The Los Angeles Chargers are 0-7 after a 24-9 loss to the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday, and the skid has turned even a Halloween costume into part of the conversation around the team. Madison Beer, Justin Herbert’s fiancée, wore a Nurse Ratched Halloween costume this year while the Chargers kept sliding.
For a team that went 11-6 last season, the start is jarring. Herbert is the quarterback, but the questions now reach beyond one player and into a season that has gone from expectation to embarrassment in a matter of weeks. The timing matters because the loss came on Sunday, when the latest setback made the team’s record impossible to ignore and pushed the spotlight toward anyone linked to the franchise, even Beer.
Beer has been in the orbit of that attention before. On Oct. 24, 2025, she and Herbert attended a basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Minnesota Timberwolves at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, and she later appeared at the Variety Power of Young Hollywood 2026 event at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills in Los Angeles. She also performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. But this week, the image that stood out was the Nurse Ratched look, a costume built around a sharply old-fashioned white nurse’s uniform and a severe, controlling persona rather than a playful pop-culture nod.
The friction for the Chargers is obvious: the club is being measured against an 11-6 finish from last season while the current run keeps getting worse. That leaves little room for a clean explanation, and it has only intensified the noise around Justin Herbert, the coaching staff and anyone near the team’s orbit. What comes next is simple and brutal at the same time: the Chargers have to stop the losing before the season is defined entirely by how far they have fallen.
