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Speaker 1: All right, guys, Before we get started today, a big

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Speaker 1: Surface at surface dot com and welcome in to the

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Speaker 1: Final Drive as the Chargers win a thriller in the

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Speaker 1: Desert twenty five twenty four over the Arizona Cardinals on

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Speaker 1: their final drive of the game. As always, joined by

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Speaker 1: senior writer Eric Smith. Haley Elwood on assignment today, so

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Speaker 1: she won't be joining us, but well, miss Haley, Eric,

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Speaker 1: let's get straight to businessman. That was a fork in

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Speaker 1: the road moment for this Chargers team. And as soon

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Speaker 1: as that two point conversion went down, I said, in

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Speaker 1: point for the twenty twenty two season, no doubt, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: And we talked last week on this podcast right that

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Speaker 1: at least I said that Sunday was a must win

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Speaker 1: for the Chargers and and I know maybe the Charger

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Speaker 1: didn't like players and coaches didn't publicly come out and

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Speaker 1: say that last week or even after the game. You know,

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Speaker 1: they all kind of downplayed it a little bit. Um.

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Speaker 1: I think Drwin was the only one who came out

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Speaker 1: and said, you know, yeah, we we had to have

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Speaker 1: this one. But they did. They did. They couldn't go

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Speaker 1: to couldn't go to to five and six. Overall, they

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Speaker 1: needed to keep pace in the AFT playoff race, considering

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Speaker 1: the other teams also won yesterday. And I think even

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Speaker 1: though they might not have publicly set it the actions

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Speaker 1: of going for two, we knew and they knew too,

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Speaker 1: that this was the game they had to have. I

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Speaker 1: think a fork in the road is a great way

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Speaker 1: to put it. They chose the right path, they chose

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Speaker 1: the right call to go for two. I'm in full

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Speaker 1: support of that, not just because it worked. I said

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Speaker 1: before they even got the ball back, I turned to

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Speaker 1: someone in the press box and said, hey, if we

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Speaker 1: can score, go for two, because that's where we're at

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Speaker 1: in the game, in the season. And it all worked out.

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Speaker 1: I love the call, and I think it wasn't just

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Speaker 1: so much the win, but the manner in which they

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Speaker 1: won that. I think this locker room really really needed.

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Speaker 1: They needed a win like that to I think help

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Speaker 1: propel what they want to accomplish these last six games. Right,

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Speaker 1: they're six and five. Not only did they need that

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Speaker 1: five hundred to be six and five. But the Bengals

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Speaker 1: won yesterday, the Jets won yesterday. You're now tied with

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Speaker 1: the Patriots, one game back of those guys, and there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of games we can get into later in

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Speaker 1: week thirteen with playoff implications. But I think just the

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Speaker 1: talked to Keenan Allen on the field and I asked them,

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Speaker 1: you know, when you see that call come in that

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Speaker 1: he goes, yes, he wanted the ball in the offense's hands.

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Speaker 1: They obviously had that play with Gerald Everett and in

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Speaker 1: the playbook for a long time. Apparently they've worked on it,

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Speaker 1: and boy did a payoff. Yeah, that play had It

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Speaker 1: was in the playbook for sure, but it was in

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Speaker 1: the back pocket of the playbook because they've ran that

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Speaker 1: similar play or a variation of that play so many times.

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Speaker 1: Then I think the most notable play is the pick

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Speaker 1: six that Herbert threw against Casey back in week two.

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Speaker 1: You know, um, we all know that Everett kind of

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Speaker 1: everyone else did too, and then the titand goes back

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Speaker 1: inside wide open. I mean, a great play call by

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Speaker 1: I think the Chargers have ran that play a dozen times,

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Speaker 1: like so many times at times, so many times that

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Speaker 1: people like you and I can recognize that when they

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Speaker 1: I agree a thousand percent with the way they won

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Speaker 1: the last few weeks. Man, It's it's tough when you

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Speaker 1: lose close games. And you can fight and you can

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Speaker 1: compete and you can try hard, but if you lose,

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Speaker 1: that wears on you. And I could tell, like being

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Speaker 1: I think like it's full team ahead right now. We

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Speaker 1: got six games last. It's no time to go UM

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Speaker 1: and Sunday with yesterday with a great dep in the

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Speaker 1: right direction. You know, it didn't start great. Like a

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Speaker 1: slow start, you use, you lose a key player in

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Speaker 1: pro left tackle obviously all year long. UM, and you

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Speaker 1: think that, oh, you know, this could be trouble. We're

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Speaker 1: down ten nothing. UM. The run defense, UM is still

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Speaker 1: best game by far of the season. Kyler Murray was

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Speaker 1: doing his thing on the ground. But yet they persevere,

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Speaker 1: they buckled down, and they find ways to win Layton games.

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Speaker 1: And you have to give the defense a ton of

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Speaker 1: Justin Herbert and you know, I know Brandon Staley said

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Speaker 1: this in the locker room. It didn't go down for

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Speaker 1: the extra effort to get that touchdown. He didn't even

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Speaker 1: I think just the grit of this team was on display.

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Speaker 1: It has not been pretty this season by any stretch.

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Speaker 1: Yet you're six and five, you're right in the mix

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Speaker 1: You're starting to see guys come back. We're seeing with

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Speaker 1: still a long way away until we're not going to

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Speaker 1: We'll get an update from Coach Daily later today. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: Right to play the fake handoff in the flash, photographer

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Speaker 1: Man seven for seventy three and the touchdown apartment. Omar

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Speaker 1: wrote about DeAndre for Chargers dot Com. Right, So, like,

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Speaker 1: also catching some touchdowns for the first time in his career.

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Speaker 1: And I think when you have a quarterback like Justin Herbert,

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Speaker 1: And you know, I thought DeAndre played great going back

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Speaker 1: DeAndre is not gonna win any like Team MVP award,

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Speaker 1: but he'd got to be up there for like unsung

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Speaker 1: these next two weeks Erica are going to be a

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Speaker 1: We did not jump up any spots, but we didn't

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Speaker 1: jumbled up at that point. So yeah, like again charges

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Speaker 1: us to need to be the Raiders to make sure

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Speaker 1: for sure, And you know we have to preface it

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Speaker 1: win first because if all the other if all the

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Speaker 1: it's a moot point. If it really is a moot point,

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Speaker 1: because then we don't we don't gain ground. And at

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Speaker 1: some point, like while it's fine like yesterday we kept paid,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's only six games left, at some point

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Speaker 1: this is week thirteen is the week to do it. Yep,

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Speaker 1: no question about it, man. Any final thoughts is we

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Speaker 1: get out of here? Man? I needed some title on

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Speaker 1: all after that game yesterday it was it was chaotic,

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Speaker 1: but you know it's the Chargers. So I have a

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Speaker 1: big bottle of my backpack. It's just every week, man,

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Speaker 1: you're just popping that tie on all because it's it's

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Speaker 1: such a crazy, crazy season. Um, but this did this

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Speaker 1: is like, like I said, this is my favorite time

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Speaker 1: games left. It's time for them to show what they're

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Speaker 1: made of. December of football from one desert to another. Right,

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Speaker 1: December football starts in Las Vegas on Sunday for the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: They get a huge, much needed victory twenty five twenty

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Speaker 1: four over the Cardinals the Safe Arm Stadium. For Eric Smith,

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Speaker 1: I'm Chris Harry. What have you covered on Chargers Weekly? Eric?

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Speaker 1: I have you covered on Chargers dot com all week

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Speaker 1: long to get you ready for this big divisional matchup.

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Speaker 1: It's Raiders week for Eric. I'm Chris. This is the

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Speaker 1: final drive