Chargers takeaways: Dreadful collapse in opposition to Jaguars prompts postgame group assembly

The Chargers dropped 38-10 to Jacksonville on Sunday on an afternoon when quarterback Justin Herbert was visible influenced by his rib cartilage injury.

Linebacker Drue Tranquill called the defeat “embarrassing” and, of the Jaguars, said “they whooped our tails.”

The Chargers are 1-2 and play their up coming two games on the road — at Houston (-2-1) and Cleveland (2-1).

Five observations from a odd day at SoFi Stadium:

Preserving IT IN-House SO Quickly? It’s only 7 days 3, but the Chargers staged a participant-led assembly in the aftermath of their four-touchdown reduction.

The accumulating was known as by defensive deal with Sebastian Joseph-Day, who is in his initially year with the Chargers but is a crew captain.

“That’s the way you want it to be, primarily soon after a sport like that,” coach Brandon Staley claimed. “All that desires to be claimed requires to arrive from them. That’s the way great groups are.

“There’s a large amount of pleasure in that room. … We’ve bought a ton of the appropriate fellas to be coaching. We have bought a team which is nevertheless coming collectively. This was just just one activity in the NFL.”

Questioned regardless of whether he was concerned that it was a staff newcomer who termed the meeting, Staley reported: “If it would not have been him, it would have been a person else. It’s not just him. But that’s the way you want your groups to be.”

Chargers fullback Zander Horvath is brought down by Jaguars cornerback Tyson Campbell in the fourth quarter.

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Ground Recreation SPINS WHEELS: The Chargers’ incapability to operate the ball has arrived at the place wherever they are past in the NFL, averaging 59 yards for each video game. They completed with 26 yards in 12 carries from the Jaguars.

“Maybe we could have operate the ball a small little bit more early on,” Herbert explained, “but we were being down, and so we had to toss the ball and we didn’t capture up. Which is the regrettable section.”

Coming off a year in which he acquired 1,558 yards from scrimmage and scored 20 touchdowns, working back again Austin Ekeler has been unable to break unfastened. By means of 3 online games, he has rushed 32 instances for 80 yards and caught 21 passes for 139 yards.

Ekeler has zero touchdowns.

“We just have not founded any rhythm offensively,” Staley explained. “Just have not blocked at the stage of attack or in move security properly more than enough. Since of that, you’re not going to see the output from the ability gamers.”

NO Tension, Big Challenge: The Chargers were not able to have an effect on Jacksonville quarterback Trevor Lawrence, who appeared rather comfortable though completing 28 of 39 makes an attempt for 262 yards and three touchdowns.

Lawrence completed with a rating of 115.5, the second most effective of his young profession. He was the top total choose in the 2021 NFL draft.

The Chargers attempted blitzing, but the Jaguars answered just about just about every time with exceptional protection. Only Derwin James Jr. and Morgan Fox — 1 apiece — ended up credited with quarterback hits. The Chargers had no sacks.

“We attempted to blend up the rush strategy,” Staley explained. “We just didn’t earn ample just one-on-ones right now. They did, and you have to give credit score to them.”

Operate ‘D’ Operate DOWN: The protection also surrendered a time-worst 151 rushing yards, 100 of which belonged to James Robinson. Fifty of all those arrived on a person touchdown run in the third quarter.

Robinson’s score converted on fourth and 1 scarcely a minute after the Chargers had shut to inside of 16-10 on a 25-lawn field target by Dustin Hopkins.

“I felt like, in the initial fifty percent, we hung difficult,” Staley said. “In the to start with fifty percent, we gave ourselves a prospect. Then, that fourth-and-one run that split us … that truly took the air out of us.

“There had been a couple of killer third downs that pressured us to enjoy a lot a lot more performs. We played more than 40 plays (41) in the to start with half, and I felt that in the 2nd 50 percent. I felt like we did not have that similar power.”

The Jaguars ran 75 plays to the Chargers’ 58 and experienced a time-of-possession benefit of 16 minutes 54 seconds.

Complete FAILURE: The Chargers under no circumstances led, shed the only two turnovers and dedicated seven of the nine recognized penalties.

Herbert done a 54-garden move to Jalen Guyton and a 45-yarder to Joshua Palmer. If not, the Chargers experienced no enjoy achieve much more than 17 yards.

Staley was asked afterward about 2022 potentially teetering by now.

“We’re just three game titles into a 17-game year,” he stated. “That’s how the NFL is. You treat it one week at a time. In some cases video games occur like this. … It is how you respond tomorrow and the upcoming working day and subsequent working day right after that.”