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Speaker 1: What's up, guys, welcome into a very special schedule release

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Speaker 1: edition of Chargers Weekly and Muddy. We know who the

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Speaker 1: opponents are, but when they play it's almost more important,

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Speaker 1: right yeah. I mean, look, we've been talking about this

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Speaker 1: You know the way it shook out for the AFC

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Speaker 1: three playoff teams last year that you feel like are

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Speaker 1: And then you get the AFC South with you know,

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Speaker 1: the Titans that had the best record in the AFC

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Speaker 1: last year and the Colts that you feel a lot

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Speaker 1: better about with Matt Ryan the quarterback. So you knew

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Speaker 1: want to jump right into it. I mean the fact

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Speaker 1: Vegas last year. Let's start it against the Raiders this year.

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Speaker 1: You want to talk about a charged atmosphere pardon the pun.

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Speaker 1: What a way to get twenty twenty two underway, considering

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Speaker 1: how we left it with all that drama in Las Vegas.

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Speaker 1: Of course didn't break the Chargers way, But man, I

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Speaker 1: that's it's pretty awesome. I mean, we can get into

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Speaker 1: know if I'd rather have it any other way. No,

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Speaker 1: this is It's the perfect way to start the season.

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Speaker 1: We talked about starting it where you ended it. It's

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Speaker 1: not going to be in Vegas. It'll be in LA

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Speaker 1: this time. But you know, listen, we'll go game by game,

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Speaker 1: seventeen games, five primetime games, but I think none bigger

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Speaker 1: than Week one. Money. We know the storylines from last year,

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Speaker 1: Week one in LA. They hate the Raiders. The Raiders

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Speaker 1: hate the Chargers. No better way to start it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like it'll be an electric atmosphere inside the stadium, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: We know the Raider fans turn out, and we know

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Speaker 1: it's going to be incredible on the field. And just

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Speaker 1: you know, from a football standpoint, if you're asking me, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'd rather have the Raiders early. You know, it's a

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Speaker 1: brand new coaching staff, it's a brand new system. It's

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Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels, who's been incredible as a coordinator, but we

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Speaker 1: know was e battled as a head coach. I'd rather

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Speaker 1: get that early. You know, let the Davante Adams and

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Speaker 1: So like to me, that's advantaged. You know, do you

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Speaker 1: want those teams early when the Chargers of everything exactly

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Speaker 1: the same now they have new players, but Khalil Max

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Speaker 1: We think back to last year with Brandon Staley right,

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Speaker 1: But that's gonna be must see. This is a one

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Speaker 1: All right, we too, We knew about this one prime

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Speaker 1: I mean, what more can you say about this? This

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Speaker 1: You know, no, Tyreek Hill, that offense gonna be different.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's all new pass catchers, right, it's Marquez, Valdes, Scantlings,

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Speaker 1: I think it's good to get the Chiefs early. Now. Look,

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Speaker 1: they've won on Thursday night there, I think about that

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills in the Divisional round. I wouldn't have

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Speaker 1: know what, Listen, you're gonna have the whole nation watching

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Speaker 1: you're still relatively fresh going from from Vegas playing the

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, we don't know, it's a huge,

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Speaker 1: now for the Jags, you know they draft Trevon Walker,

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Speaker 1: as a challenge for that position group in week four. Listen,

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Speaker 1: the starter, although we don't know if Jimmy Gill still

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Speaker 1: be there at that point, and this is a short

425
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Speaker 1: flight for the Chargers, Bunny Um, it should be a

426
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Speaker 1: lot of fun against an NFC opponent. Yeah, and again,

427
00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:41,359
Speaker 1: you know it's back to back roadies, and this one's

428
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Speaker 1: even a little you get the break of it's a

429
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Speaker 1: little bit later. You know, it's a signif fotball game

430
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Speaker 1: instead of an early window game. So you got a

431
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Speaker 1: long flight home from Atlanta. You know, you probably get

432
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Speaker 1: home midnight one am, right around there at two am,

433
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Speaker 1: and you get a forty nine Ers. You know that's

434
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Speaker 1: a fifty minute flight and it's going to be a

435
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Speaker 1: street fight. You know, we know what the forty nine

436
00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:03,120
Speaker 1: Ers defense looks like. We watched them all last year

437
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Speaker 1: that they needed all of thirteen points to beat the

438
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Speaker 1: Packers in the divisional round. You know, that's how good

439
00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:13,720
Speaker 1: that defense is against that freaking offense with with the

440
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Speaker 1: MVP of the league, and they're able to shut it

441
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Speaker 1: down to the tune of of, yeah, we scored thirteen

442
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Speaker 1: points and we beat the Packers in Lambeaux. I think

443
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Speaker 1: that pretty much says it all. You know, boasted, you

444
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Speaker 1: know bos boasted, Yeah, you could call it. Then it's

445
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Speaker 1: Armstead and bosa Um you know, maybe it'll be an

446
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Speaker 1: old friend alert. They re signed Jason Verrette. They're trying

447
00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,680
Speaker 1: to make that happen every single year, you know, and

448
00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:39,240
Speaker 1: every year he keeps he keeps getting hurt. But um,

449
00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,399
Speaker 1: it's a tough one. It's Kyle Shane Ann's you know,

450
00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:44,600
Speaker 1: one of the best play callers in the league. His

451
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Speaker 1: offense is put an incredible amount of pressure on you.

