Quentin Jammer: “Week in and week out, teams are going to try to find out ways to beat you, and Dallas will definitely be looking at Cleveland.”
December 8, 2009 – 5:00 am by Bunk
The final score wasn’t exactly glamorous, but when the dust settled on Sunday, the San Diego Chargers had won their seventhconsecutive game to improve to 9-3. By beating the Browns 30-23, the Chargers also retained their one game lead over the Denver Broncos in the AFC West, as well as kept pace with the Cincinnati Bengals for the second best overall record in the AFC. The Browns mustered two late touchdown passes in the 4th quarter when the game was out of reach, but something tells me the Chargers defense will use that late surge by Cleavland’s usually defunct passing game as motivation to keep getting better as the 2009 season hits the home stretch.
Chargers defensive back Quentin Jammer joined XX 1090 in San Diego to talk about his Texas Longhorns being in the BCS Title Game, how tough it is to put together a 7 game winning streak in the NFL, why he thinks the Chargers defense exposed some of their weaknesses against Cleveland, and how he thinks it’s no big deal that they’re going up against former San Diego defensive coordinator Wade Phillips next weekend when the Chargers take on the Cowboys.
On what his early gut tells him will play out when his alma mater Texas plays Alabama for the BCS National Championship:
“My early gut tells me Texas is going to bring home another National Championship.”
On if he got a chance to watch his Longhorns win the Big 12 Championship Game:
“Yeah I got a chance to watch it and I was nervous, very nervous, in my room watching that game. But the thing is, what people got to realize is the Big 12 is a very competitive conference. So, you get in those title games, Nebraska’s not going to just lay down because it’s Texas. They were going to put up a fight, and they have a great defense. And that D-Tackle, Suh, he’s a beast man. He showed play in and play out that he was going to be a difference maker. And I think he was the difference maker in that game. That’s why it was so hard for Texas to move the ball.”
On if the the Chargers are upset they didn’t beat Cleveland by more or if the collective mood around the team is more one of excitement that they’ve won 7 in a row:
“It’s very hard to do no matter who you play. We’ve said and everybody’s said it and it’s kind of a cliched thing but there is a lot parity in the NFL and it holds true. You know, any team on any given Sunday can beat you. And the thing about Sunday is we always beat ourselves, because a lot of stuff we’ve been working on, day one coverages, we blew a lot of those coverages and they moved the ball pretty well on us. But kudos to them for their game plan and they did a great job at executing their game plan. But at the same time, we made a lot of mistakes in that game. We need to get them corrected because week in and week out, teams are going to try to find out ways to beat you, and Dallas will definitely be looking at Cleveland.”
On his tendency to cramp up during cold weather games:
“No, what I think tends to happen is because it’s a cold weather game, you tend to forget to drink fluids because it’s cold, you know. In hot weather games, you know you’re going to sweat, and you have to hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. In cold weather games, you tend to forget about it. So, like I said, I just get an IV before cold weather games and I’ll be alright.”
On going up against the Cowboys and Wade Phillips – who used to coordinate San Diego’s defense – next weekend in Dallas:
“No, I don’t think he has an advantage. I think he knows our strengths and weaknesses, but a lot of things since he’s left have changed. So, you know, like I said, he knows all our strengths and weaknesses, but we’ve all changed, grown up and some of our weaknesses have changed too.”
Listen here to Jammer with Darren Smithon XX 1090 in San Diego
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