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Justin Herbert. Now. I talked about this recently. Next year, Josh Allen, Aaron Rodgers, Trevor Lawrence, Dak Jalen Hurts, Caleb Williams, Derek Carr potentially could all need a coach this year seven eight openings. One elite quarterback, Justin Herbert, who again as a rookie with the thirty six thirty second ranked offensive line with the Chargers. His rookie year, he broke all the touchdown records for a quarterback. So since then
he has been under coached and undersupported. I was told last night a lot of people when I go out in the South Bay, Manhattan Beach, Tromosa area, there's a lot of people down there that are connected to both LA professional football teams and both college teams, and there was an understanding. There was a real buzz last night that this was going to get done. Some thought it was going to be late last night, but most thought
it would be in the morning. So when I went on the air today at FS one, I thought it was going to probably break during the show, and it was a few hours after. But I haven't confirmed now three sources outside outside of the Chargers operation, and it's hardball. You know. It's interesting with the Chargers. They have fifty
one thousand season tickets. There's no question they don't want to sell out so far because they want because it's a warm weather city and people in their division Denver, in Kansas City and their AFC schedule, there's a lot of cold weather teams, so they like visitors coming and they can move those prices up based on how hot the Chargers are and how hot the visiting team is. So they'll never completely sell out the stadium, but they'll
go to fifty five thousand season tickets. Harbaugh will sell three to four thousand season tickets here in the next week. And so the Chargers are a very healthy business. Sofar is a revenue monster. It's an absolute revenue machine, among the very best. I think it is the best in the National Football League. So where the Chargers were viewed as a team that you know, was on the thrift a little bit in San Diego. They don't need to
be any more. They paid for Bosa Khalil Mack justin Herbert, and now they're paying for Jim Harbaugh and a brand new facility in El Segundo, which is not far from Sofi Stadium for those who have not been to Los Angeles or don't know the kind of the geography there. I'll get to Michigan in a second. But this was the right choice. It is the best current job available, and you very rarely. I mean, when's the last candidate that eventually became a coach that was a sure thing.
I mean Matt Lafleur was respected as a coordinator. There was no sure thing replacing Mike McCarthy. I mean Mike McCarthy going to the Cowboys. He had a Super Bowl, but that was not a sure thing. Dealing with Jerry Jones and it hasn't been a sure thing. Jim Harbaugh is about as sure thing as you get. I mean, even Belichick if he went to Atlanta tomorrow, there's no sure thing. I have a quarterback. Vrabel's a great coach, goes to Washington, what if they picked their wrong quarterback.
This is a sure thing Harbaugh has worked everywhere and immediately, and this is not a terribly heavy lift. Sean Payton at Denver is a big lift. This is they have some cap issues and they also have, you know, one of the top picks, which they don't need a quarterback or a left tackle or an edge rusher, and that's what is over the top twenty picks in this draft. They could use a tight end. Brock Bowers will be
available to them. They could probably move down two or three spots and still land brock Bowers and get a second or third round pick. What they need to do is hit on some draft picks beyond the first round. It's a very strong draft, so the first fifteen to eighteen picks are really good players. After that, you know, the percentages go down. But Harbaugh's ability to know personnel because of the last decade at Michigan is going to be incredibly beneficial. This is not a big lift that
you've got to move off probably a Khalil Mack. You get more for Bosa, but they'll probably he's a little fragile, but they'll probably keep Bosa. I would guess move off Khalil Mack. You know, they may move off a Derwin James. Not sure what they do with Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, but what they need they have what the draft is furnishing at the very top, so they have the ability to move down several spots and accumulate more picks, and
Harball will crush it with his picks. The other thing is they don't really have a situation where Dean Spanos is not a medaler. He's really not. Now. You could argue in San Diego they had a small staff, they didn't spend enough money. You can argue they were cheap. I don't view them similarly in Los Angeles and he's not a medaler. There's Spanos, kids are in the building. But again on the operational side, Tom Telesco had free
rein to do what he wanted to do. Got Tom's good friend, never bad mouth the Chargers, loved his job. Wishes he wouldn't have missed on J. C. Jackson, But he furnished Harball with a lot of good players, and now they've got a really good pick. So this is really a perfect situation and a very easy lift hit on some draft picks. This is not Tennessee or Atlanta or Washington or New England or even Denver. We had a quarterback, but a massive cap hit. Herbert still a
year away from being a punitive cap hit. They are about forty five million over. But again, you can circumvent some of that stuff by hitting on draft picks and moving on a couple of players. I think Harbaugh is just very unique personality. I've said this before. Both Harbaugh as you can't pigeonhole. John Harbaugh knows offense. Jim Harbaugh knows defense. When Harbaugh was in San Francisco, they had four top ten defenses with the Niners no top ten offenses.
