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Anthony Lynn and the Los Angeles Chargers are coming off their worst loss in franchise history, a blowout 45-0 defeat at the hands of the New England Patriots. Los Angeles found itself at 3-9 on the season heading into Sunday’s meaningless Week 14 game against the Atlanta Falcons.
Despite their lack of success over the past couple of seasons, the Los Angeles Chargers are apparently committed to Lynn at least through the end of the 2020 campaign. We’re still not sure why.
What we saw in Southern California late in the second quarter on Sunday adds a completely new layer to this whole conversation.
It's almost like the #Chargers would be better off without a head coach right now. What is happening? pic.twitter.com/428iAvV1bw
— Sportsnaut (@Sportsnaut) December 13, 2020
The Los Angeles Chargers were facing a 4th-and-inches from inside Atlanta’s 10-yard line as time was expiring in the second quarter. As you can see, there was a ton of confusion. Los Angeles’ offense stayed on the field before its coaching staff told the special teams to take to the field.
The interesting thing here is that Lynn himself noted ahead of Sunday’s game that he was going to get more involved on special teams. How’s that working out?
Of course, fans had their reactions to the Chargers' poor clock management:
the plan? give the chargers the best uniforms in NFL history to distract fans from everything else they do pic.twitter.com/3LCJAYdT0s
— Mina Kimes (@minakimes) December 13, 2020
Anthony Lynn should be fired at halftime for that end of half scenario right there. Every week I think, what are the Chargers doing?!
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) December 13, 2020
This didn't help. https://t.co/A6Lub4qcLO
— NFL Update (@MySportsUpdate) December 13, 2020
Anthony Lynn is terrible for not knowing what they were calling there.
— Bolt Beat (@BB_Chargers) December 13, 2020
Steichen is terrible for calling ANOTHER run play with no timeouts in the red zone.
It’s an absolute dumpster fire.
With 20 seconds left in the first half and no timeouts, the Chargers ran the ball on 3rd & 1.
— Field Yates (@FieldYates) December 13, 2020
They were stopped short and while some of the offense stayed on the field, the field goal team also ran on. They could not get a field goal off successfully and come up with 0 points.
The #Chargers and Anthony Lynn are so committed to running on every 3rd-and-1 that they did with no timeouts and 22 seconds left in the half at the plus 8 yard line.
— Daniel Popper (@danielrpopper) December 13, 2020
Say what you want about Lynn, but the utter, steadfast, unflinching loyalty to the #brand is inspiring.
WHAT ARE THE CHARGERS DOING?!?!?!
— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) December 13, 2020
I now legitimately think the Chargers believe the clock stops after running plays
— James Holzhauer (@James_Holzhauer) December 13, 2020
The Chargers ultimately found themselves down 17-10 at the half, coming away with zero points on that final drive. It’s some ugly stuff from the Lynn-led squad.
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