Justin Herbert is yet to win a single postseason game during his time as a quarterback of the Los Angeles Chargers. For a passer many around the league consider one of the most talented at the position, that gap between individual production and team results keeps coming back to the same culprit: the offensive line in front of him. 

Despite a top-six draft pick and years of cap room to work with, the Chargers’ front office has repeatedly failed to build Herbert a line capable of protecting its franchise key player.

That failure is exactly what set off former Chargers lineman Braden Fehoko on his podcast The Breiden Fehoko Show this week, and led him to float an idea Chargers fans won’t want to hear.

“Whether people want to call it out and whether people don’t want to acknowledge it, the Chargers front office has neglected protecting Justin Herbert for his tenure as an NFL quarterback,” Breiden Fehoko said. “So if in a few years Justin Herbert decides, you know what, I’m tired of this s*** I’m tired of taking hits, I’m tired of picking myself up off the ground, and I want to go right off into the sunset and retire with his newly awesome fiancée, Madison…

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“If Justin Herbert wants to decide that he wants to retire and walk away from this poverty a** organization and ride off into the sunset, I won’t blame him because this front office has neglected to sign depth.”

On his podcast, The Breiden Fehoko Show, he highlighted the Los Angeles Chargers’ key vulnerability. Fehoko believes that the franchise is not investing in the key positions which is eventually hurting their QB1. 

“You had a hundred million f****** dollars, Joe Hortiz. Sign somebody. You had Isaac Seumalo, you had Wyatt Teller, you had Ed Ingram, you had uh Braden Smith, Elgton Jenkins, Alijah Vera-Tucker, Tyler Linderbaum,” Fehoko said. “And I can rattle off a whole another list of guys who were quality signings who didn’t even get a f****** offer and he had $100 million sitting the bank and he didn’t do s*** I’m a former teammate of Justin Herbert.”   

The stats also back up his claims, portraying the O-line as the primary liability rather than the protective unit around Herbert. Per Pro-Football-Reference, Herbert was sacked 54 times last season. His career-high sack numbers illustrate a persistent failure to establish a clean pocket.  

And ahead of the upcoming NFL season, their offensive lineup was also struck with a big blow as their starting center, Tyler Biadasz, is out for the season after suffering a multi-ligament left knee injury, including a torn ACL, on August 18, 2026, during an 11-on-11 drill at a joint practice with the San Francisco 49ers.

With Biadasz out, his void will be filled by rookie Jake Slaughter from Florida. Among the key five pieces of the O-line, Herbert’s blind side is also not protected, with reliable depth left tackle Rashawn Slater slowly coming back from an injury, further thinning a group that was already being patched together heading into the season.

Fehoko’s retirement prediction is extreme, but his underlying criticism is clear. Herbert needs a stable offensive line if the Los Angeles Chargers want to turn his individual talent into postseason success.

For now, Herbert remains committed to the Chargers, but the pressure is on the front office to give him the protection and depth needed to compete.