20-16 loss to the Texans<\/a> at home.<\/p>\nThe Bolts fell behind 14-0 early as the defense allowed a pair of deep touchdown passes in the first six minutes of the game, a hole that Chargers were unable to recover from.<\/p>\n
The defense forced two turnovers and allowed just six points the rest of the way, but the loss dropped the Chargers out of contention for the AFC West title.<\/p>\n
“Definitely leaves a bad taste in our mouth, but at the end of the day our end goal is still out there, winning that Super Bowl,” Derwin James, Jr. said.<\/p>\n
Khalil Mack added: “That was the goal this year, to come out and win the AFC West. But we’re still in the right race.”<\/p>\n
Offensively, the Bolts fought back behind second-half touchdowns from Oronde Gadsden and Omarion Hampton, but the Chargers were hampered by an uncharacteristically poor day from Cameron Dicker, who missed a 32-yard field goal and an extra point in a four-point loss.<\/p>\n
The Chargers were also just 2-of-5 in the red zone and had a turnover at the 1-yard line.<\/p>\n
“I feel like we battled. But although we battled, we all just didn’t do enough right,” Daiyan Henley said. “You know, it’s a team sport. We’ve got to do more. As much as we hate to lose, I’d rather do it now than later. Now it’s time to get on a run and let’s go.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chargers are set for the regular-season finale. Here’s what you need to know about the Bolts ahead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[37,884,63112,241,7,34,38,1014,262,2444,2443,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-638084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-app-homepage","9":"tag-articles-5-thing-to-know","10":"tag-articles-5-things-to-know-rize-credit-union","11":"tag-chargers","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-homepage-cp","14":"tag-homepage-headlines","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-losangeleschargers","19":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115803689170029707","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638084","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=638084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}