{"id":871821,"date":"2026-10-05T17:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T17:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/871821\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T17:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T17:26:08","slug":"jim-harbaugh-justin-herbert-had-one-of-the-grittiest-performances-ive-seen-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/871821\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Harbaugh: Justin Herbert had one of the grittiest performances I&#8217;ve seen on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert threw two interceptions and lost a fumble as his team lost another game on Sunday, but head coach Jim Harbaugh remains confident in his quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>Herbert shook off some hard hits and kept fighting, and after falling behind 27-6, the Chargers had three long scoring drives in the second half. The Chargers ultimately lost 30-23 to the Seahawks, falling to 0-4 on the season, but Harbaugh loved seeing Herbert competing until the end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was one of the grittiest performances I\u2019ve ever been associated with from a quarterback,\u201d Harbaugh said. \u201cWhen I say the fight out of our entire team was good, I think that\u2019s epitomized by Justin. There\u2019s no player I\u2019ve ever coached that I respect more, or love the way he competes more, than Justin Herbert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harbaugh, who said last month that he thinks <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/jim-harbaugh-justin-herbert-will-be-remembered-as-the-greatest-quarterback-ever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Herbert will be remembered as the greatest quarterback of all time<\/a>, said he remains an enthusiastic backer of Herbert\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe grit, the competitiveness, the fight, the skill is what I admire,\u201d Harbaugh said of Herbert. \u201cWe\u2019ll take this team and keep fighting. Keep fighting, keep growing, that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harbaugh acknowledged that the four sacks Herbert took were a problem but said that\u2019s on the rest of the team to protect him better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe quarterback taking the hits he did, there\u2019s nobody I respect more, and protecting him is always at the front of the mind,\u201d Harbaugh said.<\/p>\n<p>The Chargers are not a good team right now, but Harbaugh does not believe that\u2019s Herbert\u2019s fault at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert threw two interceptions and lost a fumble as his team lost another game on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-871821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}