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Robert Zeglinski

Justin Herbert’s machine gun audible was somehow the most confusing part of the Chargers’ dreadful loss

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The Los Angeles Chargers have barely started their 2023 campaign, and they’re already sitting at a disappointing 0-2. It’s becoming abundantly clear that Brandon Staley shouldn’t have returned, and he seems to understand his seat is getting hotter.

But despite all of this chaos, a weird Justin Herbert audible might have been the most puzzling aspect of the Chargers’ deflating defeat to the Tennessee Titans on Sunday.

Let’s flash forward to the final minutes of the fourth quarter. The Chargers were trying to mount a game-clinching drive and faced a key third-and-long. The CBS cameras captured Herbert using a “machine gun” while screaming out an apparent change in the Chargers’ play call.

I can’t possibly fathom what this is supposed to mean:

I won’t doubt the process of Herbert, a bona fide superstar quarterback who processes the game like a high-tech cyborg. But I really want to hear from whoever put this in the Chargers’ playbook. I don’t think I’ve seen a signal like this before at any level of football.

This was how Twitter reacted to Herbert's weird "machine gun" audible

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