Herbert’s Future, a Week 6 NFL Preview, Plus an NBA Deep Dive

BillOh, it's our annual weekly chat about Justin Herbert and Jim Harbaugh.

What's changed? Anything?

PelisseroI would say, well, for the fact that they're 0 -5, and now you have one game before the bye to try to get something going, or you're going to be 0 -6, and it's going to be, where do you go from here, and how do you approach it? Do you start turning the page?

PelisseroThe biggest thing, and I saw your conversation with Sal the other day about Jim Harbaugh. So that's definitely something that is talked about within the league. I would just say, I would just say, I don't get any sense. I have no reason to believe that this is going to be like downhill and Jim Harbaugh is gone and they start over in 2027.

PelisseroI'd be shocked if it goes that way because they won games the past two years because they're doing something totally different offensively. The biggest red flag right now is Justin Herbert's playing the worst he ever has.

PelisseroAnd yeah, you're five weeks in. It's a long season. It's a very different offense. But he's throwing picks that you just wouldn't expect to see. So I know Harbaugh has made some, you know, he's tweaked up like the schedule and different things that they're doing in practice and trying to make some of those small things.

PelisseroBut he can't come in and fix Mike's offense. It has to be McDaniel has to adapt to what they're doing. Like, are they going to try to trade Justin Herbert? Like, no, they're not going to do that. But the real question becomes, how much do they say to Mike McDaniel, especially if you get into the buy, like, we got to strip it down.