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Chargers find another way to blow a game down stretch, this time at Jacksonville

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - You don't want to be a verb. Not like this. But Sunday, the Los Angeles Chargers, sure got "Chargered."

What's that mean, you ask?

It's snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in new and inventive ways. It's shooting yourself in the foot while knocking wobbly punts off of it. It's making mind-numbingly unnecessary penalties. It's still being good enough to be in position to win - but somehow stumbling.

And the 20-17 overtime loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday was

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