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Game info: 1:00 pm EDT Sun Oct 19, 2008 TV: CBS
The San Diego Chargers play the first of two games during an 11-day road trip on Sunday, Oct. 19 against the Buffalo Bills at Ralph Wilson Stadium. Kickoff is at 10:00 a.m. PDT.
Following the game, the Chargers will fly overnight to London, England where they’ll take on the New Orleans Saints on Sunday, Oct. 26 in historic Wembley Stadium.
Former AFL nemeses, the Chargers’ and Bills’ series dates back to 1960. San Diego leads the all-time series, 21-11-2, including a 24-21 win in their last meeting in 2006 in Western New York. The Chargers have won the last two games; three of the last four and six of the last eight against Buffalo. The Chargers are 9-5-1 as the road team in the series.
Philip Rivers, the NFL’s top-rated passer (109.4), will make his second-career start in Buffalo, where he passed for 160 yards and a touchdown in the Chargers’ 24-21 win in ’06.
Buffalo’s Trent Edwards ranks 12th in the NFL in pass efficiency (93.9). He’s completing 66.4% of his passes for 948 yards with four touchdowns and only two interceptions.
An energetic and hostile crowd at Buffalo’s Ralph Wilson Stadium where the Bills are 2-0 this season and have drawn in excess of 71,000 fans for each. At 4-1, the Bills are off to their best start since 1999. The Chargers can take solace in the fact that the Bills lost their sixth and seventh games that year to slide to 4-3.
The Chargers’ passing attack, which ranks ninth in the NFL (239.8 yards per game), will be tested by the NFL’s ninth ranked pass defense in Buffalo, which is only allowing a stingy 184.8 yards through the air.
The Chargers’ defense is coming off a season best 299-net yard performance against New England.
The Buffalo Bills’ undefeated start was derailed by the NFL’s second-highest scoring team in their latest game, as the previously stout Bills’ defense surrendered 41 points in a blowout loss.
Tomlinson is averaging just 3.4 yards per carry in his last two games and he hasn’t scored. The Bills are 18th in the NFL in rush defense, allowing 114.2 ypg.
The Bills are 13-6 following a bye, and haven’t lost after an off week since 2004. They’re just 4-10 all-time against the Chargers.
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