There’s no shortage of people making excuses for the underachieving Chargers.
Thankfully for the team, its coach isn’t one of them.
“We never thought that after the first five games we would have dropped three,” Anthony Lynn said this week. “But we have.”
Denial about the team’s underachieving won’t help Philip Rivers claim his first AFC West title since 2009.
While the Chargers (2-3) have suffered a high number of injuries, other AFC teams aren’t covered in bubble wrap, either.
The Patriots (6-0) lost three good blockers from a front that couldn’t keep left tackle Trent Brown (positional-record $36.