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Speaker 1: Hey guys, Chris Harry with you on the Chargers Podcast Network,

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Speaker 1: and this is the Backstage Chargers Podcast presented by your

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Speaker 1: Southern California Toyota Dealers. This week, I sit down with

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Speaker 1: the Chargers equipment staff as they prepare for a short

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Speaker 1: week to Oakland, then a week long trip to Colorado Springs,

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Speaker 1: capped off by Monday night football against the Kansas City

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Speaker 1: Chiefs in Mexico City. It's one of my favorite episodes

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Speaker 1: of the year. You'll hear how much detail and preparation

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Speaker 1: goes into these trips and just how integral these guys

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Speaker 1: are to the success of the team. So let's get

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Speaker 1: right to it. Here's equipment manager Chris Smith and his

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Speaker 1: all Star staff coming to you from the Chargers equipment room.

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Speaker 1: One of the more fun things we do each season

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Speaker 1: as we sit down with the equipment staff, Chris Smith

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Speaker 1: and his crew as all Star crew, the Colonel Chad Jessup,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Duddy, Tasso Panopolis. First of all, Chris just explained

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Speaker 1: what we're doing. Now, it's a Monday Chargers just beat

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Speaker 1: the Packers and we get a short week go into Oakland. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So we had a great win yesterday and typical Monday

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Speaker 1: after a game, where we've got laundry, getting the uniforms washed.

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Speaker 1: But in addition to that, we play Thursday night this week,

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Speaker 1: so it's really a rush deal for us, for the players,

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Speaker 1: everybody to get ready for Thursday night. And so fortunately

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Speaker 1: we have a different uniform this week, so we're able

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Speaker 1: to have most of that ready to go. Let the

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Speaker 1: guys have to repack the meshed laundry bags, get everything folded.

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Speaker 1: Usually have a week to do that. Now you only

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Speaker 1: have really two days. And then we're also planning for

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Speaker 1: a trip to Colorado Springs next Monday. We leave for

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Speaker 1: that and we're going to train at altitude of Colorado

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Speaker 1: Monday night game. So that's one big long road trip.

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Speaker 1: So we've got a game Thursday, a game in Mexico

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Speaker 1: City a week from well two weeks from today, so

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Speaker 1: we're packing for all that. So it's kind of a

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Speaker 1: really compressed thing. And how late were you guys here

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Speaker 1: last night? After the win? What was it nine o'clock?

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Speaker 1: We change all the face masks so to yellow. So

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Speaker 1: we got back last night with the truck comes here

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Speaker 1: from the stadium with all the gear. So off the

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Speaker 1: then we had to change the face mask. Normally were

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Speaker 1: done right then and there, but because we were Navy

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Speaker 1: gold face masks last night. So we were so busy today.

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Speaker 1: We wouldn't have time to do it today. It's a

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Speaker 1: who changed the most of them? Oh, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but we we were timing ourselves earlier in the week

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Speaker 1: to try to prepare for this. I mean, you got

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Speaker 1: to be game ready at all times. So Kevin Duddy

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Speaker 1: you know, equipment challenges. Who can change a face mask fast?

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Speaker 1: Is that a frequent thing? Equipment? I'll just Chris, you

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Speaker 1: have to always prepare for craziness, you know, on the sideline. Hey,

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Speaker 1: if a guy's face mask breaks in the sideline, you

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Speaker 1: think about it. You you have no time to fix

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Speaker 1: this thing. And as you're fixing it, let's say as

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Speaker 1: a turnover, and the guys will run out to the field, Well,

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Speaker 1: he's not going because you're still changing the face mask.

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Speaker 1: Speed matters. Speed mattered, and Duddy sitting at a minute

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Speaker 1: sixty seconds to speed matters. But you also have to

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Speaker 1: If the face mask needs to be changed and it's

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Speaker 1: third down, you might want to consider waiting until you

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Speaker 1: get a bigger window than that, or if you get

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Speaker 1: because it could be a delay of game on Kevin

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Speaker 1: Duddy right on a third down right now, there's there's

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Speaker 1: some people try to push it to the limit sometimes

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Speaker 1: and we've got options for both and successful. He's a

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Speaker 1: little little face masks and a little on the edge there.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I'm a little bit more conservative. But so far,

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Speaker 1: so good, so all right. So the reason we're doing

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Speaker 1: it this week, these guys alluded to it. Oakland on Thursday,

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Speaker 1: Very similar? The only difference is there was two games

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Speaker 1: literally on that road trip last year. This is a

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Speaker 1: pretty dialed in with all that. So the challenge though

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Speaker 1: with the powder blue on Thursday night and then powder

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Speaker 1: blue in Mexico City, you guys got to wash those things.

