OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Watching his offense repeatedly stall near the end zone, his defense get shredded by Philip Rivers and the San Diego Chargers, and his special teams get gashed for a 105-yard kickoff return was hard enough for Oakland Raiders coach Hue Jackson.
Finding out afterward that the Raiders got the help they needed to win the division when Denver lost, left Jackson fuming at his team's shoddy performance.
Rivers threw three touchdown passes and Richard Goodman returned a kickoff 105 yards for another score as the Chargers ended Oakland's playoff hopes by beating the Raiders 38-26 on Sunday.
"At some point in time as a group of men, you go in the game, and you can say whatever you want about coaches, you win the game," Jackson said. "Here's your time. Here's your time to make plays. We didn't get them stopped. And we didn't make enough plays, so yeah, I'm (angry) at the team. .... When you have those kinds of opportunities, you've got to do it, and we didn't do it."
"It wasn't our goal to end their season, but it is kind of nice because we're going home as well," San Diego receiver Vincent Jackson said.
The Chargers could only celebrate playing the role of spoiler in what may have been coach Norv Turner's final game in San Diego. If this was his last game, he ended his tenure with an offensive masterpiece as San Diego did not punt, committed just one turnover and gained 463 yards.
"It's special because a lot of people think there's nothing to play for," said Turner, who wouldn't address if he thought he'd be back next season. "Every time you walk out of the locker room onto the field as a player or coach, there's a lot to play for."
Rivers completed 19 for 26 passes for 310 yards and was at his best on a key drive in the fourth quarter after Oakland cut San Diego's lead to 31-26 with 9:37 to go.
After Richard Goodman mishandled the kickoff to force the Chargers to start from inside their 1, Rivers completed a 20-yard pass to Malcom Floyd, Mike Tolbert ran for 40 yards and Rivers threw a 43-yard TD pass to Floyd to make it a two-score game.
"If you can't stop a team with everything on the line, you don't deserve to be a playoff team," defensive tackle Richard Seymour said. "We didn't get it done. So this one hurts. It stings for sure. It's disappointing. It's frustrating."
Antoine Cason then intercepted Carson Palmer with 4:36 to go at the San Diego 20 to seal the victory for the Chargers and provide a disappointing finish to what had been a promising season for the Raiders.
Oakland seemed in control in the AFC West after beating Chicago 25-20 on Nov. 27 to improve to 7-4. But they lost four of their final five games, including squandering a late 13-point lead at home to Detroit two weeks ago to finish out of the postseason for the ninth straight year.
"We came into the game hoping and wishing and with your fingers crossed about other games," Palmer said. "Then to find out it worked out the way you needed it to and to lose this one and the Detroit game. It's going to be a long offseason."
Palmer, brought in at midseason after starter Jason Campbell broke his collarbone, delivered the kind of performance the Raiders expected, throwing for 417 yards and two touchdowns.
But Oakland had to settle for four field goals by Sebastian Janikowski, mismanaged the clock late in the first half and could never stop Rivers and the Chargers' offense.
The Raiders set single-season records for penalties and yards penalized by committing eight for 64 yards. That gave them 163 for 1,358 yards, surpassing the totals of 158 for 1,304 set by the 1998 Chiefs. The record-setting penalty was a hold by Rock Cartwright on the opening kick of the second half.
The day got off to a bad start for the Raiders, who were eliminated from the wild-card chase when Tennessee held on to beat Houston 23-22 and the New York Jets lost 19-17 at Miami. But there were no score updates given all day at the Coliseum as Jackson wanted his team to keep focused on the task at hand.
The game started off well as Oakland drove 95 yards on its first possession to score on Palmer's 3-yard TD pass to Darrius Heyward-Bey. The drive was aided by a pair of personal fouls against San Diego, including one that got San Diego's leading sacker, Antwan Barnes, ejected for unsportsmanlike conduct.
But Oakland then allowed a 38-yard TD pass from Rivers to Antonio Gates, a 1-yard run by Tolbert after a pass interference call in the end zone against Stanford Routt tied the single-season penalty record and Goodman's 105-yard kickoff return for a score.
Notes: The Raiders allowed a franchise-worst 31 TD passes this season. ... Goodman's kickoff return TD was the first for San Diego since 2008.
