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Joey Bosa skips Chargers voluntary workouts

By Andrew Goldwasser

Oct 13, 2016; San Diego, CA, USA; San Diego Chargers defensive end Joey Bosa (99) looks on during the fourth quarter against the Denver Broncos at Qualcomm Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jake Roth-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 13, 2016; San Diego, CA, USA; San Diego Chargers defensive end Joey Bosa (99) looks on during the fourth quarter against the Denver Broncos at Qualcomm Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jake Roth-USA TODAY Sports /
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The ups and downs continue for Joey Bosa and the Chargers as Bosa skips voluntary workouts.

Things didn’t start well for Joey Bosa and the

San Diego

Los Angeles Chargers. After the Chargers selected Bosa with the third overall pick in last year’s draft he held out until the end of August before reporting to the team. It got ugly; the team attempted to get fans on their side by publicly announcing it had offered him a more-than-fair signing bonus. Then it got uglier: Bosa’s mom went as far as to say, “I wish we pulled an Eli Manning on draft day.”

Bosa eventually reported. But his absence combined with a hamstring injury caused him to miss the first month of the season. Then things got really good. He notched 10.5 sacks in 12 games en route to winning NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year.

But here we are again.

According to ESPN’s Eric D. Williams, Chargers coach Anthony Lynn confirmed that Bosa has not been working out at the Chargers facility, instead opting to workout privately in Florida. Worse still? He wasn’t present on Tuesday for the beginning of phase two of the Chargers voluntary workouts.

‘Voluntary’ is a key word here. Lynn acknowledged that players are not required to be here for this phase of the offseason.

Required or not, this isn’t good news for Bosa, for the Chargers, or for whatever remains of their fan base as they move the franchise from San Diego to LA.

Tuesday was the first chance for new head coach Lynn to work with his team. Bosa’s absense and the continued absence of Melvin Ingram (who hasn’t signed his franchise tender) mean that neither side of what might be the NFLs best pass rushing tandem was present.

Things haven’t gone well for the Chargers on the field of late, and uprooting a franchise is always difficult. Bosa has the potential to be the kind of player that cures those ills by helping the team win games on the field and by being its public face off of it.

But with the team needing to find big money to pay Ingram at defensive end and with Bosa’s absence indicating he might not exactly be raring to get to work with the Chargers and his new head coach, it looks likelier and likelier that Bosa might simply wait out his rookie contract and then bolt (yes, pun intended) via free agency.

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You could believe coach Lynn when he says he’s not worried.

Or you could believe Bosa’s mom who wishes her son had never been a Charger in the first place.

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