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Speaker 1: We got to wash them, and we got to pack him,

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Speaker 1: and then we need to replace jerseys. If if players

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Speaker 1: practicing in Colorado's Springs. You guys don't need to bring

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Speaker 1: game jerseys to Colorado Springs, but you have to account

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Speaker 1: for the entire week, the weather, all that stuff, right, Absolutely, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's correct. So we're bringing cold weather gear for practice.

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Speaker 1: And the Colonel has been packing that for the last

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Speaker 1: few days and was doing it last night, Sir, I

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Speaker 1: was packed up before. We guys have helped with that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all that. You know, you got to be prepared. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: gotta be ready for it. And then we'll send that

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Speaker 1: in the sixties, seventies during the day, fifties at night.

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Speaker 1: And we'll be good seed. Do you guys have stuff

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Speaker 1: we're sending out a truck Saturday that's going to meet

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Speaker 1: and we'll have practice clothing for the players. We'll pack

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Speaker 1: just have separate game gear that goes onto Mexico City.

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about responsibility to start with you, duddy,

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Speaker 1: what does your day look like for the next few

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Speaker 1: So but as far as that, I'm getting two jerseys

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Speaker 1: order some jerseys, so we're doing that. Got all the

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Speaker 1: hats ready for got the hats ready for next week

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Speaker 1: today because when we're at home, we were a different

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Speaker 1: All the coaches where everything they were in the side line,

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Speaker 1: explain the polos and what coaches wearing the sidelines? Why

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Speaker 1: What is it? Everything you see, it's same for every team.

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Speaker 1: And Nike has they you know, they have a line

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Speaker 1: Slute Service game, so everybody had on their Slute Service

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Speaker 1: that was just for one game, That was just for yesterday. Um,

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Speaker 1: yesterday's game and then the next game because we're wearing

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Speaker 1: You know, team choose what color pants and choose you

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Speaker 1: Lots going on right now. We're flipping the player mesh

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Speaker 1: got most of the Duffel bags finished for coaches and

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Speaker 1: I mean you take jackets. Chicago is beautiful, Nashville is great,

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Speaker 1: So you bring everything. You'd rather have it and not

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Speaker 1: need it to be prepared. Yea, once we intersh up

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Speaker 1: cold weather gear, start getting with Kyle, we'll start pushing

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Speaker 1: sleds that we're taking to Colorado Springs. I wish Kyle

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Speaker 1: would come, say hi, Kyle. You know Kyle's a little

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Speaker 1: camera shy. I guess he's a little camera shy. We'll

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Speaker 1: keep bugging him until he hears us. Maybe at some

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Speaker 1: and he comes running. So what about you? Man? What

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Speaker 1: you got? So this this week, I've been focusing pretty

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Speaker 1: much on player practice apparel um for the trip to Colorado. Um.

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Speaker 1: We last had it in Chicago two weeks ago, so

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Speaker 1: I've kind of been working ahead, pulling all that stuff

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Speaker 1: And what that'll be is mostly sweatshirts, sweatpants, knit caps, things,

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Speaker 1: that you get to prepare for when we get to

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Speaker 1: a climate like we'll see in Colorado. Basically, just want

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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Backstage Chargers podcast, presented by your

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Speaker 1: And so every stadium has a guy who his sole

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Speaker 1: job is to hold onto these modules. And I have

427
00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:47,680
Speaker 1: to go meet with them before the game, get three

428
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:51,400
Speaker 1: offensive modules, three defensive modules, and then I'll put them

429
00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,560
Speaker 1: in our respective helmets tests and to make sure everything's working,

430
00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:57,880
Speaker 1: and then then we go into the game. And then

431
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Speaker 1: once we're in the game, I'll tell you this. One

432
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:01,600
Speaker 1: of the main things is I have to plug the

433
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Speaker 1: batteries in before the game and if I forget to

434
00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:07,160
Speaker 1: do that, I'm I'm I'm toast. Where are those batteries?

