Chargers survive high scoring shootout versus Browns

INGLEWOOD — Chargers moving backmost Austin Ekeler didn’t privation the madness to continue. He tried his champion not to transverse the extremity portion precocious successful the 4th fourth of a ridiculous shootout betwixt the Chargers and Cleveland Browns.

Ekeler was conflicted due to the fact that his Chargers’ defence couldn’t halt the Browns from scoring and his kicker was unreliable aft 2 missed extra-point attempts. Ekeler ended up scoring with the assistance of the Browns’ defense.

The chaos continued, but the Browns’ other possession didn’t doom the Chargers. They survived the madness with a 47-42 triumph implicit the Browns to amended to 4-1 connected the season. The Chargers besides extended their winning streak to 3 games.

Quarterback Justin Herbert completed 26 of 43 passes for 398 yards and 4 touchdowns. The Chargers’ defence allowed 532 full yards including 230 connected the ground.

Chargers information Derwin James was connected a record-pace for tackles, but it’s usually not a bully motion erstwhile a antiaircraft backmost is starring that statistical class by a wide margin.

James had galore opportunities to tackle the Cleveland Browns’ moving backmost tandem of Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt due to the fact that the Chargers’ defence often allowed them to get past the “first level,” a fashionable operation by Chargers manager Brandon Staley.

The Chargers person struggled to power the “first level” of the enactment of scrimmage astir of the play and Sunday astatine SoFi Stadium was nary antithetic with defenders falling to tackle Chubb and Hunt.

Although the Chargers saw the backs of the Browns aft missed tackles and busted coverages, they were ne'er retired of the crippled due to the fact that of different stellar two-man show from Herbert and Mike Williams.

But arsenic the Chargers racked up yards and touchdowns, it was a antithetic and acquainted obstacle that astir doomed them: the kicking game. Tristan Vizcaino missed 2 extra-point attempts.

Two heavy touchdowns passes from Herbert to Williams and different assertive attack connected 4th down led to a thrilling shootout down the agelong betwixt the Chargers and Browns.

The Chargers stared astatine a 14-point shortage aft Chubb bypassed aggregate defenders portion moving connected the close broadside of the tract for a 52-yard rushing touchdown and a 27-13 vantage aboriginal successful the 3rd quarter.

Herbert did immoderate moving of his ain to trim the Browns’ pb to 27-21 with 6:25 successful the 3rd quarter. Herbert ran upfield with Browns’ antiaircraft extremity Myles Garrett chasing him and it seemed the 6-foot-6 backmost was retired of space, but Herbert chopped to his near for a 9-yard rushing touchdown. Herbert past recovered choky extremity Donald Parham Jr. for the 2-point conversion.

The Browns got an other possession earlier halftime aft Chargers moving backmost Austin Ekeler fumbled astatine his team’s 22-yard enactment with 38 seconds left. Kicker Chase McLaughlin made a 31-yard tract extremity to springiness the Browns a 20-13 halftime advantage. The Browns had 111 rushing yards and controlled the clip of possession with 21:39 heading into the locker room.

On Monday night, the Chargers held the Las Vegas Raiders to 48 rushing yards. The tandem of Chubb and Hunt recorded 65 rushing yards successful the archetypal 4th on against the Chargers.

The Browns utilized 3 choky ends connected the tract to summation astir of their yards successful the opening half. Mayfield took vantage of miscommunication from the Chargers’ secondary to find an unfastened Rashard Higgins for a 7-yard touchdown and a 10-7 pb with 12:46 successful the 2nd quarter.

On the pursuing drive, Herbert besides took vantage of a busted sum erstwhile helium recovered an unfastened Mike Wiliams for a 72-yard touchdown. The Chargers took a 13-10 pb with 11:43 successful the 2nd 4th aft Tristan Vizcaino’s missed extra-point attempt.

The Browns got the tally crippled going with 53 rushing yards connected their archetypal drive, but had to settee for a McLaughlin 35-yard tract extremity aft James’ portion sack stopped Cleveland’s momentum wrong the reddish zone. The Chargers’ prima information had six tackles connected the drive, arsenic the Browns took a 3-0 pb with 7:39 successful the archetypal quarter.

The Chargers responded with a 10-play, 85-yard scoring thrust that ended with a Parham Jr. 22-yard touchdown drawback to instrumentality a 7-3 vantage with 2:44 successful the archetypal quarter. Parham had unfastened abstraction adjacent the close sideline aft catching Herbert’s surface walk due to the fact that Keenan Allen and Stephen Anderson delivered cardinal blocks.

This communicative volition beryllium updated.