Jim Harbaugh has tough words for Chargers QB Justin Herbert

In general, it was a poor performance from Herbert, once thought of as one of the top young quarterbacks in the NFL.

It was so bad, in fact, that head coach Jim Harbaugh actually criticized his quarterback.

"Be better. Be better," Harbaugh said on Monday about Herbert's decision-making, per Kris Rhim of ESPN. "And that drives Justin, that drives me, that drives his position coach, that drives Mike [McDaniel], the coordinator. I mean, drives us all."

Even Jim Harbaugh is criticizing Justin Herbert 

It's a mild criticism from Harbaugh, but it's worth noting because he's otherwise been effusive in his praise of Herbert.

“Justin Herbert, when it’s all said and done, when his career comes to an end, I predict he will be known as the greatest, best ever to play the position of quarterback,” Harbaugh recently said.

That makes this mild criticism seem like a Stephen A. Smith hot-take, but Harbaugh publicly saying this is absolutely a sign of Herbert's early-season struggles.

His completion percentage of 59.1% is in the bottom quarter of the league. The same can be said of his passer rating of 73.4. Through three games, he's thrown more interceptions (four) than touchdowns (three).

That's bad, and if even Harbaugh can admit it, then you know it's true. Still, the head coach seems to think it's more about the scheme than anything else.

"We want to be better. We got to be better. We got to look at our scheme," Harbaugh said. "We got to look at how we're performing, how we're doing things and who's doing it."