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The Chargers went all-in with an aggre sive approach Thursday night against the Chiefs. Coach Brandon Staley was of the mind that he needed to outscore one of the NFL's top offensive teams to win, so he bypa sed his kicking game.The results? Mixed, at best. And after Los Angeles (8-6) lost 34-28 in overtime, Staley's hard-charging ways were scrutinized.MORE: He went for it on fourth down five times in the first three quarters, with the offense converting two times. Twice, it failed to convert near the goal line, including on the Cameron Maybin Jersey game's opening drive and at the end of the first half.Staley doesn't care about any of the second-gue sers, or any of the first-gue sers,for that matter."That's the way we're going to play around here. That's the way we're going to play. When we have a quarterback like ours (Justin Herbert) and we have an offense like ours, that's the way we're going to play because that's how you need to play against Kansas City for sure, and that's how we're going to become the team that we're ultimately capable of being, is by playing that way," Staley said postgame.Staley, in fact,has been one of the NFL's most aggre sive coaches on fourh down this season. The five attempts Thursday moved LA into third in the NFL with 26. It has hit on 15 for a 57.6 percent succe s rate, 12th-best in the league. In Week 3 at Kansas City, the Chargers converted on fourth-and-4 from the Chiefs' 28 early in the fourth quarter and went on to take the lead. They went for it again from the KC 35 Jorge Alfaro Jersey in a tie game in the final minute and drew a pa s interference penalty. They scored the eventual winning touchdown two plays later.NFL STANDINGS: It's impo sible to say what would have happened Thursday had Staley called for field goal attempts by Dustin Hopkins once or twice, but the game math and, perhaps, the field position battlewould have changed. And would the LA defense haveplayed better complementary football? It clearly failed at it immediately after the first mi s.With that, a review of Staley's five fourth-down calls and the aftermath of each one:LA was into the Kansas City red zone within the first minute of the game, but the drive quickly stalled. Staley wanted six points instead of three to start the game, so he kept the offense on the field. Herbert's pa s to Donald Parham Jr. in the back of the end zone fell incomplete. Parham suffered a head injury when he landed hard on the turf and had to be carted off the field.MORE: | After play resumed, Kansas City responded with a 13-play, 95-yard touchdown drive to open the scoring. LA was down 7-0 after being in a prime position to take an early lead in a late-season division game.Staley eschewed a 51-yard field goal attempt or a punt in a 7-7 game. He called on Herbert to get the first down, and the quarterback delivered with a 2-yard run. Five plays later, the Chargers had the lead after a 4-yard TD pa s from Herbert to wide receiver Jalen Guyton.This call might have been the most outlandish. Staley chose not to kick on the final play of the first half when he had a high probability of entering the locker room up seven. With the half at a close, the argument for pinning the Chiefs deep even in the event of a failed conversion is null.Instead, Herbert threw incomplete to wide receiver Keenan Allen. LA went into the break ahead only 14-10.This time, LA pa sed up a 46-yard field goal attempt while leading 14-13. Again, there was a failed pa s as Herbert and tight end Jared Cook were unable to connect."The Curtis Granderson Jersey first one's a perfect pa s and you have this really tragic thing happen on the way down (Parham's injury). The one at the end of the half, I love that. And then we just mi sed Jared on the stick," Staley said of the three mi ses.Chiefs coach Andy Reid decided to copycat Staley on the ensuing drive. He went for it on fourth-and-1 from the Chargers' 2 trying to take a touchdown lead. Mahomes bounced a pa s toward a wide-open Mecole Hardman in the left flat and the game remained 14-13. Staley went for it again on the very next drive.This time, the Chargers got it as Joshua Kelley ran for 4 to the Chiefs' 7. But three plays later, Kelley fumbled at the 1 and the Chiefs recovered. At that point, Staley had just seven points to show for his aggre sivene s.But he was confident he had the edge each time."It's life in the NFL and decision-making like that. And I think from where my mindset is is that I know that the quickest way to win a game like that is to score touchdowns, not field goals, especially considering who's on the other side," he said. "And, to me, when you feel like you're in an advantage situation, when you don't feel like it's a gamble, when you feel like this is an advantage for you, then that's going to be our mindset. And I don't think that any Andre Dawson Jersey decision that we made tonight, I made tonight, was a gamble. We felt like it was an advantage situation for us and that's why we did it.If we didn't feel like that was the case, then we would have kicked a field goal or we would have punted."That's the way we're going to do things around here. I know that our J. T. Realmuto Jersey team embraces that mindset and we're going to continue to do it every game we play moving forward."And Staley was not trying to hide a bad kicker Thursday night. Hopkins came into the game 12 of 13 on field goal tries for Los Angeles with a long of 48.After all those mi sed chances kept the game at 14-13, the teams combined for four touchdowns and 29 points in the fourth quarter.The Chiefs forced overtime with 1:16 to go on a Mahomes-to-Travis Kelce touchdown pa s from 7 yards out and Harrison Butker's PAT kick. Mahomes and Kelce hooked up again on the only drive of OT for a game-winning 34-yard touchdown catch-and-run.That left Staley having to answer questions about turning down perceived easier points multiple times. He was clear in defending his choices."I love the way we managed this game, and it didn't go down for us today, but we gave ourselves an opp," he said. "We didn't finish the game off defensively and they're a tough group to finish against defensively. But we gave ourselves a chance there at the end with Justin and we just didn't quite get it done."