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Speaker 1: Welcome into a brand new episode of Chargers Weekly, powered

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Speaker 1: by YouTube tv as always, joined by Matt Muney Smith

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Speaker 1: and Money. I feel like every single week we've done

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Speaker 1: this during the offseason, there's been some huge, gigantic news,

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Speaker 1: whether it's Chargers news or AFC West related news. This

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Speaker 1: I put this out on Twitter this morning and got

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Speaker 1: a ton of responses. So I'm excited to answer some

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Speaker 1: fan questions with you today. Yeah, as am I, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know what it makes makes the show prep a

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Speaker 1: little bit easier on us, right, always get some questions,

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Speaker 1: No question, Well, I listen. I'm gonna try to get

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Speaker 1: We have so many people that listen to the pod

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Speaker 1: right off the rip here. Money, your rankings of the

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Speaker 1: AFC West currently and if you're too bias, which free

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Speaker 1: agent do you think will contribute to the most to

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Speaker 1: the culture that Staley is building? Uh? It, look, I

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Speaker 1: think it's crazy to to It's just hard to project

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Speaker 1: Then that's such a stupid thing to say. It's so obvious,

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Speaker 1: But it's just like, I don't it's a brand new

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Speaker 1: off without Big Fangiel because it's going to how much

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Speaker 1: is the offense going to take a jump with Russell

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Speaker 1: is Davante Adams enough to overcome what I still think

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Speaker 1: at the same time, then you look at that trio receivers.

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Speaker 1: And obviously I think the Chiefs are gonna take a

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Speaker 1: way too many of these road trips to Kansas City, Chris,

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Speaker 1: it on their face. And yes, Pat Mahomes is a

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Speaker 1: You know that offense is going to change it, you know,

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Speaker 1: You know, Khalil Mack's the big name, but I think J. C.

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Speaker 1: has money decided on his Mac sack call? Is he

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Speaker 1: waiting for to come? Naturally? We've got the Bosa bomb,

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Speaker 1: pick at the trade deadline for a team Hicks to

425
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Speaker 1: try to fix this run defense. A second, a third

426
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Speaker 1: maybe to go get him and set a second nettya

427
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Speaker 1: Khalil Mack. You know. So I think when you when

428
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Speaker 1: you start looking at at you know, depth pieces, you know,

429
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Speaker 1: can you can Dwayne Brown move to right tackle? Is

430
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Speaker 1: that you know? There there's some big names out there still,

431
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Speaker 1: um so, I think that's the difference though. There's there's

432
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Speaker 1: big names that probably won't command big salary because right,

433
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe maybe you hear a name. You hear

434
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Speaker 1: a name like Julio Jones for instance. Right, he's a

435
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Speaker 1: big name, but he's not getting nineteen million year like

436
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Speaker 1: he did in Atlanta and in Tennessee. Yeah, I think,

437
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Speaker 1: you know, and I want to say it was I

438
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Speaker 1: think it's a Bill Parcels saying I'm pretty sure it's

439
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Speaker 1: a Bill parcels the one thing you have to be

440
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Speaker 1: careful of. And he would say that, I feel bad

441
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Speaker 1: if it's not Bill Parcels, but I'm pretty sure it's him.

442
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:25,680
Speaker 1: He calls them development inhibitors. You know, you you fall

443
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Speaker 1: in love with the name, and all it is is

444
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Speaker 1: a veteran who's at the end of his career in

445
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Speaker 1: the twilight of his career, and they're not going to

446
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Speaker 1: give you what they gave earlier or in the prime

447
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Speaker 1: of their career. And they're keeping a young player off

448
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Speaker 1: the field. So now you're not developing a young player.

449
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Speaker 1: Now you're not looking at a young player that might

450
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Speaker 1: be an Austin Eckler, you know. Instead, you've signed let's

451
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Speaker 1: say you've signed to Melvin Gordon because he's still out

452
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Speaker 1: there to come back. And it's like, okay, is he

453
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Speaker 1: giving you at this age, at nearly thirty years old?

454
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Speaker 1: Is he giving you what X? You know, fourth or

455
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Speaker 1: fifth round draft pick or second year player might be

456
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Speaker 1: giving you. But he's taken snaps away. So that's the

457
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Speaker 1: one thing you gotta be careful of. Now, look every

458
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Speaker 1: now and then you'll see that like incredible, Holy cow,

459
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,679
Speaker 1: how did that guy last this? Like look, look Tyron

460
00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:25,440
Speaker 1: Matthew still out there, you know, and it's like, what

461
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Speaker 1: is what is he looking for? What is he waiting for?

462
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Speaker 1: Is he comfortable at his age, you know, taking a

463
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Speaker 1: one year deal to take a big swing in another

464
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl? Would you like to stick it to the

465
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Speaker 1: Chiefs twice a year and play on a defense with

466
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Speaker 1: Derwin James like like, those are the discussions that I'm

467
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Speaker 1: sure start coming up, you know, and you call his

468
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Speaker 1: agent and you say, look, this is all we got.

469
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Speaker 1: You know, if you've got four or five year deal

470
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Speaker 1: sitting out there, I totally understand it's a violent game

471
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Speaker 1: in your career can be over tomorrow. But if your

472
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Speaker 1: shopping one year deals, come back and talk to us

473
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Speaker 1: and let's see if we can put you on a

474
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Speaker 1: team that's really good where you can excel, and then

475
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Speaker 1: you can dip back into the free agent market next

476
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Speaker 1: year and go get that big deal. It's such an

477
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Speaker 1: important point. I'm glad you mentioned that. And if it

478
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Speaker 1: was parcels development inhibitors, because those are guys that I'm

479
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Speaker 1: sure Chargers fans are looking at who's available free agency

480
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Speaker 1: and you see a lot of these big names, but

481
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Speaker 1: just remember there's a guys on this roster now that

482
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Speaker 1: are entering their second year or will be rookies here

483
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Speaker 1: in a couple of months. But the team that can contribute.

484
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Speaker 1: And I used Darwin James as an example. He was

485
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Speaker 1: a first team All Pro at this time in twenty eighteen.

