CHARGER REVIEW : REPORT CARD : Not Even Close to Making the Grade

D: QUARTERBACKS

Milli Vanilli has better chance of making a comeback than Chargers when behind. What’s worse? Tolliver’s passes? Or the guys trying to catch his passes?

C+: RUNNING BACKS

They say Rod Bernstine can’t block, and he’s hurt, so they send him in to block. Ronnie Harmon dazzles, but Marion Butts spends day on his keister.

F: RECEIVERS

Wouldn’t be shocked if Nate Lewis didn’t catch a ride home. Nice day: Arthur Cox loses 6 yards on 2 catches and 15 yards for kicking a defender.

C: OFFENSIVE LINE

Tight ends add hand in stopping Derrick Thomas. Ground game goes nowhere, and battered Tolliver looks like someone who’s fought Arnold Schwarzenegger.

C-: DEFENSIVE LINE

Steve DeBerg has felt more pressure from door-to-door magazine salesmen than he faced from these guys. Chiefs get last word in trenches with Barry Word.

F: LINEBACKERS

Chargers stick with a limping Junior Seau and now you know what they think of his backup, Cedric Figaro. Linebackers make Bill Jones a household name in KC.

D: DEFENSIVE BACKS

J.J. Birden could have run all the way to Oklahoma and these guys wouldn’t have caught him. Of course, they were kind to give Birden a head start.

D-: SPECIAL TEAMS

Does Junior Seau have an incentive clause in his contract that rewards him for being penalized on kickoffs? Chiefs dominate Chargers’ special teams.

D: COACHING

Al Saunders stopped by--makes you appreciate just how far the Chargers have come. Where they go from here depends on just how good Dan Henning is.