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Speaker 1: Chargers look to end twenty seventeen with both a win

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Speaker 1: But first, ESPN NFL Nation Chargers reporter Eric Williams and

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Speaker 1: All right, Eric Williams joins me on Chargers Weekly and Eric,

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Speaker 1: that this year. Absolutely, it's a very reminiscent of twenty seventy.

429
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Speaker 1: Look at that Giants team. They played the Pages till

430
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Speaker 1: the end and they rode that all the way to

431
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Speaker 1: a to a Super Bowl victory over the Path. So

432
00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:10,040
Speaker 1: that influence of Tom Coughlin is certainly still strong in Jacksonville.

433
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Speaker 1: And what's interesting more with the Jags. If they lose

434
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Speaker 1: the Tennessee, they'll likely host them in a playoff game

435
00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,240
Speaker 1: the following week. If they win, a very strong chance

436
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Speaker 1: the Chargers travel to Jacksonville in a rematch from Week

437
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Speaker 1: ten where the Chargers lost twenty seventeen and ot. That

438
00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:25,960
Speaker 1: would be one heck of a rematch. Yeah, it would be.

439
00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,720
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, it's like, for the most part, when

440
00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,399
Speaker 1: I look at the Jaguars, that's thought they'd improved to

441
00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,720
Speaker 1: the point where nobody really wants to play them. But

442
00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:37,600
Speaker 1: then I watched Jimmy Garoppol and the forty nine ers

443
00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:39,679
Speaker 1: do some things against their defense last week that I

444
00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:43,680
Speaker 1: didn't imagine it could be done impossible, So yeah, I mean,

445
00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,320
Speaker 1: it would be. It would be a Hecko rematch if

446
00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:50,399
Speaker 1: it was the Chargers and Jaguars, And that's that's what

447
00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:52,280
Speaker 1: the playoffs are for, is get your best teams in

448
00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:54,520
Speaker 1: there and then drama. And one thing we know that

449
00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,399
Speaker 1: Philip rivers wherever he goes on the road, and especially

450
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Speaker 1: this Chargers team, Uh, you know on the road, it's

451
00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,879
Speaker 1: on the road feels like home sometimes, right, Yeah, and

452
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Speaker 1: uh and so so I think that they would it

453
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Speaker 1: would be it would be a really interesting matchup to

454
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Speaker 1: look forward to. But you know, first things first, both

455
00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,040
Speaker 1: teams charities have got to take care of their business.

456
00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:18,600
Speaker 1: They rushed run defense has to shore it up here

457
00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:21,760
Speaker 1: against the Raiders, and the Jaguars have to beat the Titans. Moore,

458
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Speaker 1: I think if the NFL playoffs worked similar to the

459
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Speaker 1: college football playoff and you had a committee, you look

460
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:28,840
Speaker 1: at the Chargers as a team that kind of passes

461
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,640
Speaker 1: that eye tests. Right after rebounding from that Ohen four start.

462
00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:33,960
Speaker 1: You got a future Hall of Famer at quarterback, Pro

463
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Speaker 1: Bowl receiver, a Bell Cow running back. You have two

464
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Speaker 1: edge rushers, leaked cornerback and Casey Hayward. How dangerous do

465
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Speaker 1: you think this team could be if they do get

466
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Speaker 1: into that tournament. You know, I was really thinking very

467
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Speaker 1: dangerous when they if they could get into that tournament.

468
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Speaker 1: And then the Kansas City game, this kind of like

469
00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,879
Speaker 1: caught me off guard the way the way the Chiefs

470
00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,480
Speaker 1: dominated that game and I'll poorly Philip played. Yeah, it

471
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Speaker 1: just it set me back in terms of my moment

472
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Speaker 1: manimum vision that the boy the Chargers could make this

473
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Speaker 1: uncomfortable for everybody, because you know, you always use the

474
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Speaker 1: Patriots as the standard of the teams you gotta beat there,

475
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,000
Speaker 1: and I'm sitting the same boy. You know, they have

476
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Speaker 1: a pass rush and you know, certainly and not anything

477
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Speaker 1: that the Patriots and enjoy facing and Phillips never intimidated

478
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Speaker 1: by any environment. But that Chiefs game really really kind

479
00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:23,680
Speaker 1: of slowed me down on the on the bandwagon, so

480
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Speaker 1: to speak, in terms of what type of impact they

481
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Speaker 1: could make in the playoffs. Now I'll get the Denzel

482
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Speaker 1: Perriman back. I think it would be big. I mean,

483
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Speaker 1: like I said that, you can't you must be able

484
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Speaker 1: to stop the run. I think that's uh, that's still

485
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Speaker 1: a factor. So you can have the pass rush all

486
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Speaker 1: you want, and you have all those smarty players that

487
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Speaker 1: you run. Defense has to be pretty stout, especially this

488
00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 1: time of year when you go into climates, climates that

489
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 1: they can impact whether you can pass enough effectively turnovers

490
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 1: too more. You know, during that four game winning streak,

491
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 1: they didn't turn the football over at all the first

492
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Speaker 1: team offense, Yeah, very clean, and then four turnovers on

493
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Speaker 1: four straight positions in the second half of the Chiefs game.

