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Speaker 1: welcome in to the Final Drive. Chargers lose to the

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Speaker 1: Vikings twenty seven twenty at Sofi Stadium. They dropped to

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Speaker 1: five and four. They've lost three of their last four games,

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Speaker 1: and Haley, I look at Sunday is really just a

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Speaker 1: missed opportunity for this team. The Broncos lose it home

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Speaker 1: to the Eagles. The Chiefs beat the Raiders, so one

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Speaker 1: team was gonna lose last night. It was Las Vegas.

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Speaker 1: And you know, the Chargers dropped to five and four.

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Speaker 1: They're still in it and there's still a lot of

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Speaker 1: gotta take care of if you want to separate yourself

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Speaker 1: in the AFC. Yeah, you mentioned it. I mean this

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Speaker 1: was if there was any week to gain some ground

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Speaker 1: and keep up, you know, essentially your winning streaks since

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Speaker 1: you won last week over Philly. This was the week

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Speaker 1: just given what happened in the AFC West. Like you said,

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Speaker 1: you knew that Sunday night game, someone was going to win,

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Speaker 1: someone was going to lose, and oh look, the Kansas

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Speaker 1: City Chiefs are now atop the AFC West. If the

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Speaker 1: Chargers had won yesterday, they would have held the spot

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Speaker 1: since they beat the Chiefs and held that tiebreaker as

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Speaker 1: of right now. But you know, it is frustrating, and

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Speaker 1: I think that kind of seemed to be the sentiment

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Speaker 1: seemed to be working in Philadelphia, specifically offensively, just didn't

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Speaker 1: seem to be getting going yesterday against the Vikings. This

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Speaker 1: NFC North opponent from a twenty nineteen I believe it was.

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Speaker 1: But these games all count and the Vikings were a

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Speaker 1: team that every guy on this Chargers team said all week.

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Speaker 1: They were three and five, but they reminded them a

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Speaker 1: lot of the Chargers even last year they were losing

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Speaker 1: one score games. They were in all these games and

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Speaker 1: they pulled out a win, a one score win yesterday

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Speaker 1: against this Chargers team. So execution a lack thereof seemed

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Speaker 1: to be the theme that everyone talks about after the game,

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Speaker 1: on what needed didn't go right and what needs to

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Speaker 1: get better, And I think, you know, you can only

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Speaker 1: try to clean that up and shore that up as

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Speaker 1: these games move forward. But this was a bummer of

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Speaker 1: a loss for sure because of how tight not only

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Speaker 1: the AFC West is but the conferences in general. This

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Speaker 1: AFC is just absolutely bananas, absolutely nuts, and you need

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Speaker 1: I think one of the kind of optimistic things I

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Speaker 1: in this, We'll be back. We got this, the sentiment

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Speaker 1: seems to be. And even hearing from Linval Joseph, they

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Speaker 1: then there's one, two, three, four, five seven teams with

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Speaker 1: we all knew this Vikings team was a pretty good team.

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Speaker 1: They had lost five of their games by combined eighteen points.

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Speaker 1: So you knew it was no pushover. And there was

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Speaker 1: some good things the Chargers did. You know, the run

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Speaker 1: at these next three weeks, and we're gonna talk about

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Speaker 1: You're already two and own the division. You got to

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Speaker 1: This is a really really critical stretch. Like you mentioned it,

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Speaker 1: So again it's there's too much disparity in the NFL

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Speaker 1: get to see Joe Burrow and Justin Herbert face off

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Speaker 1: there's a wildcard situation at the end of the year. Ye,

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Speaker 1: these are the games. And I said this earlier this season.

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Speaker 1: I believe when the Chargers played the Browns. Pat Kerwin,

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Speaker 1: he calls conference games, not in your division, but just

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Speaker 1: And that's exactly what the Steelers game is, and that's

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Speaker 1: not a recipe for winning. And the offense said that, hey,

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Speaker 1: moving forward. Yeah, the Vikings had ten penalties for one

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Speaker 1: would have loved to have talked about. Larry Rountree celebration

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