To mix sports metaphors, your Los Angeles Chargers are clearly making a full-court press in a bid to secure the services of current University of Michigan Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh, who's fresh off of his first College Football Playoffs National Championship game victory with his alma matter.
Mike J. Asti of Yardbarker, for one, loves the fit of Harbaugh alongside young Pro Bowl Bolts quarterback Justin Herbert, who has made just one playoff appearance thus far in his career.
"[Assuming] he starts next season fully healthy, there's still room for Herbert to take his game to another level and be able to elevate his team to a place former all-time great Chargers quarterbacks Dan Fouts and Philip Rivers failed to reach — the Super Bowl. That's where Harbaugh comes in," Asti writes.
"Harbaugh, a former NFL quarterback himself, has made a career of getting the most he can out of the quarterbacks he's coached. It's also fair to say he has been most successful when he has a star quarterback he can rely on. From Andrew Luck at Stanford to Colin Kaepernick with the 49ers to J.J. McCarthy at Michigan, Harbaugh's best professional marriages have been with quality quarterbacks."
Last year, the 6'6" former Oregon Duck, 25, passed for 3,134 total yards and 20 touchdowns (against just seven interceptions). He also notched a 64.3 quarterback rating, good for fifth best in the league.