Staley has been refreshingly candid and open with the media, revealing the type of schematic details few, if any, NFL coaches are willing to share.Īnd yet, despite Staley’s best efforts to be different, the Chargers 2022 season ended in viciously familiar fashion. He brought in a new director of sports performance and implemented a more forward-thinking process for recovery and injury maintenance, like a mandatory activation period at the beginning of practices to allow players additional time to roll out their muscles and stretch individually. be to distribute and play turnover-free football in. In 2021, he hired an additional analytics staffer and leaned into more aggressive math-based decision-making, attempting to establish a killer mindset among his players in his first year on the job. You could make the argument he is the nations top returning player at his position after he tallied 1,567 yards and 16 scores last fall. He has tried to take that different approach. Staley has tried his hardest to eradicate the black cloud - “Chargering” - that hangs over this organization. And so, all right, well, how do you change that? Well, you have to do things different. “There’s this Chargering, and there’s all these external factors that I know in my life, they’re just all excuses. “The history of this team when I got here, it was like, someone’s going to get hurt, they’re going to blow a lead, something catastrophic is going to happen,” Staley said then. I was there to interview the head coach about fourth-down decision-making and analytics, but early on in the conversation, Staley’s words drifted to something broader, something more deep-seated - something that might seem intangible but has left real, permanent wounds for anyone associated with this franchise. Seven months ago, on a quiet offseason day in early June, I was sitting on a couch in Brandon Staley’s office at the Chargers facility in Orange County. They became the 27th team to be minus-five in the turnover margin in postseason history - and the first to win.Įarly on Saturday night, few could have imagined what was to come. Big-time throws are valuable, turnover-worthy throws are bad. Conversely, the bottom end of the scale is reserved for turnover-worthy throws (-1.0s, -1.5s, and -2.0s). The Jaguars executed the third-biggest comeback in playoff history. Each throw that is graded at the top end of the scale (+1.0s, +1.5s, and +2.0s) has been classified as a big-time throw. When somebody has that type of energy, and you can’t stop it, it’s a wonderful thing.”
“We were actually excited,” Jones said of the game-winning drive that ended with Riley Patterson’s 36-yard field goal. The monikered “Cardiac Cats” have a unique belief in themselves, and it’s rooted in their confidence in quarterback Trevor Lawrence. The Jaguars trailed 27-0 in the second quarter, but they kept after it. The finish felt inevitable - even to the Chargers - despite the outcome looking so improbable for so long. The Jaguars beat the Chargers at the buzzer, 31-30, Saturday night at TIAA Bank Field. Every time the Jaguars returned to the huddle on their game-winning drive, the wide receiver just couldn’t help himself.
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