria who's a Mentor to Tight Ends for my rookie. I release TE Justin Peele.

I also sign RCB Jamar Fletcher.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

I head into training camp with our roster as it currently stands. I hope for good camps from some of our rookies that we are depending on to step up.

We will use the default training camp schedule.

After camp, here are our impressions of the rookies:

TE Chester Curtis, the only member of the Chargers on the Green Page, TE Curtis has a great set of skills and potential. He is merely adequate in pass blocking, has the potential to be great at run blocking, is the strongest blocker on the team, and has great current and potential receiving stats. He even has good endurance and strong special teams stats. Lousy long snapper, though, as if anybody cares.

SLB Pat Larrabee, Pat is a tremendous disappointment for us. Pat has poor current abilites and a low projection into the future. I doubt Pat will be on our team for his entire contract.

K Roman Perkins, Roman is a highly developed kicker who is already better than many at the position. I am very happy with how he looked in camp.

MLB Leslie Alstatt, another poor linebacker that we selected, Leslie looks like a career backup at best.

QB Thomas Long, our fifth round selection did not pan out as we had hoped, but he'll be a decent enough clipboard carrier. I doubt he'll ever see any play sitting in the three spot on our roster like he is.

RB Mickey Baggette, Mikey has decent speed and power, but that's it. He'll be a servicable enough backup from deep on the depth chart.

SS Stanley Blaine, we took a flyer on a potential backup with a very high volatility just in case he broke out in the seventh. He didn;t and he'll just be roster filler for us.


Not a great draft in retrospect, and only our kicker and tight end look to be long term players for us.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Our current leaders are:

FB Lorenzo Neal
TE Christian Fauria
C Cory Raymer
LDE Marcellus Wiley
LCB Dale Carter


Both of my other Tight Ends really dislike and have a strong conflict with Fauria. I go shopping to see if there is another option available. Unfortunately, there is not, so we will carry Fauria through the year and see how it works out.

I deactivate the following heading into the preseason:

TE Antonio Gates
FB Andrew Pinnock
SE Grant Mattos
RT Phil Bogle
SLB Stephen Cooper


-Anxiety
SS Stanley Blaine

[Abe Sargent]

Let's take a look at this year's roster:


Front Office Football 2004
San Diego Chargers Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Chandler, Chris 1 QB 17 32 33 1 yr.
Brees, Drew 9 QB QB 4 29 52 3 yrs
Long, Thomas 7 QB 1 16 39 3 yrs
Tomlinson, LaDainian 21 RB RB 4 75 75 2 yrs
Zereoue, Amos 27 RB 6 44 49 3 yrs
Bagette, Mickey 31 RB 1 19 34 3 yrs
Neal, Lorenzo 41 FB FB 11 76 76 2 yrs
##Pinnock, Andrew 30 FB 2 37 59 2 yrs
Curtis, Chester 83 TE TE 1 55 81 5 yrs
Fauria, Christian 80 TE 10 38 38 1 yr.
##Gates, Antonio 85 TE 2 15 27 1 yr.
Boston, David 89 FL FL 6 63 63 4 yrs
Osgood, Kassim 81 FL 2 19 30 1 yr.
Caldwell, Reche 82 SE SE 3 41 48 2 yrs
Dwight, Tim 87 SE 7 40 40 3 yrs
##Mattos, Grant 86 SE 2 12 23 1 yr.
Ball, Jason 60 C C 3 37 52 2 yrs
Raymer, Cory 66 C 9 31 32 3 yrs
Fonoti, Toniu 71 LG LG 3 48 65 2 yrs
Waters, Brian 67 LG 5 34 50 3 yrs
Nesbit, Jamar 73 LG 6 21 30 2 yrs
Warner, Josh 77 RG RG 4 28 50 1 yr.
Shelton, L.J. 69 LT LT 6 71 71 4 yrs
VanBuren, Courtney 72 LT 2 18 39 2 yrs
Joyce, Matt 70 RT RT 9 40 40 2 yrs
##Bogle, Phil 64 RT 2 14 31 1 yr.
Bennett, Darren 2 P 10 53 53 2 yrs
Perkins, Roman 6 K 1 39 46 4 yrs
Wiley, Marcellus 75 LDE LDE 8 67 67 3 yrs
Leverette, Otis 93 LDE 4 19 27 1 yr.
Johnson, Ray Lee 99 RDE RDE 11 59 60 1 yr.
Dingle, Adrian 90 RDE 6 28 40 2 yrs
Williams, Jamal 76 LDT LDT 7 59 59 2 yrs
Cesaire, Jacques 74 LDT 2 26 48 1 yr.
Fisk, Jason 92 RDT RDT 10 48 48 3 yrs
Pickett, Ryan 95 RDT 4 31 38 2 yrs
Polk, Carlos 52 MLB MLB 4 35 51 2 yrs
Alstatt, Leslie 58 MLB 1 25 40 4 yrs
Leber, Ben 51 SLB 3 30 43 2 yrs
Larrabee, Pat 55 SLB 1 24 45 4 yrs
##Cooper, Stephen 94 SLB 2 17 30 1 yr.
Edwards, Donnie 59 WLB SLB 9 67 67 3 yrs
Wilhelm, Matt 56 WLB WLB 2 21 39 2 yrs
Jammer, Quentin 23 LCB LCB 3 49 62 3 yrs
Carter, Dale 33 LCB 12 41 43 2 yrs
Florence, Drayton 29 LCB 2 21 34 3 yrs
Davis, Sammy 22 RCB RCB 2 45 59 3 yrs
Fletcher, Jamar 46 RCB 4 31 51 3 yrs
Lassiter, Kwamie 42 SS SS 10 68 68 2 yrs
##Blaine, Stanley 40 SS 1 13 38 3 yrs
Carpenter, Keion 43 FS FS 6 60 60 3 yrs
Kiel, Terrence 48 FS 2 36 49 3 yrs

$$ - player is in starting lineup, ## - player is inactive.

Players Under Contract: 52
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $80,500,000
Cap Room: $7,320,000
Maximum for New Player: $7,320,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $2,680,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $3,320,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $83,450,000


-Anxiety

[tucker342]

Originally posted by Anxiety
After playing around with 2k4 for a while, it's time for a dynasty. Now, I currently have a Madden 2004 dynasty going as the Las Vegas Copperheads. Normally, when I do a dynasty, I try to include a lot of press releases, news articles, press conferences, and other documents in order to build the story. My Madden 2004 dynasty will continue to be that sort of dynasty.

-Anxiety

speaking of that, when are we going to get an update;)


Great dynasty by the way.

[Abe Sargent]

Originally posted by tucker342
speaking of that, when are we going to get an update;)


Great dynasty by the way.

Oh, probably after a few more days of playing around with FOF2k4. But its the newest toy on the block ;)

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Regular Season Schedule:


Front Office Football 2004
San Diego Chargers 2004 Regular Season Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attendance Weather
Week 1 DENVER BRONCOS
Week 2 ATLANTA FALCONS
Week 3 PITTSBURGH STEELERS
Week 4 at Houston Texans
Week 5 at Indianapolis Colts
Week 6 OAKLAND RAIDERS
Week 7 OPEN
Week 8 at Denver Broncos
Week 9 TENNESSEE TITANS
Week 10 JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS
Week 11 KANSAS CITY CHIEFS
Week 12 at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Week 13 at Boston Patriots
Week 14 at New Orleans Saints
Week 15 at Kansas City Chiefs
Week 16 CHARLOTTE PANTHERS
Week 17 at Oakland Raiders

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 44,800
Stadium Capacity: 71,600



As you can see, we only sold 44.8k tix this year, a drop from last year. This is despite the second lowest ticket prices in the league. We have to do something about our lack of ticket revenue sooner or later.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

We go 1-3 in the preseason.

FS Keion Carpenter is questionable for a week or two.

I turn up injuries to 120.


Let's take a look at our starters:

QB Drew Brees - Had a decent year last year but needs to produce less picks and more TDs.

RB LT - Had a subpar season last year. You can expect that he'll get more carries this year after adjustments to the Game Plan.

FB Loenzo Neal - With an 8 TD season last year, wil this year be a disappointment?

TE Chester Curtis - The first round draft pick will start. He'll need to do better than Stephen Alexander's 500+ yards last year to be considered worthwhile by the fans and media.

FL David Boston - A solid flanker and our best receiver. I'd like to get more receiving yards, but he had a decent enough year last year.

SE Reche Caldwell - Although Tim Dwight is still a good third option, Reche is simply a better big play receiver. Since Curtis and Boston can be our possession men when we need them, Reche offers the best home run ability of the remaining receivers.

LT L.J. Shelton - A mammoth run blocker, maybe the best in the league. He's also a pretty strong pass blocker. Not very strong though, and the other offensive linemen kid him about massaging the defens einstead of blocking them.

LG Toniu Fonoti - Our guards blow big blubbery chunks, but Toniu is the best of the lot so he starts. He;s not too bad, actually, just nothing amazing.

C Jason Ball - Adequate. I guess.

RG Josh Warner - Possibly our worst starter, and icky. Icky. Above average blocking strength, however.

RT Matt Joyce - Another not-so-hot starter. In fact, except for the left positions on our line, the entire things needs scrapped, starters and backups all.

K Roman Perkins - Looks goos. Weakness is accuracy, and he'll never have a great leg, but he's good.

P Darren Bennett - The Charger who's been on the roster the longest. Acceptable but nothing to punt home about.

LDE Marcellus Wiley - Our defensive front leader, best overall D-Line player and all around stud.

LDT Jamal Williams - Gets enough pressure to be worthwhile.

RDT Jason Fisk - Pass rush specialist but we need more run stopping in the middle.

RDE Ray Lee Johnson - The run stopping end with the hick name.

SLB Donnie Edwards - Despite being a WLB, Donnie remains our only good linebacker. Again.

MLB Carlos Polk - Barely adequate, and that's being generous.

WLB Matt Wilhelm - Matt would be a career backup on most teams. Most teams have a couple of good linebackers.

LCB Quentin Jammer - Quentin, you're halfway decent, and I like you. But don't get full of yourself, you're nothing special and you are emminently replaceable.

RCB Sammy Davis - Our kick returner and starting corner. He's learning.

SS Kwamie Lassiter - Strong strong safety, heh. Best in the secondary, which is pretty strong. Maybe our best position area on the team.

FS Keion Carpenter - Amazing Man-to-man man. Good against the run, which many free safeties are weak against. However, Keion is very poor understanding the field and being aware out there, also unlike many free safeties. Also really poor at bump and run, but seriously, how often is the free safety bumping receivers, eh?


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 -

We edge past Denver 29-28. Drew Brees is the game MVP as he threw 2 TDs, 2 Ints, and 319 yards. LT rushed for a TD. Perkins went 3 for 4 on the day in FGs. A few sacks and picks. All in all a decent enough game. Rookie Curtis had three receptions for 34 yards in his debut.


Week 2 -

We hammer Atlanta 24-3. Brees is again named the Game MVP. He tossed three TDs and no picks. Curtis only had one reception but it was for a TD. You'd think our defense would have done more, but they didn't. Jason Fisk is probable for a few weeks.


Week 3 -

We emerge victorious against the Steelers 27-24. LT is the Game MVP with 138 yards rushing and 3 TDs. Lorenzo Neal is out for a
few weeks.

LT wasn't the offensive player of the week. He was robbed. No other RB had more than two rushing TDs. No receiver had more than 2 receiving TDs. No QB threw for more than 3 TDs. The game who won tossed 2 TDs, 381 yards, and no picks. That's one less TD than LT got. No love for the RBs.


Week 4 -

We lose at Houston, 6-20. Our defense gets very little pressure. LT is questionable for a few weeks but I'll play him. Tim Dwight is probable and MLB Carlos Pol is questionable. I'll play him as well.


Week 5 -

Indy edges us out 14-13. Brees had three picks to one TD. We just haven't gotten much defensive pressure much this year so far.

Sammy Davis is out for a few weeks. Jamar Fletcher will start until he gets well. G Josh Warner is also out, and some random guard will start in his place. Lorenzo Neal is questionable and should sit one more week before we toss him back into the fray.

Week 6 -

We rally from a two game skid to defeat the Raiders and go to 4-2 on the season. Final Score 34-28. Drew Brees is the Game MVP but Tomlinson notched 134 yards and a rushing TD, 37 receiving yards and a receiving TD.

L.J. Shelton will be out for a couple of weeks as well with hip bursitis. Lorenzo is back in the starting lineup in two weeks after our Bye.


Week 7 - Bye Week


Week 8 -

We get crushed in Denver 13-35. Nobody on our team came out of that game looking good. All of our injuries have been upgraded to probable, however, and our initial starting lineup will be back for next week.


Week 9 -

We manage to defeat the Titans to finish the first half of the season 5-3 with a 22-7 win. The Game MVP was, kid you not, G Toniu Fonoti. He had 6 key run blocks. Both LT and Neal rushed for a TD and our defense notched a bunch of sacks.

5-3 and ready for a second half of fun.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Week 10 -

Jax beats us in our own house, 20-3. Brees throws an astouding SIX interceptions. Donnie Edwards notched a pair of sacks. Everybody injured is still probable.


Week 11 -

KC also claims a victory in Qualcomm Stadium, 22-21. WR David Boston has 120 yards and 2 TDs, Brees has a 3:1 TD, Int ratio, and our defense again has no pressure.

Toniu is questionable but I play him next week. We are 5-5 and need to rally.


Week 12 -

We lose in Tampa by a field goal, 31-28. Are San Diego collapses in the second half of the season a given? LT caught two Brees TDs. However, Sammy Davis suffered a ruptured elbow tendon. He could be out for a year. I toss him on IR. I sign LCB Pete Hunter for 400k. He is a decent kick return man as well and will fill that hole. Jamar will start the duration of the season.


Week 13 -

We continue a nasty losing streak with a 24-27 defeat at the hand of the Patriots. At least we are losing close. Boston explodes for 187 yards and 2 TDs in Boston, which is sort of funny.


Week 14 -

We lose again, this time at the hands of a shootout against the Saints, 43-35. Kwamie Lassiter returned a pick for a TD. Reche Caldwell is out for a few weeks and Tim Dwight will start in his place.


Week 15 -

We are 5-8 and in the back end of a 5 game skid and we've lost the 6 of the last 7 games. I'd like to turn that around for morale. KC 20, SD 9. We're not even losing close anymore.


Week 16 -

Charlotte steals a win in our house, 26-15. Boring.


Week 17 -

Just looking for respect. We are 5-10. Can I buy a win? Nope 20-15 loss. Roman Perkins with 5 FGs was nice. He went 5 of 5. Donnie Edwards with a pair of sacks. Otherwise another boring loss.

Sigh.

5-11.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

2004 Playoffs:

Wild Card Weekend:

Browns at Bills, 16-28
Broncos at Bengals, 9-24
Eagles at Bucs, 3-20
Redskins at Packers, 22-27


Divisional Weekend:

Bills at Chiefs, 30-9
Bengals at Titans, 24-10
Packers at Cardinals, 28-31
Bucs at Giants, 21-23


Comference Championships:

Bengals at Bills, 31-16

Cardinals at Giants, 19-27


The Super Bowl:


The Cincinnati Bengals

vs


The New York Giants


Bengals 31

Giants 34



NFL Champions New York Giants!!!



-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Some End of Season Stuff:


Awards:

All League First Team:

SS Kwamie Lassiter


Some Stats:

QB Brees - 3608 yards, 20 TDs, 23 Ints, 1 rush TD

RB LT - 1037 yards on 244 carries, 9 TDs, 61 cacthes for 541 yards, 3 receing TDs

WR David Boston - 78 catches for 1099 yards, 8 TDs.

WR Reche Caldwell - 44 snags for 485 yards and a TD, 1 PR TD

WR Tim Dwight - 40 grabs for 450 yards, 4 TDs

FB Lorenzo Neal - 20 rushes for 84 yards and a TD, 30 catches for 196 yards and 3 TDs

TE Chester Curtis - 40 catches, 371 yards, 2 TDs

K Roman Perkins, 24 of 32 FGs

SS Kwamie Lassiter - 115 Tackles, 30 Assts, 1 Sack, 3 Ints, 1 Int TD, 15 PasDef, 4 FF,

FS Keion Carpenter - 81 Tacks, 37 Assts, 3 Ints, 12 PasDef, 1 FumRec

MLB Carlos Polk - 92 Tacks, 32 Assts, 1 Sack, 3 FF, 10 PasDef, 1 FumRec

OLB Donnie Edwards - 83 Tacks, 36 Assts, 8 Sacks, 10 PasDef, 2 FumRec

DE Marcellus Wiley - 38 Tacks, 12 Assts, 7 Sacks

DE Ray Lee Johnson - 54 Tacks, 26 Assts, 6.5 Sacks, 1 FF

DT Jason Fisk - 40 Tacks, 22 Assts, 6.5 Sacks, 1 FF

LT L.J. Shelton - 35 KRB, 5 SkA

LG Toniu Fonoti - 34 KRB, 8 SkA



-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Some data:


The salary cap has risen to 86 million. We are currently 2.3 million under the cap and need to trim some fat.

Our Balance Sheet for the Fiscal Year 2004:

Revenues: 68.44 mill
Expenses: 105.13 mill

Total: (36.69 mill)


We lost almost 37 million dollars! Ticket revenues decreased as attendance dropped. Player salaries and bonuses rose tremendously despite little massive free agency spending.

We continue to have the lowest valued franchise. Our stadium remains the laughingstock of the league and our fan support, already second worse, is slipping.

Stadium attendance last year was 56,100 - second lowest. The percent of 78.3 of the seats filled is also second lowest. I'm tired of competing with the hapless Cardinals for the worst franchise in the league.

San Diego has moved to -0.1% population decrease. The economy is the worst in pro football.

And San Diego refused a stadium plan last year.

Time to consider a new home.


-Anxiety

[MizzouRah]

How come you're up so darn late in the evening or is it early in the morning? :)

Good luck on next year.


Todd

[Abe Sargent]

Originally posted by MizzouRah
How come you're up so darn late in the evening or is it early in the morning? :)

Good luck on next year.


Todd


It's definately late....


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Here are the cities that we are looking to relocate to:


By Population:

Portland
Sacramento
New Haven
San Antonio
Salt Lake City


By Distance to Other Teams:

Honolulu
Anchorage
Salt Lake City
Las Vegas


By Desire for a Team:

Salt Lake City
San Antonio
Austin


By Population Growth:

Las Vegas
Austin
Salt Lake City


By Average Income:

New Haven
Auston
Anchorage
Honolulu
Salt Lake City
Sacramento
Las Vegas


By Poverty Rate (Lowest):

Honolulu
Anchorage
Salt Lake City
Portland


By Competetion (Lowest):

New Haven


By Trend Setting:

Austin
Salt Lake City


Now, taking a look at that data, there is clearly one city that appears more than any other - Salt Lake City.

I also take a look at my homestate's entry - Huntington, WV -


Huntington

Closest Team - Bengals, 132 Miles
320,000 Population
0.2% Growth
Average Income $22,400
Poverty Level 21.7%
Low Competetion
Low Trend Setting
Low Desire


vs


Salt Lake City

Closest Team - Broncos, 422 miles
1,340,000 population
3.8% growth
$31,400 average income
10.2% poverty level
High Competetion
High Trend Setting
High Desire


Salt Lake is just a better place. Here in another option:

Honolulu

Closest Team - 49ers, 2385 miles
870,000 population
0.7% Growth
$31,500 average income
8.9% poverty
High Competition
Low Trend Setting
Medium Desire


Much better then Huntington, but worse that, say, Salt Lake.

I think that Salt Lake City is our best option. I contact the city officals and construct a stadium plan -


We submit a proposal to build a brand new outdoor/natural grass stadium through a quality construction firm with 90,000 capacity, 19500 club seats and 280 luxury boxes. I'll offer to pay 100M of the cost.

We'll see what happens in a few months

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

I increase ticket prices again.

My only starter of any worth that is out of contract is Ray Lee Johnson.

We need to slash salary in a major way. I take a look at our biggest contracts:

I cut Marcellus Wiley's price by a million by enxtending his contract for a year.

Davis Boston's salary is at 7.15 for the next three years with no inflation. I like that, but I also need breathing room. I decide to try and keep him at his current salary level this year.

I have to decide what to do with DT Jamal Williams. He is in the last year of his current deal. He's a good, solid defensive tackle. The Benglas have offered me their late second round pick and a cheap backup running back for Jamal. That would cut some money. I could also resign Jamal to a six year deal that would make him a Charger for a long time. His cap cost would be slashed to only 2 million this year, a savaings of over 2 million. And it wouldn't ever jump up exponentially, in case I want to jettison him in later years of the deal.

I sign him for six years and refuse the Bengal deal.

LT is in the last year of his deal, and h is only making 3 million. To extend his deal would cost us a lot right now, so I choose to let it expire and he'll play out this year.

I cut backup RDE Adrian Dingle. I think I can do better and his salary of 1.8 million will only be a 300k hit on the cap now.

I cut Darren Bennett for the same reason. I'll just have to find a new and cheaper punter and say goodbye to an old Charger.

We are now 8.5 million under the cap.

I need to find more money.

I extend Donnie's contract by a year and shave a million. Extension of Tim Dwight's contract and another 1.3 mill is found.

I release C Cory Raymer and find some more money.

We are now 12.8 under the cap. Excellent.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

QB Chris Chandler has retired.

We cannot spend in free agency for the big players. I decide to wait for a few weeks to let some teams throw around the big bucks.

At Week 10 I take a look at who is left. I offer a contract to LDE Shaun Ellis. He signs the following week.

I sign P Josh Miller three weeks later.

At the end of the initial stages of free agency, we have signed two players for relatively cheap cash. Next up, the draft.

We have the fifth overall selection of the draft.

Here are our needs as I see them:

1 QB
2 TE
1 FL
1 SE
1 C
1 RG starting
1 RT
2 RDE
1 LDT
1 MLB starting only
1 SLB starting only
1 RCB


Let's head into the draft.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

In the draft I take a look at top-flight players. The studs of today and tomorrow.

There's a CB, a DE, an SLB, an MLB, and maybe another pair of DEs. Obviously, I am hoping for a LB, and I think that my chances of landing one are pretty good at the five spot.

WRs and D-Line go in the first four picks, so I get my choice of LB. I go for the guy with the lower volatility and the higher development - SLB Randall Snyder.

There is a very strong looking RG sitting around in the second round, so I select RG Casey Matthews from Indiana.

In the third, I am beginning to look for the best available player. There is a very attractive free safety, three good centers, a decent looking middle linebacker and a solid looking tight end. I decide to go with the middle linebacker because it is such an area of need for our team. Welcome Eric Stephens of Villanova.

I take that good looking Tight End in the fourth when he is still there. Artie Vanderhaak from Notre Dame.

I draft QB Rick Gullett from Arkansas in the fifth to see what he looks like in camp.

C Carlton Navarrete from EMU is the 6th.

RT Darrin McKnight from Notre Dame in the 7th.


We get a B+ for the draft.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Salt Lake City rejects our bid proposal with 59% voting against the stadium vote. Blast. We'll need to find a new home or try to foot more dough.

Every rookie except for our initial draft selection signs their first contract offer.

With 8.3 million left under the cap, I hit free agency to fill some holes on our roster.

I offer a contract to TE Hunter Goodwin who also serves as a mentor to TEs. Maybe he'll get along better than Christian did.

I also make an offer to FL Karl Williams, who is a very good kick returner as well. RCB Ken Lucas is a good punt returner and I offer him a contract.

I offer undrafted rookies RDEs Omar Reinhart and Adrian Mahon contracts.

Lastly, I make an offer to undrafted rookie LDT Dan Hanson.

That fills my requirements, and I have one roster spot open, so I sign the best undrafted rookie free agent, QB Jeffrey Brower.


All seven offers go through and we have filled our depth chart. I sign Dez White and we sign Randall Snyder heading into camp. We have 55 players on our roster. We'll see how they pan out.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

We sold 27,500 season tickets. Ouch.

We have a really nice trade offer for Carlos Polk. I want to see if I can get rid of him.

Okay - here are how our rookies panned out, in draft order:

SLB Randall Snyder - Looks solid, but not great like we had thought. He'll definately be starting for us, but he's not a perfect answer. He is the hardest hitter we've ever seen, however. He will eventually be a mammoth run stooper who's a bit weak against the pass but can be a strong source of quarterback pressure.

RG Casey Matthews - Looks about how we imagined, and he'll start for us. He's not that good right now, but he'll grow into the role soon enough.

MLB Eric Stephens - Acceptable and may start this year. Looks like Carlos will be packing.

TE Artie Vanderhaak - Not as good as we'd thought. A decent enough third option. Maybe.

QB Rick Gullett - Rick will be our backup. Good enough for a backup, but will never be a starter,

C Carlton Navarrette - We were hoping for a guy who'd bust out, but Carlton didn't. He'll never be a great backup, and the Carlos Polk trade may send him packing as well.

RT Darrin McKnight - After he develops he'll be a passable enough backup, but for now he is quite poor.


Free Agent Rookies:

QB Jeffrey Brower - Have to compare him to last year's selection Thomas Long to see who stays and who goes.

RDE Adrian Mahon - Very strong but has virtually no skills whatsoever.

RDE Omar Reinhart - Also a strong candidate for a skill-less player.

LDT Dan Hanson - A good enough backup.


Our leaders for this year are:

FB Lorenzo Neal
FL Karl Williams
LT L.J. Shelton
LDE Marcellus Wiley
LCB Dale Carter


Anyways, here is the trade offer -

I ship MLB Carlos Polk to the Titans. Carlos isn't that great. In return, I get C Barret Robbins, a good starting center with a low contract this year and an inflated one next year, and a 3rd round selection.

I agree.

We swap.

I release the following players:

C Carlton Navarette
QB Jeffrey Brower


I deactivate the following:

CB Sammy Davis, who is still injured from last year
FB Andrew Pinnock
TE Artie Vanderhaak
RT Darrin McKnight
RDE Adrian Mahon
SLB Pat Larrabee
SS Stanley Blaine


-Anxiety

[MizzouRah]

Enjoying this one as well....


Todd

[Abe Sargent]

The 2005 Chargers:


Front Office Football 2004
San Diego Chargers Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Brees, Drew 9 QB QB 5 41 53 2 yrs
Long, Thomas 7 QB 2 17 35 2 yrs
Gullett, Rick 11 QB 1 15 42 3 yrs
Tomlinson, LaDainian 21 RB RB 5 76 76 1 yr.
Zereoue, Amos 27 RB 7 45 48 2 yrs
Bagette, Mickey 31 RB 2 19 31 2 yrs
Neal, Lorenzo 41 FB FB 12 73 73 1 yr.
##Pinnock, Andrew 30 FB 3 42 61 1 yr.
Curtis, Chester 83 TE TE 2 82 82 4 yrs
Goodwin, Hunter 14 TE 10 35 35 2 yrs
##Vanderhaak, Artie 84 TE 1 23 47 4 yrs
Boston, David 89 FL FL 7 64 64 3 yrs
White, Dez 18 FL 6 44 44 2 yrs
Williams, Karl 88 FL 10 41 41 2 yrs
Caldwell, Reche 82 SE SE 4 48 48 1 yr.
Dwight, Tim 87 SE 8 39 39 3 yrs
Robbins, Barret 57 C C 11 62 64 2 yrs
Ball, Jason 60 C 4 48 51 1 yr.
Fonoti, Toniu 71 LG LG 4 66 67 1 yr.
Waters, Brian 67 LG 6 39 50 2 yrs
Nesbit, Jamar 73 LG 7 23 30 1 yr.
Matthews, Casey 65 RG RG 1 20 64 4 yrs
Shelton, L.J. 69 LT LT 7 73 73 3 yrs
VanBuren, Courtney 72 LT 3 18 38 1 yr.
Joyce, Matt 70 RT RT 10 41 41 1 yr.
##McKnight, Darrin 66 RT 1 3 35 3 yrs
Miller, Josh 19 P 10 41 41 1 yr.
Perkins, Roman 6 K 2 43 43 3 yrs
Wiley, Marcellus 75 LDE LDE 9 67 67 3 yrs
Ellis, Shaun 78 LDE RDE 6 56 60 3 yrs
Reinhart, Omar 79 RDE 1 24 31 1 yr.
##Mahon, Adrian 97 RDE 1 18 21 1 yr.
Williams, Jamal 76 LDT LDT 8 60 60 6 yrs
Hanson, Dan 77 LDT 1 23 34 1 yr.
Fisk, Jason 92 RDT RDT 11 44 44 2 yrs
Pickett, Ryan 95 RDT 5 32 39 1 yr.
Alstatt, Leslie 58 MLB 2 26 32 3 yrs
Stephens, Eric 91 MLB MLB 1 25 48 4 yrs
Snyder, Randall 90 SLB SLB 1 41 68 5 yrs
Leber, Ben 51 SLB 4 35 45 1 yr.
##Larrabee, Pat 55 SLB 2 25 42 3 yrs
Edwards, Donnie 59 WLB WLB 10 67 67 3 yrs
Wilhelm, Matt 56 WLB 3 33 50 1 yr.
Jammer, Quentin 23 LCB LCB 4 67 67 2 yrs
Carter, Dale 33 LCB 13 41 43 1 yr.
Florence, Drayton 29 LCB 3 25 34 2 yrs
##Davis, Sammy 22 RCB 3 52 60 2 yrs
Fletcher, Jamar 46 RCB RCB 5 40 52 2 yrs
Lucas, Ken 20 RCB 5 29 35 2 yrs
Lassiter, Kwamie 42 SS SS 11 68 68 1 yr.
##Blaine, Stanley 40 SS 2 14 38 2 yrs
Carpenter, Keion 43 FS FS 7 61 61 2 yrs
Kiel, Terrence 48 FS 3 45 56 2 yrs

$$ - player is in starting lineup, ## - player is inactive.

Players Under Contract: 53
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $86,000,000
Cap Room: $2,120,000
Maximum for New Player: $2,380,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $4,430,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $510,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $80,340,000



-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Originally posted by MizzouRah
Enjoying this one as well....


Todd

Thanks a bunch!

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Only Randall Snyder is on The Green page from the Chargers. David Boston has registered in the league's Fastest Man contest.

I release Pat Larrabee during the preseason to replace Drew Brees who is out for a few weeks.

I bring in Shaun King to fill the third spot while Drew heals.


Here are our injuries at the end of our 0-4 preseason:

Drew Brees is doubtful for a few weeks with a strained patellar tendon. Rick Gullett will be starting and our game plan just went to super run.

