COSTA MESA Emeke Egbule Los Angeles Chargers Jerseys , Calif. (AP) — with the Los Angeles Chargers defense despite being injured.The All-Pro safety attends meetings and walkthroughs while he rehabs from surgery to repair a stress fracture on his right foot. James suffered the injury during training camp and had surgery Aug. 22. He is on injured reserve but the hope is that James can return for the final five games of the regular season.“I’m Coach James right now,” he said. “I still need to be involved in the mental part of the game. I don’t want to be all the way out.”James’ second seasons in college and the NFL have been marred by injuries. He first suffered a stress fracture on the foot the summer before his sophomore season at Florida State. Then two games into the 2016 season, he tore the meniscus in his knee during the fourth quarter of a blowout victory against Charleston Southern.He didn’t play the rest of that season and redshirted. The one valuable lesson James learned is that you can’t rush the rehab process.“It is very important with any fractures to make sure the bone heals on its own. With a hamstring or some soft tissue injuries you might be able to push it but with bones you can’t,” he said.James became an integral part of the Chargers defense last season after being drafted with the 17th-overall pick. He led the team with 105 tackles along with four interceptions Los Angeles Chargers Jerseys Stitched , 3.5 sacks and 13 passes defensed. He also had two sacks and an interception in the first three games, becoming the first rookie in a non-strike year since Dallas’ Bill Bates in 1983 to accomplish that.James said he knew something was wrong with his foot after making an interception during a joint practice with the Saints on Aug. 15.“I knew but I didn’t want to know. It felt the same way it did in college,” he said. “I was very disappointed because I wanted to continue the momentum I had last year. It kind of stinks. The rehab process is tough and long but it makes your game better.”Defensive coordinator Gus Bradley said James has done a good job remaining engaged in meetings while rehabbing, including breaking down the defensive game plan for Sunday’s game at Detroit before Thursday’s practice.Adrian Philips is starting in James’ place and had six tackles in Sunday’s 30-24 win over Indianapolis.James is among a growing number of injured Chargers. Cornerback Trevor Williams was placed on injured reserve earlier this week due to a nagging quad injury and tight end Hunter Henry is out for an extended period due to a knee injury.Wide receiver Mike Williams (knee) Cheap Emeke Egbule Jersey , kicker Michael Badgley (groin) and linebacker Denzel Perryman (ankle) are among seven players listed as questionable for Sunday’s game at Detroit. The Chargers are aiming for their first 2-0 start since 2012 and have won eight of their last nine regular-season road games.“It’s all over the league. From week to week sometimes you never know what roster you’re going to have. As coaches, it’s our job to figure out how to win with the personnel that we have,” coach Anthony Lynn said.The Los Angeles Chargers will lose to the Buffalo Bills Earlier we looked at three reasons why the Chargers should be able to defeat the Bills, but now we turn to reasons Buffalo should be able to pull the upset.LeSean McCoyLast time the Chargers faced the Buffalo Bills Mens Emeke Egbule Jersey , Shady McCoy rushed for 114 yards on just 13 carries. That kind of efficiency is what you expect from video game numbers not football played at the professional level. McCoy is still very talented and the Chargers rushing defense is still very mediocre (or just bad depending on the day). With a rookie starting at quarterback, the Bills will probably want to lean on their running game and there is no reason to think that they will be unable to get away with doing so given the relative quality of McCoy and the Chargers run defense (especially the interior of the defensive line).Josh Allen is not Nathan PetermanNow, as impressive as Peterman looks in that hilarious hype video, he is actually truly awful. Josh Allen is a rookie and a raw one at that White Emeke Egbule Jersey , but he is also spectacularly physically talented (laser, rocket arm and whatnot). That’s why he was drafted so highly despite how raw he is. It’s also not unusual for talented young players to have initial success when opposing teams lack much film on him. Allen is also a bit out of the ordinary with how much he likes to throw deep, so that could also initially help him to do well.Joey Bosa is still outThe Los Angeles Chargers’ best player on either side of the ball is Joey Bosa and he will be missing his second consecutive game with a bone bruise in his foot. The Chargers are still the deeper team, but when you’re missing your best player that has ripple effects and none of them are good. Uchenna Nwosu is a promising young player who will get more snaps behind Isaac Rochell this week Youth LaDainian Tomlinson Jerseys , but neither of them is even half the player Bosa is and that impacts every other facet of the defense which in turn affects every other aspect of the team. Everyone will have to step up and through one week we have not seen the Chargers do that successfully.