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Speaker 1: Laid fifteen to ten, touched up.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into a week eleven edition of Chargers Weekly, as always,

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Speaker 2: joined by the voice of the Chargers, Mad Buddy Smith.

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Speaker 2: But Muddy, we are doing this in a completely different location,

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Speaker 2: maybe the best location we've ever done this podcast.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, clearly spared no expense, Chris. Our new studio, our

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Speaker 3: new home for Chargers Weekly, and certainly inside the Bolt

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Speaker 3: as you can kind of see behind us. Give you

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Speaker 3: an idea that we're not in our homes.

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Speaker 1: Probably gonna afford us some guests.

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Speaker 3: Moving forward, and that's the idea. We want to be

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Speaker 3: on site. We want to be on campus, if you will.

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Speaker 3: And hopefully coaches, players, staff gonna start making regular appearances

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Speaker 3: on Chargers Weekly, since we got Tyler and Brian and

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Speaker 3: these guys to go down and just kind of wrangle

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Speaker 3: them and drag them in here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's not just this part.

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Speaker 2: You will see throughout the course of charge there's there's

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Speaker 2: multiple locations here in the studio. We got a couch, uh,

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Speaker 2: and like Money said, hopefully players and coaches will pop

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Speaker 2: up here.

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Speaker 3: All the time. We got a pool, we got a pond.

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Speaker 3: We gotta be good for you.

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Speaker 1: It's like a frat party and exactly exactly Hey, uh, week.

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Speaker 2: Eleven, Sunday night football against the Cincinnati Bengals, obviously the

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Speaker 2: biggest game to date for the Chargers, but we'll rewind.

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Speaker 1: Listen, the charges are beating.

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Speaker 2: The teams are supposed to beat up, but the way

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Speaker 2: they're doing it right now money and to see the offense,

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Speaker 2: defense and special teams consistently show up. We're starting to

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Speaker 2: really see a Jim Harball team take full shape over

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Speaker 2: these last three weeks. And I think last Sunday was

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Speaker 2: the best illustration.

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Speaker 3: Of that we're seeing. You know, to me the last

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Speaker 3: couple it's complimentary football, right, It's all three phases, and

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Speaker 3: you know, one hand washes. I guess it's three, so

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Speaker 3: it's hard to have one hash hand wash the other

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Speaker 3: and the other. But that's kind of what you want

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Speaker 3: to build, right. It's a team that feeds, you know,

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Speaker 3: the defense feeds off the offense. The offense, the def

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Speaker 3: special teams sets up touchdowns like Darius Davison back to

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Speaker 3: back weeks, and I think that's sort of you know,

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Speaker 3: what you're looking for when you hit the midpoint of

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Speaker 3: the season, when you start to make your way toward

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Speaker 3: the playoffs. If you're firing on all cylinders and everything's

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Speaker 3: working the way it should be, this is what it

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Speaker 3: should look like. And to me, you know, one of

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Speaker 3: the encouraging some of the you know a few of

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Speaker 3: the most encouraging things are responding to adversity in game right.

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Speaker 3: You know, Will Levis for all of you know, his detractors,

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Speaker 3: the people that talk about what he does well, he's big,

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Speaker 3: he's strong, he's fast, he moves his legs well, he

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Speaker 3: can push the ball downfield. So you saw that on

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Speaker 3: that first drive, right like, Will's using his legs, he's

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Speaker 3: legitimate number one receiver. When we talked about him at

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Speaker 3: After that, it's over. And it was like that. It's

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Speaker 3: been like that repeatedly. I feel like all season long,

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Speaker 3: we're okay, you got one, but now we kind of

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Speaker 3: know what we did wrong. Let's tweak, let's adjust, and

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Speaker 3: now you're not getting anything else.

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Speaker 1: Was that the first touchdown allowed the first quarters this week?

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Speaker 3: Yes, not first touchdown, first points, the first points allowed

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Speaker 3: and the first that's how good this defense has been

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Speaker 3: hopefully have your opponents start chasing earlier than you'd like.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's the thing with the Titans, right Like,

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Speaker 3: get up two scores, two scores plus, now they're out

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Speaker 3: of you know, whatever rhythm they had hoped to be in,

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Speaker 3: and that's when you can really take advantage. And how

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Speaker 1: Yeah, in twenty seven to seventeen.

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Speaker 2: That touched on came way late in the game, and

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Speaker 2: just the adjustments by the defense after that really touchdown

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Speaker 2: I can't say enough about the weapons on the outside.

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Speaker 1: Especially the last three weeks.

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Speaker 2: Just Joshua Palmer every single week has made an explosive

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Speaker 2: And then you know Ladd showed up a couple of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, look, and I think there's two sides to it, right,

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Speaker 3: You don't want to point out the faults, but you

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Speaker 3: also want to remind people it was fourteen for eighteen.

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Speaker 3: It very easily could have been seventeen for eighteen. You know,

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Speaker 3: one of those was a full in completion. The other

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Speaker 3: three those are drop touchdowns. And you're talking about instead

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Speaker 3: it's it's Hayden Hurst and it's Will Disley. Ball hits

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Speaker 3: You can see how up said he was that that

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Speaker 3: about Will. You're asking him to do things that he's

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Speaker 3: And then you know he made justin made an incredible

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Speaker 3: like to point out that throw to Will Disley, that

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Speaker 3: Gibbons is coming in unblocked, straight up middle. I mean,

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Speaker 3: That's probably thirty air yards and it's I mean it's here,

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Speaker 3: it's on the fingertips over the defender, dropped into a bucket.

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Speaker 3: That's how dialed in he is. And that other incompletion

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Speaker 3: Like it's important to point out. And here's why I

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Speaker 3: perhaps it's history, you know, history has a part in it.

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Speaker 3: But like everyone's talking about this gauntlet. Okay, well, now

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Speaker 3: now you got Joe Burrow. After that, you got Lamar Jackson,

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Speaker 3: and then you got Patrick Mahomes in Kansas City. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: far this year. They've got to figure out Justin Herbert.

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Speaker 3: The Bengals defense has been a mess this year. They've

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Speaker 3: got to deal with Justin Herbert. There are two sides

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Speaker 3: it's the best score defense in the league. And they

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Speaker 3: got a shot to do something that has not happened

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Speaker 3: since nineteen ninety this coming Sunday against the Bengals and

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Speaker 3: that's hold. You know, their first ten opponents to under

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Speaker 1: Of now, Yeah, it goes both ways. Listen, the Chargers

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, so I mean you play who's in front

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Speaker 2: Justin was tobbled. Heiegel spring like, he wasn't the Justin

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Speaker 2: both it's both things. Right now, Cincinnati's four and six.

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Speaker 2: We'll get into the Bengals, but they're treating this thing

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Speaker 2: coming out of probably early. They have a little bit

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Speaker 2: more rest than the Chargers playing last Thursday. And we'll

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Speaker 2: get into everything that the Bengals possess offensively that it's

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Speaker 2: gonna be a challenge for this defense. But you know,

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Speaker 2: I just go back to the way the defense is

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Speaker 2: playing money like Dan Henley.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know what before you get to that, Chris,

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Speaker 3: lost to the Steelers, Chiefs and the Cardinals. Right, Cardinals

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Speaker 3: get it, their wins have come against teams that aren't

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Speaker 3: a five hundred, But the defense is performing in each

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Speaker 3: So the defense still performed. They just didn't have the

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Speaker 3: full compliment of offense exactly, and that may be why

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Speaker 3: they didn't win that game. But the defense is still

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Speaker 3: right there. Hey, if you can score twenty points, twenty

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Speaker 3: one points, bangs, that's what this defense is going to

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Speaker 3: afford you from what we've seen thus far.

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Speaker 2: Listen, If you don't want to believe the Charges defense

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Speaker 2: four weeks, I think yeah, for people who may have

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Speaker 3: But I'll say, but go to day on please, because

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Speaker 3: let's celebrate them. Man, because he he needs to get

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Speaker 3: in the Pro Bowl, Like we have got the start pushing,

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Speaker 3: and I'm glad our friend Baldy posted the video and

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Speaker 3: Baldy's breakdown says, because he's like that, it's time now

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Speaker 2: We weren't the only ones, but I remember last year

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Speaker 2: you and I talking each week, like hey like to

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Speaker 2: see Henley.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, see a little bit more day On Henley.

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Speaker 3: He's such a good communicator. I loved his presser last

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Speaker 2: Okay, no zont right right, no Christian fault in the

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Speaker 2: But it's just you don't you don't feel as antsy

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, every now and then you'll get one

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Speaker 3: you know, and it's it just you feel you hear

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Speaker 2: and this is you know, this is a starting left

432
00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,080
Speaker 2: guard in the league. But it just goes to show

433
00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:08,000
Speaker 2: you how Harball thinks, how he operates. I mean, the

434
00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:10,159
Speaker 2: micd up was incredible. What I love is that I

435
00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:12,879
Speaker 2: get to hear your calls even more elevated now, like

436
00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:15,560
Speaker 2: we heard the Khalil micd up two weeks ago, in

437
00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:21,160
Speaker 2: between him talking about Heytember past, play here the other side,

438
00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:24,040
Speaker 2: and then we hear your call fourth and one Herbert

439
00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:26,840
Speaker 2: rushing touchdown that was to play the game at the

440
00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:28,720
Speaker 2: end of the end of the half, because those I'm

441
00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:31,560
Speaker 2: telling you that it's not taking shots or anything.

442
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Speaker 1: The last few years we've had plays like that that

443
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Speaker 1: have gone to the other Chargers.

444
00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:37,080
Speaker 2: And you know the fact that he goes to the

445
00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:39,920
Speaker 2: ref coming out of half. And how about that Herbert Huff, Hey,

446
00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:41,240
Speaker 2: you guys made the right call on that Herbert play.

447
00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:42,560
Speaker 1: How about that? How about his arm stright right.

448
00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:45,960
Speaker 2: That's that's what you're you're getting here, And I just

449
00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:47,479
Speaker 2: it's infectious in the locker room.

450
00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:49,080
Speaker 1: You can tell that these guys are having a blast.

451
00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,639
Speaker 2: And the one guy who I keep going back to

452
00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,719
Speaker 2: and I mentioned earlier is Joey Bose like he is,

453
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Speaker 2: he's had a tough go with injuries for him to

454
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Speaker 2: get back. I talked to Tully after the game and

455
00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:02,119
Speaker 2: just how happy he was for Joey to get that

456
00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,119
Speaker 2: sack and then for him to say, hey, coach, you

457
00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:05,800
Speaker 2: get a game ball.