MLB Eric Stephens is probable with a bad cold.

Sammy Davis is probable for a few weeks with his injury from last season, but we will not rush him back into the lineup.

Jason Fisk is questionable with a torn thumb ligament. I deactivate him for a while and Ryan Pickett will start.


We are ready to rumble. Here is the schedule:


Front Office Football 2004
San Diego Chargers 2005 Regular Season Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attendance Weather
Week 1 at Kansas City Chiefs
Week 2 at Dallas Cowboys
Week 3 at Houston Texans
Week 4 OPEN
Week 5 MIAMI DOLPHINS
Week 6 NEW JERSEY JETS
Week 7 DENVER BRONCOS
Week 8 at Buffalo Bills
Week 9 at Boston Patriots
Week 10 at Oakland Raiders
Week 11 KANSAS CITY CHIEFS
Week 12 WASHINGTON REDSKINS
Week 13 BALTIMORE RAVENS
Week 14 at New York Giants
Week 15 OAKLAND RAIDERS
Week 16 PHILADELPHIA EAGLES
Week 17 at Denver Broncos

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 27,500
Stadium Capacity: 71,600


-Anxiety

[GoSeahawks]

Good job. I like the pace.

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 -

We lose 14-3 at Kansas City. Gullett goes 20 for 44 for 210 yards and tosses a pick. Obviously my coaches didn't get the message about running the ball. Our defense didn't do much, just tackled a lot.

We have several players on probable, but none seriously injured. There are no changes on this front.


Week 2 -

We barely lose to the Cowboys 26-24. Rick Gullett gets on the Boston connection and tosses three TDs to him. Boston also had 130 yards. Drew Brees has been upgraded to probable and will start next week. Karl Williams is out for a few weeks.


Week 3 -

We get a win over Houston with Drew back at the helm - 30-27. Shaun Ellis is the Game MVP and NFL Defensive Player of Week 3 with 2.5 sacks and a fumble recovery. Brees tossed two TDs to Tomlinson while LT rushed for 116 yards and another TD. Tim Dwight is Questionable for next week. I'll play him anyway, and if he still needs rest when Karl Williams comes back, I'll give it to him.


Week 4 - BYE


Week 5 -

We defeat Miami 24-13. Drew is the game MVP with TD passes to TE Chester Curtis and Dez White. LT Rushes for a third TD. LG Toniu Fonoti is out for 8 weeks with a Torn Wrist Tendon. LG Brian Waters will start for him. Also, Karl Williams and Sammy Davis are back. Sammy has lost a serious step, so he'll be a backup for the rest of the year. Drayton was deactivated as was TE Artie.


Week 6 -

We shutout the Jets 17-0. DT Jamal Williams is the Game MVP with a pair of sacks. TE Curtis scored one TD and Zereoue ran in for the other. LT is questionable but he'll play.

Week 7 -

We defeat the Broncos to extend our winning streak to four games. 34-16. Boston caught another TD, Dale Carter returned a pick for a TD against his old team and LT was the Game MVP with a TD catch and 112 yards on the ground.

FS Keion Carpenter is out for 4 weeks. SS Blaine is activated and Terrance Kiel will start. RCB Jamar Fletcher is questionable, and I deactivate him. Dale Carter will start in his place.

DT Jason Fisk is back from injury and will start again.


Week 9 -

Boston ends our five game winning streak with a 38-24 loss. Ahhh. Curtis, Dez White, and LT all caught Brees passes. Dez had a 112 yard receiving day.


5-3 thus far on the season. Just have to hope that we do not again suffer a second half collapse of catastrophic proportions.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Originally posted by GoSeahawks
Good job. I like the pace.


Thank you very kindly.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Week 10 -

We defeat the Raiders with our defense 27-20. Kwamie Lassiter, the Game MVP and NFL Defensive Player of Week 10, returned two interceptions for TDs and Donnie Edwards, not to be outdone, also returned a pick for a score. LT had a receing score and our Kicker missed an extra point. Tsk, tsk. Drew Brees completed a mighty 9 passes out of 26 attempts. Dale Carter added a pick as a starter. Nice.

Jason Fisk is out again, just after getting healed. Ryan Pickett will again start.


Week 11 -

Kansas City beats us in our own house, 30-20. Reche Caldwell and Dez White each catch a TD. LT is stopped for 3 total yards on the day. On 8 carries. We have 21 rushing yards total between four ball carriers on 14 attempts. 44 Passing attempts by Brees. TE Curtis notched 132 yards receiving.

K Roman Perkins is doubtful for next week. P Josh Miller will kick and punt. Toniu Fonoti has been upgraded to probable and will start. Maybe he can bring us some better run blocking.


Week 12 -

We lose to the 'Skins 30-28. Lorenzo Neal catches a pair of TDs whiel Drew *rushes* for a TD. Add in a Reche Caldwell reception for a score. Punter Miller was 4 for 4 on XPs and had no FG attempts.

Roman Perkins will kick this week. RT Matt Joyce is questionable. LT VanBuren will get the start.


Week 13 -

We defeat the Ravens 17-6 to go to 7-5 on the season after three quarters is done. The Game MVP is L.J. Shelton who had 6 KRB. Amos rushed for both of our TDs. Jason Fisk will be starting again next week.


Week 14 -

We lose to the Giants 7-16. Boston caught our lone TD. Randall Snyder did manufacture a pair of picks. Otherwise, as the score indicates, it was a pretty boring game all around.


Week 15 -

The Raiders come and beat us in Qualcomm Stadium 30-23. Dez and Tim catch passes and Amos rushes for a score.


Week 16 -

We are 7-7 and close to respectability. One more win and we willo not have three consecutive losing seasons! The Eagles defeat us in San Diego, however, 20-14. Dez and Reche scored for us.


Week 17 -

Last game of the season, just for respect. We lose to Denver 29-34. Dez White returns a kickoff for a TD. Reche catches a TD and kicker Roman Perkins kicks 5 FGs in 5 attempts.


7-9 on the season. Another famed San Diego collapse.


-Anxiety

[sachmo71]

Great read!

A question...have you had a player with high votality work out for you yet?

[GoSeahawks]

I thought you would have an edge this year in the second half. 5 of your last 7 games were at home.

[Abe Sargent]

Originally posted by sachmo71
Great read!

A question...have you had a player with high votality work out for you yet?

Good question. Let me check the volatility of the current draftees that panned out well, or as expected.

TE Curtis, our star, 75 volatility. He turned out really well, he's our star, and best overall player.

OLB Randall Snyder has a volatility of 33 and he didn't turn our as well as we'd hoped. But the ILB we passed on with a volatility of 70 or so turned out very mucha well.

RG Casey Matthews looks like a regular starter after he finishes developing and he only had a volatility of 24.

TE Artie was a bust and he had a volatility of 66.

QB Rick Gullett was a bit better than advertised, vol of 73.

RB Mickey Baggette was a bit of a bust - vol of 24.

I released Pat Larrabee, our second round selection from last year, due to his bust-ness. He had a volatility of just 5.


So, if you see a pattern there, let me know. Yeah, it s a small sample size, but I'm thinking of ignoring volatility until I understand it more.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Originally posted by GoSeahawks
I thought you would have an edge this year in the second half. 5 of your last 7 games were at home.


I would have hoped. I think we need just a bit more depth. Then we won't have as much of a dropoff in the second half.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Let's look at some interesting info:


Awards:

Defensive Rookie of the Year - SLB Randall Snyder

All-League First String OT L.J. Shelton



Stats:

QB Drew Brees, 14 starts, 3130 yards, 25 TDs, 13 Ints. 55.8% completion rate. 1 Rush TD

Has Drew turned the corner? Almost double the TDs to picks, but a low completion percentage is highly questionable. We'll see how he does next year, in his contract year.


RB LaDainian Tomlinson, 261 carries for 1017 yards, 2 TDs, 36 catches for 268 yards, 5 TDs

LT has becoming a receiving threat, but for the second time in three years he has a really low rushing TD stat. Take a look at his competetion:

RB Amos Zereoue, 99 carries for 384 yards, 4 rush TDs.

Amos breaks free more often than LT. So LT will continue to be spelled by a quick pacy back. And he may cost too much for us to do that.

WR David Boston, 60 catches for 916 yards, 6 TDs.

Not a great season, but he is still our team receiving leader. Drew spreads the ball around a lot, as you'll see.

TE Chester Curtis, 53 catches for 656 yards, 4 TDs.

Our second leader on the team in both receptions and yards is TE Curtis. He has broken out this year, and his stats are already all red. Chester Curtis is our superstar in the making.

WR Reche Caldwell, 47 catches, 620 yards, 4 TDs
WR Tim Dwight, 29 catches for 434 yards, 2 TDs
WR Dez White, 27 grabs, 433 yards, 5 TDs. 1 KR TD.

Here are our other receivers that did well. Dez was a receiving machine from the four spot. He was a great late pickup for us.

K Roman Perkins, 21 of 29, 1 missed XAP

Roman is good, but he needs to get better statistically. He's maxed out already.


S Kwamie Lassiter, 93 tackles, 36 assts, 1.5 sacks, 3 Ints, 2 Int TDs, 9 PasDef, 3 FF, 2 FumRec

Kwamie continues to play at the highest level of the game. He leads our team in tackles yet again, and simply is a factor to be considered every play.


OLB Randall Snyder, 92 tacks, 22 Assts, 1.5 sacks, 3 Ints, 7 PasDef, 3 FF

Randall had a good enough rookie year. He needs to continue to grow and develop. Had a good year too with RoY honors on the defensive side of the ball.

ILB Eric Stephens, 83 tacks, 34 assts, 0.5 sacks, 1 Int, 8 PasDef, 2 FF, 2 FumRec

Eric overperformed this past year, and I cannot continue to expect this sort of solid but unspectacular performance from my middle linebacker.

WLB Donnie Edwards, 68 tacks, 16 assts, 2.5 sacks, 1 Int, 9 PasDef, 2 FF

Moving Donnie to the weak side, his natural position, has seriously impaired his stats. We may look to change that next year. Possibly.

DE Shaun Ellis, 47 tacks, 11 assts, 9 sacks

Playing out of position, Shaun led our team in sacks. The next highest was 5.5 sacks by Marcellus. Our sack total was significantly lower across the board.


A few other highlights. Dale Carter led the team with four picks and played very well. Keion Carpenter had 3 Ints, and like I mentioned earlier, our defense just didn't put up the stats.

T L.J. Shelton, 37 KRB, 7 SkA

My best o-lineman.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

The playoffs:

Wild Card:

Panthers at Skins, 21-27
Broncos at Titans, 23-30
Dolphins at Patriots, 20-23
Seahawks at Saints, 31-27


Divisional Round:

Patriots at Bengals, 24-21
Seahawks at Rams, 22-24
Titans at Chiefs, 23-17
Redskins at Lions, 13-21


Championship Round:

Patriots at Titans, 6-10

Lions at Rams, 3-34



Super Bowl:


St. Louis Rams

vs.

Tenessee Titans


Rams 31

Titans 20


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Final Score:

Team Performance 28
Franchise Value 57
Profit/Loss 68
Roster Strength 91

Overall 56


The salary cap has risen to 91.5 million


2005 Balance Sheet:

Revenues 66.73 mill
Expenses 110.82 mill

Profit (44.09 mill)


Franchise value has continued to fall behind the other franchises in the league.

The stadium rating worsens.

Fan Support has plummeted and is now the worst in the league.

The St. Louis economy has gotten worse than San Diego's. Barely.

Attendance last year was down to 44,000 - 61.4% of capacity. Worst in the league by far.

Sand Diego's growth has worsened to -0.6%. The economy is crashing around us while our fan support drops. That's problems.

-Anxiety

[MizzouRah]

Super Bowl:


St. Louis Rams

vs.

Tenessee Titans


Rams 31

Titans 20


GO RAMS!


Todd

[Abe Sargent]

I submit a Stadium Proposal for a completely new stadium here in San Diego for no personal money. If they refuse, we can try to relocate again, if they accept, then we get a new stadium cash free. Win-win either way.

I leave our ticket prices alone.

We are 11.3 under the cap for this year. Time to axe....er....act!

-Anxiety

[Archer219]

Originally posted by Anxiety
Your 2004 NFL Champs - The Cincinnati Bengals

You know, a couple of weeks ago I would have laughed a lot harder at this than I did.

[Abe Sargent]

Originally posted by Archer219
You know, a couple of weeks ago I would have laughed a lot harder at this than I did.

I know, so true. So true.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Heading into free agency, I have a few high profile free agents. And some money I have to cut. Here are my peops that started for me that I have to re-up or replace:

LaDainian Tomlinson
Lorenzo Neal
Kwamie Lassiter
Toniu Fonoti


I don't have the money to franchise LT or Toniu. Kwamie is the third ranked available safety while Lorenzo is the best FB around. SO I slap the tag on Neal and hope to resign Kwamie.


After franchising Lorenzo, I only have 9.43 in cap room available. Time to cut, slash, extend, etcetera.

I extend the contracts of several players in order to make cap room:

C Barret Robbins
RDT Jason Fisk
FS Keion Carpenter


I capout Marcellus Wiley which actually cuts a year off the deal and reduces our cap cost in every year. Interesting.

We now have 15 million in space.

We need the following starters. A question mark denotes a position that we could conceivably use a current backup in:

RB?
SE?
LG?
RT
P
RDT?
MLB?
RCB?
SS

I make an offer to Kwamie for his services. Other than that, I wait to see how the big boys spend.

LT signs in the first week to Washington for 139 million over 7 years.

After running the math, I can't persue Toniu. I could get him under this year's contract, but future years are just too painful.

I submit a cheap offer to LG Kenyatta Jones. We'll see that goes.

In week 3, Kwamie signs with us, but Kenyatta chooses the Rams. Reche Caldwell has been bid upon by the Colts for a much cheaper price than he was initially asking for from us. I make a counter-offer.

I submit another fairly cheap offer to LG Mike Compton.

Three weeks later, Reche signs back with us, Mike's offer is still pending.

In the tenth week, Mike signs for less to go to Houston.

I submit offers to P Chris Hanson and LG Ruben Brown.

Both sign two weeks later. I decide to skip the rest of free agency. To recap, we signed:

SE Reche Caldwell
LG Ruben Brown
P Chris Hanson
SS Kwamie Lassiter


We have 10.1 mill left for the draft...

Until week 15 hits and I browse the best of the rest list and see Jerry Porter and Mike Logan available. I make an offer to both.

Jerry signs with Indianapolis but we get Mike Logan. I immediately release SS Stanley Blaine, who wasn't doing it for me as Kwamie's backup.

We now have 9.7 mill left and the draft awaits.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

We have the 11th pick in the draft. Hopefully we can get an impact player as good as Chester Curtis when we last picked from this spot.

Here is our total list of needs:

RB
FB
C
G
LT
RT*
RDE x 2
RDT
LDT
SLB
WLB
CB

The star designates a strong need for a starter.

My quick assessment of the studs of the draft. We have a stud stud at DT. A brokenly good stud at FS. Add another FS, SS, DE, TE, LG, DT, WLB, C, MLB, SE and LG.

Let's see what happens:

Both of the good offensive tackles have been taken by pick 11. By our scout's estimate, the best player on the board is a SS followed by a FS.

We could use a star split end.... Despite signing stopgap measure Ruben Brown, there's a really nice LG there. We could use an upgrade at the FS position, despite resigning Keion for another year.

There's a later first round quality RT. Do I dare pass up possible future stars for a decent starter now?

I am building a franchise, not a rag-tag crew. I decide to take one of the best players available:

SE Norman Ayi, from Valparaiso


In the second, I draft DT Bert Poston as a possible future starter and depth. From Illinois.

I take RT Reuben Poulin from Virginia Tech in the late second, in the pick we received from a previous trade. If he pans out, he could start for me.

The third sees WLB Amos Schulz from Pitt coming to town.

In the fourth, I like RCB Lewis Douglas, from UCLA. We need youth in the secondary and most of our current corners are scheduled to leave at the end of this year.

The fifth round arrives and brings with it C Archie Austin from Washington.

In the sixth, I like RDE Carlton Martin from Mississippi State.

In the seventh, I gamble on a second RT. Never know when somebody will pan out. I take Darrin Holliday from Texas A&M.



After the draft, I am informed that our stadium issue failed considerably despite the fact that we reduced costs from the previous issue that San Diego voted upon.


Ah well.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

The second period of free agency begins.

Every rookie but SE Ayi signs in the first go around.

We have 6.2 mill left under the cap.

I sign restricted free agents Andrew Pinnock and Matt Wilhelm to two year deals for the league minimum.

I sign the following undrafted free agents:

RB Britt Clark
RB Calvin Perry
RDT Julio Glaze
LG Pepper Jack Ralph


I take my team into camp with Ayi in tow who signed just before it began. I am 1.56 mill under the cap.

We use the training camp default schedule.


Let's take a look at how our rookies fared:

Norman Ayi looks great. Definately a future star.

RDT Bert Posten looks like a poor second round selection.

RT Reuben Pollin might grow into an acceptable starter, but he's a bit green.

WLB Amos Schulz looks good against the run someday. He'll be buried in the depth chart for a while.

RCB Lewis Douglas is likewise very green but could be a nickelback or decent starter later on in his career. Good for the fourth round.

C Archie Austin looks like he has pass blocking machine material someday.

RDE Carlton Martin looks pretty poor, even for a sixth rounder.

RT Darrin Holliday, my seventh round flyer, has great strength but poor skills.


None of the undrafted rookies look that good.

All of our leaders this year are the same as last year, except Jamar Fletcher is now our secondary leader.

Norman Ayi is near the top of the Green Page.

We received a B+ draft grade this year.

We sold 21,700 season tickets.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Post camp, I cut Tim Dwight. Don't want his salary on my cap if I don't need it, and he has moved way down the depth chart.

I sign:

RDE Kenny Smith, 1 year for 550k


I deactivate:

RB Mickey Bagette
FB Andrew Pinnock
TE Artie Vanderhaak
RT Darrin McKnight
RDE Carlton Martin
WLB Amos Schultz
RCB Lewis Douglas


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Injury Setting has been bumped up 10. It will continue to escalate each year.

This year's roster:


Front Office Football 2004
San Diego Chargers Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Brees, Drew 9 QB QB 6 52 55 1 yr.
Gullett, Rick 11 QB 2 19 39 2 yrs
Long, Thomas 7 QB 3 17 25 1 yr.
Zereoue, Amos 27 RB RB 8 45 46 1 yr.
Clark, Britt 21 RB 1 32 38 1 yr.
Parry, Calvin 37 RB 1 29 33 1 yr.
##Bagette, Mickey 31 RB 3 19 25 1 yr.
Neal, Lorenzo 41 FB FB 13 66 66 1 yr.
##Pinnock, Andrew 30 FB 4 44 62 2 yrs
Curtis, Chester 83 TE TE 3 84 84 3 yrs
Goodwin, Hunter 14 TE 11 32 32 1 yr.
##Vanderhaak, Artie 84 TE 2 28 47 3 yrs
Boston, David 89 FL FL 8 63 63 2 yrs
White, Dez 18 FL 7 44 44 1 yr.
Williams, Karl 88 FL 11 40 40 1 yr.
Caldwell, Reche 82 SE 5 51 51 2 yrs
Ayi, Norman 80 SE SE 1 44 71 5 yrs
Robbins, Barret 57 C C 12 63 65 3 yrs
Austin, Archie 52 C 1 15 46 3 yrs
Brown, Ruben 64 LG LG 12 49 49 2 yrs
Waters, Brian 67 LG 7 46 50 1 yr.
Ralph, Pepper Jack 60 LG 1 19 32 1 yr.
Matthews, Casey 65 RG RG 2 34 65 3 yrs
Shelton, L.J. 69 LT LT 8 73 73 2 yrs
Holliday, Darrin 62 RT RT 1 21 44 3 yrs
Poulin, Reuben 61 RT 1 13 51 4 yrs
##McKnight, Darrin 66 RT 2 7 34 2 yrs
Hanson, Chris 1 P 6 52 52 5 yrs
Perkins, Roman 6 K 3 47 47 2 yrs
Wiley, Marcellus 75 LDE LDE 10 62 62 2 yrs
Ellis, Shaun 78 LDE RDE 7 60 60 2 yrs
Smith, Kenny 93 RDE 4 19 38 1 yr.
##Martin, Carlton 95 RDE 1 16 38 3 yrs
Williams, Jamal 76 LDT LDT 9 52 52 5 yrs
Fisk, Jason 92 RDT RDT 12 40 40 2 yrs
Poston, Bert 94 RDT 1 23 45 4 yrs
Glaze, Julio 98 RDT 1 22 29 1 yr.
Stephens, Eric 91 MLB MLB 2 30 44 3 yrs
Alstatt, Leslie 58 MLB 3 27 32 2 yrs
Snyder, Randall 90 SLB SLB 2 54 67 4 yrs
Edwards, Donnie 59 WLB WLB 11 64 64 2 yrs
Wilhelm, Matt 56 WLB 4 34 49 2 yrs
##Schulz, Amos 53 WLB 1 15 47 4 yrs
Jammer, Quentin 23 LCB LCB 5 65 65 1 yr.
Florence, Drayton 29 LCB 4 27 34 1 yr.
Fletcher, Jamar 46 RCB RCB 6 45 52 1 yr.
Davis, Sammy 22 RCB 4 37 38 1 yr.
Lucas, Ken 20 RCB 6 33 35 1 yr.
##Douglas, Lewis 28 RCB 1 14 47 4 yrs
Lassiter, Kwamie 42 SS SS 12 67 67 3 yrs
Logan, Mike 44 SS 9 50 51 2 yrs
Carpenter, Keion 43 FS FS 8 60 60 2 yrs
Kiel, Terrence 48 FS 4 51 56 1 yr.

$$ - player is in starting lineup, ## - player is inactive.

Players Under Contract: 53
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $91,500,000
Cap Room: $2,010,000
Maximum for New Player: $2,290,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $2,810,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $300,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $75,860,000


Some rosters have two Davids, two Jamals, two Shawns. I have two Amoses. Amos's? Ami?

I also have two Darrins. And they are both playing the exact same position. Memories of Bewitched run through my mind.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

I extend Amos Zereoue's contract by a year. Just in case.


An analysis:

QB Drew Brees - Has possibly turned the corner last year. We'll see how he progresses, but physically, he is not a good QB. However, he seems to get things done on the field.

RB Amos Zereoue - Amos will get a chance to start for us. His stats last year were virtually identical to LT's when he was in, so I hope that he'll do just as well.

FB Lorenzo Neal - Our franchise tagged player. I'll look to sign him to a longer contract in a bit.

TE Chester Curtis - Our shining star.

FL David Boston - Obviously, a strong, well-rounded receiver who's only weakness is that he drops the occasional ball.

SE Norman Ayi - Another high profile first round selection designed to help the passing game. Norman is a bit raw, but he'll develop into a fine receiver. Maybe one of the best.

C Barret Robbins - We lucked out in a trade offered by another team to get Barret. He's a fine starting center and I'm happy to have him.

LG Ruben Brown - A bit of a spot gap measure. Obviously, Ruben has had a very high profile career from his Pro Bowl years in Buffalo. Ruben has degenerated a bit and is now simply adequate. Sitting between L.J. and Barret, Ruben is the weak link in the strong side of our line, but he'll only be called upon to clean up after the big guys.

RG Casey Matthews - Our rookie from last year, Casey continues to start for us.

LT L.J. Shelton - Our best o-lineman and second highest cap count player on the team. L.J. still massages opposing defenses with cream from Bath and Body Works instead of pushing them with his strength.

RT Darrin Holliday - A really bad, crappy o-lineman who would be barely acceptable if he were developed. The obvious weak spot on the line.

K Roman Perkins - A perfectly acceptable kicker who lacks accuracy.

P Chris Hanson - A perfectly acceptable punter with no weaknesses but no particular strength either.

LDE Marcellus Wiley - Our stud defensive line player and the highest cap cost for any of our players. Needs to prove that last year's dismal statistical performance was a blimp and not the slide that occurs at the end of a player's career.

RDE Shaun Ellis - A natural Left End playing out of position, led the team in sacks last year. Run defense is his only weakness, but like many players on my team, doesn't have any particular strength.

LDT Jamal Williams - My longtime starter because he has never been bad enough to replace, but yet never good enough to acknowledge. He's just a guy who gets things done.

RDT Jason Fisk - The pass rushing specialist DT with the poor run stopping ability.

MLB Eric Stephens - The weakest of our starting linebackers. WIll need replaced sooner or later.

SLB Randall Snyder - Last year's defensive rookie of the year and a former first round selection. He's good, but not great.

WLB Donnie Edwards - Donnie moved to the weak side and lost a lot of production. He's a natural weakside backer, so we'll see how things go this year.

LCB Quentin Jammer - I don't call his name out much. His stats are acceptable, and his ability is acceptable, but there is nothing sterling here.

RCB Jamar Fletcher - A bit worse than I would normally like my starting corner to be, but he is a free agency patch, not a long term solution.

SS Kwamie Lassiter - The heart of my defense. I can have a weaker middle linebacker, because Kwamie will cover and tackle. Kwamie is our best performer over the past few years and often leads the team in tackles.

FS Keion Carpenter - A good man defense safety and a great man-to-man cover specialist. Poor at zones or reading the field.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Our Schedule:


Front Office Football 2004
San Diego Chargers 2006 Regular Season Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attendance Weather
Week 1 at Oakland Raiders W, 19-17 54,400 Rain, 71
Week 2 SEATTLE SEAHAWKS
Week 3 at Jacksonville Jaguars
Week 4 at Pittsburgh Steelers
Week 5 OPEN
Week 6 at Baltimore Ravens
Week 7 CLEVELAND BROWNS
Week 8 at Denver Broncos
Week 9 OAKLAND RAIDERS
Week 10 CINCINNATI BENGALS
Week 11 KANSAS CITY CHIEFS
Week 12 at St. Louis Rams
Week 13 NEW JERSEY JETS
Week 14 at San Francisco 49ers
Week 15 DENVER BRONCOS
Week 16 ARIZONA CARDINALS
Week 17 at Kansas City Chiefs

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 21,700
Stadium Capacity: 71,600



It's a bit belated, the first week was already played and then I realized that I forgot to post it. Anyways, let's pretend that the outcome'll be a surprise when you read it in a bit.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 -

We emerge from preseason with a 3-1 record and onl two injuries of any significane. Donnie Edwards is probable and RDE Kenny Smith had a severe hammy pull. He's out for at least 4 months, so I place him on IR. I sign undrafted rookie Quentin Ripkin, giving me two Quentins on my roster. Two Amos and two Quentin. It's like I have the entire British Isles on my roster.

We edge Oakland 19-17. SURPRISE! Anyway, Brees tossed a strike to Boston, rushed for a TD (Drew rushed? After Byron Leftwich, Drew has to be the most immobile QB in the NFL. It's like he's a mobile tennis ball throwing machine.), and Zereous added another ground score. Perkins missed an XP and our coach went for two later and failed.

Brees is the Game MVP, although Zereoue rushed for 138 yards and a TD. Rookie Norman Ayi caught five passes in his debut. Randall Snyder forced a fumble and picked a interception. Marcellus had a sack and a half. Zereous gets my game ball.


Week 2 -

Seattle edges us in the following week 17-16. Three Perkins FGs and a Chester Curtis TD with eight receptions as well. He gets my game ball. Fisk with 2.5 sacks and a fumble recovered was close.

WLB Donnie Edwards will be out for a few weeks. Matt Wilhelm will start and Amos Schulz will be activated as a backup.


Week 3 -

Jacksonville pounds us 34-20. Brees connects with Reche, Karl Williams returns a kickoff for a TD. Jamar Fletcher gets my game ball for picking off Leftwich twice.


Week 4 -

We march into Pittsburgh and crush the Steelers 30-17. The Game MVP is Drew Brees with 2 TDs and no picks. Zereous pastes his old team with 155 yards rushing. LT never had that many yards in his three years. Reche and Lorenzo caught the two TDs. Backup, backup CB Drayton Florence retruned a pick for a TD. Game Ball to L.J. Shelton with 5 KRB.

We have two major injuries. Shaun Ellis is out for a couple of weeks with a strained deltoid muscle. And L.J. Shelton has pulled his groin, and not in the good way. He's doubtful for a few weeks. We'll see where each stands after our bye.


Week 5 -

BYE. Donnie is healed, Ellis. is probable and I'll start him. L.J. is questionable. I'll keep him out a week. RT Reuben Poulin will get the start. Ick.


-Anxiety

[Scoobz0202]

Take it you didnt get your stadium?

[Abe Sargent]

Week 6 -

I extend Jamar Fletcher's contract by two years.

We win a shoot out in Baltimore 40-35. Brees is the Game MVP, again, with three TD passes to Ayi, Boston and Zereoue. Amos added 79 yards and a score on the ground as did Neal. Ayi gets our game ball with 101 yards, his first 100+ receiving day.

Ellis and Wiley each notched a sack and a half. Jamar rewarded his new contract with a pick. Reche Caldwell is out for 10 weeks or so with a dislocated shoulder. I toss him on IR. I sign SE Freddie Mitchell. L.J. will stay out for at least another week.


Week 7 -

We paste Cleveland with 38 points en route to another victory. Zereoue ran for 102 yards and 1 TD. Drew Brees is notching up Game MVP awards from the media, tossing two TDs and no picks.
Backup RB Britt Clark rushes for two TDs and three Chargers defenders get picks.

L.J. Shelton has been upgraded to prbable and he'll start next week. However, FS Keion Carpenter is out for a while with a broken tibia. I place him on IR and sign FS Shane Walton. FS Terrance Kiel will start for us the rest of the way.


Week 8 -

We travel to Denver and defeat the Broncos 19-13. Drew Brees, Game MVP, yadda yadda. Karl Williams gets the game ball with another kickoff return for a TD. Britt Clark with another rushing TD. Zereoue had 97 yards on 17 carries, Brees looked ugly with a pair of picks. Wiley notched another sack and a half.


Week 9 -

With no major injury news from last week, I look forward to this week's game against Oakland to revenge our almost week one loss in Oakland. The Chargers fans, what few we manage to rustle up, will be raving. So it's no surprise when we shut out the Raiders, 30-0. Nasty!

