Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert is one of the best pure passers in the NFL. Over the course of his first three-plus seasons in the league, Herbert has already achieved a 5,000-yard campaign and has thrown 103 touchdowns to only 37 interceptions.
However, in spite of Herbert’s passing prowess, the Chargers are not winning, and former NFL cornerback and current Fox Sports analyst Richard Sherman wonders if Herbert is the problem.
While Sherman credits Herbert for putting up big numbers, he said that he tends to come up small in crucial situations. Keep in mind, this came after Herbert threw a game-ending interception in Los Angeles’ Week 6 loss to the Dallas Cowboys.
Sherman adds that wins and losses are a quarterback stat, and Herbert is just 27-27 thus far in his career. He qualified his statement by saying that judging a signal-caller by wins and losses may not necessarily be fair in a team sport but that Herbert (and every other quarterback) will be judged by his team’s record whether we like it or not.
To be fair to Herbert, the 25-year-old has led the Chargers to a pair of winning campaigns, most recently going 10-7 last season before blowing a massive lead to the Jacksonville Jaguars in the Wild Card Round of the playoffs.
Herbert, who played his collegiate football at the University of Oregon, was selected by Los Angeles with the sixth overall pick of the 2020 NFL Draft.
You can say whatever you want about Sherman’s opinion, but the fact of the matter is that he has a point. All of the yards and touchdowns that Justin Herbert stacks up won’t mean much to most people if the wins don’t stack up whether it’s fair or not.
The Chargers have gone 2-3 thus far this season and will take on the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday.
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