Shawne Merriman Gloats Over Chargers’ 2024 Success, ‘I Was Telling Everybody!’

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Jim Harbaugh and the L.A. Chargers’ first yr collectively goes higher than many had been anticipating … and Shawne Merriman‘s thrilled about it — ‘trigger he advised everybody who would hear earlier than the season he knew they’d be good!

The ex-pass rusher sat down with TMZ Sports activities just prior to the Bolts’ 2024 kickoff — and he was adamant again then that his former staff had an actual likelihood to make a run to the AFC Championship recreation.

This week, once we caught again up with him — he gloated about his preseason forecast — telling us that after being across the staff in the summertime, he simply had an actual feeling this Chargers staff might be a Tremendous Bowl contender.

“The energy in that building was completely different,” he stated, “and now I think everybody’s seeing it.”

The Chargers are at the moment 6-3 and are heading into a really robust a part of their schedule — they have tilts with the Bengals, Ravens and Chiefs on the horizon — however Merriman is not backing off his September predictions one bit … telling us he is nonetheless tremendous bullish on the Bolts.

“Don’t count them out to go deep in the playoffs and find themselves in the AFC Championship game,” he stated. “They have that type of team, they have that type of coaching staff. And we said it before, but I think they have a real shot to go all the way.”