Hey guys, if you're anything like me, you've spent pretty much the entire week looking for an article, a post, a thread, a conversation...*anything* that could make you feel better about the collapse of our beloved Bolts last Sunday.  After all, it was supposed to be "our year", right?

Well, for me, nothing really helped.  None of the articles made me feel like we were going to have any better chance next season than we had this season.  And with LT's imminent departure, it seemed as though the disappointment was going to sting even worse.

That is, until I broke open the 2009 NFL Record & Fact Book prior to the AFC Championship Game, and found a team's very recent history that actually is eerily similar to ours...the Indianapolis Colts.  The breakdown, and a glimmer of hope for Chargers fans, after the jump. 

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If you haven't read by now, the Football Outsider's Almanac (created by the fine folks over at footballloutsiders.com), has given the Chargers an overwhelming DVOA score, and gives us an 87% chance of finishing the regular season with 11 or more wins.  (The 11+ wins category is the high end of the range; they don't put a percentage on how likely a team is to win 12, 13, 14, 15, or 16 games.)

Without committing flat-out plaigarism of their proprietary information, I want to analyze the reasons why they predicted what they have, review some of their few negative comments, and sound off on whether or not another publication predicting a Super season for the Chargers is truly a distraction and detrimental to the Chargers' success.  All of that after the jump.

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