Wild Card Weekend was anything but that for 4/5ths of the weekend slate.
Then Washington/Tampa Bay happened.
But this blog isn’t for the winners.
It’s for the losers.
These are your sad stats for Wild Card Weekend.
Bring hope to your fans and crush that hope like a grape.
They had everyone thinking they could at least beat the mopey Texans.
Not just Chargers fans either.
A few more notes.
Since 2009, the Chargers have won two playoff games.
The Titans have won three.
So have the Panthers.
Yes, the Panthers.
The Jets have even won four.
What are we doing here?
I’ll tell you what they’re doing here.
They’re being incredibly average.
Just like they always are.
I even wrote about this very thing a year or two ago.
It’s truly dazzling.
Let’s see it dazzle.
Here was the Chargers franchise record at the time of that blog’s posting back in September of 2023.
And here was Justin Herbert’s record with the Chargers.
Incredibly average… you get the point.
I’ll do you all a favor and not relitigate the names.
But I will say one name.
I still think they should have let it ride with Justin.
While the Chargers are average minus one, the Steelers are pretty much alwasy average plus one.
Just good enough to make the dance.
But always left standing in the corner watching everyone else have fun.
Some of us knew his offensive line was making him look much better than he was.
Some of us knew…
It’s probably a bad sign that the Packers quite frankly looked the same with Malik Willis this year.
That’s a huge red flag not talked about enough.
But there’s a flip side to that.
It’s that Jordan Love isn’t that great.
His only good win this season was at home vs Houston and even then he threw two picks.
And save for a blocked field goal would have been 0-2 vs the disaster of a Chicago Bears outfit.
That’s it for the weekend.
We’ll see what’s in store for tonight.
