Chargers predicted to get off to rough regular season start within the division

Chargers predicted to get off to rough regular season start within the division originally appeared on The Sporting News

The Los Angeles Chargers open the 2025 season with three straight divisional opponents. At least one analyst feels that the team will get off to a bumpy start. 

The Chargers open the season in Brazil against the Chiefs before playing the Raiders in Las Vegas and then hosting the Broncos in Week 3. John Breech of CBS Sports made his predictions for when each NFL team will lose its first game this coming season, and he has the Chargers stumbling out of the gate. 

"The Chiefs have won seven straight games against the Chargers, but they've never beaten them in Brazil. However, there's a first time for everything. The Chargers have had a run of bad injury luck with Rashawn Slater out for the season and the Chiefs are the Chiefs", wrote Breech. 

Jim Harbaugh fought Andy Reid hard twice last season, but came up short. He goes to 0-3 against him as the coach of the Chargers with this prediction. But it doesn't stop there. While we don't know how Breech sees the Week 2 game vs. the Raiders (because he has the Raiders losing in Week 1 as well), we can see that he predicts the Broncos to beat them in Week 3 as he doesn't have the Broncos losing their first game until Week 4. 

That means that the Chargers, according to Breech, will start the season 1-2, at best. 

As far as predictions go, it gets a little worse. Over at NFL.com, Ali Bhanpuri and Adam Rank predicted each game of the upcoming season and locked in their playoff teams as a result. 

Bhanpuri has the Chargers finishing the season 10-7 and fitting into the No. 6 slot in the AFC. Rank also has them going 10-7, but they miss the playoffs entirely in his prediction. 

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It seems that the Chargers have failed to create any new believers this offseason, as many analysts see them being about as good as they were last year, if not a little bit worse. Harbaugh could use that as fuel to rally his troops. 

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