Justin Herbert's Passer Rating through first 5 weeks of each season in his career
2020 107.1
2021 104.7
2022 100.8
2023 106.3
2024 96.3
2025 91.2
2026 70.2
Honestly bro Joe Hortiz should be arrested for criminal malpractice or some shit.
Dude had a whole fucking offseason and this is the roster we go into the season with.
Retweet the hashtag guys #FIREHORTIZ
Q to Jim Harbaugh after he praised Justin Herbert's "warrior" play that he's been watching for two and a half years:
"Part of that is just him taking a ruthless beating because of, I don't know if it's the group in front of him, his protection, what's going on, but when you came here, your charge was to get him protected. Mike's [McDaniel] charge was to make sure he didn't have to be a superhero, but 2.5 years later, like you said, he still has to be a superhero for you guys to have a chance to win the game. Why is that?"
"Yeah, that just sounds more like an insult than it does a question, but if that's the way you look at it. I'm saying that it's the kind of competitor that he is where I've never seen him flinch. I've never seen him rattled. He's an amazing inspiration and that's what we do. We all feed off of that. I know the entire team does. And you ask me what gives me optimism, what gives me hope with this football team, because I see that throughout the entire team. And yeah, we attack, we improve, can't improve everything all at once, but we can improve one thing at a time, all the time. And that's what this team is doing.
"It wasn't insult. I'm just asking if it's the third season now and he's still among the most pressured and hit quarterbacks. I'm just asking you why that is?"
"I think I answered your question. I can answer it the same way."
"You can answer it the same way, but I don't think you answered it."
"I think I did."
Watching Justin Herbert and Mike McDaniel get blamed from every possible angle while Joe Hortiz largely escapes criticism is both funny and painful to watch.
Year 1 Hortiz had the worst iOL in the NFL.
Year 2 Hortiz had the worst O-line in the NFL.
Year 3 Hortiz entered the offseason with roughly $100 million in cap space and basically whiffed on everything.
That’s the part I don’t understand. You had an obvious problem, the resources to fix it, and an entire offseason to do something about it — and the result is still (arguably) the worst offensive line in football.
Ten-year-old me could’ve constructed a better roster than this.
And yet, somehow, Hortiz seems to avoid the level of criticism that gets thrown at Herbert and McDaniel every week. That’s the part that’s genuinely hilarious.
Joe Hortiz is a far bigger problem than Mike McDaniel.
FAR BIGGER.
What exactly are we expecting this team to accomplish when they have one weapon and the worst offensive line in the sport? Hortiz created the environment. ALL OF IT.
He should get more blame than Herbert and McDaniel combined.