Chargers: New Head Coach, New Season, Phillip Rivers & Defense Still Chokes

Is this still the 2012 football season?  Is Norv Turner really gone from the Chargers?  Because the 2013 Chargers did their best impression of the Norv Turner 2012 San Diego Chargers where the team puts in a marvelous first half only to not come out of the locker room at half time and surrender a 20+ point lead to lose a football.

And Phillip Rivers continues to SUCK and in epic fashion.  Of course he was good for a 2nd half pick six and the offense, as a whole, failed to do much, if anything, for the majority of the second half... they were completely inept.

But let's not let the defense off the hook...they were equally hapless in their efforts to try and stop the Texans from simply marching down the field at will, with long sustained drives...a couple extended thanks to Charger penalties.

With 10:42 left in the third quarter the Chargers take a 28-7 lead and many people may have thought the Chargers were going to win this game going away...but no...Rivers and the rest of the Chargers simply folded up and let the Texans run all over them for the remaining 25:00 of the game and cranked out 24 unanswered points to crush the Chargers.

The Charger defense is as bad as it ever was.  Phillip Rivers is as bad as he ever was...sure he had 3 TD passes, but the pick six late in the game is the same old crappy Rivers we've seen for the past two years.

Chargers could have stunned a lot of people with a thrilling upset to start the season out...instead, they just live up their reputation of being colossal choke artists.  Don't count any team out of a game with the Chargers, regardless of the score...the Chargers don't have the fortitude to bring it home.