486
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Speaker 1: We had zero clue that Derwin James is going to

487
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Speaker 1: be a Charger impact the defense the way he did

488
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Speaker 1: in route to a twelve and fourth season and a

489
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Speaker 1: win in the playoffs. So they're gonna be guys that

490
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Speaker 1: the Chargers draft or guys who they drafted last year

491
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Speaker 1: who were going to have an impact. And if you

492
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Speaker 1: bring in a big name veteran in name only kind

493
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Speaker 1: of the twilight of his career, perhaps that stunts the

494
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Speaker 1: growth of some of these guys. Yeah. I mean, look again,

495
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Speaker 1: there's there's a ton of players. There's a ton of

496
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Speaker 1: players out there. I mean Riley Reef is still out there,

497
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Speaker 1: isn't he? I'm pretty sure he's still out there. I

498
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Speaker 1: think he is so like, but is Riley Reef at

499
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Speaker 1: this particular time in his career? And I'm trying to

500
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Speaker 1: look up whether or not he's signed or not. I mean,

501
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Speaker 1: he's thirty three, he's dealt with some injuries. Is he is?

502
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Speaker 1: Brett is Highmas ready to play? Is Trey Pipkins ready

503
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Speaker 1: to play? You know? Are you just signing someone that's

504
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Speaker 1: got a name? You know, I mentioned Dwyane Brown earlier.

505
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Speaker 1: I'm just thinking of that right tackle position or did

506
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Speaker 1: they feel like giving himis a full year to acclimate

507
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Speaker 1: to guard after playing both tackle positions at Nebraska, that

508
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Speaker 1: they're now ready to kick Matt Filer out the right

509
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Speaker 1: tackle and they're comfortable now putting highmus or resigning a

510
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Speaker 1: bushe and putting him next to Rashaan Slater to lock

511
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Speaker 1: up that left side with Corey Lindsley. And now, oh,

512
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Speaker 1: you know what, Matt filers a better right tackle anybody

513
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Speaker 1: else we got out there on free agency, even though

514
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Speaker 1: you may not think of him as a great right

515
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Speaker 1: tackle because he played guard all of last year. I

516
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Speaker 1: hope that makes sense, Like that's that's the stuff they

517
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Speaker 1: got to sort through right now. Well again, I feel

518
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Speaker 1: like money is just seguating right to the necessary questions here.

519
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Speaker 1: We have a ton of right tackle O line questions,

520
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 1: and we have a ton of odeabushi questions. We got

521
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Speaker 1: a lot of bushy fans many play. Well, let me

522
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,399
Speaker 1: just buzz through some of these and we can just

523
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 1: try to hit on some of the main topics the planet.

524
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Speaker 1: Right tackle. Johnny c wants to know right tackle from

525
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Speaker 1: the other LA Phil thoughts on how this eventually may

526
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Speaker 1: be addressed draft free agency. Someone on the roster, Our

527
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 1: guy Brian Rick wants to know about the right side

528
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Speaker 1: of the old line, and you talked about the fact

529
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Speaker 1: that you could potentially move Matt Filer out to right

530
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Speaker 1: timas left guard. Brian Utu wants to know what the

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Speaker 1: combination of O lineman will look like next year defensive

532
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Speaker 1: lineman two, and then Zogo wants to know what the

533
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Speaker 1: offensive line stitution will look like come September. So I

534
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,919
Speaker 1: guess we could start with right tackle and kind of

535
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Speaker 1: go from there. There's obviously h some in house options, um,

536
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Speaker 1: Matt Feiler being one of them. Um, there's that seventeenth

537
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Speaker 1: overall pick. And then you mentioned that you still have

538
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Speaker 1: the tool free agency. Yeah, so look, I think what

539
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Speaker 1: would they prefer. I think they prefer to do it

540
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Speaker 1: in house and save some money and save some draft equity,

541
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Speaker 1: you know. I think if they feel like they can

542
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Speaker 1: do it, then they will. But at the same time,

543
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 1: you know, you can't go out there and do what

544
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Speaker 1: you did last year after a boosh, she went down. Pipkins.

545
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: What do we think of Trey Pipkins money? I have

546
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Speaker 1: no idea. Look, I don't know he's got He's got

547
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Speaker 1: what two or three years? He's got three years, right,

548
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Speaker 1: this is his fourth year, I believe, so he Okay,

549
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 1: so he's got two and a half years of disappointment

550
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Speaker 1: of he does not look like he belongs on the

551
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 1: field and the Devil's advocate third round pick, Small School

552
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Speaker 1: was going to be a project, and I thought he

553
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Speaker 1: played pretty well when was out on that Thursday night game.

554
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Speaker 1: So that's what I'm talking about. So then you have this,

555
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 1: so just think of it. Let's just talk about it

556
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 1: as a pie. You've got a pie. That's one hundred

557
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 1: percent of that pie. Ninety percent of it is I

558
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Speaker 1: don't think this guy's gonna make it. Then there's ten percent,

559
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 1: and that ten percent's the most recent ten percent where

560
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 1: you're like, you know what, pretty good, look pretty good.

561
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 1: They didn't have to shade a ton of tight end

562
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 1: help over there. They did a little bit, but not

563
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Speaker 1: a lot. It was a high impact Thursday night football game,

564
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 1: and he played well. So, like you said, South, what

565
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Speaker 1: is he? Sue falls like? Tiny Tiny School has the build,

566
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Speaker 1: has the length, has the athleticism, just didn't have the coaching.

567
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 1: Maybe DoD did it click? Did it finally click? Did

568
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Speaker 1: they bring in a group of coaches that were finally

569
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Speaker 1: able to communicate with him? You know what he needed

570
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: to hear to understand how to play the position, so

571
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Speaker 1: I'm not surprised he's still on the roster. I think

572
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 1: he's certainly going to be given a shot because when

573
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Speaker 1: called into action, he played pretty well. At the same time,

574
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Speaker 1: I think there's I think it's a really good offensive

575
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Speaker 1: tackle class. I think it's a really good offensive line

576
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 1: class this year. So if you end up getting some

577
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Speaker 1: you know, we talked about this last week, if quarterbacks

578
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Speaker 1: end up going it, let's just say Kenny Pickett Malik

579
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Speaker 1: will us both go ahead of seventeen. Well, now you

580
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: might see a slide, you know. Now, maybe Penning is

581
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Speaker 1: there for you at right tackle, and he is a

582
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Speaker 1: prototypical I Am going to humiliate you. Your children are

583
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Speaker 1: going to think less of you at the end of

584
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Speaker 1: this game. Like he's that kind of right tackle. So

585
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 1: like he's exactly what you would want to combine with Slater.

586
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Speaker 1: If he's there, I think it is a serious conversation about, Okay,

587
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Speaker 1: why would we not take him, knowing how important that

588
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: position group is to us. There's also some really good guards.

589
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 1: You know, Zion Johnson's starting to make some noise as

590
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Speaker 1: a super clean interior lineman. Prospects and that's typically what

591
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: you see, you know, like right around fifteen to twenty

592
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: four is when you get that, hey, this is the

593
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 1: number one guard in the draft. This is you know,

594
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: this is where Zack Quentin Nelson was a different deal man.

