I'll make a prediction.... Rivers, Tomlinson and Gates will play next week, and the Chargers will play New England a lot tougher than you think.
It's easy to blame the Colts defense, however, the Chargers showed a whole lot of things that they don't normally do...some of which they never do. you can't prepare for what you've never seen them do.
Remember this too...the offensive side of the ball is the Colts strength. The Chargers defense was inspired. Merriman was an beast, Stephen Cooper was incredible, and Antonio Cromartie is scary.
It would be great if the Pats thought that those guys WOULDN’T be playing, and then they did at the last minute —or however long you HAVE to let another team know that your guys are on the roster. They, they will have to come up with two game plans to try and beat you. Sofaman, I truly think that we wone BECAUSE there was no LT. Back to game plans again. We had to play different than expected because we weren’t building the world around LT. They didn’t know WHAT to expect for the same reasons. I think that helped.