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Speaker 1: The late fifteen to ten touchdown suck.

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Speaker 2: What's up?

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Speaker 3: Guys, Welcome into a brand new episode of Chargers Weekly.

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Speaker 3: Doing this a little bit early because the schedule was

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Speaker 3: just released, taping this on a Wednesday evening, and I am.

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Speaker 1: Please be joined by Matt Mouney Smith.

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Speaker 3: There's nobody I'd rather break the schedule down with it

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Speaker 3: you by, friend.

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Speaker 1: I guess I was thinking this.

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Speaker 3: Let's go in quarters and at the top, just your

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Speaker 3: main takeaways. It looks like three primetime games.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so a few things. One, I was

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Speaker 2: completely wrong about the opener. You know, the NFL certainly

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Speaker 2: is just looking to break a record for the most

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Speaker 2: ever watched opener in the history of you know, the

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Speaker 2: NFL by putting the Ravens there instead of late in

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Speaker 2: the season when it's you know, projecting a consequential game

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Speaker 2: for perhaps the number one seed. But I think what

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Speaker 2: it says is the league just not have a lot

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Speaker 2: of confidence in the Chargers. I think that's one of

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Speaker 2: my takeaways is, you know, we know what SOFI is,

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Speaker 2: how beautiful SOFI is, and to only get one primetime

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Speaker 2: game there, you know, the the Monday nighter against against

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Speaker 2: Kansas City or not the Sunday nighters at Kansas City.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, the Monday night er against Baltimore, you know,

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Speaker 2: to showcase what is you know, one of the prime

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Speaker 2: they don't have faith, They don't you know, they're afraid

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Speaker 2: to put this team, you know, in premium games late

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Speaker 2: in the season, at the Patriots, at the Raiders, late Denver,

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Speaker 2: late Tampa late. You know, the the latest premium game

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Speaker 2: you would say would be December eight. That Kansas City

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Speaker 2: is Sunday nighter. Now, of course you can flex late,

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Speaker 2: and that's fine, but that's that's probably my initial impression,

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Speaker 2: Chris is they didn't send us to Germany. There there

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Speaker 2: there was only one primetime game at home, three total.

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Speaker 2: Amazon Prime didn't even want us after having Justin Herbert

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Speaker 2: kick off the first ever Amazon Prime game in Thursday

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Speaker 2: night football history. So hey, chip on your shoulder, man.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of people that don't think this is

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Speaker 2: going to be a team that's competing for the division

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Speaker 2: or for a playoff spot. Otherwise, I think the schedule

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Speaker 2: would have looked drastically different.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you said four games, you were closer to me,

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Speaker 3: I said five. I just thought that the hardball effect

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Speaker 3: would get this team on national television a lot more

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Speaker 3: than three times. But hey, I look at that Cincinnati

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Speaker 3: game as a potential flex if.

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Speaker 1: They're playing well with Joe Burrow versus.

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Speaker 3: Justin Herbert, I think NBC can flex a little bit

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Speaker 3: earlier than Monday Night Football. And yeah, man, I just

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Speaker 3: I go through it, and you said the Amazon didn't

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Speaker 3: want them. The last time they were on Amazon, they

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Speaker 3: got blown out by the Raiders, and I think that's

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Speaker 3: a nice way to start. Let's just break down this

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Speaker 3: first quarter of the season September eighth against the Las

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Speaker 3: Vegas Raiders from Sofi Stadium. So so many storylines in

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Speaker 3: this one, man, and that game was the reason we

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Speaker 3: are in the position that we're in now. With Jim

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Speaker 3: Harbaugh as the head coach of the LA Chargers. You

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Speaker 3: got todm te LESCo his first game as general manager

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Speaker 3: of the Raiders, going back to sofar like he never left,

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Speaker 3: Joe Alt versus Max Crosby. I mean, there's so many

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Speaker 3: little mini storylines within a big one, which is revenge

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Speaker 3: on the minds of the Chargers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, it's your chief rival and you bookend the

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Speaker 2: season Week one, week eighteen. You know, I know we're

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Speaker 2: focusing on the first quarter here, but yeah, it's a

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Speaker 2: perfect way to start the season. I mean, hey, guess

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Speaker 2: what I'm here. We're you know, there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: And I think it's a perfect way to set the

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Speaker 2: and you know, let's go those those three guys. We

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Speaker 2: know when Khalil Mack was signed against the Raiders in

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Speaker 2: to upgrade that particular group. So that's gonna be a

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Speaker 2: No more Josh Jacobs. That's that's a perfect to me.

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Speaker 2: It's a perfect way to start the season. It look

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Speaker 2: would I have preferred it to be in Las Vegas,

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Speaker 2: We'll take a division game chief rival, like you said,

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Speaker 2: sixty two to whatever Tom tollsco's there as a general manager.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And with Hornleames winnable game to begin, I think

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Speaker 3: that that's what kind of stands out to me at

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Speaker 3: week two you go to Carolina. So you got Bryce

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Speaker 3: in week one. Carolina the worst team in the NFL

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Speaker 3: last year and it's gonna take some time for them

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Speaker 3: to get get back to disrespectability. So an awesome opportunity

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Speaker 3: to go two and oh in your first two games.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's set up, especially considering what that

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Speaker 2: We know that for sure. Looking at last year, you know,

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Speaker 2: they managed to cough that one up in Week two

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Speaker 2: feel pretty good about this, you know, the Raiders at

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Speaker 2: to build some momentum, to believe in all that. You know,

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Speaker 2: this coaching staff has preached all the changes that have

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Speaker 2: a lot of new faces, the winning attitude. And that's

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Speaker 2: if you were to ask me, hey, what two teams

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Speaker 2: pretty good about those first two weeks being winnable games.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and when you look at the coaching matchup the

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Speaker 3: coaches versus Jim Harball. So you like the coaching matchup,

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Speaker 3: and you just like the way the first two weeks

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Speaker 3: go to Pittsburgh back to back games on the East Coast, Bundy.

