Following a huge loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on Saturday, several members of the Los Angeles Chargers are upset that they let a big opportunity get by them.

“It’s pretty obvious we didn’t play our best game,” Head Coach Anthony Lynn said, via the team's website. “We reverted back to doing some things that we’d done earlier in the season. We turned the ball over. We didn’t tackle well in space. We had some dumb penalties at bad times. In saying all that, we did come back and take a lead in the third quarter. We just couldn’t sustain it.

“Bad games can crop up at any time, but I would like to think we were beyond some of these (mistakes) and that we had taken that next step. As a program, we took a step back today.”

That's not the issue Lynn or others are having. It is that the Chargers no longer have control of their own destiny.

“At this point of the season, we don’t control our own destiny right now,” Lynn said.  “We lost that today.  We can win out, but we’re probably going to need some help. All we can control is these next two weeks….  Our playoffs have begun.  There’s no absolute that we’re going to the playoffs even if we win the next two games. But if we don’t, we’re damn sure not going.”

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Quarterback Philip Rivers was none too pleased himself.

“I think the hardest part of it is that while it’s not necessarily over yet, now you’re not in control,” echoed Rivers.  “You’ve got to make sure you take care of the next couple, but then you need certain things to happen.  So that is the toughest part, to claw our way (to) right here and taste it again, and then not play very well.”

This doesn't end the team's season, but now the Chargers will need to not only win, but hope other things fall in their favor as well.