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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Final Drive presented by Microsoft Surface or

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Speaker 1: Haley What Up? Chris Harry as the Chargers get their

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Speaker 1: first ever victory at SOFI Stadium, justin Herbert its first

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Speaker 1: career Nico when thirty Bag twenty nine Haley a roller

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Speaker 1: coaster to say the least, Yeah, you could say that

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Speaker 1: for sure. I mean you and I in the third

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Speaker 1: quarter are like this is this is getting kind of dicey.

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Speaker 1: This is back and forth that I mean. The takeaways

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Speaker 1: after in the presser as you hear from Chargers and

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Speaker 1: coach Anthony Lynn, Justin Herbert, Melvin Ingram. It was not pretty,

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Speaker 1: and they all admitted it was not pretty. But Ingram goes, look,

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Speaker 1: we're not apologizing for that. We definitely still won the

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Speaker 1: game and it's good to get that win. This is

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Speaker 1: something that this team has obviously been wanting to do.

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Speaker 1: They talked about it all week, needing to put a

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Speaker 1: complete game together, and they did that today. Just so

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Speaker 1: you know, we are at SOFI Stadium. We are required

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Speaker 1: to wear masks here indoors. We're following the rules, and

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Speaker 1: we're doing it after a Chargers win. So it was

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun to see Justin Herbert just continue

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Speaker 1: to evolve. A career high three forty three passing yards,

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Speaker 1: twenty seven to forty three, four total touchdowns. He led

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Speaker 1: the team in rushing. He put the team on his shoulders. Hayley,

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any other way to put it.

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Speaker 1: There isn't, and I mean Chargers head coach Anthony Lynn

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Speaker 1: had said that the guys looked at him as a leader,

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Speaker 1: and Herbert said, yeah, I think you know, they expect

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Speaker 1: certainly certainly did that play this totally clean game. No

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Speaker 1: turnovers in this game. I mean again, I just don't

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Speaker 1: know what you can say about him that hasn't been

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Speaker 1: set already, but now you had to win to it.

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Speaker 1: So it's kind of like the cherry on top of

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Speaker 1: the Sunday that's been like building with different scoops every

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Speaker 1: week of like good things that we've seen Justin Herbert

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Speaker 1: do again the seventy yard touchdown though, another huge bomb

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Speaker 1: to Jalen Guiden. He's just Ingram said, you know, he's

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Speaker 1: We don't expect him to play like a rookie. There's

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Speaker 1: a reason this team took him sixth overall, and it's

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Speaker 1: clearly showed. And now we get the victory to go

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Speaker 1: with it. Just a little insight for you guys at home.

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Speaker 1: Haley and I are in the press box and we

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Speaker 1: get set texts in information about Justin Herbert and records

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Speaker 1: that he's breaking, and it's a laundry list. We don't

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Speaker 1: quarterback since nineteen eighty eight Mark Malone. So these are

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Speaker 1: And look, I'm sure Denver is going to be hungry.

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