Norv Turner keeps adage San Diego can be a acceptable team, and the Chargers accumulate responding with second-half collapses.
Monday night was epic: The Chargers blew a 24-0 halftime advance and absent 35-24 to Peyton Manning wear
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It angry for the fourth-biggest improvement in NFL regular-season history.
A anniversary earlier, San Diego blew a 10-point third-quarter advance in accident 31-24 at New Orleans. They let the Saints account the final 17 credibility and afresh watched as the Broncos denticulate the final 35 credibility Monday night.
It was such an astronomic anticlimax that the commonly boisterous admirers didn't even boo.
The Broncos (3-3) angry the Chargers (3-3) aloft the AFC West. Both teams accept their byes this weekend.
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After committing 25 turnovers endure year, including 20 interceptions, Rivers has committed 12 in the aboriginal six amateur this season, including nine picks.
'We're traveling to fix the issues that are befitting us from finishing games,' said Turner, who already afresh has fatigued the ire of the admirers but is acceptable to survive at atomic until season's end.
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Asked area the assurance was in the third and fourth quarters, Turner snapped: 'You're not listening. It's not how harder we're arena it the third and fourth quarter. If you about-face the brawl over four times, you're not traveling to win the game, OK? And that's the botheration we accept to fix. There was abundant accomplishment and assurance in the third and fourth quarter. If the brawl is on the arena or you're axis it over, it doesn't matter.'
After Ryan Mathews fumbled at the Atlanta 4-yard band three weeks ago, Turner said he was traveling to absolute the active back's acknowledgment to assertive situations.
Asked if he planned to do the aforementioned affair with Rivers, Turner wear
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Rivers wasn't abandoned in arena poorly. He's been affected to blitz throws and even bandy off his aback bottom the endure two amateur because the abhorrent band hasn't adequate him well.
While Rivers was beneath annoy Monday night, San Diego's aegis bootless to sack Manning and had just one hit adjoin the 36-year-old brilliant QB, who's regaining his anatomy afterwards missing endure season, his final year in Indianapolis.