458
00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:06,200
Speaker 4: Yeah.

459
00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:09,320
Speaker 2: In the locker room, it's just you're seeing everybody, whether

460
00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:11,040
Speaker 2: you're a rookie or a veteran, buy into.

461
00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:14,880
Speaker 3: This operation right now. And look, I know we were

462
00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:16,320
Speaker 3: able to put a pin in it for a while

463
00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:20,400
Speaker 3: and it didn't come up. But going back to preseason

464
00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:23,200
Speaker 3: and training camp and the conversation around Roman and what's

465
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Speaker 3: this offense going to look like? And people would constantly

466
00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,480
Speaker 3: and it's not that I'm in the comments. I literally

467
00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,080
Speaker 3: am in the comments because I like to respond to

468
00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,760
Speaker 3: people and engage. If you're gonna send us and take

469
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Speaker 3: your time to forward a comment or a question on YouTube,

470
00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:37,639
Speaker 3: I try to go through it. You know, once or

471
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Speaker 3: maybe twice during the week, and people there was multiple

472
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Speaker 3: people are like, enough about Andrew Luck. Enough that was

473
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Speaker 3: fifteen years ago, but that play is in. I can't

474
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Speaker 3: tell you how many of those I called when I

475
00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:52,960
Speaker 3: called Stanford games, a million of them that that is

476
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Speaker 3: a Stanford Andrew Luck play in the shotgun move the

477
00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,760
Speaker 3: back out empty and here he goes because he's bigger,

478
00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,720
Speaker 3: he's stronger, he's athletic, and you can't stop him. And

479
00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:07,399
Speaker 3: that's to me, that's like, that's what people I think

480
00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:10,560
Speaker 3: that were dinging Herbert and dinging this offense and going

481
00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:13,760
Speaker 3: after Coach Roman early in the season missed. It's like, no,

482
00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:16,600
Speaker 3: they need they need the full compliment. They need the feet,

483
00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:19,160
Speaker 3: they need the ankles, they need the ability to run

484
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Speaker 3: for this thing to really look like they.

485
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Speaker 1: Want it to look at the time on task, Yes.

486
00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:25,600
Speaker 3: Exactly, and now you're seeing it and I think now

487
00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:29,720
Speaker 3: and look and so time so time on task, yes,

488
00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:32,600
Speaker 3: but also, how are we going to drop this game plan?

489
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Speaker 3: It was not lost on Coach Roman and Shane Day

490
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:39,600
Speaker 3: and everyone and Coach Harbaugh of what Drake May did

491
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Speaker 3: to the Titans the week before they lost that. You know,

492
00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:45,439
Speaker 3: the Patriots lost that game. But Drake may Man, he

493
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,360
Speaker 3: was running his tail off effectively and he's you know,

494
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Speaker 3: he's built. I and Herbert are have it. You know,

495
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:52,040
Speaker 3: he's not quite as big as Justin, but he's a

496
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Speaker 3: big dude. He's a thick dude. And you saw how

497
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Speaker 3: effective he was. And that's why I think you saw

498
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Speaker 3: a lot of these runs and Herbert, who obviously is

499
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Speaker 3: doing his film study, going oh, I can do that.

500
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,040
Speaker 3: I can get a lot of that against this team,

501
00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:07,119
Speaker 3: and he did, and it was an effective weapon because

502
00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:08,879
Speaker 3: of what you see on film and what you have

503
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:13,240
Speaker 3: available to you. With Herbert's pinpoint accuracy combined with the

504
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,359
Speaker 3: ability to run at the level that he can run,

505
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's it's just tough to cover as

506
00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:22,399
Speaker 3: anything in the NFL. I mean, you've got quarterbacks that

507
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,959
Speaker 3: can run that cannot throw it like Herbert. You've got

508
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,920
Speaker 3: quarterbacks that can throw that cannot run like Herbert. And

509
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:30,080
Speaker 3: you've got quarterbacks that can do both that are not

510
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,960
Speaker 3: built like Justin Herbert. And that's where your separators can

511
00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,359
Speaker 3: come in and where this thing can really get humming.

512
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Speaker 1: How about this development too.

513
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Speaker 2: We're taping this on Thursday, the Wednesday injury report, there

514
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,880
Speaker 2: was one guy out due to injury. I think Khalil,

515
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,440
Speaker 2: and Khalil has been the model consistency ever since he's

516
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,280
Speaker 2: been here. But that just shows you this team is

517
00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:53,880
Speaker 2: getting healthier. Guys are coming back. We're hoping Zenon and

518
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 2: Dean Leonard come back to just get more bodies back

519
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:58,720
Speaker 2: there in the secondary. And you know, some of the

520
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:00,320
Speaker 2: guys that were nicked up in bang Up at the

521
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 2: beginning of the year are fully healthy right now. I mean,

522
00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 2: this is the perfect opportunity for this team to make

523
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 2: a run of these next four weeks with every single

524
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:12,199
Speaker 2: opponent I believe over five hundred. But to have a

525
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 2: healthy team right now as we approach Thanksgiving in a

526
00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 2: couple of weeks, that says a lot about coach Herbert

527
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Speaker 2: and everything that they're doing.

528
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Look, and it'll be interesting because DJ Hark is finally

530
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Speaker 3: healthy and he's not taking snaps away from Jalen Rager

531
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Speaker 3: and coaches saying look, I just I like what Jalen's doing,

532
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 3: and obviously I'm not going to take Josh Ladder Q

533
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:35,520
Speaker 3: off the field because they're now that chemistry is now

534
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,600
Speaker 3: there that you know that what was missing and you

535
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 3: talked about time on task. What was missing in training

536
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 3: camp because of Justin's foot injury is now there. Now

537
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,919
Speaker 3: we've got this rhythm. Now you kind of have q's

538
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,440
Speaker 3: your red zone, kind of big red zone target. Palmer

539
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 3: is like, you're Keenan Allen third down. I know where

540
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:54,920
Speaker 3: he's going to be. I can let this thing fly

541
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 3: before he even gets out of his break because I

542
00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 3: know he's going to be exactly where he's supposed to do.

543
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 3: And then you've got Lad, who people are now starting

544
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 3: to notice. People are now and I think it's probably

545
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,439
Speaker 3: in part as well because of how poorly George's offense

546
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 3: is operating without him there. They're like, oh, wow, Lad

547
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 3: was a lot.

548
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 1: More important to that operation meant something.

549
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, it turns out, and I mean you just I

550
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,639
Speaker 3: get excited, man, when that ball is in Lad's hands.

551
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:22,240
Speaker 3: He is so explosive and so shifty and so hard

552
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 3: to track that it's just every time he touches that,

553
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:27,639
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, this could go like this. I don't care.

554
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 3: If there's three people in front of him, two of

555
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:30,920
Speaker 3: them are going to miss and we'll see whether the

556
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Speaker 3: third one can get him. So I feel like, you know,

557
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:35,920
Speaker 3: I'm not saying that Tarheb and Cam are going to

558
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,280
Speaker 3: be your starting outside corners moving forward, but to know

559
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:40,640
Speaker 3: that you have that option and to know how good

560
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,160
Speaker 3: Dean Leonard looked in the in the preseason when he's

561
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Speaker 3: coming back like it's they've they've done a head coach coach,

562
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:49,480
Speaker 3: and Joe Ortiz and his staff and Chad Alexander and

563
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 3: all of them have done a heck of a job

564
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 3: putting this thing together. Where you can deal with Khalil

565
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,439
Speaker 3: only playing four snaps against the Titans and still get

566
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Speaker 3: out of there with seven sacks.

567
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know it goes back to just this.

568
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 2: Decisions that were made by Joe and Chad this offseason.

569
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 2: They were not easy decisions, right. We knew that Joey, Khalil,

570
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 2: Mike and Keenan two we're gonna go. We I think

571
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 2: expected one receiver to stay in, one edge to stay.

572
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 2: They chose to go with the two edges. Keep them here,

573
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 2: Mike and Keenan go through separate ways. And now that

574
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 2: we have seen a healthy justin Herbert and we've seen

575
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Speaker 2: him kind of spray the ball to different guys again,

576
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,119
Speaker 2: you know you've you've raved Abalt Palmer and we've really

577
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 2: seen it. Man Like since the bye week, he's had

578
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 2: an explosive play at least one every single game. Quentin,

579
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 2: how efficient he's been with his touches, and lad who's

580
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Speaker 2: starting to really come into his own.

581
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Speaker 1: The right decisions were made.

582
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Speaker 2: You know, we love Mike, we love Keenan, but the

583
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,159
Speaker 2: way that they want to play offense here with with

584
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Speaker 2: JK and Gus, and Gus is another guy that we

585
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,000
Speaker 2: didn't talk about, and how good it was to have

586
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Speaker 2: him back.

587
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Speaker 1: Take a little bit more.

588
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 2: Off of JK five and a half per clip with

589
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Speaker 2: with the tough stretch coming up.

590
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'll start there, and I know I don't

591
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 3: mean to make this I hope it doesn't come out

592
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 3: the wrong way. But for all the fans that got

593
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 3: after us and got after the Chargers, and how could

594
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 3: you not drop the wide receiver at number five? And

595
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 3: how could you let Mike and Keenan go? And okay,

596
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 3: well the Bears already fired their offensive coordinator and they're

597
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 3: a complete mess. Mike Williams is no longer on the Jets.

598
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: You know hashtag redline.

599
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly which we discussed was that on this

600
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 3: one last week that I got a little loose with

601
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 3: that one, or was that with low don't I think

602
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:29,400
Speaker 3: it might have been.

603
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:29,919
Speaker 4: I think it was here.

604
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: Did you see what he did? What Mike did? No,

605
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 1: So Mike scored the game.

606
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,880
Speaker 2: When he touchdown in Washington and we hadn't heard from Mike,

607
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 2: he put a picture up on Instagram of his touchdown.

608
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 1: He says, we're back, hashtag redline.

609
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,440
Speaker 3: Nice good for him. Oh, it was on my Instagram

610
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 3: after the game. That's what it was. It was my

611
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 3: Instagram after the game where I just said it.

612
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:49,400
Speaker 1: And then they asked Aaron Rodgers about it. He acted

613
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:50,159
Speaker 1: like he didn't see it.

