What makes him both prolific in passing numbers and a guy who comes up just short is his propensity to take risks. Not always at the right time. He wants to win the game for the team because he believes he can. And, he's a loosy-goosy guy. Making mistakes doesn't break him because he believes so much in himself.....just as any big-time gambler does. So he comes right back to the table and pushes all the chips to the middle, again, and again, and again.
I would hesitate to agree that he's a "loser". Was Dan Marino a "loser" because he couldn't win the big dance? I don't think so.
The thing is that some QBs seem to have those WRs where a 50/50 ball is really more like 80/20. They get in trouble, throw the ball into a pile of CBs, Safeties, and WRs, and most of the time, for some reason, their WR wins the jump ball. And who gets the credit? The QB.
I've watched Wilson, time after time, fall backwards just as he's being tackled, heave a ball into the sky, it comes down like a dying duck, CBs fumble all over themselves trying to get to it (even knocking one another off the ball to get there) and it just flutters down into the hands of a Seahawk's WR.
Rothlesberger does it all the time. Occasionally he pays for it big time like he did early this year with a 5 INT game.
It's a mentality. But the Chargers aren't good enough to overcome those gambling losses the way the Seahawks or Steelers can.
Know why the Chargers made their run that ended last night? They stopped turning the ball over. Rivers stopped throwing INTs.
Know why the Chargers lost to KC last night? The turnovers are back mostly thanks to the River Boat Gambler.