595
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 1: That guy was, you know, people's number one player on

596
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Speaker 1: the draft. But like that's typically where the Chargers are

597
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: picking is where you see the Zach Martin's go the

598
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 1: guys that are listed as the number one interior lineman.

599
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Speaker 1: So I think, you know, I do think it could

600
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Speaker 1: be addressed in the in the draft, in the draft

601
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: as well, if but I think that's going to be

602
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: predicated on quarterbacks going ahead, at least two of them.

603
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Speaker 1: And I think we know this. We know left tackle

604
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be her Shaw Slater. We know Corey Linsley

605
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Speaker 1: is going to be the center. Right when that Filer

606
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: go from left guard to the right side remains to

607
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Speaker 1: be seen. Right Filer's gonna be on the field. And

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Speaker 1: I would like to bring a Bushy back one hundred

609
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Speaker 1: per Son. I thought he'd played fantastic last year. Andres Beckham, Browning,

610
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Speaker 1: Jeff Bolts all asking about Abushee and you know, wanting

611
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: to bring him back. I thought he was really solid

612
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 1: when he was on the field. M Hymus is another

613
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Speaker 1: guy that a lot of fans were talking about and

614
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: want to see what he's capable of. And you know,

615
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Speaker 1: we didn't see him on the field during the regular season.

616
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: It was just that that you remember that first seam

617
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: against the Rams at that small little sample size with

618
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 1: him and Slater looked pretty good. Realizing that his preseason,

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Speaker 1: but um, is he a guy that you can potentially

620
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Speaker 1: count on and you know you talked about in house options.

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Speaker 1: He could be one of them. Look, I thought, I

622
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Speaker 1: thought in the preseason, you look better than Bolaga. You

623
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Speaker 1: know that's and that's not me saying that because Brian's

624
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Speaker 1: no longer with the team. I just thought he did,

625
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: you know, I mean we were We knew that Brian

626
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: wasn't right. We knew it. You could see it, you

627
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 1: know in training camp and in preseason it was like, hey,

628
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: guy's still not right. And and Himus I thought, played

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Speaker 1: much better than he did in the preseason. And that's

630
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Speaker 1: when we got a little bit excited about it, like go, wow, okay,

631
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Speaker 1: in house option, there's your right tackle. Way to go

632
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Speaker 1: Tom to lesc. You know, Joe Joe and your staff,

633
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 1: you know, kicking tail and getting and getting a guy

634
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Speaker 1: in the fourth round. You know that had an exceptional

635
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: career at Nebraska, never missed a snap, played both tackle spots,

636
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Speaker 1: and then we never saw him again. So you know,

637
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: hopefully what we saw in that preseason last year is

638
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: also because you're gonna need depth. We know that right

639
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 1: storm Norton was out there, it had to sign Michael Scofield.

640
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: When a bush you went down, like Trey Pitkins had

641
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: to play left tackle in one game, Like, we know

642
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: that it's gonna happen, So like that's something to also remember.

643
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: It's not just about who's starting. It's like, hey, what's

644
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: your depth look like? Because it's gonna come into play. Yeah,

645
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: we're in this in between phase of that first and

646
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 1: second wave of free AGC in the draft, and we'll

647
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 1: know a heck of a lot more in a month

648
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 1: as than with that offensive line it's truly going to

649
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Speaker 1: look like in twenty twenty two. All right, guys, a

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659
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Speaker 1: talked about this, I think almost every week, the running

660
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: back two spot. We have three questions. Miguel Jmo Germaine

661
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,240
Speaker 1: all want to talk about coaches comments yesterday, I believe

662
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: saying that they may look to the draft for that

663
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: running back two and basically who could that guy be?

664
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Speaker 1: You know, three different questions about the running back two.

665
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 1: I think coach did also mention, like, you know, if

666
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,279
Speaker 1: it's a free agent, I think that's the type of

667
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,800
Speaker 1: position he said, you can kind of onboard late and

668
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: still get that production. But I wonder without that second

669
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 1: round pick, I guess you're looking to the third or

670
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 1: maybe you trade back and get you know, accumulate some picks,

671
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 1: maybe get a second round back, and maybe that's the

672
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: time you try to get out of back. You know,

673
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 1: my interpretation of that is that you're talking about a

674
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 1: day three pick. You know that the way that it was,

675
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:12,920
Speaker 1: you know, and I think we've seen that. Look, we've

676
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:17,320
Speaker 1: seen Day three picks, you know, have great impactum and

677
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 1: again we've seen Day two picks. You know there, I

678
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,880
Speaker 1: don't there, Yes, you know that when you look at

679
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,399
Speaker 1: Edwards a Laire, that was just such a perfect fit

680
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 1: for kind of the way the Chiefs play. He was

681
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: the last pick in the first round, you know, whether

682
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: or not Breece Hall that that's the one that I

683
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 1: think could probably if you have a team at the

684
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,399
Speaker 1: back end of the first round that feels like, hey,

685
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,839
Speaker 1: this guy's gonna this guy's gonna start. He's a three

686
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 1: down back. He's great and pass pro. It's better than

687
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,760
Speaker 1: you know he is. Even though it's not a premium

688
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: position per se, he's more talented than anyone else at

689
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,239
Speaker 1: these other positions since you know, thirty one players have

690
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: gone before for him or whatever it may be thirty

691
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: or twenty nine. So that's the one. Seems like Kenneth Walker,

692
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 1: I don't know if I could see him going in

693
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: the first I love the way Kenneth Walker runs. I'm

694
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: a big fan, but he's gonna end up going in

695
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 1: the second round. You know. It's and then it just

696
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 1: becomes you know, which one of these later round picks pops,

697
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: you know, because it's gonna happen. There's always one or two,

698
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 1: and there's undrafted free a I mean the bat again,

699
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:33,320
Speaker 1: we keep saying it, the best back on the Charger's

700
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,320
Speaker 1: roster was an undrafted free agent. You know, it's so

701
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: like that's that's it's a tricky position and unfortunately, you know,

702
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: fourth and a fifth round pick and Josh Kelly and

703
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: and and Larry Roundtree have not grabbed it. You know,

704
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: it's been there for them to take and they just

705
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: have not been able to grab it. I think we

706
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 1: keep saying it. Justin Jackson has grabbed it. Unfortunately he

707
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:56,400
Speaker 1: lets it go because he grabs it one week and

708
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: then he's gone for three. So you know, we're it

709
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 1: not an injury issue with Justin. I don't think there's

710
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 1: any questions they'd feel like they've got the number two

711
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,800
Speaker 1: back on the roster. So to me, that's more of

712
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: a Day three I don't think it's free agency. I don't.

