New England Patriots vs San Diego Chargers Sunday Night Football: The Patriots are (3-1) coming off a win last week on the road to San Francisco, 30-21.  Faulk rushed for two scores, Cassel had 259 yards passing, 1 TD and 2 INT's.  The Patriots are not the same team without Tom Brady, any NFL fan or handicapper knows that.  This game's worth staying up for Sunday night.  New England needs to keep the pressure on Buffalo in the standings by winning while the Bills have the week off, and San Diego's chasing Denver. The sports odds posted by the oddsmakers at Sportsbook.com currently list San Diego Chargers -5 favorites to New England Patriots heading into this matchup.

"Being able to connect on that deep ball, I think it was good," Moss said. "That's something that we've been missing in our repertoire the past couple of weeks."

The Chargers (2-3) lost last week on the road to Miami, 17-10.  The Chargers remained winless in six visits to Miami since a memorable overtime playoff victory in January 1982.  The Chargers were supposed to be a great team this year and everyone was talking about them making it all the way to the Superbowl.  They just have not been good enough. In fact, they seem to be taking for granted the fact that they are being annointed as the heir apparent to New England’s AFC throne.  The online sports betting odds at Sportsbook.com has the OVER/UNDER in this New England Patriots vs San Diego Chargers game is set at 44.5 points.

"Make no mistake about it: This is a critical time for our football team," San Diego's LaDainian Tomlinson said. "These next (three games) before the bye are very critical for us. To me, this is going to determine what type of team we're going to be this year." 

Sunday Night Football: San Diego has the double revenge factor in this game losing the past two years to New England in the AFC championship game.  Chargers HC Norv Turner is 16-30 ATS at home off a loss. HC Bill Belichick’s teams are 17-7 ATS as underdogs of 3.5-9.5 points.  This would have been one of the "A" games you circled on the schedule during the preseason.  Now it has been reduced to a second tier game.  Oh well, maybe San Diego will have a legitimate shot at actually pulling this one out this time around.

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