614
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course he didn't, because he's the worst guy ever.

615
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:55,439
Speaker 4: Whatever.

616
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,879
Speaker 3: But yeah, so there's that, right. So Daniel Jones is

617
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,159
Speaker 3: probably gonna get bench Roma Dunze, Like just think of

618
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 3: all the names, and this is not meant was this

619
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 3: is not meant to be a shot at any of

620
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,119
Speaker 3: those players. What I'm getting at is this team was

621
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 3: built in the image that Harbaugh and George He's envisioned

622
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,120
Speaker 3: it should be built. How many oldlignemen did you see

623
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,919
Speaker 3: get traded at the deadline? How many tackles, how many edges?

624
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:23,560
Speaker 3: Zadarius Smith won because he was the extra edge that

625
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 3: was moved to Detroit because they were willing to pay

626
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 3: a premium to a Browns team that's just trying to

627
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,399
Speaker 3: acquire draft assets to compensate for the contracts they have

628
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 3: out there. Like those guys don't move, you know. DeVante

629
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 3: Adams moved, Amari Cooper moved, Mike Williams moved. You can

630
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 3: find those guys, especially if you have an elite quarterback,

631
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 3: not one that suggests that it was a bad route

632
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 3: that was run. And the reason why the pass was

633
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 3: underthrown and behind you, even though you were a jump

634
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 3: ball specialist, was because you weren't on the red line

635
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 3: and when he looked up, he had to double clutch.

636
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 3: That's that's why this, you know, that's why Joey was kept,

637
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 3: That's why Khalil was kept. That's why bud Dupree was

638
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 3: given nine million bucks to be a third or even

639
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 3: a fourth pass rusher and he's been incredible, and that's

640
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 3: why Joe Walt was drafted number five overall. And then

641
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 3: at the same time recognizing, you know what, we feel

642
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 3: like Ladd is just as good as the guys that

643
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 3: we could have got at five or you know, had

644
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 3: we traded back, So let's give up, let's surrender an

645
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 3: asset or two and go get him, and he's gonna

646
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 3: fit perfectly, and he does well.

647
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 2: Look at the Chicago example too. I mean, you give

648
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Speaker 2: Dj Moore a ton of money.

649
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's one of the highest paid wide receivers in football.

650
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 2: You trade for Keenan, yet you still draft Rome with

651
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 2: Dunze right, with a bunch of really good offensive linement

652
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 2: on the board. Right, the conviction that the Chargers had

653
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 2: to say, hey, this is what we need to do. Yeah,

654
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 2: we're gonna pair Joe Alt with Rashawn Slater and we're

655
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 2: gonna do it for the next decade. And we're gonna

656
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 2: get our guy. And we moved up to get him.

657
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 2: They moved up a couple spots in the second round

658
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 2: to get lat macaukay. Yeah, and I remember draft we

659
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 2: were talking about, hey mcaukey could be in play here

660
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 2: because Keenan isn't isn't with the Chargers anymore. And sure enough,

661
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 2: I mean it was a great move. And just you know,

662
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 2: all these draft picks have contributed. Obviously, Junior Colson has

663
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 2: been hurt. We hope he gets back here sooner than later.

664
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 2: But I mean your corners. You're starting corners. And you know,

665
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 2: I'll say this too, like just go back look at

666
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty three class. I know that the Chargers

667
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 2: social just posted it, and I was happy they did

668
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 2: because we talked about it on the broadcast, where like

669
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 2: you're talking about three Pro bowlers in the third round,

670
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 2: in the fourth round, and in the sixth round. There's

671
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 2: no other full backs in the league. Scott matt Loock's

672
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 2: going to be your Pro Bowl full back. You know,

673
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 2: at least he should be considering what he's doing out there.

674
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 2: Darius Davis just going to be your Pro Bowl punt returner.

675
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: It's been awesome and.

676
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 3: He already has been. And Dan Henley is going to

677
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 3: be if all is right in the world, and just

678
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 3: he is going to be a Pro Bowl linebacker. That

679
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 3: is your third, your fourth, and your sixth round pick

680
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three. Matt Lock couldn't get on the field.

681
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 3: Dan Henley could not get on the field. Quinton Johnson

682
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 3: was being used in a way that was not fair

683
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 3: to him, trying to replace Mike Williams running nine routes,

684
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 3: tracking balls overhead, like that's just not what he does

685
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 3: you see what he does this year, you said it

686
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 3: a touchdown. He's got twenty catches, five touchdowns. He's grabbing

687
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 3: a touchdown every four catches he makes. Yeah, because they

688
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 3: it's a staff that gets it. Man. They know how

689
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 3: to coach it. They know how to put you in

690
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 3: the right position, and they recognize they they invest in

691
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 3: you and they trust in you. And it's like, Dan,

692
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 3: we trust you. Get out there and it just it's

693
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 3: just Scott. I know you're just starting to play the

694
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 3: fullback position.

695
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: You'll get it.

696
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 3: We're willing to deal with some lumps, some miss blocks,

697
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 3: some missed assignments here or there, because you're eventually going

698
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 3: to get it, and when you do, it's going to

699
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 3: be great. And now you're seeing great. Gus was, and

700
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 3: Gus was on Matt Locke's tail. It was so fun

701
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 3: to watch those those inside A and B gap runs

702
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 3: where Matt Locke is just clearing the path and Gus

703
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 3: is like, I'm totally fine, just going to follow you

704
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 3: to six yards to eleven years to four yards and

705
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 3: it's fun to watch and it's all starting to come together.

706
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 2: And this is December football, right. The physicality of this team.

707
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,959
Speaker 2: We're going to see on display. Yeah, on the other side,

708
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 2: we'll talk about Sunday football Cincinnati. But first I think

709
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 2: we're going to try this couch out here with.

710
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 1: Linebacker's coach Navarro Bowman. How about that?

711
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 2: Well, how about this our first interview in the content studio.

712
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 2: Linebacker's coach Navarro Bowman joins us and Navarro forget football.

713
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: Let's talk about this content studio. Ban it's pretty nice.

714
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's amazing, man, just the lights and it's twenty

715
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 4: twenty four already, you know. Yeah, I've been in the

716
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 4: league for a while. There's no room like this, so

717
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 4: it's amazing to be a part of it.

718
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, coach, I would love to you have a unique

719
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 3: perspective in this and that you were there the arrival

720
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 3: of coach Harbaugh in San Francisco from previous year under

721
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 3: coach Tom Sula. You hear the word culture kind of

722
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 3: thrown around, like how would you describe his arrival as

723
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 3: a player, what you felt and then being part of

724
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 3: this coaching staff and trying to do stall and instill,

725
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 3: you know, the idea of football that he wants to bring.

726
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 4: Well, I think the first thing is, you know, catering

727
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 4: to the players, you know, just always he's always just

728
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:14,719
Speaker 4: on point with what's best for the team. And you know,

729
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 4: even my prior years has always been the team, the team,

730
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 4: the team. And you know, I was excited to get

731
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 4: here with him this year and just see him come back,

732
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 4: and I know he wanted to attack it because of

733
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 4: the way things ended in San France, so I just

734
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 4: wanted to be a part of it. And he just

735
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 4: does a great job just knowing what the team needs

736
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 4: at that moment and just being there to give us

737
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 4: bones or give the team bones when they do something well,

738
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 4: you know, not a lot of you know, coaches and

739
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 4: programs do that. He has a great idea and feel

740
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 4: for that, and guys love playing for him. I think

741
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 4: that's the reason we're able to have success so early,

742
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 4: is just he's not the person to kind of always

743
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 4: be about what he wants, is more about with the

744
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 4: team needs and once now.

745
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 2: Varr, what are the biggest differences, if any, from your

746
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,240
Speaker 2: time as a player with coach Harball to now coaching

747
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:09,280
Speaker 2: with him on this staff.

748
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the biggest difference is, you know, he's expecting,

749
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 4: you know, me to be relatable to the players, you know,

750
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 4: be able to get guys to just buy in. Right,

751
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 4: he's coming from college, and I just thought, you know,

752
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 4: that would be a challenge just getting back to you

753
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 4: dealing with grown men, right. And I think he's done

754
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 4: a great job just bringing what he's he had at Michigan,

755
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 4: but also taking things away once he realized, Okay, I

756
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 4: don't need this, this is the NFL. These are men,

757
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 4: they know what they gotta do. And it's been basically

758
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 4: a pleasure for the guys just to see him be

759
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:57,800
Speaker 4: as flexible as he's been, so not really a big difference,

760
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 4: but always knew that, you know, eventually, when the guys

761
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 4: learned who he was and who he is, that everything

762
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 4: will work out and uh, you know, it'd be the

763
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 4: culture that we're looking for.

764
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 5: Coach.

765
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Speaker 3: The linebacker group is playing exceptional football. Coming into the season,

766
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:18,879
Speaker 3: a lot of the national perspective was is it right?

767
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,760
Speaker 3: How much does Paraman have left? What about these young guys?

768
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 3: And it's turned into maybe the best, you know, group

769
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 3: on the team. One thing that jumps out to me

770
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,839
Speaker 3: is just tackling. These guys don't miss tackles. They they

771
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 3: their angles are exceptional.

772
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 1: Is that? How do you teach it?

773
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:35,760
Speaker 3: How do you coach that how much of it is physical?

774
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 3: How much is it? As someone who wasn't an off

775
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 3: ball linebacker, like, how how do you coach? You got

776
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 3: to see it, you got to attack it, and you

777
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 3: got to make sure that it's that its sound.

778
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,760
Speaker 4: Well, I think it starts with the coordinator him putting

779
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 4: together to schedule and how he wants to approach the week.

780
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 4: So there's a separator category that we like to attack

781
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,839
Speaker 4: every single week, maybe three times a week, and it's

782
00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:01,359
Speaker 4: based off tackling, communication, block destruction effort in angles, right,

783
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,759
Speaker 4: So we drill it every single day. We talk about

784
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,919
Speaker 4: it every single day. And you know, me being a linebacker,

785
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:13,360
Speaker 4: you know I have the wherewithal and the details about

786
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 4: tackling all the way down to a science. And I

787
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 4: got a chance to kind of explain this to the

788
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 4: team and how we tackle and how we want to

789
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 4: tackle this year and just us being able to attack

790
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,320
Speaker 4: it and go over it every single week. The guys

791
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 4: has just been doing a good job just keeping it

792
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 4: on their minds and really focusing on it. And if

793
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 4: you look at other teams, you can just see those

794
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 4: separators not being hit, right, So it's working for us.

