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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Official Jets Podcast powered

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Speaker 1: by Amazon Web Services. The Opponent Preview series heads out

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Speaker 1: West with the l A charter Ka and I talked

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Speaker 1: about the Chargers with both of their team reporters, Haley

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Speaker 1: Elwood and Chris Harry. They joined the pot and you'll

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Speaker 1: hear from them, and they feels like this Chargers team

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Speaker 1: is extremely talented on paper. Yet obviously they didn't make

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Speaker 1: the playoffs last year and they lose Philip Rivers. But

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Speaker 1: depending upon how either Tyrod Taylor or Justin Herbert play,

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Speaker 1: this team has the pieces, it seems to make a

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Speaker 1: playoff push in two thousand twenty while they got an

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Speaker 1: awfully difficult division. It kind of feels like the Jets

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Speaker 1: position for the last two decades where the New England

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Speaker 1: Patriots were always there. And I'm not saying the Kansas

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Speaker 1: but you he's he couldn't make the argument right now

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Speaker 1: that Patrick Mahomes is the top player in the National

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Speaker 1: Football League. He was just a Super Bowl m v

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Speaker 1: p uh. He's a fantastic player and the Chiefs are

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Speaker 1: sitting there in your division. So that is a tough

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Speaker 1: task for Anthony Lynn and company. I like what they

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Speaker 1: look like on paper, but they have a major question

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Speaker 1: mark ethan, considering that Philip Rivers was there for so

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Speaker 1: long and he was such a big presence on that

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Speaker 1: team and inside that organization, and how do you make

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Speaker 1: that transition because, as you know, you need that stability

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Speaker 1: that Anthony Lynn likes to Rod Teller a lot and

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Speaker 1: he had success with him with the Buffalo Bills. But

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Speaker 1: you just took Justin Herbert there in the top ten,

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Speaker 1: and the question mark is always going to be off

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Speaker 1: the bat any time you have a sign of turbulence

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Speaker 1: is when you get when are you going to give

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Speaker 1: the keys to the Oregon product and let him handle

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Speaker 1: the offense. Yeah. I think it's gonna be interesting even

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Speaker 1: if Tyrod Taylor starts the season and what the Jets

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Speaker 1: play the Chargers in Week six? Right? So is that

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Speaker 1: if things are off to a shaky start with Taylor

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Speaker 1: the time where Justin Herbert might get the keys to

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Speaker 1: the offense? I don't know. I think it'll just be

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Speaker 1: a very fascinating storyline. Obviously, you drafted Herbert in the

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Speaker 1: plays out. But maybe it's just me e a. But

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Speaker 1: what I think of Tarrod Taylor in recent years in

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Speaker 1: terms of how the Jets affaired against him, I think

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Speaker 1: they've done a pretty good job. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: first half of the Browns game before Baker Mayfield made

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Speaker 1: for Taylor and both of those games. And I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying that Taylor is a bad player, because I think

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Speaker 1: he's a good player, and Anthony lynn Is, to your point,

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Speaker 1: has done good things with him. But I think that

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Speaker 1: the Jets have kind of had his number recently. And

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Speaker 1: I know that's kind of unrelated to what we're talking about,

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Speaker 1: with a guy like Keenan Allen and do it all

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Speaker 1: back in Austin Ekeler and Mike Williams, who was a

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Speaker 1: the Chargers have a quality tight on a wall. Uh

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Speaker 1: the offensive line. They did some things in the off

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Speaker 1: season here bringing in Brian Bulaga, the former Green Bay Packer.

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Speaker 1: They made the trade for trade Turner, but Russell ol

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Speaker 1: the pocket, no doubt about that, shuffle his feet from

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Speaker 1: time to time. You'd see him talk, not a speech

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Speaker 1: the Jets have had a lot of success against Teller.

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Speaker 1: Teller is the kind of low risk player. Okay, where

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Speaker 1: is he does not turn the football over, But at

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Speaker 1: But with that being said, I think that's why the

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Speaker 1: drafts Justin Herbert. What does head coach Anthony Lynn said

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Speaker 1: point they have complete faith in Tyrod Taylor. And you look,

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Speaker 1: he's a guy obviously who has familiarity with Chargers head

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Speaker 1: coach Anthony Lynn. You guys obviously know him well from

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Speaker 1: I think personally, just given this kind of new environment

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Speaker 1: Tyrod has been in this offense for a year. You

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Speaker 1: obviously draft Justin Herbert very high, you know, to be

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Speaker 1: the quarterback essentially for the future. But given this virtual

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Speaker 1: of potentially what's to come, I think it bodes well though,

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Speaker 1: to have that veteran like Tyrod Taylor and not have

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Speaker 1: this point. Chris New era a Charger's football. That's what

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Speaker 1: Tom to LESCo saying, New performs, new stadium and a

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Speaker 1: new football team. What should Chargers fans be expecting from

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Speaker 1: this group as they're kind of undergoing a period of

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Speaker 1: think what this team is looking for is to replicate

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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers the biggest piece that is not with the team.

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Speaker 1: But you go back to two thousand, a team when

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Speaker 1: they won twelve games, this defense, and I think the

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Speaker 1: biggest thing that hurt this team last year was obviously

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Speaker 1: the turnovers and then taking the football back on defense.

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Speaker 1: They weren't able to do that. They weren't able to

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Speaker 1: Couple that with all the guys that they are bringing

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Speaker 1: back um and the draft. You know Haley mentioned Justin Herbert,

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Speaker 1: this Chargers team is excited about where they're at right

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Speaker 1: that last season, Haley, just going off of what Chris said,

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Speaker 1: it definitely seems like this team on paper has a

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Speaker 1: it something with the coaching, like what happened last year

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Speaker 1: of just piggyback off of what Chris said two thousand nineteen,

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Speaker 1: it was the year of the takeaways. It was that

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Speaker 1: the team gave the ball away too much but didn't

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Speaker 1: maybe make takeaways, that will help. I think ultimately though,

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl players, all Pro players, players who are amazing

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Speaker 1: When you got ty Rod, Easton Stick and Justin Herbert,

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Speaker 1: They're all very mobile, so they they pose a threat that, uh,

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Speaker 1: the turnover thing. Tyrode doesn't turn the football over. That's

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Speaker 1: to see what this offense looks like. You mentioned James

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Speaker 1: kind of try to replicate that Melvin Gordon role. I

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Speaker 1: just want to piggyback off of what Chris said. What

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Speaker 1: can you tell us about this Chargers backfield that doesn't

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Speaker 1: have Melvin Gordon anymore? But Austin Ekeler clearly the feature

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Speaker 1: Football League, as we continue to say, they're not getting

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Speaker 1: really hurt them early in the season. Yeah, and we'll

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Speaker 1: second year in Adam Gates system. So we'll see what

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