Chargers’ offensive coordinator Greg Roman told a story the other day about a game plan gone awry. He didn’t name the date, the year or the team that employed him at the time, but it was clear he didn’t want a repeat when the Chargers host the Denver Broncos on Sunday .

“I made the mistake one year of going into a game and I put all of my eggs in this one basket with an extra ‘O-lineman’ and then two key guys got hurt on the same play and they’re out and I’m looking at my call sheet and the plays are falling off in front of my eyes,” Roman recalled.

It was one way to explain why the Chargers have been so reliant on their passing game during victories over the Kansas City Chiefs and the Las Vegas Raiders to begin the season, after they spoke so often during the offseason and trainin

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