Quentin Jammer Blames Referees For Chargers Loss To Jets

The New York Jets rallied from a 21-10 deficit at halftime to beat the San Diego Chargers on Sunday by causing two turnovers in the fourth quarter and outscoring their opponent 17-0 in the second half. The stellar surge in the third and fourth quarters by the Jets seemed to signal Gang Green's emergence as the contender that bombastic coach Rex Ryan had proclaimed them to be.

The defeated Chargers, though, do not agree with this appraisal of the game. On the contrary, they don't the Jets had much of anything to do with the outcome.

Chargers cornerback Quentin Jammer, who was flagged twice for pass interference, was quick to blame the referees to the New York Post's Bart Hubbuch.

"No way it was called fairly. No way. Not at all," he said regarding the officiating. "It wasn't called fairly at all. Maybe I'm being biased, but I'm just judging off what I saw. It wasn't a fair game called."

Jammer then brought up the fact that San Diego received 13 penalties at MetLife Stadium after playing two straight games without getting flagged once.

Chargers tight end Randy McMichael also refused to credit New York.

"The San Diego Chargers beat ourselves, OK? It’s all about us. We took our foot off the gas pedal, and we lost because of it," McMichael said, per ESPNNewYork. "Their secondary isn’t anything. It’s our fault. It had nothing to do with anybody on their team. It's all about the guys in this locker room room, we lost the game. They didn’t do anything."

The anything that the Jets' defense failed to accomplish inclided picked off Philip Rivers twice in the fourth quarter and completely shutting out San Diego's offense in the entire second half. On the other side of the ball, Plaxico Burress had a breakout game, scoring all three of the Jets touchdowns.

When Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis heard about McMichael's comments, he pretended to not even know the tight end's name and said "whatever he's talking about is bogus."

Antonio Cromartie told Jenny Vrentas of the The Star-Ledger: "When you're up by 11 points in the fourth quarter, and you can't even finish the game up, that shows what kind of team you are: a team that can't finish."

Hmm.. perhaps Cromartie is also crediting the Chargers with their own demise.

Comments

[BrettCottrell]

01:44 PM on 10/27/2011

Tico the Steelers Dog says that "the Chargers suck and Norv Turner’s the coach, but I repeat myself."
Tico's a smart dog.
Brett Cottrell.

[Teddy Bloomquist]

09:47 AM on 10/27/2011

How could they be down 21-0 at halftime and win by outscoring their opponent 17-0 in the second half?.. C'mon, HuffPo.

[bayman]

01:21 AM on 10/27/2011

Call the waaaaaahmbulance.

[Edward Holt]

01:58 PM on 10/26/2011

I have one question for Antonio Cromartie. Can you please name all of your childen and their age in under a minute?

[avvocato]

11:46 AM on 10/26/2011

Any reference to "Gang Green" is a sacrilege unless it refers to the 90's Eagles defense of Jerome Brown / Reggie White / Seth Joiner, et al...

[DredLockRasta]

11:40 AM on 10/26/2011

yeah and the fact that the chargers were held scoreless in the 2nd half had nothing to do with the loss.

[TheCoopScoop]

11:12 AM on 10/26/2011

Chargers sucked. Plain and simple. Rivers sucked...plain and simple. And Norv Turner has sucked for a very long time...plain and simple. Rex Ryan is probably right - he would have won at least one super bowl with the Chargers teams of the last few years...FIRE TURNER!

[ResistanceisFutile]

10:38 AM on 10/26/2011

The Chargers, for the past ten years, have been a team of whinners.

[truthtim]

07:03 AM on 10/26/2011

inclided?

[AllenD]

01:15 AM on 10/26/2011

The refs were horrible but the Chargers choked that game away. Stop making excuses and show some character Bolts.

[huffyISaHottie]

12:06 AM on 10/26/2011

NFL refs are horrid.

[Geoffrey Cunningham]

11:26 PM on 10/25/2011

Rivers had another awful game. So did the Refs. That was the worst I've seen since Hocules and Denver. Either way, I'd pick San Diego over the Jets any day still. The Jets are such a crap team. Seems like every win they have is just a team handing it to them. If Miami even had an ounce of an offense they would have beat them, and they're winless... Whatever. As long as the Jets have Cromartie on D and Sanchez at Q... they ain't goin anywhere.

[Lefty88]

09:02 PM on 10/25/2011

"...they don't the Jets had anything to do with the outcome." And later, a paragraph that starts with what can best be described as a Frankensentence.

HP, is it really that difficult to find people willing to proofread BEFORE this stuff gets posted?

As for the game, it's hard to beat the opponents and the refs when the pendulum swings like that. I'm not a Chargers fan, but it did seem a bit lopsided in a zebra sort of way. That said, if a questionable call or two is what comes between a team and a win, the team wasn't doing a good enough job to begin with. They had opportunities to put it away, but faltered on their own.

[TexRex96]

05:49 PM on 10/25/2011

Any serious Charger fan following them this year will be embarrassed by this story. Jammer may be right, but McMichael is more right. After taking much heat for their lousy 9-7 season last year, they've continued to beat themselves with poor play this season. Chargers fans knew we were lucky to be 4-1 entering the Jets game. Given they had two weeks to prepare from the bye, they looked especiallly bad Sunday. Two more INTs for Rivers, Cason scorched three times, and a pathetic last-minute drive plagued by laughably awful clock management.

The Chargers had every chance to win this game, even with the bad calls against them. The fact that the players are focused on the external factors, as usual, reflects the poor preparedness and coaching that has plagued them throughout the Norv Turner era. Jammer needs to shut his trap and work on being a better cornerback next week.

[benji85]

08:21 PM on 10/25/2011

At the end of the day they didn't score in the second half and that's on them.

[AllenD]

01:18 AM on 10/26/2011

This Charger fan thinks Rex Ryan was right. They very well could have a ring or two if they would have hired Ryan instead of Norv. Instead, they let that talent go down the drain and will be lucky to make the playoffs this year. I wish once they would over perform and beat a more talented team but that will never happen under Norv.

[benji85]

05:44 PM on 10/25/2011

Might want to re-read the article, there are a few mistakes.