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Speaker 3: You know, we're just talking out loud. It's like, did

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Speaker 3: go from from two quarterbacks who don't have a ton

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so to two Super Bowl winning quarterbacks to Russell

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Speaker 2: go to likely Russell Wilson and Patrick Mahomes a lot tougher.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, silver Lining, it's in September, it's not. It's not

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Speaker 3: think it's an opportunity to get your sea legs to,

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Speaker 3: I don't know, do you like seeing the Chiefs this early?

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll say this, it is the first time that

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Speaker 2: the NFL. It's like twenty six thousand. To put that

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Speaker 2: They're like, Hey, this team is already going to be

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 1: To go to the Greenbrier and invest there you go.

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Speaker 3: Last two games in this quarter, the Saints at home,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know what, Cleveland shouldn't be too bad

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they will. And the Bengals are going to

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Speaker 2: ask around the league, and pretty much you're going to

431
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Speaker 2: get Baltimore, San Francisco, Cleveland, you know, named as the

432
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Speaker 2: most physical team in the league. And the Chargers want

433
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Speaker 2: to get in that conversation. That's what they're looking to do.

434
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Speaker 2: And so we'll see what they you know, I would

435
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Speaker 2: love to see when's the uh. I would love to

436
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Speaker 2: see when the uh, what's it called the Baltimore bye is.

437
00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:06,680
Speaker 2: I don't have like a big grid, So I'm just

438
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Speaker 2: kind of scrambling all over the place because they're coming

439
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Speaker 2: off we're both coming off a game on Sunday. They're

440
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Speaker 2: playing the Steelers, like we mentioned, Chargers playing the Bengals,

441
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:16,480
Speaker 2: so you both got the same rest going into that

442
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Speaker 2: Monday nighter. But of course, uh, you know we're gonna

443
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Speaker 2: get a We're gonna get hosed a little bit just

444
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Speaker 2: because of the early buye.

445
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Speaker 3: Hey, Thursday night can flex too, right, there's a window

446
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Speaker 3: towards the end of the year where they they're allowed

447
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Speaker 3: to flex as well.

448
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,240
Speaker 2: Right, I'm fine, don't flex us in there.

449
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,560
Speaker 3: I'm all good, we're good, We're good. So routing at

450
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Speaker 3: the third court of the season at Atlanta, Kirk cousins

451
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Speaker 3: Raheem Morris. I should have mentioned, so the Bengals another

452
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Speaker 3: first time head coach, that would be the third on

453
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Speaker 3: the schedule, and then Raheem Morris first time well coach,

454
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Speaker 3: the two time hey coach coach Tampa, but no one

455
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Speaker 3: of the Falcons. Let's say so, Yeah, a tough, a

456
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Speaker 3: tough game with with Kirk at the Helm, you know

457
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Speaker 3: that they're points.

458
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Speaker 1: Maybe it could be Michael ever.

459
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,320
Speaker 2: Know, maybe it could be by then.

460
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Speaker 3: But yet another East coast trip money h.

461
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Speaker 2: Well, going to Atlanta, and I'll tell you the one

462
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Speaker 2: thing that that you know, I think is worth mentioning

463
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Speaker 2: on our Hopefully this is compelling content. I hope it is.

464
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Speaker 2: We're trying. We're trying, folks, trying to make schedule talks

465
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Speaker 2: as compelling as possible. But the one thing that jumps

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Speaker 2: out to me there Number one, Atlanta has a late buy,

467
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Speaker 2: so they're going to be coming off a bye Chargers

468
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Speaker 2: coming off the Ravens game, Monday night on a short week.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, NFL appreciate that, good looking out. So on

470
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Speaker 2: top of that, they're East Coast games, all ten am ors,

471
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Speaker 2: Like there's not the Panthers ten am, Steelers, ten am Cleveland,

472
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Speaker 2: ten am Atlanta ten am. So these are true East

473
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Speaker 2: Coast time zone early starts for a West Coast team.

474
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Speaker 2: You know, that's the one heart where they did not

475
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 2: do the Chargers any favors by having those one o'clock

476
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 2: you know, those late late windows starts on the East Coast.

477
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Speaker 2: All these games are ten am Pacific time. You're on

478
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Speaker 2: the bus, you're up at five am Pacific, you're on

479
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Speaker 2: the bus by seven am Pacific, you're kicking off by

480
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Speaker 2: ten am. So a little gnarly, yeah, you know.

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Speaker 1: What I just I remember. I feel like the Chargers.

482
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Speaker 3: Maybe it was eighteen or nineteen where they had a

483
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Speaker 3: lot of those games and they played okay, But you're right,

484
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Speaker 3: the go west going west to east. I guess early especially,

485
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Speaker 3: you know, we think about it from like our perspective too.

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Speaker 1: It's like, oh, yeah, you get the game over.

487
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Speaker 3: You get the game over with early as supposed to

488
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Speaker 3: waiting around and you know, hurry up and wait but yeah,

489
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Speaker 3: you're right, that's another kind of element to this schedule

490
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Speaker 3: that is just a little bit different.

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Speaker 1: I guess I was expecting more kind.

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Speaker 3: Of puzzle pieces like Thursday night games extra by many

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Speaker 3: by here, many by there.

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Speaker 1: It's very three foward.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And by the way, Baltimore's buy is week fourteen,

496
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Speaker 2: so they will have not had a buy by the

497
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Speaker 2: time they show up. So that's again when you're talking

498
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Speaker 2: about that brand of football, that physical brand of football.

