Keyshawn Johnson calls out Chargers ownership for Brandon Staley's tenure

Though it was hard to imagine Staley making it to the weekend as the head coach, the buck has always and will continue to stop with Spanos, who is now charged with hiring a third full-time head coach since uprooting the team from San Diego in 2017. There have been questions of his hiring decisions going back even further to when he dismissed Marty Schottenheimer after the 2006 season despite the team having the league's best record at 14-2. It's a trend that was highlighted by Yardbarker's Adam Gretz:

"When a team undergoes so many changes and keeps producing the same results you have to start looking for the constants. In almost all cases that constant is the owner, in this case the Spanos family. Winning cultures start at the top, and it has to involve good decision-making. The Chargers consistently get these things wrong. None of the general managers since 2000 (John Butler, A.J. Smith and Tom Telesco) have done a good enough job building around their quarterbacks, and the revolving door of head coaches (Norv Turner, Mike McCoy, Anthony Lynn and Staley). 

"The people in charge of making the big decisions keep getting them horribly wrong. There should be no confidence they will get the next big decision right. The names and faces will continue to change. The results will not."

Johnson is far from alone in looking for the common denominator in the perennial woes of the Bolts. Yet, ownership doesn't change on a dime, and Chargers fans can only hope that Spanos finally takes stock of his role in the franchise's misfortune.