Chargers’ 0-6 Collapse Raises Herbert-McDaniel Questions

The Chargers is the shocking one. The Chargers is absolutely shocking. Isn't the Chargers shocking, this whole thing? Like, Jim Harbaugh's, like, I think a really good coach. And I thought Justin Herbert was a really good quarterback. I am, you know, any team could be 1-5 or 2-4, you know, and I live with it. I'm just like, ah, whatever. But 0-6, and they look like they have no hope. And McDaniel and the offense, it's shocking to me just what has happened. I remember when they were 0-2, and I think you said, and everyone else said too, like, oh, but look at their schedule. They're not going to win any games. I'm like, ah, they're still going to win some games. They didn't win a single game since then. 0-6, though. Nothing. Yeah, their season is over. Do you think, I was kind of thinking about this today, like some of the local radio guys here in Miami are, you know, they're naturally bashing McDaniel a little bit now, saying that he was kind of a fraud here too. If you go back and you look at Tyreek Hill's stats from Tyreek Hill's first year, where he was still incredible. First year with the Dolphins, Tyreek Hill was Tyreek Hill. He was the same guy that he was with Kansas City. Was that it, Joe? Was that the reason why McDaniel was so good? It's just they had Tyreek Hill? Tyreek Hill just makes everybody better, scoring 20 touchdowns, getting 1,500 yards. And then when Tyreek Hill started going sideways both on and off, it seemed like everything just kind of fell apart. now mcdaniel doesn't look as good anymore and it's like i don't know is it that simple to say that because mcdaniel i thought the first year with miami looked good and listen i think it's short-sighted because i also think rumor has it word has it that mcdaniel's offense with all the different motions and formations that he throws that he puts out there that's the basis of his offense right requires a certain intellect and sorry but justin herbert is not and has never been considered very athletic but above the shoulders not sharp as a marble as what we have heard with him so and when you're running an offense that requires a lot of different motion and a lot of different things that can happen you need a quarterback that can make decisions quickly For all the faults of Tua, when he had Tua and he had the weapons, Tua was making the right decisions in the right time. I do think the seven concussions might eventually have had something to do with what happened to Tua. But there is no doubt to me, it isn't McDaniel. It's that he's running an offense. Herbert ain't smart enough to be able to work after. be it doesn't work for him because he's not that guy that's going to be able to read the defenses that quickly super athletic guy throws the ball 80 yards but what is that going to get you if you're running an offense that you have to decide where is the linebacker what's going to happen he's not that guy for that offense right that to me i think is a lot closer so so i understand your point but but here here is where i would play the other side of that if this is true when did they realize this like did they not do their due diligence that this like joe isn't this isn't this a conversation for six months ago not after six weeks of the nfl season like they knew that if this is the case they knew that mcdaniel was going to come in and do this if if that's true about herbert and they knew that herbert wouldn't be able to do it and then you know joe isn't there a training camp session or a pre-season game where they just sort of say oh maybe this isn't going to work and and then they don't make a change until week five like i the whole thing to me is just it's just a bad marriage but again you know how this works right mcdaniel comes in there sells those ice to eskimo it looks like a job in miami didn't he i know i guess like yes i know but he can't the guy can't even hold a press conference so weird harbaugh should have known that this guy is not a good fit for, you know, his quarterback there who is going to need something a lot simpler than all the different motion and everything else that he is running in that offense because it looked from game one, did it not? And again, they lost some one-score games, but he has looked lost from the beginning, has he not? I still think I'm waiting for Herbert to break out of it. I can't believe that this is what we're seeing all the time. And by the way, Joe, where does McDaniel go from here? like where college he'll always have a place to go there'll always be somebody who calls them but you better get the right quarterback