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Speaker 1: What's up, guys. Chris Harry with you on another edition

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Speaker 1: of Chargers Weekly, All season edition. And we typically do

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Speaker 1: these beat writers roundtables throughout the year with Daniel Popper,

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Speaker 1: who's here today, but I thought we'd do something a

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Speaker 1: little bit different, geared towards Oregon and Justin Herbert. So

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Speaker 1: I have two special guests here, Rob Bosley of goducks

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Speaker 1: who covers the Ducks as well, and you guys know Popper. Gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys for joining me. How you doing it great?

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Speaker 1: Thank you for having me absolutely well. Hey, it's been

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Speaker 1: kind of a whirlwind season in the NFL, and for

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Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, the last six months have been simply incredible.

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Speaker 1: And I want to start with the guys that cover

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Speaker 1: the Ducks and Eugene. Rob, we'll start with you. Just

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Speaker 1: your overall reaction to what you saw at adjustin with

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Speaker 1: the Chargers this year. It was very pleasantly surprised. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I was one who, based on you know,

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Speaker 1: of the things you read, some of the mixed reviews

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Speaker 1: in the pre draft process, thought Hey, you know, this

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Speaker 1: is a good situation where he's going to the Chargers

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Speaker 1: who haven't who have an established starter. He can take

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Speaker 1: some time to adjust, get used to the league. You know,

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Speaker 1: he'd been in kind of a small bubble being a

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Speaker 1: I thought, this is a great situation to take a

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Speaker 1: the future holds. But obviously things played out much differently.

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Speaker 1: Did He buriedated very very quickly? Tyson? What about you, man? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was firmly in the camp of thinking, like I

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Speaker 1: thought Justin Herbert would be a good NFL quarterback, but

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Speaker 1: I thought it would be like three or four years

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Speaker 1: down the road. I mean, we just he was good

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Speaker 1: at Organ, Like you can go and look at all

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Speaker 1: his stats, like he goes down as you know, he

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Speaker 1: he's up there right by Marcus Mariota with everything. But

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Speaker 1: I mean, he just never looked that dynamic within Organ's offense.

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Speaker 1: And I think a lot of that was just the

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Speaker 1: type of offense Organ was running. And you know, it

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Speaker 1: helps having Keenan Allen to throw too, too, just like

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Speaker 1: those elite type of receivers. I mean, it's just different.

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Speaker 1: And I remember watching it was Justin's freshman year. It

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Speaker 1: know this one better, but I think Justin threw like

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Speaker 1: five touchdown passes in there. It was like four hundred,

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Speaker 1: like that, this kid can be phenomenal, and like you

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Speaker 1: just didn't quite see like those stats weekend and week out.

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Speaker 1: But I mean here in the NFL, like it's it's

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Speaker 1: I've been shocked, Like I was not expecting that that

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Speaker 1: this position where you mentioned it Isai is Keenan Allen,

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Speaker 1: awakening of Justin Herbert, it was if you didn't know

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Speaker 1: much about Justin and his upbringing and Eugene, you certainly

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Speaker 1: least to some level, surprised by what happened. The beat

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Speaker 1: That happened with the Chargers. He stepped on the field

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Speaker 1: the first thing that he wanted Justin to realize was like,

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Speaker 1: And Justin's response was, really, are you sure? Like I

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Speaker 1: It was just it was a wire to wire situation

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Speaker 1: day that I don't think Chargers fans will ever forget Tyson.

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Speaker 1: What was it like for you? And what's it just

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Speaker 1: been like in general seeing kind of just In check

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Speaker 1: really he answered the belt, the Senior Bowl, to combine

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Speaker 1: Like I don't know if he's going to be good

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Speaker 1: fool out of a lot of us, and yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: great for him. Guy's final thing, we put a bowl

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Speaker 1: on this. Just your favorite moment from the Caesar or

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Speaker 1: something that's it's gonna stand out. I know, Rob, we

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that was a special moment in Eugene, Popper,

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Speaker 1: I'll start with you well and with the guys in Eugene. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think for me it's gonna be that that game

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Speaker 1: winning overtime touchdown against the Raiders where he snuck it

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Speaker 1: in was like sitting down being like I was in.

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Speaker 1: I was in. It's just like a perfect example of

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Speaker 1: Justin Herbertt, like he's he's still like that kid from Eugene,

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Speaker 1: like playing in the backyard, like looking up at his dad,

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Speaker 1: being like I was in. I was into the part,

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Speaker 1: you know, like I thought it was perfect, but it

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Speaker 1: was also important to his development. That was the second

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Speaker 1: strike week that he had led a game winning touchdown.

