Los Angeles Chargers are in great company after pulling off rare feat

Travis Wakeman

Los Angeles Chargers are in great company after pulling off rare feat image

The Los Angeles Chargers pulled off something the NFL rarely sees on Sunday. 

It's not often that a team starts the season with three straight divisional opponents... It's even more rare that they win all of those games. The Chargers are 3-0 and might be the most impressive team in the NFL so far due to the fact that their three victories are all within the AFC West. 

The last team in the NFL to open a season 3-0 with all of those wins coming against divisional opponents was the 2006 Chicago Bears. The Bears started 7-0 that season and reached the Super Bowl. That's a good omen for this year's Chargers, who have come storming out of the gates to start the season. 

It was the first time the Chargers have started 3-0 since the 2002 season, when Drew Brees was the starting quarterback and Marty Schottenheimer was the head coach. Those were some special years for the Bolts and it looks like the team may be on the right track this season. 

Los Angeles Chargers remaining schedule

Week 4 at New York Giants
Week 5 vs. Washington
Week 6 at Miami
Week 7 vs. Indianapolis
Week 8 vs. Minnesota
Week 9 at Tennessee
Week 10 vs. Pittsburgh
Week 11 at Jacksonville
Week 12 BYE
Week 13 vs. Las Vegas
Week 14 vs. Philadelphia
Week 15 at Kansas City
Week 16 at Dallas
Week 17 vs. Houston
Week 18 at Denver

Looking at the team's remaining schedule, based on what we have seen through the first three weeks of the NFL season, that seems to set up pretty favorably for the Chargers to win a lot of games this season. 

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Travis Wakeman

Travis Wakeman has been covering the NFL since 2012 when he started with Bleacher Report. After reporting about the Broncos there until 2016, he joined the FanSided network as a site expert covering the San Diego/Los Angeles Chargers while simultaneously covering the Broncos at Broncos Wire when that site launched. He then took over the Broncos site at FanSided in March 2020 and covered the team there until spring of 2024. A lifelong Broncos fan and fan of the game, Travis is filled with sometimes useless NFL knowledge, but it always serves him well in any trivia contest. You can follow him on Twitter/X @traviswakeman10.