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Speaker 1: final Drive after the Chargers lose thirty eight to ten

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Speaker 1: to the Jacksonville Jaguars at Soapy Stadium as always, joined

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Speaker 1: by Haley Elwood and senior writer Eric Smith, and guys,

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Speaker 1: I figured I just set you up with the facts

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Speaker 1: from yesterday. Really no positives from this game. You lose

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Speaker 1: thirty eight to ten. Your quarterback guts it out. The

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguar offense ran seventy five plays. They were on

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Speaker 1: And you know the one touchdown they had it was

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Speaker 1: There were a ton of injuries in this game, Rashaun Slater,

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Speaker 1: took everybody by suprise. Haley. I'll start with you just

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Speaker 1: no positives to be taken away from what happened on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: I think the most disappointing thing that I literally had

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Speaker 1: the realization of this morning is that they had ten

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Speaker 1: to lose in a blowout to Jacksonville was just extremely

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Speaker 1: disappointing and disheartening, and we knew justin obviously wasn't going

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Speaker 1: to be one hundred percent. He's probably not going to

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Speaker 1: be one hundred percent of daily alluded you know, for

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Speaker 1: It just kind of lingers. And obviously as a quarterback,

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Speaker 1: so you know that he's not one hundred percent. But

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Speaker 1: I think I was just most disappointed in the defense.

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Speaker 1: And obviously, sure you lose Joey one hundred percent, he

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Speaker 1: all we've talked about is the impact of Bosa and

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Speaker 1: Leading into this game, I was listening to Sirius XM

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Speaker 1: this team needs to have Bosa and Mac come off

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Speaker 1: the edge and just affect Trevor Lawrence and get to him. Well,

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Speaker 1: when you lose fifty percent of that, it makes it

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Speaker 1: I think it was just really just a bummer to

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Speaker 1: get guys hopefully healthy, but then you have the litanium

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Speaker 1: injuries that happened yesterday. And as someone who's been with

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Speaker 1: That was a really, really tough one because it made

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Speaker 1: me think back in twenty fifteen, I think the Chargers

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Speaker 1: turn this around. Yeah, Eric, we talk about injuries and

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Speaker 1: I mean, I did not expect thirty eight to ten.

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Speaker 1: I look at the injuries Corey Lindsley and Keenan Allen.

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Speaker 1: I said before the game that they had to establish

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Speaker 1: just wonder. We were so high on Isaiah Spiller in

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Speaker 1: They gotta get Mike involved much more similar to what

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Speaker 1: you're not you know, it's tough, and you obviously don't

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Speaker 1: to have someone like that, um, it reminded me a

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Speaker 1: lot of when I was earlier in my Charger's career,

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Speaker 1: Like Eric Weddle was kind of always that guy like

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Speaker 1: when when bad losses happened, he always had really thoughtful

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Speaker 1: things to say, and you always know you could go

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Speaker 1: to him, and so I'm with you. Credit to Drew

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Speaker 1: on that one big time. Yeah, Chris, I'm I'm definitely

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Speaker 1: glad that you brought that up. UM, shout out to Drew. Like,

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Speaker 1: if we're being honest, there weren't there weren't many guys

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Speaker 1: who who stood up and talked after that loss. UM,

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Speaker 1: which I get that you're mad, you know, but UM,

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Speaker 1: you know, I thought there'd be a couple more guys

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Speaker 1: I thought there'd be a little bit more of that. UM.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, just fascinated. I'm it was a terrible lot.

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Speaker 1: But after that, like, okay, let let's go. Let let's

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Speaker 1: see what what what happened now? Yep, and it starts.

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Speaker 1: It starts today, really, Coach Steely will we'll address the media, UM,

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Speaker 1: hopefully we'll get a little more clarity on some of

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Speaker 1: these injuries that happened not only in the game, but

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Speaker 1: have have lingered around this team for the last few weeks, UM,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully slowly get back to as full strength as

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Speaker 1: you could possibly be. UM. And I think with Justin,

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Speaker 1: as far as Justin's concerned, I think this is just

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Speaker 1: gonna be a tricky situation, and it really is going

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Speaker 1: to be something where I think for Justin, he's got

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Speaker 1: to do what he can do. Um, he's also got

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Speaker 1: to be smart, and you know, you just hope that

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Speaker 1: he stays safe on the field throughout this season and

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Speaker 1: can can lead this team to some wins, you know,

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Speaker 1: because I know that's what he wants to do. You know,

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Speaker 1: he said he said he wanted to be out there

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Speaker 1: with his teammates to close the game. And I know

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Speaker 1: that's important to him and it's important to the team.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I want to see the Justin Herbert

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Speaker 1: from from last year for a long time in this league.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see how it goes. Do you guys have

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Speaker 1: any final thoughts? I don't think so. I think just

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Speaker 1: insummation of what everyone has said. I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's on to Houston, It's onto this next couple chunk is.

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Speaker 1: You know. I like to say, they don't you know,

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Speaker 1: you mentioned it. They don't look ahead. We can and

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Speaker 1: it is going to be fascinating to use a word

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Speaker 1: of Eric to see how they respond and how they

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Speaker 1: turn this around and what happens over these next few weeks. Yep.

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Speaker 1: Eric final word. I know, I'm good. I have to

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Speaker 1: go grind the tape now, CO grind the tape. That's

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Speaker 1: gonna do it for us, guys. We'll be back next

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Speaker 1: Monday after the Chargers Texans game. For Haley and Eric,

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Speaker 1: I'm Chris. We'll see next time. M m hmm