Hour 2 – Jim Harbaugh, Joe Thomas
The Dan Patrick Show
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Los Angeles Chargers HC Jim Harbaugh joins the show to weigh in on the spate of ACL injuries in the NFL and admits that Justin Herbert is a better NFL QB than he ever was. Plus, Hall of Fame NFL OL Joe Thomas drops by and talks about some of the worst fields he had to play on in his career as well as how dominant he thinks Myles Garrett truly is.
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| 0:23.6 | we'll talk to the chargers head coach jim harball in a moment also mike gollick senior will |
| 0:28.7 | stop by as well as the brown's hall of famer joe thomas 877 3d pshow operator tyler's sitting |
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| 0:45.8 | We were talking at the end of last hour about the rash of ACL injuries this year, led by Micah Parsons and Patrick Mahomes. |
| 0:54.2 | Mahomes got hurt. That was contact in the Chargers game by Micah Parsons and Patrick Mahomes. Mahomes got hurt that was contact in the Chargers game. |
| 0:57.8 | Michael Parsons' non-contact injury. |
| 1:00.4 | And yesterday, the NFL said that they announced they're going to have a study to look at |
| 1:05.3 | turf. |
| 1:06.3 | And these are new roles, or at least a new policy, a new approach to this. |
| 1:10.7 | And people, I think, were surprised at the number of torn ACLs so far this year, 30 so far. |
| 1:17.5 | Now, that seems like a lot. |
| 1:19.7 | And the reason why it seems like a lot is because there are some big names in here. |
| 1:24.0 | In 2024, there were 38 torn ACLs, 2023, 43, 22, 51, 21, 27, 2020, |
| 1:34.5 | 20, 42. You can go back to 2013. There were 63 torn ACLs. So it seems like we're trending |
| 1:42.6 | down, but why can't we come up with universal fields that can prevent at least the non-contact injury? |
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