Drew Brees, Game MVP, tossed TDs to Neal, Ayi, and Dez White. With 326 yards, no picks, I give him the game ball as well. Kwamie had a pick and a forced fumble. CB Jamar Fletcher is out for a couple of weeks. Lewis Douglas is activated and Sammy Davis will reclaim his starting spot until Jamar can come back.


Week 10 -

We fight the equally 6-2 Bengals for respect this week here in Qualcomm Stadium. We are two games ahead of the 4-4 Broncos and the Bengals are also a pair of games ahead of the 4-4 Steelers.

The Bengals knock us down by defeating us 23-20. Zereoue rushed for a TD and Lorenzo caught one. Ayi had 122 yards while Brees threw for 336 yards. Jamal Williams gets my game ball for notchign a pair of sacks. FS Terrance Kiel had a sack and forced a fumble. His one good thing is that he is strong, and he proved it today.

Donnie Edwards in probable due to a shoulder injury. He'll start. Jamar Fletcher has been upgraded and he'll start as well.

Denver won and is a game behind us.


Week 11 -

Hosting the Chiefs, we survive 24-17. We scored 21 points in the fourth quarter. Guess who our MVP is? He had two TD passes to Boston and White. Britt Clark added a third score on the ground. Game Ball to David Boston with a TD, 4 catches for 113 yards. We picked off KC three times.

Shaun Ellis is questionable for next week. I'll start him anyways.


Week 12 -

We get surprised at St. Louis by the previously 3 win Rams, 24-20. Lorenzo and David Boston catch TD passes. Amos and Shaun Ellis are questionable. I'll rest them next week since we play the hapless 3 win Jets. The Broncos lost as well, so we are still a game up.

RB Britt Clark and RDE Carlton Martin will get the start.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Originally posted by Scoobz0202
Take it you didnt get your stadium?

Whoops, good catch. Nope, we lost the stadium vote by a 2.5-1 margin.

Ah well, we'll try again with someone next year.


-Anxiety

P.S. - This is post number 2500 for me! Yay!

[Abe Sargent]

With five games to go, we are atop the AFC West with a record of 7-4. The Broncos are our main competition at 6-5.

Week 13 -

We survive a shoot out 41-38. Game MVP? Do I even need to say it? Britt Clark rushed for 98 yards and a TD in relief of the Z Man. Brees lobbed four TDs and a pick. Boston, Clark, Ayi, and White caught the TDs. David Boston also had 140 yards.

Amos will be back in the lineup next week. Shaun Ellis will remain benched as his injury heals. L.J. is questionable, but I intend on starting him. Drew Brees has turf toe and is probable.


Week 14 -

We smack the 49ers around 31-9. Karl Williams had his third kickoff return, this time for 104 yards. Our Game MVP (are you seriously wondering who at this point?) tossed TDs to Boston and Curtis. Amos, who had a injury vacation last week, rushed for 121 yards and a TD on 20 carries.

Good news - L.J. had been upgraded to probable, as has Shaun Ellis. Both will start.

Bad News - Kwamie Lassiter suffered a stress fracture in his foot, and is out for the year. I place him on IR. Mike Logan will start for the rest of the year and I sign SS Ramon Walker as a backup. Kwamie had 80 tackles, 2 picks, 1.5 sacks and 19 passes defensed this year so far, and his loss will be sorely felt.


Week 15 -

We are currently tied with Houston for second in the AFC with 9 wins. We need a bye week to heal, so it's time to push down the stretch. We play the Broncos this week, and if we want to put away the playoffs, then we simply win this week.

We survive winning 27-24 in overtime. Ayi and Zereoue caught TD passes, and Z also caught a 2 point conversion to tie the game at 24. Roman Perkins hit a 52 yarder to win the game in OT. Our game mvp tossed 2 TDs and 3 picks. I give a game ball to Roman Perkins with four FGs, including the game winner in OT. Our defense notched a bunch of sacks, plus two picks.

Ruben Brown and Amos Z are questionable for next week. Houston won their game as well, so we need to keep pace. They'll both start next week.


Week 16 -

Arizona shocks us in the battle of the desert 34-31. Drew tosses a trio of TDs to Boston, Curtis and White. I give the game ball to Shaun Ellis with his 1.5 sacks.

With Houston's victory, we are guaranteed to be seeded third even if we lose this week. We will win a tiebreaker with Houston, but we cannot be sure that Houston will lose. So, this week will be our bye week. The following injured players are benched this week:

Ruben Brown
Donnie Edwards
L.J. Shelton
Dez White
Amos Zereoue
Lorenzo Neal

Drew Brees, although slightly injured with Turf Toe, will still start.


Week 17 -

Against the Chiefs in KC, they defeat us 17-10. Hardly surprising. Britt Clark rushed for our lone TD. David Boston catches 9 balls for 103 yards.

Shaun Ellis is out for a few weeks. We reactivate our injured starters and prepare for the playoffs.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Wild Card Weekend:

Detroit at Dallas

Green Bay at Tampa Bay

Jacksonville at Miami

Kansas City at San Diego


With the unusual and funny incident of playing the exact same team in consecutive weeks due to the playoffs, we host the 9-7 Chiefs.


The Chiefs are coming off a hot six game winning streak. Their last defeat was against us. In Qualcomm Stadium. Ane now we play them again. In Qualcomm stadium.

We endure the Chiefs and ultimately emerge victorius 17-13. Boston and Ayi caught TD passes. Guess who the MVP was?


In other news;

Detroit defeated Dallas 38-17
Tampa Bay over Green Bay 24-16
Miami over Jax 27-13


Divisional Playoff Weekend:

Detroit at Minnesota
Miami at Cincinnati
San Diego at Houston
Tampa Bay at Seattle

Houston is a two point favorite. And we upset them, 21-13. Our Game MVP rushed for a TD and tosses a strike to Dez. Amos adds another score on the ground to go with 129 yards. Terrance Kiel picks off David Carr twice and gets my game ball.

Shaun Ellis is probable and will play next week.

In other news:

The Vikings took out the Lions 24-14.
Miami escaped Cincinnati 23-21
Seattle handled Tampa 21-14.


No team scored more than 24 or less than 13. Interesting.


Championship Weekend:

Miami at San Diego
Seattle at Minnesota


Although the top two seeds held in the NFC, the number 3 and 4 seeds, Miami and us, won on the road last week. Therefore, we host the Dolphins.

The scoring:

Ayi catches a pass from Brees for a first quarter TD.

Miami's Scottie O'Neal responds early in the second by catching a short Jay Fiedler pass.

Jay tosses another short TD pass to Mikhael Ricks to put the 'Phins up by a score.

Brees hits Ayi for a 16 yard pass. 14-14 at the half.

Brees hits Ayi again for a 5 yard TD. 21-14 us.

Plaxico Buress grabs a short Fielder pass early in the fourth to tie the game at 21.

With 2:26 on the board, Olindo Mare kicks a 45 yard FG.

That's game. 24-21.

Game ball, obviously, to Norman Ayi with 7 catches for 91 yards and 3 TDs. Amos added 97 yards on the ground on 19 carries. Jamar Fletcher and Terrance Kiel both picked off Fiedler, Shaun Wllis and Jamal Williams each had 1.5 sacks while Fisk had a sack. Jamar and Randall Stephens each forced a fumble.

A good game by our team, we just fell short in the end. Ah well.

Oh yeah,

The Vikings defeated the Seahawks 31-14.


Super Bowl:

Miami Dolphins

vs

Minnesota Vikings


Miami 18

Minnesota 14


Your NFL Champions - Miami Dolphins!!!


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

A look at the season:


Awards:

None. Not. A. Single. One.

(robbed)


Stats:

QB Drew Brees, 4170 yards, 29 TDs and 9 Ints. 1 Rush TD.

Took every snap, seems like a developed QB. Continues to play above his ability. We gave him all of the tools this year to suceed, Boston, Curtis, Ayi, a solid blocking FB in Neal, and a good receiver out of the backfield in Zereoue. If he had failed this year, we would have left him go willingly. Now, we may fight for him.

RB Amos Zereoue, 244 rushes for 1026 yards, 5 TDs, 35 catches, 260 yards, 2 TDs.

In just 14 starts, Amos had just as good a year as LT when he had a good year. Amos crushed, by the way, his competition:

RB Britt Clark, 103 rushes for 371 yards, 6 TDs, 9 catches, 50 yards, 1 TD.

Where Amos had 4.2 ypc, Britt had just 3.6. Amos was a better pass catcher. Amos's longest run from scrimmage, 67 yards. Britt's was 30.


TE Chester Curtis, 75 receptions, 800 yards, 4 TDs.

Chester led the team in receptions. He has arrived.

FL David Boston, 73 receptions, 1191 yards, 7 TDs.

Now this is more like the production that I expect from Boston. His best year as a Charger.

SE Norman Ayi, 63 catches, 942 yards, 5 TDs.

In his rookie year, Norman proved me right in selecting him by almost hitting the 1k mark in yards. This is all despite how he blew up for three scores in the AFC Conference Championships.

FL Dez White, 34 grabs, 492 yards, 4 TDs.

Dez is continuing to be a valuable third option. The problem is that Chester Curtis is already a valuable third option. As such, I never expect any other receiver to get more than around 500 yards, which Dez pushed.


K Roman Perkins, 32 of 40, 54 yards longest, 40 of 41 XPs.

Getting better.


OLB Randall Snyder, 103 tacks, 33 assts, 5 sacks, 2 Ints, 4 PasDef, 1 FF.

Good stats for our sophomore linebacker. Our leading tackler this year since Kwamie went down.

OLB Donnie Edwards, 48 tacks, 17 assts, 1.5 sacks, 2 Ints, 2 PasDef, 1 FumRec.

Another year when his stats have declined. Has age set in? THis is off of 13 games, but still, this is not the player that I began my tenure as GM with.


CB Quentin Jammer, 66 tacks, 22 assts, 0.5 sacks, 3 Ints, 14 PasDef, 2 FF.

Another so-so year for a former first round pick. Nothing exciting, but nothing bad enough to get axed. Our third leading tackler this year, by the way.

CB Jamar Fletcher, 55 tacks, 14 assts, 3 Ints, 10 PasDef

From 15 starts, Jamar had a pretty decent year. Stats are very similar to Quentin's, actually.



DE Marcellus Wiley, 28 tacks, 13 assts, 9.5 sacks.

Our leading sackman had a good enough season.

DT Jason Fisk, 53 tacks, 14 assts, 8.5 sacks, 1 FumRec.

Jason had a great season for a DT. A lot of sacks, good for an interior lineman. A lot of tackles, which many interior linemen are not good at. All in all, a great year.

DT Jamal Williams, 56 tacks, 22 assts, 5 sacks, 1 FF, 1 FumRec

Another acceptable year.

DE Shaun Ellis, 14 starts, 27 tacks, 12 assts, 7 sacks, 1 FumRec.

Shaun had another solid year for an out-of-position starter that missed two games.




-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Free Agents of Note:

QB Drew Brees
FB Lorenzo Neal
FL Karl Williams
FL Dez White
CB Quentin Jammer
CB Sammy Davis
CB Drayton Florence
CB Ken Lucas
FS Terrance Kiel

There are some other free agents, backups and restricted free agents mostly.

Really, Drew, Quentin and Lorenzo are the only major losses. And we can always franchise one of them....

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

End of Season Stuff:

Score:

Team Performance - 72
Franchise Value - 55
Profit/Loss - 77
Roster Strength - 92

Overall - 73


The salary cap has risen to 97 mill.

FB Lorenzo Neal and OLB Donnie Edwards have retired.


Balance Sheet:

Revenues: 72,340,000
Costs: 108,650,000

Profit: (36,310,000)


We are now fully 50 million behind the next lowest franchise in total value.

San Diego has the 31st worst economy of the 31 NFL cities.

We continue to have the worst stadium in the league, although the Rams stadium is getting there.

Our support has started to level off.

Despite fielding an AFC Championship Caliber team, our attendance was a measly 41,600 - 58.1% of capacity. The worst by far whichever way you count.

San Diego has worsened to -1.1% population growth.

Time to look for a new home.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Let's look at some cities:

Do I choose to try again with Salt Lake City? Our proposal failed last time. I decide to create some criteria. All cities that fall within my criteria will be considered for relocation.

Location - At least 75 miles away from competetion
Desire - At least 60%
Population - 800,000
Pop Growth - 1.5%
Income - 30,000
Poverty Rate - Less than 12.5%


Here are the cities that meet my criteria:

Raleigh
Grand Rapids
Salt Lake City
Greensboro


Two Carolinas, one Michigan, and SLC. Not much of a choice. I decide to contact the fathers of Salt Lake again to propose another stadium plan.

The expected cost of our 90,000 capacity stadium with 19500 club seats and 380 luxury boxes if outdoor with natural grass and a high quality construction office is 443 million. I offer to pay 221 million, the max. We'll see how things go.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

I need an offensive coordinator. I take a look at the candidates:

I don't see anybody better than our current coordinator, so I make a five year offer to retain him.

I also submit an offer for a new scout. Our scout's capacity has diminished in two areas and there is a very hot candidiate out there.

I finally make a offer for a head coach. I think that we can do better.

After week one, our Offensive Coordinator signs with us, but both our scout and our head coach candidiate are mulling over offers from other teams. Our scout candidate has 8 offers. We are not the highest bidder for any of them.

The highest current bid for Dixon Stanton, the hot scout candidate, is over 1 mill. That would be around 45 mill in scouting costs! I simply cannot afford that.

I retract my offer and make an offer for 5 years to another scout.

Now I need to take a look at that the head coach position. Do I want to bid on my man or keep the status quo or go after another candidate?

I try to make an offer to the ex-Arizona head coach, but he dones't want to sign with me, so I increase my offer to the coaching candidate that I previously made an offer to.

In week 3, we hire our scouting candidate, but our head coach candidate signs with Denver.

I decide to stick with the guy that we have.

Here's our new guy:

Lead Scout:

Thurman Wallace
49 yrs old
Ranked as good in every single field except fair with D-Linemen.

He's actually cheaper than our previous scout.



I do not change ticket prices.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Do I franchise Quentin Jammer?

We currently have 21 mill under the cap and have 34 guys under contract.

A franchise tag would be 6 million. Is Quentin worth 6 mill?

He has started every game for us over the past 4 years. Yet he has just 6 picks, 42 passes defensed, 251 tackles, 66 assists, 1 sack.

In 64 starts.

Is Quentin worth 6 mill?

There are a lot of high profile free agents running around. I'd like to get one or two for my team.

I decide to not franchise Quentin.


We need the following starters:

QB
RB?
FB?
LG?
RT
MLB?
WLB?
LCB


I take a look at my roster when the free agency period begins.

I have only currently 36.7 million on next year's cap. We need to spend some cash.

Drew's contract demands are huge and I am not convinced that he is worth it.

I extend L.J. Shelton's contract by two years. FL David Boston is extended by three years. Marcellus is extended by two years. I extend Reche Caldwell's contract by two years.

We now have 29.5 million in cap room this year and 59 mill on next year's cap.

I can make an offer to Quentin Jammer, but it'll get pricey quickly.

I take a look at the big guys who are available.

I make an offer to:

QB Jake Plummer
RT Derrick Dockery
MLB Terry Pierce
LCB Phillip Buchannon


At the end of week 1, Drew Brees signs with Denver. Phillip Buchannon and Quentin Jammer both sign elsewhere.

Week 3, our bid on Derrick Dockery is jumped over by the Giants. I submit another offer to Derrick. Hopefully, he'll sign with us and fill that hole we've had for ages.

I offer a contract to SE Jerry Porter.

Week 4 and Jake Plummer, Derrick Dockery and Jerry Porter sign with us. Our bid for Terry Pierce has been outbid by the Raiders. I increase our bid a bit.

We sign Terry Pierce in week 5. Excellent!

We have 20 million in room for this year and have spent 73 million of next year's cap.

I take a look at a few other agents...

I make a bid for QB Marc Bulger and WLB Jamie Winborn

Two weeks later, Marc signs, Jamie goes to Minnesota. I wait five weeks.

I offer a contract to LCB Dennis Weathersby. We sign him the following week. I head to the draft.


With 40 players under contract, here are our needs:

3x RB
FB
TE
FL
LG*
RG
RDE
LDT
SLB
LCB
FS

Let's head to the draft!


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

We draft in the 25 spot. It may be more difficult for us to find what we are looking for.

At the 25 spot, the following players are left that I might consider:

A studly stud FB
A big RG
A nice SLB from WV
A streaky FS, with poor bump and run stats but good everywhere else.
A possible LG
A Parkersburg WV native at the WLB spot


After due consideration, I decide to go with the best overall player, FB Ross Williamsom from Eastern Kentucky, one of only four players rated 8 or above in the draft.

In the second round, the pickings are much more slim. I decide to draft RCB Skip McCoo from West Virginia State.

In the third the pickings are even more slim. I go with LG Luke Dagostino from UVA.

In the fourth, I take RB Andre Reeder from Miss State.

Fifth - FS Shaun Liwiekski from Wisconsin.
Sixth - TE Jimmie Wilcox from Northwest Louisiana
Seventh - QB Bo Collier from Mississippi


After the draft, I sign all of my rookies immediately with the first offer.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Our stadium vote move to Salt Lake CIty has failed despite us offering to pay the maximum amount that we are allowed. We continue to be stuck in this hell hole of a stadium in this cursed city.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

I release QB Rick Gullett
RT Darrin McKnight

I sign restricted free agent RB Britt Clark to a three year deal.

I make an offer to:

RB Travis Henry
RCB Ken Lucas
FL Dez White
FB Patrick Hape

And to these undrafted rookies:

K Derek Bell
LDT Maurice Lyons
RDE Steven Neri
LCB Robert Breien

All players have signed with us. I release FB Andrew Pinnock.

I make offers to a couple of undrafted rookies for training camp -

TE J.B. Wiggins
QB Bubba Lipsky
FL Will Bradley (from WVU!)
P Bob Janto

We have 11.3 million under the cap and 57 players under contract.

We head into camp.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

We sold 17,600 season tickets. Ewwww.

Using the basic training camp schedule my coaches provide, we exit camp and I take a look at my rookies.

Neither QB Bo Collier nor Bubba Lipsky is that good. One will get cut and the other will be around, bt it will be a coin toss as to who.

RB Andre Reeder is a pretty poor running back.

FB Ross Williamson has been tutored well and looks pretty good.

Neitehr of the TEs looks that great but J.B. Wiggins has great special teams ability and that may earn him a spot.

FL Will Bradley looks pretty poor and very raw, but he could develop into a decent backup someday. That day may not be today, however.

LG Luke - maybe a decent starter one day but very green.

P Bob Janto - Looks good and is pushing Chris Hanson for a roster spot.

K Derek Bell - Not better than Roman Perkins, our current option.

RDE Steven Neri - Needs develop time but could become a nice pass rushing specialist.

LDT Maurice Lyons - Another highly green player who could be a stopgap starter.

LCB Robert Breien - I was hoping for better kick return ability from Robert. Without, he may get cut.

RCB Skip McGoo - VERY green, but a good potential.

FS Shaun Liwenski - Nasty looking and not that good.


We received a B for the draft.

Our Leaders (currently):

RB Travis Henry
SE Jerry Porter
LT L.J. Shelton
LDE Shaun Ellis
RCB Jamar Fletcher


I release the following players:

QB Bo Collier
TE Artie Vanderhaak
LCB Robert Breien
P Chris Hanson
K Derek Bell
MLB Leslie Alstatt
RB Amos Zereoue (has decreased significantly in ability during camp)

I sign Andre Woolfolk. He's injury for 14 weeks, but I sign him for a minimum salary contract to see what he looks like post-injury.

I sign LG Kim Taylor and WLB Corey Jenkins.

I deactivate:

FB Patrick Hape
TE J.B. Wiggins
FL Will Bradley
LG Luke Dagostino
LDT Maurice Lyons
WLB Amos Schulz
CB Andre Woolfolk



-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Our Roster:


Front Office Football 2004
San Diego Chargers Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Plummer, Jake 17 QB QB 11 44 44 3 yrs
Bulger, Marc 9 QB 8 32 45 2 yrs
Lipsky, Bubba 4 QB 1 11 38 1 yr.
Henry, Travis 38 RB RB 7 49 49 3 yrs
Clark, Britt 21 RB 2 33 34 3 yrs
Reeder, Andre 24 RB 1 25 35 4 yrs
Williamson, Ross 22 FB FB 1 55 72 5 yrs
##Hape, Patrick 45 FB 11 43 43 2 yrs
Curtis, Chester 83 TE TE 4 83 83 2 yrs
Wilcox, Jimmy 85 TE 1 23 39 3 yrs
##Wiggins, J.B. 87 TE 1 21 49 1 yr.
Boston, David 89 FL FL 9 64 64 4 yrs
White, Dez 18 FL 8 44 44 1 yr.
##Bradley, Will 86 FL 1 9 34 1 yr.
Ayi, Norman 80 SE SE 2 61 71 4 yrs
Caldwell, Reche 82 SE 6 51 51 3 yrs
Porter, Jerry 81 SE 8 49 49 2 yrs
Robbins, Barret 57 C C 13 65 65 2 yrs
Austin, Archie 52 C 2 18 45 2 yrs
Brown, Ruben 64 LG LG 13 49 49 1 yr.
Taylor, Kim 67 LG 5 35 39 1 yr.
##Dagostino, Luke 63 LG 1 15 55 4 yrs
Matthews, Casey 65 RG RG 3 52 66 2 yrs
Shelton, L.J. 69 LT LT 9 72 72 3 yrs
Dockery, Derrick 77 RT RT 5 71 79 5 yrs
Holliday, Darrin 62 RT 2 32 44 2 yrs
Poulin, Reuben 61 RT 2 21 51 3 yrs
Janto, Bob 8 P 1 50 69 1 yr.
Perkins, Roman 6 K 4 45 45 1 yr.
Ellis, Shaun 78 LDE LDE 8 60 60 1 yr.
Wiley, Marcellus 75 LDE RDE 11 54 54 3 yrs
Neri, Steven 74 RDE 1 19 36 1 yr.
Martin, Carlton 95 RDE 2 18 37 2 yrs
Williams, Jamal 76 LDT LDT 10 55 55 4 yrs
##Lyons, Maurice 72 LDT 1 13 34 1 yr.
Fisk, Jason 92 RDT RDT 13 35 35 1 yr.
Poston, Bert 94 RDT 2 31 45 3 yrs
Pierce, Terry 59 MLB MLB 5 70 75 5 yrs
Stephens, Eric 91 MLB 3 34 41 2 yrs
Snyder, Randall 90 SLB SLB 3 65 66 3 yrs
Wilhelm, Matt 56 WLB WLB 5 38 49 1 yr.
Jenkins, Corey 55 WLB 5 26 28 1 yr.
##Schulz, Amos 53 WLB 2 17 45 3 yrs
##Woolfolk, Andre 48 LCB 5 47 59 1 yr.
Weathersby, Dennis 39 LCB LCB 5 45 45 1 yr.
Fletcher, Jamar 46 RCB RCB 7 49 52 2 yrs
Lucas, Ken 20 RCB 7 35 35 1 yr.
Douglas, Lewis 28 RCB 2 19 49 3 yrs
McCoo, Skip 23 RCB 1 8 45 4 yrs
Lassiter, Kwamie 42 SS SS 13 64 64 2 yrs
Logan, Mike 44 SS 10 51 51 1 yr.
Carpenter, Keion 43 FS FS 9 57 57 1 yr.
Liwienski, Shaun 25 FS 1 13 37 3 yrs

$$ - player is in starting lineup, ## - player is inactive.

Players Under Contract: 53
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $97,000,000
Cap Room: $11,900,000
Maximum for New Player: $12,190,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $2,460,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $150,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $80,100,000



-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Our Schedule:


Front Office Football 2004
San Diego Chargers 2007 Regular Season Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attendance Weather
Week 1 at Denver Broncos
Week 2 at Minnesota Vikings
Week 3 at Cincinnati Bengals
Week 4 HOUSTON TEXANS
Week 5 at Indianapolis Colts
Week 6 at Oakland Raiders
Week 7 OPEN
Week 8 DENVER BRONCOS
Week 9 at Tennessee Titans
Week 10 JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS
Week 11 at Kansas City Chiefs
Week 12 CHICAGO BEARS
Week 13 MIAMI DOLPHINS
Week 14 DETROIT LIONS
Week 15 KANSAS CITY CHIEFS
Week 16 at Green Bay Packers
Week 17 OAKLAND RAIDERS

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 17,600
Stadium Capacity: 71,600



-Anxiety

[Logan]

I'm sure I'm not alone saying this, but this has been a great thread. I don't have the game yet (waiting until winter break), and your report has been giving me some great details. Thanks and keep up the good work.

[Abe Sargent]

Originally posted by Logan
I'm sure I'm not alone saying this, but this has been a great thread. I don't have the game yet (waiting until winter break), and your report has been giving me some great details. Thanks and keep up the good work.

Hey, thanks for saying so. It's great to hear! I'll keep writing ;)

-Anxiety

[GoSeahawks]

I finally purchased the game a couple days ago, but I still have to come in here and check out how your Chargers are doing.

[mmarra82]

Great job posting your dynasty, it has inspired me to start posting when I get home.

It is a shame you cannot get out of San Diego, I wonder if your attempts to relocate have discouraged your fan base. You have put a good product on the field despite the lack of support.

Brees showed no loyalty towards you, you stuck with him when he struggled then he took the money and ran. Continue to post.

[Abe Sargent]

Originally posted by mmarra82
Great job posting your dynasty, it has inspired me to start posting when I get home.

It is a shame you cannot get out of San Diego, I wonder if your attempts to relocate have discouraged your fan base. You have put a good product on the field despite the lack of support.

Brees showed no loyalty towards you, you stuck with him when he struggled then he took the money and ran. Continue to post.


Although I am not certain, I believe that to be the case. Franchise wanting to leave translates into low desirability to be there.

San Diego is a bad place, but I'm wondering if it's not time to cut my losses, and come to an equitable deal with San Diego.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Originally posted by GoSeahawks
I finally purchased the game a couple days ago, but I still have to come in here and check out how your Chargers are doing.

Heh. Thanks a bunch. I'll try to get another season done tonight.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

We go 3-1 in the preseason. The following players have mmajor injuries (major is graded questionable or worse).

SS Kwamie Lassister, questionable for a couple of weeks with a strained knee.

RDE Carlton Martin, out for 3 weeks with a pulled calf muscle.

Andre Woolfolk remains out for a month or two with his MCL injury.


I'll start Kwamie for the season opener.


Week 1 -

We travel to Denver and lose 24-31 as our old QB, Drew Brees pilots the Broncos and their old QB, Jake Plummer, pilots the Chargers. Britt Clark rushes for a score while Dez White and Ross Williamson catch Plummer TDs. Jake also throws a pair of picks, but it's not like I didn't expect that when I brought him in.

RT Derrick Dockery is out for a week or two, LDE Shaun Ellis is out for a month and CB Jamar Fletcher is questionable. I activate Carlton for this week despite him being questionable. I'll start Jamar.


Week 2 -

At the Vikings, we lose 7-41. Ick! Ayi caught a Plummer pass for our only score on the day. Jake threw up three interceptions.

Our injury list is growing long and deep already. David Boston, probable. Matt Wilhelm, questionable. L.J. Shelton, probable. Dez White, probable. Dennis Weathersby, probable. Plus, Ellis, Woolfolk, Carlton Martin, Dockery, and Kwamie. That's 10 players on the injury report already in week 3. Nasty.

Week 3 -

I bench Wilhelm but I will continue to use my banged up secondary. This week we travel to Cincinnati to attack the Bengals. But we come up short, 28-31. Plummer looked good with 3 TDs to just one pick. David Boston looked really good with 119 yards and 2 TDs. Norman Ayi caught the other score. Questionable Kwamie Lassiter forced a pair of fumbles.

Additions to the injury report:

DT Jason Fisk is out for a couple of weeks.
Matt Wilhelm is upgraded to probable and will start this week.
Kwamie isn't healing and I deactivate him, starting Mike Logan in his place.


Week 4 -

We get our first win at home against the Texans 41-38. Jake Plummer is the Game MVP. Travis Henry had his coming out party with 116 yards and a TD. Plummer threw 5 TDs and no picks. But our true Game MVP and the guy with the game ball is WR Norman Ayi with 131 yards and FOUR TDs. Chester Curtis caught the other score.

Norman Ayi was hosed for Off. Player of the Week. It went to, of all people, Drew Brees, with 2 TDs. Hmpf!

All of our players except for rookie Ross Williamson have been upgraded to probable. Ross was injured last week and is questionable. I'll deactivate him.

So Jason Fisk, Kwamie Lassiter and Shaun Ellis are back next week.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

At 1-3 through the first quarter of the season, we need to be the Anti-Chargers, coming on hot later in the season.

Week 5 -

We survive Indy 14-11. Ugly. Jake is the MVP. Chester Curtis caught a TD and Travis rushed for a score. Travis had his second 100+ yard rushing game at 126 yards. Shaun Ellis notched a sack and a half. But our defense has got to pick it up a notch.

RT Derrick Dockery is out for a few weeks. FB Ross is probable and will start this week.


Week 6 -

We head to Oakland and win our third game by a field goal, 31-28. David Boston caught a pair of strikes while Curtis added a catch for a TD. Reche Caldwell returned a punt for a TD. Travis Henry rushed for 118 yards. Our offense is clicking. Now our defense needs to get with it.


Week 7 -

BYE. We finish the hard part of our schedule 3-3. We had five of our first six games on the road. Now a bye week heals us, and we'll head into a much easier stretch of games. Hopefully.


Week 8 -

The following injured players are either healed or probable:

CB Andre Woolfolk
RT Derrick Dockery


FL Will Bradley is out for a few weeks with the flu.

Andrew Woolfolk will start in lieu of Dennis Weathersby.

We host the Broncos and avange our earlier loss, 27-22. Ayi goes for 123 yards and a TD while Chester Curtis caught 11 balls, two for scores. Marcellus Wiley registered two and a half sacks, Shaun Ellis grabbed a sack and a half and Jamal Willaims notched a pair as we simply hammered Drew. Jamar picked off his sorry ass. And Mike Logan and Matt Wilhelm each forced him to fumble.

Jason Fisk is questionable. I'll deactivate him. Bert Poston will start in his place.


Week 9 -

We stumble at Tennessee 10-6. Travis Henry is stymied, and Plummer tosses a pick. Norman Ayi still manages to get 124 yards in a losing effort. Randall Snyder got a pair of sacks but Keion Carpenter was the game ball recipiant with a pair of picks.