452
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Speaker 1: And we just know how talented you know that Damiko

453
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Speaker 1: Ryan's defense is. You know, they did not miss a

454
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Speaker 1: beat after Salo, after Robert Salo left for New York.

455
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Speaker 1: We should know. It's Sunday night. Games between weeks five

456
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Speaker 1: and fifteen could be flexed. This is a potential game

457
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Speaker 1: that could be flexed, although I don't see. I'd be

458
00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:10,320
Speaker 1: very surprised. Yeah, I mean think being in a flex

459
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,560
Speaker 1: position at that point, things would have to go horribly wrong,

460
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Speaker 1: because I would assume even if the forty nine ers

461
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Speaker 1: are sitting at you know, five and four or four

462
00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:21,280
Speaker 1: and five or whatever, just the idea of having Justin

463
00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:24,720
Speaker 1: Herbert on Sunday night football would have some appeal, absolutely,

464
00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,560
Speaker 1: all right. The next one is the Chiefs. This will

465
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Speaker 1: most likely be another Nance Romo game. One, twenty five

466
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Speaker 1: CBS and listen, you circle it every year, money right,

467
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Speaker 1: November twentieth, This is right in the middle of the year.

468
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Speaker 1: I think we'll have a pretty good idea of what

469
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Speaker 1: the AFC West looks like at that point. If it's

470
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Speaker 1: all jumbled up, if one team gets the injury bug,

471
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Speaker 1: and maybe it's a little a little bit behind, but

472
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Speaker 1: I expect both the Charges and Chiefs to be humming

473
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Speaker 1: on all cylinders. November twentieth. Yeah, and again, you know,

474
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:57,320
Speaker 1: you look at the opponent before and it's gonna be

475
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Speaker 1: a street fight. So it's gonna be and that's gonna

476
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Speaker 1: be a technically a short week because it's a Sunday

477
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Speaker 1: night football game going into that game on Sunday, and

478
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,400
Speaker 1: you know, you would expect when you're an offense out

479
00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:10,240
Speaker 1: there and you're taking hits, or you're an offensive line

480
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:13,120
Speaker 1: and you're trying to block both in armstead, or you're

481
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Speaker 1: getting tackled by Fred Warner in that giant brickhouse of

482
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Speaker 1: a body that he's got, like it's it's gonna take

483
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Speaker 1: a minute to feel better, feel like you're ready to

484
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Speaker 1: go again. So unfortunately, you know, not the shortest of weeks,

485
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Speaker 1: but a sort of short week coming off Sunday night

486
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Speaker 1: football when you got to take on the Chiefs at home.

487
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the only thing that jumps out at me. There.

488
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Speaker 1: We already discussed the Chiefs. They'll have their rhythm by then, certainly,

489
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:39,840
Speaker 1: and figure out how those new pass catchers fit in

490
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Speaker 1: and the absence of Tyreek Hill by then. This is

491
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Speaker 1: a tough back half of the schedule. Man. We'll go

492
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Speaker 1: to at Arizona at Las Vegas. The good news, like

493
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Speaker 1: you said, logistic wise, it's quick trips. Both things are

494
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Speaker 1: real quick trips. But Kyler Murray, DeAndre Hopkins, Hollywood Brown,

495
00:23:58,359 --> 00:23:59,840
Speaker 1: that offense is going to be a handful in the

496
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Speaker 1: twenty seven. Yeah. Look, they one ten straight games last year.

497
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Speaker 1: You know, I know it fell apart for them in

498
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Speaker 1: the in the playoffs. They had to deal with some injuries.

499
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 1: You know, they haven't replaced Chandler Jones. I don't quite know.

500
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:13,919
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pull up there their depth chart right now,

501
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,200
Speaker 1: just to see if I'm forgetting anyone here in this

502
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Speaker 1: second wave of free agency. But yeah, I mean there,

503
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:21,520
Speaker 1: you know, does JJ Watts still have it? You know,

504
00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:25,000
Speaker 1: he certainly had moments last year, but he's starting to show,

505
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Speaker 1: you know, his age after eleven years in the league. So,

506
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Speaker 1: you know, defensively, I think they've lost a lot in

507
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Speaker 1: just terms of the fact that that uh that Chandler

508
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Speaker 1: Jones has gone and the amount of pressure he puts

509
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Speaker 1: on from from one of those edge spots. With that gone,

510
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Speaker 1: you feel a lot better about taking on that defense. Offensively,

511
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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray just puts an incredible amount of pressure on

512
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Speaker 1: a defense. There's no two ways about it. They brought

513
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Speaker 1: back James Connor and he fit in perfectly with that

514
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Speaker 1: with that offense, they brought back zach Ertz. I still

515
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 1: think they've got a lot of questions in their in

516
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Speaker 1: their past catch. You know, I don't know if Hollywood

517
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Speaker 1: Brown a one, you know, like he doesn't. He doesn't

518
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Speaker 1: jump out as a one to me. He seems like

519
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Speaker 1: a really good two. So when you're talking about you know,

520
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Speaker 1: Rondale Moore, Marky's Brown, Hollywood Brown, and aj Green, I

521
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Speaker 1: think that's you know, you're feeling all right about that.

