Chargers’ 2024 schedule: Game-by-game breakdown and predictions

Almost everything about the Chargers has changed since the last time they played a game that counted in the standings last January. Jim Harbaugh was hired as coach. Joe Hortiz was hired as general manager. Old friends departed. New ones arrived. Expectations increased by leaps and bounds.

Or is it bounds and leaps?

After all, Harbaugh has been a winner everywhere he’s coached, not least of which was at the University of Michigan, where he led the Wolverines to a 15-0 record and the...