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The Chargers re-signed Bakhtiari in January 2009 only to waive him at the end of the pre-season. He spent two weeks with Tampa Bay's practice squad before the Titans signed him to their practice squad in November. When tackle Jason Jones was put on injured reserve, Bakhtiari got the promotion and had six special teams tackles in his first three career games.

Now he's busy sweating during a Tennessee training camp with a heat index regularly hovering at or above 35 degrees Celsius. The humidity curls up his hair that now measures 12 inches — long enough that pulling a brush all the way through is nearly impossible with muscled biceps and shoulders.

"I'm not flexible enough to get it all the way through there," Bakhtiari said with a grin. "It's difficult now in training camp. It's under a helmet most times but mostly it's always in a ponytail."

Actually, he's using the double ponytail because it's a little harder to fit all that hair under the helmet with the added bonus of stability.

"It kind of keeps my helmet there, kind of like keeps it more in place," he said.

Bakhtiari's mother gave him a big assist to help him care for all that hair so his donation would be in good shape when the time comes to lop it off.

"When she came out, she saw I was using some like crappy two-in-one shampoo and conditioner. She said, 'Uh-uh.' She went to a salon and got me nice shampoo and some real nice conditioner, some leave-in (conditioner), some reconditioning mess. All that stuff," Bakhtiari said.

Wholesale San Diego Chargers jerseys defensive coordinator Ron Rivera's decision to dial up the pressure last weekend against the cheap Chicago Bears jerseys caused a minor stir, especially after Mike Martz admitted San Diego's aggressive game plan limited Jay Cutler to only eight snaps.

Meanwhile, the wholesale Bears jerseys stayed true to their belief of never showing the opponent too much in a preseason contest.

"If you over scheme it, sometimes the offense is not ready for it and you're winning by a scheme right now, in the regular season they [the offense] will be ready," Bears defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli said Thursday. "What you want to make sure is that we're ready in our base stuff, so when we do put something in, it adds to what we do. But if you don't have that concrete base on pursuit, tackling, gap control and generating pressure on a four-man front, [you're in trouble].

"I don't mind this time of the year, if when you blitz, you blitz into the side of protection because you want to see who can beat a block. The worst thing right now is you get a blitzer and he's free. In the regular season you like that, but right now, you want to see which blitzers can beat a block."

One player who grabbed Marinelli's attention last weekend was rookie safety Major Wright. Echoing the sentiments of cheap Bears jerseys head coach Lovie Smith, Marinelli feels Wright help his caused in the competition at safety, despite the rookie suffering a left index fracture that required surgery.