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Chargers safety R.J. Mickens (27) shows his excitement after intercepting a pass from Vikings quarterback Carson Wentz in the second half Thursday.<\/p>\n
(Eric Thayer \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n
\u201cThe great ones are measured by what they do after something goes bad,\u201d Harbaugh said of Herbert\u2019s response. \u201cAfter there\u2019s an interception \u2014 that\u2019s the worst thing that can really happen to you as a quarterback \u2014 then chart what they do with the next drive.\u201d<\/p>\n
The coach said that kind of mistake would \u201cshake\u201d a lot of quarterbacks, but not Herbert.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving played the position, I know what that\u2019s like,\u201d Harbaugh said. \u201cI mean, it\u2019s like your brain, it\u2019s searing. It\u2019s like sirens and whistles and bells going off. And to be able to go \u20183, 2, 1, let it go\u2019 and then come back and have a scoring drive. That\u2019s another one reserved for the best of the best.\u201d<\/p>\n
Herbert has been pressured and hit more than any NFL quarterback this season, yet he got much better protection Thursday night, thanks in no small part to the return of left tackle Joe Alt.<\/p>\n
The Chargers built a 21-3 lead in the first two quarters, a script-flipped version of what happened in the Colts game, when they found themselves in a 23-3 ditch at halftime.<\/p>\n
This time, the Chargers had 29 first downs to 12 by the Vikings.<\/p>\n
The defensive performance was much closer to one the Chargers might have turned in last season when they led the AFC by allowing just 18.5 points per game. In the three games prior to Thursday, they had allowed an average of 30.6 points.<\/p>\n
If the Chargers proved anything, it\u2019s that they aren\u2019t just scorers. They\u2019re rebounders too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The offense topped 30 points for the first time all season. The defense went from rattled to relentless.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":329162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,7151,163660,33353,1910,58000,163659,152066,2961,224,5337,11346,163661,3007,50647,3355,43627,2452,80883],"class_list":{"0":"post-329161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-chargers","11":"tag-colts-loss","12":"tag-fourth-quarter","13":"tag-game","14":"tag-herbert","15":"tag-humbling-loss","16":"tag-kimani-vidal","17":"tag-la","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-losangeles","20":"tag-quarterback","21":"tag-short-pass","22":"tag-team","23":"tag-touchdown","24":"tag-victory","25":"tag-vikings","26":"tag-week","27":"tag-yard"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115429257392199681","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}