Justin Herbert Continues To Have One Of The Craziest Seasons This Year (Box Score Watchers Don't Click)

Like I said, this one isn't for the box score ones. It's for the ball watchers. Yesterday I watched my beautiful baby boy, after a week galavanting around LA with his superstar girlfriend, go into Tennessee and immediately face adversity. You might be thinking "Hold on, the Titans are shit from inside of a butt? How could it be hard?" The simple answer is injuries. The Chargers offensive line is turbodogshit with the lone exception of Joe Alt. Guess who went down with a crippling injury to the same leg that was hurt earlier this year? 

For those keeping score, this is now the third major injury caused by a Chargers offensive lineman throwing a defender into another lineman's lower body. Zion -> Slater just days after signing the biggest OL contract in NFL history. Zion -> Alt vs the Giants and now Pipkins -> Alt. In addition to Alt going down, starting RT Bobby Hart, who the team signed off the street to start a few weeks ago, also left the game early after a leg injury and didn't return. 

So what were they left with? The worst interior offensive line in football. 

Keep in mind this is against a Titan's front 7 missing their best defender in Jeffrey Simmons. The turbodogshit Oline leeched into the run game, with Kimani Vidal averaging 2.5 YPC on 12 rushes (30 total yards). So, once again, Herbert had to put the entire weight of the game on his back. Obviously, he had the very early pick six (5th of his career, tying him with Joe Burrow). Cody Barton read it perfectly, left his zone to jump Herbert's go-to in Herbert. Bad play. He has a few very unlucky tipped-ball INTs this year but this one was on him. BUT it's not about falling down, it's about how you get back up.

He got the ever-loving piss beaten out of him in this game just like he has all year long. Hit in the double digits for the fourth game this year and 6 sacks. "Why hold the ball so long??" When the only chance your team has of winning the game is YOU passing the ball, you are gonna eat some contact unless you are a non-competitive pussy. But he took that punishment, delivered that beautiful TD at the top of the block, lead the team in rushing and got the W. 

That's the story of the season for him. CONSTANT injuries to his supporting cast. CONSTANTLY under pressure. No time to throw, eating punishing hits and getting back up to put the team on his back. That's why you see Jim Harbaugh talk about him like this.

And this is why you ride with Herb instead of listening to box score watchers. People that watch Daniel Jones, with the best offensive line + RB in the league and one of the easiest schedules, and go down to the shaft on him. People that conflate team talent with individual. Would I take the team wins over the qb talent? Hell yea. But if you're asking me which QB i'd wanna go to war with? Give me the toughest QB in football.

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P.S. Shoutout Daiyan Henley. Played a great game just a day after finding out his older brother was shot and killed.