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Over the last three games Philip Rivers has completed 77.3% of his passes, but the head coach of Chargers, Norv Turner, is not impressed too much.

He said, “I’m not a big completion-percentage guy… I think if you’re in the high 50s, mid 60s — he’s in the low 70s (72 percent over the last five games) — I’m not sure that’s a big stat in terms of winning and losing. I’m sure it ties into it. But I think the big plays he makes, and the big plays our receivers make, have a much bigger effect on winning and losing.”

It is like that. If Norv Turner did not dial up so many big plays, then the completion percentage of Rivers would be even higher.

The 64.2 percent completion rate of Philip Rivers for the season includes 40 passes and these have traveled at least 21 yards in the air, that is the 10th-most in the league. Philip Rivers has completed 13 of those passes.

Philip Rivers said, “The last few weeks have been a bit uncharacteristic… It’s been unusually high, and I think that’s just the way things come up. The stuff that has come up had been more high percentage.”