The Chargers’ postgame locker room was nearly silent. Players sat glassy-eyed, many still in full uniform, trying to process what had just happened. It wasn’t easy or simple to digest how it all went wrong in such a short period of time, how a 27-0 first-half lead became a 31-30 loss .

“I’ve been playing football for 21 years and I’ve never felt like this,” Chargers safety Derwin James Jr. said softly after a most remarkable, most unfathomable, most unconventional AFC wild-card playoff loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars on that 45-degree night, Jan. 14, 2023, in north Florida.

The Chargers return Sunday to Jacksonville for the first time since that humiliating, humbling defeat. That game and how it unraveled hasn’t been forgotten by the Chargers who remain on the roster, preparing to r

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