Why AFC West teams load up?the Chargers?

The chase is on.

"I believe this group has a chance to be the best team I have coached as a head coach, and certainly coached here. This is a talented group of guys with unbelievable work ethic. I tell them I believe we'll be bigger, we'll be stronger, we'll be faster."

And so the new Chargers jerseys have no plans to go quietly into the night. As he sent his team off into the rest of summer, Turner summed up his team this way:

Upon carrying the ball a few times in the Chargers' first full-team practices of the offseason, Mathews summed up the difference between college and pros as "faster pace, bigger dudes."

The Chargers turned the page on one of the franchise's greatest players with Tomlinson's release. Mathews, who rushed for 1,808 yards at Fresno State last season, has a great combination of size and speed. He ran a 4.41 40-yard dash at 218 pounds at the scouting combine.

"I'm excited," Campbell said. "We can be more explosive."

Campbell has the arm strength to appease Raiders football jerseys owner Al Davis' continued desire to push the ball downfield. But he has more accuracy than most Raiders QBs in recent seasons, having completed at least 60 percent of his passes in each of the three years he started at least 13 games.

In Oakland, Campbell, who threw 20 touchdowns for the struggling Redskins jerseyslast season, is next in the line of quarterbacks who have been given the task of shaking the team out of its extended funk. He replaces No. 1 pick and draft bust JaMarcus Russell.

Jones is a player respected enough in New York that the Jets took out an ad in the Kansas City Star when he signed with the Chiefs that read: "A person who embodies toughness, dedication and leadership. Thanks TJ for three great seasons." The ad was signed by team owner Woody Johnson, general manager Mike Tannenbaum, coach Rex Ryan and "the New York Jets."

Jones gives the Chiefs a proven veteran in the locker room, to go with other free-agent signees such as center Casey Wiegmann and Ryan Lilja, and a proven option in the backfield.

Jones, the third-leading rusher in the league last season, set a Jets football jersey franchise record for rushing touchdowns with 14 and the team's single-game rushing record with 210 yards against the Bills in Week 6.