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Speaker 1: It was on a short week against the divisional opponent,

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Speaker 1: they that long division losing streak. Like, I think that

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Speaker 1: that was a really important moment for him because he

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Speaker 1: battled through a lot of adversity, Like they lost a

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Speaker 1: lot of games. There are a lot of times where

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Speaker 1: he had the ball late in the game and couldn't

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Speaker 1: get it done. Obviously wasn't his fault, but he I

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Speaker 1: was weighing on him, like those losses were weighing on him,

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Speaker 1: and I think to get a little bit of momentum

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Speaker 1: going there to win a game in the division last second,

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Speaker 1: you know, making the net like that play to Jalen

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Speaker 1: Guyden where he threw off his back foot, you know,

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Speaker 1: delivered a beautiful ball downfield. I thought that that will

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Speaker 1: stick out to me just because it was evidence of

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Speaker 1: who he is and also it was so important to

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Speaker 1: what he's going to be moving forward. Tyson, what about you, buddy?

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say similar because you know, going back

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Speaker 1: to like people thinking that Justin's not a leader, He's

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Speaker 1: not like a raw row guy. Like this guy's fired

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Speaker 1: up when he's on the football field. He shows passion

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Speaker 1: out there. If you go back to the Rose Bowl,

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Speaker 1: like there's a still frame of him and on his

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Speaker 1: last touchdown run where it looks like his eyes are

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Speaker 1: about to explode out of his head, just because of

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Speaker 1: like how stokey is about getting to the end zone.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's a button up guy off the field,

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Speaker 1: like he's always thinking about the team and like what's

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Speaker 1: best for Like I remember at Pack twelve media days

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Speaker 1: with him and in Oregon linebacker troyd I and and

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Speaker 1: Troy Dyes a little looser lipped than Justin ever was,

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Speaker 1: and and and Dye starts telling me kind of this

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Speaker 1: relatively salacious story. Uh. And He's like, and by the way,

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Speaker 1: this is off the record. And then Justin grabbed his arm.

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Speaker 1: He's like, we don't tell stories like that. And and

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Speaker 1: so that's that. That's just kind of like, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's he's very forward thinking off the field, Like he's

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Speaker 1: not going to give you like a great quote in

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Speaker 1: a press conference, but like this guy's all about ball

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Speaker 1: and and he's very passionate when he's on the field.

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Speaker 1: Rob will give you the final word. Yeah for me,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's speaking for a sort of Oregon fandom.

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Speaker 1: It was the Mariota game. I just think that just

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Speaker 1: the pure joy to experience that level of happiness for

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Speaker 1: two of our guys on the same field, both playing well.

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Speaker 1: Um and uh, with all that twenty twenty through at us,

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Speaker 1: just to be able again to just have that moment

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Speaker 1: to just celebrate those guys and see them both succeeding.

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Speaker 1: You know, it could have been scripted better. Um and

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Speaker 1: so yeah, that by far, that's the memory with Justin

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Speaker 1: that's going to stick out, and you know the fact

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Speaker 1: that it was you know, Marcus is basically the guy

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Speaker 1: he grew up idolizing when he was a kid sitting

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Speaker 1: in the stands at Austin Stadium and then got to

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Speaker 1: go head to head with him, knowing what that meant

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Speaker 1: to Justin and then obviously knowing what that meant to

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Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota given everything he's gone through the last couple

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Speaker 1: of years. It was just it was out of Hollywood,

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Speaker 1: no question about it, guys. This was so much fun.

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Speaker 1: It's I think it's great for Chargers fis because they

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Speaker 1: are obsessed with Justin Herbert right now, so so any

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Speaker 1: information they shouldn't be as they should be, but any

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Speaker 1: information that he'd get from growing up his collegiate career,

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Speaker 1: from Popper's feature to what you guys have done and

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Speaker 1: covering him on a daily basis and Eugene Man, it's

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Speaker 1: much appreciated. I thank you guys for joining me. Tyson Alger,

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Speaker 1: Daniel Popper and Rob Boseley. We'll see you guys down

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Speaker 1: the road hopefully, you know, maybe maybe just will be

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Speaker 1: in a playoff game and so far stadium and in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one and we can we can see there person.

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Speaker 1: That was great dream. That sounds like a plant,