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Getty Images The two L.A. teams got together to practice over the past couple of days. On Saturday, the Chargers defense apparently got the better of the Rams offense. “We were sluggish,” Rams coach Sean McVay told reporters. “I thought it seemed like the defense had good energy, offensively...

Getty Images The Chargers have brought a couple of new offensive linemen into training camp. The team announced on Friday afternoon that they have claimed Larry Allen Jr. off of waivers and signed Jamar McGloster as a free agent. Allen signed with his father’s former team in Dallas as an...

Getty Images Chargers running back Melvin Gordon reportedly has asked for a trade. OK, so who will trade for him? It’s a two-step process that will require a team to be willing both to give the Chargers acceptable trade compensation, and to pay Gordon the contract that the Chargers currently...

Melvin Gordon remains out of training camp, wanting a new deal that pays him more than the $10 million the Chargers are offering or a trade. Meanwhile, training camp goes on without him. Gordon’s backups Austin Ekeler and Justin Jackson are taking advantage of Gordon’s absence. “Definitely...

Getty Images It’s the height of #DelusionSZN. Which makes it difficult, to say the least, to say anything that would burst the Super-Bowl-or-burst bubble of any of the league’s 32 teams, especially those 12 teams that went to the playoffs. But we did it anyway, in a recent edition of PFT Live...

Getty Images At last report, the Chargers and Melvin Gordon were still significantly apart in terms of contract value. And Gordon may be realizing he’ll never close that gap with the Chargers. According to Josina Anderson of ESPN, Gordon’s agent asked the Chargers to trade the veteran running...

Getty Images The Chargers wanted to add a new defensive lineman to their roster and they settled on one with the right name for the job. The team announced the signing of Dee Liner on Thursday. Tight end Daniel Helm was waived to open a spot on the roster. While Liner has the moniker for the...

Getty Images The Collective Bargaining Agreement gives players under contract an absolute right to hold out, as long as they are willing to risk owing fines in the amount of $40,000 per day (for most players). The CBA includes another important wrinkle for players who have not yet qualified for...

Rodney Harrison entered the Patriots Hall of Fame on Monday. If future Hall of Fame coach Bill Belichick has his way, Harrison eventually will enter the Pro Football Hall of Fame, too. “I hope through the years here and soon hopefully there will be other Patriots in the NFL Hall of Fame,”...

Getty Images Keith Lincoln, a Chargers running back who in the 1963 American Football League Championship Game put on one of the greatest postseason performances in pro football history, has died at the age of 80. Drafted in 1961 by both the Bears in the NFL and Chargers in the AFL, Lincoln...

Getty Images Whenever players under contract choose not to show up for training camp, management-side mouthpieces routinely lament the fact that the player has chosen to violate the terms of his agreement. But there are two agreements that apply to every NFL player: The agreement between player...

Getty Images The Chargers have dropped one of their 2018 draft picks from the roster. The team announced on Sunday that they have waived wide receivers Dylan Cantrell and Fred Trevillion with injury designations. Wideouts Malachi Dupre and Jordan Smallwood joined the team in corresponding...

Getty Images Chargers defensive end Joey Bosa has avoided injury through the first few practices of training camp and that’s a nice change of pace from last year. Bosa hurt his foot early in camp last year and what was initially deemed a minor injury wound up keeping him out for the first nine...

Amari Cooper has seen reports that the Saints and Michael Thomas are close to a deal that will make Thomas the highest-paid receiver in the game at somewhere between $19 million and $20 million a season. In contract talks of his own with the Cowboys, Cooper shrugs. “I don’t even think about it...

Getty Images Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers is heading into the final year of his contract, but he’s not in any hurry to get an extension. Rivers, who has an $11 million salary and $5 million roster bonus this year, said on SiriusXM NFL Radio that he is fully prepared to play out 2019 and...

Getty Images Chargers running back Melvin Gordon is holding out for a new contract. The Chargers and Gordon are talking about that new contract. But they still have a lot more talking to do. Charles Robinson of Yahoo Sports reports that the Chargers and Gordon are $2 million to $3 million per...

Getty Images Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers got extremely close to, if not on the wrong side of, the line that warns football players not to get between a teammate and his money. The subject of the remarks, Chargers running back Melvin Gordon, noticed. And reacted. “Wild right!” Gordon...

Getty Images If Melvin Gordon continues to hold out, it could get expensive for him. It may be a price he’s willing to pay. According to Adam Schefter of ESPN, there is “mounting pessimism” that the Chargers running back will be showing up to training camp anytime soon, and that his absence...

Getty Images Melvin Gordon, who is holding out of Chargers camp in search of a new contract, says a great running back can’t be replaced. Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers may not agree with that. Although Rivers made a point of saying that Gordon is a good teammate, he also said that the...

Getty Images For most of the players who will hold out from training camp despite being under contract, the cost (if enforced by the team) becomes $40,000 per day in fines. For Chargers running back Melvin Gordon, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that Gordon will rack up daily...