"Bob Sanders did not believe he could be the Bob Sanders he expects to be, no matter how long the Chargers gave him to rest, and so his time in San Diego is finished.

The team placed him on injured reserve Wednesday, after he'd played just two games as a Charger.

The Chargers had signed the former All-Pro in the hopes they could keep him whole, or at least patched together, for the 2011 season. But the same knee that has bothered him for five years and has been through three surgeries would not allow him to continue being the player he wanted to be or that the Chargers needed."