I was the Justin Herbert vote.
The guy had the worst offensive line in the NFL all season and despite that he was working miracles in almost every single game.
Stafford's OL became 2/5ths as bad as Herbert's for 5 minutes and he became a turnover howitzer.
He embodied 'value'.
During that Super Bowl run, the Bengals defense forced more turnovers than Burrow threw touchdowns. Why folks act like he some playoff demon when the defense was carryin him? Y’all think we ain’t have TV back then?
The whole thing smelled. Even after Sean McDermott called timeout, the review seemed very rushed. It was an incredibly close call. Shouldn't have happened that fast. The league's developed a trust issue with its fans with this stuff.
Justin Herbert was pressured on 30 of 44 drop backs last night (per @PFF).
That 68.2% mark was the 2nd highest single-game pressure rate recorded this season...
just behind Justin Herbert in Week 14 against the Eagles (68.3%).
#Chargers were intentional in their attempt to improve the explosive perimeter weaponry for Herbert before this season. OL injuries have REALLY hurt this team, but nobody is uncovering down field !
When someone says such and such QB has “done more with less” than Herbert, what they really mean is "more with more"
By Ben's composite ranking (since 2021), LAC has the worst pass-blocking line to start a playoff game—and it’s not close.
But it goes beyond wins and losses. Lines w/ scores of 10 or less average −0.09 EPA/db; Herbert finished +0.09. Even raising the cutoff to a score of 20 or less, every team with better EPA/dropback had BOTH a notably better line AND a HOF skill player (Jefferson, Chase, Henry)
Herbert won't (and IMO shouldn't) be MVP, but he certainly deserves a lot of credit for what he's done this season