713
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: I can't see anybody you know, getting cut at a

714
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:17,240
Speaker 1: running back position that you know, sa Quan's not getting

715
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: cut and no one's taken on that salary, you know,

716
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 1: that's the one that everybody keeps pointing to because the

717
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: Giants still got to move some money around. But I

718
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: just don't I don't see that as as being the answer. Yeah,

719
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:34,240
Speaker 1: Breece Haw, Kenneth Walker. I just look at like Jonathan

720
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 1: Taylor going in the second round, and if you can

721
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,839
Speaker 1: get that type of impact prior in the second round

722
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: and add to your offense, I don't care what kind

723
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 1: of offense you are, you're going to be much better

724
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 1: than you were the year before. So the thing is

725
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 1: the charges. I think it's seventeen now. Not having that

726
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,799
Speaker 1: second round pick, it does make you think, can they

727
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:54,479
Speaker 1: move back? Um, do they see a couple of guys

728
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: that they can identify maybe late in the first and

729
00:37:56,719 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: then another second where they can like a lot. So

730
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: So I'm going through and I'm trying to just because

731
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,360
Speaker 1: it's there's so many of them, and I've been just

732
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: doing so much. I just did wide receivers, so I

733
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 1: haven't really looked at running backs recently. But like Brian

734
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: Robinson is a perfect example of a Day three guy.

735
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 1: Right when you think about what Austin Ecklery is and

736
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 1: what you want to bring into the room. I mean,

737
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: you're talking about six two two thirty thumper for Alabama,

738
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: but also has some explosiveness, you know, has some suddenness

739
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 1: in him. So that's you know, Zamir White six foot

740
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: two twenty out of Georgia, Like, those are the guys. Like,

741
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:34,839
Speaker 1: to me, that's I would really like to see him

742
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 1: get them Get a big back, you know, a big, angry,

743
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 1: physical back. Yeah. Like that to me is I want

744
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 1: to see complimentary not just complimentary football, but complimentary position groups.

745
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 1: You know where we know how good Austin is and

746
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,439
Speaker 1: how what a threat he is in the pass catching game.

747
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:57,720
Speaker 1: But man, on those third and ones, third and two's,

748
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: fourth and ones, I want a thumper, you know where

749
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,279
Speaker 1: you spread them out and you know j like that?

750
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,479
Speaker 1: To me, is I just have this vision. It's like, Okay,

751
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:08,400
Speaker 1: on those fourth and ones, I want to see the

752
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 1: offense spread. I want the threat because Justin Herbert is

753
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 1: such a threat, as is Keenan and Mike Williams and

754
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: Gerald Everett's going to be a threat. Spread them out,

755
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 1: make them honor it, and then hand it to a

756
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 1: guy that's clocking in at two twenty two thirty into

757
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: a lightbox because they have to spread it out too

758
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: and get your one yard like that's my vision of

759
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:30,919
Speaker 1: what I would like, what I would like to see.

760
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 1: It speaks exactly what Staleley's been saying all offseason, a

761
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: complete team. To have a complete team, you have to

762
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 1: have guys that do that to compliment players like Austin

763
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: all Right, a couple of linebacker questions. This comes on

764
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:47,360
Speaker 1: the heels of Kaiser White going to the Philadelphia Eagles.

765
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 1: This is a good question from Andrew. Would love to

766
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 1: hear the discussion on how the linebacker room suits Staleley's

767
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 1: idea for the position, where each have their strengths relative

768
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 1: to what the defense requires in sub packages. And then

769
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on a linebacker group as a

770
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 1: whole that coach from loos six to six. I'll just

771
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 1: tee you up here. You know Drew trank Win, Kenneth Murray. Um.

772
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 1: I think when you're talking about Kenneth Murray, I think

773
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:13,880
Speaker 1: they identified him as a guy that is going to

774
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: have to pick up a lot of what Keaisier did

775
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: last year. He started six games. I think he had

776
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 1: thirty one total tackles. They're gonna have to see that production.

777
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,760
Speaker 1: Really really skyrocket and then identify a couple other guys

778
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 1: who can really join that linebacking group. Yeah, so you know,

779
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: to me, if I'm if I'm ranking it. You know,

780
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 1: I think Trank was an exceptional player. I think he

781
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: is a I think in terms of linebackers across the league,

782
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 1: he's in a conversation of he's one of the better ones.

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00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:46,800
Speaker 1: You know, I think there is a decided difference in

784
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:50,800
Speaker 1: the Chargers defense when he's on the field. Um, I

785
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 1: don't didn't even start the year, which is crazy, you know.

786
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 1: So like I'm a I'm a huge Drew Trank will guy.

787
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 1: You're right, Kenneth's got to figure it out. We know

788
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 1: it's in there. We saw it at Oklahoma. We see

789
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 1: the athleticism, we see it in testing whatever, whether it's injury,

790
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 1: which I know he's been banged up, you know, but

791
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 1: that's he's got to take a step. He just has to,

792
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 1: you know, far too often, you know, those run fits

793
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 1: just weren't there and it led to big place and

794
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,320
Speaker 1: it's just you know, it's a feat. It's not necessarily

795
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: about how fast you can run or how much ground

796
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 1: you can cover. You've got to be able to diagnose, identify, attack,

797
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: and I think that's what's he's got to kind of develop,

798
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: and once he does, look out because he's got everything else.

799
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: That's for sure. The one name that that I don't

800
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:38,799
Speaker 1: think anybody brings up enough, and it's because he got hurt,

801
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: but it's Amen like to me, Amen's next in line

802
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,440
Speaker 1: like Amen's and I think that's a big reason why

803
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 1: they were comfortable letting Kaisier go. Look that that position

804
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 1: in this style of defense is always going to pile

805
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:54,360
Speaker 1: up a ton of tackles. It's just the way the

806
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,439
Speaker 1: defense is designed. You know, you have a two high shell,

807
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 1: you're keeping everything in front of you. You know, you've

808
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 1: got guys firing off the edges, you know in Boston Mac,

809
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 1: and you're going to get those short gains, So you're

810
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of tackles in that intermediate range

811
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:12,239
Speaker 1: and that's how you end up with one hundred and

812
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 1: forty of them for linebackers. It's just the way the

813
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 1: defense is set up. So I think people got attached

814
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:20,720
Speaker 1: to the stats for Kaiser and I'm not taking anything

815
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: away from him. I just think the way that Brandon