Week 10 -

Hosting Jacksonville, we fall again, 14-10. Plummer tosses a TD to Curtis for our lone TD. Jamal Williams and Shaun Ellis each sack Leftwich twice. SE Reche Caldwell is questionable. I deactivate him in favor of Will Bradley.


Week 11 -

Our division is very poor right now, so although we are 4-5, we are one game out of first, a game under Kansas City, equal to Oakland and a half game under the Broncos. So it's tight. We still need to get hot...

We play the 5-4 division leading Chiefs this week, so this is a crucial game. Lucky for us we win 30-17. Chester Curtis scored a TD and guard Ruben Brown recovered a fumble and rushed it 13 yards for a TD. Add in a Travis Henry score off 112 yards, his fourth 100 yard game of the season. Jake did a good job of protecting the football.


Week 12 -

Jason Fisk is back and starting as we host the equally 5-5 Bears. The division leader is the 5-4-1 Broncos. And for the fourth time this season, we win by 3 points, 30-27. Travis Henry rushed for a pair of TDs on 154 yards, his fifth such game of the season and best running game for us this year. Jerry Porter caught the other score. Kwamie forced another pair of fumbles.

SLB Randall Snyder is out for a few weeks with a hyperextended knee.
LG Kim Taylor is out for 4 or 5 weeks with a broken ankle.


6-5 and on top of the AFC West, ready for a final playoff plunge.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Week 13 -

We lose to the Dolphins 9-20. Norman Ayi caught 104 yards of balls, and five different defenders got a sack. But otherwise we didn't score or defend well.

LG Ruben Brown and DT Jason Fisk are both out for a month with broken clavicles. FL David Boston is out for 6 weeks with a seperated shoulder.

Starting in their places will be Dez White, Luke Dagastino (ick), and Bert Poston.


Oakland won and is tied for us for the division title at 6-6.


Week 14 -

Hosting Detroit, we get back in the winners' colum with a 41-27 victory. Reche returned a punt for a score, Bert Poston recovered a fumble and ran it in for a score, Jamar Fletcher ran back an interception for a score, while Chester Curtis and Jerry Porter caught TD passes.

Jerry Porter had 123 yards on the day. Wiley added a pair of sacks to his season total.

L.J. Shelton has a strained calf muscle and is out for a few weeks. With three starters on our O-Line out with injuries, we'll have a tough time stopping things these next weeks.


Week 15 -

We whoop the Chiefs 28-14 to go to 8-6 on the season. Dez White and Norman Ayi were both receipants of Plummer gifts. Ross and Travis rushed for scores. Shaun Ellis had 2 sacks, Jamal Williams a sack and a half.

RT Derrick Dockery will continue to start back next week since he's been upgraded to probable.


Week 16 -

With two games left, Travis Henry has rushed for 1190 yards and Norman Ayi has caught 1041 yards.

We stumble again at Green Bay, 9-17. Norman added 10 receptions. There are some interesting injuries this week.

Jake Plummer, out for a month with a strained achilles tendon.
David Boston will be probable next week when Marc Bulger starts.
RT Darrin Holliday is doubtful for a few weeks.
RB Travis Henry is out for the rest of the season with a torn rotator cuff. I place him on IR.

I sign QB Anthony Wright.

I release Ken Lucas and sign RB Correll Buckhalter.

Britt Clark will start for us in the final game.


Week 17 -

We've suffered a lot of injuries this year, but yet here we are. 8-7 and tied with the equally 8-7 Raiders. And who do we play this week? The Oakland Raiders, here at Qualcomm Stadium. This one is for the division title and all of the marbles.

Roman Perkins kicks a FG for us in the first.
Oakland's Mark Brunell tosses a TD to Sam Aiken. 7-3 oakland at the end of the first.
FB Ross Williamson rushes for a TD and we go up 10-7 at the half.
Roman Perkins kicks a FG as the only score in the third. 13-7 us.
Backup TE Jimmy Wilcox catches a Marc Bulger TD. A pass to Williamson for the conversion succeeds - 21-7.
Oakland's Scotty Anderson catches a score with 2:45 left in the game but it is superfluous.

21-14 over the Raiders.

And we are 9-7 on the year, the AFC West champions and the number 4 seed in the playoffs.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Wild Card Weekend:

Carolina at St. Louis
Detroit at Dallas
Houston at San Diego
Pittsburgh at New England



We have a few more injuries to report heading into our playoff game:

LG Kim Taylor is out for 8 weeks with a broken ankle. I throw him on IR.
Kwamie and Chester are questionable, and both will start anyway. This is the playoffs.

I sign G Will Shields. He will start for us in the playoffs, that is how decimated we have been at the guard spot.


We are hosting the 10-6 Texans and they are favored by 4. Earlier this year, we planted 41 points on their ass. We'll see what happens this week.

DeShaun Foster rushes for a score. 7-0 Houston.
Bennie Joppru catches a score. 14-0 Houston.
Correll Buckhalter scores for us, 14-7.

End of first quarter.

Jabar Gaffney catches a Carr TD. 21-7 Houston.
Britt Clark rushes for our second score on the day. 21-14.
Jabar gaffney catches a Hal Mary as time expires in the half. 28-14.

Halftime.

David Boston catches a Marc Bulger toss. 28-21.
DeShaun Foster rushes for another score. 35-21 Houston.

End of 3rd Quarter

Marc Bulger rushes FIFTY-TWO YARDS for a TD. 35-28.


End of Game.

David caught 112 yards, Marc ran like a madman, our defense didn't do much of anything.


Oh yeah, other winners were

Rams 30-20
Cowboys 35-17
Patriots 26-21


Divisional Round

Dallas at New Orleans, 25-24
Houston at Tennessee, 12-7
New England at Baltimore, 20-37
St. Louis at Green Bay, 31-41



Championship Round:


Dallas at Green Bay, 21-14

Houston at Baltimore, 42-21


Super Bowl:


Dallas Cowboys

vs

Houston Texans


In the Battle for Texas




Dallas 19


Houston 31


Your NFL Champions, the Houston Texans!!!!




-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

A Lookback at the Season:


Awards:

All-League Second String Offensive Tackle - L.J. Shelton


Stats:

QB Jake Plummer, 15 starts, 3583 yards, 25 TDs, 14 Ints

Jake did a good enough job starting for us. He doesn't lose us games, which just shows his maturity in the past five games. He knows how to get the ball to our many receiving playmakes - Boston, Ayi and Curtis. Although a better QB would be nice, Plummer is fine for now.

RB Travis Henry, 15 starts, 1207 yards, 8 TDs, 7 catches, 57 yards

Although Travis is, in no way, a receiving threat, he's had the best season of any of our rushers, including LT's years. I expect that Travis will be fine after his injurym but I can't be sure....

TE Chester Curtis, 84 catches, 882 yards, 8 TDs

Chester continues to establish himself as our primary target. This year he caught more balls than any other, although Boston was out for 3 weeks.

SE Norman Ayi, 76 catches, 1170 yards, 8 TDs

Norman occasionally blows up, he's had a four TD and a three TD game in the two years he's been with us. Yet, he also can have a quiet redzone day. He has become another possession receiver to go along with Chester.

FL David Boston, 13 starts, 50 receptions, 694 yards, 4 TDs.

Although David was out for three weeks, his productoin still seems lower than in the past. We'll have to see what he does next year.

K Roman Perkins, 22 of 37, 40 of 41 PAT.

This is a dangerous stat. You cannot miss that many field goals in the NFL. And he still misses the occasional PAT.



ILB Terry Pierce, 106 tacks, 41 assts, 1 sack, 1 Int, 7 PasDef, 3 FF

Our free agent pickup is the best MLB we've had, and it shows. Your MLB should lead the team in tackles, not the WLB, SS< or SLB like we've had in the past. This is the first year our MLB has led our team in tackles.

OLB Randall Snyder, 11 starts, 71 tacks, 33 assts, 4.5 sacks, 8 PasDef

Despite five less starts, Randall had a good year. I can only shudder to think what might have happened if he had those extra games.


S Keion Carpenter, 81 tacks, 25 assts, 0.5 sacks, 5 Picks, 9 PasDef, 1 FF

A decent enough year, but I continue to consider an upgrade.


S Kwamie Lassiter, 80 tacks, 34 assts, 1 sack, 15 PasDef, 4 FF, 2 FumRec

Another solid year for our stud, but he is becoming less studly.


DE Marcellus Wiley, 45 tacks, 10 assts, 11.5 sacks

He had a good year sackwise.

DE Shaun Ellis, 13 starts, 27 tacks, 7 assts, 10.5 sacks

Although Shaun's sack total is acceptable, he didn't tackle a lot. That's a problem.

DT Jamal Williams, 51 tacks, 31 assts, 8.5 sacks

None of my D-Line forced fumbles recovered them, etc, except Bert Poston's FF on a sack that he recovered and returned for a score. We need more stripping of the ball. Jamal had a good enough year.



C Barret Robbins, 31 KRB, 4 SkA
G Casey Matthews, 26 KRB, 1 SkA

Neither were ever injured and both had solid years.

T L.J. Shelton, 13 starts, 24 KRB, 2 SkA

I have no idea why L.J. got All-Pro.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

End of Year Score:

Team Performance: 74
Franchise value: 52
Profit/Loss: 66
Roster Strength: 92

Overall: 68


The salary cap has risen to 102,500,000

Balance Sheet:

Revenues: 70,750,000
Costs: 142,670,000

Total Profit (71,920,000)

We continue to be the lowest valued franchise in the league, with the worst stadium and the lowest fan support.

Attendance last year: 39,500 (55.1%)

San Diego's growth has decreased to -1.6%

To rennovate Qualcomm Stadium as we would like will cost 216 million. I offer to pay 75 million.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

I submit an offer to a head coach candidate. Our head coach has one year left. We need a defensive coordinator.

I rehire our defensive coordinator. Our head coach candidate goes elsewhere.

I make an offer to another head coach candidate, and he accepts. He is cheaper and better than our previous coach. Here he is:

Head Coach:

Rich Darnick
46 yrs old
Off: A, G, F, A
ST/Def: F, G, A, G
Yng Tal: VG
Skills: G, G, G, A, VG

Although his positional development skills are fairly average, he works very well with youth and has good regimens designed to keep players healthy. His coaching skills, like motiavation and discipline are good. He's a better offense playcaller than a defensive one.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

We have several starters that are free agents:

Ruben Brown
Jason Fisk
Shaun Ellis
Roman Perkins
Keion Carpenter
Dennis Weathersby/Andre Woolfolk
Matt Wilhelm

None are our core starters and all are very replaceable. We are currently under the cap by a bit more than 23 million.

So I do not deem it worthy to franchise any players.

I want to make an offer to Andre Woolfolk. I was the one who signed him when he was injured, trusting him. And he was a decent enough starter for us in the second half of last year. So I hope he'll sign cheaply enough.

He doesn't demand too much, so I make him an offer. Here are our starting needs by position:

QB?
RB?
LG
P
K
RDE
RDT?
WLB
LCB
FS

I decide to wait for a week or three to let prices settle before chasing free agents.

Andrew Woolfolk resigns with us in Week 5, and I begin to take a look at who's still around.

A few weeks later and I have signed:

QB David Hill, a good looking backup project.
LG Gabe Rogers, a stopgap starter until som,ething better and more permanent comes along.
RDE Jamal Reynolds, seems like a decent enough starter
FS Terrence Holt, Another decent looking starter.

None of these players cost much.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

We draft in the 25 spot. Here is a complete list of our current needs:

RB
FB
TE
G
P
K
LDE
DTx2
WLB
CB
SS

And we enter the draft.

Our scout rates five players as over an 8. A Punter, RB, TE, and two OTs, one of whom is from West Virginia (yay!).

It gets to pick 25 and a lot of the quality is already gone. It is basically down to a FS, QB, or gamble on a possible future LG or a possible future DE. Hmmmm.

According to my scout, the highest non-kicker non-FB on the board is the FS, followed by a QB. Getting a GB of the future would be nice. I decide to pull the trigger and go QB, and take the fourth QB in the first round. I draft Zack Kirk from Northwestern.

During round two, I have an interesting choice. I can go Punter and take that stud punter that's still available. A punter graded at maximum should ge about here. I decide to take P Ethan Griffith from Clemson.

I go Guard in the third with Mitch Green from Wake Forest.

RB Jimmie Norris of Cincinnati in the fourth.

TE D.J. Marchant also from Wake Forest.

RDT Bobby Hill from Memphis in the 6th.

And my last selection is DE Irv Porras from UCLA.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

By a vote of 51.8%, the funds for our stadium renovation have passed. The work should be completed in three years in 2011.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Everybody but our first round selection signed in the first round of negotiations.


We still need:

SS
CB
WLB
DT
FB

I make offers to some free agents. I sign:

DT Bart Buck, rookie FA
LCB Tomothy Borders, rook FA
RCB Brent Carlisle, rook FA
FS Kennedy Hudson, rook FA
FB Jake Williamson, rook FA

K Roman Perkins
WLB Matt Wilhelm
FL Dez White


I sign Zack Kirk just before camp.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

We were rated a B+ on the draft.

I hit camp and discover the following:

QB Zack Kirk is a baby bust, and not as good as expected.

P Ethan Griffith looks amazing. Years from now I am going to be happy that I spent that high pick on him.

None of my other rookies look to have any impact, now, or ever.

-Anxiety




19,600 season tickets were sold.

[GoSeahawks]

In 2007 of my Seahawks franchise I drafted a punter with my sixth round pick named Harvey Aucoin that was rated 56/88. After the first season he was 68/88, and after the 2008 season he was 87/88. I believe his initial grade was somehwere around 8.5.

How high was your punter rated?

[Abe Sargent]

Originally posted by GoSeahawks
In 2007 of my Seahawks franchise I drafted a punter with my sixth round pick named Harvey Aucoin that was rated 56/88. After the first season he was 68/88, and after the 2008 season he was 87/88. I believe his initial grade was somehwere around 8.5.

How high was your punter rated?

Here's Ethan:

Power - 74 of 86
Hang Time - 80 of 84
Directional Punting - 34 of 83
Kick Holding - 93


He had bars that wnet all the way to the right in every category. My scout rates him an 84 potential.


-Anxiety

[Vikings13]

It was good to see Bennie Joppru scoring for the Texans - I went to high school with him in MN.

[Abe Sargent]

Originally posted by Vikings13
It was good to see Bennie Joppru scoring for the Texans - I went to high school with him in MN.

With the caveat that I have full X Factor enabled, he's a really good TE in my game - maybe top 5.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

We have a lot of free agents whose contracts are up at the end of this year. I take care of some business.

The following players have had their contracts extended:

TE Chester Curtis, by three years
RG Casey Matthews, by three years


Our team leaders:

RB Travis Henry
SE Jerry Porter
LT L.J. Shelton
LDE Marcellus Wiley
RCB Jamar Fletcher


I release:

RB Andre Reeder
RDE Carlton Martin


I deactivate:

QB Zack Kirk
FB Jake Williamson
FL Will Bradley
LG Mitch Green
RDE Irv Porras
LCB Timothy Borders
FS Kennedy Hudson

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Our Chargers:


Front Office Football 2004
San Diego Chargers Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Plummer, Jake 17 QB QB 12 44 44 2 yrs
Bulger, Marc 9 QB 9 37 45 1 yr.
##Kirk, Zack 10 QB 1 24 51 4 yrs
Hill, David 19 QB 3 23 48 1 yr.
Henry, Travis 38 RB RB 8 44 44 2 yrs
Clark, Britt 21 RB 3 34 34 2 yrs
Norris, Jimmie 33 RB 1 21 33 4 yrs
Williamson, Ross 22 FB FB 2 64 71 4 yrs
##Williamson, Jake 41 FB 1 21 35 1 yr.
Curtis, Chester 83 TE TE 5 81 81 4 yrs
Wilcox, Jimmy 85 TE 2 25 37 2 yrs
Marchant, D.J. 84 TE 1 25 42 3 yrs
Boston, David 89 FL FL 10 63 63 3 yrs
White, Dez 18 FL 9 42 43 2 yrs
##Bradley, Will 86 FL 2 10 31 1 yr.
Ayi, Norman 80 SE SE 3 69 71 3 yrs
Caldwell, Reche 82 SE 7 50 50 2 yrs
Porter, Jerry 81 SE 9 44 44 1 yr.
Robbins, Barret 57 C C 14 63 64 1 yr.
Austin, Archie 52 C 3 24 46 1 yr.
Rogers, Gabe 78 LG LG 5 49 49 3 yrs
Dagostino, Luke 63 LG 2 19 55 3 yrs
##Green, Mitch 70 LG 1 16 41 4 yrs
Matthews, Casey 65 RG RG 4 63 66 4 yrs
Shelton, L.J. 69 LT LT 10 66 66 2 yrs
Dockery, Derrick 77 RT RT 6 82 82 4 yrs
Holliday, Darrin 62 RT 3 42 46 1 yr.
Poulin, Reuben 61 RT 3 30 51 2 yrs
Griffith, Ethan 5 P 1 68 84 4 yrs
Perkins, Roman 6 K 5 44 44 3 yrs
Wiley, Marcellus 75 LDE LDE 12 53 53 2 yrs
Reynolds, Jamal 98 RDE RDE 8 55 55 2 yrs
Neri, Steven 74 RDE 2 24 36 1 yr.
##Porras, Irv 96 RDE 1 22 34 3 yrs
Williams, Jamal 76 LDT LDT 11 55 55 3 yrs
Poston, Bert 94 RDT RDT 3 39 51 2 yrs
Buck, Bart 92 RDT 1 24 29 1 yr.
Hill, Bobby 97 RDT 1 18 36 3 yrs
Pierce, Terry 59 MLB MLB 6 80 80 4 yrs
Stephens, Eric 91 MLB 4 35 35 1 yr.
Snyder, Randall 90 SLB SLB 4 71 71 2 yrs
Wilhelm, Matt 56 WLB WLB 6 48 50 3 yrs
Schulz, Amos 53 WLB 3 20 38 2 yrs
Woolfolk, Andre 48 LCB LCB 6 52 60 3 yrs
##Borders, Timothy 32 LCB 1 8 29 1 yr.
Fletcher, Jamar 46 RCB RCB 8 43 45 1 yr.
Douglas, Lewis 28 RCB 3 30 50 2 yrs
Carlisle, Brent 43 RCB 1 14 30 1 yr.
McCoo, Skip 23 RCB 2 13 41 3 yrs
Lassiter, Kwamie 42 SS SS 14 61 61 1 yr.
Holt, Terrence 40 FS FS 6 54 54 3 yrs
Liwienski, Shaun 25 FS 2 18 31 2 yrs
##Hudson, Kennedy 30 FS 1 13 34 1 yr.

$$ - player is in starting lineup, ## - player is inactive.

Players Under Contract: 53
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $102,500,000
Cap Room: $8,030,000
Maximum for New Player: $8,340,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $280,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $200,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $92,380,000



-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Positional Assessment:

QB - Jake Plummer isn't good when you look at him, but he does a good job statistically with the tools that we have. Zack Kirk, our supposed QB of the Future is a bit of a bust and he isn't as good as any of our other QBs.

RB - Travis Henry sort of blows up the theory that a back needs elusiveness to succeed. He has the lowest elusiveness of any of our backs. What Travis does have is a hammering north/south running style. Undrafted RB Britt Clark, in his third season, is our elusive back with a massive elusiveness stat. He's a nice change of pace back.

FB - Ross Williamson, one of my previous first rounders, is a great FBa nd should be around for a while. Whatever else happens, we have that FB problems taken care of.

TE - Chester Curtis is and will continue to be our super studly TE.

Receivers - David Boston's stats continue to decline despite steady skills. We will observe his progress this season carefully. Norman Ayi is a great SE. A definite stud.

C Barret Robbins - A solid C who thinks that he is worth more than he is. He's entering his 14th year in the league, and is just good, but he is demanding 5/mill per year to extend his contract. No center is worth that kind of money unless they are a future hall of famer.

G - LG Gabe Rogers will be another temporary starter in a long line of temporary starters. RG Casey Matthews remains one of our fixtures on the line.

T - Here is where our offensive line shines. L.J. Shelton and Derrick Dockery are mammoth tackles and among the best in the league.

P - Ethan Griffith is our good draft choice from last year, since our QB busted.

K - Roman Perkins - Inconsistent and may soon be replaced once I find a suitable starter.

DE - Marcellus Wiley's skills are beginning to decline but s is his cap hit. He will continue to start for us, but we'll need a new starter soon. Jamal Reynolds is great against the run and only decent in the rushing game.

DT - Jamal Williams is also beginning to decline but he will continue to start this year for us. An old second round pick of our, Bert Poston, will start at the other spot. Bert is adequate, but nothing special.

MLB - Terry Pierce is our highest rated defensive player and a definate future starter for us for a long time.

OLB - SLB Randall Snyder is another great linebacker. But the weakside backer, Matt Wilhelm, is merely acceptable.

CB - Left corner Andre Woolfolk is a good starter and a good replacement for our previous player, Quentin Jammer. Jamar Fletcher will start again for us at the right spot, but it continues to be a position of concern.

S - Strong Safety Kwamie Lassiter is also showing signs of age but will be our man in the secondary with experience. New free agency pickup FS Terrence Holt looks to be a perfectly decent player, but nothing to make me want to fill out our 2010 Depth Chart with his name three years in the future.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Our 2008 Schedule:


Front Office Football 2004
San Diego Chargers 2008 Regular Season Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attendance Weather
Week 1 KANSAS CITY CHIEFS
Week 2 at Atlanta Falcons
Week 3 at Baltimore Ravens
Week 4 OPEN
Week 5 MIAMI DOLPHINS
Week 6 NEW JERSEY JETS
Week 7 DENVER BRONCOS
Week 8 at Buffalo Bills
Week 9 at New England Patriots
Week 10 OAKLAND RAIDERS
Week 11 at Kansas City Chiefs
Week 12 TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS
Week 13 TENNESSEE TITANS
Week 14 at New Orleans Saints
Week 15 at Oakland Raiders
Week 16 CAROLINA PANTHERS
Week 17 at Denver Broncos

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 19,600
Stadium Capacity: 71,600



-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

We go 2-1-1 in the preseason. We have the following injuries heading into the season:

Travis Henry, Kwamie Lassiter, Jake Plummer, and Chester Curtis are probable

OT Derrick Dockery is out for a few weeks.

RDT Bart Buck is out for a month or so.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 -

We host the season opener against the Chiefs but lose 13-27. Plummer tossed six picks so Bulger was put in to spot him and he tossed a TD to Reche Caldwell. We have no new injuries.

Marc Bulger will start next week. I want to see what he can do.


Week 2 -

We defeat the Falcons 20-13. Dez White catches a Bulger pass and Travis rushes for a score. Our defense picked off the Falcons three times. We again have no new injuries. Bulger was pick free, so I'll start him again.


Week 3 -

We swoop into Baltimore and take out the Ravens 28-13. Marc Bulger throws four TD passes and his first pick of the season. David Boston catches a pair of scores, and Norman Ayi and Dez White each add a TD. Our defense doesn't get a single sack for the second game this season.

Derrick Dockery is probable and will start in two weeks.


Week 4 - BYE


Week 5 -

We host the Dolphins and lose 30-24. Bulger tosses strikes to Ross Williamson, Norman Ayi and Reche Caldwell. Norman has 122 yards receiving as well.

Derrick Dockery is questionable for a week but he'll start.


Week 6 -

We host the Jets and lose 27-20. We are now 0-3 at home, 2-0 on the road. Bulger throws scores to Ayi and White. Two interceptions are returned for scores as Bulger has his first ugly day. Both David Boston and Norman Ayi had 100+ yard days.

RG Casey Matthews is out for a week or so.

Derrick Dockery is doubtful and I bench him.


Week 7 -

I decide that Plummer has learned his lesson and give him the starting nod back. We win our first homegame against the Broncos, 31-17. Travis Henry rushes for a score and Plummer tosses three TDs, two to Ayi and another to Boston. No picks. Excellent.

Casey matthews will be back next week. Britt Clark is out for the year. I toss him on IR and sign Bubba Whitfield to replace him. Bubba is a high elusiveness specialist and undrafted rookie.



-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

We are 3-3 and need to pull it together to make a run for the playoffs.


Week 8 -

We head to Buffalo and cursh the Bills 30-3. Plummer tosses passes to Caldwell, White and Boston. We pick off the Bills four times and our defense notches 6 sacks, our most pressure this year so far.

RDE Jamal Reynolds in questionable for a few weeks. Kwamie Lassiter is doubtful. Kwamie will not start, but Jamal may.


Week 9 -

Jamal does not get the start instead being deactivated. We lose on the road for the first time this week, managing only to muster 10 points against the Patriots while they register 17. Plummer puts up another 3 picks to just one TD pass to Ayi. MLB Pierce got 2 sacks.

Pierce is questionable for next week, as is Lassiter. Dockery should start again.


Week 10 -

Both Bulger and Plummer have had four starts and Bulger has simply done a much better job at the helm. He'll get the start. Terry Pierce will start despite his injury.

Oakland comes into Qualcomm and decimate us 38-21. Bulger puts up 3 TDs and 3 Picks. 2 TDs are passes to Ross Williamson and the other is to Ayi.

Kwamie will start next week.


Week 11 -

A shootout at Arrowhead Stadium, 38-35 puts us back at .500. Dez White returned a kickoff for a score. Ross Williamson rushed for a score. Jerry Porter, Norman Ayi and Reche Caldwell caught TDs. Travis Henry had his first 100 yard game of the season rushing for 127 yards on 22 carries. Pierce had another pair of sacks. Jamal Williams added a pair of his unknown.

Kwamie has been downgraded to questionable, but he'll start next week. We need him.


Week 12 -

We win a game at home (yay!) against the Bucs 26-20. Bulger tossed strikes to Chester Curtis and Chester Curtis. Travis Henry added a score on the ground with 118 yards to go with it.

Bulger is doubtful for next week and Plummer will start.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Week 13 -

We host the Titans. Unfortunate for us because we lose 27-23. The Plummer to White connection gets a score as does Travis on the ground with his 103 rushing yards. Plummer also put up a pair of picks, reminding me why Bulger was starting in the first place.

Marc is questionable but Jake will still start next week.


Week 14 -

We survive a battle in New Orleans, 30-27. Plummer to White yields another score. Terry Pierce recovers a blocked punt for a TD. Travis Henry rushes for a score. Norman Ayi puts up 140 yards. Marcellus Wiley puts up 3.5 sacks, the most ever in a single game in my tenure as the Charger's GM. Marcellus is the NFL Defensive Player of Week 14.

Kwamie Lassiter is out for a few weeks. But we suffered a major blow:

David Boston and Derrick Dockery both blew their ACLs and are out for a long time. I throw them both on IR.

I activate Will Bradley and sign Tony Pashos. Darrin Holliday and Dez White will start for the rest of the year.

Marc Bulger will be back next week.


Week 15 -

We travel to Oakland and escape with a victory 27-24. Bulgers throws TDs to Williamson, Ayi and Ayi. Jamal Williams had 2.5 sacks.

FS Shaun Liwienski is out for a month or so. I put him on IR and sign Mark Roman.


Week 16 -

We host and narrowly defeat the Panthers 30-27. Bulger hits Ayi and Williamson for scores. Ayi *rushes* for a TD. Therefore Norman Ayi had 158 yards receiving and 2 TDs on the day.

Chester Curtis is doubtful for a week or two. Kwamie will remain deactivated because we have won the division, no matter what happens in week 17.


Week 17 -

We manage to lose at Mile High 26-24. Dez White and D.J. Marchant caught Bulger scores while Travis Henry rushed for a another score. Norman Ayi caught 160 yards of balls.

Chester Curtis and Kwamie Lassiter will be back for the playoffs.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

At 9-7, we have again won the AFC West. We are seeded fourth and will host a 10-6 Wild Card team.


Wild Card Weekend:

Chicago at Dallas
Cincinnati at San Diego
Detroit at San Francisco
Tennessee at Houston

Cincinnati is favored by 4. We eradicate them. 31-3. Bulger to Henry. Bulger to Williamson. Henry rushes. Bulger 80 yards to Dez White. Perkins FG. 31 points of sweet goodness.

Backup DE Neri notched a pair of sacks.

L.J. Shelton is questionable.
Marc Bulger is out for the year. I toss him on IR.


I'll start LJ and Jake.


In other games:

Dallas over Chicago - 38-24
SF over Detroit 24-14
Houston over Tennessee 23-8.


Every home team won.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Divisional Champs:

Dallas at Tampa Bay
Houston at Baltimore
San Diego at Miami
San Francicso at Minnesota


Ahhhh, the road. We were 9-7 on the season and 6 of our wins were on the road. I'd rather play on the road than at home, except for the fact that we need every little bit of revenue we can squeeze out of our fanbase.

Miami is favored by six, but don't worry gambling fans. They definately failed to beat the spread, winning 7-6. That's right, 7-6. Plummer went a mighty 9 of 24. We picked the Dolphins off twice but could never score. We won the turnover battle, 2-0, yet Travis Henry managed an anemic 1.6 YPC on 19 tries and Plummer couldn't hit the broadside of the Dolphins Stadium.


In other news:

Dallas over Tampa 13-10
Houston over Baltimore 27-26
Minnesota over SF 41-16

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

The Rest of the Playoffs:

Championships:

Dallas at Minnesota

Houston at Miami


Vikings over Cowboys 33 - 10

Texans over Dolphins 23 - 17


Super Bowl:


Minnesota Vikings

vs

Houston Texans




Minnesota 21

Houston 35



Your NFL Champions for the second year in a row -

The Houston Texans!!!!




-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

A Look Back at the Season:

All League First String Wideout - Norman Ayi
All League Second String Tackle - L.J. Shelton

League's Strongest Man - Derrick Dockery


Some Stats:

QB Marc Bulger, 10 starts, 61.5 completion %, 2859 yards, 26 Tds, 16 Ints
QB Jake Plummer, 6 starts, 56.5 comp %, 1434 yards, 9 Tds, 11 Ints

Obviously Marc played the pants off Jake. He did it against the big boys, on the road, and in the playoffs. Jake, on the other hand, sucked a hind cow's teet. No competition here.

RB Travis Henry, 310 carries for 1284 yards, 6 TDs

Despite only having three 100+ yard games, Travis had a very high total amount of yards. Very impressive, all things considered.

FB Ross Williamson, 41 carries for 198 yards and a TD, 46 catches for 290 yards and 5 TDs. 10 KRB, 1 SkA

Ross had a solid but unspectacular season.


