Michael Lombardi Reacts to Brandon Staley and Tom Telesco's Firing 

Big Bolts fan. Colin Cowherd may be friends with Tom Telesco but he mentions that there are too many hands in the pot. I 100% agree that John Spanos is the root of the problem. How on earth did we lose Daboll when he was in the door recruiting his staff. Johnny Boy, I believe is the problem. Telesco grew up with Daboll, I believe too.

lynn was a better coach.

Lynn had a better staff

@@lilruseHe did and ex-RB coaches can find success too: Curly Lambeau, Dan Reeves, and, for Minnesota, Dennis Green.

Lynn’s problem was his time management and decision making in close games was awful. I loved him as a human being but he wasn’t ready to be a coach.

Lifelong Chargers fan too, all the way back to Balboa Stadium. Agree the Spanos’ have control problems but Marty’s firing is a bit different. He was fired by Spanos for insubordination by trying to hire his brother, Kurt, as DC. Right or wrong Dean didn’t want nepotism within his coaching staff. Hard to argue that if you do something you know your boss has explicitly told you not to do that you should keep your job. In fact, Marty may have engineered his firing. The result: He got paid $4 million to play golf. As for that 14-2 season, we all remember how that ended. Notwithstanding Marlon McCee, was that his boneheaded fumble (it was 4th down, he should never have even made the int) was made exponentially worse by Marty challenging the obvious and losing an invaluable 2nd half timeout. This ultimately forced Rivers to work a long field on the Chargers’ final drive with about a minute on the clock with NO timeouts! McCree’s fumble was not game losing. Arguably Marty’s challenge was or at least substantially decreased the chances the Chargers tied or won that game in regulation. It’s great Marty made it to the playoffs so many times. Not great was his 5-13 playoff record. As a Charger fan I hear the team should have never fired Marty all the time. My retort is asking what NFL team did Marty coach after he was fired?

@@johnhammond3730 I remember everything just as you describe. My only point is Marty was the last time there was any sustained success despite Marty’s flaws. And nepotism is rampant in the NFL, including in the Spanos organization. It takes nothing away from my point about control. Some NFL owners exhibit more control, some hands off, but the Spanos family seem to display that in their coaching hires. The boss telling Marty don’t do it, Marty doing it, it being normal in the NFL, and Marty getting a paid retirement out of it, is all aside from my point.

@@rustylidrazzah5170 No "sustained success" after Marty? Chargers went to the playoff 3 years in a row after Marty and actually won some of those games. Get real!!!

@@johnhammond3730 Norv was winning with the team Marty built. It progressively trended down up to this day after Marty. But you win. I’m wrong.

100% this.

Agree with Steichen as a fan. But…Caldwell?? He shouldn’t even be on the list

@@brandonmitchell6351He knows QBs well, and we know what a mess Carolina is thanks to David Tepper. Even Andy Reid would stink with Tepper. Also, playoffs with two teams and a career winning record and a Super Bowl appearance even if Peyton, who sucked before Caldwell arrived at Indy, was his QB.

Because Coordinators cant overcome this snake bitten organization. We been there and done that over and over for years. Its time to get an Experienced HC that have experience .

As a Chargers fan I wanted Steichen/Hamilton to stay!

Agreed. And many of his 1st round picks were luck of the draw, for example, Derwin James fell in the draft, and Telesco admitted he would have taken either Tua or Herbert.

Belichick’s game plan for defeating the 1990 Bills in the Super Bowl was taken by the Hall of Fame as a an exhibit. The Bills scored over 50 points in the previous playoff game. Remember that Bledsoe was still a decent QB when Brady became the starter. No doubt that Brady was huge in winning Super Bowls but they won the first 3 by 3 points each. Belichick’s defense: could adjust to play any way & took away what they did best. The Pats won a lot of close games because of Belichick’s coaching.

Brady was a 6th round pick backup QB. Let's say Brandon Staley was his coach. Do you think he'd have developed TB into the GOAT? Enough of this bashing Belichick (and believe me I am NOT a fan of his cheating ass) but you got to give him his due. Turn your statement around. How many rings would TB have without Belichick’s development of him? Think about it.

@@johnhammond3730 disagree wholeheartedly. Not a TB lover, but Belichick didn’t turn him into the goat, otherwise Mac Jones would be halfway to Canton now. I believe Brady would’ve won wherever he went, he was that driven.

Ekeler has sucked all year! He's a terrible running back! He's barely capable if getting 2 yards where he excels is catching passes out of the backfield! You act like the Chargers haven't been spending first round picks on Olinemen! They just haven't hit except Slater and even he's been so so this yr!

Last night showed how great Herbert is. This is a 2 win team without him. Hes the only reason the Chargers have been in as many games as they have over the last 4 years.

Don’t breed

There truly is no hope for dumbasses who can watch Herbert and see who he's surrounded by, and think he's not elite.