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Nick Canepa's Chargers report card: at Patriots

Union-Tribune columnist Nick Canepa grades the Chargers after their season ended with a 41-28 loss to New England on Sunday in a divisional playoff game at Foxborough, Mass.

Quarterbacks: C-

Philip Rivers and the L.A. Judases played like they still were San Diego’s losers in the cold Foxborough woodshed. A defeat? This was Neville Chamberlain at Munich, their Super Bowl in Miami. An embarrassment. Rivers, now 1-5 in sub-freezing weather, was constantly pressured by a team averaging 1.9 sacks a game. Philip can’t beat these guys when he gets help, and the cavalry never came Sunday.