WR Norman Ayi, 91 catches, 1453 yards, 11 TDs, 1 Rush TD

Norman had a monster year, and proved me right in drafting him.

TE Chester Curtis, 65 grabs, 628 yards, 2 TDs.

Chester had a down year, but still very good yardage.

WR David Boston, 13 starts, 60 receptions for 877 yards and 4 TDs.

David had decent enough stats for 13 games, and may have been on pace for 1000 yards on the season.

WR Dez White, 3 starts, 38 grabs for 474 yards, 7 TDs, 1 KR TD

Continues to be a great third receiver for me.


K Roman Perkins, 27 of 35, 44 of 44 PAT

Acceptable, but he'll never be better than 75 or 80%

P Ethan Griffith, 42.1 average (9th best in NFL), 32 of 82 inside the 20 (5th best in NFL).

As a rookie he's already one of the top punters in the NFL. He'll only get better.


MLB Terry Pierce, 124 tackles, 38 assts, 5.5 sacks, 2 Ints, 7 PasDef, 2 FF
OLB Randall Snyder, 96 tacks, 39 assts, 5.5 sacks, 4 Ints, 9 PasDef, 2 FF, 2 FumRec
WLB Matt Wilhelm, 62 tacks, 22 assts, 2 sacks, 1 Int, 12 PasDef


1, 2, and 4 respectively in tackles on our team. Look at Randall in the passing game! 4 picks is second best on our team. Where once our LB corps was our defensive weakness, it is now our only strength.



DT Jamal Williams, 53 tacks, 26 assts, 8 sacks, 1 FumRec
DE Marcellus Wiley, 37 tacks, 13 assts, 6.5 sacks, 2 FumRec
DT Bert Poston, 38 tacks, 18 assts, 4 sacks, 1 FumRec


Our sack leader a tackle? Marcellus is just no longer worth the cash.

CB Jamar Fletcher, 55 tacks, 16 assts, 5 Ints, 11 PasDef
CB Andre Woolfolk, 47 tacks, 17 assists, 0.5 sacks, 3 Ints, 18 PasDef
SS Kwamie Lassiter, 11 starts, 48 tacks, 19 assts, 2 Ints, 6 PasDef
FS Terrence Holt, 81 tacks, 24 assts, 1 Int, 10 PasDef, 1 FF

Terrence was number three on the team in tackles, Jamar rounded out the top five. Kwamie didn't have good stats even for just 11 starts.



T L.J. Shelton, 31 KRB, 5 SkA
G Casey Matthews, 15 starts, 31 KRB, 3 SkA
C Barret Robbins, 26 KRB, 4 SkA

LJ and Casey had nice years.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

End of Season Stuff:

Score:

Team Perform: 72
Fran Value: 50
Profit/Loss: 65
Roster Strength: 92

Year End Score: 66


The salary cap has risen to 108 million

Balance Sheet:

Revenues: 72.75 mill
Costs: 150.06 mill
Profit: (77.31 mill)

Since we have a stadium profit of 25 mill, I conider this better than last year.


We are worth 50 million less than the Falcons, the NFL's 31st ranked team by value.

Worst economy. Worst stadium although that should be changing. Worst fan support.

I do not change ticket prices.

We had 40,000 people in our stadium per game. 55.8% of capacity. Nasty.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

DT Jamal Williams and SS Kwamie Lassiter retired. Two high profile long term starters for me that entered the league undrafted.


We have a few high profile unrestricted free agents:

C Barret Robbins
QB Marc Bulger
RCB Jamar Fletcher


We are 19.56 mill under the cap. I elect to leave them alone and head into free agency.


I take a look at my own players first:

David Boston and Derrick Dockery are taking up over 14 million of my cap space together in order to not play this year? Boston may be back for the back half of the season, but not Dockery. They are my 2nd and 3rd highest cap hits for a player.

We come up with an offer with Derrick Dockery to cut his salary by a bunch. Unfortunately, I can't cut injured players, so they'll both be on my roster and payroll for a while.

I extend Randall Snyder's contract by a couple of years.
Extend Britt Clark's contract by a year.

Now we are 22.78 mill under the cap.


Here are our starting needs:

QB?
C
LG?
RT?
K?
LDE?
LDT
RCB
SS


I take a look at the guys running around free agency.

I decide to chase:

LG Dan Torrez
QB Louie Stewart
NT Pat Williams
SS John Howell
RCB Ronde Barber


After a week, other teams have outbid us for Louie, Torrez, and Ronde. I jump above them for Ronde and Torrez.

A week later, Dan Torrez signs with us. We have that LG problem licked! We sign John Howell as well. We are jumped over for Ronde again, and I accept it. Pat Williams has a better offer and I choose not to continue to pursue him.

I do offer Louie Stewart a substantially better contract than my peers are doing. This boy has good skills.

In week three, Louie Stewart signs with us. I choose to accelerate to the end of free agency.

With 11 million under the cap, we enter into the draft.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Here are our roster needs:

FB
WR
C (starting)
C
OT
DE
DT
OLB
MLB
RCB (Starting)
SS


We are drafting at the 26 spot.

10 players are rated in the 70s or higher. Let's see what happens.

All are gone by our pick. Here are my options:

C Graham Shelton
FB Smidgin Hickman
Two SS candidates

But I decide to go with need and ability and draft C Graham Shelton from Rice.

My options are a nice looking kicker, try again with a nice looking QB, a pretty guard, an okay OT.

Going for depth, I take LT Les Long from Oregon.

In the third, our kicker is still up there, so I take him, K Isaac Knight from Howard Payne. He's the first kicker selected.

In the fourth, our QB is still out there, so I grab him. QB Lenny Clemons of Notre Dame.

LDT Dean Nedney from Stanford goes in the fifth.

DE Tracy Lang from Angelo State in the 6th.

LCB Keith Bailey of SMU in the 7th.



We get a B- for the draft, ick.

Every rookie except for Graham signs right away.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

The latter free agency period hits and I chase:

FB Ken Ayala
RCB Chris Cash
RB Edgerrin James
FL Devin Lewis
SS Tank Williams

And the following undrafted free agents:

QB Josh Paoletti
WLB Anthony Garrison
WILB Butch Schneider
TE Pete Goodrich
C Lee Fore
C Grady Landis


I re-sign restricted free agent Steven Neri to a three year deal.

By week 6, all of the players we submitted contracts to have signed with us.

We sign Graham Shelton just before camp.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

We head into training camp and here is what we discover:

At center, Graham Shelton is nothing special, but can start for a while at least. Of the undrafted rookies, Lee Fore has potential, but Grady is a better current starter.

Our 2nd round pick, OT Les Long, has some decent potentials but nothing tremendous.

I don't know if Isaac Knight can force out Perkins or not.

Our defensive line draftees both look pretty good.

4th rounder QB Lenny Clemons is okay later when he develops.

LCB Keith Bailey doesn't look too bad, but he's nothing that will start for me ever.

With 59 players under contract we have to make some cuts. Here are those who are leaving with my gratitude.

QB Jake Plummer
TE Jimmy Wilcox
LG Mitch Green
K Roman Perkins
RDE Irv Porras
WLB Anthony Garrison
RB Jimmie Norris

I sign SE Walter Young for our receiver depleted roster.



I deactivate:

QB Josh Paoletti
FB Ken Ayala
FL David Boston
C Lee Fore
LDE Tracy Lang
WLB Butch Schneider
FS Shaun Liwienski


Here are our leaders for the year:

RB Travis Henry
FL Devin Lewis
LT L.J. Shelton
DT Pat Williams
SS Tank Williams


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

I move Amos Schultz to the middle LB spot. Here is our Roster:


Front Office Football 2004
San Diego Chargers Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Stewart, Louie 1 QB QB 5 62 62 4 yrs
Kirk, Zack 10 QB 2 26 48 3 yrs
##Paoletti, Josh 16 QB 1 12 41 1 yr.
Clemons, Lenny 7 QB 1 9 41 4 yrs
Henry, Travis 38 RB RB 9 44 44 1 yr.
James, Edgerrin 39 RB 11 40 40 2 yrs
Clark, Britt 21 RB 4 33 34 2 yrs
Williamson, Ross 22 FB FB 3 74 74 3 yrs
##Ayala, Ken 34 FB 6 41 41 3 yrs
Curtis, Chester 83 TE TE 6 81 81 3 yrs
Marchant, D.J. 84 TE 2 29 39 2 yrs
Goodrich, Pete 87 TE 1 19 34 1 yr.
##Boston, David 89 FL 11 61 61 2 yrs
White, Dez 18 FL FL 10 42 43 1 yr.
Lewis, Devin 88 FL 8 32 32 2 yrs
Ayi, Norman 80 SE SE 4 69 72 2 yrs
Caldwell, Reche 82 SE 8 50 50 1 yr.
Young, Walter 85 SE 7 34 34 1 yr.
Shelton, Graham 50 C C 1 34 55 4 yrs
Landis, Grady 55 C 1 13 37 1 yr.
##Fore, Lee 54 C 1 8 42 1 yr.
Torrez, Dan 72 LG LG 5 66 66 6 yrs
Rogers, Gabe 78 LG 6 49 49 2 yrs
Dagostino, Luke 63 LG 3 23 56 2 yrs
Matthews, Casey 65 RG RG 5 64 67 3 yrs
Shelton, L.J. 69 LT LT 11 62 62 1 yr.
##Long, Les 64 LT 1 10 49 4 yrs
**Dockery, Derrick 77 RT 7 85 85 3 yrs
Poulin, Reuben 61 RT RT 4 39 51 1 yr.
Griffith, Ethan 5 P 2 79 79 3 yrs
Knight, Isaac 4 K 1 36 60 4 yrs
Wiley, Marcellus 75 LDE LDE 13 52 52 1 yr.
##Lang, Tracy 71 LDE 1 14 36 3 yrs
Reynolds, Jamal 98 RDE RDE 9 55 55 1 yr.
Neri, Steven 74 RDE 3 31 36 3 yrs
Williams, Pat 95 LDT LDT 12 51 51 2 yrs
Nedney, Dean 99 LDT 1 15 43 3 yrs
Poston, Bert 94 RDT RDT 4 45 46 1 yr.
Hill, Bobby 97 RDT 2 19 34 2 yrs
Pierce, Terry 59 MLB MLB 7 80 80 3 yrs
Schulz, Amos 53 MLB 4 10 38 1 yr.
Snyder, Randall 90 SLB SLB 5 71 71 3 yrs
Wilhelm, Matt 56 WLB WLB 7 50 50 2 yrs
Schneider, Butch 51 WLB 1 7 33 1 yr.
Woolfolk, Andre 48 LCB LCB 7 57 60 2 yrs
Bailey, Keith 27 LCB 1 10 36 3 yrs
Cash, Chris 42 RCB RCB 8 48 48 1 yr.
Douglas, Lewis 28 RCB 4 37 51 1 yr.
McCoo, Skip 23 RCB 3 18 38 2 yrs
Howell, John 49 SS SS 9 57 57 3 yrs
Williams, Tank 26 SS 8 51 51 2 yrs
Holt, Terrence 40 FS FS 7 54 54 2 yrs
##Liwienski, Shaun 25 FS 3 21 21 1 yr.

$$ - player is in starting lineup, ## - player is inactive.

Players Under Contract: 53
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $108,000,000
Cap Room: $4,800,000
Maximum for New Player: $5,130,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $3,360,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $680,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $88,340,000



-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Our Schedule:


Front Office Football 2004
San Diego Chargers 2009 Regular Season Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attendance Weather
Week 1 OAKLAND RAIDERS
Week 2 DALLAS COWBOYS
Week 3 at Miami Dolphins
Week 4 at Pittsburgh Steelers
Week 5 OPEN
Week 6 at Baltimore Ravens
Week 7 CLEVELAND BROWNS
Week 8 DENVER BRONCOS
Week 9 at Oakland Raiders
Week 10 CINCINNATI BENGALS
Week 11 at Kansas City Chiefs
Week 12 at Washington Redskins
Week 13 HOUSTON TEXANS
Week 14 NEW YORK GIANTS
Week 15 at Denver Broncos
Week 16 at Philadelphia Eagles
Week 17 KANSAS CITY CHIEFS

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 21,200
Stadium Capacity: 71,600



-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

An assessment by position:


QB - Louie Stewart may be our permanent QB fixture. He does have an achilles heel, however, so we need to see how that goes. He is very bad at the medium ball. He can launch it long with ease, and he can toss it short with amazing touch, but the medium ball proves him to be just heinous. He also has a tendancy to toss picks. We'll see how he does.

RB - Travis Henry has lost a bit of a step, and he's a power runner. I brought in Edgerrin James for a year to spell Travis and start if necessary.

FB - Ross Williamson is an adequate receiver, a good runner, and a great blocker. A perfectly acceptable fullback.

TE- Chester Curtis remains our big possession target.

FL - Dez White is starting for David Boston until he gets back from ACL surgery. I have no idea whether David will be good enough to start for us or not when he gets back, we'll just have to play it by ear.

SE - Norman Ayi is just spanking godd and fresh off a season where he led the league in receiving.

C - Graham Shelton appears to be a bit of a disappointment in his blocking skills. He has great strength, however. He'll be a decent enough starter for now, but I'll want to look for another starter sooner or later.

LG - Dan Torrez may very well be our answer to our annual LG problems. Dan was the 2007 All League 2nd Team Guard. We know that he'll play at a high level.

RG - Casey Matthews continues to be a simple rock in our offensive team.

LT - L.J. Shelton is getting a little long in the tooth but there do not seem to be any on-field effects as of yet.

RT - Reuben Poulin is strating until Derrick Dockery recovers from his ACL Surgery. Like David Boston, I have no idea what Dockery will look like after he returns, so well just have to hope and see.

P - Ethan Griffith has become almost fully developed in just one year.

K - Isaac Knight is good, but he doesn't seem to be too much better than Roman Perkins. He is much more accurate, however, and I want to see how a more accurate kicker with a weaker leg will do.

LDE - Marcellus Wiley is good enough, but obviously declining in ability due to age.

RDE - Jamal Williams is an acceptable starter, but nothing tremendous or anything.

LDT - In his 12th year, Pat is more of a stopgap measure than anything else. He looks good enough.

RDT - Bert Poston is the last of our acceptable starters. We need a more dominating presence on the defensive line.

MLB - Terry Pierce is a hoss of a linebacker.

SLB - Randall Snyder is another very good linebacker.

WLB - Matt Wilhelm is a long time starter for us, simply because he has done an adequate enough job.

LCB - Andre Woolfolk, a player who came off an injury and hardly missed a step. Our best corner.

RCB - Chris Cash is another in a growing list of acceptable starters who do not dazzle.

SS- The first non-Kwamie starter in my tenure is John Howell, who looks good enough to start long-term, except that he cannot diagnose a play. He was the All League 2nd Team Safety in 2007.

FS - Terrance Holt will start for us again, as another acceptable player.


All in all, our defense needs more great players and less adequate players. Our only good/great players are at the SLB and MLB positions. We need a DT and a CB or something as well.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

We go 2-2 in the preseason. The following injuries have been suffered:

FS Shaun Liwienski, probable with the flu

RB Travis Henry, questionable for a few weeks. Ed James will start in his stead.

RDT Bobby Hill, out with a strained patellar tendon for a month or so.

LT L.J. Shelton, out for a couple of months with a broken wrist.

So both of my starting OTs are out for a long time with various serious injuries.

I sign RT Mario Godfrey, a five year pro with borderline acceptable stats and the best available tackle. In order to make room, I have to make a difficult decision:

Release a player or put somebody on IR. I place Derrick Dockery on IR for the season.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 -

Our opening game is at divisional rival Oakland. We win by a field goal 27-24. Ed James rushes for a pair of scores, Louie Stewart tosses a TD to Dez White, and rookie Isaac Knight knocks a pair of field goals through including a 53 yard game winner as time expires. Talk about an introduction to the league.

Oakland's Marc Bulger tossed a pair of TDs, so we were once again playign against a familiar foe. Drew Brees in Denver, Marc Bulger in Oakland, it's like the entire division is captained by our castoffs.

Game MVP is MLB Terry Pierce with a pair of sacks. Also with a duo of QB takedowns is Bert Poston. All told, we took down Bulger eight times on the day with a pair of picks by Chris Cash and Terrance Holt.

Unfortunately, we lost Louie Stewart for the year with a severe hamstring pull. I throw him on IR, activate Josh Paoletti, and sign MLB Leslie Alstatt, a familiar face from our past.

First round "bust" Zack Kirk will start for the remainder of the season, and take our three time defending AFC West Champions for a spin. This is his chance to make a name for himself.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Week 2 -

We continue our theme from last year by dropping our home game against the Cowboys 30-17. Zack launched bombs to Reche Caldwell and Walter Young. Ed James was held to only 29 yards rushing, Zack also tossed a pair of picks, and our defense never forced a turnover.

However, Chester Curtis proved a reliable target for our new QB catching 9 balls and Norman Ayi snagged 109 yards of passes on 6 grabs. Toss in a pair of sacks by Matt Wilhelm and there wer certainly moments in the game that proved we can do well under Zack Kirk's guidance. I hope.

Additional injuries to Pat Williams and Jamal Reynolds are minor. Travis Henry will start this week after being upgraded to probable.


Week 3 -

We are stymied in Miami losing 24-14. Our only scores were the two passes Norman Ayi caught from Zack Kirk. Kirk never tossed a pick and looked good, but Travis Henry was held to 40 yards. Terry Pierce had 13 solo tackles and 3 more assists.

Obviously, our ground game stumbles without L.J. Shelton. We need him back soon.

We have the following additional injuries:

FS Terrance Holt is out with MCL Damage to the knee for the year. I put him on IR.

Andre Woolfolk is probable.

Ed James is questionable.

L.J. Shelton is questionable.

LJ will continue to sit our for a bit. Ed is downgraded to third on teh depth chart.

I sign FS Todd Johnson to start for us.


Week 4 -

We travel to Pittsburgh and Zack Kirk gets his first win 33-23. Reche Caldwell, Chester Curtis and Dez White all get scores as Isaac Knight kicks four FGs through. Kirk doesn't toss an interception. Terry Pierce had two picks on the day plus a forced fumble.

New FS Todd Johnson is out for the year with degenerative hip condition. I place him on IR as well. I sign FS Van Frederickson to start for us.


Week 5 -

BYE

L.J. Shelton has been upgraded to probable and will start for us in Week 6. Hopefully our running game will kick it up a notch.


Week 6 -

We travel to Baltimore where the Ravens are heavily favored by 12, only to lose 24-14 to go up 3-2 on the season. The Ravens fans will not be pleased this week, I'll tell you. Zack Kirk hit Ross Williamson, Norman Ayi and Walter Young for scores with one pick. Marcellus Wiley notched a pair of sacks.

L.J. Shelton is out for 6 more weeks. Pat Williams is doubtful. David Boston is probable for five weeks. We'll hold off starting him for a few weeks just to insure that he is fully healed before throwing him back out there.


Week 7 -

We host the Browns this week and barely emerge victorious, winning 10-9. Ed James rushed for our sole score, Britt Clark carried most of the load- 25 times for 78 yards, our best output of the season thus far. Kirk only managed to complete 10 of 25 passes for 151 yards. No picks at least. We picked off the Browns four times and forced two fumbles which we recovered leading to a 6:1 TO margin (Britt Clark fumbled it away once). Yet, despite that, we managed an anemic 10 points.

Travis Henry is out for a few weeks. Edgerrin James is out for a month or two. I place Ed on the IR, I have no time to allocate to his rehabilitation. I sign street free agent RB Hugh Reid. Britt Clark will start for a few games and Hugh will be his main backup.

Pat Williams is at least back this week after being upgraded to probable.

We sit at 4-2, but we have had an awful lot of attrition already.

-Anxiety

[GoSeahawks]

I don't know if you've said it or not, but what's your injury setting set at?

[Abe Sargent]

Week 8 -

We crush the Broncos here at Qualcomm stadium 31-14. Ross Williamson rushes for a pair of scores and Hugh Reid adds another rushing TD. Kirk lobs a TD to Ayi. We pick off Drew Brees twice.

Amazingly enough, there are no additional injuries this week.


Week 9 -

We lose to Oakland 21-17. Ross WIlliamson and Walter Young catch Zack Kirk passes but he adds a pair of picks as well. Likewise, Bulger tosses a pair of TDs to his receivers but we pick him off twice. Travis Henry has been upgraded to probable and will start for us next week. FB Ross Williamson pulled his groin and is doubtful. I deactivate him for a week or two to heal.


Week 10 -

We host and defeat the Bengals 21-16. Zack Kirk finds Ayi and Dez White for TDs. Hugh Reid adds a score on the ground. The Game MVP was Chester Curtis, however. Kirk tossed four picks but Chester caught 11 balls for 104 yards. MLB Terry Pierce added another pick.

SLB Randall Snyder has suffered MCL damage and is out for the year. I place him on IR and sign SLB Larry Gardner. Larry comes in as our starter.


Week 11 -

We barely lose to the Chiefs, 25-24. Travis Henry rushes for a score, Dez White returns a kickoff for a TD and Curtis catches a TD pass from Kirk. Isaac Knight's FG was a 54 yarder. Brand new player Larry Gardner led our team in tackles and notched our only sack on the day.

LJ is probable but I'll keep him out for a bit just in case, having learned from my lesson with LJ.

WLB Matt Wilhelm is out for a few weeks with a seperated shoulder.

Daid Boston is back from injury and will start next week. He looks a lot worse, but he's still our best player at the flanker postion.


Week 12 -

We tough it out in Washington and win 14-9. Hugh Reid recovered a fumble and advanced it for a score. Terry Pierce picked off Washington and returned it for a score. It was enough to win the game.

I just wish that our offense would have added at least a token score on the day. Kirk lobbed a pair of picks, but David Boston caught 7 balls in his retrun.

Yet, this was defensive day for the Chargers. Bert Poston had a pair of sacks, Terry Pierce had a pick, a sack, 11 solo tackles to lead the team, a score and a forced fumble to get Game MVP honors. Jamal Reynolds had a sack and a half.

There are no additional injuries, thank the Lord.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Week 13 -

We host and lose to the Texans, 31-17. Kirk finds the endzone again, hitting Chester Curtis for the score. Hugh Reid adds a ground score. Travis Henry clocks our first 100 yard game, for 108 yards total on 18 carries. Kirk puts up 3 Interceptions and has looked stinky recently. Chester Curtis with 8 grabs led the next highest receiver by 5 receptions.

Matt Wilhelm is probable and will start next week. Pat Williams is doubtful again. Jamal Reynolds is doubtful as well, and Ross Williamson has yet to recover, still being listed as questionable.

Reche Caldwell is out for the season and I place him on IR.

I sign RDE Jerome Becker to help out with the injuries to our defensive line currently an issue.


Week 14 -

Our 7-5 Chargers is currently leading two 6-6 AFC West teams. This week is the Giants. Unfortunately, we scrub out, losing 11-24. Zack Kirk hits David Boston for our lone TD, David's first since his ACL injury. Ayi catches a two point conversion. Zack puts up a pair of picks.

Ross Williamson has finally been upgraded to probable and will start next week. Chris Cash is out for the season with a broken foot. I IR him. Lewis Douglas will start for us the remainder of the year.


Week 15 -

We travel to Denver to avenge our loss and win 40-17 in a statement game. We are bruised, battered, and infirm. And yet we can still kick ass! Andre Woolfolk returns a pick for a TD, Isaac Knight kicks a 55 yarder and four FGs on the day, Britt Clark and Travis Henry add scores on the ground. Travis Henry finishes the day with 133 yards and a pair of rushing TDs on 22 carries. Four players pick off Drew Brees.

L.J. Shelton is fully healed and will start next week. Pat Williams has healed and will start along with Jamal Reynolds who was upgraded to probable.


Week 16 -

We are 8-6 as is the Oakland Raiders but we are winning the tiebreaker because we swept them this year. But we have to win out.

We start by defeating the Eagles in Phily 27-6. Marcellus Wiley returned a fumble for a TD. Zack hit Chester Curtis and Norman Anyi for scores. Curtis had 118 yards on 12 receptions. Terry Pierce picked Phily off.

Andre Woolfolk is out for a week or two. I deactivate him in hopes that he can play in the playoffs.

Jamal Reynolds has been downgraded to doubtful and deactivated yet again.

I sign CB Ty Pentasuglio to be a backup.

Oakland lost but KC won. Therefore we have to win next week against them.


Week 17 -

Season ending games against the competetion is not a good thing for my health. Or my team's health either, for that matter.

We manage to knock off the Chiefs here at home 16-13. We win the AFC West with a record of 10-6.

Ross Williamson rushed for a score and Isaac Knight kicked three FGs for the win. Norman Ayi caught 10 balls for 164 yards, a team record.

Pat Williams is doubtful for a few weeks, but Andre Woolfolk is probable and may start next week.



-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

The Playoffs:


Wild Card Weekend:

Atlanta at Seattle
Buffalo at San Diego
Detroit at New York
Indy at Baltimore



Woolfolk starts, Pat Williams does not.

Buffalo comes into our stadium and survives a shootout, 41-34. Zack passes scores to Norman Ayi, Dez White, and Chester Curtis. Travis Henry adds a rush for a score.

Kirk doesn't toss a pick all day. We onyl get two sacks and one turnover all day, as our defense just lets the Bills score all over us.

In other news:

Atlanta over Seattle, 21-14
Giants over Lions, 10-7
Ravens over Colts, 42-28


Divisional Weekend:

Atlanta at Minnesota, 19-13
Baltimore at New York, 21-16
Buffalo at Houston, 24-33
New York at New Orleans, 17-23


Ideas of an all New York Super Bowl die as all three New York teams lose.


Championships:

Atlanta at New Orleans
Baltimore at Houston

Saints 23, Falcons 17
Ravens 20, Texans 10



Super Bowl:


New Orleans Saints


vs


Baltimore Ravens





Baltimore 27


New Orleans 14


Your 2009 NFL Champions, the Baltimore Ravens!!!!!




-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Originally posted by GoSeahawks
I don't know if you've said it or not, but what's your injury setting set at?

140 this season. I increased it until I thought that I had a reasonable and realistic injury setting. I think that I've found it.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Let's take a look at this season:

Awards:

Defensive Player of the Year: Terry Pierce
All League First Team LB - Terry Pierce
All League Second Team TE - Chester Curtis


Stats:

QB Zack Kirk, 15 starts, 62.8% completion rate, 3560 yards, 20 TDs, 19 Ints

Zack was acceptable, barely, as a starter. He just had too many questionable games. However, he did have the first half of the season without David Boston.


RB Travis Henry, 12 starts, 696 yards, 3 TDs, 3.5 ypc
RB Britt Clark, 1 start, 80 carries, 373 yards, 4.6 ypc

With a low YPC and a smaller amount of carriers due to injury, it's easy to see how our ground game was anemic at times. LJ Shelton was sorely missed. Ed James had a 3.8 ypc, Hugh Reid a 3.2 ypc, but Britt Clark had a 4.6 ypc, which stands out in my view.


TE Chester Curtis, 95 catches, 899 yards, 4 TDs
WR Norman Ayi, 83 catches, 1064 yards, 6 TDs
FB Ross Williamson, 8 games started, 34 grabs, 260 yards, 2 TDs

Chester had his best professional year catching the ball and Norman had another strong year all things considered. 95 catches is a team record, and it's by a Tight End! Of 333 completions by a QB this year, Chester caught 95, about 26%.


K Isaac Knight, 23 of 36, 38 of 38 PAT, long of 55
P Ethan Griffith, 41.7 average, 34 of 80 punts in 20.

Isaac had a good enough year for a rookie, now we'll see how he does after he develops, we need a higher FG percentage. Ethan had another good year punting. Ethan was 10th in average distance and had the second highest percenatge of punts in the 20 in the league, showing that he does quality work.


MLB Terry Pierce, 127 tackles, 36 assists, 7 sacks, 8 Ints, 1 Int TD, 9 PasDef, 3 FF, 2 FumRec


Terry simply had a mammoth year and was rightfully rewarded for it. He led our team in tackles, sacks, interceptions, fumble recoveries and assisted tackles. I love the day that we decided to pursue Terry in free agency.


SLB Larry Gardner (15 starts, Larry spent 8 weeks with the Jets, with us, these stats are for both teams combined) - 79 Tacks, 27 Assts, 5 Sacks, 2 Ints, 4 PasDef, 3 FF
WLB Matt Wilhelm, 14 starts, 56 tacks, 18 assts, 3.5 sacks, 9 PasDef, 3 FF


Larry doesn't look like a half bad linebacker when all is said and done. Matt had another adequate year despite his injury.


SS John Howell, 72 Tacks, 21 Assts, 1 Sack, 3 Ints, 21 PasDef, 2 FF, 1 FumRec
CB Andre Woolfolk, 15 starts, 66 Tacks, 17 Assts, 1 Int, 1 Int TD, 18 PasDef

John Howell had the most passes defended against in a season in my tuteledge - more than Quentin Jammer or Kwamie Lassister or Andre Woolfolk. Speaking of which, Andre was fourth on the team in tackles, third if you count Larry Gardner's as split stats and not total.


DT Bert Poston, 31 tacks, 27 Assts, 5.5 Sacks, 1 FF, 1 FumRec
DE Marcellus Wiley, 34 Tacks, 14 Assts, 5 Sacks
DE Jamal Reynolds, 43 Tacks, 18 Assts, 5 sacks


Marcellus's production continues to drop, and last year's decent year must have been a blip on an otherwise downward spiral. Bert certainly had a decent enough year from the middle.



RG Casey Matthews, 31 KRB, 3 SkA
C Graham Shelton, 21 KRB, 10 SkA

Casey was our best O Lineman with LJ out. I also included Graham's stats so that you could analyze them and see how our first rounder performed.


We ended the season with 8 players on IR and 61 players on our roster under contract.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Some End of Season Stuff:

Version 5.0b has been d/l'ed and updated.

Our Score:

Performance: 74
Franchise Value: 47
Profit/Loss: 60
Roster Strength: 92

Overall: 64


The salary cap has risen to 113,500,000

Elected into the Hall of Fame are Vinny Testaverde and Rich Gannon.

(Really? Did either of these guys have anything close to resembling a Hall of Fame career? The first Hall of Fame, but no Tim Brown, Jerry Rice, Junior Seau or Shannon Sharpe. Vinny and Rich?)


