The Chargers have fired coach Anthony Lynn after four seasons following a ’20 campaign that saw the team go 7-9 but lose “seven games by one score,” according to Shelley Smith of ESPN.com. Lynn made a “valiant effort at the end of the season, as the Chargers finished the season winning their final four games.” However, it “wasn’t enough for owner Dean Spanos.” Lynn finishes with a 33-31 record and just one playoff appearance (ESPN.com, 1/4). In L.A., Dylan Hernandez before Lynn was fired wrote whatever move Spanos made "will inform Los Angeles of what they’re about." If the team kept Lynn, it would have shown they are "still the goofs who ran the Chargers into the ground in San Diego." Making the move shows the team's top execs "have learned something over the last four years about operating a franchise in a major market." Lynn’s teams "made the mistakes that should never happen at the professional level," so "keeping him would be tantamount to endorsing this brand of amateurish football." That is "not the statement" the Spanos family "should want to make, especially here, especially with the possibility that SoFi Stadium will be open to fans next season" (L.A. TIMES, 1/4).
