Chargers News: LB Mourns Repeat Pattern Of LA Losses This Year

It was another wasted year for the Bolts...

Your Los Angeles Chargers finished the 2023 season with a record of 5-12. After entering the year with high hopes, the team fizzled out fairly quickly as the season went on.

Eight of the 12 losses for the Chargers this season came by one score or less. Once again, close games were what ended up costing the Chargers down the stretch.

Veteran linebacker Eric Kendricks looked at the repeated commonality of the games. He said that it just added to the overall frustration of the season, per Eric Smith of Chargers.com.

"A lot of our games were just like the game today … came down to the very last series," Kendricks said. "Unfortunately, we were on the wrong side of that too many times this year. We worked so hard together, definitely very frustrating."

It has become a pattern for this organization of late, and they can't seem to get out of their way. The difference between winning and losing in the NFL is so small, and the Chargers consistently have found ways to lose games.

All-Pro safety Derwin James Jr. agreed with Kendricks on the matter, saying that every play means something. The way that the Chargers have performed in recent years, they haven't been able to afford any bad snaps.

"Every step, every mistake, every play that you don't think matters, matters," James said. "Because we were had eight games [where we were] two to three points short. We just have to get better from that."

The hope is that things will get better with new leadership coming in. The Bolts have to hire both a new head coach and general manager, and hopefully, they can help fix these small mistakes that the Chargers can't seem to deal with.