The Chargers turned in the worst performance of any team in the NFL\u2019s wild card weekend, barely looking competitive in a 16-3 loss to the Patriots. Afterward, head coach Jim Harbaugh said he couldn\u2019t explain why his team scored only three points.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really don\u2019t have the answers,\u201d Harbaugh said. \u201cI wish I did. If I did there would have been a different result. We\u2019ll be spending a lot of hard work and sleepless nights getting to figure it out. The way these players fight, they give it their very best, they give it their all, we owe them that. Like I told the team, those that stay will be champions. We\u2019re not looking at this as an end, but as another beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harbaugh says he\u2019ll look at everything on the team as he assesses how to be better in 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe weren\u2019t good enough as a team. And that\u2019s what we do: We win as a team, we lose as a team, and it\u2019s our responsibility to have the team in a better position,\u201d Harbaugh said. :”And a lot of it\u2019s the Patriots, too. The Patriots played very well, they did a good job and I want to congratulate them.\u201d<\/p>\n
When Harbaugh was hired as the Chargers\u2019 head coach in 2024, he took over a team coming off a 5-12 season. He\u2019s gone 11-6 in each of his first two years with the Chargers, which is undeniable improvement. But his Chargers are also 0-2 in the playoffs. He doesn\u2019t have the answer for why that\u2019s the case, but he knows he needs to figure it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chargers turned in the worst performance of any team in the NFL\u2019s wild card weekend, barely looking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-403215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}