danmclellan's Podcast

This show has only one segment, an interview with Author Gil Sperry.

Sperry recently released a book titled Soccer’s Story & A Futbol Fable. In this book, Sperry recaps a remarkable season that he had coaching the Valle Lindo Elementary Eagles co-ed soccer team to a championship game at the Olympic Trainning Center in Chula Vista.

The Eagles run to the championship game is remarkable because most of the members of the team started the season out of shape while lacking fundamental skills, and haveing no concept of team play.

Sperry’s book is so compelling that it has already sparked the interest of screenwriters Robert Conder and Steve Gehrke (Script Supervisor for The Dark Knight). Together they are collaborating on a screenplay which is currently titled The Beautiful Game, A Beautiful Season.

First Segment: Dan talks about his experience of walking with Phil Mickelson for six holes at Torrey Pines on Wednesday. You will also her an interview Dan had with Mike Uptgraff who played with Mickelson in the Pro Am

Second Segment: Dan talks about the USD men’s basketball loss to Santa Clara last night. You will also here an interview Dan had with Toreros Head Coach Bill Grier.

In the first segment Dan talks about some of the projects he is working on and includes sound clips from his interview with the San Diego Sockers Head Coach Phil Savagio and the interview he had this week with Lake Elsinore Storm’s hitting coach Shane Spencer.

In the second Segment Dan rants about the things he hates about NFL football.
Topics include the following:

1.Poor time management
2.A team that protects the football and stops trying to score points
3.Players who score a touchdown and act like they have been their before.
4.Stupid Fane
5.The Price of Concessions
6.Using Chains to measure first downs
7.Half the distance to the goal penalties
8.Automatic first down penalties
9.A play being dead because of a whistle.

Episode 25 is broken down into three segments.

In the first segment, Dan talks about some of the opportunities that he is getting through writing at SanDiego.com and what that means for the Podcast. In this segment Dan also has a huge announcement regarding the San Diego Sockers.

In the second segment, Dan takes a detailed look at the Chargers salary cap and what he thinks it means for AJ Smith and the Chargers. In this segment, Dan also proposes that the Chargers go after Julius Peppers.

In the third segment Dan talks briefly about the Super Bowl

Dan has four interview clips in the first segment. The first three are of Charger fans that came down to Murphy Canyon to welcome the team home last night. The fourth is a clip of Dan’s interview with San Diego Chargers’ linebacker Antwan Applewhite, for SanDiego.com. Dan also talks about what his plans are for the podcast and sports writing now that the Chargers’ season is over.

In the second segment, Dan recaps the Chargers playoff loss to the Steelers

In this episode Dan talks about all the key factors that went into the Chargers victory against the Colts including all the things the Chargers had to overcome. You will also hear the crowd noise from inside the stadium immediately following the victory.

In the second segment, Dan looks forward to next weeks game against the Pittsburgh Steelers in the second round of the NFL playoffs. A matchup that features a classic high powered Chargers’ offense against a classic stingy Steelers’ defense. Briefly, Dan also discusses the Titans vs. Ravens game which will determine where the AFC Championship game is played.

In this episode Dan talks about the Chargers’ fantastic win over the Denver Broncos to secure the 2008 AFC West Division Championship.

Regarding this win, Dan has had three publications currently published or about to be published at SanDiego.com. He gives a preview to these articles and mentions an interview he had today with the Chargers’ minority owner George Pernicano.

To preview the upcoming playoff game against the Colts, Dan gives a detailed comparison between Rivers & Manning’s 2008 stats. He illustrates that the Chargers should not be afraid of Manning because, in many cases, Rivers’ stats are better than his.

Dan also gives his thoughts regarding the firing of the Broncos’ head coach Mike Shanahan.

The San Diego Chargers are still alive for the playoffs. After beating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Denver Broncos losing to the Buffalo Bills, the Chargers’ game against Denver next Sunday means the winner wins the AFC West and the loser goes home.

