The Chargers are 0-7, the NFL's only winless team

The Los Angeles Chargers are 0-7, the only team of the NFL's 32 without a win, per ESPN's standings. Miami is next at 1-6. Los Angeles has scored 99 points, 14.1 per game, the fewest in the league, and allowed 175, for a minus-76 differential, minus-10.9 per game, also the worst in the league. Miami is next on both counts, at 16.7 points scored per game, a minus-64 differential, and minus-9.1 per game.

Game by game

• Week 1: lost 14-26 vs Arizona Cardinals
• Week 2: lost 14-26 vs Las Vegas Raiders
• Week 3: lost 16-24 at Buffalo Bills
• Week 4: lost 23-30 at Seattle Seahawks
• Week 5: lost 17-23 vs Denver Broncos
• Week 6: lost 6-22 at Kansas City Chiefs
• Week 8: lost 9-24 at Los Angeles Rams

Los Angeles had a Week 7 bye, so Sunday's loss was its 7th game.

Where the losses come from

Los Angeles scores 14.1 points per game against a league average of 23.2, a gap of 9.1 points per game. The next-lowest scoring team, Miami at 16.7 per game, sits 6.5 points below the league average. The losses have not been close: 4 of the 7 came by double digits, and every loss came by at least 6 points.

The schedule is real, the scoring gap is bigger

The skeptic's case is the schedule: Los Angeles's 7 opponents are a combined 32-21, including Buffalo at 6-1 and Denver at 6-2. But those opponents average 25.1 points in their other games, compared with 25.0 against Los Angeles, so the defense is roughly average against this slate. The offense is the outlier: no other team scores below 16.7 per game.

The caveat

The caveat: 7 games is 7 games, and Week 8 ends Monday night. The record is the record through Sunday's Week 8 games, and the scoring gap, not the schedule, is what separates Los Angeles from the league's other struggling teams.