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Speaker 1: night football edition of Chargers Weekly as always, joined by

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Speaker 1: Matt Bunny Smith Money. We're doing this two Sunday nights

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Speaker 1: in a row now. It's just been announced this week

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Speaker 1: that the Chargers and Chiefs and Sofi Stadium gonna be

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Speaker 1: a Sunday Night, but we'll be a Santa Clara This Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Tough game for the Chargers, but I want to start

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta and get your overarching takeaways like we do

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Speaker 1: to start the pod each and every week. Charges Escape. Man,

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Speaker 1: they're five and three. First quarters aren't pretty. They find

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Speaker 1: ways to win, and they did it again in the

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Speaker 1: atl Yeah. Look, you know, I said it on the broadcast.

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Speaker 1: Inauspicious start. You know, you got Tyler all year that

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Speaker 1: rips off a forty four yard run. It's it's hot

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Speaker 1: knife through butter against the defense on that first Atlanta

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Speaker 1: offensive possession. And then you know, you got a three

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Speaker 1: driving down the field with little resistance, it's like, man,

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Speaker 1: this is this is not good. And I think we

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Speaker 1: all had some suspicions and well, and by us, I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: we talked about it. I was like, this is gonna

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Speaker 1: have to be a Chargers outscore the Falcons because I

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Speaker 1: see some issues defensively, and that's kind of how it

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Speaker 1: was setting up. And unfortunately, the offense wasn't producing at

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Speaker 1: you credit the coaching staff, you know when you credit

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Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, because something clicked after they went down ten zero.

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Speaker 1: You know, they're facing a third and fifteen and all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, you know, Herbert climbs the pocket, delivers

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Speaker 1: little bit of rhythm, and your checkdowns are working, and

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Speaker 1: second quarter, and he's spreading the ball around. Michael Bandy's

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Speaker 1: getting your first downs and they're converting. I think on

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Speaker 1: They went big up front. You know, they added that

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Speaker 1: You know, they're they're definitely struggling a little bit more.

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Speaker 1: timely blitzes on third down something that we talked about.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to say, hey, I said this

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Speaker 1: I was like, dude, just keep guys up. You know,

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Speaker 1: kind of what my issue is with Dan. It's like, hey, dude,

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Speaker 1: this is not a singular issue. This isn't just Joe

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Speaker 1: Lombardi is calling a wrong, is calling his scheme is

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Speaker 1: You know, great story there, I want to say this

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Speaker 1: about he was going to a Carry Underwood concert. He

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Speaker 1: was going to carry Undwood concert and he said on

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Speaker 1: his way there, I gotta I gotta go to La right. Um.

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Speaker 1: I want to say this about Austin though, you know,

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Speaker 1: like for the fumbles. Yes, it's whatever he said it

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Speaker 1: and that's why I'm addressing it. But we're watching one

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Speaker 1: of the best running backs in the NFL every single week, Like,

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Speaker 1: do not get it twisted. This guy is going to

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Speaker 1: lead the NFL in scrimmage touchdowns again this season. He

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Speaker 1: is going to have more than twenty. His ability to

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Speaker 1: shed contact. The touchdown you talked about it, I called it.

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Speaker 1: I didn't call it a touchdown, And then when we

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Speaker 1: saw the replay, I did my touchdown. I did it

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Speaker 1: because I'm like, oh, yeah, he's in because we didn't

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00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:02,840
Speaker 1: see that opposite angle with the elbow. All we saw

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Speaker 1: was the knee. I was like, yeah, his knee is

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Speaker 1: not down. Holy cow, this is gonna be a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: And that just speaks to how like like, that's what

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Speaker 1: Austin is. He's not going down. Man. You think you

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00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,120
Speaker 1: got him his first touchdown, right, you think you got him?

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00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:18,119
Speaker 1: You pop him and he backs up two yards, doesn't matter,

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Speaker 1: into the end zone. Touchdown. Um, he's so good. There's

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Speaker 1: a play I remember there was a play in the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs game where he caught the ball behind the line

449
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Speaker 1: of scrimmage and there's gotta be four or five Chiefs

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Speaker 1: in front of him. First guy hits him, shakes him,

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Speaker 1: splits the next two stiff arms the next one. Like

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Speaker 1: he's so freaking good. Um he is. I got some

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Speaker 1: of my Eckler notes for the game here. Since since

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Speaker 1: last year, thirty scrimmage touchdowns, the next highest number is

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Speaker 1: Joe Mixon with twenty four. Like it's not even close.

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Speaker 1: He had five of them Sunday exactly. Yeah, and Joe

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Speaker 1: had five of those on Sunday exactly. He's got the

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Speaker 1: fifth most games with a rush and a receiving touchdown

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Speaker 1: in NFL history. Marshall falk Is has got fifteen of them,

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Speaker 1: and that's the most, and Eckler already has ten. He's

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Speaker 1: got four this year. The record for a single season

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Speaker 1: was Chuck Forman in nineteen seventy five. The record is five.

