Didn't anticipate writing a long vent in week 2 instead of week 17 but here we are gang.
As Chargers fans we spent two years begging for the run guru, Greg Roman, to go. We dreamed about pairing a real offensive mind with Justin Herbert. We were all over this app celebrating McDaniel’s hire.
Two games into the season, and boy, our hopes for this team look naive. The offense is sloppy and somehow even more destructive for Herbert than Roman’s ever was. And from a coaching standpoint, it looks like nobody is willing to adjust.
From a QB standpoint, I have watched Herbert since his freshman year at Oregon, when he was named the starting quarterback. His footwork was always the quiet part of his game that made everything else look easy. Clean base. Repeatable drop. No wasted steps. His processing and going through his progression was called exceptional by his coach Mario Cristobal.
Under McDaniel they flipped his shotgun stance and rebuilt the timing around Miami’s old quick game ideas. And that has wrecked the thing that used to be automatic for this kid.
His processing looks late, ball is coming out off schedule. He plays angry and out of frustration chucking the ball, like he hates everything happening around him.
This is the worst Herbert has looked in his career.
The core problem of this offense is that McDaniel still coaching the Miami version of his offense not the actual Shanahan’s. He is asking average chargers players to be Tyreek, Waddle, and Achane. What he is running for this passing offense does not even look like what Kyle Shanahan is running in San Francisco. It is motion for motion’s sake, timing that only works if everyone is a step faster than they actually are, and no plan B when the first look dies.
Quarterbacks like Herbert and Josh Allen do not need all that complexity on the offense to win games. They thrive in systems that let them play big and decisive, Joe Brady’s, Shane Steichen’s, Sean Payton’s and the real Shanahan offense. Give Herbert structure, let him throw with his feet set, and he punishes you.
McDaniel is doing the opposite. He is shrinking Herbert into a timing machine he was never meant to be and that has been wrecking his game.
I expect the ownership to step in. The staff, the players, and Herbert himself all need to speak up and stop sabotaging this season. Herbert made multiple mistakes, didn’t play well, and his reputation is at an all-time low. But he’s still the same quarterback who threw it to worse WRs and still won games. They need to change a lot of things, and it has to happen quickly. And I doubt there’s enough time to save this season.
@Punished_Bird they should have black school administered by and for black people. They can have their own standards and wait, wait a minute I think someone’s fighting in the hallway, wait I think I just heard gunshots hold the damn phone
This play epitomizes why I chart the games.
Justin Herbert drops this PERFECT, elite deep ball into David Njoku's chest, who absolutely sells. The bobbled catch turns into an interception, and now Herbert's stat line looks awful.
Numbers always lie.
@JimothyBurg1ary Make stupid people smart not possible. Separate stupid from smart and provide a safety net for stupid people something something “basic human dignity”
Everyone is so addicted to avoiding icky vibes that we’ve totally forgotten that there are bad and good people, cultures, and decisions. We are not all equal and we never will be.
@Hill_Wagan@hbolton Yes we agree it’s not good. No, the solution isn’t to witch-doctor the numbers such that everyone looks more equal because we put a lid on those with more potential. You people worship the bad, the ugly, and the dumb.
Wow maybe they should fuck off and make their own society so they can solve all of their problems with vibes and magic dirt while living in the abject poverty they’re too stupid and lazy to escape
+ And I will dare to add that people from more communal, community involved, collectivist cultures are going to feel that bind more often and more heavy.