Balance Sheet (get ready to squint):

Revenues: 77,820,000
Costs: 168,440,000

Profit (-90,620,000)

Ouch.


In terms of franchise value, J'ville and St. Louis have dived below us for overall value. We stil have the worst economy and fan support. Our stadium, however, has been graded slightly bettern that that in St. Louis.

Our average attendance was 40,500 with a percent attendance of 56.5% The lowest, of course.

San Diego's growth has plummeted to -2.0%. The average income has dropped to 27,900, and poverty is at 16.2%.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Several of our players retire: DT Pat Williams, RB Edgerrin James, G Gabe Rogers.

We have several high profile unrestricted free agents.

Marcellus Wiley
Jamal Reynolds
L.J. Shelton
Dez White
Travis Henry
Reche Caldwell
Roubin Poulin
Bert Poston

We are almost 30 million under the cap, so I franchise L.J. Shelton. We just have to have him on our team.

At the beginning of the free agency period I take a look at our current roster. We have 22.95 million in cap room currently.

I extend David Boston's contract by a year and reduce his cap hit since the inury has left him a weaker version of his former self.

I extend CB Skip McBoo's contract for a year and reduce his cap hit.

We sign Norman Ayi to a blockbuster five year 60 million dollar deal that will extend his San Diego tenure by four years.

We sign L.J. Shelton to a three year deal.

I enter the free agency bidding with 25 million available under the cap, and 94 million of next ear's cap being used.

We need help in the following positions:

RB
FL?
LDE
RDE
LDT
RDT
RCB
FS?

I make offers to Marcellus Wiley, Reche Caldwell and Chris Cash to start the free agency period. Both are either decent starters or quality backups and are relatively cheap.

I also make offers to:

RB Shane Prescott, a 7 year pro signable to a cheap contract.

NT Eddie Gandy, our big pursuit of a major free agent. I want a massive presence on our defensive line.

RDT Bert Poston, a perfectly good DT and a body we are familiar with.

LCB Dana Spatz, another very big free agent we are trying to sign for a reasonable cost.

RCB Nnamdi Asimugha, good corner with a great price tag. This is essentially a depth persuit.



As you can see, we are really trying to revamp our defense. Let's see what happens.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Chris Cash signs with us at the end of week one. Our bids on Dana and Eddie have been superceeded by other teams. I jump back over our competetion for both players. Again, we'll see what happens, since we have the high bid for everybody else.

Week 2 sees Shane Prescott and Bert Poston sign with us. Two holes filled. Dana is again offered a bid higher than our own, this time by the Titans. I can't jump higher, so we'll just have to see if Dana likes our bid more.

Week 3 and Marcellus Wiley signs with us. No action with other players.

Week 4 - Reche Caldwell comes back into the fold. And Dana Spatz signs with us!!! Dana was All league CB three of his first five years in the league and on his way to the Hall of Fame.

I submit an offer to Jamal Reynolds to return to us.

I move Andre Woolfolk to the riht side where he'll start for us across from Dana. I withdraw our offer to Nnamdi, instead offering a postion to old draft pick Lewis Douglas.


Week 6 sees us sign Jamal Reynolds. We are running up agaisnt the cap, with only 9 million left. I check our player's status.


I want to sign our DT prospect, but the Titans have the best offer and we cannot afford to any more. I withdraw our offer, just in case he wanted to sign.


Week 7 - We sign Lewis Douglas.

I skip to the draft.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Entering the draft, we have the following needs:

RB
TE
WR
RG
RT
LDT *
MLB
WLB
FS


Let's see what we can discover.


We are drafting #27 overall. Not the best place to find talent. I'll essentially be doing the best available approach.

I have a few options at the 27 spot. There is a nice center, and if I want to call the Graham Shelton draft pick a bust, Hugh McNeil looks really nice. But, who spends two consecutive first round selections on a center?

FS Xavier Marschalk from UCLA could be a starter for us in the secondary, and we have a need at that position after Terrence Holt's injury left him a worse player.

There are FBs, CBs and Gs, but I think we need to go with C or FS. And of those two, FS is the greatest need on our team, so I draft Xavier.


In the second, I am really looking at the defensive line here. But the problem is, the best available player on our board is a corner. How do I justify drafting a corner so highly when I have such great backups at the position?

He's great at punt returns, that's how. I draft Adam Stoner from Florida State and Morgantown, WV.

In the third I have several options. A run stopping DT who is quite poor at rushing the QB. A decent DE. A pretty nice looking C who might be able to replace Graham someday. Decent Guards for depth. A pass rushing specialist MLB who'd be a nice backup and passing downs player. A really nice looking pair of QBs. A Kicker who'd kick the pants off our current guy.

A tough decision. So I have to go with a simple principle, who'd have the best chance to start someday (and is a non-kicker?). C Junior Hickman from Oregon.

In the fourth I take DT Walt Holliday from Lafayette, the DT I was considering at 3.

In the fifth I take a flyer on QB Chuck Schnebele from Illinois.

Sixth is WLB Richard Grammatica, from Arkansas State.

Seventh is TE Earl Spano from Mississippi.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Everybody except our first round FS Xavier signs in the first rookie signing period.

We are graded a B for the draft.

I sign restricted free agents C Grady Landis and SLB Larry Gardner

I offer contracts to the following undrafted rookie free agents:

RB Antonio Kaufman
RDE Donnie Benson
FB Bennie Sargent
RG Gilbert Pearson
RT Mo Goulet
WILB Al Upshaw

All sign with us, although we had some serious competetion for Al Upshaw and had to add 60,000 to his salary in order to sign him.

I release FB Ken Ayala.

I get Xavier signed and into camp.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Just before camp, I sign some more undrafted rookies for depth and competetion:

SE Kenyon Yamashita
K Joey Brandenfeis


Post Traing Camp I take a look at my rookies:

FS Xavier - Looks good enough to start for me, maybe for a while, maybe just for a few years, we'll see.

CB Adam Stoner - Gotta stop drafting corner high, they never look as good as advertised.

C Junior Hickman - My first offical major bust, Junior is horrible and may get cut in the post camp cuts.

LDT Walt Holliday - Another bust, not the run stopping genius we thought he was. Another potential cut.

QB Chuck - Another position I need to stop drafting so highly, I always seemed to get burned.

WLB Richard - Weak. Literally.

TE Earl Spano - Also weak. Also literally.

Undrafted rookies:

RB Kaufman - Looks decent enough to spell our better backs.

FB Bennie Sargent - Not that great, should see the cutting room floor sooner or later.

SE Kenyon - A marginally acceptable roster filler.

RT Mo Goulet - Definite Run Blocking specialist, but may be our second best run blocker on the team, after LJ. A good backup to have.

DE Donnie Benson - Strong player but not good potential.

WILB Al Upshaw - Pass rushing specialist with very poor coverage skills and anemic run stopping ability.

K Joey - Not good enough. Will get cut.


I move Al Upshaw to WLB and Richard Grammatica to MLB.

Post camp cuts:

K Joey Brandenfeis
C Junior Hickman
RDE Donnie Benson
RCB Skip McGoo


Our Leaders:

RB Shane Prescott
FL Devin Lewis
LT LJ Shelton
LDE Marcellus Wiley
SS Tank Williams


I deactivate:

QB Lenny Clemons
FB Bennie Sargent
SE Kenyon Yamashita
RG Gilbert Pearson
LDT Walt Holliday
WLB Al Upshaw
LCB Keith Bailey


-Anxiety

[mmarra82]

Have you noticed a difference since switching to 5.0B? Reason I ask I am deciding whether to start a new dynasty with the new patch.

MMarra
2004 Jets Dynasty

[Abe Sargent]

Originally posted by mmarra82
Have you noticed a difference since switching to 5.0B? Reason I ask I am deciding whether to start a new dynasty with the new patch.

MMarra
2004 Jets Dynasty


I haven't noticed too much, but then again I have a small sample size.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Our Chargers' Roster:


Front Office Football 2004
San Diego Chargers Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Stewart, Louie 1 QB QB 6 61 61 3 yrs
Kirk, Zack 10 QB 3 51 54 2 yrs
Schnebele, Chuck 11 QB 1 13 43 3 yrs
##Clemons, Lenny 7 QB 2 10 37 3 yrs
Prescott, Shane 24 RB RB 7 47 47 3 yrs
Clark, Britt 21 RB 5 34 34 1 yr.
Kaufman, Antonio 39 RB 1 22 30 1 yr.
Williamson, Ross 22 FB FB 4 74 74 2 yrs
##Sargent, Bennie 44 FB 1 16 23 1 yr.
Curtis, Chester 83 TE TE 7 79 79 2 yrs
Marchant, D.J. 84 TE 3 30 34 1 yr.
Spano, Earl 85 TE 1 11 36 3 yrs
Boston, David 89 FL 12 40 40 2 yrs
Lewis, Devin 88 FL 9 32 32 1 yr.
Ayi, Norman 80 SE FL 5 70 72 5 yrs
Caldwell, Reche 82 SE SE 9 50 50 3 yrs
##Yamashita, Kenyon 86 SE 1 8 33 1 yr.
Shelton, Graham 50 C C 2 44 52 3 yrs
Landis, Grady 55 C 2 15 35 1 yr.
Torrez, Dan 72 LG LG 6 66 66 5 yrs
Dagostino, Luke 63 LG 4 33 56 1 yr.
Matthews, Casey 65 RG RG 6 66 69 2 yrs
##Pearson, Gilbert 68 RG 1 11 37 1 yr.
Shelton, L.J. 69 LT LT 12 62 62 3 yrs
Long, Les 64 LT 2 19 46 3 yrs
Dockery, Derrick 77 RT RT 8 77 77 2 yrs
Goulet, Mo 78 RT 1 10 31 1 yr.
Griffith, Ethan 5 P 3 87 87 2 yrs
Knight, Isaac 4 K 2 51 61 3 yrs
Wiley, Marcellus 75 LDE LDE 14 49 49 2 yrs
Lang, Tracy 71 LDE 2 18 31 2 yrs
Reynolds, Jamal 98 RDE RDE 10 53 53 2 yrs
Neri, Steven 74 RDE 4 37 37 2 yrs
Nedney, Dean 99 LDT LDT 2 24 42 2 yrs
##Holliday, Walt 70 LDT 1 12 29 4 yrs
Poston, Bert 94 RDT RDT 5 49 49 4 yrs
Hill, Bobby 97 RDT 3 23 34 1 yr.
Pierce, Terry 59 MLB MLB 8 79 79 2 yrs
Gramatica, Richard 91 MLB 1 11 26 3 yrs
Snyder, Randall 90 SLB SLB 6 70 70 2 yrs
Gardner, Larry 57 SLB 4 46 46 3 yrs
Wilhelm, Matt 56 WLB WLB 8 48 48 1 yr.
##Upshaw, Al 58 WLB 1 21 40 1 yr.
Spatz, Dana 33 LCB LCB 6 77 77 4 yrs
Stoner, Adam 47 LCB 1 16 45 4 yrs
##Bailey, Keith 27 LCB 2 13 34 2 yrs
Cash, Chris 42 RCB 9 48 48 3 yrs
Woolfolk, Andre 48 RCB RCB 8 48 60 1 yr.
Douglas, Lewis 28 RCB 5 45 51 3 yrs
Howell, John 49 SS SS 10 57 57 2 yrs
Williams, Tank 26 SS 9 51 51 1 yr.
Holt, Terrence 40 FS 8 38 38 1 yr.
Marschalk, Xavier 46 FS FS 1 32 55 4 yrs

$$ - player is in starting lineup, ## - player is inactive.

Players Under Contract: 53
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $113,500,000
Cap Room: $1,690,000
Maximum for New Player: $2,030,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $2,290,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $750,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $125,600,000



-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Our 2010 Schedule:


Front Office Football 2004
San Diego Chargers 2010 Regular Season Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attendance Weather
Week 1 DENVER BRONCOS
Week 2 at Seattle Seahawks
Week 3 BALTIMORE RAVENS
Week 4 HOUSTON TEXANS
Week 5 at Indianapolis Colts
Week 6 OAKLAND RAIDERS
Week 7 OPEN
Week 8 at Denver Broncos
Week 9 at Tennessee Titans
Week 10 JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS
Week 11 at Kansas City Chiefs
Week 12 ST. LOUIS RAMS
Week 13 at New Jersey Jets
Week 14 SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS
Week 15 KANSAS CITY CHIEFS
Week 16 at Arizona Cardinals
Week 17 at Oakland Raiders

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 20,600
Stadium Capacity: 71,600



-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

A few interesting personnel things:

FB Bennie Sargent is possibly the manifestation of my own real last name: Sargent.


I still have every first round draft selection on our team:

TE Chester Curtis
SLB Randall Snyder
SE Norman Ayi
FB Ross Williamson
QB Zack Kirk
C Graham Shelton
FS Xavier Marshalk


Just thought that was interesting.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

I make a few more minor contract adjustments:

I extend QB Louie Stewart's contract by a year and cut his cap figure for this year and next year in doing so.

I extend LG Luke Dagostino's contract for a year.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

We go 2-2 in the preseason. We have the following injuries:

CB Andre Woolfolk questionable for a couple of weeks, will be replaced in the opening week by Chris Cash.

FB Ross Williamson, questionable for a couple of weeks with a strained knee. Will still start.

RB Shane Prescott, out with a strained elbow tendon for three weeks. Britt Clark will start.

CB Dana Spatz, out for a couple of weeks with a hyperextended knee.

RDE Jamal Reynolds, out for a month with a strained foot ligament

MLB Terry Pierce, probable for a month with a strained MCL.

QB Louie Stewart out for a month with a hyperextended knee.


Zack Kirk starts again. May heaven have mercy on our souls.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 -

We lose to the Broncos 25-32. Zack put up three TDs, two picks, and a two point conversion. TDs were to Caldwell, Curtis, and Ayi with Reche picking up the conversion. We had no pressure. Just one sack, from Randall Snyder. No picks, and Steven Neri, filling in for the injured Jamal forced the fumble that was our only turnover on the day, recovered by Xavier Marschalk.

Andre Woolfolk, who played sparingly as the dimeback, is now out for a few weeks having aggravated his injury. Although Dana Spatz has been upgraded to questionable, he'll still sit.


Week 2 -

We travel to Seattle and defeat our old division mates 20-17. Zack hits Ayi, Britt Clark rushes for a score, and Knight hits a pair of FGs for the win. Reche Caldwell caught 10 balls for 147 yards. Neri notched a pair of sacks, and we are again held pickless.

RB Shane Prescott is probable and will start this week. Likewise Dana Spatz.


Week 3 -

Baltimore comes to play and we don't, losing 42-18. Britt Clark rushes for a TD and a conversion, Reche Caldwell is hit for our other TD on the day. But not by Zack Kirk, but by Chuck Schnebele. Britt Clark had 122 yards on 16 carries. Again our defense went pickless.

Injuries:

FL David Boston, questionable for a few weeks.

CB Dana Spatz aggravated his injury and will be out for a few more weeks.

RB Shane Prescott, out for 6 weeks.

RT Derrick Dockery, out for 7 weeks with a broken ankle

MLB Terry Pierce out for 8 weeks with torn knee cartilage.

SLB Randall Snyder, out for 8 weeks with a broken clavicle.


So, in one week, on defense, our three stud players - CB Spatz, MLB Pierce, and SLB Snyder all go out. Add our starting RB and RT and we have an interesting problem. And one that is all too familiar.

Linebackers Larry Gardner and Richard Gramatica will start this week. Whew.


Week 4 -

We edge out Houston 16-10. Antonio Kaufman broke a 54 yard TD run. Add three Knight FGs. Our Game MVP was Marcellus Wiley with a pair of sacks. We got a couple of picks today.

Additional Injuries:

LJ Shelton is out for a couple of weeks with a hyperextended knee.

QB Louie Stewart is probable and will definately start this week.

C Graham Shelton is out for six weeks with a torn calf muscle.


Week 5 -

We defeat Indy 24-21. We are starting to win the close ones this year. Louie Stewart hit Devin Lewis, Zack Kirk hit Ross Williamson for a TD and a conversion. Britt Clark rushed for a score. We scored 17 fourth quarter points to rally.

Injuries:

QB Louie Stewart was pulled with an aggravated injury. He'll be out for another few weeks.

WR Reche Caldwell is out for a week with a sprained deltoid muscle. David Boston is probable and will start.

Dana Spatz is probable but I'll want another week before starting him.

CB Chris Cash is out for three weeks with a strained achilles' tendon.

DE Jamal Reymolds is back.


Week 6 -

We defeat the Raiders here in Qualcomm 20-15. Despite us being banged up, we are still winning some football games. Zack Kirk hit Ayi twice for scores. Antonio Kaufman rushed for 152 yards on 23 carries and really opened some eyes. Ayi caught 8 calls for 108 yards. Dan Torrez threw down 6 Key Run Blocks on the day. Both Marcellus Wiley and Bert Poston had double sack days. A good Sunday from a game perspective.

No additional major injuries.


Week 7 -

BYE

Hopefully we can use this time to get some serious healing.

LJ Shelton has been upgraded to porbable. He'll probably not start until he's fully healed, remembering last year.

CB Chris Cash is probable.

FL David Boston is questionable.

Reche Caldwell is healed.

RB Shane Prescott is probable and will be back shortly.

QB Louie Stewart is questionable.

MLB Terry Pierce is questionable and may start soon.



-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Week 8 -

We travel to Denver and barely emerge victorious winning 23-22. Norman Ayi caught a pass from Zack Kirk with just 34 seconds left in the game. Antonio Kaufman rushed for a TD and Dana Spatz returned a pick for a score. Our defense held the Broncos to 5 field goals and a TD.

The Game MVP was Marcellus Wiley with a Chargers' Record FOUR sacks, 8 tackles, and an assist. Zack Kirk did not have a good day going only 17 of 40 for 106 yards, a TD, and an Int.


Injuries:

CB Chris Cash will be back next week.

David Boston is probable for another week. He'll start.

HB Shane Prescott is probable for another week. He'll probably start.

QB Louie Stewart is probable but he will not start.

LT L.J. Shelton is probable but he'll begin to start.

RT Derrick Dockery is questionable he will not start.

MLB Terry Pierce questionable, will not play.

C Graham Shelton, questionable, will not play

Reche Caldwell, questionable, won't play

SLB Randall Snyder, doubtful, won't play.


Week 9 -

We are two games ahead of the competetion in the AFC West, so we can afforded to rest a few players more than I might normally want. We travel to Tennessee this week, and lose, 21-35 to go to 5-3 for the first half of the season.

Dana Spatz returned another pick for a TD, this time 87 yards on the return. David Boston caught a TD pass and Britt Clark rushed for a score. Zack Kirk put up three Ints on the day.

David Boston, Louie Stewart, Shane Presscott and C Grady Lewis are all healed. Louie will start next week, the others already did.

There are no additional injuries.


Week 10 -

The big news this week is that, of course, Louie Stewart is starting again. We host the 7-1 Jaguars, and this is our chance to make a statement, go to 6-3 on the season in our own house, and get our offensive line and linebackers healed a bit.

We defeat the Jags 17-7. Chester Curtis caught a TD pass from Louie, Shane Prescott rushed for a score. Travis Henry scored for the Jags, which is interesting, I think.

Game MVP? SLB Larry Gardner. 10 Tacks, 4 Assts, 1 Int. Louie Stewart looked rusty upon his return - two picks, 14 of 25 for 151 yards.

The following players are fully healed - Derrick Dockery, Graham Shelton, Terry Pierce. Our power returns!

A new injury occured - FL Devin Lewis is out for a month with a hyperextended knee.


Week 11 -

We are still two games up on the AFC West and we are having our players return from the injured list. This week we travel to Arrowhead Stadium and the Chiefs. We win 27-10 over the hapless 3-7 Chiefs. NFL Defensive Player of the Week and Game MVP - Marcellus Wiley registered three sacks on the day.

RB Shane Prescott rushed for 130 yards on 28 carries and a TD. Louie Stewart tossed a pair of TDs to David Boston in addition to 2 Interceptions to the Kansas City defense.

Hopefully Reche Caldwell and Randall Snyder will be back after another week out.

SS John Howell is doubtful with a severe wrist sprain. Tank Williams will start until he returns.

RT Derrick Dockery is probable with a sprained thumb.


Week 12 -

We lose to the Rams 17-14. FB Ross Williamson caught a TD pass and Shane Prescott added a score on the ground. But Louie Stewart put the game out of our reach when he tossed a pick to St. Louis with just a few minutes left in the game. The pick is returned for the TD and we lose.

Louie Stewart put up three interceptions.

Reche Caldwell and Randell Snyder are back from injury. There are no major injuries this week.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Week 13 -

We face the Jets and decimate them 38-0. Louie Stewart threw TD passes to Boston, Curtis, and Ayi. Shane Prescott rushed for a TD and Bobby Hill returned an interception for a score.

Louie Stewart had the kind of game that we brought him here for - 17 of 24 for 222 yards, 3 TDs, no Ints. He was the NFL Offensive Player of the Week.

Chester Curtis had 101 yards on 5 catches.

Marcellus Wiley had a pair of sacks.

SS John Howell and LJ Shelton are fully healed. LJ has been playing for a while but John will start again.


Week 14 -

We host the 49ers and defeat them 13-10. Reche Caldwell caught our only TD. The Game MVP was MLB Terry Pierce with 10 tackles, 5 assts, 1 sack, 1 fumrec. Derrick Dockery had 5 KRB. Not a good offensive game, that's for sure.

TE Chester Curtis is out for a few weeks with another hyperextended knee.


Week 15 -

At 9-4, we have won the AFC West. Yet, the other three AFC division leaders all have better records than us - 12-1, 11-2. 10-3 for the other teams. We could conceivably go 12-4 and still be seeded #4. In the NFC, only one team has a better record than 9-4, and the next best team is 8-4-1, so we'd be the second seed in the NFC, if the season were to end today.

We host and defeat the Chiefs 28-25. Britt Clark rushed for a pair of scores, Kenyon Yamashita caught his first professional TD, Shane Prescott caught the other.

Our defense had very little pressure, not tackles, sacks nor picks.

Chester Curtis is questionable so he'll stay deactivated.


Week 16 -

We lost a throwaway game against Arizona, 35-31. Louie Stewart hit Ross Williamson, Zack Kirk passes 2 TDs to Ayi. Norman Ayi had 146 yards and 2 Tds on 10 receptions. Jamal Reynolds had a pair of sacks.

We have several injuries:

LJ Shelton is doubtful and will sit out the season finale.

Louie Stewart is out for the year with a broken clavicale.

FB Ross Williamson is out for the year with MCL surgery.

SLB Randall Snyder is out for the year with Reconstructive Knee Surgery.

SS Tank Williams is out for the year with a broken fibula.


I place the following players on IR - Louie Stewart, Tank Williams, Randall Snyder, Ross Williamson.

I sign:

FB Marco Rieke
SS Jon Wallace
SLB Jose Elliot


Week 17 -

We lose to the Raiders, 33-30. Zack Kirk hit Norman Ayi twice. Britt Clark added a rush on the ground. Norman Ayi set a record for yards in a game with 188 yards and 2 TDs on 14 catches! Reche Caldwell added 112 yards on 5 grabs. Andre Woolfolk recorded two picks. Even Zack Kirk had a good day with 378 yards passing, 2 TDs and 1 Int.

Injuries:

RB Shane Prescott, questionable

RDE Jamal Reynolds, probable.

Jamal will start, Shane will not.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

The Playoffs:

Wild Card Weekend:

At 10-6, we are the fourth seed in the AFC with our fourth consecutive AFC West crown.

Buffalo at New England
Chicago at St. Louis
Pittsburgh at San Diego
San Francisco at New York


Pittsburgh scores 15 on five field goals. Zack Kirk hits Chester Curtis for a 40 yard TD and Norman Ayi for a 17 yard FG. Chester Curtis catches the 2 point conversion with 1:21 on the game clock for a tie 15-15, and it's overtime. In overtime, Pitt hits their sixth FG and wins 18-15.

Zack Kirk was 25 of 40 for 311 yards, 2 TDs, 1 Int.

Norman Ayi, 9 grabs for 134 yards and a TD.

Chester Curtis, 8 grabs for 94 yards, TD, and a 2pt conversion

Our defense didn't do too much.


In other news:

New England over Buffalo, 31-12
St. Louis over Chicago 27-24
New York over San Francisco 36-33

Three very close games this week makes for good TV.


Divisional Champs:

New England at Jacksonville, 16-10
New York at Detroit, 19-17
Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 27-24
St. Louis at Tampa Bay, 14-17

Three more very close games.


Conference Championships:

New York at Tampa Bay, 17-31
Pittsburgh at New England, 34-10



NFL Super Bowl Matchup:


Tampa Bay Buccaneers

vs

Pittsburgh Steelers



Tampa Bay 14


Pittsburgh 31


Your NFL Champions, the Pittsburgh Steelers!!!!!



-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

End of Season Stuff:

No Awards for the Chargers


Stats:

QB Zack Kirk, 8 starts, 2030 yards, 13 TDs, 9 Int, 83.6 rating
QB Louie Stewart, 8 starts, 1540 yards, 12 TDs, 10 Ints, 84.6 rating

Almost identical. Zack got more stats because he replaced Louie in two games, so Louie really had 6 and 2 halfs games (7 games) and Zack 8 and two halves (9 games). Neither is that much better, statistically, over the other.


RB Britt Clark, 7 starts, 683 yards, 7 TDs, 4.0 ypc
RB Shane Prescott, 9 starts, 608 yards, 4 TDs, 3.9 ypc

Again, no difference. Britt Clark was an undrafted rookie 5 years ago. He's done a good job for us.


WR Norman Ayi, 76 catches, 983 yards, 10 TDs
TE Chester Curtis, 14 starts, 57 grabs, 647 yards, 3 TDs
FB Ross Williamson, 15 starts, 41 snatches, 241 yards, 3 TDs
WR Reche Caldwell, 10 starts, 38 grabs, 572 yards, 3 TDs
WR David Boston, 6 starts, 36 receptions, 376 yards, 4 TDs


A down year for every receiver due to the issues at the QB position. Reche had a load more yards per catch than David Boston.



DE Marcellus Wiley, 51 Tacks, 12 Assts, 16 Sacks, 1 FF, 1 FumRec
DE Jamal Reynolds, 11 starts, 37 Tacks, 12 assts, 6.5 sacks, 1 FF, 1 FumRec
DE Steven Neri, 5 starts, 25 tacks, 10 assts, 6.5 sacks, 1 FF
DT Bert Poston, 40 tacks, 22 assts, 6 sacks, 1 FF
DT Dean Nedney, 22 tacks, 14 assts, 5 sacks


Boy am I glad that I brought back Wiley. Steven Neri, an undrafted DE four years ago, posted almost the same stats as Jamal Reynolds in half of the starts. We brought a lot of pressure this year despite there being no major changes on our D-Line.


SLB Larry Gardner, 9 starts, 64 tacks, 15 assts, 2 sacks, 1 Int, 3 PasDef
WLB Matt Wilhelm, 49 tacks, 21 assts, 3 sacks, 2 Ints, 4 PasDef
MLB Terry Pierce, 7 starts, 50 tacks, 19 assts, 2 sacks, 3 PasDef


Our strength this year became a weakness due to extended injuries to Randall Snyder and Terry Pierce. We'll need to shore that up.


SS John Howell, 14 starts, 69 tacks, 15 assts, 2 sacks, 1 Int, 2 PasDef, 2 FF
FS Xavier Marschalk, 47 tacks, 14 assts, 2 PasDef, 1 FF, 1 FumRec
CB Andre Woolfolk, 14 starts, 45 tacks, 13 assts, 4 Ints, 7 PasDef, 1 FF, 1 FumRec
CB Dana Spatz, 11 starts, 39 tacks, 8 assts, 3 Ints, 2 Int TDs, 10 PasDef
CB Lewis Douglas, 4 starts, 46 tacks, 9 assts, 1 Int, 2 PasDef


John led the team in tackles with just 69. That's not a good sign. We didn't get too many picks either, and that's not a good sign. Overall, we still need to improve our defense, and finally when our D-Line played well, our LB Corps was decimated. Gotta get more help.


RG Casey Matthews, 30 KRB, 6 SkA
LG Dan Torrez, 28 KRB, 8 SkA
TE Chester Curtis, 7 KRB out of 13 KRO, 0 SkA

Chester had a good blocking year and I wanted to point that out. We don't run behind him much, but he has a great percentage and no sacks allowed when he stays back and blocks.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

More End of Season Stuff:

Score:

Team Performance: 74
Franchise Value: 46
Profit/Loss: 56
Roster: 92

Overall: 62


Balance Sheet:

Revenues: 82.2 million
Costs: 200 million

Profit: (117.8 million)


Our Stadium Renovations are complete! Our stadium is now 90,000 people big with 385 luxury boxes.

With the stadium renovations, our franchise value increases significantly, and our team is now worth 555.73 million - 25th in the league.

Our stadium has improved to 26th in the league. Fan support is still the worst in the league, and our economy is second worst.

Attendance plummted a bit more to 39,500 last season.


San Diego has risen to just -0.4% growth.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

I decide to make a change at the Head Coach position. I sign:

Rico Banks
38 yrs old
Off: VG, F, G, G
Sp. Teams/Def: G, F, G, G
Yng Tal: G
Skills: VG, G, G, VG, VG

With better playcalling ability than our current coach, and better motivation as well, Rico is a better head coach, right now. Plus, Rico is young enough that he could grow into the role. Additionally, we can sign Rico to a long-term deal now, when I have the chance to do so for a cheap price.


I sign Rico for five years.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Some interesting things around the league:

Wesley Walls is the head coach for the Chiefs.

Dexter Coakley was hired as the Defensive Coordinator for the Eagles.

DE Marcellus Wiley retired.

We are 5.27 million over the cap. This is the first time that we enter the preseason over the cap.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Heading into free agency, I take a look at our roster:

Our unrestricted free agents include Matt Wilhelm, Britt Clark and Andre Woolfolk.

I have to make a couple of decisions. So, with heavy heart, I set out to find a team willing to trade for RT Derrick Dockery.

Although Derrick is a great OT, amazing in fact, he just doesn't stay healthy. We need to cut somebody, and trading Derrick seems a good deal at this point.

I also cannot afford both Louie Stewart and Zack Kirk. One has to go, and I look for trade opportunities for both.

I trade Derrick Dockery to the Bengals for their fourth overall selection in the draft this year and Louie Stewart to the Seahawks for their sixth overall selection.

