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Good morning football is a production of the NFL in partnership with IHeart Radio. Yeah, we found him. It's QB1 with the L.A. Chargers. Practice maybe ended an hour ago. Justin Herbert greeting the fans, stretching, making sure to get your lift in. How's your body feeling this off season? Yeah, doing well. You know, thankfully we've got such a great, you know, strength staff that really take, you know, full advantage of all the great equipment and programs we have here and heading into the season, feeling good. Yeah, no, so they're talking about what happened after practice. You guys were doing conditioning, and I haven't seen that from a team ever where everybody split up and was doing a little bit different condition you talk to us about that

yeah so they gave us four options of of what kind of conditioning drills we wanted to do based on you know how you feel and whether it's

acceleration whether it's you know straight cardio or long distance striders it's just picking something that you feel that

you need to work on and giving us that opportunity and And what is the thing that you like to work on?

Cardio.

So running 25 yards and back being able to do it.

Because just long drives.

We're thinking long drives, eating up a lot of clock. You've got to have your cardio up. Yep, got to be able to run the ball, you know, get back to the sideline, do everything we can. So I've had a lot of conversations, like I said,

with a bunch of teammates, some people in the training room.

And they said, Justin, that you are on a whole nother level.

Kaleo, Max I said, with a bunch of teammates, some people in the training room, and they said, Justin, that you are on a whole other level. Kaleo Mack said himself, he's like, bro, I've been in this league for a long time, and I have never seen somebody this locked in, look this way. What switched for you, Justin? What was that turning point for you where now you have guys around you just like, bro, he's on a whole other level?

Yeah, well, I appreciate that. You know, and that's awfully nice of Khalil to say. And I think it's really easy for us to take a look at that because we've got guys like Derwin James and like, you know, Khalil Mack leading the charge. And, you know, there's nothing but to be locked in like that. They demand that from everyone. And that's my responsibility as a quarterback, as a leader on this team, you know, to give everything that I have.

Obviously, it didn't go our way. And, you know, no one feels worse than I did last year. But we had a great opportunity to come back this offseason, put in all this work, and have the chance to go play football. We got an opportunity to talk to your head coach today. And always an enlightening conversation when you talk to Jim Harbaugh. What are some of this guy? Here, take my mic. Just take my mic. Just take my microphone. This family right here. What's my mom? Darwin, saying after practice as well. This I'm a fan, bro. Wow. So nice. It's nice. It's Justin Rivers' face. Here, I'll just say, here. You want us to ask this person the question instead? He doesn't look very happy. I need this. I'm going to take it. We spoke with Jim Harbaugh, and he's just so high on what you bring to the team. But I am wondering about how you yourself have changed the way you've tried to push your teammates. You know, you're trying to get everybody lifted to a point of a playoff win, of pushing into the playoffs. How have you maybe changed the way that you are approaching your teammates to make sure that you guys are the new standard in the league? Yeah, and it starts with what we did last year. You know, I thought we did a lot of great things last year. And, you know, there's still so much room for improvement for us. And especially me, a quarterback and everything that I can do offensively and having a second year in this offense, you know, we're already steps ahead of where we were last year. And now it's just fine-tuning that, really understanding exactly what Greg Roman wants when he calls a certain play. And I think we've done a great job of that. In OTAs and heading into camp so far, it's just building off of that. Justin, what are your goals? What are your goals for this year? Because I'm pushing with GMFB, we just had a segment yesterday where I'm pushing for you as a candidate to be the MVP. That's how much of a fan I am of Justin Herbert. But what are your goals personally going into this year? Yeah. I've always tried to stay away from statistical goals. You know, I think if you want to include wins, I think wins are our number one priority. Winning as many games as we can and scoring touchdowns. And if we're doing that as an offense, and if I'm doing that as a quarterback, then we're going to have a lot of success. You know, whether it's passing yards, you know, touchdowns, completions, you know, it really just comes down to wins and scoring touchdowns. We were marveling at the sheer size of the line on both sides of the ball during practice. Is this the most proud you have been of the group in front of you? Maybe just from the fact that you're like, I got some guys that are going to protect me. Yeah, they've done such a great job. And what makes it even better is they're great guys, you know, hanging out in that offensive line room, you know, they're really close. You know, they communicate really well. Bowes is seen every single front that there is to see. And I just feel comfortable back there. I have a really

tough time seeing over the right side of the line. But that's a good problem to have, though.

Well, we'll end that off talking about your head coach. He loves you. How excited are you going

into year two with him? Historically, he does a magnificent job with his quarterbacks into year

two. I'm excited about that for you.

But how excited are you working with Coach Jim Harbaugh in your second year with him?

Yeah, we just want to make him proud.

You know, he's done so much for this team and he just wants to win. And I think that's the best thing about him is competitive spirit. And as long as we're listening to him, following him, I know that we're going to have a lot of success.

He might not love you as much as Mantai does holding this cutout of your face during this entire interview.

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