Quentin Johnston Drops Potential Game-Winning Touchdown

The Los Angeles Chargers have a unique ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, and on Sunday afternoon in Green Bay they managed to do just that, falling to 4-6 with a 23-20 loss to the Packers .

The Chargers were inconsistent all day on offense, struggling to get anything going against Green Bay and had only 13 points on the board through the first three quarters. Despite this, they were still in the game and finally woke up at seemingly the right time when Justin Herbert led a touchdown drive with 5:24 left in the fourth quarter, as he fired a rocket over Kenan Allen in the end zone . to give the Chargers a four-point lead.

However, that lead lasted only a few minutes as Jordan Love found Romeo Doubs in the end zone for a long touchdown, pushing the Packers back in front.

The Chargers would have to punt on their next drive after dropping back and facing 4th-and-20 deep in their own end zone, but would get it back with 1:08 left after their defense forced the necessary stop.

After a near disaster with a fumble in the backfield, the Chargers managed to reach their own 30 and faced a 3rd and 6 with 30 seconds remaining. There the good version of Herbert reappeared as he threw a dart down the sideline to rookie Quentin Johnston who had beaten his man to the field and had nothing but green grass in front of him. Unfortunately, even if he had gotten his hands on it, Johnston couldn’t bounce it off his knee on a hard fall that could have been a game-winning touchdown.

Whether he would have remained standing if he had caught it cleanly is a bit debatable, but at the very least the Chargers would have been put within shooting range for, at worst, a chance to tie the game of foot. Instead, Herbert had his fourth pass downed at the line of scrimmage and the Chargers suffered their latest stunning loss.