Chargers' Brandon Staley believes he should remain head coach after disastrous loss: 'I believe in myself'

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Brandon Staley doesn’t know whether he’ll continue to be the head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers, but he does believe that he should be. 

The Chargers looked lifeless in Thursday night’s blowout loss to the Las Vegas Raiders, a team that came off a 3-0 loss just five days earlier. 

Running back Brandon Bolden, #34 of the Las Vegas Raiders, celebrates after scoring a touchdown with teammate tight end Michael Mayer, #87 against the Los Angeles Chargers, during the second quarter at Allegiant Stadium on December 14, 2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Candice Ward/Getty Images)

Trailing 42-0 by halftime and allowing more than 57 points was a historic low for the team that played without quarterback Justin Herbert, who watched from the sidelines after undergoing season-ending surgery on his hand. 

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"We just didn’t have a good game tonight," Staley told reporters after the game. "We didn’t have it from the beginning to the end. Just one of those games where nothing went right for us. And we’ve got a good group of guys, but it was just one of those games where all three phases – the worst thing happened to us tonight."

But it wasn’t a "normal occurrence" in the league, as some reporters pointed out. The 42-point deficit by halftime has only been seen twice before, according to The Associated Press, once in 2014 by the Green Bay Packers over the Chicago Bears and in 1983 with the Packers over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 

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Naturally, Staley’s future with the team was the topic of conversation.