The Los Angeles Chargers collapsed in the wild-card round playoff loss to the Houston Texans in quite a few ways. Justin Herbert struggled, at least in part because of the gutted roster on offense around him, while head coach Jim Harbaugh called out one particular problematic area .

The Texans heard how the Chargers' improvement in seed gave them an easier opponent in Houston, but the home team's defense shut down L.A.'s playoff hopes.

The Cardinals aren’t in the playoffs but a pair of former Cardinals are part of the Chargers-Texans wild card matchup.