816
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 1: Staley looks at it is Yeah, That's that's what a

817
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 1: linebacker should be able to do. Any linebackers should be

818
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 1: able to do that in this defense because of how

819
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 1: it's aligned, you know, that's where the tackles have to

820
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 1: be made. And look, Kaiser made him so Like to me,

821
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,320
Speaker 1: Amen's the guy that I think ends up sliding in

822
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 1: there um for for Kaiser, And again another great job

823
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 1: by the front office identifying a guy that was undrafted

824
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 1: and is I think in line to challenge for some

825
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 1: pretty good, you know, pretty good chunk of snaps every

826
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 1: game and I've had over one hundred tackles is rookie

827
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:57,400
Speaker 1: year too, So I mean we saw those flashes his

828
00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: rookie season, and I know he had some some tough

829
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 1: luck with injuries, so he was hoping year three, you

830
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: can really get comfortable in this Brandon Staley defense. And

831
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 1: just one more thing on Kaiser White, he gets to

832
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 1: go home. I think he's he was born like ninety

833
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 1: miles from Philadelphia, you know, and I'm really happy for him.

834
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: He had a really good year. He put on some

835
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 1: weight and he really hit the ground running in this

836
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 1: Staley defense. And Brandon Staley was very complimentary of him

837
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:28,400
Speaker 1: after the fact, going to Philadelphia, that this is just

838
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 1: a tough side of the business where you can't pay everybody,

839
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:32,920
Speaker 1: and you know the Eagles is gonna get get a

840
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: line back er now. No. Look, and I think for

841
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 1: people that say, oh, it's only five million bucks or whatever, Yeah,

842
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: it's five million bucks. You gotta sign Darwin, it's a

843
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 1: lot of you know, it's a lot of money right now. Right,

844
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,320
Speaker 1: it's a lot of money right now. It's not about

845
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 1: the it's a one year deal. It's it's about it's

846
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:49,319
Speaker 1: five million bucks off your cap in twenty twenty two.

847
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 1: And as they're trying to put this puzzle together, you

848
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 1: know that's look, I think what is what is Khalil's

849
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: number this year? I think it's eight million the way

850
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: they structured the deals, So just think about that. You

851
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: know that it's it's not about how much they gave

852
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: him for the one year. It's about what it does

853
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 1: to impact the cap this particular year. With the business

854
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 1: they feel like they still gotta get done. Yeah, you

855
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 1: got to fill out your roster with draft picks and

856
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,360
Speaker 1: guys on the back end to to really feel that

857
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: complete team that Staley wants money. We got four questions

858
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 1: about a wide receiver at seventeen. I mean, people are

859
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:26,360
Speaker 1: people are are dreaming. I don't know if they're dreaming,

860
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, but they're really excited

861
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:30,880
Speaker 1: with the prospects both of fifteen. If we were to

862
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 1: take a wide receiver in the draft, who's your preferred prospect?

863
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: Brian LaRue says that he's kind of comparing the Jamar

864
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 1: Chase to the Bengals and the wonders that can do

865
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 1: from potentially to Chargers Jr. Ride the reality of Jamo

866
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 1: Williams if he's on the board. I've heard the talk

867
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,839
Speaker 1: of charges taking alive and Williams. What do you think

868
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:55,399
Speaker 1: of Treylan Burkes, that's Dylan tedor a lot there. Let's

869
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 1: just start with your preferred prospect. It's seventeen at the

870
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 1: wide receip Yeah. So, like I said, I just went

871
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 1: through wide receivers and you know, Jameson Williams ain't gonna

872
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 1: be there at seventeen. That he's not. You know, I

873
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 1: wish he was. I would love for him to be.

874
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: That's the guy. He's he's the best. He's it is

875
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: incredible to watch him. It's like watching and I think

876
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: because you know, because of the injury. I didn't. I

877
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 1: kin kind of just I put it out of my

878
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: mind and I've been watching Burkes and a LaVey and Wilson,

879
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 1: and then I was like, all right, let's keep going

880
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 1: and let's get through the rest of these guys. And man,

881
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 1: it is a cartoon. It is. It's just and it's

882
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:45,720
Speaker 1: he's obviously he's incredibly fast. You have Herbert throwing sixty

883
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 1: yard bombs to him. Well, I'll tell you what I

884
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 1: got visions like when you go back and you watch,

885
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:54,279
Speaker 1: just watch, you know, they It's wonderful what we can

886
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:56,800
Speaker 1: now do. I don't have to go through whole games anymore.

887
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 1: I can just there's different tabs that I can click

888
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: on with the interface I have. I can do touchdowns,

889
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:05,360
Speaker 1: I can do explosive plays. I can do drops, you know.

890
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: I can do catches over twenty yards, Like when you

891
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:12,840
Speaker 1: watch what Jamison Williams does. He'll be double covered. He

892
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: will catch a ball that Bryce Young threaded between these

893
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:18,800
Speaker 1: two defenders and it looks like they're going to converge

894
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 1: and tackle him. You blink your eye and he's gone.

895
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:24,279
Speaker 1: He's three steps away from them. He's got he's got

896
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 1: that burst. So a he's fast, and then the second

897
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 1: he puts his hands on the ball, there's another gear

898
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 1: and it's pace, and it's like when the corners thinks

899
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 1: they've got it figured out, he'll slow down and then

900
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:38,800
Speaker 1: he'll just explode and speed up. And he is the

901
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 1: best and he's dealing with an ACL. And it reminds

902
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 1: me of Jeffrey Simmons when he was coming out in

903
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: Mississippi State, the defensive tackle and everyone's like, oh, what

904
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 1: a bummer for Simmons. He tore his ACL. He's one

905
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 1: of the five best players in the draft. And the Titans,

906
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 1: I don't remember where they pick fourteen or fifteen or

907
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 1: something like that. Yea, yeah, yeah, we'll take him. And

908
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 1: remember when he made his return against five and he

909
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:05,120
Speaker 1: destroyed the offensive line and destroyed Philip Rivers and destroyed

910
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon and it's like, yeah, take the guy. Okay.

911
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 1: So he doesn't show up until week six. You're not

912
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 1: drafting for week one. You're drafting for the next five years.

913
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:18,840
Speaker 1: So my prediction is all of these mock drafts that

914
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 1: you see, uh Garrett Wilson one, Drake London to Chris

915
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,919
Speaker 1: Alab three. No, it's at that ain't how it's gonna happen.

