The Los Angeles Chargers entered the 2023 season with Tremendous Bowl aspirations, and it may be time to regulate their purview. Sunday’s 27-24 defeat to the Tennessee Titans dropped the Chargers to 0-2, exhibiting they in all probability nonetheless shouldn’t be taken significantly as a contender.

Within the post-game, head coach Brandon Staley was attempting to course of the defeat with a gaggle of reporters. When somebody requested a query concerning the “Jacksonville recreation” — a reference to Staley’s Chargers blowing a historic result in the Jaguars in final yr’s playoffs — L.A.’s chief positively misplaced it. That is what occurs when purportedly “good” groups begin to really feel the strain amid disappointment.

Frustrations are clearly beginning to boil over for Staley and Co.:

Staley misplaced it when a reporter introduced up the Jacksonville recreation💀 pic.twitter.com/lUK8X180qJ

— G (@3treblig) September 17, 2023

Truthfully, I can perceive Staley’s gripe. If anybody’s nonetheless working with some form of narrative concerning the Chargers after a playoff recreation final January, it’s in all probability not honest. That mentioned, that form of recreation lives as much as the Chargers’ notorious franchise precedent of choking on the worst attainable time. And in a pivotal yr for Staley particularly, it’ll be onerous to dodge the aftermath of that devastating night time for Los Angeles. Nobody’s going to “transfer previous it” when the group nonetheless hasn’t received a recreation since.

Two weeks into a brand new season, the Chargers are already in catastrophe mode. What else is new?