Chargers just caught a totally unnecessary stray before their Wild Card game

After the Week 2 Thursday Night Football matchup at Lambeau Field featuring the Washington Commanders and the Green Bay Packers, the five Amazon Prime Video post-game analysts – Charissa Thompson, Andrew Whitworth, Tony Gonzalez, Ryan Fitzpatrick, and Richard Sherman – were asked to fill out a list of "time capsule" predictions.

These predictions would be unearthed following Prime's exclusive Wild Card playoff game, which happened to be this Saturday night's NFC North battle between the Packers and the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field.

Among the questions were topics such as where the Prime game would be held, who would land the first pick in next year's NFL Draft, and even how many snaps Travis Hunter would play in his rookie season with the Jacksonville Jaguars.

The one question that stood out, however, was one that didn't even apply to the Los Angeles Chargers. Yet Sherman and Gonzalez inexplicably listed the Chargers as their answer.

Chargers get massively disrespected even before taking the field

The five analysts were asked to pick one team that missed the playoffs in 2024 but would qualify in 2025.

With 14 playoff teams from a year ago, the five analysts had 18 teams to choose from. Of those 18 teams, six would have qualified as a correct answer.

Sherman and Gonzalez both picked the Chargers, a team that quite literally did not even fit the criteria since they actually did qualify for the postseason a season ago.

Sure, it was not exactly a memorable experience for Chargers fans who are used to suffering through postseason defeat after postseason defeat. It was a 32-12 loss (the only 32-12 game in NFL history, for what that's worth) on the road at the hands of the Houston Texans, in which Justin Herbert threw four interceptions after throwing just three throughout the entire regular season.

But it did happen, right? What are we missing here?

Let's also not forget that these predictions were made nearly four months ago. At that time, the Chargers had literally only played one single game since that playoff defeat. Are we really that zeroed in on making Fitz take his shirt off every week that something like this could have been overlooked by not one but two of the five analysts?

The most bizarre part, however, was the fact that Sherman and Gonzalez were praised by the rest of the team for being right, since the Chargers qualified for this year's postseason. Nobody picked up on the error initially, and nobody even issued a correction throughout the remainder of the show.

Would the reigning Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles have qualified as the right answer too?

Maybe it's a good thing, though. Maybe Chargers fans can finally forget about what happened in Houston 12 months ago (like the Prime folks evidently have) and fully focus forward on Sunday night's Wild Card game against the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium, where the Chargers have won their two most recent games – even if they've dropped both of their postseason games in Foxborough.

Maybe they can become the first No. 7 seed in AFC history to reach the Divisional Round with an upset victory – an upset victory over a team, by the way, that actually did miss the playoffs a year ago.

A win on Sunday night would be the Chargers' first postseason victory in seven years.