0-7 after 11 wins: the Chargers’ historic start

The Chargers are 0-7 after an 11-6 playoff season a year ago. In 27 seasons of league results, from 1999 through 2026, no other team that won 11 games one year opened the next one 0-7.

Los Angeles has scored 99 points and allowed 175, a minus-76 gap. The losses have not been blowouts — the margins are 12, 12, 8, 7, 6, 16 and 15 — but the closest was a 23-17 home loss to Denver.

The Chargers have not scored a touchdown since Kimani Vidal’s 42-yard run late in the third quarter against Denver in Week 5. They then managed two field goals at Kansas City and three against the Rams.

Justin Herbert has started every game: 131 of 212 for 1,398 yards, five touchdown passes and 10 interceptions. The last two starts produced zero touchdown passes and three interceptions.

The Chargers had not opened 0-7 since 2000, when they started 0-11 and finished 1-15. Jim Harbaugh was a veteran quarterback on that roster and started five games, all losses; now he is the head coach living through the franchise’s next 0-7.

The Texans, at 2-5, visit SoFi Stadium on Sunday, November 8, at 4:05 p.m. Eastern. A win would end the historic start; a loss would make Los Angeles 0-8, with Baltimore on the road next.