494
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Speaker 1: They go back to turnover free football against the Jets,

495
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:08,239
Speaker 1: and that's just another thing. You have to be able

496
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Speaker 1: to stop the run and you can't turn the football

497
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Speaker 1: over in a postseason No, that's right. And uh, and

498
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Speaker 1: I know it was great to see Antonio Gates have

499
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:18,439
Speaker 1: and Antonio Gates game against you know. That's the other

500
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:22,040
Speaker 1: thing is Luci and Hunter. Henry was very unfortunate obviously

501
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,639
Speaker 1: because these you know, he's just he's kind of like

502
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Speaker 1: a young player, second year player of this fashion year.

503
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 1: You've always seen him as a probo type of tight

504
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 1: end and moving in that direction. So not him and

505
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,120
Speaker 1: in fact is not good. I think regardless of how

506
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Speaker 1: the season ends for the Chargers, Chris, they found themselves

507
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Speaker 1: a football coach based on how they started own force

508
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,400
Speaker 1: missfield goals. What are people around the league saying about

509
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Speaker 1: the job that Anthony Lynn has done in his first

510
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Speaker 1: season with this team. I think they've been impressed because

511
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Speaker 1: when you're own four, it is like, oh my goodness,

512
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Speaker 1: the wheels are falling off before you've even got going,

513
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Speaker 1: you know, and it's hard to turn that around. It

514
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,439
Speaker 1: is so difficult to turn that around and put the

515
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Speaker 1: brakes on and scrap your way back into it. So

516
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: it's it's easy for those for those losses, and the

517
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 1: actually have plagued the charges, it seems for a few

518
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Speaker 1: years now. The missfield goals, the extra points, to box snaps, uh,

519
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:25,119
Speaker 1: just the little details of the game. I think everybody's

520
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Speaker 1: seeing the Anthony is uh has stow on the sidelines

521
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 1: and there in many ways it's it's it's pressed on,

522
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Speaker 1: you know, play by play, and so you see that

523
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Speaker 1: in the Anthony this year. So I think everybody's been

524
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Speaker 1: very impressed with Anthony has done. And it's and we

525
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Speaker 1: also know the circumstances in which you're playing, which is

526
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:48,359
Speaker 1: you know, they're they're playing it in an environment that

527
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,680
Speaker 1: is foreign to them, no question about. You know more,

528
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 1: it's been a wild year around the league. I want

529
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Speaker 1: to spin around the league a bit some unfortunate injuries

530
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Speaker 1: to some elite all pros, including MVP candidates. When you

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Speaker 1: talk about Carson, who do you think has the inside

532
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,680
Speaker 1: track for MVP right now? It's looking like it could

533
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Speaker 1: come down to Tom Brady and Todd Gurley. Yeah, I

534
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:09,719
Speaker 1: think that's what it is. I mean, I am one

535
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Speaker 1: of the MVP boats, and uh, you know, I've leaned,

536
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Speaker 1: I've been back and forth and both guys and and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, here's the thing about Todd Gurley in his favor,

538
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,440
Speaker 1: I think that everything the RAMS offense does, in terms

539
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Speaker 1: of everything Sean McVay does, is keyed off Todd Gurley's

540
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: ability to do things both as a runner and receiver

541
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Speaker 1: intern and even formationally, move him around and get him

542
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Speaker 1: in space, and and he's so dangerous that I think

543
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 1: he keys everything for their offense. And what's the story

544
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Speaker 1: of the year in the NFL. It's the Rams offense

545
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Speaker 1: and what Sean McVay has done, and Gurley be is

546
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Speaker 1: the centerpiece of that. And there's also been games where

547
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 1: the Rams have won so handily that Gurley probably could

548
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:55,639
Speaker 1: could have put up another five hundred more yards. But

549
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 1: there were there were there were second hands of games

550
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:02,479
Speaker 1: where he barely even saw the field. So you know,

551
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 1: whereas Brady, we just talked about the eyeball sense. I mean,

552
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 1: you know, we know what Tom Brady suffers from and

553
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:13,440
Speaker 1: these type of debates, which is, well, he's Tom Brady. Yeah,

554
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 1: he's the greatest quarterback of all times, so he should

555
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 1: always be in the MVP conversation and he is. But

