In the long arc of professional football, few stories are as quietly tragic as that of a gifted quarterback trapped behind a failing structure. Justin Herbert, one of the most talented passers of his generation, opened yet another season in Los Angeles with a 16-3 loss to the Arizona Cardinals — a defeat that revealed not a single bad day, but the continuation of an organizational pattern years in the making. The numbers surrounding Herbert's punishment at the hands of opposing pass rushers have grown historic, and his terse postgame words suggested a man who understands, perhaps better than a