Surge or Static: This can’t be how it ends, right?

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports Every year it gets brought up at least once, but usually closer to a handful of times as the season progresses.

Is Philip Rivers done? Will he retire or will the Chargers decline to re-sign him for another year?

Is his arm strength finally gone? Is he finally losing some of that sharp decision-making that has allowed him be one of the better quarterbacks in the NFL for the last 15 years?

These questions, and many more, were running through the brains of countless Chargers fans each and every time Rivers’ chucked another interception to keep the Bolts from ever getting within arms’ length of hope in Monday night’s contest against the Kansas City Chiefs.

At the end,…