Jim Harbaugh wasn’t interested in entertaining Quentin Lake’s shot at Justin Herbert.
After the Rams safety blasted Herbert following the Chargers’ 24-9 loss - saying, “He was throwing deli meat out there,” and “He’s seeing ghosts. I don’t know what’s going on, but we knew we were gonna get a couple. At least one.” - Harbaugh brushed it off Wednesday.
“As far as anybody’s opinion I don’t see that,” Harbaugh told reporters. “Everybody’s entitled to their opinion. Not what I see.”
When asked what he did see from Herbert in the loss, Harbaugh backed his quarterback.
“I thought he played - did his job exceptionally well,” Harbaugh said. “You know, two throws he would have liked to have back.”
Herbert said he hadn’t even heard Lake’s comments.
“ I haven’t looked into it, haven’t heard anything about it, so I can’t really make a comment about it,” Herbert told reporters. “We’re really just focused on what’s going on in the building, playing football and doing what we can and doing our best to, you know, go put our best effort out on Sunday.
And that’s all that really matters. Anything outside of that is out of our control.”
Lake’s criticism landed because it cut at the bigger question hanging over Herbert and the Chargers right now: what exactly is going wrong?
Herbert is in the seventh year of his career and making $52.5 million per year, yet the conversation around him has turned sharply uneasy. Something has changed this season. Nobody seems able to pin down exactly what it is, or whether it will get fixed.
That uncertainty has made the Chargers’ situation even stranger. They’ve lost seven and won none, but the way they talk sometimes makes it sound like they’re the ones sitting on the other side of the scoreboard.
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