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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Joey Bosas long-awaited debut for the San Diego Chargers was a success -- except for the final result.After having the start of his rookie season derailed by a nasty contract dispute and a hamstring injury, Bosa got his first opportunity to get on the field Sunday and showed why the Chargers picked him third overall in the draft.Bosa sacked Derek Carr twice and added another tackle for loss on a run play in the Chargers 34-31 loss to the Oakland Raiders on Sunday.Its football, Bosa said. Its the same as college, except players are a lot better. Ive been it doing it my whole life. It felt pretty natural. Its nice to get the butterflies out because I was pretty nervous coming into this game. A lot of tension leading up to this moment. Im happy the way I played. I know I could play a lot better. But, until we start winning, it really doesnt matter.The loss wasnt Bosas fault. He entered the game on Oaklands second drive and spent plenty of time in the Raiders backfield. He hit Jalen Richard for a loss in the second quarter, then got his first sack on a late first-half drive for the Raiders.Bosa added a sack in the fourth quarter that helped the Chargers earn a key defensive stop that set up what could have been a game-tying drive.It was the first time I was really feeling playing football in a long time, Bosa said. It took a series or two to get used, but once I got the butterflies and got back in the swing of playing, it was fun.It just wasnt enough for the Chargers to avoid another heartbreaking loss late. San Diego (1-4), which lost three games it led at the two-minute warning, seemed poised for a comeback win.Philip Rivers threw his fourth TD pass to cut Oaklands lead to 34-31 midway through the fourth quarter and then Bosas second sack set up the Chargers for a late drive.Rivers drove San Diego down the field late. But after Melvin Gordon was held to 1 yard on third-and-2, coach Mike McCoy opted for a 36-yard field goal. Mike Windts snap was on target, but rookie Drew Kaser couldnt get down the hold and the Chargers never got a chance at the tie.Its pretty unbelievable the things that are happening to us, but theres no one else to blame, only ourselves, Bosa said. We got to get together as a team and really find out why this is happening. Its a theme. Things dont happen for no reason. Theres a reason. We got a lot of great guys and were playing really hard. Its not a talent thing, we just got to figure it out and I think we will.It will help having Bosa on the field. The Chargers were counting on him to make an immediate impact after drafting him third overall. But a lengthy contract dispute kept him away from the team until just before the start of the season.Then soon after he joined the team, he injured his hamstring, leading him to miss the first four weeks.But the Chargers liked what they saw Sunday.Its what you expect from a player like that, the way hes played, coach Mike McCoy said. 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There was scant indication that he truly understands why many Brazilians were so badly offended by him that law enforcement and residents here decided to make an example out of him and the three swimmers he rode into Ipanema with Sunday night, intent on a night of partying.Judging from the apology Lochte issued, youd never know he is a 32-year-old man who has been to four Olympics and traveled the world for over a decade. This wasnt exactly his first rodeo outside Peoria. The truth was he got drunk, trashed a gas station restroom, tried to get away in a taxi with teammates Jack Conger, Gunnar Bentz and James Feigen, then lied to his mother, NBC, Olympic officials and authorities about it. And this is his idea of an apology:Its traumatic to be out late with your friends in a foreign country -- with a language barrier -- and have a stranger point a gun at you demand money to let you leave, but regardless of the behavior of anyone else that night, I should have been more responsible...(Im starting to think Lochtes language barriers include English.)The reason Lochte has become such an international punching bag is only partly because of the made-up story that he was robbed at gunpoint.The bigger insult was Lochtes lies evoked some of the nastiest stereotypes and tropes that Rio de Janeiro and Brazil have been dealing with in the run-up to these Games. And after being demeaned as a lawless, filthy, cesspool of a country ridden with pollution, disease and corruption, after hearing over and over that Rio never should have gotten South Americas first Olympics in the first place, some people here finally had enough. Then they decided to respond to Lochte in kind -- stereotype for stereotype -- by bagging him and three other trophy Ugly Americans and making them do a perp walk for a change before the rest of the world. Not Brazil.So while a lot of this scandal has been driven by Lochtes lies and lunkhead behavior, it hasnt been only that.The accelerant -- at least here in Brazil -- is also the psychological backdrop that these Games have been playing out against. And if you dont have a feel for that sitting back in America, the sight of that Brazilian judge ordering all four American swimmers to surrender their passports and not leave the country (Lochte lucked out; he was already gone) -- all over some drunken fibs and the trashing of a bathroom? -- may indeed not make a lot of sense. The same goes for early reports that Feigen was at an undisclosed location and the U.ddddddddddddS. consulate was involved. The same goes for the decision of authorities to go to the airport and actually pull Conger and Bentz off the plane with hordes of photographers at the gate to capture the moment.Lochtes disparagements touched a nerve. In addition to everything else, Brazil is a place of enormous class divides. Its a country thats often embroiled in discussions about how much skin color determines your place in the caste system, or if a caste system exists at all. Many people didnt want the Olympics here. Their daily life is a grinding struggle.The sight of a privileged white jock like Lochte dropping in and out of here -- but not before trashing some property, complaining to security guards when they called him on it, then being exposed for fabricating another story and generally behaving more like a petty criminal than the Rio he invoked -- was galling to Brazilian ears.Rio mayor Eduardo Paes captured the feeling succinctly Friday when he said he accepted the U.S. Olympic Committees apology but felt nothing but pity and contempt for the swimmers.Conger and Bentz were taunted at the airport by chants of Liars!Brazil was a far different country when it landed the Olympics eight years ago. The Brazilian economy was chugging along. The organizing committee sold the country to the IOC as an exotic place of unique beauty and natural wonders, white sand beaches and a sports-mad public. Hopes were high that the Games would create desperately needed infrastructure improvements, help clean up the local waterways and beaches, help attract tourists and businesses.Then it didnt happen. Hardly any of it has happened. Even after the World Health Organization chimed in with advice about the mosquito-born Zika virus, the Olympics kept saying they were still coming. Money kept flying out the door. What couldve been a triumph hasnt felt like one. The torch relay was hijacked a few times. Anti-Olympics demonstrations have continued almost daily here. A handful of other athletes were mugged. For real.But the paradoxical thing is, while Brazilians are still sharply divided about hosting the Games, Lochtes insult has seemed to unite many of them. It feels like a classic of case of we can say what we will about ourselves. But dont you outsiders dare say it.And still, by continuing to cast shade on others with his tepid apology -- and never worse than in his line regardless of the behavior of anyone else -- Lochte again failed to take total responsibility or acquit himself of some of worse things that have been said about him. In his apology he claimed he has learned some valuable lessons. Its still not clear what they are. ' ' '