Legendary NFL coach Bill Parcells famously said “you are what your record says you are.” Parcells said this before watching the 2016 Chargers.

San Diego currently resides in the AFC West cellar with a 1-4 record following a loss to Oakland on Sunday. But to reach that point, the Chargers have strung together four improbable, gut-wrenching, throw-your-remote-at-the-TV defeats in the span of five miserable weeks.

When...