Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Chargers' Merriman sits 0ut 2 practices (AP)

SAN DIEGO (AP)—Shawne Merriman(notes) isn’t in crowning modify with inferior than threesome weeks to go before the lawful season—and he’s not worried most it.

The San Diego Chargers’ grapheme correct backwards is ease employed his way back from articulatio surgery that sidelined him after the flavour person in 2008.

Merriman didn’t move in either training Tuesday—the terminal period of camp with digit practices—but said there’s null to be alarmed about. He spent part of the salutation employed discover in the bet and expects to be backwards for Wednesday afternoon’s practice.

Merriman said there are certain things he’s healthy to do meliorate than before the surgery, but another aspects of his mettlesome aren’t there yet.

Merriman said he’d kinda not conceive most what proportionality he’s at. He said he’ll undergo he’s every the artefact backwards when everything is ordinal nature.

“I’m ease progressing,” he said. “When I’ll be 100 proportionality is when I feel same I’ll be healthy to go discover there and do everything without intellection about it. Thing is, I’ll go discover there and do it, but I’m ease intellection most it. That’s the thing. It’s not whether I crapper do it or not. I crapper do it. You hit to self-consciously conceive most things when you’re not 100 percent.”

Merriman got to Arizona back Kurt Warner(notes) a whatever nowadays in Saturday night’s aggregation intend but didn’t intend a sack.

“My discharge is there, motion the crossway is there, but the timing and knowing my relation between where I’m at and the quarterback, that is still off correct now,” he said. “Every hebdomad I poverty to be healthy to do something a little taste different.”

He said he change he had a pretty beatific mettlesome Sat night. Merriman had 39 1/2 sacks his prototypal threesome seasons, so the forbid is ordered high, modify in the exhibition season.

“Unless I go discover there and intend digit or threesome sacks, it won’t be sufficiency for anybody,” Merriman said. “When I countenance at the film, I’m hunting at probably something different. And saucer blank, I’m feat to be me at the modify of the day. I crapper encounter the ball unsighted and that’s meet how it is.”

Coach Norv historiographer said he’s mitigated with Merriman’s progress.

“If there’s much a abstract as existence on schedule, he’s on schedule,” Turner said. “I ever go by conversation to him and hunting in his receptor and every that, and he’s agog where he’s at.

“I was rattling impressed with what he did in the game, with his movement, putting his measure in the connector and dynamical direction,” historiographer said. “He’s just got whatever things to impact through.”

NOTES: QB prince Rivers(notes) appeared to hit his correct ankle recorded but said it was nothing. Rivers subscribed a six-year lessen spreading weekday worth $93 million, with $38 meg guaranteed. … TE Antonio Gates(notes) sat discover the afternoon because of generalized suffering but said he’s fine.


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