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Speaker 1: Like that's like, that's how good he is. Because the

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Speaker 1: Chargers have Justin Herbert and Derwin James and Joey Bosa

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Speaker 1: and Khalil Mack Like, I think Austin gets overlooked. I

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Speaker 1: really do, and it's crazy. And he's first in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm just blown through them all because there's

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Speaker 1: so many great ones and I'll get to him through

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Speaker 1: the course of the game. But he's first in the

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Speaker 1: NFL and yards after contact and I'm sorry, yards after

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Speaker 1: catch first in the NFL. Yards have to catch four

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty three better than Cooper Cup. Only Christian

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Speaker 1: McCaffrey has more ten plus receiving reception games. And that's

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Speaker 1: the guy. That's the guy you compare him to the

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Speaker 1: post I think over the last few years, and those

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Speaker 1: guys are going to share the field on Sunday. I mean,

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Speaker 1: those are probably the two best all around running backs

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Speaker 1: in the game in terms of catching the ball, being

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Speaker 1: relied upon to do a lot of different things. Um,

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Speaker 1: seeing Eckler and Christian on the field on Sunday is

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Speaker 1: gonna be a treat before we get into San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: Another tweet that you had listen, we've been banging that

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Speaker 1: Isaiah Spiller drum on charge of weekly all year. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: for sure, Chris, it's been that has been a Chris heverything.

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Speaker 1: For certain. You want to see here Isaiah Spiller? I do,

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Speaker 1: I do, And you know, I think we saw a

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Speaker 1: little bit of what he can provide to this offense

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Speaker 1: in giving Austin a little bit of a breath from

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Speaker 1: time to time two o'clock and then the past protection.

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Speaker 1: I mean the clip that you showed really encapsulates why

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Speaker 1: I think we need to see a little bit more

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Speaker 1: of Isaiah Spiller. Well that's the number one with rookies.

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Speaker 1: Can you you know, can you hold up in pass

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Speaker 1: pro and to see what he did? Shoot? Who was that?

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Speaker 1: It was the rookie, the former quarterback that became a

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Speaker 1: linebacker right in Montana. Shoot what is his name's at?

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Speaker 1: Troy Anderson. I think that's his goal. But just that play,

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Speaker 1: watching a running back not sit there and wait and

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Speaker 1: try to readirect, but like hey, I'm coming and I'm

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Speaker 1: coming for you, and to initiate contact and then when

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00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,679
Speaker 1: Justin's holding onto the ball trying to make something happen.

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Speaker 1: The key to that play was the secondary block because

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Speaker 1: a lot of times running backs will be like all right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got my guy. You know, and the next thing,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's like, oh no, you know, quarterbacks still

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Speaker 1: got the ball. You know, they got a clock in

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Speaker 1: their head and they're like, well, I'm sure the ball's out.

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Speaker 1: And for Isaiah to be like, no, I'm not done

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Speaker 1: with you. I'm freaking gonna declete you and throw you

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Speaker 1: three yards this way, I think it shows one strength

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Speaker 1: to recognition clock in his head. Just a savvy play.

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Speaker 1: It was a real savvy play. So for me, it's

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Speaker 1: I think that play. And look, he ran the ball

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Speaker 1: well too. I think he only had three carries, but

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Speaker 1: but he ran the ball really well, and I think

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Speaker 1: he's I think he's definitely earned more reps. We did

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Speaker 1: not see Sony much after that. It was Spiller and Anakler,

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of from They're like, okay, we can

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Speaker 1: trust him. You passed the test. Isaiah, you pass the test.

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Speaker 1: We asked you to pick up a block, you really

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Speaker 1: picked it up. So now Justin's feeling good about you

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Speaker 1: being back there. And he's not gonna second guess whether

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Speaker 1: or not a guy's gonna pick up a block if

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Speaker 1: he's gonna stand tall, and they're knowing a blitz is

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Speaker 1: coming because he sees it. We got a long way

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Speaker 1: to go too, right, you get you got nine more games.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna need to rely on this running game. Austin.

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Speaker 1: He's so public about the fact that he doesn't really

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Speaker 1: consider himself like this undisputed bellcal right. So you know,

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Speaker 1: with Josh down, hopefully Josh gets back here sooner than later.

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe you see a little bit more Isaiah's this

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Speaker 1: Sunday against the forty nine Ers. All right, money, let's

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Speaker 1: get into the San Francisco forty nine Ers Sunday night football.

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Speaker 1: Coming off of bye, they seem to figure something out

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Speaker 1: against the Rams. Christian McCaffrey looked like he's been there

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Speaker 1: all season. Brandon Ayuk his twenty one catches, two hundred

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Speaker 1: and forty six yards in three touchdowns the last three weeks.

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Speaker 1: We know George Kittles, George Kittle and Deebo Samuel is healthy.