499
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,679
Speaker 2: Even steven, you know, Chargers by is week five and

500
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Speaker 2: there's this until week fourteen, So you get helped out

501
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Speaker 2: a little bit there.

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Speaker 3: All right, So let's go down the home stretch here.

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Speaker 3: December eighth, Sunday Night Football, Chargers third primetime game. This

504
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Speaker 3: is an annual tradition the Chiefs and Chargers will play

505
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Speaker 3: in primetime, no bones about it. At Arrowhead. Who knows

506
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Speaker 3: what these teams are going to look like? December eighth, money,

507
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:41,239
Speaker 3: You never know.

508
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Speaker 2: Would you care to guess what Kansas City's got going?

509
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Speaker 2: The week before bye Black Friday game? Many Bye, they

510
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 2: played the Raiders, right, Raiders in the Black Friday games.

511
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Speaker 2: So they again always never fails, like just never fails.

512
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:02,119
Speaker 2: There's always something you give the Chargers a little scrap, like, hey,

513
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 2: they're playing Sunday Night the night before, the week before

514
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Speaker 2: on the road, Chargers go in and they'll be on

515
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Speaker 2: a little bit of a mini buy there from the

516
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Speaker 2: Black Friday game early December Kansas City. That's gonna be

517
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Speaker 2: cold Sunday night football night game kicks off at seven

518
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Speaker 2: twenty local time. It's gonna be it's gonna be a

519
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 2: cold one. And look, this is Michigan football, right, You're

520
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 2: built for it. So that's the good news. It's not

521
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 2: a spread it out, run around and be a track

522
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:35,119
Speaker 2: team team. It's it's a strap it up, knock some heads.

523
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:37,399
Speaker 2: So you know, maybe that's a little bit of a

524
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Speaker 2: benefit in these cold weather games is that you're used

525
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Speaker 2: to getting hit and hit hard every single time the

526
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Speaker 2: ball is snapped, and it doesn't affect you as much.

527
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Speaker 2: So what do you hope at least you.

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Speaker 3: Know, I was just gonna say too, like, how many

529
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Speaker 3: how many Big Ten games have we did we wake

530
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Speaker 3: up and watch michigal like at ten am and just

531
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Speaker 3: knocking people's heads.

532
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Speaker 2: Off, run the ball thirty straight times in the second

533
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Speaker 2: half against Penn State.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, See that's the brand of football, though, Budy that

535
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 3: I think that these guys are built like you're built

536
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 3: to go. You play in Los Angeles, but you have

537
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 3: a team that's built to win in December in hostile, cold,

538
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,720
Speaker 3: potential environments. You get a couple a couple of home

539
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 3: games here to close out the home schedule Tampa Bay

540
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 3: so Baker, Mayfield and company, and then the Denver Broncos

541
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Speaker 3: come in Week sixteen. Two very winnable games. As we

542
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Speaker 3: look at this thing in May right now with Baker

543
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 3: under center, and I guess bo Nicks again.

544
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, you know, look, we might as well,

545
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:40,439
Speaker 2: well we can go through the rest of them and

546
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,360
Speaker 2: just knock it out. But yeah, so obviously they lose

547
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 2: a little bit of rest with a Sunday night or

548
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Speaker 2: in Kansas City, probably getting home somewhere around four am

549
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 2: on that one. Not ideal. Tampa's coming in on regular rest,

550
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 2: so you hope you can just kind of get everything

551
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 2: squared away, you know, by then the Broncos get a

552
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Speaker 2: Week fourteen by so they're going to be in a

553
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,879
Speaker 2: little bit better shape probably than the Chargers are for

554
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 2: that Week sixteen game. They're coming off a home game

555
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 2: against the Colts, So you'd say probably advantage broncos it

556
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 2: just there's a lot of that that I've noticed on

557
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,400
Speaker 2: this schedule is there's a lot of mini buys, there's

558
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,640
Speaker 2: a lot of chargers have the negative rest. It's something

559
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,439
Speaker 2: that Warren Sharp talks about a lot and has tracked

560
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 2: for a long time and believes makes a big impact.

561
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 2: I know Jim Harbaugh heard me say it, he'd probably

562
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 2: slap it out of my mouth because it's such a

563
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 2: stupid excuse. But all I'm pointing out is Warren charts this.

564
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,639
Speaker 2: He charts wins and losses off of it, and he

565
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 2: does believe it is worth anywhere from three quarters to

566
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 2: one and a half wins versus losses, you know, and

567
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 2: all of the research that he's done. That's a lot.

568
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 2: You know, eight and nine versus nine and eight, nine

569
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 2: and eight versus ten and seven. It's a pretty big

570
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 2: difference when you're chasing a playoff spot. So they're gonna

571
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 2: have to overcome quite a bit in terms of negative

572
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Speaker 2: rest to to win these games, especially playing, like I said,

573
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Speaker 2: the brand of football they're playing.

574
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Speaker 3: You know, though, after the Sunday night game like Tampa

575
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 3: bay Denver at New England, who I don't think is

576
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 3: gonna be very good this year, and at Las Vegas,

577
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 3: which is a forty five minute plane ride. Yeah, I

578
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 3: mean that that last quarter I think is very favorable,

579
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 3: especially if you're rolling, if you're playing good football. I

580
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 3: mean you could buzz. You could buzz through December and

581
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 3: feel pretty good about that last quarter.

582
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Speaker 1: You know, on paper, it's us talking.

583
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 3: Right now, and may the team would ever say that,

584
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 3: but I mean, like if it lines up nicely, like

585
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 3: you said, get Carolina early, get Vegas early, and then

586
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 3: you close with Vegas and then the three games before that,

587
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 3: Tampa Bay, Denver at home and at New England with

588
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 3: Drake Major, Rod Mail.

