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Speaker 1: Welcome to playmakers. Everyone. I'm your host, Haley Elwood. It

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Speaker 1: is Week two and for the Los Angeles Charters, they

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Speaker 1: will have their first primetime game of the season, and

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Speaker 1: it is a big one because it is the first

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Speaker 1: Thursday night football game on Prime Video of the year ever.

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Speaker 1: We'll put it that way. Enjoining me to talk about

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Speaker 1: this one is Prime Video sideline reporter Kaylee Harts and Kaylee.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on, Haley and Kaylee. I liked this,

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Speaker 1: so we should make this a regular thing. I'm into it.

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Speaker 1: We can totally do it. You have known about this

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Speaker 1: game for quite some time. I think it was announced

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Speaker 1: at the draft. It has been circled on all of

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Speaker 1: our calendars, yours included. How excited are you that it's

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Speaker 1: finally here? Oh my gosh, there's been so much build up,

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Speaker 1: so much build up, and here these were two teams

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Speaker 1: to be the best game of Week two. And just

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Speaker 1: There's so much excitement surrounding this game for so many

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Speaker 1: different reasons, and I just I cannot wait. I cannot

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Speaker 1: exact same boat. And you mention it both of these

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on this one big primetime AFC West matchup here? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I gonna's the AFC West. I feel like

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Speaker 1: it was the talk of the off season, right like,

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Speaker 1: we all know that it's going to be a bloodbath

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Speaker 1: AFC West. So I mean, how cool is it that

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Speaker 1: that this is a game we'll all remember for a

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Speaker 1: the Chargers. I know, we all know both teams did

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Speaker 1: You saw that paying off for both teams on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs big question Mark, you know, what does this

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Speaker 1: haven't missed a beat, spreading the ball around, Mahomes doing

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Speaker 1: And then Justin Herbert obviously a star in his own right.

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Speaker 1: And I hate that we won't get to see Keenan Allen.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't look like but this offense proved it could

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Speaker 1: So I mean, it's a matchup that's definitely headlined by

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Speaker 1: So yeah, buckle up because this is this is an

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Speaker 1: awesome way to get us all in gear. Absolutely, and

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Speaker 1: let's speak to one of those quarterbacks, Chargers quarterbacks, Justin Herbert.

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Speaker 1: He has accomplished things that no other QB has done

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Speaker 1: What impresses you most about what he's accomplished so early,

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Speaker 1: We spoke to him earlier today for our production meeting

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Speaker 1: And talking to coach Daley today, he said, Justin has

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Speaker 1: got rare competitive stamina for this thing, the focus, the drive,

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Speaker 1: was fun hearing him saying, you know, in high school

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Speaker 1: in being well rounded. Absolutely. I think you bring up

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Speaker 1: We talked about maturity and a guy that the Chargers

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Speaker 1: And I just think that's really really cool as much

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Speaker 1: And I don't think that there's any denying that Khalil

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Speaker 1: And I love hearing Joey Bosa's you know, grasp of that. So,

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