Someday, the Chargers hope, quarterback Justin Herbert regularly will pull off the kind of dramatic, heart-stopping drives that turn likely defeats into nail-biting victories and make the Chargers a playoff team with realistic championship aspirations.
Herbert and the Chargers haven't reached that stage yet. They're far from it. And on Sunday they got a painful lesson in how a good team gets it done, absorbing a stinging 30-27 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs that made their path to the postseason a lot more treacherous, though not yet impossible.
Once Kansas City got the ball back with 1 minute 46 seconds left in the fourth quarter Sunday before a crowd overwhelmingly wearing Chiefs red at SoFi Stadium, it wasn't a question of whether quarterback Patrick Mahomes would engineer a winning comeback. The only question was how he'd do it.