556
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 1: I know, you know, the past five games, he's showing

557
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,160
Speaker 1: an interception in every game. He hasn't looked as sharp

558
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:28,640
Speaker 1: as the Tom Brady we we uh we recognize as

559
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:32,199
Speaker 1: the greatest of all time. Yet when it matters, Tom

560
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: gets that team down the field. It's nice to have

561
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Speaker 1: Rob Grenkowski. And to me, it's right now it's a

562
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 1: it's a close call between the two and kind of

563
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,360
Speaker 1: going to really give some thought here. I mean, it's

564
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Speaker 1: there's nothing that's going to happen this week. It's going

565
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Speaker 1: to change his vote, so actually kind to contemplate, uh,

566
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Speaker 1: you know, the two schedules, significance of each player and

567
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,360
Speaker 1: games they needed, and uh, you know, it makes sure

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Speaker 1: that we don't overlook Tom Brady just because we're looking

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Speaker 1: for a fresh space. Like Todd Gurley absolutely but you do.

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Speaker 1: You look at Gurley and how he has closed this season.

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Speaker 1: I think just that game in Seattle that'll stand out

572
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Speaker 1: to anybody. To go up to the maybe the toughest

573
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Speaker 1: place to play in football and be up forty two

574
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Speaker 1: zero or whatever the score was at the time, that

575
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 1: was pretty eye opening. So we'll see what happens in

576
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Speaker 1: that MVP race. We talked about the AFC more. You know,

577
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 1: Steelers and Pats, they're the class of the AFC. They

578
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: already have a chess match going with James Harrison switching teams,

579
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,919
Speaker 1: but things are a little bit more muddled in the NFC.

580
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: You could probably make the case for every potential playoff

581
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 1: team in the NFC to make a Super Bowl run.

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00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,719
Speaker 1: The Vikings and Eagles have home field rams are clicking.

583
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Speaker 1: Then these other four teams were New Orleans, Carolina, Atlanta, Seattle.

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Speaker 1: If they get in, they all have Super Bowl quarterbacks.

585
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: So in your opinion, which team has the edge in

586
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 1: the NFC? Well, you know, it's so funny because I

587
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 1: I think I think Minnesota. It feels like to me,

588
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 1: I mean, I Pheladelphia. I think listen, Carson, Carson Wentz

589
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: was going to win the MVP in this league, and

590
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: there's a reason for it. I mean, I mean, he

591
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 1: does things that this freakish in terms of the physical

592
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 1: ability and getting better in the pocket every week. But

593
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 1: but uh, but the Vikings, you know, they've settled in

594
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 1: this case, keenom thing. They've settled into this. It isn't

595
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Speaker 1: like that's going something that just is developed. As they've

596
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 1: settled into this. Every week, their identity, identity is clear,

597
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 1: it's set. Uh you know. Uh So, but all the

598
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 1: teams intrigue me. I mean the New Orleans Saints, their

599
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 1: defense is for real. Uh you know, the Rams, they've

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Speaker 1: beaten what they've beaten the Saints this year, right, Yes, okay,

601
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Speaker 1: I mean they've they've they've they've beaten some teams and

602
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 1: Philadelphia was was you know, they played them right through

603
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Speaker 1: the end. So you know, they're they're certainly capable of

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Speaker 1: I think it's I think anything goes in this playoffs

605
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 1: for these teams, each and everyone who is capable of

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Speaker 1: winning the MC and representing the MC in the Super Bowl.

607
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 1: So nothing will surprise. I mean, I don't know that

608
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 1: I really have a go to team and I'm saying

609
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 1: that's the team. I will say the Saints defense has

610
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Speaker 1: been better than I ever anticipated, and because they don't

611
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Speaker 1: have to rely on Drew Brees as much as they

612
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 1: used to, but he's still good when they need him.

613
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think they're a dangerous team. And I

614
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Speaker 1: think and I'm not worried about the Rams youth. I mean,

615
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 1: you know, when the Rams won the won the last one,

616
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, you know they were not a team

617
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Speaker 1: anybody before the year had really gotten on the bandwagon

618
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 1: for so I think the Rams are very capable, but

619
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Speaker 1: an experience coaching staff too. On top of it, led

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Speaker 1: by Wade Phillips under Sean McVeigh. You talked about the

621
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Speaker 1: Saint sport. I think it's pretty remarkable that you have

622
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Speaker 1: rookies on each side of the football leading the charge.

623
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Speaker 1: When we talked about Album Kamara and Marshawn Lattimore and

624
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Speaker 1: that trade with Brandon Cooks to get that pick that

625
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 1: was eventually Ryan Ramchek, who's been a big part of

626
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Speaker 1: that offensive line, they were only doing it with rookies.

