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Speaker 1: All right, guys. Before we get started today, a big

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Speaker 1: thank you to our partner, Microsoft Surface, celebrating ten years

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Speaker 1: Surface at surface dot com and welcome in to a

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Speaker 1: week two edition of the Final Drive. Chargers Lose an

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Speaker 1: arrowhead to the Kansas City Chiefs twenty seven, twenty four.

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Speaker 1: We're taping this early Friday morning, fresh off the flight

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Speaker 1: from KC to LA here with Haley Elwood as always

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Speaker 1: and Haley, there's a lot of different directions that we

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Speaker 1: could start with this one. Let me just get your

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Speaker 1: overaall reactions. We can go from there. Yeah, fresh off

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Speaker 1: the flight. I mean we are what five hours ish

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Speaker 1: removed from Shout out to producer, our producer Brian, who

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Speaker 1: is grinding, grinding on the back end. It was one

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Speaker 1: of those games that you felt going into it because

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Speaker 1: of the type of matchup, because of who was playing,

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Speaker 1: because of when it was announced, because of what type

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Speaker 1: of game it was. It felt huge and I'll say,

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Speaker 1: for a large part of this game, the game didn't

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Speaker 1: feel as to use our one of our favorite words,

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Speaker 1: sexy is we kind of might have felt it would

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Speaker 1: be between these two teams. But then the third quarter,

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter just cracked open. And I remember,

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Speaker 1: I'll say this, I know that we're not gonna have

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Speaker 1: a beat writer joining us today because they're traveling. But

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Speaker 1: I did see Jeff Miller at the Chicken Finger Bar

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Speaker 1: at one point during half time and the Chicken Fingerbar

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Speaker 1: at a Geha field at Arrowhead Stadium. But I was

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Speaker 1: talking to him and we were just kind of catching up,

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Speaker 1: and he's like, I think things are about to get

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Speaker 1: really weird, and I said, they always kind of do,

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Speaker 1: you know. We always talk about with the Raiders things

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Speaker 1: get weird, But with any AFC West team, there's just

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Speaker 1: too much knowledge and familiarity of one another, especially when

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Speaker 1: you haven't had a whole lot of changes besides players,

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Speaker 1: as the Chargers had. But you know, it's just kind

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Speaker 1: of a stunning loss. I think that was sort of

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Speaker 1: the takeaway from the locker room last night. You were

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Speaker 1: in there too, that they just couldn't necessarily finish and capitalize.

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Speaker 1: I mean at halftime they had won a ten point lead,

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Speaker 1: or going into the third they had a ten point lead.

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Speaker 1: They led seventeen to seven at one point, but things

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Speaker 1: started to unravel, and I think we can kind of

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Speaker 1: go through some of those things. One of them, let's

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Speaker 1: start at that third quarter. The absence of Corey Linsley

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Speaker 1: was huge. It was absolutely felt, and in talking with

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Speaker 1: players in the locker room, obviously in Brandon's daily after

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Speaker 1: the game, you know said will Clap did what he could.

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Speaker 1: He was a great backup center to be in there.

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Speaker 1: But you are in probably the toughest environment in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: at least in the AFC. Going into that place, which

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Speaker 1: was just a sea of red last night and having

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Speaker 1: to make those adjustments could not have been easy. Then

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Speaker 1: justin Herbert gets hurt, and so things kind of start

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Speaker 1: some point that maybe because this is so early on,

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Speaker 1: it's a learning experience and you get it out of

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Speaker 1: the way and you can kind of pack it in

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Speaker 1: and move on. But just a tough one, and that

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Speaker 1: was definitely the vibe that we got from everyone last

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Speaker 1: night too. Yep, agree on everything. We'll start in the

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Speaker 1: first half, though, this team was pretty good the defense.

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Speaker 1: Had it not been for that Bryce Callahan past interference penalty,

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Speaker 1: company in that first half. Hailey and I thought there

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Speaker 1: were a few turning points in the game. That certainly

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Speaker 1: way that the offense came out, specifically the Justin Herbert

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Speaker 1: and Mike Williams connection at Arrowhead which we've seen countless times,

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Speaker 1: Mike Williams in Arrowheads Stadium, just they just mesh it works. Mike,

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Speaker 1: Mike is unbelievable in those in those types of games

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Speaker 1: on that stage. But I thought that the defense was

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Speaker 1: Herbert is already down the field. They've driven down the

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Speaker 1: you noticed Corey Linsley wasn't in there. They were up tempo,

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Speaker 1: they got down there quickly. UM. So you give, we'll,

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Speaker 1: the second half, so Justin Herbert loses two fifths of

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Speaker 1: bad interception luck with Asante Samuel Junior. That was another

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Speaker 1: turning point because that that could have flipped the game

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Speaker 1: the other way. The one that I think everybody's thinking

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Speaker 1: the Chargers, and after a couple of big Gerald ever plays,

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Speaker 1: the pick six completely changes everything. Yeah, that changed everything?

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Speaker 1: there are all these like micro turning points, if you will,

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Speaker 1: throughout this game that felt like the tenor could change

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Speaker 1: at a given moment. But then you'd kind of claw back,

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Speaker 1: I mean the fact that that Herbert and Mike Williams

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Speaker 1: But there is something just about how special that place

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Speaker 1: were so many little points that felt like, oh, is

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Speaker 1: that pick six certainly certainly felt like I don't want

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Speaker 1: just felt at that point, Okay, when you get the

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Speaker 1: did see some tweets saying that Amazon very much explained

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Speaker 1: that Gerald Everett miscommunication very well, that it seemed like

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Speaker 1: And for as much as we said last week about

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Speaker 1: they also really haven't played together in the regular season, right,

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Speaker 1: And you saw a little bit of that, especially on

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Speaker 1: we've seen Justin and Joshua Palmer after practice all the time,

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Speaker 1: working at it it's still weak two because they were

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Speaker 1: mean there's a lot of football left and um, there's

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Speaker 1: on task to gel as a team. I think you

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Speaker 1: clearly saw the potential of this team, especially defensively. I

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Speaker 1: think Brandon says a little a little more confident in

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Speaker 1: think that that fourth down strategy we talked about it

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Speaker 1: all offseasons is gonna change. Yeah, it is gonna change

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Speaker 1: bad he got back up. I think he missed a play,

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Speaker 1: more today and throughout you know, the next few days.

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Speaker 1: But for him to gut it out to throw that

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Speaker 1: other things. Like I said Haley, to be in a

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Speaker 1: it done. Twenty four for seventy five. Austin had fourteen

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Speaker 1: running game, to me, is something that we saw not

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Speaker 1: and I think a lot of that also is going

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Speaker 1: only still week two, and it's great to be two

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Speaker 1: we saw what happened last year when this team started

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Speaker 1: I guess early and you'll see these guys again. But yeah,

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