We now have three first rounders to replenish our roster with. I can make some adjustments.

Randall Snyder is undergoing massive surgery. We extend his contract by a year and dramatically reduce his 9 million cap cost, since he knows that he'll be out for a while, he's willing to cut the contract a lot.

We also extend:

MLB Terry Pierce by a year
TE Chester Curtis by three years
SS John Howell by two years
P Ethan Griffith by three years
RG Casey Matthews by four years

As a result of these extensions, we now have 18.43 million available in cap room.

Our draft is estimated to cost 11.52 million, so we don't have much room.


We need the following:

2x RB
2x FB
TE
2x WR
C
G
RT *
LDE *
LDT *
WLB *
OLB
2x S

I choose not to persue anybody until after the draft.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

According to our scout, here are the top players' positions in the draft:

DE
P
TE
FB
WLB
RT

I see three starters at areas of need among the top six players, so I am looking for DE, WLB and RT in our fourth and sixth overall picks.


Minnesota takes the DE (Damn!)
Phily takes the OT (Damn!)
Indy takes a DT


I draft WLB Dustin Clark from Washtingon State.

KC takes a DE

I take DE Randy Franklin from North Carolina at pick 6.

At pick 26, I look at the board carefully. According to our scout, the best non-kickers are:

FB
SS
C
C
WR

I could take FB, since Ross Williamson will likely be out for the season. But FB is hardly a priority. SS would set me up well for the future, but we just resigned John Howell and he doesn't look as good to me as other players. And the centers look weak.

So I select SE Kerry Hidy from Oregon.

In the second round, I take a look at DT and OT. We still have a need at each position. After reviewing the candidates, I take RT Mike Jells from Arkansas.

In the third, I like C Kyle Will from Arizona.

In the fourth, FS Gus Hochstetler from Ohio State.

Fifth - LDE Gerald Banks from East Carolina.

Sixth - SILB J.C. Linquist from Virginia

Seventh - MLB Mikey Acosta from Southern Mississippi



-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Our first rounders do not sign in the first barrage of negotiations following the draft.

We scored an A- in the draft.

I move Kerry Hidy to Flanker and J.C. Linquist to SLB.

I sign restricted free agent WLB Al Upshaw and FB Bennie Sargent.


I chase the following undrafted rookies:

QB Roy Sellers
RB Maurice Curtis
SS Omar Henson
RDT Jack Jobb
RT Brett Rachal
RG Andy Fong


And the following free agents:

FB Greg Abeykoon
TE Kevin Buckner
FL Donte' Stallworth


All of the players we made offers to sign with us.

I sign our three remianing rookies before camp begins.

FB Ross Williamson and Randall Snyder are placed on IR.

I release Steven Neri as we cannot afford his salary.

I sign, pre-camp, Britt Clark for two years and undrafted rookie K Clay Henson.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Post-Camp, I take a look at my rookies:

FL Kerry Hidy looks decent and may start for us. Definately solid, but nothing special.

WLB Dustin Clark has a lot of room to improve. Supposedly, he can be the best run stopping LB we've had in a while, great pass rush, solid man-to-man and zone, he's strong and can be a great play diagnostician. But, he is very green, and I don't know if he'll start or not at this point.

LDE Randy Franklin is likewise very green buts looks like he will dominate after he grows.

RT Mike Jells is a disappointment.

C Kyle Will is also a disappointment, although much less of one.

FS Gos Hochstetler is adequate at best.

LDE Gerald Banks is nothing special.

SLB J.C. Lindquist could eventually grow into an adequate starting player.

MLB Mickey Acosta is actually pretty decent for a 7th rounder, and after he develops he could be a decent backup and adequate emergency starter.

Undrafted Rookies:

QB Roy Sellers, nothing
RB Maurice Curtis, nothing
RG Andy Fong, bleh
RT Brett Rachal, backup
K Clay Henson, interesting, will need another look.
RDT Jack Jobb, backup
SS Omar Henson, backup


Kicker battle:

Clay Henson and Isaac Knight have the same accuracy potential.
Isaac is 20 better than Henson in power.
Henson is 50 better in kickoff distance
Isaac is 25 better at kickoff hangtime.

What I do here will determine who I cut.



Oh, by the way....




We sold 40,300 season tickets!!!



-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Post- Camp, I sign:

QB Nathan Oben
RB Allen Lovell (undrafted)
TE Xavier Page (undrafted)
RCB Dwight Runyan
RT Mo Goulet
LDT Jesse Shackelford


I release:

QB Lenny Clemons
QB Chuck Schnebele
RB Maurice Clemons
TE Earl Spano
K Clay Henson
LCB Keith Bailey
RDT Jack Jobb


I deactivate:

FB Bennie Sargent
TE Xavier Page
RG Andy Fong
RT Brett Rachal
RDT Walt Holliday
MLB Richard Gramatica
SS Omar Henson



I move LDT Walt Holliday to the right side


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Our Leaders:

RB Shane Prescott
FL David Boston
LT LJ Shelton
SLB Larry Gardner
LCB Adam Stoner


Front Office Football 2004
San Diego Chargers Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Kirk, Zack 10 QB QB 4 57 57 1 yr.
Oben, Nathan 14 QB 4 26 38 1 yr.
Sellers, Roy 13 QB 1 8 39 1 yr.
Prescott, Shane 24 RB RB 8 46 46 2 yrs
Clark, Britt 21 RB 6 26 27 2 yrs
Lovell, Allen 39 RB 1 13 23 1 yr.
**Williamson, Ross 22 FB 5 73 73 1 yr.
Abeykoon, Greg 20 FB FB 3 38 43 2 yrs
##Sargent, Bennie 44 FB 2 16 23 1 yr.
Curtis, Chester 83 TE TE 8 79 79 4 yrs
Buckner, Kevin 17 TE 3 42 48 2 yrs
##Page, Xavier 86 TE 1 11 29 1 yr.
Boston, David 89 FL 13 39 39 1 yr.
Stallworth, Donte' 87 FL 10 38 38 2 yrs
Hidy, Kerry 81 FL FL 1 37 59 4 yrs
Ayi, Norman 80 SE SE 6 71 73 4 yrs
Caldwell, Reche 82 SE 10 47 47 2 yrs
Shelton, Graham 50 C C 3 50 50 2 yrs
Will, Kyle 51 C 1 20 43 4 yrs
Torrez, Dan 72 LG LG 7 65 65 4 yrs
Dagostino, Luke 63 LG 5 37 56 1 yr.
Matthews, Casey 65 RG RG 7 67 69 5 yrs
##Fong, Andy 66 RG 1 13 37 1 yr.
Shelton, L.J. 69 LT LT 13 53 53 2 yrs
Long, Les 64 LT 3 30 45 2 yrs
Jells, Mike 61 RT RT 1 20 43 4 yrs
Goulet, Mo 76 RT 2 17 31 1 yr.
##Rachal, Brett 73 RT 1 12 33 1 yr.
Griffith, Ethan 5 P 4 78 78 5 yrs
Knight, Isaac 4 K 3 60 61 2 yrs
Franklin, Randy 93 LDE LDE 1 32 69 5 yrs
Banks, Gerald 95 LDE 1 23 38 3 yrs
Lang, Tracy 71 LDE 3 22 29 1 yr.
Reynolds, Jamal 98 RDE RDE 11 46 46 1 yr.
Nedney, Dean 99 LDT LDT 3 27 40 1 yr.
Shackelford, Jessie 75 LDT 3 26 41 1 yr.
Poston, Bert 94 RDT RDT 6 49 49 3 yrs
##Holliday, Walt 70 RDT 2 11 26 3 yrs
Pierce, Terry 59 MLB MLB 9 75 75 2 yrs
Acosta, Mickey 56 MLB 1 22 39 3 yrs
##Gramatica, Richard 91 MLB 2 15 26 2 yrs
**Snyder, Randall 90 SLB 7 67 67 2 yrs
Gardner, Larry 57 SLB SLB 5 48 48 2 yrs
Linquist, J.C. 54 SLB 1 19 41 3 yrs
Clark, Dustin 53 WLB WLB 1 38 79 5 yrs
Upshaw, Al 58 WLB 2 23 41 1 yr.
Spatz, Dana 33 LCB LCB 7 75 75 3 yrs
Stoner, Adam 47 LCB 2 18 39 3 yrs
Douglas, Lewis 28 RCB RCB 6 51 52 2 yrs
Cash, Chris 42 RCB 10 47 47 2 yrs
Runyan, Dwight 32 RCB 3 24 41 1 yr.
Howell, John 49 SS SS 11 57 57 3 yrs
##Henson, Omar 34 SS 1 15 34 1 yr.
Marschalk, Xavier 46 FS FS 2 40 51 3 yrs
Hochstetler, Gus 26 FS 1 25 44 4 yrs

$$ - player is in starting lineup, ## - player is inactive.

Players Under Contract: 55
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $119,000,000
Cap Room: $1,000,000
Maximum for New Player: $1,360,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $5,460,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $3,050,000
Cap Room Required Next Year: $113,970,000



-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Front Office Football 2004
San Diego Chargers 2011 Regular Season Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attendance Weather
Week 1 at Kansas City Chiefs
Week 2 MINNESOTA VIKINGS
Week 3 BALTIMORE RAVENS
Week 4 OPEN
Week 5 MIAMI DOLPHINS
Week 6 NEW JERSEY JETS
Week 7 at Denver Broncos
Week 8 at Buffalo Bills
Week 9 at New England Patriots
Week 10 OAKLAND RAIDERS
Week 11 KANSAS CITY CHIEFS
Week 12 at Chicago Bears
Week 13 at Jacksonville Jaguars
Week 14 at Detroit Lions
Week 15 at Oakland Raiders
Week 16 GREEN BAY PACKERS
Week 17 DENVER BRONCOS

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 40,300
Stadium Capacity: 90,000




-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

We go 2-2 in the preseason again and emerge with the following serious injuries:

MLB Terry Pierce out for a few weeks with a strained elbow.

Reche Caldwell, out for a month with a strained abductor muscle.

DT Dean Nedney, questionable with a sprained knee.


We are ready, somewhat, for the full season.


A few roster comments:

QB Zack Kirk has his opportunity. Although he has taken the majority of snaps for the past two years, we are handing the keys to him and allowing him to take the team out for a spin. We'll see how he does, but this is his contract year.

David Boston needs to prove that he is worth his lowered salary. He's only getting paid 1.7 million this year, but that is still too much if he cannot get the stats. He will be third on the depth chart while Reche Caldwell is out as Rookie Hidy starts.

We have a hole on our offensive line where Derrick Dockery once stood and we'll need to address it later because we did a poor job of addressing it this past offseason.

Although our linebacker corps has promise with Terry Pierce, rookie Dustin Clark and Randall Snyder (assuming Randall returns from surgery looking decently), our current corps features a very green rookie first rounder, a rookie 7th rounder specialist filling in for the injured Pierce, and an adequate player subbing in for the injured Randall for the long term in Gardner. Not exactly a LB corps that strikes fear into anybody.

Lewis Douglas, our starting RCB and former 4th round selection is the lowest player that I've drafted to start a season due to ability, not injury. 7th rounder Mickey Acosta, drafting 26th in the 7th round, holds the overall record this week when he starts in the place of Pierce.

Last year's first rounder FS Xavier Marschalk will need to pick up his game if he doesn't want to lose his starting job sooner or later. Last year was a disappointment and I expect a lot from my first round selections.

Speaking of which, I have all of my previous 1st round selections on the roster, although Ross Williamson and Randall Snyder are on IR for the season. Only Zack Kirk and Ross Williamson are int he last year of their contracts. If Zack plays well and Ross heals well, both can expect to be signed to future contracts, but both obviously have questions.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 -

We lose to KC 31-17. Shane Prescott rushed for a score and Greg Abeykoon caught a TD pass from Kirk. Rookie WR Hidy brokeout for 117 yards on 7 receptions in his debut.

Injuries that affect playing time:

LT Les Long out for 6 weeks

TE Chester Curtis, doubtful for 3 weeks

LJ Shelton quetsionable for one week

Mo Goulet and Mike Jells will start for us at tackle. An undrafted sophomore and rookie. Ick.


Week 2 -

We lose to Minnesota 19-38. Kevin Buckner caught our only TD of the day. Zack Kirk had another fine day yardage wise - 347 yards this week, 298 last week, but his 2:2 TD:INT ration leaves a bit to be desired. Xavier Marschalk led the team in tackles with 10 solos and 2 assts.

There are no additional injuries of importance. LJ Shelton is back next week.


Week 3 -

We lose to Baltimore 24-17. Kerry Hidy and Greg Abeykoon caught Kirk TDs. Kirk had a nice day going 19 of 36 for 215 yards, 2:0. Our defense just couldn't hold.

Additional injuries of significance:

LJ Shelton is out for a pair of weeks. This man is getting injury prone late in his career.

LDT Jessie Shackelford is questionable for a few weeks.

Terry Pierce will start the week after this Bye because I need him, a week before he should. Likewise LJ and Chester will start early.


Week 4 -

BYE. Healing


Week 5 -

We are 0-3 and we really need to start winning games, this team is meant to do that. We have the 2-2 Dolphins here at Qualcomm an that should be a good remedy.

Unless we lose 16-20. Dana Spatz returned a pick for a TD, his third for us in the year and four games that he has played for us. Shane Prescott rushed for a score and 109 yards on 25 carries. Zack only went 16 of 23 for 167 and 0:0.

Dana Spatz was not mentioned in the player of the week list despite registering two picks, one of which was returned for a score.

David Boston is out for two weeks.


Week 6 -

We lose to the Jets 20-7. Shane Prescott rushed for our only score.

I have no answers. We are not suffering from major injuries, we have more playmakers on the team than last year, we are a deeper football in many areas than we were last year. Sure, our RT sucks, but that's what you get sometimes. There is no reason that our team should be performing this badly. 0-5, what a mess!


Week 7 -

San Diego loses at Denver 13-28. Britt Clark rushed for our only TD on the day. 0-6.

LJ Shelton is out for five weeks or so.



Some stats after six games:

14 sacks (20th in the league)
-3 TO Margin (tied for 24th in the league)
522 rushing yards (31st in league),
138 rushing attempts (worst)
22 Times QB sacked (tied for the most, here that means we have allowed the most sacks, a bad thing)
14.8 pts/game (worst in league)
26.8 pts/game allowed to opponents (worst in league)
3rd Down Prcnt: 35.7% (26th worst in league)
53 penalties (5th most in league, again, a bad thing)


What is this answer to this?!?!

[Abe Sargent]

Editor's Note - GM Abe Sargent Fell Ill and was diagnosed with an ulcer. As such, the coaches on the team finished the season. The Changers finished the season quite strong despite thier unfortunate start. The finished schedule with all of thier scores can be seen below.


Front Office Football 2004
San Diego Chargers 2011 Regular Season Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attendance Weather
Week 1 at Kansas City Chiefs L, 17-31 81,200 Sunny, 66
Week 2 MINNESOTA VIKINGS L, 19-38 65,900 Sunny, 75
Week 3 BALTIMORE RAVENS L, 17-24 61,400 Sunny, 81
Week 4 OPEN
Week 5 MIAMI DOLPHINS L, 16-20 61,400 Sunny, 74
Week 6 NEW JERSEY JETS L, 7-20 55,900 Sunny, 71
Week 7 at Denver Broncos L, 13-28 66,200 Sunny, 43
Week 8 at Buffalo Bills W, 27-24 51,800 Rain, 36
Week 9 at New England Patriots W, 23-17 67,500 Sunny, 36
Week 10 OAKLAND RAIDERS L, 24-31 58,700 Rain, 76
Week 11 KANSAS CITY CHIEFS W, 31-19 59,500 Sunny, 75
Week 12 at Chicago Bears W, 23-13 52,600 Sunny, 68
Week 13 at Jacksonville Jaguars W, 24-21 59,100 Sunny, 54
Week 14 at Detroit Lions L, 13-31 65,000 Sunny, 68
Week 15 at Oakland Raiders W, 28-16 63,900 Rain, 64
Week 16 GREEN BAY PACKERS W, 31-20 55,900 Sunny, 64
Week 17 DENVER BRONCOS L, 21-31 66,800 Rain, 45

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 40,300
Stadium Capacity: 90,000



-Anxiety

[mmarra82]

That coach of yours saved his neck by finishing the season strong. It was not looking good for the GM who made the move to change coaches.

[Abe Sargent]

Yeah, it sure wasn't......


-Anxiety

[Peregrine]

Anxiety, just wanted to say I'm really enjoying your dynasty. For that strange season, it's probably due to the coaching change, sometimes teams respond in strange way to the presence of a new coach, new playcalling, etc.

[Abe Sargent]

Originally posted by Peregrine
Anxiety, just wanted to say I'm really enjoying your dynasty. For that strange season, it's probably due to the coaching change, sometimes teams respond in strange way to the presence of a new coach, new playcalling, etc.

I hope that it's a coach change issue - we'll see. I'm glad that you enjoy it!

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

End of Season Stuff:

Awards:

All League Second String Safety - John Howell


Stats:


QB Zack Kirk, 4103 yards, 26 TDs, 13 Ints, 61.6% completion, 90.4 QB Rating


Zack rallied in a big way and finished with amazing stats - and this is under the patch with QBs having normal years now. Fourth in passing yards, fourth in passing TDs, eighth in rating, Zack had a good year by all means. I might have to resecure his services.


RB Shane Prescott, 286 carries, 997 yards, 8 TDs, 23 catches, 122 yards


Shane has a servicable enough year for a stand in. Sooner or later we'll need a real RB, but as long as we get the same results as we did when we had LT, I see no reason to overspend for the position.

WR Norman Ayi, 70 catches, 1038 yards, 8 TDs
TE Chester Curtis, 10 starts, 46 catches, 493 yards, 1 TD
FB Greg Abeykoon, 43 grabs, 275 yards, 4 TDs
WR Reche Caldwell, 8 starts, 42 completions, 472 yards, 3 TDs
WR Kerry Hidy, 8 starts, 34 grabs, 578 yards, 2 TDs
WR Donte Stallworth, no starts, 35 catches, 714 yards, 5 TDs

Sort of a mixed pot in the catching game, but there were a lot of yards to go around. Assuming Hidy and Caldwell would have had each other's stats, I would have had over 1000 yards from the starting FLs and of course 1038 yards from the SE slot with Norman. Toss in a better year from Chester and a well developed catching ability from Donte and you have a solid year. Unfortunately, injuries hampered some of that plan.


K Isaac Knight, 23 of 33, 57 yard long, 37 of 38 PAT

Not a good year for this fellow.


SS John Howell, 96 tacks, 43 assts, 1.5 sacks, 1 Int, 25 PasDef, 3 FF, 2 FumRec, 1 FR TD
FS Xavier Marschalk, 63 tacks, 27 assts, 1 sack, 9 PasDef, 1 FumRec
CB Lewis Douglas, 61 tacks, 21 assts, 1 Int, 12 PasDef, 1 FF
CB Dana Spatz, 61 tacks, 16 assts, 1 sack, 4 Ints, 1 Int TD, 16 PasDef, 1 FF

Xavier continues to lag behind the rest in ability. Our secondary was numbers 1, 3, 4, and 5 on our team in total tackles in the above order. That's never a good sign. All were healthy and started every game, that is a good sign, however. John Howell had our best year performance defended against passes with 25.


SLB Larry Gardner, 92 tacks, 25 assts, 2 sacks, 2 Ints, 7 PasDef, 1 FF, 1 FumRec
MLB Terry Pierce, 10 starts, 60 tacks, 30 assts, 3.5 sacks, 4 Ints, 3 PasDef, 3 FF, 1 FumRec
WLB Dustin Clark, 48 tacks, 18 assts, 3 sacks, 3 PasDef

Nobody here shone, although Terry had the excuse of missing a few games due to injury. Hopefully Randall Snyder's return to the unit next year can light a fire.


DT Dean Nedney, 29 Tacks, 10 assts, 6 sacks, 1 FF, 1 FumRec
DE Jamal Reynolds, 46 sacks, 12 assts, 4.5 sacks, 1 FF, 1 FumRec
DE Randy Franklin, 27 tacks, 10 assts, 3 sacks, 1 FumRec
DT Bert Poston, 35 tacks, 15 assts, 2 sacks, 2 FumRec

Our defensive line was so porous giant boulders could sift through. This needs to be addressed seriously and swiftly. Rookie and high first rounder Randy Franklin was nowhere last year and definately needs to learn the job.


G Casey Matthews, 28 KRB, 4 SkA
G Dan Torrez, 25 KRB, 10 SkA
C Graham Shelton, 23 KRB, 3 SkA

As much of a hard time as I have given Graham, he didn't allow the rushers through. His run blocking this year was pedestrian at best, but his pass blocking was something to be admired.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Steelers beat Bucs 31-14 in the Super Bowl.


Score:

Team Performance - 34
Franchise Value - 43
Profit/Loss - 71
Roster Strength - 90

Overall - 57


Attendance last year: 59,600 (24th), 66.2% of capacity (worst)

+51% over last year


Franchise Value - Second Worst

Economy, second worst only to Jacksonville.

Fan Support - Worst

Stadium - 28th


Balance Sheet:

Revenues: 120,680,000 (+46%)
Costs: 178,630,000 (-10%)

Overall Profit: (-58,170,000)


Our deficit has decreased by half from last year, showing marked improvement.


A good enough year, managerially peaking. Now we head to the football side of things.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Two of our staff are out of their contract - our lead scout and offensive coordinator. We need replacements or to re-sign them.

I take a look at our offensive coordinator, with whom I have been most pleased. I offer him another 5 year deal and we'll see if he takes it.

I have become increasingly displeased with our scout, so I begin by looking for a replacement.

I decide to chase the Buffalo scout whose contract has expired.

After week one, we rehire our offensive coordinator, but the Buffalo scout re-ups with them.

I try the Tampa Bay scout but he rejects our offer despite not having any other on the table.

In the third week, I sign:

Lead Scout Jamal Lindsay
49 years old
Off: F, VG, VG, G
K: G
Def: A, G, A
Yng Tal: VG


Jamal is questionable with the quarterbacks but great everywhere else on offense. His defense is acceptable at best, kickers good, and he definately has an eye for the youngsters.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Donte Stallworth retired.

We have a cap this year of 122.8 million. We currently have only 10,140,000 under the cap available, thus meaning that we have to make a few moves.

We have a couple of high profile restricted free agents - David Boston, Jamal Reynolds, Zack Kirk, and Ross Williamson.

Do I franchise Zack or Ross? Franchise salaries for Zack are ridiculously high - 16 million. For Ross at the FB position it's an easier 2.4 million.

I franchise Ross Williamson and head into free agency.


The first thing I need to do is clear cap room. I have a powerful decision to make.

LJ Shelton has been a rock for our offensive line for years. Eight years, to be exact. During that time he has earned three All League Honors. However, he has lost significant playing time over the past few years to injuries. He is old, this will be his 14th year in the NFL, so he doesn't have much left in the tank. And he is the third highest salary cap hit on our roster. In addition, his playin skills have decayed with his age.

I reluctantly release LJ Shelton.

I also release OT Les Long.

I extend Britt Clark's salary by a couple of years.

I convert some of Norman Ayi's salary into signing bonus but not so much as to hurt the next two years of my cap, just enough to give me some relief this year.

I extend Dana Spatz's contract by three years and Bert Poston's by two.

After these machinations, we have 23 million in space available. Enough to chase a certain quarterback....


I offer Zack Kirk a five year deal with a market value contract. Let's see what he does.

I also make offers to NT Rien Long and RT Jimmy Garcia.


After a week, we are outbid for Rien, but not the other two. I submit another offer for Rien.

A week later Zack Kirk and Jimmy Garcia sign with us! Three weeks later Rien Long signs with Washington for less money! Bastard!

I wait it out until week 10 so that I can try to sign a few guys for less, if I decide to sign anybody at all.

I make an offer for, of all people, LT Derrick Dockery, who has been moved to LT with bad results. He signs with Indy a few weeks later.

I skip to the draft to try and find a few players there.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Heading into the draft, I need the following positions filled:

QBx2
RB
TE
FL
WR
RG
LG
LT *
LT
K?
RDE*
RDE
DT*
CB
SS


We draft 13th.

Pre draft, I am looking at a DT, three DEs, two RBs and a CB. Hopefully at least one will be left on the board.

At pick 13 I have a serious choice:

RB Ian McCormick, Mississippi, low volatility, high current ratings, higher on our board.

RDE Gino Robinson from UK, low but higher than Ian volatility, significantly lower current ratings, lower on our board and was 3rd best DE overall.


Gino or Ian? Ian is the better pick but we need an RDE bad. Does need make our pick, do we pass on the best RB we've ever had a chance at drafting?

I hate to pass on Ian and I hate to pass on Gino. Dare I pass by a DE when they are so expensive to obtain in another method? Do I have the luxury of upgrading my running game when our defensive line was so anemic last year.

BUT - our running game has never been anything special. Get Ian and it could be. We could take our offense into another stratosphere.

Ian, Gino, Ian, Gino, Ian, Gino....

Anguish.


I select Gino and hope that he is a good player, because if he is not, then this decision could come back and haunt us.


In the second I take RCB Dwight Crane from Army.

Third is SS Bryce Gonzalez from Maryland.

In the fourth I take K Harold Rathbone from Iowa.

The fifth sees me select LT Adam Marcum from Buffalo.

Sixth is QB Randall Rose from Arizona.

Seventh is TE Artie Bedford from Wisconsin.


We notched a B+ for the draft.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Post Draft, our rookies sign immediately except for Gino.

I sign the following restricted free agents:

LDT Dean Nedney
LDT Jesse Shackelford
LCB Dwight Runyan

I move J.C. Linquist to the weak side.

I hit free agency. I still need:

QB
RB
FL
WR
LG
RG
LT
RDE


I chase the following undrafted rookie free agents:

QB Thurman Pendleton from Oklahoma State
QB Daryl Dzarnoski from Army
RB Sammy Camudgeon from Robert Morris
FL Derek Cailleteau from UCLA
LG Leroy Hudson from Texas Tech
LG Bernard Muller from Florida State
LT Nolan Schwimmer from UNLV
RDE Adrian Ogbogu from California
LDE Conrad Floyd from UTEP


And I chase the following free agents:

SE Alfred Kelly


We sign all of the players that we pursued.

Gino Robinson signs before camp.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

I head into training camp.

We sold 37,700 season tickets. Need to have a good year this year to increase fan support.

Our leaders:

RB Shane Prescott
SE Alfred Kelley
LG Dan Torrez
SLB Larry Gardner
LCB Adam Stoner


Looks at our rooks:

QB Rose, Pendleton and Dzarnoski

All suck but Rose has the most potential.


RB Sammy Camudgeon

Looks good for an undrafted rookie.


TE Artie Bedford

Nothing.


FL Cailleteau

Nothing either.


LG Bernard Muller

More nothing


***** LG Leroy Hudson

Very green but appears to have a lot of potential. An actual player who is better than thought? Wow.


LT Adam Marcum, Nolan Schwimmer

Neither plays more than a deep backup. Adam might start due to lack of a true starter at the position.


LDE Conrad Floyd

More of nothing.


RDE Gino Robinson

Green but a future star if he develops as we think he should. Not as good as Ian McCormick, but ah well.


RDE Adrian Ogbogwu

Again not much


RCB Dwight Crane

A poor second rounder


SS Bryce Gonzalez

Emergency starter only after he develops.


I sign QB Bryan Lockett

I release:

QB Daryl Dzarnoski
K Isaac Knight
LDE Conrad Floyd
MLB Richard Gramatica


WR Kerry Hidy has busted a bit in his sophomore year and no longer looks like a legit starter.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Haven't gotten a chance to play as much as I wanted over the break - this is my first opportunity. Culdcept, for the PS2, is largely to blame, as I have logged 66 hours and 21 minutes playing the game.

Anyways, I'll hit this up a bit, maybe go play a bit o Madden and revitalize that dynasty. Maybe.

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Front Office Football 2004
San Diego Chargers Roster, Scout Overview

Player # Pos Start Exp Current Estimate Future Estimate Cntrct
Kirk, Zack 10 QB QB 5 57 57 5 yrs
Lockett, Bryant 13 QB 6 28 44 1 yr.
##Pendleton, Thurman 2 QB 1 11 37 1 yr.
Rose, Randall 7 QB 1 8 52 3 yrs
Prescott, Shane 24 RB RB 9 42 42 1 yr.
Camudgeon, Sammy 30 RB 1 30 35 1 yr.
Clark, Britt 21 RB 7 24 25 3 yrs
Williamson, Ross 22 FB FB 6 66 66 1 yr.
##Abeykoon, Greg 20 FB 4 46 46 1 yr.
Curtis, Chester 83 TE TE 9 74 74 3 yrs
Buckner, Kevin 17 TE 4 48 48 1 yr.
Bedford, Artie 85 TE 1 13 36 3 yrs
Ayi, Norman 80 FL FL 7 72 74 3 yrs
Hidy, Kerry 81 FL 2 44 52 3 yrs
##Cailleteau, Derek 87 FL 1 19 25 1 yr.
Caldwell, Reche 82 SE SE 11 46 46 1 yr.
Kelley, Alfred 84 SE 6 42 42 2 yrs
Shelton, Graham 50 C C 4 51 51 1 yr.
Will, Kyle 51 C 2 21 35 3 yrs
Torrez, Dan 72 LG LG 8 65 65 3 yrs
Muller, Bernard 74 LG 1 16 27 1 yr.
##Hudson, Leroy 79 LG 1 11 53 1 yr.
Matthews, Casey 65 RG RG 8 67 70 4 yrs
Marcum, Adam 67 LT LT 1 24 42 3 yrs
Schwimmer, Nolan 62 LT 1 13 41 1 yr.
Garcia, Jimmy 64 RT RT 5 67 67 5 yrs
Jells, Mike 61 RT 2 31 42 3 yrs
Griffith, Ethan 5 P 5 77 77 4 yrs
Rathbone, Harold 6 K 1 44 65 4 yrs
Franklin, Randy 93 LDE LDE 2 44 68 4 yrs
Banks, Gerald 95 LDE 2 26 38 2 yrs
Robinson, Gino 96 RDE RDE 1 37 70 4 yrs
Ogbogu, Adrian 77 RDE 1 17 31 1 yr.
Nedney, Dean 99 LDT LDT 4 36 40 2 yrs
Shackelford, Jessie 75 LDT 4 28 38 2 yrs
Poston, Bert 94 RDT RDT 7 49 49 5 yrs
##Holliday, Walt 70 RDT 3 12 23 2 yrs
Pierce, Terry 59 MLB MLB 10 75 75 1 yr.
Acosta, Mickey 56 MLB 2 24 39 2 yrs
Snyder, Randall 90 SLB SLB 8 59 59 1 yr.
Gardner, Larry 57 SLB 6 48 48 1 yr.
Clark, Dustin 53 WLB WLB 2 48 77 4 yrs
##Linquist, J.C. 54 WLB 2 20 35 2 yrs
Spatz, Dana 33 LCB LCB 8 74 74 6 yrs
Stoner, Adam 47 LCB 3 13 26 2 yrs
Douglas, Lewis 28 RCB RCB 7 51 52 1 yr.
Cash, Chris 42 RCB 11 45 45 1 yr.
Runyan, Dwight 32 RCB 4 29 40 2 yrs
##Crane, Dwight 40 RCB 1 16 42 4 yrs
Howell, John 49 SS SS 12 57 57 2 yrs
Gonzalez, Bryce 41 SS 1 19 41 4 yrs
Marschalk, Xavier 46 FS FS 3 47 48 2 yrs
Hochstetler, Gus 26 FS 2 25 42 3 yrs

$$ - player is in starting lineup, ## - player is inactive.

