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Chargers Cardinals Week 7 Game Recap
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Chargers Cardinals Week 7 Game Recap

The Chargers fell to 3-3 after Monday night’s 17-15 road loss to the Cardinals.

Here are five tips from week 7:

The Chargers suffered a bitter defeat in primetime on Monday evening.

And while the Bolts were certainly frustrated in the locker room after the game, they also recognized that the loss also had a lot to do with their own doing.

“We didn’t play a lot of detailed football and it showed throughout the game,” Khalil Mack said.

Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh said, “It was a game with a lot of near misses or close calls… came down to a lot of details, a lot of things. I don’t put it on one play.”

The play Harbaugh was referring to came with less than two minutes left.

The Chargers, leading 15-14, had Arizona facing second-and-10 on their own 30-yard line.

The Bolts broke up a pass on the right sideline, but rookie cornerback Cam Hart was flagged for unnecessary roughness.

“We try not to be surprised about the call, just try to move on to the next play,” Derwin James Jr. said. “Even if they call, we can’t change the call at that time.

“We were just trying to get to the next play and get a stop, but we couldn’t get a stop,” James added. “That flag was devastating and hurt us.”

Mack added: “He’s just playing tough football. Even though the call was questionable, I don’t know what you can do when a guy puts his head down and you’re trying to make contact so he can’t get the ball.” to play. We stand behind him.”

Harbaugh said, “I saw what I saw, but I have no comment on it.”

Finding new life, the Cardinals hit a 33-yard pass on the ensuing play and later ran out the clock before kicking a game-winning field goal.

A few minutes before all that, the Bolts thought they might have a chance to finish the game.

But a third-down flag thrown by the officials was picked up despite an Arizona defender making up-close and personal contact with wide receiver Simi Fehoko.

Instead of another set of downs after the two-minute warning, the Bolts only took a one-point lead after a field goal.

“I saw our receiver being held down, wrapped up. They did the elusive sign,” Harbaugh said. ‘We had a double move, he was caught. I’ll let them explain how they led that action.”

The four-minute streak didn’t break the Bolts’ ways as the Chargers fell agonizingly short in Week 7.

The focus now shifts to a short week as the Bolts are at home against New Orleans on Sunday.

Harbaugh said he wants the loss to give his team “steel in the backbone.”

“You have a (bad) taste in your mouth and you have to suck it up,” Harbaugh said.

He later added, “This is the kind of stuff you use as fuel and learn from.”

James said: “Frustrating. You don’t want to lose games, especially because we know how much they count in the end. We’re going to look back on this game and I don’t want to just dwell on it… we have these kinds of games we have to win to prove ourselves position where we want to be at the end of the season.”

Justin Herbert added: “There is a lot to improve on and we are looking forward to this week’s challenge.”