589
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think those, you know, the last two what

590
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 2: you're hoping is, you know, and even with Denver with

591
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 2: bo Nicks and their quarterback situation and trading away Jerry

592
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 2: Judy and just kind of how no, Justin Simmons reset

593
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 2: in the fight like it's it feels like a reset

594
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 2: year in Denver. It feels everybody's talking about how and

595
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 2: they're right, you know, Matthew Judan, Christian Christian Barmore, Jwan Bentley,

596
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 2: you know, Jonathan Jones is still there, like Jabrill Peppers,

597
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 2: Christian Gonzalez was just drafted. The defense is still good

598
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 2: in New England. But and it's nothing against Gerrod Mao

599
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 2: to think that, like just to project, oh yeah, defense

600
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 2: is great. He had arguably the greatest defensive coach in

601
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 2: the history of the league that is no longer there

602
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 2: calling the defense. You know, I mean I know that,

603
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 2: you know you still have you know, Gerrod Mao, who

604
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 2: was on his staff, is there, and they're hoping that

605
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 2: it's a seamless transition. But the idea that Bill Belichick

606
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 2: leaves and there's no fall off on that side of

607
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 2: the ball, and we know kind of offensively, I like

608
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 2: Jacoby Bursett as a bridge quarterback. But if in a

609
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 2: division with Buffalo in Miami, and if the Jets are

610
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 2: healthy and how good they were last year with no

611
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 2: quarterback to pile up seven wins and a couple of

612
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 2: really close losses, if Aaron Rodgers is healthy, maybe they're

613
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 2: so far out of it that it's just, hey, let's

614
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 2: get Drake made some reps. Let's let's let's this is

615
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 2: now this portion, or you want to get them out

616
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 2: there and get some reps. That's kind of what I

617
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 2: think you're hoping. You know, look, the Raiders were competitive

618
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 2: last year. They were good team. You know, they played

619
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 2: some good defense down the stretch. They knocked off the Chiefs,

620
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 2: you know, and kept them from getting that number one

621
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 2: overall seed on that that Christmas game. So you know

622
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 2: the hope is is, yeah, they're mailing it in. It's

623
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Speaker 2: I mean, now that we've kind of gone through the

624
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 2: whole schedule in the quarters, Chris, yeah, it, I can

625
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 2: talk myself into it through my powder blue and gold glasses,

626
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 2: and I can see nine and I can see ten.

627
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 2: I can, I can can. I can talk myself into that.

628
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 2: We did this last year. We talked ourselves into ten

629
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Speaker 2: or eleven wins last year and they ended up with five.

630
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Speaker 1: So that's a better what we say in May.

631
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 2: No, But I mean, look that's what It's a podcast

632
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 2: that fans are listening to. So yeah, let's let's go

633
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 2: through it. Raiders at home win, at Panthers win. I'm

634
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 2: gonna I'm not gonna project losses, but I'll just I'll

635
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 2: reserve myself from giving wins to games that I see

636
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 2: as being a challenge. I go to at Broncos again,

637
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 2: I even see that as being a challenge. They seem

638
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 2: to split with the Broncos every single year. So so Cardinals,

639
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 2: I think they can win that game. That's three Saints

640
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 2: at home. I think they can win that game. Browns.

641
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 2: I won't project Titans at home. I think they win

642
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 2: that game. That's five Bengals Ravens. I won't project so Atlanta.

643
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 2: I think they can win that game. That's six Kansas City.

644
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 2: Won't project Tampa. Even though they were frisky last year.

645
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 2: I still think they can win that game. It's at home.

646
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 2: So that's seven Broncos at home. That's eight Patriots on

647
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 2: the road. I mean, I'm already at nine and I'm

648
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 2: not even sore staining from games. That's what I mean,

649
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 2: just on paper. You know the teams that they are

650
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 2: playing from twenty twenty three. You know, if we are

651
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 2: to believe in what we believe, even what Jim Harbaugh

652
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 2: is gonna bring here with this running game, Gus Edwards, JK.

653
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 2: Dobbins staying healthy all year, you know, and I know

654
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 2: the wide receiver look the wide receiver room. I feel

655
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 2: I feel pretty good about it. I've said how much

656
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 2: I like Josh Palmer. You take the top off with

657
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 2: DJ Shark. I went back and watched all of his

658
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 2: snaps and there's some impressive routes out there. Man. There

659
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 2: are some contested fifty to fifty catches that he shakes

660
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 2: a defender and scores a touchdown. There is ankle breaking

661
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 2: out there on double moves. There's him just wide open that,

662
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 2: you know, for whatever reason, wide open and there's no

663
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 2: passes direction. Bryce Youngs doesn't see him. I'm excited about that, obviously. Mconkie.

664
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 2: I'm very excited about I'm excited about a tight end

665
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 2: that can block in Will Disley, something that we have

666
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 2: not seen here since Hunter Henry left. So you know,

667
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 2: there's reasons for me to feel good about that. It

668
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 2: doesn't mean anything until they strap it up and play it.

669
00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 2: But I think when I'm getting that, Chris is, it

670
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 2: could have been so much worse. There could have been.

671
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 2: The Rams are gonna have to then the Jets are

672
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 2: gonna have to play two Thursday night games. Like there

673
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 2: are teams that are playing two Thursday night games. The

674
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 2: Chargers don't have one, you know. There their primetime games

675
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,359
Speaker 2: aren't that bad. You know, it's it's a Monday night

676
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,839
Speaker 2: er here, and it's a Monday nighter in the same

677
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 2: time zone and a forty five minute flight away, you know.

