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Speaker 1: with you on a new episode of Chargers Weekly and

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Speaker 1: Money is my guest. Today. We're gonna talk draft which

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Speaker 1: We mix in a little pop culture too, Love is Blind.

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Speaker 1: Let's get right to it all right now. Joined by

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Speaker 1: Chargers Weekly and Money. I was fully prepared to make

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Speaker 1: this one hundred percent Chargers Today, but then you had

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Speaker 1: I think corner play has to be improved, and like

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Speaker 1: I said, I think you really need to do inventory

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Speaker 1: That's defensive side, because you got to create turnovers. They

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Speaker 1: just did not do that last year. And and I

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Speaker 1: know some people are thrown around some advanced analytics and saying, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, they were unlucky. They should have got eight

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Speaker 1: more fumbles than they secure. It's like, okay, well that's

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Speaker 1: that's playmakers. You gotta have playmakers on defense, and they

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Speaker 1: certainly feel like they have them. You know, when you

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Speaker 1: if those guys are out there, you ought if you

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Speaker 1: have to create more turnovers and opportunities for your offense

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Speaker 1: too offensively you said it, I think the offensive line

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Speaker 1: needs a significant to um and a lot of that's health.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's is pouncy going to be healthy. Although

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Speaker 1: you know, I really thought Quest did a good job.

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Speaker 1: Question really did a good job stilling and I thought

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Speaker 1: he was actually probably the best offensive lineman by the

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Speaker 1: end of the year save when Russell was in there.

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Speaker 1: So now the trade turner that's going to help out.

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Speaker 1: I thought the guards, you know, really showed room, you know,

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Speaker 1: showed a pretty big gap of where you'd like him

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Speaker 1: it's Phenie at center, and I think Beenie plays better

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Speaker 1: lamp is now a year and you know, two years

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Speaker 1: you'll move from that injury and it's fully healthy and

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Speaker 1: he can get back inside the trade turner, maybe Beenie's

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Speaker 1: your center, a Pouncy's you know, not quite right, and

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Speaker 1: then you draft the tackle, you sign a tackle. Um,

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Speaker 1: I think that's already won for the offense to be

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Speaker 1: right in two and you just got to score more points.

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Speaker 1: You know, they moved the ball effectively, but when it

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Speaker 1: came to get into red zone, it was just critical,

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Speaker 1: crucial turnovers and a lot of those round Philip and

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Speaker 1: he's no longer here, But you just gotta put up points.

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Speaker 1: You gotta score touchdowns for all the yards. You know,

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Speaker 1: Mike Williams needs more touchdowns. You know, Hunter Henry needs

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Speaker 1: more touchdowns. Genan Allen needs more touchdowns. And I think

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Speaker 1: that's it's an obvious thing to say, right, you got

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Speaker 1: to score more points. But they moved the ball effectively,

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Speaker 1: it just couldn't score and they turn the ball over

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Speaker 1: far too often, especially at critical points. Of the game.

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Speaker 1: I love Michael Badgeley, but we need more more sevens

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Speaker 1: in less threes in twenty twenty. I agree with you.

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Speaker 1: There final thing for you, your thoughts on calling games

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Speaker 1: and SOFI stadium money. This thing is gonna be a palace,

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Speaker 1: gonna be ready in July. It's fun seeing the progression

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Speaker 1: that they've made. It's hard to believe, you know when

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Speaker 1: you when you drive by it, that we're gonna be

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Speaker 1: playing football in August. It's gonna be it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: something it is, and it's gonna be different. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people and I understand didn't like,

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Speaker 1: you know, dignity health, And I get why. You know,

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Speaker 1: it was it was a gift from the Spanos family

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Speaker 1: to the football fans, not to Charger fans, but the

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Speaker 1: football fans because of the premium. They were willing to

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Speaker 1: pay to see their favorite team in that environment. And

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Speaker 1: they'll never see it again. You know, you'll never have

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to see an NFL game in a twenty

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Speaker 1: three thousand feet stadium again. So I get it, um

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Speaker 1: and it was a challenge. But now outside of there,

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Speaker 1: like you said, to open up, you know, a true

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Speaker 1: NFL stadium um large enough to accommodate all the charger

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Speaker 1: fans um that may have struggled to get into Dignity

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Speaker 1: Health I can now get into so far. They can

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Speaker 1: get upstairs, they can get in the mid level. If

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Speaker 1: you got the scratch, you can get down low. And

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Speaker 1: I do think it. You know, it's you remember when

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Speaker 1: we went to Dallas for Thanksgiving. You know, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if that was the first time you saw ant

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Speaker 1: at and Tu you know the Jerry don't. But man,

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Speaker 1: when you walk into that place, it feels like, Holy cow,

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Speaker 1: there's nothing on earth like this. And it really is

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Speaker 1: the only stadium I think in the NFL that feels

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Speaker 1: that way. You know, it's different when you go to

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Speaker 1: Green Bay or we went to Soldier last year. You know,

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Speaker 1: you feel the history. I think Seattle is a really cool,

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Speaker 1: unique stadium, But At and T is like a marvel.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's what it's going to feel like

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Speaker 1: to walk into and be able to call those those

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Speaker 1: ten home games and hopefully more on the playoffs. It's

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Speaker 1: so fun. Well, I can tell you right now, what's

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Speaker 1: your tests with getting the love is blind cast in

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Speaker 1: a suite for maybe opening opening day. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Get Gannita a Bolt's hat and let's go there. You go,

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Speaker 1: done and done. I will work on it. It's a

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Speaker 1: good idea, a little little cross promotion. You know, world

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Speaker 1: collide in my life. Why not? Why not? Buddy, It's

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Speaker 1: always a pleasure to talk to you, man. I look

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Speaker 1: forward to seeing you very soon. Love it. Thanks christ

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Speaker 1: to hit it man. All Right, guys, that's gonna do

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Speaker 1: it for us. A big thanks to money and thank

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Speaker 1: you guys for listening. Remember, if you listen to the

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Speaker 1: Chargers podcast Network, be sure to hit the review button

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Speaker 1: give us a five star rating on Apple Podcasts. It

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Speaker 1: this to as many Chargers fans as possible. Again, go

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Speaker 1: great weekend, and until next time, I'm Chris Harry