916
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:33,800
Speaker 1: I am, I am unfortunately. I am certain that Jamison

917
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 1: Williams is gonna end up. He's gonna end up. If

918
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 1: he's not, I'm gonna listen. It's it's bad form. But

919
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 1: I've done it before. What are you gonna do right here?

920
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:47,319
Speaker 1: You better take him, You better take him, you better

921
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: take I will. I will pepper those people. I will,

922
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 1: I will be peppering them if he's sitting there at seventeen,

923
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 1: letting them know now. Thankfully, for Charger fans, I won't

924
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: give any hints. But thankfully they have not listened to

925
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 1: me in the past, because things would have been considerably

926
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 1: different if they had. On a couple of different occasions,

927
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:07,320
Speaker 1: you crushed but Russ jay Ryde one night six his

928
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: hopes of having Jamison Williams on the board in seventeen.

929
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:12,920
Speaker 1: Who would be your preferred prospect if it lines up

930
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 1: the way you think it is and Jamison Williams is

931
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 1: not there, who would be your preferred prospect at seventeen? Look,

932
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 1: I think I think there's there's so many good defensive

933
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 1: players in this draft. There's there's you know, if and

934
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 1: again we're doing this and Stingley has not done his

935
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 1: pro day yet. So if you get medical in there

936
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:36,320
Speaker 1: and the doctors go in and check him out and

937
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:38,840
Speaker 1: they feel like, yeah, this guy's had some nagging injuries

938
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:41,400
Speaker 1: these last two years, but he looks right now, you know,

939
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,880
Speaker 1: I think that's got to be a serious consideration. Because

940
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 1: he was electric at Corner his freshman year. I mean,

941
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:48,719
Speaker 1: he looked like he was tracking to be the number

942
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 1: one overall pick, that's how good he had played. So

943
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 1: you know, between him and McDuffie, Sauce, Gardner's going in

944
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: the top five one of them. Here's something that's interesting,

945
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:01,920
Speaker 1: that's that's starting to make the ride pounds and that

946
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 1: could be a Kyle Hamilton's slide. So I thought Kyle

947
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:07,919
Speaker 1: Hamilton was gonna be picked in the first three picks.

948
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 1: Like I was, like, you know, I could see Detroit

949
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 1: taking him at two. I could see Houston taking him

950
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:13,279
Speaker 1: at three. And for people who don't know who he is,

951
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 1: he's a safety out of Notre Dame. He is gigantic.

952
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 1: He is six foot four, two hundred and twenty pounds,

953
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:24,839
Speaker 1: and his testing was not good. He ran a four

954
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:26,719
Speaker 1: or five nine at the combine and then ran a

955
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:30,479
Speaker 1: four seven zero at his pro day. But just watch

956
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:33,399
Speaker 1: him watch Notre Dame football, like you you will pick

957
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 1: when you watch them play defense, you'll find him immediately,

958
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 1: like he is everywhere. So like if he slides and

959
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 1: you start thinking about these hybrid defenses, you put him

960
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:48,839
Speaker 1: in Derwin on the field at the same time, Holy hell,

961
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:52,880
Speaker 1: Like that's that's another one that's intriguing. You know, what

962
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:55,319
Speaker 1: are teams gonna do with Jordan Davis? You know, coming

963
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 1: out of the combine, it was like he ain't gonna

964
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:59,439
Speaker 1: be there at seventeen and he still might not be there.

965
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:03,360
Speaker 1: But at the same time, if they believe that he

966
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:07,320
Speaker 1: is too much of a two down player, that for

967
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 1: whatever reason, he just doesn't have the stamina to be

968
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:12,759
Speaker 1: out there for forty snaps and he's only gonna give

969
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 1: you twenty five, then does he slide to seventeen. I

970
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:18,239
Speaker 1: already talked about Trevor Penning. I don't think any of

971
00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 1: the others. I don't think, you know, obviously Ikey and

972
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 1: Neil Cross they're not gonna make their way down. Penny might,

973
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:28,880
Speaker 1: So that's a possibility. We talked about the wide receivers.

974
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:31,319
Speaker 1: I'd love it if Jamison Williams was there. I don't

975
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be. I don't think Garrett Wilson is

976
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: going to be. And that's the other thing too of

977
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:39,280
Speaker 1: how things change, right, Like when Christian Kirk got eighteen

978
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:42,560
Speaker 1: million bucks and Tyree Hill got seventy five million dollars

979
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:45,520
Speaker 1: and Davante Adams got twenty eight million dollars a year, Well,

980
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:49,400
Speaker 1: now that changes the calculus because now it's like, Okay,

981
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:53,439
Speaker 1: I'm gonna draft a wide receiver, so I get four

982
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 1: years plus one if it's a first rounder, so I

983
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:59,799
Speaker 1: get five years of cost control at a position that's

984
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 1: if you're Christian Kirk, you're making eighteen million dollars a year.

985
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 1: Like that's yeah. So like that's how that's now something

986
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:12,120
Speaker 1: that you have to put into your formula, Like, am

987
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:15,240
Speaker 1: I better off draft and a wide receiver here instead

988
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:17,879
Speaker 1: of an interior lineman? Knowing what we just paid Corey

989
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 1: Linsley compared to what they just played DeVante Adams, Like

990
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 1: that's now got to come into the conversation of you know,

991
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 1: how much are these guys making in free agency versus

992
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 1: having them on a rookie deal and being able to

993
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:35,320
Speaker 1: control that number. And look, Jamar Chase. What's he worth.

994
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:37,880
Speaker 1: He's a second year player. If you were on the

995
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:39,839
Speaker 1: if you were on the open market right now, he's

996
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 1: gonta twenty five million bucks a year. He's gonna make

997
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 1: four million dollars next year, you know. So it's like

998
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:47,359
Speaker 1: that's that's what now comes into to play as well.

999
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 1: Treylan Burts, did you watch any of his tape from Arkansas?

1000
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:52,880
Speaker 1: I did. Yeah, He's he's a great player. He's a

1001
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:57,840
Speaker 1: huge player. Um. At the same time, I just I

1002
00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:00,799
Speaker 1: don't know what. I can't put my thumb on it. Um.

1003
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 1: It has nothing to do. I'm not pretending to be

1004
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:06,479
Speaker 1: some sort of talent evaluator. It's just what I heard

1005
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:10,399
Speaker 1: at the combine, And it was interesting. You know, there

1006
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 1: were enough people before he did his run, and you know,

1007
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 1: before he did the drills, before he had his workout,

1008
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:19,320
Speaker 1: there were just a couple of people that were like

1009
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:22,400
Speaker 1: not sure, man, IM not sure about trailing, you know.

