We’re into the season’s final month, and that means we get games on Saturday now—three of them—plus a full slate Sunday and an intriguing Monday nighter. Ahead of all that, here’s what we’ve got …
• Thursday night sealed it, and now that the curtain has dropped on the Brandon Staley era, what’s next for a long-underachieving Chargers franchise should be clear.
This is not the time for an experiment or a roll of the dice. The Chargers have tried that and, again and again, come up short. This will be the 11th time in 14 seasons they’ve missed the playoffs. Over that time, they’ve hired three head coaches, and all three were first-timers, and each made the playoffs just once. So it’s time to do what the franchise did before that, in hiring Norv Turner and Marty Schottenheimer, and find a more experienced hand.
