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Speaker 1: of the Final Drive for Haley ol Wood Up, Chris Harry.

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Speaker 1: Chargers win in Philly twenty seven, twenty four. What a game.

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Speaker 1: They improved the five and three in the crazy AFC West.

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Speaker 1: Haley just initial reactions to this win. First win in

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Speaker 1: a while for this team. Yeah, firston win in a

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Speaker 1: while for this team. And I'll quote Chris Rump's Instagram

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Speaker 1: story where he said one in oz viubes, which is

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Speaker 1: really what this team needed. And guys have talked about

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Speaker 1: it over the last couple of weeks and it hasn't

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Speaker 1: really gone their way, but just getting that one and

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Speaker 1: hopefully stacking from there and the appropriately name Final Drive

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Speaker 1: podcast Final Drive for the Chargers. They got that ball back,

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Speaker 1: which just over six minutes to go, tied game, and

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Speaker 1: they never looked back. That offense never looked back, and

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia's defense couldn't stop them. So I think things like that.

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Speaker 1: I think obviously the play of Justin Herbert. His stat

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Speaker 1: line was incredible and he sort of returned to the

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Speaker 1: Justin Herbert that we know and love him to be.

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Speaker 1: But overall, just a pretty good showing, especially from this

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Speaker 1: Chargers offense, which really spread the ball around. And you

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Speaker 1: look at someone like Keenan Allen too, who had just

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Speaker 1: a dynamic day and it was very clear that that

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Speaker 1: chemistry with him and Herbert was back on and on

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Speaker 1: the money all day to day. So one of those

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Speaker 1: vibes again to corote Rump, but a good one. Good

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Speaker 1: one to get back in that win column for sure,

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Speaker 1: As you said, especially and I'm sure we'll talk about

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Speaker 1: the AFC West later, but especially on a day where

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Speaker 1: every single team in the AFC West has five wins.

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Speaker 1: Right now, it's so wild right now, and you know,

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Speaker 1: Chris Rump should be happy he's been quoted here all

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Speaker 1: on the final drive and for Philly, you know eight.

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Speaker 1: For me, it felt like the Washington game, although they

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Speaker 1: needed to score to win it as opposed to just

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Speaker 1: ball to hold onto the bowl, to convert on that

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Speaker 1: fourth down and to have Dustin Hopkins win it. He

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Speaker 1: got the game bowl in the locker room, and you

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Speaker 1: know this was a place that he's kicked a lotted

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Speaker 1: Staley said they wanted to finish the game with the

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Speaker 1: to to Hopkins, I mean, yeah, you look at this game.

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Speaker 1: And but really the goal, as Staley said, was to

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, which they did. And I actually loved

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Speaker 1: It was just one of those games where, like I said,

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Speaker 1: it kind of went back and forth, but really, if

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Speaker 1: But he was just on the money today. He also

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Speaker 1: John Clayton, guys who really kind of knew the inside

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Speaker 1: story of that draft. I know you had a great

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Speaker 1: interview with Edward Or talking about just craziness that happened

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Speaker 1: when that trade went down, and then obviously lt just

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Speaker 1: took Drew Brees in that second round. So this is

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Speaker 1: a big episode. We're really excited about this project. It's

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Speaker 1: been fun to work on, right, Chris, It's been great

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Speaker 1: and these these like stories like you mentioned, like you know,

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Speaker 1: Jim Trot being around the team and being able to

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Speaker 1: kind of share some some nuggets and anecdotes. And you

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Speaker 1: know Ed Warder was there at Chargers Park and he

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Speaker 1: was supposed to be covering the number one overall pick

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Speaker 1: and then it got traded. So Ed talks about that,

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Speaker 1: and you mentioned it's just the fact that LT and

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Speaker 1: Breeze were trashed back to back. It's it's been fun

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Speaker 1: going down memory lane with with this project because obviously

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Speaker 1: it's about LT single season toutshows record, but we start

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Speaker 1: from the beginning and just all stories to get to

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Speaker 1: that point have been so fun to tell. I think

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Speaker 1: one thing too, and you talk about maybe, you know,

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Speaker 1: not taking Keenan for granted granted, and I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: we take our jobs for granted, but sometimes you forget

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Speaker 1: when you're in the presence of greatness, if you will

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Speaker 1: the guy, you know, the guys that we get to

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Speaker 1: deal with on a daily you know, I won't say

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Speaker 1: daily with someone like LT, but on a basis and

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Speaker 1: cadences as we do. And I think when you get

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Speaker 1: to sit them down and hear stories like this and

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Speaker 1: talk to them in the way that we both have.

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Speaker 1: It really really is something truly truly special. As someone

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Speaker 1: who grew up in San Diego and was in high

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Speaker 1: school and had graduated high school that oh sixth season

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Speaker 1: and those Chargers teams, man, they were so good back then.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of really cool to revisit it from that perspective.

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Speaker 1: But it's been awesome. Those inside baseball stories, like you said,

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Speaker 1: those are those are the kind of meat that we're

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Speaker 1: hoping to give all of our listeners and viewers. And

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Speaker 1: you got that in episode one. You'll definitely get that

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Speaker 1: in episode two. Also, no question, can't wait for Friday,

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Speaker 1: episode two of Running for History. All Right, that's gonna

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Speaker 1: do it for us and for Haleyo what this has

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Speaker 1: been the final drive. We'll see you next Monday after

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Speaker 1: Chargers Mikes