As Daniel Popper mentions in the video below, he\u2019s very curious to see how Justin Herbert, Jim Harbaugh and the Chargers respond from that gutting playoff loss in Houston last January. Here\u2019s more from Daniel about that game:<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcdd The Chargers needed playmaking from their $262.5 million quarterback. Herbert, instead, looked rattled and out of sorts. He did not scramble once in the 32-12 loss that ended the Chargers\u2019 season.<\/p>\n
After the game, Harbaugh said Herbert played \u201clike he always does.\u201d As Harbaugh and Hortiz fielded questions back in Los Angeles to wrap up the 2024 season, Harbaugh was asked if he still felt that way after watching the film.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah,\u201d Harbaugh replied. \u201cWe did him a disservice and didn\u2019t put him in the positions to be successful enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a strong statement from Harbaugh, one that fueled the Chargers\u2019 offseason. Harbaugh and Hortiz devoted a vast majority of their resources \u2014 through free agency and the draft \u2014 to building around Herbert on offense. To rectify that disservice.<\/p>\n
The question now, as the Chargers prepare to kick off their 2025 season against the division-rival Kansas City Chiefs in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil: Have the Chargers done enough with this roster to take another step in Year 2 under Harbaugh?<\/p>\n
Read more of what Daniel thinks about the answer to that question below.<\/p>\n
GO FURTHER<\/p>\n
As Jim Harbaugh enters Year 2 with Chargers, have they done enough to take the next step?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Daniel Popper mentions in the video below, he\u2019s very curious to see how Justin Herbert, Jim Harbaugh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-121791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}