1010
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:25,919
Speaker 1: And so that, for whatever reason, is just a seed

1011
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 1: that's planted in my head and and you know, hopefully

1012
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:31,960
Speaker 1: I'll be able to shake it, because man, it's again impressive.

1013
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:34,360
Speaker 1: He's a giant dude. I mean, he is thick, he

1014
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 1: is physical had an exceptional season, certainly looks athletic enough.

1015
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:41,360
Speaker 1: That was just my only concern as there were a

1016
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:43,880
Speaker 1: couple of people that we're saying, yeah, I don't I

1017
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 1: don't feel like he's in the same he goes, you know,

1018
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 1: to me, it's it's Williams, Alave, London, Wilson. Are those

1019
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 1: are my guys? So I'll button up this conversation with

1020
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:57,920
Speaker 1: this and listen, I'm not opposed to a wide receiver

1021
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:01,799
Speaker 1: at seventeen. If it happens, I think fantastic. But they

1022
00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 1: drafted a guy named Joshua Palmer last year. Yeah, he

1023
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 1: had a pretty good close to the twenty twenty one season.

1024
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:09,719
Speaker 1: Somebody asked about Joshua Palmer taking that next step in

1025
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:12,759
Speaker 1: year two as well. And there's one of football guys.

1026
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:15,640
Speaker 1: And there's Keenan Allen, There's Mike Williams, There's Austin Eckler,

1027
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:18,440
Speaker 1: There's Joshua Palmer, there's Gerald Everett. There's a lot of

1028
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 1: guys on this team that are capable of making plays consistently.

1029
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 1: So I'm not opposed to I mean, shoot, man, if

1030
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 1: Jameson Williams is there, that's to me, that's the difference Chris. Yeah,

1031
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 1: he's game changer. Yeah, that's a different level that shit.

1032
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 1: Like to me that Jamison's the one guy that changes everything,

1033
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:40,960
Speaker 1: Like he's just that you're a defensive coordinator, you go

1034
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:45,040
Speaker 1: to bed at night going justin Herbert Jameson Williams, Oh god,

1035
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: you kidding me? Like, to me, that's that's the kind

1036
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 1: of player he is. And we keep saying complete team.

1037
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:54,359
Speaker 1: That's the guy that's the burner, right, that's the guy

1038
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: who adds this this really scary Tyree Hill like element

1039
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 1: to your offense. Yeah, and I think it was, and

1040
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:03,880
Speaker 1: it was I think with something Brandon Staley said right

1041
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:05,799
Speaker 1: like three weeks ago. He's like, yeah, look, it's great

1042
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:07,640
Speaker 1: to have a four three guy out there, you know,

1043
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: but the defense isn't gonna honor them if they're not

1044
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:14,399
Speaker 1: afraid of them. You can contain that speed. It's you've

1045
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:17,120
Speaker 1: got to be the whole package. It's not just clocking

1046
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:20,360
Speaker 1: in the four threes that changes a defense. You know,

1047
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:22,920
Speaker 1: they have to fear you. And just you know, I'm

1048
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:26,240
Speaker 1: not saying Jamieson is Tyree Hill. I'm just saying, think about,

1049
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:30,920
Speaker 1: you know, how you feel about Tyree Hill versus Will Fuller,

1050
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:33,919
Speaker 1: who runs in the four high, four twos low for threes,

1051
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:36,280
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like, there's there's fast receivers

1052
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:39,200
Speaker 1: and then there's receivers that freak you out. And to me,

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00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:41,319
Speaker 1: that's what Jamieson's gonna end up being. And I think

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00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle is on his way and that's why the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins ended up taking him where they did. I think

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00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:49,759
Speaker 1: he's kind of on that pace to be that type

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Speaker 1: of player as well. And remember we talked about him

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00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:54,359
Speaker 1: last year when we were talking about where. I was like, look,

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00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle's there, then then let's let's have that conversation,

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Speaker 1: you know, thinking Slater was going to be off the

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Speaker 1: board and we were talking about it. Okay, wasn't there? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I remember having the conversation though. We were

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Speaker 1: talking about, Okay, is it Dara saw as the third tackle,

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00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:15,360
Speaker 1: is it Quitty pay as the next edge rush? Or

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Speaker 1: who would have and I and I remember saying, look,

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Speaker 1: the wide receiver I want is knowing that Jamar Chase

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00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:22,239
Speaker 1: was gonna be gone, but we thought maybe Waddle was

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00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:25,440
Speaker 1: gonna make it there and like that's that's the category

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Speaker 1: that I put Jamison Williams in, Like it's that explosive

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00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:31,799
Speaker 1: type of speed, huge mail back today. We're gonna end

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Speaker 1: it with this money. And you know, I'm not really

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Speaker 1: one for predictions anyway, especially on March thirty first, But yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: Rico Modern World says, I know the schedule hasn't been released,

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00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:44,040
Speaker 1: but your honest opinion, how will the season go in

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00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:47,000
Speaker 1: terms of record? Will wants the way too early? Twenty

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00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:50,560
Speaker 1: twenty two record prediction? I can't give you a record prediction, man,

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00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:53,800
Speaker 1: like you. What you said last week really resonated that

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00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:58,080
Speaker 1: there could be three teams, although I think two teams

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00:55:58,120 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 1: will make it, at least from the AFC West, but

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00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:03,439
Speaker 1: there could potentially be three teams from this division, which

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00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:05,240
Speaker 1: a lot of people are saying is the best division

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00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 1: in football in decades. Yeah, that don't make the playoffs.

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00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:12,839
Speaker 1: So could I see the Chargers winning nine games? Yeah?

1084
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:15,880
Speaker 1: Could I see him winning thirteen fourteen games? Sure, but

1085
00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:18,680
Speaker 1: it's going to come down to injuries. The parody in

1086
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:21,399
Speaker 1: this league is crazy, and I think you'd be nuts

1087
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 1: to make any sort of prediction for any team in

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00:56:23,719 --> 00:56:29,320
Speaker 1: the AFC right now. I think projecting like a you know,

1089
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:32,680
Speaker 1: twelve thirteen win season for any of the AFC West

1090
00:56:32,719 --> 00:56:36,239
Speaker 1: teams is just irresponsible. Like to me, it's just it's

1091
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:39,799
Speaker 1: too tough. And again, the AFC West has to play

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00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:44,600
Speaker 1: the NFC West. So you're playing the Rams, super Bowl

1093
00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:47,400
Speaker 1: champion Rams. You're playing the forty nine Ers and that

1094
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 1: nasty defense and that Kyle Shanahan coached offense. And you know,

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00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:54,360
Speaker 1: let's see what happens with the Cardinals, you know and