795
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 4: I try to be as detailed as possible, and it's

796
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 4: not really beating the guys down when they miss a tackle.

797
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 4: It's more about just correcting the details, the angles and

798
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 4: just the body position. So as long as you're in

799
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 4: that position and you're thinking about the details, a great

800
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 4: tacking should be made.

801
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 2: Var You can't help but notice the great relationship that

802
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 2: they On and Denzel have, you know, and it seems like,

803
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 2: you know, you got a veteran there versus a young

804
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 2: guy and someone like yourself who's played this game at

805
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:09,399
Speaker 2: a high level, one of the best in your era.

806
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,320
Speaker 2: I don't know, if you just speak to what Denzel

807
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:16,279
Speaker 2: has been to that room and and the knowledge that

808
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:18,879
Speaker 2: Dayon is soaking up from both of you, and really

809
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 2: the knowledge of Denzel, even as a veteran, it's soaking

810
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 2: up from you.

811
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 4: Yeah. I've watched Denzel before he got here and just

812
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 4: loved the way he approached the game, you know, and

813
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 4: having the Dayon not play as much last year, and

814
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 4: knew that we was going to be dependent on him

815
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 4: this year a lot. I wanted to really have a

816
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 4: guy that's a veteran that would show him how to

817
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:40,879
Speaker 4: be a pro, show him how to approach the game

818
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 4: plans and move throughout the week so that he is

819
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 4: ready on Sunday, and we all you know, in the

820
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 4: linebacker room, hold each other accountable. You know, I tell

821
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 4: him all the time, this is a family. The competition

822
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 4: isn't between you guys. It's between the white lines. You know,

823
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 4: no matter you know how you feel, you know, it's

824
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 4: a production in business. So when you go out there

825
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 4: between the white lines, that's the way that you get

826
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,840
Speaker 4: on the field. When you get off the field, you

827
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:10,240
Speaker 4: guys remain brothers, all right, remain family and just remain tight,

828
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 4: you know, tighten it as a group and be happy

829
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 4: for another man's success. Right, And that's been you know,

830
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 4: sticking with us and we've been playing the way that

831
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 4: you know, I would like us to play, and we

832
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,919
Speaker 4: still got room to get better, and I expect guys

833
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:25,399
Speaker 4: to do that.

834
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 3: I'd love to know as someone who's who's gone on

835
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 3: streaks of double digit tackles and back to back to

836
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 3: back games, because looks, I get it. Stats aren't the

837
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 3: greatest thing, but they can confirm what you see. And

838
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 3: when you see what Daon's doing, and then you go

839
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,320
Speaker 3: to the box score and you see, wow, fourteen thirteen.

840
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 3: How hard is that to do? Like, what does it

841
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 3: take to be able to pile up not just in

842
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:49,240
Speaker 3: one game? Because like I was going through your game blogs,

843
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:51,800
Speaker 3: I'm like, damn eighteen and then sixteen and then thirteen.

844
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 3: Like to be able to consistently put that together? How

845
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 3: does that work? How much of it is, like you said,

846
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 3: the overall scheme versus what he individually being able to

847
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:01,439
Speaker 3: accomplish out there?

848
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:03,880
Speaker 4: Well, it starts with wanting to be elite, right, And

849
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,879
Speaker 4: if you want to be elite, you gotta do elite things, right.

850
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 4: You gotta be special, You gotta attack the game with

851
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 4: that elite mentality. And you know when you have all

852
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,120
Speaker 4: of that, now it's about your want to Right now,

853
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 4: I have to coach say, I gotta run the ball. No,

854
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 4: do you want to run to the ball? Do you

855
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 4: want to be looked at as the top linebacker in

856
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 4: the league. The only way you can do that is

857
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 4: to keep showing up in that little little box, right,

858
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 4: that's that's on the screen. You know, the camera doesn't

859
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:35,720
Speaker 4: cover the whole field, So if you're in that frame,

860
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:39,919
Speaker 4: you know you're you're you're doing what most guys don't

861
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 4: want to do. And that's run to the ball when

862
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:43,319
Speaker 4: the play is not next to you, and you could

863
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 4: just turn on the film and just see dayon he's

864
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 4: springing to every single ball and getting tackles that belongs

865
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 4: to someone else. And I hopped on that, and he's

866
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 4: doing a great job, you know, approaching every weekend and

867
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 4: putting that on film, and I'm just happy for the guy.

868
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:02,479
Speaker 4: You know. I I've been a rookie or a young

869
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 4: player next to a vet and you just see, you know,

870
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 4: how the vet moves. But he's been attacking every single day.

871
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 4: I think yesterday was the first day he missed since OTA,

872
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 4: since offseason, so he's been around and he's been doing

873
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 4: a great job just coming into work, willing to do

874
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 4: whatever we asked of him. And it's showing you on

875
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 4: the field.

876
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:27,240
Speaker 2: You mentioned he didn't play much last year, and listen,

877
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 2: we saw the measurable s third round pick and we

878
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,880
Speaker 2: knew what he was capable of. Are you even surprised

879
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:36,240
Speaker 2: by the success that he's had as we enter week eleven?

880
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,360
Speaker 4: I am. I mean I didn't really have a clue

881
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,319
Speaker 4: on what I had. You know, you can look at him,

882
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 4: he looks great, right, but it's about what you do.

883
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 4: And you know he's been taking the learning right and

884
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 4: learning how to play the linebacker position on the run.

885
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 4: And it's not an easy position. He's played skill positions

886
00:40:57,080 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 4: on offense mostly of his college career and now he's

887
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:04,759
Speaker 4: asked to play linebacker where your eyes have to be right.

888
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 4: The wrong false step can put you in the wrong position. Right.

889
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 4: So just you know, him wanting to play the linebacker

890
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 4: position the right way and being coachable. I think that's

891
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 4: the biggest thing, is just you know, you may think

892
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:22,759
Speaker 4: you did something right in that play, but I've I

893
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 4: have something to say, and he's been good with accepting

894
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:28,839
Speaker 4: the criticism and correcting at the next play.

895
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 3: Are we uh, do you think we're getting back into

896
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:33,799
Speaker 3: like maybe a linebacker renaissance? You know, I think about

897
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 3: when you were playing with Patrick and when you had

898
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,320
Speaker 3: Ray and Bart, you know, even like Erlacker and Rosie

899
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 3: and like those guys. It feels like or maybe getting

900
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 3: back there a little bit, like the league is recognizing

901
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:45,839
Speaker 3: how important you know, Look, I get it, they're starting

902
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 3: to throw the ball.

903
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 4: Over the place.

904
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:48,359
Speaker 3: You got to adjust, But it feels like is that

905
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 3: do you feel like it's that way that? Like, yeah,

906
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 3: this is an important position, man. We gotta make sure

907
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 3: we get the linebacker level right.

908
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just think guys are you know, faster lighter.

909
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:01,400
Speaker 4: That transition started to happen on in my career where

910
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 4: you know, safety started moving down in the box. And

911
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 4: Deyon's a guy who's not really the big, bulky linebacker, right,

912
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:15,240
Speaker 4: He's had to put on this weight right, so his athleticism,

913
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 4: his quickness, his flexibility and things like that is still there. Right,

914
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 4: So we've been able to you know, have a guy

915
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,360
Speaker 4: that's put on the right way, is the right sass,

916
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:30,280
Speaker 4: has the right mass to play the position and also

917
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 4: run with these small, quick, fast scat backs. So you know,

918
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 4: the linebacker position is evolving back to it being a necessity,

919
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 4: it being a very high impactful position, and it's just

920
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 4: been great to see that the transition has happened. We

921
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 4: don't have to be two hundred and fifty pounds no more.

922
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 4: You can be two twenty five based off of how

923
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 4: the offenses are approaching games now with passing the ball.

924
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:57,840
Speaker 4: So third down, you know, Deyon's able to stay on

925
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 4: the field play dime for since second down, uh, we

926
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 4: have two linebackers on the field, so it's been, you know,

927
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 4: a transition from that point where you know, when I played,

928
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 4: we never came off the field. But these guys, these

929
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 4: offensive coaches and coordinators do a great job was trying

930
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 4: to spread you out and find those matchups. So he's, uh,

931
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 4: he's worked to it, man, He's he's he's done a

932
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 4: great job and he's earned it. Nothing's given to him,

933
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 4: and I'm just excited for him.

934
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 3: No.

935
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 2: F One are the more remarkable things I think we've

936
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 2: seen this year is just the consistent play of the

937
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,399
Speaker 2: defense as a unit. Right, you know, we've talked about

938
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 2: this twenty points a fewer and uh through through week

939
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 2: eleven here, but what has been the secret to the

940
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 2: success so far? Because this listen, a new coordinator, new scheme,

941
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 2: a lot of new players, and it seems like if

942
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 2: a guy goes down, you got Tarheeb and Cam on

943
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 2: the outside doing the thing in the back end. You know,

944
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 2: Junior goes down, you know, dayon and Denzel been consistent

945
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 2: across the line. I mean, everybody has contributed it a

946
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 2: way that it's not something you would typically see out

947
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 2: of like a first year unit. Like, what has been

948
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 2: the secret to the success.

949
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 4: Well, I think we have the right veterans right at

950
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 4: key positions. And you know, early on it didn't look

951
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 4: like this right, And you know, we had to break

952
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 4: a lot of bad habits. You know, we're young, right,

953
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 4: We're using guys that came from college systems where they

954
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 4: may not have had to practice hard, they may not

955
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 4: have had to run the run to the ball right,

956
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 4: they may not have had to communicate as much as

957
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:34,319
Speaker 4: we asked them to, So those bad habits. As a

958
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 4: coaching staff, we hopped on, you know, breaking those bad

959
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:41,359
Speaker 4: habits the entire offseason. And to have those vets that's

960
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 4: in those positions, you know, reiterate, you know what the

961
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 4: coaches are trying to get accomplished. That's been the key

962
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 4: to it. Right. We always say, this is not the

963
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:56,359
Speaker 4: coach's team, this is you guys's team, and accountability has

964
00:44:56,400 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 4: to be acknowledged when things on right, you know. So

965
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:05,800
Speaker 4: it's just been a group effort, I think, and guys

966
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:08,360
Speaker 4: just buying in. Uh, the coaching staff. Most of the

967
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 4: coaching staff came from Michigan, so they were used to

968
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 4: winning right and being hungry and being hungry to leave

969
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:18,920
Speaker 4: a mark in the NFL. So just everyone just attacking

970
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:23,320
Speaker 4: every single day, not getting complacent, always reaching to get better,

971
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 4: right and not getting complacent. So hopefully, man, we continue on,

972
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 4: we get this this fourth fourth winning the row, and

973
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 4: we just keep going forward.

