Probably not. Sometimes all a football team needs is a little incentive. Yahoo sports says that when “McDaniels was walking past the Chargers’ linebackers before the game, he supposedly said, “We own you.”

Over cocky? Arrogant? Well McDaniels claims he was just giving as good as he good, saying that the Chargers “talked to me first.”

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Josh McDaniels names Kyle Orton his starter (Image: Zuma Press)

Up until this announcement, Orton had been competing with Chris Simms for the starting quarterback gig. However, McDaniels said he wanted to end the suspense now and provide more of an order heading into traing camp.

That said, McDaniels was also adamant that Simms still has a chance to win the starting role if he outperforms Orton in training camp and the exhibition season.

Orton, who was acquired in the trade that sent Jay Cutler to the Chicago Bears, is coming off of a solid sason. In 15 games, he had 18 touchdown passes and 2972 passing yards.

Simms, on the other hand, has played only one game since 2006. He’s had bright spots in his NFL career but most experts agreed that he was the underdog from the beginning. Now, McDaniels made that official.

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According to Yahoo Sports!, there’s some tension brewing between McDaniels and quarterback Jay Cutler. Before Matt Cassel was traded from New England to Kansas City on Saturday, Cutler’s name came up in a proposed three-way deal with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers that would have brought Cassel to Denver and landed Cutler in South Florida.

McDaniels said that he never wanted to trade Cutler and that he only fielded trade talks from other teams.

Cutler still believes he’s on the chopping block. And he isn’t taking McDaniels word on anything at this point.

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