The Chargers defense is peaking at the right time and that helps when you’re about to close the season against an offense that has scored 20+ in only five of their 17 games this season. While three of those games have come in the past four weeks, they’ve come against the Cardinals (30th in points allowed) and twice against the Chiefs (20th).
The Chargers have allowed 22.1 points per game this season (19th), but have only allowed 10, 3, 14, and 17 points in each of the past four weeks, respectively. That’s an average of 11 points. The Broncos scored 16 against the Chargers in week six, but this hopefully improved defense doesn’t allow the same explosive plays it did to keep that game close.