A stultifying 27-6 win by the Los Angeles Chargers over the New York Jets threatened to be good at moments, but couldn’t follow through on anything it promised. That’s not to say there wasn’t anything exciting in the game, but those pinpricks of light in the darkness ultimately felt pointless.
Luckily, the point of any individual play doesn’t matter – the W in the win column does. There are points of optimism in there for the Chargers, but for the moment it’s worth thinking of them as signs of a potential future rather than something concrete.