974
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,719
Speaker 3: You mentioned dime. Uh, it feels like, you know, when

975
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 3: Derwin's out there, it's in like a diningbacker role. You

976
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 3: get Do you get Derwin in your meeting room? Do

977
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 3: you get you get to tap into that?

978
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 4: I don't, man, but he uh, he loves being in

979
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 4: the box, right. He loves you know, doing more and uh,

980
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:53,280
Speaker 4: you know, being that guy that can play multiple positions,

981
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:56,640
Speaker 4: being flexible and things like that. And you know, there's

982
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:57,799
Speaker 4: no safety like him.

983
00:45:57,800 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 3: Man.

984
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 4: Just the way he communicate, the way he brings guys together,

985
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:08,319
Speaker 4: and just just to hear his passion behind anytime he

986
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 4: opens his mouth like it's passionate, it's he means well,

987
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,239
Speaker 4: means good when he opens his mouth. And I think

988
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 4: guys really enjoyed just having him back there on the

989
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 4: back end.

990
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 2: You know, I try to put myself in your shoes

991
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 2: before a game as a player versus a coach. Now, right,

992
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:27,879
Speaker 2: you got a big primetime game against the Bengals Sunday night,

993
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 2: and I don't know, if you could, just for our

994
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:33,239
Speaker 2: fans and viewers, just take us through what it's like

995
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 2: for you to get ready for a game as a

996
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 2: coach versus a player.

997
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:38,720
Speaker 1: Gotta be a little bit different.

998
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:43,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a little different. Just you know, wanting to

999
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 4: make sure that I covered every single thing throughout the week,

1000
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 4: making sure that the guys are prepared, and you know,

1001
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 4: just making them understand that every week is going to

1002
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 4: be different. You know, we've faced the same runs and

1003
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 4: tennessee the US the difference maker, right, they came out

1004
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 4: and did a little different things and just to me

1005
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 4: had played the game and be able to talk to

1006
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:12,439
Speaker 4: them and calm them down when something bad happens. That's

1007
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 4: been the enjoyment part of me being a coach is

1008
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:18,799
Speaker 4: just relax, We're good, I got it. All you have

1009
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:20,759
Speaker 4: to do is just this little thing or get your

1010
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 4: eyes right to see this little thing and they're calm right,

1011
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 4: They're able to go back out there, let that bad

1012
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:29,959
Speaker 4: play go and have some success on the next play.

1013
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:34,800
Speaker 4: And just you know, being there to h on the sidelines,

1014
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,839
Speaker 4: just being able to be their servicemen. Right. Just that's

1015
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 4: why I got into this, really just wanted to service

1016
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 4: and give players whatever they needed. And that's what coaching

1017
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 4: is about, I believe. So I enjoy it, man, just

1018
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 4: seeing the other side of things, h seeing how you know,

1019
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 4: Jesse prepares and you know, maybe you know later on

1020
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 4: down the road something else might open up. But I'm

1021
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 4: just enjoying, you know, being an assistant coach, being a

1022
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:04,920
Speaker 4: linebackers coach and seeing these guys have success.

1023
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 3: When I want to go back to something you said

1024
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 3: earlier and last one for me, we don't want to

1025
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:11,479
Speaker 3: keep you too long. You go prepare for Joe Burrow

1026
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 3: in the Bengals. But you said you had it down

1027
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:15,719
Speaker 3: to science. So when I you know, when I think

1028
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:17,759
Speaker 3: of science, I think of science, I think that you know,

1029
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 3: like F one drivers catching the balls, you know that

1030
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:23,480
Speaker 3: to help eye hand coordination and speed and reaction. Like,

1031
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:25,839
Speaker 3: can you share with us, like some of the side

1032
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 3: like things that you've found work and how I can

1033
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:30,239
Speaker 3: help train your eyes so you don't miss it and

1034
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:32,319
Speaker 3: you do see it. Are there things that that you

1035
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 3: found that are proven commodities? Like this is what I

1036
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 3: have to teach to get this right?

1037
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the process of your eye progression? Right?

1038
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:40,800
Speaker 4: Something so little?

1039
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 3: Right?

1040
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 4: If I just say you have the hook curl drop right,

1041
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 4: and you look and then look back at the quarterback.

1042
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 4: That process is totally wrong, right. You have to feel

1043
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 4: that guy right. You can look once, but you have

1044
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 4: to feel him and still be able to work off

1045
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 4: the quarterback's eyes, not being not crossing over in the box,

1046
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:03,040
Speaker 4: understanding the running back shoulders as they're turned to the sideline.

1047
00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 4: He's going out. If there's square, he's coming back. He's

1048
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:08,720
Speaker 4: cutting the ball back. And the more you watch film,

1049
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 4: the more you just continue to just dissect a type

1050
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 4: of runner or a type of quarterback. I look for

1051
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 4: the littlest things. I mean, whether this guy's wiping the

1052
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 4: towel every pass right, whether this guy's looking left and

1053
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:26,719
Speaker 4: then he just hikes the ball right. That's a tip, right,

1054
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 4: That's things that as a linebacker, you want to take

1055
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 4: all of those tips throughout the week, and then when

1056
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 4: Sunday comes, you're ready and prepared. Do you play poker?

1057
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:37,600
Speaker 3: No?

1058
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 4: I need to get into it. You do.

1059
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 1: You're able to read all that quickly. You got to

1060
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 1: get into poker. It's for sure. We'll get you out

1061
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:46,560
Speaker 1: of here on this money.

1062
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:49,879
Speaker 2: Mentioned Joe Burrow in the Bengals, we were talking about

1063
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 2: their performance last week in Baltimore as stars for Burrow

1064
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 2: and Chase. What have you seen on film from these

1065
00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 2: guys and how tough are they to defend?

1066
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:02,480
Speaker 4: We have respect for him, we know the weapons that

1067
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:05,400
Speaker 4: they have on offense. Joe's a heck of a quarterback.

1068
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:09,279
Speaker 4: We're not taking this game lightly by any means, but

1069
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 4: we have a job to do right and respect is there,

1070
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:16,440
Speaker 4: but we're preparing to beat them right. And that's what

1071
00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 4: it's about. It's about us and if we keep it

1072
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:21,480
Speaker 4: that way, we plan on being where we want to be.

1073
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:23,600
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Speaker 1: So here we go, guys.

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Speaker 2: Sunday Night football Sofi Stadium. The first primetime game of

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Speaker 2: the year for the Chargers won't be the last. Joe

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Speaker 2: Burrow and company come to town and they're coming off

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Speaker 2: with loss money. They are desperate to try to make

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Speaker 2: the postseason. I mentioned this earlier. They are leaving a

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Speaker 2: day early to get here, and they said they want

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Speaker 2: chemistry on the team and they're trying to beat the

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Speaker 2: Chargers on Sunday to make the postseason.

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Speaker 1: It's not going to be an easy game.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate the they left the day early thing to

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Speaker 3: kind of get out here. I cannot.

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Speaker 1: I'll say this maybe because it's seventy five degrees here.

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Speaker 3: I'll say this is speculation, though. Just consider this speculation.

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Speaker 3: But I heard from somebody that not only did they

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Speaker 3: come up to day early, but that they're staying for

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Speaker 3: a few days that this is going to be a

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Speaker 3: little bit of a O we got our bye week's,

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Speaker 3: let's kind of get you guys a little bit of

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Speaker 3: a reward stay out on the west coast. Perhaps it's

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00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:17,399
Speaker 3: Newport Beach or in that area, and so it's like, oh, well,

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Speaker 3: maybe now it's not a business trip. Maybe now there's

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Speaker 3: a little little thing on the back end there that

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Speaker 3: suggests that can be a little bit of a personal action,

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Speaker 3: which I appreciate playing those seeds, seeds and softness. But yeah, look,

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00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:35,600
Speaker 3: in all fairness, this is a really good team. Joe

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00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 3: Burrow's plan as good a quarterback as anybody in the league.

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00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:41,279
Speaker 3: He's one of my absolute favorite players to watch. I

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00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:44,400
Speaker 3: don't know, outside of Justin Herbert, if there's a quarterback

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Speaker 3: I like watching more Man. Just the punishment that he takes,

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00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:50,920
Speaker 3: the willingness to stand in, the accuracy with which he

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Speaker 3: throws the football, and just the fiery competitor that he is. Man.

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Speaker 3: I just I love the guy. Man, I love the

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Speaker 3: way he plays, and I think back all we have

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Speaker 3: we have the experience, right, I think back to that

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Speaker 3: well were they I think Chargers are up twenty four

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Speaker 3: to nothing if I remember right in Cincinnati, Yeah, and

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Speaker 3: it felt like the game was over and just here

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00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:11,799
Speaker 3: comes Burrow Man and he got clocked in that game.

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Speaker 3: I don't remember if it was an ankle or what

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Speaker 3: it was, but he got hurt in that game and

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Speaker 3: just started freaking dealing. It's like, oh boy, this is

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Speaker 3: this could get sideways in a hurry, and it's it's

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Speaker 3: gonna be tough. It's gonna be it's the best receiver

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Speaker 3: in football, you know, whether it's Chase or Jefferson, take

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Speaker 3: your pick for me. You know Jamar Chase because of

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Speaker 3: the combination with Burrow. I think it depends on who's

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Speaker 3: throwing you the ball, like it's kind of part of it.

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Speaker 3: So it's gonna be a bear man. It's pardon the

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Speaker 3: non pun because they're they're Tigers, but it's it's gonna

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Speaker 3: be a heck of a matchup man. And and if

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Speaker 3: if you can get Christian Fulton back out there, if

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Speaker 3: you can get some depth into this secondary, you know

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Speaker 3: it's gonna be it's gonna be really fun. It's gonna

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Speaker 3: be a fun chess match of Jesse Minner versus Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 3: And how this thing looks when those two units are

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Speaker 3: on the field.

