Whether coach Brandon Staley keeps his job after the Chargers’ latest playoff pratfall could depend on factors beyond his control.
If you are a longtime Chargers fan — and yes, there are a good number of you out there who followed the team in San Diego and stayed with them when they arrived in L.A. in 2017 — Saturday night was way too familiar.
How else can you describe it? They had a 27-0 first-half lead over the Jacksonville Jaguars, they’d forced five turnovers, and they spit it all up in the second half with a combination of hubris, lack of discipline and poor decisions, plus a crucial missed field goal by normally reliable Cameron Dicker a little more than six minutes into the fourth quarter.
The evaluation process could come down to whether Sean Payton, always the first name mentioned, is available, what the Chargers’ cost might be in salary and assets headed to New Orleans, which still owns Payton’s rights, and whether a quick decision on PaytonThe hubris mentioned above? That goes back to the week before, when Staley played his starters in a meaningless regular finale in Denver, Mike Williams hurt his back and Staley maintained all week that he hadn’t made a mistake by risking...
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