COSTA MESA, Calif. -- It was nearly two weeks after his team's final game when Los Angeles Chargers general manager Tom Telesco spoke to the media. His team had been relegated to the sidelines after losing to the Las Vegas Raiders on the last play in overtime in the last game of the regular season, which meant no playoffs for the third straight year and seventh time in eight seasons.
And that stung, and then some.
"Professionally, it was one of the most difficult defeats I've been through,” Telesco said Thursday. "I felt like we had enough to be a playoff team and get in to show what we could do, and it didn't happen.