Will Jim Harbaugh Be Able To Save Justin Herbert’s Career & Resurrect The Chargers? | Pat McAfee

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One story that everybody on Earth is talking about is that the reigning defending current national champion of the college football World Jim Harbaugh is now the head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers he baby Jim that was announced yesterday at 6:43 Eastern time uh by this man who is a Michigan man’s Twitter

Account Adam shefer will be joining us in about 9 minutes to break down how we inevitably got here because if you do recall uh December 4th I believe shefer came on our show whenever we were in New York and this is how he described the Harbaugh Michigan situation to us has

Harbaugh’s camper team thought about that or they just focus on college football playoff well I would say that to me he’s always wanted to go bring a national championship to Michigan and I think if he brings a national championship to Michigan I would think there would be a

Part of him that feels like he set out to do what he intended all along and I think that that would give him even more Liberty to take the jump to the NFL so literally since December 4th Adam shefer has kind of been saying that all Harbaugh wanted

To do whenever he got back to Michigan was restore some greatness to Michigan I think it was a narrative that was heard loud and clear by a lot of Michigan alums because whenever Jim Harbaugh leaves the national champion Michigan team to go to the Chargers all we saw

Yesterday was Michigan Al lump saying thank you Michigan man Jim Harbaugh for doing what you did to our Beloved School beat Ohio state three straight times three straight college football playoffs won a national champ now we’re back in the conversation and allegedly handing off to Baton sh Moore who hasn’t been

Hired yet because state law of course yeah that’s state law rest in peace Donnie Baker but there’s uh at least a week has to take place before the highest paid I’d assume state employee is hired with anything else like that so Chiron Moore is a guy that Jim hard

Baugh found gave an opportunity to and is now handing off the ranks to to keep Michigan at this high level while Harbaugh now heads to Los Angeles Chargers a place that he played for a place that he’s won for a place that he’s close to the owners and I think

He’s coached ownership’s kids maybe whenever they were at Stanford now there was other teams that were certainly interested in Jim Harbaugh Services Atlanta was scheduling another interview with him coming in there he was the bell of the ball for this coaching cycle for good reason all this human is ever done

Now not a quarterback I don’t think he’s ever won a Super Bowl he is in the Colts Ring of Honor I think he played like four games or something for but all he has done as a head coach is Win established an attitude and a culture of being physically tougher than

Other teams and not dealing with any of the nonsense outside that is exactly what the Chargers need right now the amount of talent they have on that team the quarterback that they have we think this is going to be a beautiful relationship and congrats to the Chargers getting this thing done yeah

Now Michigan obviously had massive success at the ners he had massive success at Stanford he had massive success I think even at San Diego State where he started he had massive success this guy knows how to coach ball now we think he’s incredibly hilarious I love

That he is not normal I like that he is quirky even though that has been a weapon of his in his coaching style and winning over a locker room and I think the NFL should be very pumped that he’s back with us I do know that a lot of the

Big people in the college football World the Kirk herb streets the ree Davis’s The Desmond Howards they’re all going to miss the hell out of Jim Harbaugh being in college football because the Persona the personality The Moxy the culture that he brings his good for any League

That he’s in so we’re all pumped that he’s back in the NFL there are certainly some people bummed but if you’re a Chargers fan let’s go yeah we’re back in this thing with a legitimate horse the toxic table was here at Boston Connor and at Tai Schmidt we had a chance to

Talk to Brandon Staley in person yeah shortly after he was hired and I think we all left that conversation going I’ve never met an NFL coach like that before good guy he said his coaching tree wasn’t McVey it was Mom and Dad Bruce and Linda Bruce and Linda are uh coaches

In Ohio now covid takes place I think he was a very interpersonal type coach wants to win them over talk to them meet their family couldn’t do that for two years because of the situation that was happening around the globe it did take place please don’t cancel me for even

Mentioning that entire thing and inevitably just never really worked out the Brandon never really worked out now they got some real stability a championship mindset and the Spanos has had to pay and they’re not normally known for the people that are going to go up and above and beyond to pay people

You know their bank account is not normally questioned by everybody they somehow Wrangle in the big fish it is a Victory lap day for this Los Angeles Chargers team they haven’t had a lot of those since they gone to Los Angeles no and there’s still Bel rable Peete Carol

Out there and it’s still like hey it doesn’t matter who cares about those guys Harbaugh is the guy I mean could you imagine are there two more polar opposite people at least from the outside with Staley and Harbaugh like it’s almost as if just overnight this entire franchise just pivoted like okay

