DeSean Jackson vs. Incompetence

The Chargers' special teams unit gave up a kick return touchdown and punt return touchdown to Eddie Royal, who isn't actually a good NFL receiver. DeSean Jackson is one of only a handful of players' with explosiveness and open field prowess of our own Darren Sproles. That spells trouble for the Chargers. Now in all fairness the unit was better against the Giants, but the New York kick returner is Domenik Hixon, a third or fourth string receiver at the moment depending on the mood of Hakeem Nicks (so by no means a Sproles or Jackson). Once again, trouble for the Special Teams.

The scariest part of this is the organization's almost-admittance that it's a problem. The headline on Chargers.com currently is "Chargers will need special effort against Eagles." This, for those of you not in tune with the ever-optimistic tune of the team mandated website, this is code for "Oh boy I hope we can hold DeSean without an embarrassing special teams TD."

But if you're looking for a point of optimism here (and God knows I am), it's Mike Tolbert. The man who couldn't measure up to Lorenzo Neal has become a kick coverage monster, regularly supplying big hits and key blocks on Special Teams. We'll see this week if Tolbert can continue to make plays, but my money's on DeSean Jackson making at least one game-changing play on Sunday. Sorry.