What makes them better though? There isn’t one area of their team where you can say the chargers are definitively better. Qb, wr corps, OL, RBs, run game, pass game, run D, pass D, the only real area the chargers have the upper hand is the pass rush.
I think everyone held the chargers in such high regard in the media for a few reasons, one being that they’re an LA team with a new hot shot qb, and two being that they beat the chiefs and browns in their little run. The bengals have the same record and also a young hot shot qb, and they are just such a shithole organization from such a small market that they aren’t getting the same hype level. The chargers were being shoved down our throats since they beat the chiefs, the bengals have been under the radar.