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Training camps are in full swing, the pads have come on, and the preseason games have kicked off, which is the perfect time to answer some of your most pressing questions about the upcoming NFL season.

Will Jim Harbaugh finally bring an end to “Chargering” for the Chargers? (From @VoiceofMod on Threads)

The Los Angeles Chargers became accustomed to coming up short under former head coach Brandon Staley.

Justin Herbert, widely viewed as one of the premier quarterbacks in the sport, begins his fifth season with a gutwrenching 23 one-score losses on his resumè.

Enter Jim Harbaugh.

Harbaugh, of course, is making his return to the NFL sidelines on the heels of guiding the Michigan Wolverines to a National Championship last season and with a Super Bowl appearance with the San Francisco 49ers under his belt from his previous go-round as an NFL head coach.

Former Michigan tight end, and current Big Ten Network analyst, Jake Butt was a sophomore when the Wolverines hired Harbaugh as head coach in 2015 and has been in Herbert’s shoes seeing the instant impact he has on a program.

“Jim Harbaugh is a culture driver,” Butt recently told me by phone. “When he got hired to be our head coach at Michigan, before he even came on campus it was like ‘Oh, wow, we’re going to win games because Jim Harbaugh wins games.

“That belief accounts for something. Tom Brady, when he gets in the huddle, final drive when those other ten guys are looking at Tom Brady, they believe they will win because Tom Brady is their quarterback, that counts for something. Jim Has won everywhere he’s been. Immediately, the Chargers have to be sitting here thinking ‘we have a shot with this guy as our head coach.”

Beyond rapidly instilling confidence and restoring belief, there’s a very real chance Harbaugh makes a wholesale change to the Chargers offense that not only has the chance to elevate Herbert but course correct the late-game disappointments that have marred Los Angeles’ recent seasons.