Justin Herbert and Chargers show grit in overtime

All that speak about the left hand of Justin Herbert, and it’s the best foot of Cameron Dicker that made the distinction.

Dicker kicked 5 area objectives Monday night time to raise the Chargers to a 22-19 overtime victory over the Philadelphia Eagles in a wild, turnover-filled sport at SoFi Stadium.

On a night time when the groups mixed for eight turnovers — including a career-high 4 interceptions by Philadelphia’s Jalen Hurts — the sport fittingly ended with an interception. Tony Jefferson latched onto a move that was tipped by fellow Chargers defensive back Cam Hart, snuffing out the Eagles’ last probability.

So Dicker’s 54-yard area aim with 6:24 remaining in the additional period offered the margin of victory, just as it was Dicker who compelled overtime with a 46-yarder in the waning moments of regulation.

“What a team we have,” Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh said, virtually shouting at the postgame podium. “That’s my reaction — what a team we have. They refuse to lose.”

It was virtually do or die for a banged-up workforce that needed to win at least two of its closing 5 video games for a life like probability at the playoffs. Now, the Chargers (9-4) need to win at least one of a brutal four-game stretch — at Kansas City and Dallas, at home against Houston, and a finale at AFC West-leading Denver, which has gained 10 in a row.

Opportunity awaits, but it’s among the NFL’s hardest stretch runs.

That said, the Chargers are a robust workforce. They proved that throughout the near-constant reshuffling of their offensive line, the loss of their top two working backs — one of whom returned Monday night time — and the injury to Herbert, who underwent surgical procedure last Monday to restore a fracture in his non-throwing hand.

Harbaugh deemed the efficiency, “Great with a capital G.”

Despite a week of outdoors hypothesis about his availability, Herbert conceded after Monday’s sport that he knew even before surgical procedure that he wasn’t going to miss a sport. He performed with a small forged on his left hand and was even utilizing that bandaged appendage to stiff-arm defenders. He was his workforce’s main rusher with 10 carries for 66 yards.

“It felt like we were in a movie where the quarterback is doing these things and you get to the point where you go, ‘OK, this is getting a little unrealistic,’” Harbaugh said. “That’s what it felt like to me.”

Nonetheless, Herbert absorbed a beating. He was sacked a career-high seven occasions and hit 11 more, and didn’t have a healthy left arm to break his fall, so more than once he was violently slammed to the turf.

“He definitely sets the standard,” Chargers guard Mekhi Becton said of the quarterback. “For him to get surgery a week ago and be back on the field today, it’s contagious, for sure. It makes you want to go hard for him.”

Philadelphia was in prime place to forge another tie in overtime. The Eagles (8-5) answered Dicker’s fifth area aim by driving to the Chargers’ 41, the periphery of kicker Jake Elliott’s vary. They wished to get a little nearer, however, so the offense stayed on the sphere for a fourth and 4.

Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert tries to get rid of the ball while being sacked during the first half Monday.

(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

That’s when Chargers defensive lineman Odafe Oweh was flagged for a neutral-zone infraction, giving the guests a first down. A pair of accomplished passes and the Eagles had a first down on the 17 — and that’s when Hurts was intercepted for a fourth and closing time.

Hurts had just two interceptions in his first 12 video games this season. At one level in the second quarter, he had both an interception and a fumble on the same play. His move over the center was picked off by Da’Shawn Hand, who subsequently fumbled. Hurts obtained the ball back but he too fumbled, and the Chargers wound up with it.

“This was a Super Bowl QB, so we have a lot of respect for what he’s done,” Jefferson said of Hurts, who was Most Valuable Player in the victory over Kansas City last February. “But we wanted to come out and showcase our brand of football.”

All the Chargers defenders have been awarded a sport ball, as was defensive coordinator Jesse Minter.

Herbert obtained one as properly.

“I just think about the guys in that locker room,” he said. “They do it for us. So many guys fight through things worse than what I’m going through. It’s the least I can do to show up and give my best.

“I draw a lot of inspiration from those guys, and hopefully I can have an impact on them too.”

The quarterback confirmed his grit — decidedly not a left-handed praise.

Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert grimaces in pain after being tackled by Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Quinyon Mitchell in the second half Monday night time.

(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)