This is the Justin Herbert you’re trying NOT to coach out of the offense.
Pressure gets home, the pocket is collapsing and Herbert has almost no room to generate a normal throwing base, yet he still gets the ball outside with ridiculous velocity and accuracy.
Elite arm talent.
Let Justin Herbert be Justin Herbert.
Last year Herbert’s supporting cast was ranked 30th in the NFL.
After all the noise from the fanbase. After all the frustration. After all the patience the fans exercised.
You now instead of the 30th, have the 29th ranked supporting cast.
People want to point the finger at Justin Herbert, but the data all points to the fact that he’s being failed by this organization.
It’s so painful for me to be a fan, while knowing the team I love is actively failing my favorite player.
Put Herbert on a competent team and I’d bet my life that he’d be awesome. You can get a Herculean performance from him that allows us to win every now and then. The issue is it’s not even remotely sustainable.
You saw a guy take more sacks than Andrew freaking Luck….. Then you decided to be conservative in free agency.
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.