435
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,680
Speaker 1: You get your batteries in your back pocket? The batteries

436
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,359
Speaker 1: they're they're in the helmets, you know, because when I

437
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:13,919
Speaker 1: go out to test them, I plug him in for

438
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:17,600
Speaker 1: the test and then plug him and then after pregame

439
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:20,320
Speaker 1: because you know, everything we do is routine. So my

440
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,159
Speaker 1: routine is after pre game, the first thing I do

441
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:24,680
Speaker 1: is I go in the locker room and I could

442
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,159
Speaker 1: have people ask me for things I can't. I have

443
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,760
Speaker 1: to go plug these batteries and first, first and foremost,

444
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,600
Speaker 1: So I'll go through there and plug him in and

445
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:37,120
Speaker 1: then I'm good. But I've I mean I've I've only

446
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:40,879
Speaker 1: had one time where it's where something happened, and I've

447
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,879
Speaker 1: finally dawned on me right as Rivers is warming up

448
00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 1: before the game that I hadn't plugged him in yet. Oh, like,

449
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 1: oh my god, what was this? But I was not

450
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,320
Speaker 1: a heart attack. This is years ago, years ago, so

451
00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 1: um so yeah, but anyway, did once the game gets going,

452
00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 1: when we're on defense, I have to hold I'm holding

453
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,680
Speaker 1: like five different helmets on defense. Basically, what it is

454
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,879
Speaker 1: is he's make a long story short. You got you

455
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:09,040
Speaker 1: can't have two guys holding at the same time, two linebackers. Sure,

456
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,640
Speaker 1: So so as one guy comes off the field, I'm

457
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,639
Speaker 1: rotating helmets and making sure only one guy is in

458
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 1: possession of it. That's a big juggling act with that. Yeah. Yeah.

459
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,920
Speaker 1: So if let's say let's say, uh, Denzel Perriman is

460
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 1: in with it, well, he has two helmets. He has

461
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 1: a one with the speakers, one without it, and I'm

462
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Speaker 1: holding the one without it in my hand. Well, standing

463
00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:31,879
Speaker 1: next to him is Drew Tranquill. He has a helmet

464
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 1: on his head that doesn't not speakers in it, and

465
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 1: this help. I have another one of his helmets with

466
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 1: the speakers end it in my hand and if if

467
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,479
Speaker 1: they rotate, I have to facilitate that and have them

468
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,919
Speaker 1: pop both helmets off. It's amazing. And if if you

469
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,520
Speaker 1: can have three guys, so you have you have Denzel,

470
00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,400
Speaker 1: Drew Tranquill, and then we'll have a third guy. Let's

471
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,639
Speaker 1: say it's Davis Brown or Thomas Davis. I have to

472
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 1: hold those helmets in my hand as well with the

473
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Speaker 1: speakers in him. So if there's an end and if

474
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Speaker 1: there's an injury, I mean, there's no time. It has

475
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 1: to be that. These are all backup helmets. Yeah, they're

476
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 1: all backup helmets. So each one of those players has

477
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 1: two helmets, and they've warned them, they've worn them in practice,

478
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,399
Speaker 1: so they're really broken in that player knows that helmet

479
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,160
Speaker 1: because when they do need to use it, there's zero time.

480
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 1: It's literally like throw me another helmet, let me throw

481
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 1: you this. When they pop it on and they go wow.

482
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,800
Speaker 1: So yeah, and that's that's going out throughout the whole game.

483
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 1: When with the first two guys, because we're constantly doing substitutions.

484
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,359
Speaker 1: So when we're on defense, I'm standing next to if

485
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:30,600
Speaker 1: I was standing literally like an inch away from Drew

486
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,200
Speaker 1: Trank will the whole game and when he has time

487
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 1: to go, there's his helmet. He runs off. It goes

488
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 1: a little bit deeper than what I think fans may think,

489
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:43,400
Speaker 1: just your responsibilities during the game. Before a game, if

490
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,400
Speaker 1: you guys could walk me through, like, all right, let's

491
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 1: say we're gonna take off on Wednesday to go to Oakland.