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00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:23,159
Speaker 1: They are a force offensively. This will not be easy. Now,

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Speaker 1: it's a tough matchup this, you know, both sides of

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Speaker 1: the ball. It's a tough matchup for the Chargers. I

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00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 1: don't think there's any two ways about it. They run

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Speaker 1: the ball well, no matter who's you know, the running

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Speaker 1: back and now you've got arguably the best running back

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Speaker 1: in the NFL back there, So you know they're doing

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Speaker 1: it with six rounders and undrafted free agents. Doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: who Kyle Shanahan puts in the backfield, they're effective. And

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Speaker 1: now that that runner is Christian McCaffrey. And one of

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Speaker 1: the things I noticed in just kind of watching that

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Speaker 1: Rams game, and I think I watched the Rams game

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00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 1: and I watched the Atlanta game where they didn't play well,

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Speaker 1: but like, one of the things Jimmy Garoppolo is so

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Speaker 1: good at he's start deep, he'll he'll, he'll look for

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Speaker 1: that shot, and he's totally comfortable standing in the pocket

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00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,119
Speaker 1: and then you know, there's your outlet and there's freaking

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Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey just waiting, and two guys miss and it's

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00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,439
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty yards, like it's rough. The other thing they

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Speaker 1: do really well is their tight ends block and their

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Speaker 1: wide receivers block. It's like, it's not just the five

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Speaker 1: men up front that you're dealing with in these run games.

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Speaker 1: It's it's big thick Deebo, Samuel Brandon, I Yuke. You

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Speaker 1: know they're running three tight ends with Twelly and Kittle,

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Speaker 1: who's a you know, arguably the best all around tight

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Speaker 1: end in the league. They are blocking everyone. So that's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a challenge for a team that has struggled

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Speaker 1: to slow down the run. You know, they gave up

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Speaker 1: another two hundred yards did the Chargers last week against

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Speaker 1: the Falcons. And this team is considerably better at blocking

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Speaker 1: it up and h and running it. And you know

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Speaker 1: they do it in a very you know that's well,

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Speaker 1: it's not even a Sean mcbas style. It's the Kyle

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Speaker 1: shanahan style. It's where Sean McVay got it. But there's

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Speaker 1: just so much pre snap that you're trying to figure out.

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Speaker 1: You know, jet sweeps and here goes Ayuko and now

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Speaker 1: he's looping back and he's taking a pitch. Oh wait

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Speaker 1: a minute, now he's passing the ball. It's McCaffrey. It's

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Speaker 1: there's so much of that um So it's a real

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00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 1: it's a true riddle that you're trying to figure out

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Speaker 1: on offense. And it's going to be a heck of

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Speaker 1: a matchup between Brandon Staley and Kyle In this matchup,

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to see it because you know, you have

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Speaker 1: you have those Swiss army knives that can that can

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Speaker 1: make a difference. Right, you have Durwin James and Drew

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00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 1: Tranquil that are capable of, you know, kind of erasing

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Speaker 1: maybe not erasing mistakes, but just kind of overcoming maybe wins.

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Speaker 1: Up front, it's a really good offensive line now that

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Speaker 1: Trent Williams is back. I mean, when you go through it,

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Speaker 1: I'll just pull it up real quick. Whereas it like

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Speaker 1: you look at their pressures. I mean you've got outside

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Speaker 1: of McGlinchey, who Pro Football Focus is tagged with five

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Speaker 1: of their sacks you're talking about like no pressures. I

592
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 1: mean it's ten, it's twelve. It's things like that. So

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00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 1: they're really good at blocking out. Now, look, they don't

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Speaker 1: throw a lot, so there's that's also part of it.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you like the one of the weird

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00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 1: things about the about the forty nine ers, you'll get

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Speaker 1: their offense. Uh They've only run four hundred and eighty plays.

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Speaker 1: That's twenty ninth in the league. That's all they have run.

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Speaker 1: And yet their victories are the largest margin of victories

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. Like, in their wins, they have won

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Speaker 1: by an average of more points than any other team

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Speaker 1: in the league actually Jacksonville, but they only got three wins.

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Speaker 1: But you see what I'm saying, Like they've they've got

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Speaker 1: explosive plays down like that's and we talked about that

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Speaker 1: with the Falcons, right slow down the explosive plays. They

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Speaker 1: really just gave up the one and uh and they

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Speaker 1: were able to contain that offense. The Falcons offense to

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Speaker 1: seventeen points. So they're gonna have to do it again

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Speaker 1: in back to back weeks. And that's just the offense.

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Speaker 1: I mean, and I know, Chris, you'll get into the

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Speaker 1: defense and you know the headaches that that freaking unit causes. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: well that we'll get to that unit a second. I

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Speaker 1: feel like Atlanta right with with Huntley and a Jeer

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Speaker 1: and Patterson and London and Pitts like move everybody up

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00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: a tier, right, Kittle for Pitts, Ayuk for London and

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Speaker 1: then the Niners running game over Atlanta's running game with

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Speaker 1: with McCaffrey and deebo Um. But I tweeted this a

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Speaker 1: couple days ago, and and I just I don't know

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Speaker 1: what it means. It's just it's interesting to me. You

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Speaker 1: kind of alluded to it with the with the Niners.

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Speaker 1: Eight of their games this year have been decided by

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Speaker 1: nine points or more win or loss. So like they're

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Speaker 1: not playing The only close game they played money was

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Speaker 1: Sunday night against the Broncos. That that eleven ten game, right,

625
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,360
Speaker 1: and then the Chargers Their last three wins have come

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Speaker 1: by a combined eight points. So like, I guess that.

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Speaker 1: I guess that's good, right, you're winning close games. Um,

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Speaker 1: but I just think offensively, man, it's gonna be really tough.

