The Los Angeles Chargers won a postseason game last year because of their talented roster and a creative coaching plan, but were they lucky to even be playing in Baltimore to begin with? Though it’s often better to be lucky than good, the Chargers, one of the NFL’s notoriously unlucky teams, had a supercharged amount of good fortune last year.
It’s not to say the entire year was lucky, because the embarrassing playoff loss was anything but that. But, the Chargers had a handful of breaks go their way:
- Baker Mayfield injures himself early on in Cleveland.