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Speaker 1: What's up, guys. Chris Harry with you on a new

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Speaker 1: episode of Chargers Weekly. Know your rivals. We gave you

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Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday. Today it's the Las

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Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders. To Shawn Reid of the Athletics, going to

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Speaker 1: break down this Raiders team, a new city, some new

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Speaker 1: free agents in a new draft class. Let's get right

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Speaker 1: to it. Know your rivals, Las Vegas Raiders, all right,

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Speaker 1: as we roll on, get to know the Chargers arrivals.

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Speaker 1: Enter a twenty twenty. It's it's still hard for me

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Speaker 1: to say the Las Vegas Raiders, but that's what it is.

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Speaker 1: It's twenty twenty. To Sean Reid of the Athletic, the

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Speaker 1: newest beat writer for the Raiders. To Sean, I appreciate

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Speaker 1: your time, man, How are you? Thanks? Thanks for having

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Speaker 1: me on. Man, I'm pretty good. How you're getting settled

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Speaker 1: in Vegas? It's really hot. I'm coming from like sixty

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Speaker 1: seventy degree whether I was back home to Saint Louis,

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Speaker 1: So that's been a little bit of a shot, but

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Speaker 1: good to finally be out here and my feet on

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Speaker 1: the ground. That's right. This is so many changes. The

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Speaker 1: a great time to be entering that beat. Man. I

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Speaker 1: Before we get to the Raiders, I want to just

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Speaker 1: go back to the last few months, the last couple

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Speaker 1: of pieces that you've written for the Athletic. You probably

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Speaker 1: weren't expecting to write, Man, but extremely powerful, your connection

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Speaker 1: to Ferguson, Missouri, as well as just your connection to

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Speaker 1: to podcasts. We'll wrap up our Know Your Rivals series

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