Herbert Heating Up

How the Chargers' Passing Game is Peaking at the right time.

The Chargers offense is playing their best football late in the season. With the playoffs here, OC Greg Roman and Justin Herbert are at the top of their game. Herbert capped off the regular season with a Week 18 performance matching his season-high in passing yards.

Let’s examine the film and analyze four explosive plays that highlight the Chargers’ passing game and what we can expect in the playoffs.

Fade-Post Concept

Greg Roman's system is well known for its robust running game, so it is no surprise many of the big plays the Chargers have been creating come from play-action.

It's fist-and-10, an ideal situation to take a shot. The Chargers max protect, keeping seven blockers in and releasing three receivers into routes. The primary concept features a fade-post combination designed to stress the safety.

The Raiders are in Cover 2, which isolates the safety between the fade and post route. The safety tries to split the two routes, but Herbert manipulates him with his eyes and delivers a perfect strike to the fade route, threading it past the corner and away from the safety's reach.