Learning from the past

Full Story Here: The Chargers are 8-3 and standing atop the AFC West. Denver, the division’s preseason favorite, sits one game back of the Bolts as the teams prepare for Sunday’s game before a sellout crowd at Qualcomm Stadium.

If that sounds eerily familiar to two years ago, when the Chargers were 8-4 and the Super Bowl-bound Oakland Raiders came to town, beating the Bolts 27-7 to start a four-game slide toward an 8-8 record and no postseason bid, the Chargers acknowledge the similarities without expecting the same results.