They were a mess. I don't think they'd had a winning season in eight years previous to Harbaugh, and he turned that thing around in year one Michigan. Year one Stanford I think took a couple of years, but he had some upset wins in the first year. So this is not a big lift. Boy, what a division. Andy Reid, Sean Payton, Jim Harbaugh. Those are really really good football coaches. You know, thinking about Michigan and I do think it's the right time to leave the NC Double A and
sort of the ambiguous punishment it's never felt fair. It's never felt even handed. You know, there's no you know, there's a rule book by the NC double A, but it's really fuzzy. During the COVID year, I mean, people were just making stuff up. During the COVID year, Michigan pretty much just said this doesn't count. I think he goes down as a complete harbor, as a complete disruptor. He is uber to taxis in football. He has changed the game immediately. He's disrupted. Pete Carroll at USC Pete
Carroll with the Seahawks. The Buckeyes were a dominant team in the Big Ten, and it took him several years to get it right and get the right quarterback. But usually where Jim goes, they don't have the quarterback right. Alex Smith was viewed as sort of a bust when he got to San Francisco. Stanford didn't have Andrew Luck. Michigan had some decent quarterbacks, but it was JJ McCarthy that was ultimately the big hit for him. He inherits his guy in Justin Herbert. So I just I think
it's gonna work. I think it's gonna work fast. You know, in the AFC is loaded. But you know when you go back and look at where Harbaugh's got pack. The Pac twelve had Pete Carroll, and San Francisco had a mini Seahawks dynasty, and you know everywhere and Ohio State and college football was run by Alabama and Georgia and Ohio State and Clemson. Jim finds a way to cut through it, and usually pretty quick, Michigan will get a
good football coach. The way it works in college football is if you have a legend and a legend leaves, you usually hiccup for a coach and then you find the right one after that. A lot of times what you do, and this is just so college football, is a legend leaves and a school, feeling loyalty to one of the legend's assistants, they want the continuity of the legend without the legend, so they hire a coordinator from the program, and it's a miss. He doesn't maybe have
the gravitas. We've seen this at Bama in Washington. We've seen this throughout the course of college football history, as you hire the popular assistant or somebody connected to the icon who leaves. That's why I like Alabama getting Kailin de boor it's you know, no real connection. Perfect, that's the way to do it. I don't know who Michigan's going to hire. The Big Ten's never been stronger. Eighteen of those kids are leaving. Michigan's still a really healthy
program and a huge brand. But you're not going to get another Jim Hardball. Alabama's not going to get another Nick Saban. They don't exist. And also you're seeing this, it's just a pain in the ass to recruit in college anymore. You saw at Villanova, Jay Wright had ten years to coach. He's like, I'm out, I don't want to deal with this transfer portal nonsense. Nick Saban could have coached, still great energy. I'm out, Let's go do television.
I think Harbad looks at the transfer portal and the NIL and Jim is very pro pay the players, but right now it just doesn't have enough regulations and the players you're spending so much time. You now have two different recruiting cycles. It used to be one early February. Now there's two. You've got the transfer portal, you got the NIL. So those three elements have changed recruiting drastically over the last decade. When Jim took over, Michigan, it's
just not as much fun. And as Jim gets up there in age, college football and college basketball is a young man's game. Getting up there, jennerity, you don't have, you don't have as much turnover in the pro ranks. You'll have a hot coordinator, but you know, the pension's better for assistant coaches in the NFL, and you can keep a staff together. And Jim's gonna build a really strong staff. He'll probably take a couple of defensive guys from Michigan. But this was this was in the works yesterday.
