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Speaker 1: Everybody. Chris Harry with you. On another training camp edition

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Speaker 1: of Chargers Weekly Coming Up, Daniel Jeremiah discusses some of

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Speaker 1: the team's unsettled position battles ahead of Saturday's game against

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks. But first, I caught up with Kurt Menafee,

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Speaker 1: the host of Fox NFL Sunday. He gave his thoughts

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Speaker 1: on the Chargers and shared a few of his top

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Speaker 1: NFL storylines entering the twenty nineteen season. I tell you,

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Speaker 1: one of the things I love about training camp is

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Speaker 1: you get to see people they normally don't come to

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Speaker 1: Chargers practice. Kurt Menafee NFL and Fox joins me, Kurt,

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Speaker 1: how are you, sir? Always good to be here. You

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Speaker 1: know it's my once a year appearance. This is a

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Speaker 1: home game for you. Though this is this is not bad,

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Speaker 1: you know, anytime you don't have to get on an

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Speaker 1: airplane and go some I know the world really feels

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Speaker 1: for me that I get to get paid to be

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Speaker 1: on airplanes and then go to football games. There was

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Speaker 1: something probably like Alane, Trust me, it can be worse.

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Speaker 1: Anyone who's been on it anytime when a weekday knows, Yeah, well, Gert,

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Speaker 1: you're calling preseason games with the Seahawks and that's the

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Speaker 1: third preseason game. How has this process been for preseason

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Speaker 1: for you? I feel like you don't see a lot

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Speaker 1: of starters. Yeah, not as many as you used to, right.

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Speaker 1: I think the league as a whole has kind of

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Speaker 1: turned a corner this year. We saw over the years

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Speaker 1: starters played less and less, but they usually played except

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Speaker 1: that fourth and final preseason. Sure. Then last year, I

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Speaker 1: think the Rams were a great experiment in that they

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Speaker 1: their starters did not play at all during the preseason.

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Speaker 1: Yet they went to the Super Bowl, and I think

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Speaker 1: that opened a lot of eyes for teams that probably

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Speaker 1: wanted to do it before. That's right, but they're like, well,

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Speaker 1: if we do it and we don't have success, then

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Speaker 1: people will say, why didn't you play the starters? The

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Speaker 1: Rams won't away the Super Bowl, So now the doors open.

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Speaker 1: I mean, all these teams are starting to arrest their

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Speaker 1: scrambling to try and replace him. And it may not

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Speaker 1: matter exactly, And I think that's what the fear is.

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Speaker 1: We don't want to lose guys for games that matter.

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Speaker 1: If we do, let it be in a practice in

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Speaker 1: September rather than a scrimmage in August, you know, the

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Speaker 1: last two weeks to Kurt here specifically, Yeah, the Joy

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Speaker 1: practices when the Rams and Saints, and Philip specifically said,

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Speaker 1: veterans like Rivers, he seems a thing that's that's much

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Speaker 1: at it. You know, a ninety man roster from forty

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Speaker 1: So you have a I don't want to say a surplus,

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Speaker 1: But when you get Denzel Perriman back and Kaiser White

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Speaker 1: to the pieces are there. It's just a matter of

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Speaker 1: this chance, this is a chance where you still have competition,

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Speaker 1: And I think that would be a good, good compromise there.

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Speaker 1: Henry Jeremiah. But do we take to Congress? How does this?

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Speaker 1: Don't know? But you know, the smartest thing idea is

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Speaker 1: Henry Jeremiah plan, not the other way around. So I

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Speaker 1: this process. All right, Well, how's a good person for that?

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Speaker 1: What are the position battles the players that you're intrigued

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Speaker 1: there's there's several of them. I think you look at

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Speaker 1: You know, Jeremy Davis has been such a great special

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Speaker 1: reps gonna get divvied up once the season starts? When

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Speaker 1: you've got Drew Tranquill flashing like he has Kaizier White.

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Speaker 1: You know, how does he found to him? We know

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Speaker 1: But trying to figure out how that group is going

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Speaker 1: Those are things I mentioned to watch Davis Brown and

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Speaker 1: has been flying around as well. And he can play

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Speaker 1: one thing you notice about him. He's explosive. Um now

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Speaker 1: he's in terms of just taking on blocks in the

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Speaker 1: areas he can improve on, but you definitely see the

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Speaker 1: College Final thing DJ is college football? Yes, what what's

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Speaker 1: going on? In terms of predictions? You and Bucky do it.

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Speaker 1: I'll move the sticks and it's always fun. I think

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Speaker 1: Bucky really goes I don't on a limb. Maybe a

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Speaker 1: making these making these picks, but uh no, it's it's

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Speaker 1: it's so great to have college football back, even it's

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Speaker 1: just a little taste to get two games this weekend

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Speaker 1: and then it really cranks up next week. But uh,

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Speaker 1: Miami and Florida prediction. Because I've talked to all these guys,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Florida in that one. I'm gonna say,

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Speaker 1: give me Florida twenty one seventeen. Two good defenses though.

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Speaker 1: About Florida, their secondary is a really good man. Keep

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Speaker 1: an eye on CJ. Henderson future maybe a future Charger.

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Speaker 1: You never know, You never know, DJ always appreciate what

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Speaker 1: thanks fun. All right, guys, that's gonna do it. A

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Speaker 1: big thanks to Kurt Menafee and Daniel Jeremiah for joining me,

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Speaker 1: and of course thanks to you guys for listening. If

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Speaker 1: in the week with another Beat Writer's roundtable ahead of

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks game. And until next time, I'm Chris Harry