（機の）カム Akers' resurgence echoes 押し通すs' late-season 改良s
Two months after （機の）カム Akers' NFL prospects looked pretty 荒涼とした, the running 支援する has played his way 支援する into a 約束ing 未来 with the Los Angeles 押し通すs.
The 押し通すs themselves are also 回復するing solidly from a midseason 低迷 that 廃虚d their 最高の Bowl 肩書を与える 弁護, yet hasn't dimmed Sean McVay's 楽観主義 about their 未来.
Akers' 118-yard, three-touchdown 急ぐing 業績／成果 in the 押し通すs' 51-14 thrashing of the Denver Broncos on Christmas was the the final step in the third-year ball 運送／保菌者's redemption arc. His midseason 論争 with the 押し通すs' coaching staff led to a three-week banishment from their training コンビナート／複合体 while the team tried and failed to find anybody willing to make a reasonable 貿易（する） 申し込む／申し出.
Akers returned, the 押し通すs (5-10) shuffled their coaching staff, and the second-一連の会議、交渉／完成する 選ぶ 答える／応じるd with his best play since his 新人 year. He has 285 yards 急ぐing and six touchdowns in December alone, breathing life into a terrible 急ぐing 罪／違反 that struggled all season behind a patchwork 不快な／攻撃 line.
"The way he´s 扱うd the whole 状況／情勢 is just a testament to how (Akers) is," 押し通すs 権利 取り組む 略奪する Havenstein said. "He´s wired 広大な／多数の／重要な, and he takes coaching. When he´s out there and feeling the game, it seems like things are just going 権利 for him. It´s a testament to how he´s 扱うd a 堅い season for all of us, really."
McVay 確認するd Monday that the 押し通すs no longer 計画（する） to 貿易（する） Akers in the offseason. The coach sees him as a 重要な part of 2023, when the 押し通すs finally wi ll be healthy again as they 試みる／企てる to return to the プレーオフs.
Los Angeles 押し通すs 長，率いる coach Sean McVay celebrates after a touchdown by running 支援する （機の）カム Akers during the first half of an NFL football game between the Los Angeles 押し通すs and the Denver Broncos on Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio J. Sanchez)
"It would be silly based on what a 広大な／多数の／重要な 職業 he´s done to think of anything 異なって than him 存在 a big part of what you want to do moving 今後," McVay said of Akers. "There´s 全く a different trajectory ーに関して／ーの点でs of what he´s done and the way that he´s 扱うd himself and the way that he´s playing the way like we know he´s 有能な of."
With Akers running the ball and パン職人 Mayfield excelling as LA's fourth starting quarterback of the season, the 押し通すs hav e won two of three since the six-game losing streak that derailed their year. They're doing it with backups and stopgap 退役軍人s across their roster, を強調するing the coaching staff's persistence まっただ中に a tumultuous season.
McVay says the 押し通すs will 利益 from evaluation of players who 普通は wouldn't get an 適切な時期 to 証明する themselves. The 勝利，勝つs aren't 決定的な, but they're important in 持続するing a successful culture for a franchise 耐えるing its first losing season since 2016.
"Those are the things that you take some pride in and want to continue to see that 反映するd," McVay said. "`Hey guys, let´s play to the best of our ability. Let´s go 削減（する） it loose. Let´s continue to 注ぐ into guys that are getting 適切な時期s that maybe we didn´t 推定する／予想する or 心配する.´ Some of these guys are really doing a 広大な／多数の／重要な 職業 of 設立するing themselves as 重要な 人物／姿／数字s for years to come, hopefully, and that´s the approach that we´ll take for these last 13 days."
WHAT'S WORKING
After creating just one turnover in eight games 中途の through the season, the 押し通すs' 弁護 has 12 takeaways in its last five games. The 押し通すs' superior 弁護 is finally creating easier 適切な時期s for its struggling 罪／違反 by taking the ball away.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
It's a nice problem to have, but Mayfield is probably playing his way out of LA. Looking comfortable in McVay's 罪／違反 and 配達するing the ball with 信用／信任 and flair, the Heisman トロフィー 勝利者 once again 似ているs the NFL-caliber starter he was in Cleveland. With two more solid games, Mayfield seems やめる likely to have more 相当な 申し込む／申し出s than a backup 職業 behind Matthew Stafford in 2023, which means the 押し通すs would need to go shopping.
STOCK UP
新人 cornerback Cobie Durant had two interceptions against Denve r, 含むing an 85-yard TD return. The fourth-一連の会議、交渉／完成する 選ぶ is getting his first 一貫した 防御の playing time in December, and he's 答える／応じるing with solid work in ニュース報道. After swinging and 行方不明の on several 中央の-一連の会議、交渉／完成する 草案 選ぶs in the past three years - a 重要な factor in the 押し通すs' struggles - Los Angeles is 楽観的な it has a keeper in Durant.
STOCK DOWN
Guard Oday Aboushi appeared to be goaded into a postgame fight with Denver's Randy Gregory, but that won't be much なぐさみ if Aboushi's one-game 中断 is upheld and he must 行方不明になる Sunday's game, 弱めるing an 不快な／攻撃 line that's had more than enough 騒動.
INJURIES
New DT Larrell Murchison incurred a stinger in the fourth ４半期/4分の1 of his impressive 押し通すs debut, but it isn't 推定する／予想するd to sideline him this week, McVay said. Murchison had two 解雇（する）s and four 取り組むs in his first game with the team that 調印するd him 13 days earlier.
KEY NUMBER
52 - The total number of points 得点する／非難する／２０d by the 押し通すs in their previous three games 連合させるd before hanging 51 on the Broncos, whose ineptitude played a （疑いを）晴らす 役割 in LA's 爆発. It's still another encouraging 調印する the 押し通すs are still 改善するing and McVay hasn't lost the room.
NEXT STEPS
A road game at SoFi Stadium. The 押し通すs organization would dearly love to knock off their tenants on New Year's Day, but the Chargers are playing for much more.
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Los Angeles 押し通すs 防御の 取り組む Michael Hoecht celebrates after 解雇（する）ing Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson during the second half of an NFL football game between the Los Angeles 押し通すs and the Denver Broncos on Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio J. Sanchez)
Los Angeles 押し通すs' Terrell 吊りくさび celebrates after 解雇（する）ing Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson during the first half of an NFL football game between the Los Angeles 押し通すs and the Denver Broncos on Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio J. Sanchez)
Los Angeles 押し通すs running 支援する （機の）カム Akers 得点する／非難する／２０s during the first half of an NFL football game between the Los Angeles 押し通すs and the Denver Broncos on Su nday, Dec. 25, 2022, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio J. Sanchez)