Second interview with the Chargers. I was told very early in the process there was a little divide initially where a lot of the young staffers were all Harbaugh. They were totally pro horrible, and there were some older people in the organization that may have had Dean Spanos's ear a little bit that you know, we're interested in some you know, a Ben Johnson type. But the thing about the Chargers is some businesses just need a new boss.
Some need a culture changer. Washington Commanders need a culture changer and a coach. The Chargers need a culture changer and a coach. I think Atlanta just needs a coach. I think they have a good owner, which McKay, really nice pieces offensively, they just need a quarterback in the right coach. I don't think they're a lousy culture. Washington and the Chargers just too many missteps. The Sdaly thing was a bit of a mess. It just it just feels like they have to kind of right this ship
a strong. This LA market's crowded, man, It's it's a crowded market. People get distracted if you're not good. People have options. The beach, the mountains, Vegas is a forty minute flight away, Rams, Dodgers, USC, UCLA, Clippers, Lakers. It's distracted. You got to win, and so I think Harbaugh is gonna win his first year. I think he's gonna win a lot. I think they're gonna be a high end playoff team immediately, and I can't wait for it. It's the right choice. It's the best job. It's the only
great job in this cycle. It's the only one. Washington's not bad. No quarterback, and you got to change that culture. So it's exciting. Harbaugh is such a unique I was at his first game at Mission again. They played Utah, and he and I had had a clunky interview at the other place, and we weren't in the best space. And over time, you know, Jim and I have gotten along much better. And he's whenever he's at Fox or doing something with the Big Ten, he'll give me a
note and he's texted me a handful of times. His dad, I think, watches the show and sometimes Jim will say, hey, my dad said I need to text you and whatever. He's done that five or six times. But what I like about both John and Jim Harbaugh and have met Jim a couple of times. I like disruptors. I've defended Dana White for years, and people in my space who make people uncomfortable. And I think that's how we all grow.
Discomfort is how we all grow. And I think, you know, Sean McVay came into the NFL and said, I'm not going to plan any of my starters in the preseason and got nothing but shit. People's like, you're not going to be ready, this is not going to work. You have to hit They want eight no to start the season. And then by the following year a lot of young coaches said, yeah, Sean, Shawn's right, why am I starting
my stars? In the preseason. They don't need to take a snap, and some of the veterans wanted to, but Sean McVay was a real game changer, a real disruptor. Some of the old heads still want to play their starters, but mcvay's like, what's the point. I'm not playing Andrew Whitworth. I don't even want Andrew Whitworth by September to wear pads in anything. Just just take the day off and show up on Sunday, right, like smart players, veteran players who come to the camp in shape. And I think,
I think, I think that's what Harbaugh does. You know, it's funny. He's an offensive coach, but I all of his teams have shared one quality, and it's not been brilliant offensive play. I mean, hell, Michigan didn't throw the ball down the field. I mean, Michigan looked like, you know, nineteen eighty eight Michigan, you know, like they didn't throw the ball down the field. It was very much about power running and defense and you know, special teams and
field position. The one thing Jim's teams have all shared is physicality. Very quickly people out West know this. But Stanford was so bad when he took them over, he were just I mean, it was like they were a Division two program. They're like an FCS. It was like two years later. They were just pushing people around. And Harbaugh has been coming out to California and stealing defensive lineman and offensive lineman for years at Michigan. And I
think he's very comfortable with the West. He's coached San Francisco, Stanford, San Diego. It's fun out here. I think he likes it. He's intense. I think he's gonna fit. It's an exciting day. LA star coach, star driven, city star quarterback. Sounds like a movie script. Welcome again to the West Coast. Jim Harbaugh can't wait the volume