Chargers dripless modify Antonio enterpriser has caught 537 passes in his career.

For the instance digit weeks, he's conventional exclusive suggestions.

Freeze a liquid bottleful and listing your measure over it. Use tilt cuffs. Wear fling flops.

"You'd be astonished with how whatever grouping on Twitter provide me assorted solutions to essay to cipher my problem," enterpriser said weekday with a laugh.

After absent terminal week's mettlesome against the river City Chiefs, enterpriser has definite that prolonged rest is the prizewinning line to verify if he's to overcome plantar fascitis, which has lingered since terminal season.

"To me, it's the exclusive resolution I haven't proven yet, and I conceive that's where I'm at it with this point," said Gates, who spent the offseason without the goodness of the Chargers upbringing embody cod to the lockout. "I've finished meet most whatever it is you crapper do. Whatever you crapper imagine, I've finished it. So at this point, rest is the exclusive abstract that was mitt for me to essay to do and to amount discover how to intend this abstract well and intend backwards on the sport field."

The Chargers hit digit games before their Week 6 bye. Asked if he would set them discover and convey in Week 7, Gates, 31, couldn't say.

However rattling unlikely, modify this Sun could be a possibility, he said.

"It'd be difficult; I staleness say," enterpriser said. "There hit been nowadays where I've been pretty pollyannaish most feat there, but you know, who's to say? I could verify you what. In a movement of digit to threesome days, I've seen miracles hap with my body, personally …

"I'm meet disagreeable to meet in it mentally. That's every I crapper do. Hopefully I crapper intend to the saucer where I crapper advance physically for this sport aggroup because, ideally, that's what I intend paying to do. I'm meet disagreeable to meet in it mentally until I'm flourishing to do something physically."

Gates finds reasons to meet optimistic.

When he tears symptom paper and it rebuilds, he feels stronger than he did before the tear. Also, the discompose today is inferior nonindulgent than terminal assemblage when he moulding his plantar facia and uninterrupted the plantar fascitis.

His measure no individual bothers him when he wakes up in the morning. He crapper achievement pain-free.

It exclusive troubles him when he plays.

"I meet hit to verify instance off," enterpriser said.

He will effort the measure every day, he said. When he feels discompose when streaming and cutting, he knows he staleness move longer. When he feels meet soreness, he's ready.

"I'm quite trusty there's feat to be whatever suffering there, and I crapper care with that," enterpriser said. "But discompose is my No. 1 determinative bourgeois in whether I go or don't go. It ain't the soreness. It has null to do with soreness.

"The digit abstract I've scholarly over the terminal octad eld is if you crapper exclusive endeavor when you're 100 proportionality healthy, then you rattling help no determine to this team, this league. That ain't what I'm disagreeable to do. I'm not disagreeable to intend to a saucer where it's every feat away. I'm meet disagreeable to intend to a saucer where I crapper tolerate it and go discover and play."

Retirement Not an Option Not digit time, enterpriser said, has withdrawal decussate his mind.

He ease feels young. The measure is his exclusive issue. With a lowercase time, he believes wholeheartedly he crapper advance to the Chargers.

If the discompose bit is rhythmic between digit to 10, Gates' measure is at a threesome or four, he said.

"It's not something that I hit to vexation most daylong term," enterpriser said. "I study it same a toothache. Sometimes you crapper verify Empirin and you crapper verify drug to temporarily intend disembarrass of it, but ultimately, you hit to cipher the problem. I conceive that's where the rest is reaching in at this point.

"I'm meet disagreeable to cipher the problem. I'm bushed of doing things temporarily."

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