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Speaker 1: into a winning edition of the Final Drive. Alongside Haley

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Speaker 1: O Wood. I'm Chris Harry. Chargers win forty one twenty

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Speaker 1: two in Cincinnati. I've been thinking about how to describe

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Speaker 1: this one, Haley, and I still don't have an answer,

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna let you start. Oh, there's so much

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Speaker 1: pressure to that because adjectives let's throw out wild crazy.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this was just one of those games that

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Speaker 1: was so bananas. I think, you know, it was almost

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Speaker 1: like we're still we were still kind of reeling off

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Speaker 1: that Pittsburgh Sunday Night win a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: and this is one that doesn't have similar vibes necessarily,

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Speaker 1: but kind of because obviously to jump out to a

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Speaker 1: bring it within one score into the fourth you're just

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Speaker 1: going to, uh, like this is just bananas, not to

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Speaker 1: mention whatever was going on with Joe Burrow and his

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Speaker 1: pinky finger and all of that. And then the fourth

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Speaker 1: quarter came alive. And that is something that this team

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Speaker 1: has talked about a lot this whole season, in Brandon

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Speaker 1: Staley specifically, is playing your best football in the fourth

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Speaker 1: quarter when it matters the most. And a big difference,

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Speaker 1: he said, in comparison to what happened against Pittsburgh a

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Speaker 1: couple weeks ago where they didn't allow the Bengals to

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Speaker 1: do anything in the fourth and really, and I know

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Speaker 1: we'll talk about it, but that's Von campbell scoop and

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Speaker 1: score and you tweeted it really changed the trajectory of

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Speaker 1: that game and really from that point forward there was

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Speaker 1: no turning back. So just an absolute crazy one. A

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Speaker 1: lot of contributions. I know, this team has talked a

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Speaker 1: lot about playing complimentary football in terms of the defense

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Speaker 1: helping out the offense and vice versa. We saw that

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Speaker 1: it points here in this game. We saw deep threats,

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Speaker 1: deep passing, the deep passing attack come alive. So there

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Speaker 1: is a lot to unpack in this one. In a

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Speaker 1: very pivotal win and a very critical win, and one

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Speaker 1: that Derwin James had said every one of these games

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Speaker 1: moving forward means a lot, so you know, it's again

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Speaker 1: another one. The Chargers follow up a loss with the win,

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Speaker 1: which is what you got to do, especially at this

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Speaker 1: point in the season. You're right, and I think that's

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Speaker 1: the most important thing I think to take out of this, Haleys,

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Speaker 1: which you said it's a pivotal win, because if you

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Speaker 1: don't beat the Bengals, you're six and six and you

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Speaker 1: were on the verge of getting left behind in the AFC,

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Speaker 1: and you know this is a wildcard game. Essentially, if

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Speaker 1: Week eighteen comes down to a tie between the Bengals

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Speaker 1: and the Chargers, you got a tiebreaker in your back pocket.

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Speaker 1: I guess the best way I could describe it. I

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Speaker 1: was thinking about it. It's like a play in like

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Speaker 1: three acts, right. The first act was this twenty four

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Speaker 1: nothing just wow, look at this Chargers team. The second

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Speaker 1: act was the Bengals storming back, a little bit of

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Speaker 1: drama with Burrow and the Pinky. And the third act

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Speaker 1: was the Bengals on the verge of taking the lead

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Speaker 1: and scoring a Joe Mixon fumble, his sixth fumble I

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Speaker 1: think in over one thousand career carries in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like, going into this, I was like, all right,

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Speaker 1: vond Campbell and listen to Van has been putting tough

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Speaker 1: out there. But they don't win the Kansas City game

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Speaker 1: this game without him. And that was the turning point

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Speaker 1: that kind of got this team back on track and said, Okay, hey,

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Speaker 1: and five. That's very true. I had Kelsey Conway from

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Speaker 1: The Inquirer on Playmakers this past week just to kind

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Speaker 1: into both of those topics. Right, you had four turnovers.

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Speaker 1: bit of a swing in the fourth quarter, but that

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Speaker 1: kind of look back and just you talk about momentum

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Speaker 1: a lot in this game, and that was a huge

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Speaker 1: momentum boost for the Chargers for sure. So the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: they outscored the Bengals thirty three nothing in the first

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Speaker 1: great game. Twenty six to thirty five, three hundred and

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Speaker 1: He had two touchdowns all season. Quarterback Keenan Allen showed

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Speaker 1: just really liked the matchups that Cincinnati was giving them

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Speaker 1: and Rex Ryan specifically was talking about Jalen Guyon, like

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Speaker 1: He showed up today. Maybe maybe he foreshadowed what we

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Speaker 1: a lot of talk about who's that third i'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: the matchups they were going to take it, and Herbert

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Speaker 1: huge Haley, So much happened throughout the course of this game. Well,

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Speaker 1: sometimes recent recent history, in recent games, those fourth downs

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Speaker 1: But you know, the turnovers, being opportunistic with getting the

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Speaker 1: He picks it off. That was insane. That was absolutely insane,

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Speaker 1: and that's been something that we hadn't seen from this

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