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Jim Harbaugh<\/a> wants his teams to finish seasons the way they start them.<\/p>\n If the Chargers<\/a> do that, they\u2019re going all the way.<\/p>\n Counting his four seasons with San Francisco, Harbaugh is 6-0 in NFL season debuts as a head coach. That\u2019s tied for the most opening victories without a loss in league history.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s September. It\u2019s time to play our first game,\u201d Harbaugh told reporters this week. \u201cAnd I support no cause, foreign or domestic, other than the greatness of the Los Angeles Chargers.\u201d<\/p>\n His team plays host to the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday, and oddsmakers<\/a> see a blowout in the making. The Chargers are favored by 9\u00bd points, the biggest spread of Week 1.<\/p>\n Despite a 2-0 start last season, the Cardinals lost 14 of the next 15 and wound up with the third overall pick in the NFL draft, which they used on Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love. The rookie is questionable for this game because of an ankle injury.<\/p>\n Their quarterback is no longer Kyler Murray, now in Minnesota, but Jacoby Brissett<\/a>, who is on his sixth franchise \u2014 and seventh if you count two stops in New England.<\/p>\n This game is the \u201cMike\u201d drop, if you will, with Mike LaFleur<\/a> coaching his first game for Arizona, and Mike McDaniel<\/a> making his debut as Chargers offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n LaFleur and McDaniel have history. They were young offensive assistants in Cleveland, Atlanta and San Francisco and both represent branches of the Kyle Shanahan coaching tree.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a link too between Harbaugh and LaFleur. Both are younger brothers of other current NFL head coaches: Matt LaFleur of the Green Bay Packers and John Harbaugh of the New York Giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text”> Jim Harbaugh wants his teams to finish seasons the way they start them. If the Chargers do…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[10950,6439,47802,1535,10450,37236,29868,48,52,51,181997,82136,47,50,49,146815,8062,101,1009,776,315],"class_list":["post-461665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ankle-injury","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-cardinals","tag-chargers","tag-first-game","tag-jeremiyah-love","tag-jim-harbaugh","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lafleur","tag-league-history","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-mike-mcdaniel","tag-prediction","tag-san-francisco","tag-southern-california","tag-sunday","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}