627
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: And I don't think in anybody's wildest dreams you could

628
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 1: imagine an NFC championship game Jared Golf versus Case Keenum

629
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Speaker 1: based on what you saw exactly a year ago. Could

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Speaker 1: you even imagine that, Chris, No, you couldn't. Add I

631
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Speaker 1: mean I always thought the Rams had better, better personnel,

632
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 1: and people were talking about I mean Gurley. Listen, we

633
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 1: saw enough from Gurley in his rookie year to tell

634
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: you say, you know it'll be special. But listen, you

635
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: know what Sea mcban has done with Golf, I mean

636
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Speaker 1: with the pieces they added in personnel department and less

637
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: need at Eddie Andrew Whitworth, who I think but was

638
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: one of the great moves of the off season. Nobody

639
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 1: still wants to talk enough about that at left tackle. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, Aaron Cromer your offensive line coach position. Bill

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Speaker 1: and coaches all the way across, and you know, keeping

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Speaker 1: John Fossil on board as a special team's coach. Now,

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Speaker 1: we can't make enough when it comes to the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: as these games obviously will come down to field rolls

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Speaker 1: gonna keep you up at night, that that might be

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Speaker 1: one that's certainly something to monitor in the playoffs is

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Speaker 1: special teams. It's so important in January more. We'll get

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Speaker 1: you out of here on this. You grew up in

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Speaker 1: southern California. You started the Daily Breeze in the South Bay.

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Speaker 1: We recently lost one of the Titans in dick Enberg.

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Speaker 1: What was it like for you growing up in Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles around as you eloquently tweeted Broadcasting Royalty. Well, listen,

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Speaker 1: it was back in the days, of course, when there

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Speaker 1: were only you know, your your access to the broadcast network.

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Speaker 1: So it was radio. Baseball was a radio game. But

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Speaker 1: we had Ben Scully calling the Dodgers, we had a

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Speaker 1: Kerrent calling the Lakers, Bob Miller calling the La Kings

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Speaker 1: at Martell and then Dick Edinburgh you know who did

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Speaker 1: it all? Uh, and even that Graham's duty, but I

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Speaker 1: mean he was to do it all. And then you

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Speaker 1: occasionally you would cross paths with those men. And what

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Speaker 1: they all had in common, besides the greatness behind the microphone,

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Speaker 1: is they were truely great gentleman in class acts and

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Speaker 1: who to me, you know, like to me, it's a

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Speaker 1: blessing of a lifetime that I was able to experience that.

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Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people would tell you

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Speaker 1: the same thing. You know, you talk about class. You're

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Speaker 1: an inspiration to so many and someone I've looked up

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Speaker 1: to as a reporter a man for quite some time.

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Speaker 1: I can't think enough your time today. Happy holidays, and

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Speaker 1: enjoy week seventeen in the playoffs, because you know, we

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Speaker 1: just talked about a bunch of potential storylines. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a lot of fun. It will be a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun. And let's hope the Chargers uh have a

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Speaker 1: chance to go in there. You know, h arg is

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Speaker 1: playing Carson. You know, that's that's kind of my here.

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Speaker 1: That's what you were kind of you could draw. You

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Speaker 1: could draw a line by the way from Carson to

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Speaker 1: Inglewood and probably find North Thorns hide right in the

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Speaker 1: middle of the That's what do you miss most about

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Speaker 1: the South Bay? Well, what would you think, Manhattans? The weather? Yeah? No,

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're a kid, you missed me and

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Speaker 1: I want to go out and play baseball every day,

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Speaker 1: any time timey one. But it's just just the weather.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, mister, you know it's it's just a

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Speaker 1: healthy weather environment. I know a lot of it's changed,

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Speaker 1: but a lot of friends, a lot of family, a

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Speaker 1: lot of memories. But uh, you know, I I am.

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Speaker 1: They say, b where you are and right now I'm

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Speaker 1: not the South Bay, but I have so many friends

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Speaker 1: and grateful that that's part of my life experience. Well more,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much. I know you're you're under the

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Speaker 1: weather today and I really appreciate your playing her for us. Chris,

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Speaker 1: take care, Thanks and that'll do it for this week's episode.

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Speaker 1: My thanks to Chris Mortenson and Eric Williams for joining me,

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Speaker 1: and thanks to all for listening. Be sure to download

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Speaker 1: and subscribe to Charges Weekly wherever you listen to podcasts,

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Speaker 1: and if you could, please leave review on iTunes. It

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Speaker 1: helps us spread the words. We can get this as

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Speaker 1: many CHARGES fans as possible. Enjoy the game Sunday we

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Speaker 1: hope to see at StubHub Center as the Bolts look

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Speaker 1: that clinches spot in the playoffs. Until next time, I'm

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Speaker 1: Chris Hary