The Los Angeles Chargers are 5-3 at the halfway mark of the 2024 NFL regular season following Sunday’s dominant 27-10 road win over the Cleveland Browns. Frank Schwab & Jason Fitz look back at the first half-season of Jim Harbaugh’s return to the NFL and explain how his indelible coaching style has the Chargers firing on all cylinders and looking like a real contender to make the playoffs.
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Jim Harbaugh, man.
I, I’ll tell you what, like I spent the summer trying to think logically, you know, about everything.
And I was like, yeah, Jim Harbaugh is a great coach, but he hasn’t been in the NFL for nine seasons.
Now, this Chargers team just got rid of some key veterans because salary cap stuff, he doesn’t have the type of talent that really fits what he wants to do yet.
It’s gonna take a year or two, right?
No, it really didn’t.
Jim Harbaugh’s just that good.
Like he is a great coach.
He is one of the five best coaches in the NFL probably.
And, uh, it’s not that I forgot that I just thought this situation even for the great Jim Harbaugh was gonna take some time and he’s proved me wrong.
I, this, this is a Chargers team where you look at their next upcoming games.
They should have a pretty big cushion in the AFC wild card race.
I think they’re going to the playoffs.
They’re figuring out how to kind of when to use Justin Herbert because they’re never gonna be a pass first team.
They’re never gonna let him throw 5000 yards game.
That’s just not what Jim Hard wants to do, but have him play efficiently.
We’re gonna still run the ball.
Well, we’re gonna play good defense and all of a sudden it just looks like, yeah, coaching batters, especially when you make a home run higher like this.
Uh, they, they have changed their franchise with Jim Harbaugh.
He has won everywhere.
He’s gone including 15 and O at the University of Michigan last year national championship and he’s doing it again.
It is very impressive how Jim Harbaugh has raised everything with Los Angeles Chargers.
You talked about the, the Cowboys and the little things that get away from them and you know how, like they just, they’re kind of sloppy here and there are 10 men on the field and a key play that never happens to Chargers.
Like they, this is just a well coached football team.
They could take advantage of basically whatever, whatever you’re gonna give them, they’re gonna, they’re gonna take it and they’re gonna throttle you with it as they did with the Browns today.
You mentioned Herbert, uh, not going to throw for that many yards.
He was sacked six times all in the first half of this game, but was, was great on this.
But conversely, the Chargers defense thought that was pretty incredible.
Like not only did they get three interceptions, they sacked jam six times, they blocked the field goal.
Like they just absolutely dominated defensively.
In this game, in a way that the Browns looked outmanned, uh to take a punch.