{"id":1017271,"date":"2026-10-03T06:46:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1017271\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T06:46:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:46:48","slug":"mike-mcdaniel-takes-responsibility-for-chargers-poor-offense-in-0-3-start-im-not-living-in-hope-latest-nfl-news-analysis-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1017271\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike McDaniel takes responsibility for Chargers&#8217; poor offense in 0-3 start: &#8216;I&#8217;m not living in hope&#8217; | Latest NFL News, Analysis &#038; Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Chargers coordinator Mike McDaniel isn\u2019t shying away from responsibility for the club&#8217;s lack of offensive productivity in its 0-3 start.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m fully responsible,&#8221; he said Thursday, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/50078998\/chargers-mike-mcdaniel-takes-blame-team-offensive-struggles\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">via ESPN<\/a>. &#8220;I spend zero time trying to avoid blame. It&#8217;s quite the opposite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Chargers rank 30th in expected points added per play (-0.21), have scored 14.7 points per game (29th in the NFL), and sit 27th in turnovers with six. Their 44 points through three games are the fewest by the franchise since 2003 (37, finished 4-12), per NFL Research. L.A. has suffered three straight losses with fewer than 45 total points scored for the first time with <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/justin-herbert\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Justin Herbert<\/a> as starting quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>In <a class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/games\/chargers-at-bills-2026-reg-3?tab=recap\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-headlessui-state=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Week 3<\/a>, the Chargers offense keyed the defeat. L.A. became the first team to lose with fewer than 25 points allowed and a +4 turnover differential or better since 2012 (Cardinals lost to Falcons, 23-19, in Week 11). The Buffalo defeat was the first Chargers loss with at least five takeaways and fewer than 25 points allowed since Week 4, 1986.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were the reason we lost the football game,&#8221; McDaniel said, &#8220;and you gotta pull your weight in this league.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Chargers coordinator Mike McDaniel isn\u2019t shying away from responsibility for the club&#8217;s lack of offensive productivity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1017272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1227,7,6],"class_list":["post-1017271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-football","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117375640776528112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1017272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}