Bend but don’t break.
It’s the phrase that was most frequently used to describe the Chargers’ stingy defense in 2017. Teams could move the ball — the defense was square in the middle of the league in yardage allowed — but points? Those were hard to come by.
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The Chargers allowed the third-fewest points thanks to that flexibility, and Saturday night at StubHub Center, now in Year 2 of defensive coordinator Gus Bradley’s system, the starters were contorting like a Cirque du Soleil troupe.