678
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 2: So to me, there's a lot of good there. The

679
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 2: you know, the one the big negative is they really

680
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 2: buy to try to get your guys some rest, you know,

681
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:37,839
Speaker 2: more toward the middle of the season. They don't have that.

682
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 2: And like I said, it seems like there's a lot

683
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 2: of net negative rest from other teams coming off mini buys,

684
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 2: you know, four or five different times this year. So

685
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 2: I thought it go ahead.

686
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: I just money.

687
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 3: I think that there's an advantage to having a new coach,

688
00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 3: especially an experienced new coach, when you play the teams

689
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 3: at the beginning of the year, like the Raiders and

690
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 3: the Chiefs.

691
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 1: Like listen, you.

692
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 3: Could look at all the Michigan tape you want to,

693
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 3: you could look at all the San Francisco forty nine

694
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 3: er tape, but there's going to be an element of

695
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 3: surprise that may catch the Raiders and the Chiefs and

696
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,720
Speaker 3: the Steelers off guard a little bit, you know, especially

697
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 3: if you're looking at like the last four or five

698
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 3: years of how the Chargers did things offensively and even defensively.

699
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 3: It's completely different now. You could say the same thing

700
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 3: with the Raiders with Luke Getzi. But I just think

701
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:37,759
Speaker 3: as a whole, the operation and everything that they're doing

702
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 3: philosophically is counter to what they used to be. So

703
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,400
Speaker 3: you can use that to your advantage. I think the

704
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 3: first quarter of the year, and yeah, it's not ideal

705
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 3: to have a week five by but if you can

706
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 3: enter that week five by three and one with two

707
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 3: wins against AFC West opponents, I mean, man, you got

708
00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 3: the confidence. Then you play a rookie quarterback coming out

709
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,240
Speaker 3: of that buy, you have a game against Kyler Murray,

710
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 3: you come home for the Saints, a smash mouth game

711
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 3: against the Browns. But I just think it's so important.

712
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 3: We saw what happened last year when they got off

713
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 3: to a rough start. It's just it's snowballed.

714
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 1: It's snowballed. It's snowballed.

715
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 3: Getting off to a good start in potentially going two

716
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 3: and zero in the division, Like, that's what I would

717
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 3: have my eyes on if I'm a Chargers fans. The

718
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 3: Steeler game, hey man, that's gonna be a tough game.

719
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 3: It's their home opener. If you could steal that one, fantastic.

720
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: But if you can get.

721
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:37,879
Speaker 3: Three and one going into week five. God, that would

722
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:39,959
Speaker 3: be a great start for Jim Harball in his first year.

723
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: With the Chargers.

724
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 2: Yeah. To me, I think, you know, it's it's even

725
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 2: just one. And I know I'm not trying to kind

726
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 2: of jump you here or be too contrary, but honestly, Chris,

727
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 2: like for me thinking back these last couple of years,

728
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 2: it's just one and zero. Just getting that first win

729
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 2: in week one, you know, just especially with a new

730
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 2: coaching staff with a new philosophy, they're going to be

731
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 2: busting their tails in training camp and to take on

732
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 2: a team that absolutely wrecked you last year, you know,

733
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 2: humiliated you and in their post you know, and screaming

734
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 2: raiders on their way to you know, sixty three twenty one,

735
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 2: and they're doing their raider chance and Antonio pearce Is

736
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 2: and his press are saying, I wanted seventy, I wanted set.

737
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 2: You know, you got Bosa Mack there. Those are the

738
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 2: defensive players out there, Bosa mac Tuley, those guys, you know,

739
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 2: I would assume are going to be supremely motivated to

740
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 2: make a statement in that game after scoring, say, they

741
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 2: don't want him to score six point three points. So

742
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 2: I'm going to be you know, and again there's no

743
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,879
Speaker 2: Josh Jacobs. They did not upgrade their offensive line. You're

744
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 2: still gonna have either Aidan O'Connell or you know, I

745
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 2: think Gardner Minshew, he's solid. He wasn't great in Indianapolis

746
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 2: last year. I know they were competing for, you know,

747
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 2: a playoff spot in Week eighteen, But that was more

748
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 2: I thought Shane Steichen's brilliant play calling and sort of

749
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 2: the way that they had just had games break for

750
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 2: them as opposed to Gardner being a really good quarterback

751
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 2: all season long. Just getting that first win and then

752
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 2: climbing on that plane to go to Carolina and seeing

753
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 2: that opportunity in front of you for that second win,

754
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:21,879
Speaker 2: and then I think we're getting to what you're talking about.

755
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 2: Right Well, now there's like, hey, now we're flying home

756
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 2: across the country with a second win, and we like

757
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:31,359
Speaker 2: what's going on here? Man? Last year zero and two

758
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 2: in an inexplicable lost Tennessee, just one brain cramp after

759
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 2: another wide open, seventy yard bombs that are going over

760
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 2: your head because of busted coverages and the inability to

761
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 2: run the ball and a three and out in overtime,

762
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 2: and like and you're sitting there going we're really zero

763
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 2: in two and going to play the Vikings right now, Like,

764
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 2: think about just how different Like I said, when we

765
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:58,359
Speaker 2: started this, you tell me, hey, you know who your

766
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,280
Speaker 2: opponents are, how you want to get this thing started? Yeah,

767
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 2: Raiders Week one sixty three to freaking twenty one, let's go,

768
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 2: let's let's let's wash that out of the mouth immediately

769
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 2: and then take a trip to Carolina. Get that road

770
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 2: trip off, and you feel preaty darn good. With two

771
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 2: very tough games at Pittsburgh and Kansas City at home.

