If Chargers bosses retain coach Mike McCoy for the 2017 season, no one should be surprised in light of how the top Bolts bosses have operated.
Dean Spanos, John Spanos and Tom Telesco have shown themselves more patient — or is it less urgent? — than Chargers rival John Elway when evaluating the head coach.
Elway fired head coach John Fox two winters ago, though Fox had taken Denver to three AFC West titles in his three seasons and had gone to the Super Bowl 12 months earlier.