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00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. Can they kind of figure things out? And

1097
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 1: because if they can, look, Kyler's a nightmare game plan

1098
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:02,040
Speaker 1: for you know that. So they won. They're ten and

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00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:05,799
Speaker 1: oh so like you've got the AFC West, I mean,

1100
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:08,560
Speaker 1: you have the NFC West on your schedule, and then

1101
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 1: you've got you know what looks to be a bit

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00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:12,839
Speaker 1: of a break in the AFC South. And then Matt

1103
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:15,880
Speaker 1: Ryan gets traded to Indiapolis. You know, it's like, oh great,

1104
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 1: you know, and the Browns is DeShawn When do the

1105
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:21,880
Speaker 1: Chargers play the Browns? Do they play him when Jacobe

1106
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:25,080
Speaker 1: Burssett is the quarterback because Deshaun Williams is suspended, or

1107
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 1: do they play when Deshaun Watson is the quarterback and

1108
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:30,680
Speaker 1: he's he's out there, because that certainly is going to

1109
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:32,920
Speaker 1: change the way you feel about the Browns. So like

1110
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:37,000
Speaker 1: there's it's a nightmare. It's the schedules a nightmare, the

1111
00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 1: TIGHTFC South Titans defense, Uh, Derrick Henry. Now, they finished

1112
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:45,480
Speaker 1: with the best record in the AFC last year, and listen, man,

1113
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 1: I think you wipe the slate absolutely clean and Jackson,

1114
00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:52,720
Speaker 1: but with Doug Peterson and Trevor Lawrence, that offense was

1115
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 1: not close to what it should have been last year.

1116
00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:58,720
Speaker 1: And I know that Christian Kirk and Zay Jones aren't

1117
00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase and DeAndre Hopkins, let's say. But but Trevor

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00:58:02,720 --> 00:58:05,760
Speaker 1: Lawrence with Travis Etien and James Robinson, Like, I'm not

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00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:08,800
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they're gonna be, you know, this elite team,

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00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:10,680
Speaker 1: but I think there'll be a tougher route than they

1121
00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 1: were last year. For sure, certainly. Yeah, No, I mean,

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00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:15,040
Speaker 1: look than than being coached by a guy who doesn't

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00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:17,440
Speaker 1: know who Aaron Donald is. Yeah, they're gonna be much tougher, right,

1124
00:58:18,280 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 1: much tougher and face this year. Um and look talk

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Speaker 1: about how much should we talk about Tyreek Hill. You

1126
00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:25,480
Speaker 1: gotta face Tyreek Hill next year? Yeah, you know, and

1127
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 1: get them once on the fast track in La on

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00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:33,760
Speaker 1: the turf, you know, with Miami and that that headache

1129
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:37,120
Speaker 1: of Mike Gasicki and Tyree Hill and Jalen Waddle and

1130
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:40,440
Speaker 1: and Raheem Mostert. Just all that speed out there, you know,

1131
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:43,920
Speaker 1: So it ain't easy, you know, it ain't. I think

1132
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 1: I think anything above eleven and six as a winner

1133
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 1: of the AFC West is foolish. I just I think

1134
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:54,920
Speaker 1: with the way the schedule is lined up, I cannot

1135
00:58:55,080 --> 00:59:00,280
Speaker 1: see a team that that is separated that much from

1136
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 1: the group that they could throw up twelve wins, you know,

1137
00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:07,160
Speaker 1: to go twelve and five, to go thirteen and four.

1138
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:10,200
Speaker 1: I just don't. I don't think that makes It doesn't

1139
00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:12,000
Speaker 1: make sense to me, with how tough this division is

1140
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:15,560
Speaker 1: and how talented it is. Agreed, you like the mailbag?

1141
00:59:15,720 --> 00:59:18,560
Speaker 1: I like the mailbag. Yeah, that was fun. Hopefully it's

1142
00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:21,000
Speaker 1: what the people wanted. I think people wanted. We should

1143
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:23,400
Speaker 1: do it again before the draft. Maybe we do it

1144
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 1: the week before and get you all set for the

1145
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:28,440
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two NFL Draft. But yeah, I'm sure by

1146
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:30,480
Speaker 1: then I'll have another favorite playper that I'm screaming and

1147
00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:33,360
Speaker 1: yelling about. As I just watched Jamison Williams yesterday. But

1148
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:35,440
Speaker 1: you know, we do what we do, these these teases

1149
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:40,200
Speaker 1: for charges weekly. I think Jamison Williams shoulds, I know.

1150
00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:42,120
Speaker 1: And it's funny, Like I put it out there yesterday

1151
00:59:42,120 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 1: after I watched him, I was like, hey, I'm looking

1152
00:59:43,720 --> 00:59:45,560
Speaker 1: at these mock drafts. I saw a mock draft yesterday.

1153
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:47,360
Speaker 1: I'm not going to name the name. Didn't even have

1154
00:59:47,480 --> 00:59:49,320
Speaker 1: him in the first round. I was like, Okay, listen,

1155
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:53,680
Speaker 1: this is this is now this guy in two weeks.

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00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:57,080
Speaker 1: It's not everyone should do in mock draft, right, yeah, right,

1157
00:59:57,280 --> 00:59:59,600
Speaker 1: and it's so. And then I was getting a lot

1158
00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:01,720
Speaker 1: of black on Twitter, you know, on the mentions like

1159
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:08,160
Speaker 1: I'm not sharing any secrets, all right. The talent evaluators

1160
01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:11,160
Speaker 1: they know, they're they're well aware, and I promise they're

1161
01:00:11,160 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 1: all just being quiet about it. And they're saying, oh,

1162
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're comfortable taking a guy with

1163
01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:18,560
Speaker 1: an ACO and that's what they're saying. And then the

1164
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:22,920
Speaker 1: second pick six or seven or whatever comes up, it's like, yep, yeah,

1165
01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:24,720
Speaker 1: we're taking the guy with the a cl don't care,

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01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:27,880
Speaker 1: ye don't care. In in case you guys didn't remember

1167
01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:31,120
Speaker 1: last year and every year before that, this is misinformation

1168
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:34,840
Speaker 1: Season two. Like these next four weeks, everything you hear

1169
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:37,960
Speaker 1: the opposite will probably happen on draft days. Yeah, keep

1170
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:40,720
Speaker 1: in the back of your mind. All right, guys, that's

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01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:43,000
Speaker 1: gonna do it for us, for Matt, Buddy Smith. I'm

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Speaker 1: Chris hay Reeve. This has been Chargers Weekly, powered by

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