Mike McCoy: Latest News, Rumors and Speculation on Chargers HC's Future

San Diego Chargers head coach Mike McCoy's job could be in jeopardy after the team fell to 1-4 with another late-game collapse against the Oakland Raiders.

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Latest on McCoy's Job Security

Monday, Oct. 10

Ian Rapoport of NFL.com reported San Diego's next two games are critical to McCoy's status. The Chargers host the Denver Broncos on Thursday before traveling to Atlanta for a matchup with the Falcons in Week 7.

Bleacher Report's Jason Cole reported offensive coordinator Ken Whisenhunt would take over should McCoy be fired.

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Chargers Have Failed to Impress Under McCoy's Guidance

The Chargers are 23-30 in McCoy's tenure but have fallen apart over the last two seasons. McCoy is 5-16 over his last 12 games, including a dreadful 1-4 record in 2016 that has seen San Diego find confounding ways to blow games. 

In Week 1, the Kansas City Chiefs trailed by 21 in the second half before scoring the game's final 23 points in a 33-27 win. Two weeks later, the Chargers defense broke down to allow Andrew Luck and T.Y. Hilton to connect on a 63-yard touchdown with less than two minutes left. Chargers tight end Hunter Henry subsequently fumbled the ball away on a potential game-winning drive.

Last week, San Diego aided a New Orleans Saints comeback by turning the ball over on its final three drives, and Drew Brees threw two touchdown passes in the last four minutes for a 35-34 win. The Chargers turned the ball over four times in Sunday's loss to the Raiders, including a botched snap on a field-goal try that would have tied the game.

All told, it's been a confounding set of circumstances that has rankled the organization.

“Discouraging probably isn’t strong enough," quarterback Philip Rivers said, per Ricky Henne of Chargers.com. “I don’t know if there are many more ways left to find a way to lose. … I mean, you can’t make this stuff up. You think, really, is there any other way we can find a way to do this?”

With all four of the Chargers' losses coming by one score, chances are they're a better team than their record shows. They're due for a positive mean regression. But nine of San Diego's 12 losses last season were by one score; at this point, it's fair to wonder if McCoy is doing a poor job of preparing his team for late-game situations.

Whisenhunt, in all likelihood, wouldn't be much of a solution. He went 3-20 before being fired seven games into his second season as Tennessee Titans coach in 2015. His head coaching record has been littered with failures since a surprise Super Bowl appearance with the Arizona Cardinals in 2008.

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