For Philip Rivers and teammates, the midpoint of the 2019 season comes in seven days, but the point of no return may already be here.
The Chargers have lost their past three games to drop their win-loss record to 2-5, and that’s pretty crummy for a franchise that last year went 12-4 and won a playoff game on the road.
Other Rivers teams dug out of deep trenches, for sure; but that was long ago and this is now, with Rivers headed to his 38th birthday in December.
Here’s the San Diegan’s biggest problem in his quest for his first AFC West title since 2009: Neither Rivers nor his team is playing well overall and especially when it has the ball near the end zone.