Chargers Crisis: Herbert Regresses as McDaniel Struggles

This team right now I thought was going to win the AFC West. I thought Justin Herbert was a candidate to win the Most Valuable Player Award. And this thing is getting worse every single week. What's the status, you think, of Mike McDaniels? Do you think he's on a respirator right now when it comes to jobs? I mean, you tell me what's going on right now here with the Chargers. By the way, how bad is Los Angeles football? Normally, we have one good team, but you're 100% right. The biggest offseason acquisition, we all thought, and we were all obviously wrong about this, was that Mike McDaniel was coming to the Los Angeles Chargers, pairing them up with Justin Herbert. This was going to be a dream tandem. They looked really good in training camp, talking to each other, talking about the respect that they had for each other. This is one of the worst offensive teams that we've seen in the league in quite some time. Justin Herbert has not only regressed, he is now, I mean, He is throwing a pick in every single game he's played this season. I don't see how Mike McDaniel can continue, Dan, to be the offensive coordinator of the team. I'm not saying it's solely on him, but there is no way you can continue doing what you're doing. Now, we were teasing about the Jets. Adam Gase is the replacement. I don't know how much better that makes the Chargers, but the fact of the matter is they have to do something. When you're 0-6 and there's no light at the end of the tunnel, You've got to make some kind of a change here. Who would have thought L.A. NFL football is 2-10 and we're not in Halloween yet, which is insane here. Hey, are you buying any of the rumors that Justin Herbert's name could potentially be on the trading block at the end of the year? Or do you think that's just media stuff? Yeah, I don't think that's the case because I think that that facility, you know, Joe Cortese and Jim Harbaugh, I think everyone within that organization still thinks that they have a top 10 quarterback there. That being said, I think if you made them an offer that they can't refuse, if you made them, you know, three first-round draft picks or two firsts and a second or something, I think that there's a conversation there. If they were to trade him, they feel that there must be something there deeper than just the coordinator. And that might be the case. But, Dan, I have never seen a quarterback who's been consistently good. this good through the first five or six years of his career regressed to this point he is making mistakes you do not see rookie quarterbacks make and i can't explain it i don't think it's just Mike McDaniel, I do think Mike McDaniel will get fired because of this though, how about Jim Harbaugh I mean you know, do you think the Spanos family has put any heat on him maybe to potentially make a change at the OC or what have you, I mean you know Spanos are pretty good when it comes to giving their coaches, you can go back to Brandon Staley, giving their coaches time to be able to, you know, coach. So he's probably cool, right? No hot seat there for Jim? 100%. And you brought it up, you know, you know the Chargers well. He is not on a hot seat now. Maybe with most other teams he would be. The fact of the matter is, you know, Jim Harbaugh has a history with the franchise. He won 11 games these past two seasons. That being said, they will give him for sure one more season. But if this happens again, and by the way, fun fact here, the last time the Chargers started the season 0-6 was 2000 when Jim Harbaugh was their quarterback. So there's some history there. But he is not on a hot seat. But this is a situation where they're basically going to say, you have to clean house. Coordinator, we have to figure this out. But Jim Harbaugh will not get fired. They will not make a change with him.