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Telesco: No “sinister agenda” with Eric Weddle

Relations between the Chargers and safety Eric Weddle haven’t been good this offseason as the safety has stayed away from workouts in an effort to get a new contract that the team hasn’t felt moved to give him.

Weddle’s agent David Canter said that the team told him they won’t talk about a new contract for Weddle before his current deal expires after the 2015 season, leading Canter to say that Weddle would drop his special teams work — he played almost half the team’s snaps in the kicking game since 2011 while playing almost every defensive snap — because Weddle feels “going above and beyond for them is why they won’t give him a contract extension.