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Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert runs a drill during the NFL football team\u2019s practice, Monday, June 8, 2026, in El Segundo, Calif. (AP Photo\/William Liang)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. \u2014 New Los Angeles Chargers offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel wanted to change Justin Herbert\u2019s footwork, so he has taken the football out of his star quarterback\u2019s hands for parts of the offseason program.<\/p>

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While it might seem counterintuitive, McDaniel believes Herbert can better focus on learning those adjustments when not throwing.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo change it, and in one offseason, make it something that\u2019s in the unconscious that you\u2019re not thinking about where you have to think about a lot of other things, you really have to take an intentional attack on it. So I think he understood the extreme measures,\u201d McDaniel said.<\/p>\n

McDaniel is teaching Herbert to lead with his non-dominant left foot, with the right-handed passer having put his right foot forward when first handling the football in each of his previous six seasons in the NFL.<\/p>\n

McDaniel initially took notice of the off-foot technique as an assistant to Kyle Shanahan with Houston in 2007. Brett Favre had been using it throughout his Hall of Fame career, and Tom Brady adopted it for the 2007 season when he threw 50 touchdowns passes, setting a then single-season league record that has since been broken.<\/p>\n

Shanahan, who was the Texans quarterbacks coach at the time, and McDaniel extensively studied the possible benefits in the approach before adopting it, including when they continued worked together in Washington and San Francisco. McDaniel also took it to Miami when he was the Dolphins head coach for four seasons until being fired in January, leading the left-handed Tua Tagovailoa to start with his right foot forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have your pros and cons for anything that you do from a technique perspective, but having the non-throwing-hand foot forward, there was some advantages that I kind of lean toward. By the time we got to Washington (in 2010), we started training quarterbacks that way,\u201d McDaniel said.<\/p>\n

With McDaniel installing a quicker passing game<\/a> that emphasizes allowing receivers to accumulate yards after catch, the tweak in footwork is intended to maximize the timing Herbert needs to get the most out of those opportunities.<\/p>

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\u201cI kind of look at it like you\u2019re trying to find the margins where you can improve, and you have a quarterback of high achievement like Justin, who wants to make gains in this game. You find the most margin that you can improve upon, and identifying that, and it being shorter time throws and footwork, there\u2019s a necessity to really focus on footwork from the ground up,\u201d McDaniel said.<\/p>\n

That meant asking Herbert to spend portions of organized team activities working with a large green exercise ball instead of a football. He also ceded throws in 7-on-7s and other periods to backups Trey Lance and DJ Uiagalelei, leaving Herbert to simulate drop-backs.<\/p>\n

McDaniel\u2019s aim was to put the emphasis on process rather than result.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s as simple as where your focus is, and when you don\u2019t watch a ball go, you don\u2019t attribute any emotions toward, \u2018Oh, that was a good throw. Oh, that was a bad throw.\u2019 You only can really lean into one thing, and that\u2019s the footwork that you\u2019re doing. And if you make that the end-all, be-all \u2014 at the quarterback position, you have 900 things to think about \u2014 and in a short period of time, you can really master it to where you\u2019re not thinking about it at all,\u201d McDaniel said.<\/p>\n

Herbert was receptive to the request to change his footwork, having spent his college career at Oregon operating in a neutral stance with his feet placed evenly.<\/p>\n

As for the reduction in passing, Herbert accepted it, a minor surprise given his past insistence on getting lots of extra throws in before and after practices. Herbert said the new approach is as much about making sure his arm is fresh when the Chargers get to the stretch run of the season as mastering the new footwork.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve thrown a lot of footballs, and it\u2019s May and June, and I didn\u2019t think it was as necessary to throw as much now. I\u2019m doing everything I can to get the footwork ready and get the offense down, and the throws, they\u2019ll be there,\u201d Herbert said.<\/p>

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