We’re not doing that stuff anymore we’re doing the Harbaugh shirtless underneath the rack and khakis like that that is who we are now which is awesome and you mentioned Herbert like it feels like that is the kind of guy Herbert is shirtless quiet Herbert’s got great hair

He’s handsome he’s quiet got a rocket so I think like a lot of people automatically assume like oh not like super football guy remember I got a chance to meet his dad him his brother and his dad were playing pickup football in their living room whenever they were

Little kids that’s the reason why he can kick is because they put tape on the wall for field goals and extra points they moved a furniture out of the living room as a kid so that they could play football in Oregon like this dude is a

Football nut and then one of his first plays whenever he got dropped into the game after Tyrod uh Taylor had his lung punctured by a golf tea just 15 minutes before the game started uh he’s running down sideline and instead of going out of bounds he takes his 6’6 240 lb body

And Destroy carded a guy knocks out CED a guy off the field his teammates were like okay so now you bring in a hard bought mentality which is going to be you see it with the Ravens you saw it with Michigan you saw with Stanford I mean remember Toby and uh Christian and

And luck and it’s just like a physical physical football team and you can kind of take out all the exterior stuff now they’ll still use the weapons that they have Harbaugh is not a dummy he’s a quarterback at heart they see the highlights of him throwing but they’re

Going to take on this image of him and it’s a tough team and it’s like in the football World now those teams are winning there for a while who’s the smartest who’s the trickiest who’s the most clever who has the most speed who can spread them out who can utilize the

Most sure that still all matters but who’s the tough team now are the teams that are winning in the football world and it’s like they’re immediately potentially dropping that culture into LA with the Chargers yeah and this is exactly what a guy like Herbert needs I think too because you know he he’s

Unbelievable obviously and kind of people go back and forth like oh is he a superstar but in big moments whether it was the case or not it seemed like a guy like Brandon Staley is just timid and kind of unsure of himself like that’s that’s not hard ball at all like I you

You just feel and especially like him being a big 10 guy see watching all those teams for all those years he was in the Big 10 and then obviously him in the NFL like they win those close games because that’s just like you said like that’s his mentality that’s that

Physical tough like they they just it’s almost like he doesn’t allow teams to lose in those situations and then you get a guy like um you you get a guy like Herbert who you know is has all the talent in the world but whether or not he was always you know held accountable

To the same degree that Harbaugh is definitely going to hold him accountable it just like this feels like a home run in every possible way and harbar spoke for five minutes about how he thinks Herbert is the best Young quarterback in the NFL now he gets an opportunity to

Work with him with Harbaugh’s physical style I think what is it going to do for Herbert’s play and what do you expect from Herbert going forward that maybe we hadn’t seen in the past I I think what you’re going to see is the toughness that the team needs look you know this

Whole notion that one player wins Super Bowls in the NFL is somewhat ridiculous and people continue that narrative uh going forward it takes a team it takes a village to win a championship these four teams in the final four all have teams that work together with culture and they

Play off of one another they have great quarterbacks but they rely on other things what we do know about the NFL is one great player that’s not the NBA can’t get you to the Super Bowl we see that or else Warren Moon would have 20 Super Bowls Dan Marina would have 15

Brett Favre would have had 30 Aaron Rogers would have 20 I mean it’s ridiculous but what’s going to happen here is they’re going to have a team around Herbert and Herbert’s leadership is going to be Blended within the hardball philosophy they’re not going to put the game on his shoulders they’re

Going to put the game on the team’s shoulders and Herbert’s G to shine because he’s really talented and he’s going to show everybody how talented he is and all that stupid stuff about well he can’t come from behind and he can’t do this is going to go out the window

Because they’re GNA have a team that’s going to play well in all three phases that’s critical see team building is what matters today and harball is going to build a team around a great quarterback which is going to make a great quarterback even better man culture matters so much and it it gets

Talked about whenever it gets talked about but what culture is is you have a connected group and whenever you heard Jim Harbaugh talk I had a chance to interview him and he talked about like the team his team and Washington’s team he was like a team looks connected like

That is all he cares about is he wants his team together never heard a player that has played for Jim Harbaugh said a negative thing about him publicly everybody loves they have hilarious stories of just ridiculous stor I do too yeah I do too but everybody loves them

And I think it’s going to continue over there in LA and congrats on all the success seemingly on this particular day to the Chargers and the their Fans