772
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 3: This is what excites me about this Chargers team. Jim

773
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 3: Harball knows about rivalries, right, Yeah, Sometimes it feels to

774
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 3: me like Raider Week wasn't what it should have been

775
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 3: like when Marty Schottenheimer was was the Charger's head coach,

776
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 3: Raider Week like the fans felt it like Nick Hardwick's

777
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 3: on the staff. Now, Nick Hardwick knows what Raider Week's

778
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 3: all about. You don't think Jim Harball knows what Raider

779
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 3: Week's all about. It's going to be a different vibe,

780
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 3: is going to be a different vibe in the locker room,

781
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:48,919
Speaker 3: and money to a man, everybody I've talked to every

782
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 3: player I've talked to, they've said some form of you

783
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 3: were not going to want to play us, You are

784
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:58,240
Speaker 3: not going to want to play us, and you will,

785
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 3: like I think Junior Colson said, let's like like you

786
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 3: will lose next week because you played us this week, right,

787
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 3: Like That's that's the type of mentality that they want

788
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:10,800
Speaker 3: to bring. Physicality, physicality, physicality, and I just think that

789
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,720
Speaker 3: that's missing in today's game sometimes the rivalry and actually

790
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 3: like getting up for games and having a coach that

791
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 3: just he knows what it means. He knows what it

792
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:24,239
Speaker 3: means to the fans, like he knows what the game means, right,

793
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 3: you know, and he heard all about it, and then

794
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 3: he started whooping on Ohio State. So it's it's a

795
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:32,320
Speaker 3: perfect opponent for Week one.

796
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:35,280
Speaker 2: For Jim marble Per one hundred percent. Like I said,

797
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 2: saw so many of those Stanford games, and you better

798
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:42,240
Speaker 2: believe USC even though big game was big game against

799
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 2: Cal and that was their big rivalry, but Pete and

800
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 2: the Trojans were the King of the Hill and he

801
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 2: was all about not beating them, but physically beating them

802
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 2: and humiliating them. And I think about Jim Schwartz getting

803
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:56,840
Speaker 2: a little loose with his lips when he was the

804
00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:00,399
Speaker 2: head coach of Alliance and Harbaugh when in that game

805
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 2: and knocking his back off in the posting. You know,

806
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 2: like he's a competitor, and so this is a great

807
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,720
Speaker 2: you know, and remember Jim was a coach for the Raiders.

808
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:12,319
Speaker 2: That was the first place he coached quarterback, you know,

809
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 2: it was assistant quarterbacks or something like that before he

810
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 2: took the job at San Diego. So he knows the

811
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:19,319
Speaker 2: other side of it. He knows what Charger Week was.

812
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 2: That's when Philip Rivers was was a Charger and and

813
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 2: you know he you know how intense that rivalry was

814
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:27,280
Speaker 2: when Philip was with the quarterback and the Chargers were

815
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 2: kicking ass in the ots, you know, going into the

816
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 2: twenty ten's right in that range. Yeah, like that's it's

817
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:35,320
Speaker 2: gonna be fun. It's gonna be a perfect way to

818
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 2: start the season.

819
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be fun.

820
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 3: I cannot wait for September eighth. Uh, anything else that

821
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 3: stands out to you before we you want you want.

822
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 2: To kind of cool selfishly pretty cool preseason fact that

823
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 2: you know, you never know who they're rather gonna send

824
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 2: you we get to go to Cowboys, get to go

825
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 2: to the the Jerry Dome. It's gonna be fun. You know,

826
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:56,919
Speaker 2: of all the places they can send you, we tend

827
00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 2: to go to San Francisco, go to Arizona. We've into Seattle.

828
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 2: You know, that was kind of it. It's always sort

829
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:04,839
Speaker 2: of this West Coast ring. And I thought for sure,

830
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:06,760
Speaker 2: since we're playing Arizona, I was like, I will probably

831
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 2: play San Francisco or probably maybe we'll go up to Seattle.

832
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 2: That'll be fun. And then when I saw Dallas, I

833
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 2: was like, ah, that's cool. It's not too far. It's

834
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 2: two and a half hour flight. And get to hang

835
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 2: out at the Jerry Dome for a preseason game. If

836
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:19,839
Speaker 2: you got to sit there, and it'll be interesting. How

837
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:22,319
Speaker 2: does Jim Harbaugh treat the preseason? You know, does he

838
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:26,280
Speaker 2: treat it like Brandon Staley did where nobody played period,

839
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 2: or does he treat it like Andy Reid treats it,

840
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 2: Where you guys might get a quarter. You know, you

841
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 2: guys might get a series, you might get a quarter.

842
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:37,239
Speaker 2: Who knows. It'll be interesting to see how that shakes out.

843
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,359
Speaker 2: But you get Seattle and the Rams here and then

844
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 2: you get the Cowboys on Saturday, August twenty fourth. That's

845
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 2: gonna be kind of fun to get out there.

846
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 3: I'm glad you mentioned that. So the games are gonna

847
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 3: be a CBS two. And that's the big intrigue is

848
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 3: how does Jim Harball approach it?

849
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:54,399
Speaker 1: Like, is Justin Herbert gonna play in the preseason? Maybe

850
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:54,799
Speaker 1: he does.

851
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 2: I think he will. I would be very surprised, you know,

852
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 2: I would be very surprised if he doesn't treat it,

853
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 2: you know, the considerably different than how Brandon Staley treated it. Look,

854
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 2: go Andy Reid plays those guys. He will play them

855
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 2: a quarter. He will play his start as a quarter.

856
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin will play his guys a full quarter. Like

857
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:19,439
Speaker 2: these dudes, these old school.

858
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:21,440
Speaker 3: Belichick don't mess around guys.

