Bolts From The Blue
The combined 2024 win-loss record for the Chargers’ home opponents this season is vastly greater than their road opponents.
The Chargers were able to capitalize on one of the league’s easiest schedules in 2024 en route to winning 11 games in Jim Harbaugh’s first season as head coach while also punching their ticket to the postseason.
Unfortunately, the downside of being able to take advantage of a soft schedule one year is that the following year is likely not going to be nearly as easy. Without digging any deeper than the team names on the schedule, the Chargers are going to be in for a tough time. The reigning champion Eagles are coming to Sofi Stadium, along with the Vikings, Texans, Commanders, and Steelers.
In fact, the home schedule for the Chargers is LIGHTYEARS more difficult than their road gauntlet. To see just how tough their home/away splits are, I went ahead and added up the 2024 records for every team on their schedule to show just how big the discrepancy is.
Just check this out.
Total win-loss record at home: 97-56
Total win-loss record on the road: 54-82
To put it into a number, the win percentage from 2024 of teams the Chargers will face at home is 63 percent. Contrast that to their road opponent’s combined win-loss percentage and you get 39.7 percent. That’s one heck of a difference.
Any NFL team who wants to be one of the best in the league wants to, and should, take care of business when opposing teams come into their house. If you’re not good at home, it likely means you’re not going to have a good year in general.
Whether or not you believe the Chargers go better this offseason, this upcoming season is going to be difficult. I don’t think that reality can be challenged. If everyone thought year one with Harbaugh was going to show how just good this coaching staff is, year two should end up doing that two times over.
