But a team trying to win a Super Bowl has to do better. And my intention is not to pile on a hard-working player who has made some meaningful contributions this season. Bandy earned his practice squad spot with a fine training camp. He has gained a combined -21 yards - note the negative sign in front of that number - on those four touches.īeyond that, Bandy playing meaningful snaps in a playoff game is an indictment of this entire organization. The Chargers have run four jet sweeps to Carter this season. The jet sweep handoff call from Lombardi was an asinine decision in the first place, even if Carter had been in the game. And Trevor Lawrence engineered a 53-yard touchdown drive on the ensuing possession to put the Jaguars on the scoreboard heading into the break. Bandy recovered, but the Chargers were forced to punt. He was not aware of the kill, Herbert said. Bandy was not even looking for a handoff. Herbert took the snap and turned to hand off to Bandy, who was running in motion from right to left. Based on this look, Herbert killed the initial play, checking to the jet sweep. Herbert got to the line and saw a Jaguars front aligned to stop an interior run.
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At this stage of the second quarter, though, Carter was out of the game with an ankle injury, so Michael Bandy, a former undrafted free agent who started the season on the practice squad, was in at Carter’s spot. Carter was already filling in for Mike Williams, who suffered a back fracture in the Chargers’ meaningless Week 18 loss at the Broncos. All week, the Chargers had been practicing that jet sweep play with receiver DeAndre Carter as the handoff man, according to Herbert. The kill, or audible, was a jet sweep end around. Herbert said after the game that offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi called an interior run with a “kill” built in for this third down. On second down, Herbert responded with a completion to receiver Keenan Allen, who made a diving catch on a well-placed throw. Quarterback Justin Herbert’s first-down pass was batted at the line. The Chargers led 27-0 when they got the ball back at their own 18-yard line with 3:11 left in the second quarter. Trevor Lawrence leads historic comeback over Chargers The Chargers fell to the Jaguars, 31-30, on Saturday night at TIAA Bank Stadium in the wild-card round of the playoffs. 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. 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. 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.
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