A local reporter takes a look at some of the reasons the team may have turned it around at the end of the season.
"The Chargers' biggest men were misfiring by the smallest of margins," North County Times' reporter Jay Paris writes, discussing the Chargers' offensive line.
"We haven't had the year we wanted to have obviously, but it's a game of inches," Bolt tackle Jeromey Clary told the paper. "It's sometimes a small error in an angle, maybe off one degree. I don't think we are that far off but we are just playing more consistent now."
How the front five do against Indianapolis will decide whether the Bolts have a bid at becoming the AFC champions.
Of course, injuries -- or lack thereof -- played a part in the end-of the season surge, too.
"We got [left tackle Marcus McNeill] back and we got [Center Nick Hardwick] back, and I'm not sure they were totally back like they are now from a health standpoint," head coach Norv Turner said. "I think it took some time."
Read the North County Times' "Reason for Offensive Line's Improvement Hard to Pinpoint" for more details.