492
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:51,240
Speaker 1: You guys have to get to the stadium ahead of time.

493
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 1: Is they normally the night before is when you set up. Well,

494
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:56,399
Speaker 1: if we go just for one night trip, which we

495
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 1: typically do on the West Coast games, we'll go right

496
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 1: from the airport to the stadium and set up so

497
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,199
Speaker 1: straight there. So Wednesday night, when we land in San Francisco,

498
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,160
Speaker 1: we'll just bust right over to the stadium and I'll

499
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 1: go with the truck and we'll meet. We'll I'll meet

500
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:13,160
Speaker 1: at the coliseum and we'll set up and it'll be done.

501
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 1: If we go on an East Coast trip where we

502
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 1: leave Friday for a Sunday game, we'll get to the

503
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 1: hotel on Friday night and pass out to walk through apparel,

504
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:27,160
Speaker 1: and then we'll go set up on Saturday morning. Oakland,

505
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 1: you guys are gonna miss Oakland. Oh, I'm in miss Oakland.

506
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,720
Speaker 1: That's funny because Kevin and I we played there last

507
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:34,679
Speaker 1: year and we were looking around and were late. This

508
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 1: could be it is not great as that stadium is.

509
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:40,880
Speaker 1: I don't want to say too much, but it's it's

510
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 1: old and it's run down. The locker rooms small, but

511
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,679
Speaker 1: it has memories. So we'll kind of miss that. You know,

512
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 1: it's a unique environment there. You know, it's it's cool

513
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:52,439
Speaker 1: when when different teams you're going to go on all

514
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 1: these road trips we've been to, we've been to every

515
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:57,199
Speaker 1: stadium if we've seen every type of environment there is,

516
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,639
Speaker 1: and so it's cool when you can experience and the

517
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 1: Oaklanders that's that's a definitely a different environment over there.

518
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,479
Speaker 1: It's definitely a different environment. Definitely the black Hole it

519
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,359
Speaker 1: really is. It is dark and dank, and if it rains,

520
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,640
Speaker 1: there's water pouring down into the locker rooms. And yeah,

521
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 1: uh you walk out of the tunnel and if it's

522
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: there's water dripping down and it's like a dungeon back down.

523
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:20,640
Speaker 1: Just a letter. Today, I was doing the locker room

524
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 1: diagram and uh, Christ will give me a diagram in

525
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 1: the locker room and it'll show me how many lockers

526
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 1: there are in the locker room. And you know, some

527
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: of these other stadiums we go to, there's eighty five lockers.

528
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 1: Well we bring let's say we bring fifty five players

529
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 1: with this, no problem. We can facilitate that pretty easy.

530
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 1: But in Oakland there's like I think forty eight lockers

531
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 1: something like that. You have to die, they're gonna make

532
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: you work for it. Then you have to double up

533
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,239
Speaker 1: players and some lockers and you got to figure out

534
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: what which guys am making a double up and you know,

535
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,440
Speaker 1: it gets a little tricky. And the all the new

536
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: stadiums have an equipment room wherehere you can it's an

537
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: actual room where you can put your equipment, and a

538
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: lot of them have a window that you can work through.

539
00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 1: A coliseum, we use a hallway that leads to the bathroom.

540
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 1: That's the that's the equipment room. So we'll be working

541
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,400
Speaker 1: in there. Players trying to get to the bathroom, crawling

542
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:12,159
Speaker 1: over us. You know, it's just challenges. It's challenging. But

543
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 1: did you'll miss it? You'll miss it? Miss it? What

544
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 1: about Mexico City? Where where's the locker rooms in Mexico City?

545
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 1: So the locker room in Mexico City was built by

546
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 1: the NFL. So it's out just outside the stadium. It's

547
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:27,160
Speaker 1: not even in the stadium. It's literally in the parking

548
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 1: lot up against the stadium. It's but it's nice, it's big, spacious.

