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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Chris Harry with you on the Chargers Training

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Speaker 1: Camp Podcast. Today, I'm joined by former All Pro linebacker

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Speaker 1: Shawn Merriman. Merriman and I look ahead to Sunday's preseason

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Speaker 1: opener in Los Angeles. We also discuss his visit this

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Speaker 1: offseason with the Chargers rookies, spending last weekend with LT,

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Speaker 1: and whether or not he thinks his single season sack

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Speaker 1: record could be in jeopardy in twenty seventeen. Okay, it's

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Speaker 1: my pleasure of bringing the former All Pro Shawn Merriman

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Speaker 1: to the Chargers Training Camp podcast. Can follow him on

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Speaker 1: Twitter and Instagram at Shawn Merriman. Sean. Appreciate you joining me, man.

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Speaker 1: How you doing? How everything? Everything is good? It's it's

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Speaker 1: starting to get real here in LA. We got a

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Speaker 1: football game at StubHub Center on Sunday, Seawan, and having

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Speaker 1: spent six seasons with this organization and being so familiar

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Speaker 1: be looking forward to this landmark weekend for the franchise.

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Speaker 1: It is, it is, and it's monumental if you really

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Speaker 1: look at it across the board and making a move. Um,

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Speaker 1: And I think that the guys are starting to really

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Speaker 1: known for a long time. And they have a good

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Speaker 1: opportunity to come here and really do some things and

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Speaker 1: and new eyes. And then that's that's what's the most

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Speaker 1: exciting part about it. You know, you start over fresh um,

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Speaker 1: you got a great team this year. They got some

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Speaker 1: players coming in. It's going to help the team out

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Speaker 1: a lot. And it's exciting time for everybody. Should be

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Speaker 1: really exciting for them. It's shown. I know there's a

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Speaker 1: few things that fans in LA like, right They like

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Speaker 1: the glitz, and I think you're going to get that

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Speaker 1: with that unique experience as a StubHub center. They like stars,

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Speaker 1: and I think this roster has a ton of them.

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Speaker 1: And then obviously it comes down to winning, and I

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Speaker 1: think this team has a real shot to win a

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Speaker 1: and you're right about that. I mean, this is LA, man.

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Speaker 1: I mean people like personality and h They like people

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Speaker 1: And this is a team with great personality. You know,

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Speaker 1: you look at some of the stuff with Melvin Ingram,

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Speaker 1: who many people know that will will open up his

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Speaker 1: know you have you know guys who a little bit

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Speaker 1: You know, these fans here in La are very familiar

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Speaker 1: have the best team on paper, great guys, personality, characters

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Speaker 1: Winning it is over everything, and they have an opportunity

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Speaker 1: In twenty seventeen, you played with Rivers and you played

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Speaker 1: And over the past couple of years shown this team

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Speaker 1: had eleven fourth quarter leads and they just couldn't hold

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Speaker 1: And it's hard to even put together those numbers. Think

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Speaker 1: have guys like Keenan Allen coming back was just another

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Speaker 1: there weren't many players who got to the quarterback as

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Speaker 1: When you study their game, what jumps out to you

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Speaker 1: They have with Joey Folst and Melvin Ingram, two capable

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Speaker 1: Leslie O'Neill hold the Charger single season sack record with seventeen.

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Speaker 1: I think that I really do believe that botha Joey

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Speaker 1: Every team in the AFC West has pass rushers. You

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Speaker 1: And we know about the weapons that Philipps on the outside,

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Speaker 1: I wish you the best of the Lucky's Shawn Merriman.

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Speaker 1: You can follow him on Twitter on Instagram at Shawn

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