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Speaker 1: Please be joined by Jeff Miller of the Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: Times covering the Chargers year one. We're just talking Dan

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Speaker 1: Woiki is no longer on the beat. Jeff comes in

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, the Chargers are seven and two. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what Dan was doing that was such

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Speaker 1: a negative, but he clearly was bringing this team down.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just glad that we've been able to flush

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Speaker 1: it out of the system and things are looking just

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Speaker 1: up for everybody. We love Dan. Dan is covering all

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Speaker 1: things basketball in Los Angeles, and Dan was a front

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Speaker 1: of the program. But but Jeff making his program debut.

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Speaker 1: It's been an interesting week and I think it all

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Speaker 1: starts with Joey Bosa. Watch Joey Bosa first time practicing,

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Speaker 1: and looks like we're gonna have to wait and see

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Speaker 1: what happens. Yeah, I think I think the Chargers hope

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Speaker 1: he plays. I think Joey wants to play. I know

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Speaker 1: he wants to play. My gut feeling is he'll play,

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Speaker 1: but we're gonna have to wait till the Like all teams,

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Speaker 1: they want to be they want to be safe with

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Speaker 1: this thing and jump the gun and make sure he

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Speaker 1: gets he clears all the hurdles that he has too.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I think you saw this week the media

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Speaker 1: turnout when he was available to talk. There was a

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Speaker 1: few more cameras, a few more Yeah, it was probably

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Speaker 1: the most crowd of the locker room has been this year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And well then that I think that speaks to two things.

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Speaker 1: return is more than just hey, this really good players

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Speaker 1: is about to come back. It was like, hey, this

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Speaker 1: really good players about to come back on this team

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Speaker 1: has playing really well and winning a lot. So I

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Speaker 1: think those two things combined. You saw that even towards

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Speaker 1: the end of the week too. I mean there's there

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Speaker 1: was a little more media than a few a couple

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Speaker 1: more cameras, a little more attention to this team, And

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Speaker 1: I think that's it speaks to both those things. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's an exciting time and you have a really good

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Speaker 1: team that's getting about to get a really good player back,

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Speaker 1: whether it's against the Broncos or next week against the Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: What do you think Joey's presence is going to mean

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Speaker 1: to this defense that has held all their opponents under

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Speaker 1: be i an interesting dynamic and that this they've sort

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Speaker 1: They struggled as we know the first few games that's

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Speaker 1: not like an offensive line situation maybe where there could

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Speaker 1: a guy who's was an All Pro last year and

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Speaker 1: put him in a defense that's playing well. I think

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Speaker 1: the defense plays even better, and I you know, the

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Speaker 1: you know, the big thing, losing Denzel Perriman is a

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Speaker 1: But I think when Joey is back in there, I

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Speaker 1: If you've mentioned they held a bunch of opponents in

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Speaker 1: Not many people get an All Pro back in December

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Speaker 1: So Joey is just gonna be another added benefit to

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Speaker 1: something kind of special going here. And Jeff, they finally

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