549
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:34,439
Speaker 1: The locker room itself is great, but it's it's a

550
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 1: good distance from the field and you have to go

551
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: down to long tunnel down to the field and the

552
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 1: last part of the tunnel actually goes through the through

553
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 1: the stands well, going down it's not bad. Coming back

554
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 1: up is rough because of the altitude and it's at

555
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: an incline, so you feel it. So it's you know,

556
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 1: there's going to be some people that are kind of

557
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: hurting coming back up to the locker room, you know that.

558
00:28:58,440 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 1: And it's gonna takes a while. I think it takes

559
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: about three minutes, three and a half minutes to get

560
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 1: up there from so but it's nice. I mean, it's

561
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 1: it's got everything you need, and it's big, and it's

562
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: you know, it's not bad. You guys play such a

563
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 1: vital role in the success of the team. You guys

564
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 1: have been doing it for such a long time. We'll

565
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 1: start with the two veterans, Chris, what do you love

566
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: about this job? Man? Oh, I just love the fact

567
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 1: that you're part of a team and it's the same

568
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 1: feeling you got when you actually played football or played

569
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 1: a sport when you're younger, and you get to do it.

570
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 1: I'm fifty three now and I can still have that

571
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: feeling every day when to go to work. It's great

572
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 1: and the work we do goes towards just helping the

573
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: team win games. And it's if you're a person that

574
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: likes sports, and you know, it's there's no better job.

575
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: So it's great you have a hand in it. You

576
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: have a hand in it. So and I like, you know,

577
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: I like the people you deal with on a daily basis,

578
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: the players, the coaches, the front office people. You know.

579
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 1: It's I guess I could say it's kind of my

580
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 1: type of people that I like to to work with.

581
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: Love everything about it. A lot of good people in

582
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 1: this organization. What about you, duddy? You know, For me,

583
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,960
Speaker 1: I think it's just the process of the journey of

584
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 1: the season, you know, the ups and downs and and

585
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 1: going to practice and running around and you know, throwing

586
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: a football, catching a football, being with all the guys

587
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 1: out there, you know, and shoot. Every Sunday we're in

588
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 1: another we did another city, or we're playing another team

589
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 1: at home. It's no two week is two weeks are

590
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 1: the same. And really no two days are the same.

591
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 1: I mean, we talk, we're talking about games and everything,

592
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 1: but you guys are grinding here for practices. You know,

593
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: we got have these a short week of practices before

594
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 1: we head up to Oakland. I know, and I gotta

595
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 1: I gotta get you guys off this podcast so you

596
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 1: can get back to work. I understand that, but it's

597
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 1: it's not just the game day. I know we're talking

598
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 1: about Mexico City and Oakland and all the logistics, but

599
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 1: this is, this is seven days a week. Man. It's uh,

600
00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 1: it's it's it's fun though, man, I'll tell you what.

601
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: It's a lot more fun when you win. I can

602
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 1: tell you that because when we lose, it can be

603
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's the mood across the whole building.

604
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: It gets a little rougher when you start losing, which

605
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 1: only got sixteen of them. Yeah, and I mean what

606
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: other job is like that? Whereas there's such such an

607
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 1: up and flow to it based upon performance of what

608
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 1: happens on one day. You know, every day following that,

609
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: people are happier, people aren't. It's just what it is. Yeah,

610
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: what about you, man, I mean you've got a great

611
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 1: group that you work with, a lot of experience here,

612
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: just just piggybacking off of Kevin. I mean, you're breaking

613
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: the season down into sixteen weeks. You break each each

614
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: game down. So that's that's your your your way, your business,

615
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: your whole thing. Everything's flowing week to week. Small victory

616
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: we won week one, awesome fantastic on to week two,

617
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 1: and you're part of that process. You're part of getting

618
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: the coaches and the players prepared to win, prepared to succeed.

619
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 1: And that's all you want to do. That's all we

620
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: want in here is to help them win, to help

621
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: them succeed. And if we have any small part in

622
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: in doing that, that that makes us all feel right.

623
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: You know what's interesting about it too, is you guys

624
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: are there from ninety guys coming in here for training, kimp,

625
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: so you see when when guys get released, when they

626
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: come back, you meet new guys throughout the course of

627
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 1: a season. You've really touch all functions of football operations.

