Justin Herbert proved lightning strikes twice with craziest back-to-back plays of season

What began as a difficult game to watch turned into one of the better Thursday Night Football games of the year. The L.A. Chargers hosted the Denver Broncos in a crucial Week 16 clash with playoff implications squarely on the line.

It wasn't just your average AFC West battle. At first, the Broncos looked like they were going to run away with this one and leave the Chargers' playoff hopes hanging by a thread. But, in the second half, quarterback Justin Herbert took matters into his own hands.

After nursing an ankle injury, Herbert indeed took the field and didn't seem to be bothered by it at all. In fact, he looked almost as good as he has all season long, at times. Even with offensive coordinator Greg Roman doing everything he could to hold the offense back once again, in the first half, Herbert played some of the best ball we've seen after the intermission.

Just after the beginning of the fourth quarter, Herbert was in the midst of leading what would end up being a go-ahead touchdown drive. On a 1st-and-10, he was flushed from the pocket to his left and, at one point, looked as though he was going to throw it away.

But then, he did this.

With just a flick of the wrist, Herbert found Derius Davis for the wide receiver's first receiving touchdown on the season, and it was a thing of beauty.

Immediately following the score, Herbert and the offense remained on the field to try and go up by three, rather than just two with an extra point.

And that, folks, is when lightning struck once more.

The NFL world erupted after Justin Herbert's insane back-to-back plays on TNF

Herbert took the snap on the two-point conversion and eventually tossed one up to Joshua Palmer in the back of the end zone.

If you blinked after Palmer looked to be just out of reach, you would have missed one of the best catches of the season.

On back-to-back plays, Herbert engineered two of the most improbable, yet entertaining snippets of NFL film fans had seen in a very long time. It's not every game you see a throw like Herbert's touchdown pass to Davis, but for Palmer to do that on the very next play?

That was next level.

Go check out any social media platform or even search "Josh Palmer" via the browser of your choice and you'll find fans, everywhere, losing their ever-loving minds.

This was a game the Chargers had to have. Herbert understood the nature of this one, as did Davis and Palmer.

The display those three put on, in a matter of seconds, was true football art at work.