Chargers’ Run Game Lost In Witness Protection

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Published: November 9, 2009

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... television episode, it would require an update on the fate of the courageous heroes. Out on the town on a Saturday night, and there would be no need for it to avoid publicity seekers, gawkers, or paparazzi.

It’s the Chargers running game, and while not yet extinct, it’s about as effective as a leather helmet.

A once proud unit that featured LaDainian Tomlinson chewing up yards and spitting out touchdowns behind the human blocking sled of Lorenzo Neal is now an afterthought which can barely break the line of scrimmage.

Where game sheets once revealed stats like 192 now are barely visible with numbers like 22.

That 192, you may ask, was LT’s rushing total against the Giants in 2005. Of course, that was under the cloud-of-dust style of head coach Marty Schottenheimer and a season in which a younger-legs Tomlinson gained more than 1,400 yards on the ground and produced 18 rushing touchdowns.

In the Chargers’ 21-20 victory at the Meadowlands on Su...

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