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Speaker 1: Final Drive presented by Microsoft Surface for Hailey Ellwood. I'm

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Speaker 1: Chris Harry on a day after the Chargers lose twenty

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Speaker 1: opener at SOFI Stadium. Haley. Normally I think this would

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Speaker 1: There's totally a lot to be encouraged by it. And

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Speaker 1: If he woke up that morning and I told Justin Herbert, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I can't wait for the fans to get there. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna be back every Sunday night Monday morning breaking it down.

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