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Speaker 1: You talked about like these chunk runs that they give

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Speaker 1: up each and every week. And with no Austin Johnson,

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00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: that's just another guy on the defensive line. Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to replace defensively. I think for Chargers fans,

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Speaker 1: Jason Varett is probably gonna make his return against the

634
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Speaker 1: Chargers on Sunday. And I know, you know if you

635
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 1: file this team for a long time, he was a

636
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 1: fan favorite here. He's overcome a lot of adversity. But

637
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: you mentioned I mean they have a lot of speed,

638
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 1: they're physical. Um, I don't know where you want to

639
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: start with that defense? Maybe Fred Warner, Well, I mean there,

640
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with Nick Bosa because that's gonna be

641
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: a problem. Yeah, that's that's gonna be a big problem

642
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 1: regardless of which side he lines up on. Jamari has

643
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 1: done a great job this year. I wasn't given up

644
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 1: a single sack. It looks like, I think, just kind

645
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 1: of based on what we're seeing at practice right now,

646
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 1: that it's gonna either be you know, it's probably gonna

647
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 1: be Storm or it's gonna be Foster Sarah. It doesn't

648
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: look like it's gonna be Trey. I know they're calling

649
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: him a game time, but you know, and look, he's

650
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: he's gutted it out, and I think it's just speaks

651
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: to how well traded. If he ain't gonna be one

652
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 1: hundred percent exactly, whoever Nick Bosa goes up against is

653
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: gonna be at a severe disadvantage. Um. And you know,

654
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 1: Eric Armstead is just getting back into the swing of things.

655
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 1: You know, he just showed up again after missing a

656
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 1: lot of games. So now you got him to deal

657
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: with on the interior, all six foot eight, three hundred

658
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,239
Speaker 1: forty pounds to him. Um. And and then like you

659
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 1: said that next level, you know, with green Law and

660
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: and Fred Warner in the middle of the field and

661
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 1: ebucom coming off one of those edges. You know, he's

662
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 1: got a coup. Like when you go through their defense,

663
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: there's just so many sacks, like you Ridgeways got a sack.

664
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: Uh Nick obviously is one of the league leaders with

665
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 1: eight and a half. Drake Jackson the rookies got three

666
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: of them. Uh Omanah, who's got three? Hyder's got one.

667
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: Arms you know, like we said, Armstead's just coming back.

668
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: He's only played three games and only played thirty snaps

669
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 1: against the Rams forty percent of the snaps because they're

670
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 1: easing him back in. Kevin Gibbons has got a sack.

671
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 1: Ebucom's got those three and a half. Fred Warner's got one.

672
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 1: Like they bring it from so many different places, and

673
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 1: it's it's gnarly. It's the one thing that I'm hopeful

674
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: is that maybe, like you said, Varette's gonna be back.

675
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 1: And we know how good he is when he's healthy.

676
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: He's just played so little football. Yeah, you know, I

677
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,400
Speaker 1: think you can get after their secondary a little bit. Um,

678
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: but do you have time, you know, will you have

679
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 1: time to get after that secondary is sort of the

680
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: big question. Yeah, and just you know, the personnel mismatch.

681
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: I guess with you know, Keenan as we tape this

682
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 1: has not practice this week. Um, I'm not sure if

683
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:43,799
Speaker 1: we're going to see him. Mike Williams won't be in

684
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,839
Speaker 1: the game, so they're gonna be riding with a lot

685
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 1: of the same dudes from last week. It's gonna be

686
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: a big game for Joshua Palmer, Jerald Everett's gonna have

687
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 1: to play mistake free football and in that running game. Um,

688
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 1: you know, Austin's gonna be a big part of it. Um,

689
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: whether it's Sony or Isaiah, Um, maybe you get Herbert

690
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 1: on the run a a bit more money, Like what

691
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,439
Speaker 1: what do you think the key is offensively? Knowing that

692
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: you know, we've talked about it every single week, like

693
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: without the speed on the field, going downfield could be

694
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 1: an issue. And if Justin doesn't have the time, it

695
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 1: makes it even harder. Well, I think you're gonna have

696
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 1: to move him. You know, you cannot just have him

697
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 1: drop back and go through progressions and throw. It's gonna

698
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: there's not gonna be a lot of time in there,

699
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:27,839
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be a lot of I think designed. Hey,

700
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 1: let's get some extraprit and look, we said this a

701
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 1: little bit last week, but man, the tight end's just

702
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:34,839
Speaker 1: got to do a better job of blocking. You know

703
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 1: that they're gonna need help. The five offensive linemen are

704
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 1: going to need help blocking, which means, you know, and

705
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,399
Speaker 1: you knew that when you signed Gerald Everett, that you're

706
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 1: signing more of a receiver than a blocking tight end

707
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:48,839
Speaker 1: or a full service tight end. And I think they

708
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:52,879
Speaker 1: avoided you know, I think they they avoided that by

709
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 1: you know, hoping that Tray McKitty was going to take

710
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: that next step as a blocking and full service tight

711
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 1: end and it just, for whatever reason, has not together

712
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: this year. He's really struggled the block this year. So

713
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:05,439
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna have to figure that out. Tight

714
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 1: Ends are going to have to help. Wide receivers are

715
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: going to have to help block, and when it's not

716
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: Mike Williams and keenan Anam out there doing the block,

717
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: and with all that size, that's very tough obviously, you know,

718
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: because of their their stature, Bandy and DeAndre Carter are

719
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,840
Speaker 1: not blocking wide receivers. It's just not how they're built.