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Speaker 1: Christian full in the Jamar Chase both lsu TI exactly.

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Speaker 1: Jamar Chase.

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Speaker 2: I mentioned Quentin Johnson is number two in the AFC

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Speaker 2: and receiving touchdowns with five Jamar doubles that at ten,

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Speaker 2: nobody's close to him. The game that he had against

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Speaker 2: the Ravens was remarkable. I think two hundred and sixty

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Speaker 2: four yards receiving three touchdowns. Burrow goes over four hundred yards,

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Speaker 2: and I think a couple of weeks ago we talked

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Speaker 2: about how bad the Ravens secondary has been this year,

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Speaker 2: and you know that's a division game. Those guys see

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Speaker 2: each other all the time. It was an awesome Thursday

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Speaker 2: night game. Thirty five thirty four of the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: Eked it out. But we look at the AFC money,

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Speaker 1: there's so many bad teams in the AFC that the

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Speaker 1: Bengals are right in the mix the seven seed.

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Speaker 2: The Chargers are firmly kind of entrenched in that sixth

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Speaker 2: seed right now at six and three, because you know

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Speaker 2: you have the Ravens and the Steelers who are playing

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Speaker 2: Sunday Winter that's probably going.

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Speaker 1: To be the five seed or the loser that rather

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Speaker 1: going to be the five seed for now.

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Speaker 2: But the Bengals, you know, you're competing with the Colts,

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Speaker 2: you're competing with the Broncos, you were competing with the Jets.

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Speaker 2: I think the Jets are done now, but.

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Speaker 1: You think, yeah, I hope.

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Speaker 2: So.

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Speaker 3: Like the thing about the Bengals is it's you said

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Speaker 3: it earlier about this being a playoff game for them.

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Speaker 3: It is because they play like so they're a game

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Speaker 3: back in the lost column of the Broncos. The blockfield

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Speaker 3: goal hurt the Chargers trying to win a division and

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Speaker 3: punch their ticket that way. It helped the Bengals immensely

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Speaker 3: because they're only a game back and they still play

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Speaker 3: the Broncos so team later in the year. Yeah, so

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Speaker 3: the team that's right in front of them they play,

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Speaker 3: I mean after the Chargers, they still got to play

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Speaker 3: the Steelers twice, but in the middle of that they

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Speaker 3: get Dallas, Tennessee, Cleveland, Denver, so it's still in front

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Speaker 3: of them. Like, this is not a team that by

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Speaker 3: any stretch should be given up. But going back to

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Speaker 3: a point you made earlier about making sure you beat

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Speaker 3: Tennessee and New Orleans with Spencer Rattler and and you

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Speaker 3: go through that list. It's a team the loss of

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Speaker 3: the Patriots in Week one, you know, and like that's

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Speaker 3: when you circle those games, like, how is this How

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Speaker 3: is this team that it's averaging whatever, they're averaging thirty

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Speaker 3: points per game? How did you lose to the Patriots

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Speaker 3: sixteen to ten? And that's just something that's dogged the

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Speaker 3: Bengals first forever. They give one of those away, if

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Speaker 3: not two of them early in the season. But I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna it's as I put my old man glasses on, Like,

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Speaker 3: the thing that's interesting about this team is how it's

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Speaker 3: not just like, oh yeah, it's not just this offensive explosion.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's thirty four last week forty one. The

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Speaker 3: week before, Okay, they played the Eagles in a really

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Speaker 3: good defense, they only scored seventeen. The Browns, you know,

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Speaker 3: look offensively challenged, but we know what that defense looked like.

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Speaker 3: They only put up twenty one against them. Dexter Lawrence

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Speaker 3: is still in the conversation as defensive player of the year.

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Speaker 3: They could only hang seventeen on the Giants. Like, it's

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Speaker 3: a team that when facing a really good, elite defense,

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Speaker 3: the offense does struggle a little bit and I'm glad

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Speaker 3: you pointed out that the Ravens have had serious issues

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Speaker 3: on that side of the ball this year, particularly in

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Speaker 3: the secondary. So I think the people that are like,

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Speaker 3: let's see what this defense has. Going back to an

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Speaker 3: earlier point I made, it's like, this is a Bengals

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Speaker 3: scene that's got something to prove. They got to prove

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Speaker 3: that they can take down a top shelf defense and

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Speaker 3: continue to put up these, you know, sort of numbers

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Speaker 3: with elite playmakers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, seven of their ten games they've scored twenty one

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Speaker 2: or more. But you mentioned that first game until only

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Speaker 2: score ten against the Patriots Week one. You may look

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Speaker 2: at that game at the end of the y're like,

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Speaker 2: oh man, maybe that's the reason we didn't make the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: They lost by twenty to the to the Eagles a

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago, you know, and they've beaten the

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Speaker 2: teams that they're supposed to beat. You beat the you

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Speaker 2: beat the Raiders, you beat the Giants, you beat the Panthers,

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Speaker 2: you beat the Browns. So it's it's not like they've

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Speaker 2: played a ton of world beaters, but they've played really

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Speaker 2: close games. To two close games against the Ravens, one

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Speaker 2: went to overtime. When was last week by one that

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Speaker 2: game in Arrowhead early in the year. Oh, yeah, they

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Speaker 2: should have won that game, but I think it was

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Speaker 2: the brit It was cheap black magic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's what it is.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: For Cam it was also he had one of, if

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Speaker 3: not the greatest interception we'll see all season in that game,

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Speaker 3: and then you know, just an inexcusable PI. But that's

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Speaker 3: also on you know, coach lou for not for Russian three.

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Speaker 3: It's we talked about that in the moment. It's like,

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Speaker 3: what come on, man, Just if you're better off running

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Speaker 3: a zero on Patrick Mahomes in that situation then freaking

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Speaker 3: Russian three and giving them all the time in the world.

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Speaker 3: But just kind of going to the matchups. Some things

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Speaker 3: that jump out is, you know, they got serious fumbling

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00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:30,800
Speaker 3: issues with their running backs. So you know, you know,

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00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:34,080
Speaker 3: as much as this team has what the Chargers have

1247
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:38,520
Speaker 3: done with takeaways and they protect the ball, they take

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00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:42,320
Speaker 3: the ball away like that's between you know, Chase Brown

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Speaker 3: and Khalil Herbert. You know, you're you're gonna probably see

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Speaker 3: a lot of punching at the football and a lot

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Speaker 3: of holding them up while somebody else is in there

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Speaker 3: trying to wrestle that thing away. Look, they chase Brown,

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Speaker 3: doesn't fumble that ball, they end up beating the Ravens.

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Speaker 3: I mean that just completely changed the complexion of that game.

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Speaker 3: But it wasn't a fluke. It's a guy that fumbled

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Speaker 3: the ball five times his senior year at Illinois. So

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Speaker 3: it's like, you know, those are the things that that

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Speaker 3: coach Minter is so good at about. Okay, where's the

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Speaker 3: what are they what are they doing? How do we

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Speaker 3: affect it? Get some turnovers? Man? You know, Burrow's thrown

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Speaker 3: what's foreig interceptions to twenty four t d's. He takes

1262
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Speaker 3: care of the ball. He's super accurate. So you're probably

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Speaker 3: not gonna get it there, but you can maybe get

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Speaker 3: it by punching one of those out and that could

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Speaker 3: be the difference.

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Speaker 4: In this game.

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Speaker 2: The Bengals this year remind me of what the Charges

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Speaker 2: have been the last couple of years. Just completely reliant

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Speaker 2: on their quarterback.

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Speaker 1: They're not afraid to go away from the run.

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Speaker 2: You know, I think last week fifty six attempts for Burrow,

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Speaker 2: just sixteen rushes for the Bengals. So you know we've

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Speaker 2: seen justin have to put the entire offense on his

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Speaker 2: back the last couple of years and throw at fifty

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Speaker 2: to fifty five times.

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Speaker 1: The Harble has made that concerted effort to say, no,

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Speaker 1: that's not happening anymore.

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Speaker 2: We're going to run the football, we're going to be efficient,

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Speaker 2: and we're not going to asked justin to do everything.

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Speaker 1: That's not what the Bengals do.

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Speaker 2: The Bengals asked Jamar Chase and Joe Burrow to carry

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Speaker 2: them and for his lights out as they played unbelievable

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Speaker 2: performances by both of them, they still lost to the

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Speaker 2: Ravens last week. Now t Higgins limited participant this week

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Speaker 2: at least like he might be back, Yeah, which is

1286
01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:19,360
Speaker 2: just another another huge weapon for them.

1287
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:23,160
Speaker 3: Huge When you've got both of those guys, it makes

1288
01:00:23,240 --> 01:00:25,200
Speaker 3: all the difference in the world. You know, you can

1289
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:28,640
Speaker 3: shade especially like we talked about earlier. You know, Coachmnner

1290
01:00:28,640 --> 01:00:31,960
Speaker 3: plays a ton of more zone than almost any other

1291
01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:33,960
Speaker 3: team in the NFL. They play a ton of cover

1292
01:00:34,120 --> 01:00:37,760
Speaker 3: for there. You know, six men bought light boxes more

1293
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:40,200
Speaker 3: than anyone else and they're still affective against the run.

1294
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:43,320
Speaker 3: So he's got those built in guard rails. You know,

1295
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:46,400
Speaker 3: those gutter guards, you know, to try to prevent you know,

1296
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:51,120
Speaker 3: explosives from happening. And when you have two, it makes

1297
01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:54,200
Speaker 3: it a little bit tougher. When you have the ability

1298
01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:56,960
Speaker 3: of t Higgins to go along with the exceptionalism of

1299
01:00:57,320 --> 01:01:02,640
Speaker 3: Jamar Chase, it can definitely lead, you know, lead to

1300
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:05,120
Speaker 3: some sleepless nights and trying to figure out especially when

1301
01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:07,760
Speaker 3: someone like Joe Burrows the one delivering how accurate, how

1302
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:10,520
Speaker 3: quickly he sees it. His progressions are lightning quick and

1303
01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:14,320
Speaker 3: he will find that that window faster than almost anybody

1304
01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:17,120
Speaker 3: in the league. And that's the other thing about Burrow,

1305
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:18,920
Speaker 3: like one of the for all the hits he takes,

1306
01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:22,240
Speaker 3: you know, if he's got his full compliment of weapons,

1307
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:25,200
Speaker 3: Like one of the things like what made him great

1308
01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:29,720
Speaker 3: at LSU was they there was never anyone in the

1309
01:01:29,760 --> 01:01:32,000
Speaker 3: backfield with them and they were they didn't even run

1310
01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:35,560
Speaker 3: tight ends. It was just five O linemen Burrow and

1311
01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:38,240
Speaker 3: five receivers whether it was a back or two tight

1312
01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 3: ends or a tight end or hire kind of but

1313
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:42,400
Speaker 3: he was more of a yeah, but he was just

1314
01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:45,120
Speaker 3: always lined up in the slot or running wheels or like.