Players Under Contract: 53
On Active Roster: 46

Salary Cap: $122,800,000
Cap Room: $2,670,000
Maximum for New Player: $3,040,000
Cap Room Lost (to old contracts): $8,000,000

Cap Room Lost Next Year (to old contracts): $0
Cap Room Required Next Year: $125,720,000


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Front Office Football 2004
San Diego Chargers 2012 Regular Season Schedule

Week Opponent Result Attendance Weather
Week 1 at Oakland Raiders
Week 2 ATLANTA FALCONS
Week 3 at Tennessee Titans
Week 4 at Pittsburgh Steelers
Week 5 OPEN
Week 6 at Baltimore Ravens
Week 7 CLEVELAND BROWNS
Week 8 at Denver Broncos
Week 9 OAKLAND RAIDERS
Week 10 CINCINNATI BENGALS
Week 11 KANSAS CITY CHIEFS
Week 12 at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Week 13 NEW JERSEY JETS
Week 14 at New Orleans Saints
Week 15 DENVER BRONCOS
Week 16 CAROLINA PANTHERS
Week 17 at Kansas City Chiefs

Home Games in ALL CAPS

Season Tickets Sold: 37,700
Stadium Capacity: 90,000


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

A review of our starters:


QB Zack Kirk - Once the shamed first round selection of the Chargers, flung into the starting spot twice due to injuries to our erstwhile savior, Zack has performed admirably and been signed to a brand new contract. Zack now controls the keys to the Chargers kingdom. He passed for 4103 yards last year as the full time starter.


RB Shane Prescott - Another year for a marginal starter. We never focus on the run, so Shane doesn't need to be great. He doesn't even need to be good, just adequate. Just enough so that opposing teams can't gang up on our passing game.


FB Greg Williamson - Stats decreased a bit due to a prolonged injury but he is still starting caliber and strong. I need good blockers in my offensive scheme, and Greg is great at that. He's also a decent enough outlet for the pass.


TE Chester Curtis - With 114 starts for us, Chester is an amazingly good TE and a fixture for us.


FL Norman Ayi - Moved to flanker, Norman is still one of the best receivers of the day. Amazingly strong.


SE Reche Caldwell - A guy who keeps playing for us. He's an aged veteran who has held off competetion again and again, and will start this year in lieu of Kerry Hidy and his sophomore slump.


C Graham Shelton - Another first round disappointment with poor skills but amazing strength. Last year, however, with 16 starts, he only allowed 3 sacks and had 22 KRB, a decent enough year.


LG Dan Torrez - A solid and good offensive lineman. We still have him for three years on the contract.


RG Casey Matthews - Another solid lineman and a former second round draft selection of mine. We have Casey signed for four more years.


LT Adam Marcum - Definately a stopgap measure until we find someone new to start for us. This is a problem area with a major exclaimation point, especially considering that I need a good offensive line to run our offense.


RT Jimmy Garcia - A new free agent who looks to be pretty strong, leaving us one questionamrk and one exclaimation point on our offense. And two hispanics in Torrez and Garcia.


P Ethan Griffith - An amazingly good punter who I have no intention of ever replacing.


K Harold Rathbone - A rookie kicker with an average leg.


LDE Randy Franklin - One half of our new duo of rushing ends - I want to shut down the pass or punish my opponent for doing it. If our offense can score quickly through the air, and we can stop our opponent passing to catch up, then we can easily outscore the best running teams by making running a non-factor. Randy is a great end.


RDE Gino Robinson - Rookie Gino looks great but he's a bit green. He needs major development time, but could be a major asset.


LDT Dean Nedney - Good pass rusher, average run stopper, stop gap player for now.


RDT Bert Poston - Although this is Bert's 7th year with the team and his 6th year as a starter, he is merely adequate. Just good enough not to be benched or seriously gotten after replacing.


MLB Terry Pierce - Our solid middle backer and the heart and soul of our defense.


SLB Randall Snyder - Randall came back from an injury with a bit of a loss in his abilities. He's still starting caliber but no longer a stud. However, considering his company, our LB corps is still a strong point.


WLB Dustin Clark - One of last year's first rounders we acquired from our trades, he looks to be a future long range linebacker and a strong player.


LCB Dana Spatz - Three time all league CB, Dana is our only major player in the secondary, surrounded by average players and decent starters back there.


RCB Lewis Douglas - A decent corner and an amazing run stopper, which is a nice bonus. A former fourth round selection of mine.


SS John Howell - Good play man with a lack of play diagnosis. Otherwise, he'd be perfect. As it is, he has two all league honors to his credit because he has a tendancy to outplay his abilities, and that's the sort of player that I like on my team.


FS Xavier Marschalk - A former first round selection who is stinky and barely adequate. He may be the first of our opening stanza selections to be gone from our team.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

During the pre-season, Shane Prescott goes down with reconstructive knee surgery and will be out for the year. I place him on IR and sign Spencer Ferguson to be our third back. Undrafted rookie Sammy Camudgeon will start for us.


We go 3-1 in the preseaon, here are our other injuries:

MLB Terry Pierce is questionable for a week or two.

SS John Howell is probable and will start.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Week 1 -

We lose at Oakland 14-17. Chester Curtis caught a TD and Sammy rushed for one. Franklin notched a sack and a half. Harold Rathbone missed three stinking FGs and that's the game right there. He missed FGs of 47 yards, 28 yards, and 47 yards.

RCB Chris Cash is questionable, TE Chester Curtis is out for a week or two, SE Alfred Kelley is questionable for a week.


Week 2 -

We TIE the Cardinals this week. Norman Ayi caught a TD pass with 144 yards and Rathbone kicked three FGs. He still missed one of 51 yards, but that's an acceptable miss. Sammy rushed for 100 yards evenly despite being an undrafted rookie. Griffith's punting average was 49.6 yards - dang! Dan Torrez notched 6 KRBs. Terry Pierce led the team in tackles and also registered one of two picks - John Howell had the other one.

Zack did fumble the ball four times - not a good sign.

We have some more injuries:

C Graham Shelton is out for 12 weeks with a high ankle sprain.

Reche Caldwell is probable with a sprained thumb.

TE Chester Curtis is now probable and will start next week.


I slap Graham Shelton on IR. Backup Kyle Will isn't ready to start yet, so I go look at free agency. I sign Richie Pfeifer to start for us, he's a real decent center and I'm happy that he was available.


Week 3 -

We travel to Tennessee and lose 20-23. Reche Caldwell catches two TDs with 108 yards and Harold Rathbone kicks two FGs.

There are no additional major injuries.



I extend Randall Snyder's contract for two years.

Reche Caldwell were extended by a year.



Week 4 -

We travel to Pittsburgh and lose 19-27. Rathbone kicks four FGs and Norman Ayi caught a TD pass. Zack Kirk launched the ball for 313 yards, including 111 yards to Ayi and 98 yards to Curtis.


Injuries:

Dana Spatz is probable.

That's the only additional injury.


Week 5 -

BYE


Week 6 -

We travel to the 3-1 Baltimore Ravens and get our first win of the season 30-27. Sammy rushes for two TDs. Chester Curtis and Norman Ayi caught two passes. Rathbone kicks a FG but misses an XP. Zack Kirk launched 329 yards today.

Norman Ayi had 150 yards on the day, a pretty good day all around.

Injuries:

SE Alfred Kelley is out for four weeks with a strained deltoid muscle. Only major injury.



Week 7 -

Rathbone kicked four FGs as we host the Browns and win 27-14. His longest was 52 yards. Chester Curtis caught a conversion pass. Kerry Hidy caught one TD pass while Sammy rushed for a second.

Zack put up 324 yards and 1 TD (no picks). Yet no receiver had more than 82 yards receiving, showing that he really gets the ball around. Terry Pierce registered a pair of sacks on the day.


Injuries:

Terry Pierce is questionable but he'll start.


Week 8 -

We are 1-0-1 at home but 1-3 on the road heading to Mile High Stadium.

And yet we win, 31-28 to go to 3-3-1 on the season. Rathbone kicked a FG. Norman Ayi caught two TD passes from Kirk, including one for 69 yards, 131 yards on the day. Sammy rushed for a score. Reche Caldwell caught a score as well. Zack Kirk had 347 yards on the day but he tossed up 4 Ints to his three TDs. Robinson had 2.5 sacks.

Injuries:

SLB Randall Snyder is doubtful for a week or two and Gardner will start.



-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Week 9 -

We host six of the last nine games and we begin a three week homestand against the Raiders. Oakland is 6-2 and second in the division, so we really need to knock them down here when we have a chance.

Unfortunately, we lose 31-17. Britt Clark rushed for a score and Ayi caught a TD pass. We only turned the ball over once, yet the Raiders defense kept holding us. Rathbone missed FGs of 45 and 51 yards.

Injuries:

TE Chester Curtis is out for a couple of weeks with a strained patellar tendon.

Dana Spaz is probable. Randall Snyder is back.



Week 10 -

The Bengals arrive in town and we edge them out 31-28. Dana Spatz returns a pick for a TD. Sammy rushed for a score and caught a TD pass as well. Britt Clark also rushed for a score. Zack Kirk had three picks - another dangerous game.

There are no additional injuries. 4-4-1 and we need to make a run.


Week 11 -

We host the division leading Chiefs. We need to win overall our three game home stand plus we need to defeat these guys.

And we do. 34-17. Reche Caldwell, Norman Ayi and Kevin Buckner each catch TD passes. Dana Spatz returns another pick for a TD. Sammy added a two point conversion and a couple of Rathbone FGs.

Zack put up 330 yards, Caldwell caught 132 yards, Robinson had a sack and a half. Rathbone missed FGs of 48 and 48 yards.

Injuries:

SE Alfred Kelley is out for a month with a severe wrist sprain.

FB Ross Williamson is out for three weeks with a strained foot ligament.

RG Casey Matthews is out for a few weeks with a hyperextended knee.

We are 5-4-1. But, we are last in the division and have a long road to hoe.


Week 12 -

We travel to the 2-8 Bucs' home, but lose 14-3. Kirk lobs a pair of picks, our defense simply doesn't help us out and neither foes our offense and we toss a stinky game that was eminently winnable.

Injuries:

MLB Mickey Acosta is out for a few weeks with a strained calf muscle.

MLB Terry Pierce is out for a couple of weeks.


I need a MLB so I place Mickey on IR and sign Horace King, a second year man. He'll start until Terry Pierce can return in a week or two.


Week 13 -

We decimate the Jets 28-6 to go to 5-4-1 on the season. Chester Curtis caught a pair of TDs while Greg and Sammy rush for scores.

There are no major additional injuries.


Week 14 -

We travel to New Orleans and emerge victorius 23-13. Dana Spatz returns yet another pick for a score. Add in three Rathbone FGs and a Greg Abeykoon TD catch. Sammy rushes for 108 yards. Reche had 110 yards. Franklin had a sack and a half.


Injuries:

Reche Caldwell is out for three weeks with a strained calf muscle.

John Howell is out for three weeks as well with a hyperextended elbow.

Back in the starting lineup are Casey Matthews and Terry Pierce.


Week 15 -

We have moved up into second place in the division and need to keep clawing to get into the wild card spot. We host the Broncos -

but lose 27-13. Abeykoon caught another TD and Rathbone kicked a pair of FGs. Zack does paste 334 yards on the Bronco defense. Snyder notched a pair of QB takedowns.

Injuries:

John Howell, despite being questionable, will start this week. There is no more room for error folks.


Week 16 -

We host the Panthers but lose 23-17. Sammy rushed for a score and Curtis caught another TD.


There are no major injuries this week.


Week 17 -

We defeat the Chiefs in the final week despite it not mattering. We win 27-20 and go 8-7-1 on the season. Sammy rushed for a TD, Alfred Kelley caught a TD pass and a conversion. Chester Curtis also caught a TD. Ayi caught 116 yards. Franklin sacked the QB twice.

10-6 teams make the playoffs as wild cards in the AFC, not 9-7, so we needed to win both of the last two defeats in order to have made it.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

The 2012 Playoffs:



Wild Card Weekend:

Carolina at Washington, 13-10
Denver at Kansas City, 12-24
Houston at New England, 0-20
St. Louis at Atlanta, 10-15


Divisional Weekend:

Atlanta at Detroit, 31-21
Carolina at Arizona, 10-13
Kansas City at Baltimore, 22-37
New England at Jacksonville, 30-27


Championship Weekend:

Atlanta at Arizona, 17-28

New England at Baltimore, 20-17


The Super Bowl:


NFC Champion Arizona Cardinals

vs

AFC Champion New England Patriots


Arizona 16


New England 3


Your NFL Champions -

The Arizona Cardinals.



-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

2012 Year in Review:

Awards:

Norman Ayi, League's Fastest Man


Some Stats:

QB Kirk, 4439 yards, 59.7% completion rate, 23:16 TD: Int ratio, 84.5 rating

Definately a good year. Kirk was third in the league in yards passing behind Joey Harrington and Byron Leftwich. Only for QBs had 4000+ yard seasons this year. However, Kirk has got to toss more TDs.


Sammy Camudgeon, 248 rushes, 874 yards, 9 TDs, 12 catches, 80 yards, 1 receiving TD.

Proof that you can just about plug in any body into our running gname and have success. We got what we needed from undrafted free agent Sammy.


WR Norman Ayi, 80 catches, 1344 yards, 7 TDs
WR Reche Caldwell, 13 starts, 66 grabs, 940 yards, 4 TDs
TE Chester Curtis, 13 starts, 61 catches, 640 yards, 6 TDs
WE Kerry Hidy, 3 starts, 50 receptions, 649 yards, 1 TD

Norman had a great year and was fifth in the league in receiving yards. Reche would have had a 1000+ yard season if it hadn't been for the injury.


K Harold Rathbone, 28 of 38, 32 XP of 35 tries.

Although Harold cleaned up his act quickly, the THREE missed PATs are serious concerns.

P Ethan Griffith was 3rd in the league in punting average and kicked around 40% of his punts inside the 20 - the second best percentage among starting punters.


MLB Terry Pierce, 13 starts, 83 tacks, 38 assts, 3 sacks, 1 Int, 5 PasDef, 2 FF
SLB Randall Snyder, 15 starts, 75 tacks, 33 assts, 4 sacks, 2 PasDef, 1 FF, 1 FumRec
WLB Dustin Clark, 59 tacks, 16 assts, 1 Int, 3 PasDef, 3 FF


Dustin Clark has got to improve up to his fourth overall selection status. Terry's production has diminished, and yet he still leads the team in tackles despite missing three games.


SS John Howell, 13 starts, 80 tacks, 25 assts, 2 Ints, 12 PasDef, 2 FF, 1 FumRec
FS Xavier Marschalk, 76 tacks, 19 assts, 1 sack, 8 PasDef, 2 FF, 1 FumRec
CB Lewis Douglas. 66 tacks, 26 assts, 1.5 sacks, 1 Int, 11 PasDef
CB Dana Spatz, 56 tacks, 17 assts, 5 Ints, 3 Int TDs, 15 PasDef, 1 FF, 3 FumRec

Xavier continues to disappoint, three seasons of starting and no picks. Dana Spatz had a good year and continues to find the endzone after picking off the football - he has 15 Interceptions returned for TDs in his career.


DE Randy Franklin, 30 tacks, 8 assts, 10 sacks, 2 FF
DE Gino Robinson, 31 tacks, 19 assts, 6 sacks, 1 FF, 1 FumRec
DT Bert Poston, 53 tacks, 16 assts, 3 sacks, 1 FF, 1 FumRec
DT Dean Nedney, 39 tacks, 13 assts, 2 sacks, 1 FumRec

Gino is a rookie so his lack of production is explainable, and we've got to get at least one good DT in here.


T Jimmy Garcia, 35 KRB, 10 SkA
G Dan Torrez, 28 KRB, 7 SkA


Garcia had a good year and seems like a great pickup.


-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

End of Season Stuff:

Score:

Performance: 54
Value: 40
Profit/Loss: 56
Roster: 90

Year End Score: 56


The salary cap has risen to 126.6 million. We are currently 1.9 million over the cap.

A couple of our role players - Shane Prescott and Alfred Kelley retired.

Drew Bledsoe was inducted into the Hall of Fame.


Balance Sheet:

Revenues: 117,850,000 (down 3 million from last year)
Costs: 207,900,000 (up 31 million from last year)

Total Revenue: (90.05 million)

Our bonuses increased 20 million, scouting costs 9 million.

Attendance: 60,900, 67.2% of capacity.


We have the lowest valued franchise in the league, second worst economy, lowest support, and are tied for worst stadium.

I submit an offer to our defensive coordinator whose contract has run out. I'd like to retain him. However, I go shopping for a new head coach.

I decide to make an offer to the Cardinals head coach, fully expecting that offer to be superceeded by another.

Our defensive coordinator re-ups, and as expected, the Cards coach also takes a very high deal.

There seem to be several high quality cheap coaching candidates this year. I decide to chase a choach with experience - Wesley Walls, the former HC of the Chiefs.


And Wesley Walls signs with us the following week.

I increase our ticket prices significantly.


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[Abe Sargent]

We have the following major unrestricted free agents:

MLB Terry Pierce
RCB Lewis Douglas
FB Ross Williamson
SLB Larry Gardner
C Graham Shelton

Two of our former first rounders (Williamson, Shelton) are among those out of contract.

Should I franchise somebody? I'd like to franchise Williamson again except it'd cost me 3 million and we are already over the cap already, so I pass.

I take a look at our roster.

Norman Ayi is a 17 million cap hit and that is simply too much. Also big hits are Zack Kirk at 13 million and Dana Spatz, also at 13 million. A QB who tosses two consecutive 4000+ yards counting 13 million against the cap seems fair, to be quite honest. I take a look at Dana's contract.

We redo Dana's contract to free up some capital this year.

That makes Casey Matthews the next iggest cap hit, and we slash some salary, give him a bonus of 2 million and cut a lot of cap space. These two moves alone freed up almost 8 million dollars that we can use to draft. Now I'd like to free up a bit more cash.

We extend Dan Torrez's contract while also cutting a few salary numbers.

We are left with several smaller contracts that are hurting the teams as backups make 1.5 or 2 million against the cap? No way, we need to cut some chaff.

I release:

LDT Jessie Shackelford


Of our own players, I offer a contract to Lewis Douglas. Unfortunately, Terry Pierce wants a 20 million bonus and Ross Williamson wants a deal that will cost 5, 6, 8, and 9 million against the cap in years 2-5, and no FB is worth that.

We'll take a look at free agents and stuff later, but for now we have 12 million in cap room.


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[Abe Sargent]

I sign LG Leroy Hudson, last year's undrafted free agent suprise, to a three year extension.

I make a three year offer to C Graham Shelton. He's not great, but it won't cost us much to resign him.


I need the following players:

QB
RB* 2
FB* 2
TE
FL
WR
C*
RG
LT*
RDE
LDT* 2
MLB*
SLB
CB 2


I also submit an offer for DT Jamie Benton, a run stopping DT who can help us plug up the middle.

I'll hold off on the FB position for now, I just need a blocker and the occasional pass outlet, and all of the top FBs are simply demanding too much money.

Which may mean that Ross Williamson will be our first draft selection from the opening round of the draft to head to another team. Sometimes it's gotta happen.

My major quandary is the middle linebacker spot. If I can't afford to resign Terry Pierce, and I really can't, then I need to find a cheap alternative.

There are essentially four legitmate starting MLBs in free agency, and all are aging.

So I take a look at the draft. We select number 20. There is only one legitimate MLB starter in the draft with any hope of being a franchise player, so we can't look for help there.

I think that I really have to reserve my first rounder hoping that one of four offensive tackles falls to us and move on.

That means we need a MLB. I decide to pursue Gino Arnold, the worst and cheapest and youngest of the four free agents that attract me.


So then, we've made offers to a C, MLB, DT, and CB. Let's see what happens this week.

We sign Gino Arnold immediately, thus filling up our middle LB problem. We are currently the highest bidder on all three of our remaining targets.

The following week, Graham Shelton, Jamie Benton and Lewis Douglas all sign with us. Excellent.

We are 3.1 million under the cap. Time to trim some fat. I release:

LCB Adam Stoner
RCB Dwight Crane
RB Britt Clark

That frees up some more cash. More trimming will come, but only after I see what is going to happen with the free agency market and maybe the draft as well.


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[Abe Sargent]

So we are early in the free agency process, and looking at losing several important players like Ross Williamson and Terry Pierce. I decide to make a big splash and release DT Bert Poston. Bert has started every game for us for 6 straight years, but it's time to shake things up a bit. And free up over 3 million in cap room.

The following week, Ross Williamson was finally offered a contract and Terry Pierce signed with the Browns.

I make an offer to FS Mercury Schacht, a decent safety who is a fan favorite for the 49ers, who wants a fairly cap friendly contract. If he signs, I expect to release FS Xavier Marschalk, a first rounder selection of mine who has started every game these past three years but only has 19 pass defensed, no picks in his career. That's not first pick caliber, and I am disappointed.

The following week, Ross signs with the Bengals. Four weeks later, Mercury signs with us. Xavier gets his walking papers, being traded, and our second first rounder leaves the team.

I trade Xavier and our 7th rounder to Baltimore for their 4th round selection.

We are now 11 million under the cap and looking in good order.

I wait a couple of weeks then check out free agency to see if there are any bargins left.

Here are the deals that remain:

FL Skip Washington wants a very cap friendly deal. He's a solid receiver, just as good as Reche and Kerry, but do I need a fourth quality receiver?

QB Arnold Biccum wants 1.8 this year and 3.5 next year - he's a very good QB are could start in a pinch. A former first round selection who only started 7 games in his four year career, he's 9:6 in those 7 games. Finding a quality backup like this can often be a treasure.

RCB Nnamdi Asimugha is an aging but cap friendly backup with a good set of skills. He could be a solid nickel back or emergency starter.


There are a few other good deals, Bert Poston is one of the better deals left, but he wouldn't sign with us. TE Jimmy Hitchcok is the best free agent left, but we have no need there. A few injured players have some skills, but who knows what they will look like post-injury?

So, I have a CB, QB and WR to choose from if I want to go shopping. I take a look at my roster -

WR-wise, we are three deep, with Ayi, Hidy and Caldwell. QB-wise, we have a long term project in Randall Rose and our QB in Zack Kirk, but there is a definite need for a QB here. And we only have three CBs on the roster - another solid one would be very handy.

Hmm....

I make the offer to Nnamdi. I have to, we just have a need for a nickelback with decent skills. Before I make an offer to Nnamdi, however, I notice his history - he's missed 20 games in the past two seaons to injury? Nnamdi is an older guy, so I decide to look for a younger gentleman, and offer a contract to the next best corner, three years younger than Nnamdi.

I also make an offer to RB Brady Edmondson, a good looking backup sort of RB with decent skills and a very cheap cost - league minimum.

Alas, I choose not to pursue the WR and QB right now, I just don't have the spare cap room, despite their cheap costs.

Ronald Zimmerman, our corner, signs the following week. Brady Edmondson the week after that.

Several weeks later our QB and WR are still out there. Two more weeks pass, they are still both available. Same contract demands - 1.1 for FL Washington this year, 1.8 for QB Biccum

I can't find 2.9 in cap room for two good players?

We are currently 9.2 million under the cap with 37 players under contract. We have 5.3 in rookie demands. I need to squeeze every penny from this cap. But there are still bad players under contract.


I release:

RDT Walt Holliday
FS Gus Hochstetler

and I offer a contract to FL Skip Washington. He signs with us the following week.

I head to the draft while QB Hiccum is still available along with several other high caliber QBs.


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[Abe Sargent]

To recap our needs:

QB
RB*
RB
FB*
FB
TE
SE
RG
LT*
RDE
DT x 2
SLB
CB
FS


As always, I like to look for best available players to build my roster from. Players like Bert Poston and Lewis Douglas can sometimes rise from the depths of the roster to start for you.


Our scouts grade six players as exceptional - A QB, RB, G, C, DE and S. I doubt any will fall to me, but I'd draft any of them if they did. Additionally, we are looking at an MLB, who most likely won't fall past pick 10, several offensive tackles, a FB and a DT.

We pick number 20.

The first five picks go DE, RB, DE, OT, QB. QB Troy Bell, from good ol' WVU was the only star looking QB in the draft, although there are other marginal players who may get drafted highly.

We are on the clock and there are several interesting choices here:

The offensive tackles that are left that could start for us lack development. I could take an OT - a stretch with my first overall selection and I hate to do that.

I could try to correct one of my past first round mistakes - That studly Center and a fine looking FS are both on the board.

C R.J. Hoyt is a project. He has very high volatility and low current stats. I could draft him, start Graham Shelton this year, and make a decision next year.

FS Jumbo O'Neill also has a very high volatility with an average current development. He might even start over Mercury, our new FS signee.

Other great looking players include LG Mitchell Peterson, FB Howie Davis, and LT Kerry Early, he best OT on the board. Honestly, Peterson looks the best out of the bunch, but all three players are where I have starters. The worst starter is arguably Graham, but Mercury is younger. There are also two other fine looking centers that we can look at in the second round if FB Davis is gone and they are still there.

So it's not center. Therefore, I select FS Jumbo O'Neill, out of Washington.


In the second round, FB Howie Davis is still on the board. We were targeting him with this pick, and everything looks good. The first FB is drafted on the day.


The third round comes and brings with it LT Mickey McGhee. I fully expect McGhee to ride the pine, and I am crossing my fingers with this pick, it's a real gamble.


In the fourth I decide to try to end all kicking problems ever since K Darnell Simonain has fallen to us - the best kicker in the draft.

I use Baltimore's fourth round selection (pick 27 in the round) to grab C Quentin Vang, the best non kicker on our board.


In the fifth, I go for LDT Johnny Keisel, a run stopping specialist.

The sixth round is our last selection, and I draft LT Daniel Fite from Duke, but who was originally from West Virginia.


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[Abe Sargent]

I head into late free agency.

We sign all of our rookies on the first go around.


I sign the following restricted free agents:

RB Sammy Camudgeon
RDE Adrian Ogbogu


Traditionally, I make some decisions after camp, but this year, our cap situation is such that I need to make some cuts now.

I release:


C Kyle Will
T Mike Jells


I make offers to the following undrafted free agents:

FB Vincent Barnett
TE Perry Branch (who looks to be the best reeiving TE in the undrafted class)
LCB Patrick Stevenson (KR Specialist)
RB Hunter Blackwell
SE Brett Kelley
LG Hardy Banner
LDT Wendell Zimmerman
SLB Corwin Conway
QB Kelvin Tucker


We sign all of the undrafted rookies that we were chasing and we are up against the cap. More maneuvering will be needed, although we'll cut a kicker sooner or later. I decide to make it sooner and send Harold Rathbone - Mr. 3 Missed PATs and Lost Us Two Games is gone.


I make offers to undrafted rookies:

QB Jamal Henson
SS Ed Humphrey


And I head into camp with 53 players on our roster and only $110,000 available in cap room.


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[Abe Sargent]

Training Camp - let's look at our rookies. We'll start with the drafted players, in the order they were selected:


FS Jumbo O'Neill - Busted hard in bump and run defense, a bit green elsewhere but acceptable. How often do FS bump and run anyways?

FB Howie Davis - Goon enough to start for a few years, but doesn't appear to be that special FB we were hoping to unearth.

LT Mickey McGhee - Remember when we grimaced as we selected him? It was worth it - good for depth only.

K Darnell Simonain - I gambled with him. Poor kickoffs but great leg and accuracy. And I was right. Needs to develop accuracy but shows promise and has booming leg.

C Quentin Vang - I traded our 7th rounder and Xavier for the selection that became Vang. This was purely a best player selection, and it shows. Vang has great run blocking potential, but is very green, and will never be more than a specialist. But he could be an emergency stater after he develops and we could lean on him.

LDT Johnny Keisel - A selection purely for his run blocking skills, Johnny looks exactly like what we thought - a run stopping specialist with no pass rushing skills to speak of.

LT Daniel Fite - Our sixth round choice could grow into a decent backup, and may be on our team for a while if he can develop as a backup. A solid selection for the sixth round, and maybe our best sixth rounder ever.


Undrafted:

QB Kelvin Tucker - Amazingly green and poor long ball. Poor accuracy as well, but could really grow into something.

QB Jamal Henson - More well rounded but doesn't excel like Kelvin. More developed but also weak at accuracy.

RB Hunter Blackwell - Elusive specialist with no other major skills.

FB Vincent Barnett - Depth only and should be allowed to leave next year.

TE Perry Branch - Poor blocking skills evident. Pass catching skills not as good as advertised.

SE Brett Kelley - Was hoping to be decent receiver but looks poor.

LG Hardy Banner - No worse than any other undrafted rookie but nothing here.

LDT Wendell Zimmerman - Likewise, not much of a player here.

SLB Corwin Conway - Another poor backer, but not as bad as some we've had and a decent enough emergency plug in replacement.

LCB Patrick Stevenson - Very green and will only be a KR man, although we may look for another angle there.

SS Ed Humphrey - Nothing special, green, could eventually be a decent backup or dimeback.


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[Abe Sargent]

This dynasty is on hiatus temporarily while I reopen some older dynasties that have done well in the Golden Scribes voting.


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