The Los Angeles Chargers' recent hiring of Jim Harbaugh as their new coach will put pressure on both him and quarterback Justin Herbert.
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00:00 Well, Jim Harbaugh is officially back with the NFL coaching the Chargers.
00:05 Robin Lundberg, Dakota, London hearing Dakota, you know, he left Michigan, got that title
00:09 and then dip before the hammer could come down from the NCAA.
00:14 Now the pressure shifts a little bit because he's going to have the expectations to get
00:18 it done.
00:19 And he's going to have the expectations to get it done with the quarterback and Justin
00:23 Herbert.
00:24 Who do you think has more pressure on them Harbaugh or Herbert?
00:27 I think Herbert, I think because Harbaugh just won a national championship, he'll get
00:31 a bit of a grace period.
00:33 But I think with Herbert, he's already been seen as a very talented, prototypical style
00:39 quarterback.
00:40 And you just been waiting for him to take the next step and have postseason success.
00:44 So for me, now you got Jim Harbaugh, if you don't have Brandon Staley to be the, well,
00:48 it's his fault as to why the Chargers aren't successful.
00:51 So to me, it's definitely Herbert.
00:53 Well, look, in Harbaugh's case, I think you can make the argument he has more pressure
00:58 because everyone said the Chargers was a great job because of Herbert.
01:02 If let's say sanctions do come down on Michigan and we find out more about what they were
01:07 up to and he does not succeed at the NFL level simultaneously, there's going to be a lot
01:13 of attention on him more so than probably any head coach in the NFL outside of perhaps
01:19 Bill Belichick, depending on where he lands.
01:21 So I could see if Herbert statistically performs, but the team continues to fall short that
01:28 the finger of blame goes Harbaugh's way.
01:33 The one thing that they also have, well, I would say that Harbaugh has in his back pocket
01:38 is the fact that that's still the Chiefs division.
01:40 So it's just like, what is technically success for him?
01:44 If it's a winning record, then I would say, yeah, that's a pretty good season.
01:47 But chances are you're not going to win that division.
01:49 The Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes has been a champion game every year since he's been a starter.
01:53 So I feel like his expectations of what that team could do would be somewhat tempered.
01:58 But for Herbert, oh, no, bro, it's down.
02:01 Well, I think both Harbaugh and Herbert need to get to the playoffs at the very least.
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