Anthony Lynn and the Chargers coaching staff might want to start packing their bags
Los Angeles and rookie QB Justin Herbert are learning the hard way that clock management can quite literally be the difference between wins and losses. The Chargers have far outplayed their now 3-8 record this season, but after a loss to the Bills in Week 12, they’re all but certain to miss the postseason barring a miracle run in the final weeks.
Lynn’s Chargers completed a Hail Mary — the second the Bills defense has given up in just a few short weeks — with 40 seconds remaining in the game. Down double digits, any comeback attempt was dire, but the Chargers should’ve at least gone down swinging. Instead, Lynn and Herbert went with two running plays, and let the clock run out on them.
QB IS SNEAKING WHEN O-LINE IS DROPPING IN PASS PRO
— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) November 29, 2020
FIRE EVERYONE pic.twitter.com/633syvqRNr
Chargers fans are furious with Lynn postgame
Anthony Lynn should not coach football.
— Bolt Beat (@BB_Chargers) November 29, 2020
Oh my god you completed one of the most insane Hail Marys of the last couple years and Anthony Lynn CALLED A RUN PLAY IN THE FINAL 30 SECONDS?!?!?
— Brett Kollmann (@BrettKollmann) November 29, 2020
What the hell. Why the hell. How...I just...
The announcers are just straight bullying Anthony Lynn right now. Well deserved.
— DotsNCuts (@DotsNCuts) November 29, 2020
anthony lynn: has the rookie of the year and a pro bowl WR
— Noah Pires (@NoahPires_) November 29, 2020
also anthony lynn in any clutch situation: pic.twitter.com/LuNjyB5WU6
Justin Herbert when he sees Anthony Lynn in the locker room pic.twitter.com/ftyarsXqGf
— Jus10Herbert Burner 🗽 ➐ (@Jus10Herbert) November 29, 2020
anthony lynn and adam gase discussing the fact that they’re still employed pic.twitter.com/78LOAQKJWz
— brianna pirre (@bsp_13) November 29, 2020
Anthony Lynn is holding this Chargers team back.
— Joe Marino (@TheJoeMarino) November 29, 2020
Anthony Lynn after the run doesn’t work on 3 and 1 pic.twitter.com/cN2zuXQNod
— OT Megan #1 fan (@ur_Mom_69420_) November 29, 2020
FINAL: Bills 27, #Chargers 17
— Daniel Popper (@danielrpopper) November 29, 2020
Anthony Lynn's limitations as a game and time manager laid bare for all to see today. Horrific, inexcusable decision-making throughout this game.
It is not hyperbole to say that you -- yes, you, the person reading this -- would be a better in-game coach than Anthony Lynn. He is worse than Adam Gase. Yes. I said it. And I mean it.
— Nick Kostos (@TheKostos) November 29, 2020
I appreciate Anthony Lynn looking after my fantasy team, trying to run the ball to Austin Ekeler. That was inexcusable, though.
— Adam Rank (@adamrank) November 29, 2020
Lynn’s Chargers made the postseason just two years ago, but have since seen a downgrade in talent and the exodus on Philip Rivers. Herbert is promising, but Dean Spanos and Co. ought to pare him with his long-term coach, perhaps one of better offensive mind, and one that can handle the basic head coaching duties of clock management.
He proved incapable of doing so on Sunday, and several times over the course of this season. In a year that will define his head coaching tenure in San Diego/Los Angeles, Lynn hasn’t provided much hope for Chargers fans.