720
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,359
Speaker 1: So they're you know, I think they're gonna be at

721
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: a pretty good disadvantage on that front against this pretty

722
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: nasty front of the forty nine ers. So I think

723
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 1: you're gonna see a lot of movement. It's gonna be

724
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: hard to run because you said Fred Warner you know,

725
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 1: and Dre greenlaw back they are both really good at

726
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 1: that next level of just click. Like when you look

727
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 1: and you know, when you look at a team and

728
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: you see their leading tacklers a safety, you're like, all right,

729
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 1: we're gonna get some runs off here. When you see

730
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 1: their two leading tacklers are both linebackers that creep up

731
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:56,720
Speaker 1: at the legs of scrimmage, you know you got problems.

732
00:36:56,719 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: What about who Fungo Man exactly second yeah, exactly, second

733
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: year out of out of USC you know, fifth round pick,

734
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 1: and he has really flashed as a playmaking safety. You know,

735
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 1: it just kind of flies all over the field. You

736
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 1: can take advantage of that aggressiveness a little bit. But

737
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 1: he's been really really good and he's their third leading tackler,

738
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:18,720
Speaker 1: you know, and has three interceptions, it has five tackles

739
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 1: for loss and has six passes defense. Like, he's been

740
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: really really good. So it's it's gonna be tough. It's

741
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 1: definitely gonna be a tough deal. They're gonna have to

742
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:32,800
Speaker 1: force a turnover or two. You know, we know Jimmy's

743
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 1: been Jimmy Garoppolo has been apt to throw up a

744
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 1: what the heck was he thinking ball or two in

745
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:41,399
Speaker 1: a game. And when that happens, because it's gonna happen,

746
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: and when it does, you gotta you gotta secure it.

747
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 1: Kind of going back to that Chiefs game in week

748
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 1: you know, week two, it's like, hey, you know that

749
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: Patrick Mullan's gonna throw some up for grabs and when

750
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,919
Speaker 1: he does, you gotta get them. And they got him,

751
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: and unfortunately they didn't get him. You know, of the

752
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 1: four you know, passes that were interception worthy, they had

753
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 1: their hands on two intercepted, one that got overturned by

754
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: a BS penalty. Then Assante just could not quite corral.

755
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: I thought he had it, but it was, you know,

756
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 1: close enough that they overturned it. So I think when

757
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 1: those opportunities present themselves, you know, you're gonna have to

758
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to cash it in. And I think,

759
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:16,919
Speaker 1: you know, Drwin and Drew are two of the guys

760
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:19,479
Speaker 1: I'm looking at to do that. In saying with Nas,

761
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,919
Speaker 1: you know, let's see if you can make Jimmy pay

762
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 1: for his sort of lax approach at times to throw

763
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:29,919
Speaker 1: on the ball downfield. Popper had his Predictions article this week,

764
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: and I think one of them was, Hey, Darwin's playing

765
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: great football right now. He's got three sacks, but he

766
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:36,839
Speaker 1: hadn't taken the ball away yet. He expects to see that,

767
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 1: and maybe that starts on Sunday. I mentioned this on

768
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 1: Monday too at Money. I feel like you have to

769
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 1: remember this rep against Kittle last year in training camp,

770
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 1: Like those dudes went at it and he picked off

771
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 1: Jimmy to close one of those practices and it was

772
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: one of the most intense battles I've seen in a

773
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 1: training camp. You know, those joint practices are fun because

774
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,120
Speaker 1: you really do see these guys go at it. But

775
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:03,280
Speaker 1: to see like all pro and all pro Kittle versus Darwin.

776
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: I'm sure we're gonna see Durwin all over the field,

777
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: but you're gonna see him on Kittle for stretches and

778
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:12,240
Speaker 1: I can't wait for that. Yeah, no doubt. And again,

779
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 1: that's the great thing about Derwin is you can choose

780
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: how you want to deploy him. There's so many different ways,

781
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,360
Speaker 1: and if it's Kittle, just to eliminate Kittle. I have

782
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:25,879
Speaker 1: full faith that Derwin's capable of neutralizing him. Um, if

783
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 1: you want to play, I like him close to the

784
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. I like him impact, and I like

785
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:32,800
Speaker 1: him close to the ball. You know, let's get Derwin

786
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 1: close to the ball where he can make plays. And look,

787
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 1: if you feel I see the problem is his man.

788
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:41,839
Speaker 1: Just that if you take away Kittle, you still got

789
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 1: Debo and Iyuke and McCaffrey. Like, there's a reason why

790
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 1: a lot of people think this is the team that's

791
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 1: gonna rep the NFC in the in the Super Bowl,

792
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,439
Speaker 1: even though they're four and four right now. Yeah, it's

793
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 1: it's a it's a pick your poison team. Hey, I

794
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: got good news though, pra A said Danny Marcus said

795
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 1: this to me justin Herbert is two and oh at

796
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: Levi's Stadium, thirty seven fifteen in the twenty nineteen Pack

797
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 1: twelve Championship game. You know what the other one was,

798
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: money man, what would the other one be? Would the

799
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: other one? I'll give you. I'll give you ten more

800
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 1: seconds and then I won't get it. Go ahead. The

801
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen Red Box Bowl. Oh, there go the Red

802
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: Box Bowl. I'm gonna read the lead from Timothy Rapp's

803
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen article for fans of low scoring, defensive stalemates.