1315
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:48,320
Speaker 3: And because he just sees it, man and it's gone

1316
01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:50,480
Speaker 3: and it's exactly where it's supposed to be in the

1317
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:54,200
Speaker 3: one mismatch on the field. And and to Zach Taylor's credit,

1318
01:01:54,240 --> 01:01:57,080
Speaker 3: I think when Burrow first got there, they weren't quite

1319
01:01:57,160 --> 01:01:59,840
Speaker 3: doing that. And Burrow's like, hey, dude, don't worry about

1320
01:01:59,880 --> 01:02:02,760
Speaker 3: me out And to some degree it's hurt him because

1321
01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:04,760
Speaker 3: he gets hurt and he's dealt with injuries and stuff

1322
01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:06,760
Speaker 3: because he takes shots. But that's what he's good at.

1323
01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:08,920
Speaker 3: I bring it up because it reminds me kind of

1324
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:13,240
Speaker 3: of when you had Bosa and Melvin Ingram in that

1325
01:02:13,360 --> 01:02:16,360
Speaker 3: playoff game when the Chargers won twelve games against New

1326
01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:19,680
Speaker 3: England and it's like they can't get home. The ball's gone,

1327
01:02:20,040 --> 01:02:22,320
Speaker 3: Like Brady's just he's so good at seeing it. And

1328
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:26,320
Speaker 3: remember how frustrated Joey was because he'd win his one

1329
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:29,680
Speaker 3: on one and by the time he get there, Yeah,

1330
01:02:29,720 --> 01:02:31,720
Speaker 3: ball's gone on a second, you know, one point seven

1331
01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:33,880
Speaker 3: to five seconds. So that's something that Burrow can also

1332
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:37,640
Speaker 3: do when he has that second. You know, Teagan's a

1333
01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:39,520
Speaker 3: number one receiver when he has that second number one

1334
01:02:39,520 --> 01:02:40,360
Speaker 3: out there, And what makes.

1335
01:02:40,280 --> 01:02:42,160
Speaker 2: It a bit of a challenge, Yeah, I think what's

1336
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:43,720
Speaker 2: cool over the next month is you know, we've got

1337
01:02:43,720 --> 01:02:45,480
Speaker 2: to see this Charge team at six and three. The

1338
01:02:45,520 --> 01:02:47,520
Speaker 2: whole nation's going to see them over the next month

1339
01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:49,840
Speaker 2: with Monday night game against the Ravens after this one

1340
01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:52,960
Speaker 2: on Sunday night, and then Sunday Night football in Arrowhead

1341
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks later, So the whole nation is

1342
01:02:56,640 --> 01:03:00,120
Speaker 2: going to see hardball, you know, over the neinst the

1343
01:03:00,160 --> 01:03:02,480
Speaker 2: next month. And I just I can't say enough about

1344
01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:03,840
Speaker 2: the crowd Sunday.

1345
01:03:03,960 --> 01:03:04,360
Speaker 4: It was great.

1346
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:07,160
Speaker 2: It was a huge pro Charges crowd against the Titans.

1347
01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:08,400
Speaker 2: And I think you'll see war the same.

1348
01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:08,840
Speaker 1: Word Sunday light.

1349
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:09,160
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1350
01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:12,080
Speaker 3: Look, I think you know, going back to this game

1351
01:03:12,120 --> 01:03:15,880
Speaker 3: against the Titans and what we saw right eighteen attempts

1352
01:03:16,160 --> 01:03:19,200
Speaker 3: thirty nine on the ground. So it's a let's run

1353
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:21,160
Speaker 3: the ball. We can get this team on the ground,

1354
01:03:21,320 --> 01:03:25,280
Speaker 3: and it to some degree negates that upfield rush of

1355
01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:27,600
Speaker 3: Jeffrey Simmons, you know, when you're just running right at

1356
01:03:27,680 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 3: him through that a gap with Gus Harold, Landry arden

1357
01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:35,400
Speaker 3: Key and just exceptional pass rushers. So let's just see

1358
01:03:35,440 --> 01:03:36,760
Speaker 3: if we can run it. And if we can, that's

1359
01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:38,040
Speaker 3: what we're gonna do. And that's how we're gonna win

1360
01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:39,880
Speaker 3: the game. And then of course on that final drive

1361
01:03:40,480 --> 01:03:42,840
Speaker 3: that's just the exclamation point. Yeah, we kind of we

1362
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:44,800
Speaker 3: got you with some jabs, couple body blows. So well,

1363
01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:47,640
Speaker 3: here comes the haymaker and it's Dobbins and it's Gus

1364
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:49,880
Speaker 3: Edwards and it's Herbert with his legs and you just

1365
01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:54,640
Speaker 3: pound him into submission. And in the case of the Bengals,

1366
01:03:55,560 --> 01:03:59,640
Speaker 3: they have got serious secondary issues. They are searching for

1367
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:02,240
Speaker 3: a cam Taylor. Britt has been one of the great

1368
01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:05,600
Speaker 3: young corners in the league and it's just not happened

1369
01:04:05,640 --> 01:04:08,120
Speaker 3: this year. He's been one of the worst cover corners

1370
01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:10,400
Speaker 3: in the league all season. I think QB rating against

1371
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:12,960
Speaker 3: is in like the one thirties. So people are just

1372
01:04:13,080 --> 01:04:15,840
Speaker 3: pass it there, Hey, find the cheeto and go get it.

1373
01:04:16,040 --> 01:04:18,760
Speaker 3: And that's what they've been doing, you know, since they

1374
01:04:18,880 --> 01:04:21,800
Speaker 3: let Jesse Bates walk, they've been searching in the safety level,

1375
01:04:22,160 --> 01:04:24,840
Speaker 3: trying to get that right. And if you look and

1376
01:04:25,080 --> 01:04:28,040
Speaker 3: coach Anarroumo, he's just been rotating guys and games. Guys

1377
01:04:28,080 --> 01:04:30,960
Speaker 3: are getting benched, guys are coming back in. So I

1378
01:04:31,040 --> 01:04:34,240
Speaker 3: think just when you think, oh wow, okay, here we go. Now,

1379
01:04:34,320 --> 01:04:36,880
Speaker 3: it's the Greg Roman rush attack. Don't be surprised if

1380
01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:42,480
Speaker 3: this is a Herbert Burrow air it out shootout because

1381
01:04:42,520 --> 01:04:45,760
Speaker 3: of just what the Bengals have struggled to do. The

1382
01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:49,080
Speaker 3: one caveat there that I'll point out is Trey Hendrickson's

1383
01:04:49,120 --> 01:04:51,280
Speaker 3: been the best pass rusher in the NFL this season.

1384
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:55,880
Speaker 3: He's just been on a freaking tear, an absolute tear.

1385
01:04:56,920 --> 01:04:58,640
Speaker 3: I want to say, I don't have my notes with me,

1386
01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:01,080
Speaker 3: they're at my home computer, but I I think his pressures,

1387
01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:03,080
Speaker 3: he's number one in pressures. I want to say, it's

1388
01:05:03,200 --> 01:05:04,760
Speaker 3: in the oh, you know what, I can get it

1389
01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:07,200
Speaker 3: to you right now. It's crazy what his pressures. I

1390
01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:11,080
Speaker 3: think he's like up over sixty pressures right now through

1391
01:05:11,160 --> 01:05:17,400
Speaker 3: ten games. He is at let's seem give fifty four

1392
01:05:18,080 --> 01:05:21,160
Speaker 3: fifty four pressures To put that in perspective, Khalil Mack

1393
01:05:21,240 --> 01:05:24,560
Speaker 3: leads the Chargers with thirty one, like that's what Ray

1394
01:05:24,560 --> 01:05:27,120
Speaker 3: Anderson is doing. But they cannot find anyone opposite him.

1395
01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:29,200
Speaker 3: That's why they went shopping at the deadline, trying to

1396
01:05:29,240 --> 01:05:31,560
Speaker 3: find a second edge, and it's just not come together.

1397
01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:35,760
Speaker 3: So that's that's a lot different when you're Greg Roman

1398
01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:37,919
Speaker 3: and Coach Arbaugh and trying to scheme for that, like, okay,

1399
01:05:37,960 --> 01:05:40,480
Speaker 3: well wherever he is, hey, JK, you're now kind of

1400
01:05:40,520 --> 01:05:43,439
Speaker 3: and he's been great in pass bro JK has moved

1401
01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:45,200
Speaker 3: from my left hip to my right. Hit. Let's make

1402
01:05:45,240 --> 01:05:47,240
Speaker 3: sure you're over here, hey, will come on in motion,

1403
01:05:47,560 --> 01:05:49,400
Speaker 3: come set up right here, because we can deal with

1404
01:05:49,480 --> 01:05:51,520
Speaker 3: the rest of this. But as long as you're here,

1405
01:05:51,760 --> 01:05:53,640
Speaker 3: we have a little bit of time. And that's It's

1406
01:05:53,640 --> 01:05:56,360
Speaker 3: the other thing about fourteen for eighteen man Herbert got

1407
01:05:56,440 --> 01:05:56,920
Speaker 3: hit twice.

1408
01:05:57,680 --> 01:05:59,880
Speaker 1: It's not sacked, not sacked.

1409
01:06:00,280 --> 01:06:04,160
Speaker 3: He got hit pressured two times in that game, like

1410
01:06:04,240 --> 01:06:06,680
Speaker 3: the two I shouldn't say hit two pressures. One of

1411
01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:08,840
Speaker 3: them was that unblocked rush up the middle to Gibbons

1412
01:06:09,120 --> 01:06:11,120
Speaker 3: that he should have thrown a touchdown pass on. Like

1413
01:06:11,240 --> 01:06:13,000
Speaker 3: that's how well the line played last week, and you

1414
01:06:13,040 --> 01:06:14,200
Speaker 3: hope you can see more of that this week.

