The San Diego Chargers needed a bounce back win after the disaster against the Atlanta Falcons last week and they got it. They’ve also gone 2-0 in the AFC West and 3-0 in the conference. That’s great. They need to keep that going, because they’re winning all the tie breakers at this time.

They travel to battle the New Orleans Saints next and you know that Drew Brees is going to play out of his mind (he still wants revenge on AJ Smith), so they needed this win as a confidence builder going into that game.

All those turnovers by the Chiefs were great for the Bolts. Some of those bungles were self inflicted by the Chiefs, so that’s awful for them, but like the Atlanta Falcons the Bolts were there to pounce. Antoine Cason and Donald Butler have great hands. In fact, I don’t remember ever seeing Cason drop an interception.

They need to keep it up next week, because the Saints can explode and they have weapons at all skill positions, plus this will be their fifth game of the season. They’ll be better than they’ve looked over the first few weeks.

Okay, the San Diego Chargers didn’t really dominate Jamaal Chalres, but with his two huge fumbles, he was pretty much contained. In fact, Charles didn’t do squat until the Chargers were ahead 20-0 and that was after a ridiculous red zone turnover by Philip Rivers that may have prevented the Chargers going up by a score of 27-0.

The Chargers did their thing with turnovers. It would be nice to see them continue this trend, but judging by how many turnovers the Chiefs have (they are now minus 13 in the takeaway battle) the Chargers can’t rely on this game as an indicator of their ability to force turnovers.

Still, guys were flying around and making huge plays. Donald Butler was a home run draft pick. AJ Smith needs to get credit for that. Vaughn Martin was another slam dunk. They’ll need to be on their game for the revenge minded Drew Brees and his New Orleans Saints next week.

I’m the biggest Ryan Mathews fan around, but when he fumbled the ball on the 2-yard line going in against the Atlanta Falcons, his stock took a free fall in my mind.

To me, a team can run all the fancy, complicated plays they want, but when the game is on the line in the fourth quarter, the team with the advantage is almost always the team with the fewest turnovers.

I understand that Philip Rivers is like a god to some San Diego Chargers fans, but not to me. When a single player is this careless with the football (three interceptions and 2 fumbles in the last two games), he can not be above criticism.

I’ve said it a million times by now. At the expense of making big plays, the Chargers need to protect the football at all costs. I’ll add this caveat, though. If the Chargers continue to turn the ball over anyway, then they might as well go down swinging.

These turnovers are ridiculous. Turnovers have a direct correlation to the discipline instilled by the head coach. Not the owner, not the GM, not the players, not the position coaches; the head coach.

Norv “Turnovers” Turner needs to pull out all the stops to put a halt to all the carelessness with the football.

One player on the roster who has proven that he can keep his hands on the football is Jackie Battle. In 221 touches during his NFL career, Battle has never had the ball pried from his grip. If Ryan Mathews fumbles again, it may be time to bench him and see what Battle can do against a fresh defense.

Battle is averaging 7.3 yards per carry, which seems inflated. Even if his average drops by 3 yards per carry, it’s still better than fumbling the ball at the 2-yard line on either end of the field.

Besides, Battle is a former Kansas City Chiefs (the Chargers’ next opponent) and would probably love to get a crack at the team that let him walk.