804
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:32,240
Speaker 1: Oregon seven to six victory over Michigan State in Monday's

805
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 1: Red Box Bowl was thrilling theater for everyone else, though

806
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: reading a movie from Red Box might have been more exciting.

807
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 1: There you go. It goes back to, you know, what

808
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 1: we talked about at the start of the pod, right

809
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 1: of what Justin was asked to do it Oregon and

810
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 1: how they wanted him to play football. It was, unfortunately,

811
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:56,359
Speaker 1: you know, pounded into his football head. Do not turn

812
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 1: the ball over. Do not turn the ball over. Our

813
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 1: defense is good enough. And you know, at times, you know,

814
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:04,399
Speaker 1: perhaps what some of the national talking heads are looking

815
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:07,360
Speaker 1: at as him regressing to that mentality of you know,

816
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 1: we can't afford to turn the ball over if we

817
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 1: don't have we don't have our full complimental weapons, So

818
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: the last thing we can afford to do is give

819
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 1: it to the other team at an inopportune time. So, yes,

820
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 1: the Red Box Ball, I think illustrates that point perfectly.

821
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: But he won. And that's what this has been, That's

822
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,280
Speaker 1: what this season has been. Right the Chargers have won.

823
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 1: They are five and three, despite being down you know,

824
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:33,800
Speaker 1: all pros Joey Bosa, Rashaun Slater, Keenan Allen, Mike Williams,

825
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: Corey Lindsley for a while. Like they've managed, you know,

826
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: a hobble Justin Herbert with fractured rib cartilage since the

827
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 1: second half of Week two, and they've just won, you know,

828
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,239
Speaker 1: And these next two are going to be really tough

829
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 1: by no means conceding, but they're gonna be really toad.

830
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 1: That's why the Atlantic game was so important. I thought,

831
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,280
Speaker 1: it's like, yes, it's gonna be hard, but it's winnable.

832
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 1: These two were gonna be These are your two, I

833
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 1: think for the most part, especially with the injury to

834
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 1: Josh Allen right now and the uncertainty surrounding that elbow,

835
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 1: I think these are probably if you pulled you know,

836
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 1: the people that cover the league, these would be the

837
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 1: two picks for representing each conference in the Super Bowl.

838
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 1: I think you would see more people take the forty

839
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 1: nine Ers in Chiefs than any other teams right now

840
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 1: at this particular moment. And the Chargers are going to

841
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 1: have to face both of them severely undermanned, so they

842
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 1: can do it. They got Justin Herbert, they got Derwin Khalil,

843
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,319
Speaker 1: you know, tranquil on that side of the ball. They've

844
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: got Austin Eckler and Justin on the offensive side of

845
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 1: the ball. They can do it. It's just going to

846
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 1: be mistake free, no explosive plays. You've got to execute

847
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: on third down and try to keep the ball out

848
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 1: of their hands and try to maintain a drive and

849
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 1: not have too many three and outs where you're already

850
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,919
Speaker 1: thin defense against a very physical offense that just wants

851
00:42:56,960 --> 00:43:00,040
Speaker 1: to run the heck out of it and pound you

852
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 1: all game. Lounched in the fourth quarter, you just kind

853
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: of fall apart. That's just the style of game the

854
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 1: forty nine ers want to play. Listen, we know Sunday

855
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: is gonna be a challenge if I could just look

856
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 1: ahead because the team's not, but we can That Chiefs

857
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: game is going to be critical. Man. If you if

858
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 1: you beat the Chiefs, and I'm looking at this two

859
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: game stretch. Of course you want to beat the Niners

860
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 1: and you want to get the six and three, but

861
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,919
Speaker 1: if you beat the Chiefs, you're you're three and one

862
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,839
Speaker 1: in the division. You've split the series. You still play

863
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: Vegas in Denver, both are struggling. You put yourself in

864
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 1: just excellent position for a division title or at least

865
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 1: a wildcard in an AFC right now, where I think

866
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 1: there's nine teams competing for seven spots. I think that's

867
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 1: kind of what it's going to be throughout this back

868
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: half with the Patriots and the Bengals and the Dolphins

869
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:57,239
Speaker 1: and the Jets and the Chargers. But again, I'm not

870
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: discounting this week at all, but I'm just looking. I'm

871
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: looking for next week because I think maybe more guys

872
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 1: can come back, maybe the more guys are eligible to

873
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:08,759
Speaker 1: come back for the Chargers, and you know, and if

874
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 1: you can get an NFC win on the roads sen

875
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 1: and night football man, even better, get to six and

876
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 1: three with a little momentum going into back to back

877
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:17,880
Speaker 1: senter night games. I think you said it. It's not

878
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 1: gonna be easy. It's gonna take almost a perfect game.

879
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 1: I think, just the way the teams are playing right now,

880
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 1: the personnel that's available. Look, the forty nine Ers have

881
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: been racked with injury, but they're getting their guys back.