859
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 2: They play their guys. They they do not care. They

860
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 2: believe you need to get hit in the mouth. They're

861
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 2: they're all about it. So I'm sure Jim Harbaugh is

862
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:32,800
Speaker 2: probably from that school as well. I mean, it's August

863
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 2: twenty fourth, you got two weeks before your first game.

864
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:37,919
Speaker 2: You know the way they do it now with the three,

865
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 2: with the three instead of four preseason games.

866
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 3: So and so it's fun because August tenth is Mike

867
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 3: McDonald his former decardinator and his son who's on the

868
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 3: staff right special Seahawks, and then and then the Rams.

869
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:54,800
Speaker 3: You get some good work with McVeigh. We don't know

870
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 3: anything about Joy practices yet, do we.

871
00:43:57,760 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 1: I don't think anything.

872
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 2: I haven't got five.

873
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,359
Speaker 3: We've got five teams in some of California doing training camp.

874
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:06,879
Speaker 2: I have not seen anything because you know, a lot

875
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:09,839
Speaker 2: of times that's coaching relationships is how those things come up.

876
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 2: You know, remember Anthony lenn and Sean Payton were together

877
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 2: on the Cowboys staff, and obviously Kyle Shanahan and and

878
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:20,400
Speaker 2: Brandon we were close, uh, just through the Sean McVay relationships.

879
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 2: So yeah, be be interesting to see. But you know,

880
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 2: they're obviously not going to do joint practices with the

881
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 2: with the UH Raiders, Uh they do. They're not gonna

882
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 2: go to Jack Hampis Sports Complex, are we exactly? I

883
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:38,879
Speaker 2: don't know if they'll do it with the Saints because

884
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:42,239
Speaker 2: you're playing them in the preseason. You know, maybe the

885
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 2: Cowboys maybe a little bit in there with the Cowboys

886
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:45,400
Speaker 2: who were just right up an ox start, if they

887
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 2: want to come down the road a little bit that

888
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 2: could be fun.

889
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:50,240
Speaker 1: So we'll see the rams. Maybe the rams.

890
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:54,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh hey, bud Dupree. We didn't talk about bud Dupree.

891
00:44:54,520 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 3: Uh So, Jesse Mitzer, I think it says a okay,

892
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 3: if we get to keep Mac and Bosa, and I

893
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 3: have Touley and Morgan Fox is on the roster, we're

894
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,840
Speaker 3: just continuing to add to our strength on the defense.

895
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:12,880
Speaker 3: So to bring in a veteran like Dupre who I

896
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,799
Speaker 3: think started sixteen games for the Falcons last year, six

897
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 3: and a half sacks, you put him on the other

898
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:22,799
Speaker 3: side of Joey or Khalil or Tuley Man, the competition

899
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 3: in the edge room just got a little bit deeper.

900
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 2: He looked good. I went back and watch every one

901
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 2: of his pressures from last year, the six and a

902
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 2: half sacks. I'd say probably half of them, maybe i'd

903
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:36,360
Speaker 2: say three of them. Maybe, you know, he kind of

904
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 2: walked into the coverage, was really good downfield. It was

905
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,319
Speaker 2: you elongated play and managed to be there to clean

906
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 2: it up. But a few of them, Man, he is

907
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 2: flying off the edge and beating his dude off the snap,

908
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 2: and it's kind of been everything. There was speed, there,

909
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,319
Speaker 2: there were some power. I watched him dust a couple

910
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 2: tackles and just pick them up and run them right

911
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 2: into the quarterback. The pressures are great. The sacks are

912
00:45:57,920 --> 00:45:59,719
Speaker 2: one thing, the six and a half, But when you

913
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 2: go through all of his pressures or his beaten defenders,

914
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 2: you know, beaten by defenders, those sort of things, it's impressive.

915
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,319
Speaker 2: He's still got juice. Man. He's a pass rusher. That's

916
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:13,320
Speaker 2: what he does. He is. He's maybe a DPI designated

917
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:15,239
Speaker 2: a pass rusher more than anything. There were some run

918
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 2: I went and looked at some of the run tackles,

919
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 2: and he's the guy that gets out of the quarterback.

920
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 2: So you need those guys. We talked about the edge

921
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 2: room and we were a little concerned about it. If

922
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 2: you got to let Bosa go and are you gonna

923
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 2: draft one high and with it, can we trust Mack

924
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 2: at thirty three? So now you've got some real, real

925
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 2: depth at that position with Dupre and the flexibility that

926
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 2: Tuley and Joey Bosa give you out there as well.

927
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, plus Fox like it's it's a really deep room. Yeah,

928
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:46,359
Speaker 1: the deep room. It's you know, it's Chris Rump. It's

929
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 1: a big opportunity for Chris rumf.

930
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 2: To, Yeah, I forgot about Chris absolutely the.

931
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:51,479
Speaker 1: Show to show he belongs to in that room.

932
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 3: So uh, I love it, you know post draft to

933
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 3: pick up a guy like charkh and then Dupre you know,

934
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 3: Joe Ortiz said, hey, we're we have different phases of

935
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 3: this free agency thing.

936
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: It doesn't end before the draft.

937
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:08,240
Speaker 3: And in you're and you're seeing some of these veterans,

938
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 3: uh that were added post draft? Do you think anybody

939
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 3: else is in play? You look at the safety room.

