Every Chargers Playoff Game Is A Profound Waste Of Time

You have to feel a little bad for Justin Herbert, who ended Sunday night's 16-3 wild card loss to the New England Patriots by getting treated like a jobber in a Hell In A Cell match. The Patriots' front seven, which sacked Herbert six times, seemed to be trying out various suplexes on him throughout the fourth quarter, and the only real drama left in the game at that point was about whether Herbert would be able to finish it.

You have to feel a little exhausted by Justin Herbert, too, who is now 0-3 in the playoffs and has once again made meaningless a pile of regular-season statistics that would seem to indicate he's one of the best quarterbacks in the league. All Herbert managed to do on Sunday was complete 19 of his 31 pass attempts for 159 yards. The best thing he did for himself was spend the final few drives getting clobbered, because now people are more likely to remember the game for how the Chargers' patchwork offensive line ultimately came apart than for how useless Herbert was before the Patriots started teeing off.