882
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,479
Speaker 1: You know. Trent Williams is back, Eric Armstead is back,

883
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 1: Nick Bosa is out there, i Yuka is out there.

884
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:38,400
Speaker 1: You know, they've acquired Christian McCaffrey, like they their guys

885
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 1: are back. Jason Verrette you talked about, you know, making

886
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 1: his debut, like they're getting guys back. The Chargers don't

887
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 1: have them yet. They just gotta figure out how to

888
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: tread water until because they're coming. Mike Williams is gonna

889
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 1: be there. You know, Keenan's gonna they're gonna just rest

890
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: him because obviously they tried to get him back in

891
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:58,319
Speaker 1: that Seattle game and just wasn't happening. So they'll just

892
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:00,359
Speaker 1: have to keep resting him until that hammy is right,

893
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 1: which I'm assuming he'll be. I'm hoping it is in

894
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks. My gosh, you know, eight

895
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 1: nine weeks on a hammy is just unheard of, so

896
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that's going to be. You know, Keenan's back

897
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: by Arizona, Mike's back by Arizona, maybe Joey is back

898
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:16,719
Speaker 1: by Miami. You know, they're talking about Rashawn Slater as

899
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 1: crazy it is to think, you know, if you make

900
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 1: the playoffs that Rashaan could be available. So they've just

901
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:24,759
Speaker 1: gotta you know, I think ten and seven. Just kind

902
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,319
Speaker 1: of think that. Keep thinking ten and seven. How do

903
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:30,879
Speaker 1: we get to ten and seven? You know, figure out

904
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: how to get there how whatever the path looks like,

905
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 1: don't care how ugly it is, because if this team

906
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 1: gets in the tournament and they are healthy and all

907
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 1: those guys are back, then we're going to feel the

908
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:43,360
Speaker 1: way we did after six quarters of football between the

909
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:46,239
Speaker 1: Raiders and Chiefs and coming out of Kansas, you know,

910
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 1: coming out of the half of Kansas City. You know,

911
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:52,359
Speaker 1: I just I liken this to last year with like Cincinnati,

912
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 1: Like nobody thought Cincinnati was a super Bowl team at

913
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:58,359
Speaker 1: this time last year, right, and they caught fire and

914
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 1: they started to jell as its team. And I'm not

915
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:04,839
Speaker 1: comparing that Dischargers team to them. I'm just saying it's

916
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:07,759
Speaker 1: it's a long season. It's seventeen games, man, Like, There's

917
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: a lot that's going to happen the back half of

918
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 1: this year. I guess the biggest thing, money is they

919
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: can't lose anybody else, Like they can't lose anybody else

920
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 1: like a lost Austin Johnson. Like every week it's somebody

921
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 1: last thing I want to talk to you about, and

922
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:24,920
Speaker 1: This probably doesn't mean anything, but I find these kind

923
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 1: of storylines fascinating. Right, the forty nine were here last year,

924
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 1: um Stanley had to scheme up. I guess forty nine

925
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,840
Speaker 1: ers when he was with the Rams. Anthony Lynn is

926
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 1: the assistant head coach running backs coach for the forty

927
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 1: nine ers, so he's Christian McCaffrey as his pupil. I

928
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: find that kind of fascinating because because coach Lynn, he

929
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:48,759
Speaker 1: knows a lot of these guys. I don't know if

930
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: that helps the Niners. I don't know if it helps

931
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 1: Brandon Stanley that he's he has a little more familiarity

932
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 1: with with the forty nine ers and Sebastid Joseph Days here,

933
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: Troy Readers here. Where do you fall when you talk

934
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: talk about coaches at different places and how that may

935
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:06,839
Speaker 1: impact a football game. Yeah, I don't put too much

936
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:11,720
Speaker 1: into it, just because of how you know, how large

937
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 1: football coaching staffs and front offices are now. You know,

938
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 1: they have so many people going over film and there

939
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: are so many different things now available, so many more

940
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:25,319
Speaker 1: data points that are being you know, dissected, and you're

941
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: trying to find, you know, trying to live on those

942
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,839
Speaker 1: margins and find something you can exploit. So I think

943
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: that's just become a little bit more prevalent in football

944
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:35,319
Speaker 1: as opposed to, Oh, this coach kind of knows the

945
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 1: tendencies of these players and the way they want to

946
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: call the game. I think there is something to it.

947
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 1: You know, certainly, it doesn't hurt. I don't think it

948
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 1: hurts at all to be able to say, you know

949
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:45,959
Speaker 1: what I noticed. You know, it's like if there's a tell,

950
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: like if they can say, hey, I know when this

951
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: guy's you know, going to take a shot, this is

952
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:53,440
Speaker 1: how he holds his foot prior to the snap, or like,

953
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 1: you know, things like that. I think that's where it

954
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 1: could come into play in terms of kind of having

955
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: an advantage for for Staley because he coached those two

956
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 1: games against you know, Kyle and the and the forty

957
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 1: nine ers. I mean, Kyle is Kyle Shanahan has destroyed

958
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: the Rams his entire career as the head coach of

959
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:13,239
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. Just one of those things, you know,

960
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:15,839
Speaker 1: the Rams beat the snot out of the Cardinals, and

961
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers beat the snot out of the Rams.