940
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:15,919
Speaker 2: I think so, you know, safety is still the one

941
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 2: that's that's really a glaring you know, where there's not

942
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 2: that vet. You know, they added Christian Fulton vet to

943
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:25,720
Speaker 2: the corner room. You know, they added Denzel Paraman vet

944
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:29,279
Speaker 2: to the linebacker room. They added Bud Dupree vet to

945
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 2: the to the edge room. They added dj everything that

946
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:34,759
Speaker 2: we talked about where we were like, hey, I don't

947
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:37,960
Speaker 2: know about that room running back, Gus Edwards and JK. Dobbins,

948
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:40,959
Speaker 2: tight end, Will Disley and Hayden Hurst. The one room

949
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:45,760
Speaker 2: that has not gotten that addition yet is you know, safety,

950
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 2: and Justin Simmons is still out there, you know, so

951
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:52,799
Speaker 2: there's there's still some safeties out there that they might

952
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:55,839
Speaker 2: be able to find some value and cash it in.

953
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 2: I think they got great value for for Shark. I

954
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:02,399
Speaker 2: think he's a perfect fit. And you know, and kind

955
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 2: of what we talked about before, right with Jerry Rice.

956
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 2: You saw his comments this week about you know what

957
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 2: Brendan shared, how hot his dad was, and how he

958
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:13,399
Speaker 2: called him and said, hey, that's it. I'm coaching you now,

959
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 2: I'm your shadow. We're going to prove all these people wrong.

960
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:18,880
Speaker 2: So I'm sure Jim Harball is taking advantage of that,

961
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:22,359
Speaker 2: saying come on down, man, come on down. We got

962
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 2: no problem with Jerry Rice coaching our wide receivers up

963
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 2: at practice. Feel free to get on down here. Coach

964
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 2: Brennan up, coach, coach Lad McConkey up and Quinton whoever

965
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 2: you want to talk to, get on out there, get

966
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:33,839
Speaker 2: with Sanjay and let's knock it out. Jerry, you want

967
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 2: to be a system wide receivers coach, here's a polo

968
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:38,840
Speaker 2: you're you're in, man, Let's do it. Let's make Brendan

969
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 2: the best receiver in the league.

970
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 1: Please.

971
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:45,959
Speaker 3: Finally, have you seen the charges schedule release video yet?

972
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 2: I did, Yes, Sims. So here's what I'll say I'm

973
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:52,840
Speaker 2: not a big SIMS guy, So initial viewing, I'm like, Okay,

974
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 2: I'm going to need to spend some time with this.

975
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 2: I'm gonna need to find all the Easter eggs and

976
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 2: there's a lot of them, yeah, which there always are.

977
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:06,240
Speaker 2: So I'm trying to think if I saw any of them.

978
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:07,799
Speaker 2: Let me look at our schedule, let me see if

979
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:11,279
Speaker 2: I remember seeing any. Yeah. The Pittsburgh one was funny

980
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 2: with Russell walking through the house. That was a really

981
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 2: good one. I don't know if I remember any of

982
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 2: the other ones.

983
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 1: Uh.

984
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 3: A former general manager was featured in uh in week eighteen?

985
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:23,680
Speaker 2: Oh nice? Uh?

986
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:27,400
Speaker 1: The chiefs Kicker was was in the credits.

987
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:31,520
Speaker 2: Wow, talk about uh about topical immediately?

988
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 1: What quite the turn around there?

989
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 2: Yeah? There was what an idiot?

990
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:41,400
Speaker 3: It was so good ones man, they did they did

991
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 3: a good job. They have a lot of Easter eggs

992
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 3: in it. I I'm not a huge I didn't. I

993
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:48,800
Speaker 3: don't know much about SIMS either, but uh, it's worth

994
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,359
Speaker 3: the it's all about watch like ten times, man, watch

995
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 3: like ten times. Yeah, I'll put some time into it.

996
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:53,879
Speaker 2: Yeah.

997
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:56,760
Speaker 1: Week good to Week eighteen. Uh.

998
00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:58,920
Speaker 3: There was also something else in Week eighteen that I

999
00:49:58,960 --> 00:49:59,759
Speaker 3: thought was pretty funny.

1000
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:06,400
Speaker 2: Actually that's it, man, anything else, Nope, get back to uh,

1001
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:08,720
Speaker 2: you know, breaking this thing down next week. And obviously

1002
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:10,360
Speaker 2: they're in the middle of Face two right now. A

1003
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 2: lot of great stuff going on out there, you know,

1004
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 2: without pads. There's been some really good little videos that

1005
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:17,759
Speaker 2: they've been tweeting out. They do such a good job

1006
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 2: on the social channels. But just you know the photos

1007
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:22,279
Speaker 2: of Joe all looking like he's ten foot six not

1008
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:25,000
Speaker 2: six foot eight. It's been really fun.

1009
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:27,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's throwing people out of the club in that

1010
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 3: one picture. And you know what I thought was cool.

1011
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 3: Last thing, Roockie Minicip All the guys were wearing their

1012
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:38,240
Speaker 3: full uniforms. Yeah, like full game uniforms. Like it's it's

1013
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 3: a different outfit right now. It's like, oh yeah, this

1014
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:43,399
Speaker 3: is how we tuck in our shirt, this is how

1015
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:45,359
Speaker 3: we have our pants, this is how we.

1016
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 1: Leave a huddle.

1017
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 3: That was the one thing I gleaned from just a

1018
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 3: couple hours I was there, because he can't take much

1019
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:54,799
Speaker 3: from the field, but it's it's like orientation. It's like, hey,

1020
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:57,799
Speaker 3: this is how the LA Chargers conduct business.

1021
00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:02,840
Speaker 2: Right Yeah, so good deal, let's go. We now know

1022
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 2: where and when that's what we've got, so book your

1023
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:08,839
Speaker 2: flights and lets let's get after it. Everybody. We love

1024
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 2: seeing the Powder Blues on the road.

1025
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:13,400
Speaker 3: Let's go starting in Carolina after that Raiders game. All

1026
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 3: right for buddy up Chris. This has been Chargers Weekly.

1027
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: We will see you next week.