SAN DIEGO - Philip Rivers and the San Diego Chargers saved their season and got some separation in the wild-card race with a thrilling comeback victory at Baltimore.
Nationals Trevor Gott Jersey .While moving into the AFCs No. 5 playoff spot, the playoff push only gets tougher for the Chargers (8-4).Up next is a home game against Tom Brady and the New England Patriots (9-3), who will practice in San Diego this week after losing at Green Bay on Sunday.After that is a home game against AFC West-leading Denver and road games against San Francisco and Kansas City.Every game will have playoff implications.As packed as everyone is, as close as our division is, and the AFC North is, theres a lot of teams that you could say are in a playoff mode, outside linebacker Jarret Johnson said Monday. I dont know if thats what I need to be saying, but thats reality.San Diego trails the Broncos by one game.The Chargers reached the playoffs last year by winning their final four games and getting help from Baltimore and Miami, which each lost their final two games.This December will be tougher for the Chargers than last December.Its what its all about. You want to be good in this league, youve got to beat the best, Johnson said. Weve got a tough road ahead of us, but were not worried about the four games, were worried about one game, the Patriots. Thats all we can control right now.The Patriots and Brady are an extremely hard team to play against, especially defensively, the way they attack weakness and his ability to control a game is unbelievable, Johnson said. Its going to be fun. Its going to be on a big stage. Its going to be a challenge.And the Chargers are happy they have Rivers.Down by 10 points with just more than six minutes to go, the Chargers rallied behind Rivers to beat the Ravens 34-33 on Sunday and extend their winning streak to three games.Rivers threw for 383 yards and three touchdowns, including the winning 1-yarder to Eddie Royal with 38 seconds left.It was a crazy game, as usual. Im just thankful we have Philip as our quarterback, wideout Malcom Floyd said. He did a great job of orchestrating a great drive and we got a win. It was a great plane ride home, too, unlike the Miami game.The Chargers last loss was a 37-0 stinker at Miami on Nov. 2.Johnson and Floyd said the win at Baltimore boosted the Chargers confidence.When you have a quarterback like we have, weve got a chance every week, and he was incredible yesterday, Johnson said.___Follow Bernie Wilson on Twitter at
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Nationals Jimmy Cordero Jersey. In the first season after Beckham left the Galaxy, regular-season ratings dropped from an average of 180,000 viewers to 170,000, according to Nielsen Media Research. However, viewers for the playoffs not including the final have increased from 240,000 to 270,000. "We did a heat map of the MLS broadcast schedule against that of the EPL, two other European leagues and the four other major leagues in this country, and you get dizzy looking at the MLS schedule," Garber said. "What we need to have is a consistent game of the week or games of the week that run from the beginning of year to the end of the year as much as we can at consistent times. And if that can be a Friday or a Saturday or a Sunday, that would be a positive." In its first season televising the English Premier League under a $250 million, three-year contract, NBCSN is averaging 429,000 for games televised in the U.S. mostly on weekend mornings. Nine games on NBC are averaging 788,000. "I think what NBC did for the Premier League is unprecedented in the history of pro sports. They really took the Premier League and made it as important as anything that was going on in the NBC Universal family, and its paying off in ratings and its certainly making economic sense for them," Garber said. "So if were able to create that kind of a scenario with a broadcaster, I think it would be beneficial for us." Garber also went into detail on the leagues examination of whether to switch its March-to-December schedule to the international calendar, which runs from August until May. MLS discussed playing from July until December, taking a break and finishing from late February until May. "Its not just about are we going to play a few more games in cold-weather markets at an earlier time of the year. Its about what do we do with an extended break, because I dont care what market it is, were not playing in February and in January in places like Toronto, Vancouver," he said. "We went through some fairly extensive discussions as a league to figure out if we could do this sometime in the future. It wouldnt have been for 14. But thats not something that were going to do in the short-term." He also promised more transparency in the leagues complex and opaque player control rules, which make if difficult at times to determine which teams control rights. "We are still evolving," he said. "and we still are doing some of this stuff on the fly."
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