962
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:19,839
Speaker 1: It's just the way it works. I don't know why,

963
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 1: but it is so I think I'd like to distance

964
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:25,799
Speaker 1: Brandon Staley from the Rams days when it comes to

965
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,919
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers, because that has not gone well

966
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:32,480
Speaker 1: for Sean McVay since he became the head coach from

967
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:34,279
Speaker 1: the guy who mentored him and taught him everything he

968
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:35,880
Speaker 1: kind and well taught him a lot of what he

969
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 1: knows offensively. So it's ultimately it comes down to players.

970
00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:43,759
Speaker 1: You know, it comes down to the players and executing

971
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 1: the plays that you know you're being called to execute

972
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 1: because typically there's gonna be somebody open, there's gonna be

973
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 1: something to you know, or there's gonna be you know,

974
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 1: if you're on defense, you're gonna be able to take

975
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 1: advantage of a mismatch in front of you, and when

976
00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 1: when it's there, you've just got to I think that's

977
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 1: that's kind of what what it breaks down to. You know,

978
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:06,840
Speaker 1: the Chargers look at last week, right Austin fumbles, the

979
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons get it, and then they fumble again, and

980
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:12,719
Speaker 1: instead of hanging their heads from being right there for

981
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: a game winner, you know, they just reset. Justin throws

982
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:18,360
Speaker 1: a strike to Josh Palmer for twenty two yards in

983
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 1: Bank games over you know, take advantage of the opportunities

984
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: that are presented to you. When they were able to

985
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 1: do that, the Falcons were not. Camer Dicker looks like

986
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 1: he's in line to maybe start too. On Sunday night,

987
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 1: Um listen, two field goals in the fourth quarter. Didn't

988
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 1: really know his teammates practice for a couple of days,

989
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:37,320
Speaker 1: got all a plane, uh and did his thing. The

990
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 1: charges events some good luck kicking with all these guys.

991
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:43,439
Speaker 1: Bertat Hopkins, you know, so Um can do no wrong

992
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:46,560
Speaker 1: this year with the Times on fire, I'm sure he's

993
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:50,880
Speaker 1: just like sweet Jesus on fire. It's it's there's a

994
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 1: funny video too for the people that might not have

995
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 1: seen it. Van Noys miked up and he's asking people

996
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 1: what the kicker's name is. It's really funny when they

997
00:49:57,280 --> 00:49:59,399
Speaker 1: tell him it's Dick or he's like, come on, it's

998
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 1: and then. But my favorite part of that video though,

999
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 1: is is when he sees him, he's like, oh man,

1000
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 1: look at that slow walk. He's confident. He's confident, and

1001
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 1: he's and I'll tell you this man, when he kicked

1002
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:13,720
Speaker 1: that one to tie it at seventeen. Uh. DJ always

1003
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:15,880
Speaker 1: makes fun of me for getting too excited about special

1004
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 1: teams about punters and kickers and stuff. Um, but when

1005
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:23,160
Speaker 1: he kicked that that field goal to make it seventeen,

1006
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 1: all man, it just sounded different. He's got that. Dude's

1007
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 1: got a powerful leg. There are certain and I think

1008
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:32,840
Speaker 1: I just picked up on it from doing the combine

1009
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 1: and being one of them. Listen, we've had we've had

1010
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 1: like maybe I don't know what the what the podcast

1011
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:40,040
Speaker 1: awards are with the record, I would I would submit

1012
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 1: our our punting episode, uh in like March for like

1013
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:47,279
Speaker 1: for an award for some sort Yeah, for the rip

1014
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 1: Rey Guy Award exactly and uh in punting analysis. But no, seriously,

1015
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:55,400
Speaker 1: like like Bicker's kick sound different. He's he's got a

1016
00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:59,359
Speaker 1: big leg. I mean he can really that thirty seven

1017
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:01,000
Speaker 1: yarder for the win. That thing would have been good

1018
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:03,800
Speaker 1: from fifty five. I mean that thing was a monster.

1019
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:07,760
Speaker 1: So yeah, get back out there. It's gonna be important,

1020
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: you know, especially if you're in a tight game and

1021
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:11,399
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers are not used to that. See

1022
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:13,840
Speaker 1: if you can get one of them in opportune Jimmy Garoppolo,

1023
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:15,840
Speaker 1: what the heck was he thinking? Throws? Take advantage of it,

1024
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:18,480
Speaker 1: get a win. That's it. Back to back games on

1025
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 1: a national stage. Man, are you ready for Santa Clara.

1026
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 1: It's not San Francisco, It's Santa Clara. Santa Clara. It's

1027
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 1: not San Francisco, it is It is Santa Clara. It

1028
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 1: is a considerable distance from San Francisco that when we arrive,

1029
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:35,439
Speaker 1: nobody will be going out in San Francisco. So yes,

1030
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:38,360
Speaker 1: I think it's fair to call it Santa Clara. No chance.

1031
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 1: All right, guys, always appreciate you listening, watching. We'll see

1032
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 1: what happens up up in the Bay on Sunday, and

1033
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:47,879
Speaker 1: then get ready for the Chiefs. We'll have you covered

1034
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:51,120
Speaker 1: next week. For money, I'm Chris. This has been charges week.