This week Dan recaps the Tampa Bay game.

Dan also compares the numbers that Philip Rivers has put up this season to that of Dan Fouts and records seating San Diego QB’s to arguer that Philip Rivers and this Charger team is comparable to the Dan Fouts lead team of 1979-1981

The Chargers pulled out a “Do You Believe in Miracles” win in KC. Dan discusses the game in detail.

Despite the win Dan is still critical of the teams play in KC. He also points all the things that the Chargers got lucky on to accomplish the win.

Dan also looks at the Chargers current playoff picture. To do so, he brings back to the Buffalo Bills fanatic Jeff Menaker to look at Denver’s game against Buffalo this Sunday.

This is an interactive Podcast that teaches you how to calculate an NFL Quarter Back Passer Rating.

In a podcast experiment, Dan combines the magic of a podcast and the power of Mathematica, to bring you an interactive educational experience.

Dan’s fiancée, Abby Brown, created and published an NFL QB Passer Rating demonstration on the Wolfram Institute Demonstrations’ site (The Creators of Mathematica).

If you choose to do so, this demonstration can be used by you the listener while listening to the podcast, so that you have a better understanding of how the quarterback passer rating is calculated.

You can also choose not to use the demonstration and learn by just listening.

After the lesson, Dan explains why he believes this is not an accurate or effective way to rate a quarterbacks performance.

The Case for LT

Dan not only looks at last nights impressive victory for the San Diego Chargers over the Oakland Raiders, he looks at the stats in total over this 11 game win streak over the Raiders. In doing so, he finds something reveling, which really leads to The Case for LT.

Although dim, with the win the Chargers playoff hopes still flicker. With that in mind, Dan takes a detailed look at what would have to happen for the Chargers to still win the AFC West this year

Despite actually getting all the breaks the Chargers manage to loose another game. The playoff picture is now extremely bleak as the Chargers are now 3 games behind the Bronco’s with 4 to play.

Dan also looks forward to the Raider game on Thursday. A game in which he admittedly has no idea what Charger or Raider well show up to play.

Because it’s Thanksgiving, Dan tries to find something positive in Sunday’s loss to the Colts, which he does in the play of Jacob Hester. However, the reality is the Chargers loss yet another close game and some of the blame in that loss can be attributed to Norv Turner’s poor clock management in the 4th quarter. That being the case, Dan’s spends a great deal of time berating Norv’s skills at play clock management.

Despite the Charger’s loss to the Colts, with Denver’s loss to Oakland, Dan is still die hard in his belief the Chargers can make the playoffs. That being the case, he lays out what he believes is a realistic scenario for the Chargers to win the AFC west championship this year.

The Giving Thanks Episode is a tribute to Thanks Giving. The focal point of this show is the many different ways that we the fans, through the San Diego Chargers have to give back to our community in this upcoming Thanks Giving Day week. These opportunities include the annual Chargers’ food & blood drives.

New this year is Antonio Cromartie’s raffle through the Pro Player Foundation. This raffle supports at risk Children of Camp Hope, which was destroyed by last years Witch Fires. In addition this raffle also supports families affected by the many San Diego wild fires that have plagued us in recent years. To talk about the raffle, you will hear an interview from one of Cromartie’s marketing managers, Kristen Kuliga of, K Sports and Entertainment.

In the spirit of Thanks Giving, on a serious note, Dan also gives thanks for some of the many things that he is personally thankful for, as well as, in a light hearted look, what we the Charger fans should be thankful for despite our 4 and 6 record.

Note: Kristen Kuliga was the first female agent to negotiate a NFL QB’s contract when she negotiated Doug Flutie’s original 33 million dollar contract with the San Diego Chargers.

Dan looks back at the frustrating loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers and all the different things that happened throughout the game that could have lead to a Charger Victory.

Dan then looks ahead to our Prime Time Sunday night critical matchup up against Indianapolis Colts. A game which is neat must when game for the Chargers.

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