There’s been a lot of talk about the Los Angeles Chargers, their quarterback Justin Herbert, his fiancée Madison Beer and the team’s 0-3 start. There’s plenty of blame to go around.
Some of the blame belongs to the new offensive coordinator, the offense as a whole and, of course, the quarterback. There were signs in training camp that the team wasn’t locked in.
JaQuae Jackson, Sincere Brown, Ladd McConkey and Luke Grimm of the Los Angeles Chargers run sprints during training camp at The Bolt in El Segundo, Calif., on July 29, 2026. (Getty Images)
I’m not even talking about Herbert’s participation in the NFL’s obvious girlfriend propaganda campaign. People are trying to blame Madison for that and for the slow start, but the blame is not on her.
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Jaiden Bacciocco attends the “BACARDÍ Toasts the Return of Best Dance to Kick Off 2026 MTV VMAs Weekend” at Bar Lis in Los Angeles on Sept. 24, 2026. (Deadline via Getty Images)
She’s been showing up every week. The Chargers as a team haven’t and, as I mentioned, the signs were there in training camp.
Just ask Love Island reality TV star and influencer Jaiden Bacciocco. She paid the team a visit during training camp and noticed the lack of focus firsthand.
She was there, as she explained during an appearance on the “Kaylor’s Crash Outs” podcast earlier this week, for the football and the vibes.
She claims several of the Chargers players were distracted by her and couldn’t help but slide into her DMs after the visit.
“I actually went to the Chargers training camp, and this was so funny,” Bacciocco said. “After we left, like six of them DM’d me after. I was like dude, I was there for football, and for the vibes. Not to get in your DMs.”
Jaiden Bacciocco appears in the “Love Island USA” reunion episode. (Christine Bartolucci/Peacock via Getty Images)
What were these players thinking? Why else would a reality TV star show up to training camp other than for the football and the vibes? If the players were focusing on football, they wouldn’t have ended up in her DMs.
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“I made a TikTok with some of them, and then they followed me. Or they would have photos of us taken, and the guys would send me it… in my DM. And I was like, ‘Oh, that’s sick,'” she continued.
“I was like, ‘Okay.’ And then the next day, I was blocked by one of them, and I was like, ‘Oh, okay. I guess you probably have like a girlfriend or something.’ Typical.”
Jaiden Bacciocco and Caleb McDaniel are pictured in Episode 827 of Love Island USA. (Ben Symons/Peacock via Getty Images)
You’re not getting Jaiden Bacciocco caught up in your drama. That’s not why she was there. Also, she’s looking at the DMs and noticing when you “like” block her and stuff, but she’s not answering those messages.
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She said, “I don’t answer DMs like that because I’m like, if you’re sliding into mine, you’re probably sliding into every girl’s.”
There you have it, case closed.
The blame for the Chargers 0-3 start isn’t squarely on the shoulders of Justin Herbert and Madison Beer. There were others not giving everything they had to football during training camp.