628
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. Actually, it's a good point. Yeah, deal

629
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: with it all, deal with it all, all the different levels.

630
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 1: Yeah thoughts, what about you men? I started as an

631
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: intern at the forty nine ers and spent a little

632
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: time with the Rams, but uh, it's my thirty year here,

633
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 1: so uh, you know, a great group. Enjoy coming to

634
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: work every single day and being a part of what

635
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: these guys have already mentioned. So I won't repeat, you know,

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Speaker 1: everything they just said, but I kind of echo, you

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Speaker 1: what will happen on the practice field or on a

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Speaker 1: game day. One of my favorite parts is just being

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Speaker 1: guy's face masks bends, or visor just breaks. I just

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Speaker 1: like being able to, you know, to to jump right

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Speaker 1: into action and try to remedy the problem, you know,

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Speaker 1: as quickly as possible, UM, so that you know they

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Speaker 1: can get out there and and perform at their best.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I think for me it's always been

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Speaker 1: as long as you kind of stay out of the news,

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Speaker 1: you're doing a good job. So you know, that's that's

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Speaker 1: kind of how I see. No news is good news.

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Speaker 1: From an equipment perspective, it is UM and it's a

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Speaker 1: great like I said, a great group of players, coaches, staff, UM,

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Speaker 1: it's uh, it's fun coming to work. You bring up

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Speaker 1: a great point, And I was just thinking about this.

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Speaker 1: You guys are all honestly the ultimate problem solvers because

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Speaker 1: things are going to come up every single day. So

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Speaker 1: not only I was trying to think, like, what what's

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Speaker 1: the biggest skill you need to possess to do this job?

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Speaker 1: And I was thinking like preparation, no doubt, but you

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Speaker 1: gotta have awesome problem solving skills. Chris, Oh yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 1: I mean the stuff comes up every day and you

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Speaker 1: gotta go to plan and b you gotta go to

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Speaker 1: plan and c on it and just get it done.

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Speaker 1: You know, if we can't make mistakes, you can't forget things.

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Speaker 1: You have to have it and and that's and that's

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Speaker 1: a prerequisite before you even solve problems. You gotta make

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Speaker 1: sure you have all the pieces to actually solve the

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Speaker 1: problem correct. And if if you can't get it this way,

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Speaker 1: gotta make it happen. And you know, that's just the

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Speaker 1: nature of the business, you know. So you know, and

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Speaker 1: then we put all our heads together and try to

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Speaker 1: get it. Don't miss a beat. Don't miss a beat.

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Speaker 1: This screw does a miss a beat. I don't know

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Speaker 1: where Kyle is. I don't think we're gonna get Kyle

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Speaker 1: on the podcasts. Kyle. It's like a thirty save Bay,

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Speaker 1: Like this is just a I'm ending the podcast hoping

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Speaker 1: Kyle comes at some point. And Mark, you know, Mark's

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Speaker 1: here at night. So Mark's kind of the guy nobody

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Speaker 1: sees and comes in and does laundry at night. But

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Speaker 1: if you didn't hear a Kyle Citi's not coming over, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Mark mystery You've got And it goes beyond you guys too.

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Speaker 1: You have guys on the road that are they're helping

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Speaker 1: you at each game. So yeah, the visiting team provides

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Speaker 1: clubhouse guys that help you out and they're on gain.

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Speaker 1: Our home games, we have about thirty guys that come

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Speaker 1: in and help us out. Chain crew and the net

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Speaker 1: crew and the ball crew and all those guys and

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Speaker 1: so staff on game days definitely a lot bigger get

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Speaker 1: the best equipment staff in the NFL. I'm gonna say

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Speaker 1: it may be biased. Awesome guys that really appreciate your time.

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Speaker 1: I think fans really eat this stuff up, especially when

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Speaker 1: you talk about going international and doing things on a

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Speaker 1: short week, especially coming off a big win like that.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of energy in this building. It probably

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Speaker 1: gets you gets your three stay even that much quicker, right, Absolutely, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it does well. Appreciate your time. Chad Jessup, Kevin Duddy,

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Speaker 1: Tassel Panopolis, Chris Smith, equipment manager Backstage Chargers presented by

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