1415
01:06:14,520 --> 01:06:16,000
Speaker 2: I think the key to the game for the Chargers

1416
01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:18,320
Speaker 2: is keeping Burrow off the field. If they can do

1417
01:06:18,440 --> 01:06:20,800
Speaker 2: that with the running game, with just the emergence of

1418
01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:24,880
Speaker 2: gusts now with JK. I think if they win time possession,

1419
01:06:24,880 --> 01:06:26,440
Speaker 2: if they if they possess the ball for thirty.

1420
01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:27,960
Speaker 1: Five minutes, they're gonna win the football game.

1421
01:06:28,040 --> 01:06:30,880
Speaker 2: And yeah, I think you know the best way to

1422
01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:33,840
Speaker 2: combat Jamar Chase and T Higgins is Joe Burrow is

1423
01:06:33,920 --> 01:06:36,280
Speaker 2: keep him on the sideline and I think they can

1424
01:06:36,360 --> 01:06:39,640
Speaker 2: still accomplish that through the air. Just keep running the clockdown,

1425
01:06:39,720 --> 01:06:42,000
Speaker 2: man like, keep take the ard of the ball, take

1426
01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:44,680
Speaker 2: the Bengals offense off the field.

1427
01:06:44,640 --> 01:06:45,600
Speaker 1: And you win the football game.

1428
01:06:45,680 --> 01:06:45,880
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1429
01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:48,720
Speaker 3: And you know, for me, it's it's still that turnover.

1430
01:06:48,840 --> 01:06:51,640
Speaker 3: Create those turnovers. You know that the teams Herbert, you know,

1431
01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:54,640
Speaker 3: justin just set a new record last week seven consecutive

1432
01:06:54,680 --> 01:06:57,800
Speaker 3: games without an interception throw and that's a Charger record.

1433
01:06:57,880 --> 01:07:00,800
Speaker 3: Now he leaves the NFL and consecutive game and consecutive

1434
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:04,439
Speaker 3: passes without an interception. He's take care of the ball.

1435
01:07:04,520 --> 01:07:06,120
Speaker 3: And that's what I think went into a lot of

1436
01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:09,680
Speaker 3: those sacks, you know, when he was I think it

1437
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:13,760
Speaker 3: was twenty one sacks over five games or four games.

1438
01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:15,800
Speaker 3: It was twenty one over four. I think a lot

1439
01:07:15,840 --> 01:07:17,479
Speaker 3: of that was Our defense is great.

1440
01:07:19,200 --> 01:07:19,439
Speaker 4: JK.

1441
01:07:19,560 --> 01:07:22,600
Speaker 3: Scott is exceptional. Punt's okay, you know it's not what

1442
01:07:22,680 --> 01:07:24,360
Speaker 3: we want. We don't want you to take sacks. I

1443
01:07:24,400 --> 01:07:26,480
Speaker 3: don't want JK to punt the ball. But the one

1444
01:07:26,520 --> 01:07:28,720
Speaker 3: thing we really don't want is an interception and a turnover.

1445
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:30,680
Speaker 3: So don't feel like you got to force it because

1446
01:07:30,720 --> 01:07:33,160
Speaker 3: the defense is playing so well. Our special teams is

1447
01:07:33,200 --> 01:07:35,680
Speaker 3: so spot on that every now and then, if you

1448
01:07:35,680 --> 01:07:37,880
Speaker 3: got to eat it and you know it's a three

1449
01:07:37,920 --> 01:07:40,080
Speaker 3: and out, oh well we'll get it back and we'll

1450
01:07:40,760 --> 01:07:42,720
Speaker 3: you know, and we'll have another crack at it. Let's

1451
01:07:42,760 --> 01:07:44,720
Speaker 3: just not give them a short field. Let's not breathe

1452
01:07:44,720 --> 01:07:48,120
Speaker 3: any life into these offenses that we're playing when it's

1453
01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:53,320
Speaker 3: these sub five hundred teams, and just play efficient, complimentary football.

1454
01:07:53,480 --> 01:07:56,360
Speaker 3: And that's what this team's been doing. So create those turnovers,

1455
01:07:56,680 --> 01:08:01,600
Speaker 3: increase your margin and take away give away and you know,

1456
01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:03,720
Speaker 3: protect the football. Yeah, and I think you can. You

1457
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:05,200
Speaker 3: can get out of here with a victory.

1458
01:08:05,120 --> 01:08:07,440
Speaker 2: And final thing, flip the field. Like you mentioned, Darius

1459
01:08:07,480 --> 01:08:11,920
Speaker 2: Davis is welcome back. Last three yards punt returning in Cleveland,

1460
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:14,640
Speaker 2: fifty six yard kick return against the Titans.

1461
01:08:14,680 --> 01:08:16,440
Speaker 1: I mean that puts the charges in great positions.

1462
01:08:16,760 --> 01:08:20,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's it's backbreaking. You know, you're you're

1463
01:08:20,600 --> 01:08:24,479
Speaker 3: a you know, you're a defense and you want to

1464
01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:26,639
Speaker 3: get a you want to get you know, force him

1465
01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:28,519
Speaker 3: to go the entire length of the field and you

1466
01:08:28,560 --> 01:08:30,960
Speaker 3: get a nice punt or you know whatever, you get

1467
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:32,080
Speaker 3: it away and then all of a sudden you see

1468
01:08:32,080 --> 01:08:34,280
Speaker 3: a guy fielded at the sixteen and next thing you know,

1469
01:08:34,360 --> 01:08:35,840
Speaker 3: you look up and he's at your own thirty five,

1470
01:08:35,920 --> 01:08:38,320
Speaker 3: and it's like, yeah, it's tough. And now you're on

1471
01:08:38,439 --> 01:08:40,519
Speaker 3: your heels and you're trying to hold him to three.

1472
01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:42,120
Speaker 3: And next thing you know, something goes over your head.

1473
01:08:42,240 --> 01:08:45,439
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's look and Cam Dicker, of course perfect

1474
01:08:45,479 --> 01:08:49,240
Speaker 3: last week. I think, you know not I'm gonna say

1475
01:08:49,240 --> 01:08:51,479
Speaker 3: it because I don't. I don't want to. He really

1476
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:53,559
Speaker 3: likes kicking it so far. I'll just leave it at that. Yeah,

1477
01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:55,160
Speaker 3: I don't want to. I don't want to share any

1478
01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:59,439
Speaker 3: stats or anything. Although I did put the announcer's chinks

1479
01:09:00,120 --> 01:09:03,760
Speaker 3: on Nick Folk, did you yes, would say before the

1480
01:09:03,800 --> 01:09:07,080
Speaker 3: missed field goal that he had last week? I mentioned

1481
01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:10,000
Speaker 3: that right before they right as they were setting up

1482
01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:12,960
Speaker 3: the kick, I said, you know, Nick Folk has the

1483
01:09:13,080 --> 01:09:16,439
Speaker 3: longest streak of kicks made without a miss in the NFL.

1484
01:09:16,520 --> 01:09:20,120
Speaker 3: Right now, bang, see you later. It works both ways, people,

1485
01:09:20,479 --> 01:09:22,800
Speaker 3: The announcers chinks works both ways. If you're going to

1486
01:09:22,880 --> 01:09:26,280
Speaker 3: come after me for our guys, then at least give

1487
01:09:26,320 --> 01:09:27,519
Speaker 3: me my flowers for doing it.

1488
01:09:27,600 --> 01:09:29,960
Speaker 2: On the other the culture is good here, office, Defense,

1489
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:32,760
Speaker 2: special teams and broadcast booth all contributing.

1490
01:09:32,320 --> 01:09:35,720
Speaker 1: The charger exactly right, exactly Sunday Football. Anything else to

1491
01:09:35,760 --> 01:09:36,920
Speaker 1: ad Man, No, that's.

1492
01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:39,240
Speaker 3: Just excited, man. Show up with that same energy you

1493
01:09:39,320 --> 01:09:42,160
Speaker 3: had against the Titans and it's going to be great.

1494
01:09:42,240 --> 01:09:45,240
Speaker 3: You know, Mike Tarrico and Chris collins Worth out there

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Speaker 3: calling the game on Sunday night. I know Sad not

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Speaker 3: to have al around because it'd be a home game

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Speaker 3: for him and he'd always get excited when.

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Speaker 1: We run into the like.

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Speaker 3: I need more of these, I need more. Just keep

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Speaker 3: playing well so I can get some more flex so

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Speaker 3: I get home games. But it is instan Mike making

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Speaker 3: his way out from Detroit, and then the following week

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Speaker 3: of course the Harball, which we're all excited about. Let's

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Speaker 3: just hey, man, you're six and three and you got

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Speaker 3: eight games to go, and we've said forever it feels

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Speaker 3: like ten's gonna punch your ticket to the tournament. Keep

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Speaker 3: keep pushing forward, man, I gotta believe the black magic

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Speaker 3: that the Chiefs are practicing. Is gonna run out sooner

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Speaker 3: or later, and maybe there's still a window there knowing

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Speaker 3: that you got one more against them coming up in

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Speaker 3: a few weeks too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be Listen, this whole month is gonna

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Speaker 2: be fun. We get, like you said, Harball next week,

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Speaker 2: and then Kirk Cousins and Company in Atlanta, and then

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Speaker 2: Sinati Football Kansas City. You got the Broncos back here

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Speaker 2: in a few weeks.

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Speaker 1: So yeah. No short is of storylines here in the

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Speaker 1: AFC West too, is the Chargers try to punch their

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Speaker 1: ticket here hopefully in a few weeks for money.

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Speaker 3: Oh wait, I'm gonna add this.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 3: If you're only doing the audio component, do yourself a favor.

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Speaker 3: Go over to YouTube, pop over to Chargers dot com.

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Speaker 3: Check out the new studio. It's our debut run see

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Speaker 3: what they managed to put together again, another feather in

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Speaker 3: the cap of the Spanos family, sparing no spence for UH.

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Speaker 3: What is a humble abode for you and I Weekly

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Speaker 3: and all the great digital UH content we're going to

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Speaker 3: produce moving forward.

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Speaker 2: It's incredible and we've got a great crew behind the

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Speaker 2: camera right now doing this and they're all right, yeah,

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Speaker 2: best in the business, best in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys for money and Chris. This has been

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Speaker 1: charges weekly