522
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:15,200
Speaker 1: You gotta worry about the middle of the field. But

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Speaker 1: that goes into what we talked about with the drafting

524
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Speaker 1: of j. T. Woods, right, Like, this is a great

525
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Speaker 1: Darwin James game. It's like if you're playing JT and

526
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Speaker 1: Nas up high and you can just say, all right,

527
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Speaker 1: if if zach Ertz is your number one, I guess

528
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Speaker 1: who he's gonna have to contend with all game. He

529
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Speaker 1: ain't getting free because Darwin's gonna be glued to him

530
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Speaker 1: and they're gonna have to figure out how to make

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Speaker 1: Hay on the outside. And that's when you feel really

532
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Speaker 1: good about, you know, JC Jackson taking on a smaller

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Speaker 1: guy like Marky's Brown. Yeah it's Hopkins. Is six game

534
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Speaker 1: suspension six yeah, yeah, uh yeah. So December fourth, December

535
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Speaker 1: fourth is the Raiders money and December fifth, five opponents

536
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Speaker 1: in the acust will have been played. So I think

537
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 1: the Charges will have a very good idea where they

538
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Speaker 1: stand in the division, if they can win the division,

539
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Speaker 1: depending on what happens in those first five games, then

540
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 1: you have a whole month to go before playoffs begin. Yeah,

541
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 1: still five more games after that, and again, look, it's

542
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 1: four you said it, it's four road trips in five weeks.

543
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Speaker 1: But three of those four road trips are less than

544
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Speaker 1: an hour away on the airplane. You know, it's Las Vegas,

545
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 1: it's Phoenix and it's San Francin, it's San Jose. So yes,

546
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Speaker 1: that's for other teams. And I cannot say this enough.

547
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 1: It's not there's not a lot of sizzle to it.

548
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Speaker 1: But logistically this schedule has done the Chargers a lot

549
00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 1: of favors. It really it works for them logistically to

550
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 1: be playing this level of opponent, you know, and I

551
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 1: know we'll get into them individually, but from week ten

552
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 1: on forty nine Ers NFC Championship Game, Chiefs AFC Championship Game,

553
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,639
Speaker 1: Arizona had the best record in football through twelve weeks,

554
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,360
Speaker 1: Raiders made the playoffs. Miami was the same record as

555
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Speaker 1: the Chargers. At nine and eight. Tennessee have the best

556
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Speaker 1: record in the AFCC. The Colts, we feel like at

557
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Speaker 1: nine and last year with Matt Ryan at quarterback, are

558
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: going to be in the playoff conversation super Bowl champion

559
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 1: Rams and then the Broncos. To close it out like

560
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 1: that is a freaking gauntlet. So to not have logistical

561
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,719
Speaker 1: nightmares on top of it helps the team a lot.

562
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Speaker 1: It's very manageable, I think is the best way to

563
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,440
Speaker 1: put it. As as we talk out to second half

564
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Speaker 1: of the schedule, man it just it makes the first

565
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Speaker 1: half so freaking important. Like I mean, like like those

566
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Speaker 1: first two games against the Raiders, the Chiefs, Man, you

567
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,399
Speaker 1: gotta get to two and find a way to get

568
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:37,160
Speaker 1: to two. And even if you're one of one Jacksonville, Houston,

569
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Speaker 1: Cleveland potentially without Watson Denver at home on Monday night

570
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:45,880
Speaker 1: in the Seattle Seahawks, you got you gotta sweep that, man. Yeah,

571
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,200
Speaker 1: you feel some equity, get some win equity in there,

572
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 1: no doubt, you know, get some win equity and feel

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00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 1: a lot better about getting into that. I remember, you know,

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Speaker 1: when you get into the back end of the season,

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Speaker 1: things can change considerably. Think about Arizona. We just mentioned

576
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:02,639
Speaker 1: what do they start last year ten? And oh I

577
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 1: think and then Nuke goes down and Chandler Jones is

578
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,479
Speaker 1: dealing with some issues. Their offensive line gets banged up,

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Speaker 1: and they limp into the postseas, So things can change

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00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 1: on the back end of the season. Is Tennessee, you know,

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00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 1: is Tennessee screaming from Alik Willis at that point, has

582
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill not played as well? They've got no A. J. Brown.

583
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,160
Speaker 1: You know, is Derrick Henry going to start showing where?

584
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: You know? By that time at the Seas. So things

585
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 1: can certainly change when you get to the back half

586
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 1: of a schedule, and that goes for the Chargers as well.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, as as it stands today on

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Speaker 1: May twelfth, it's a it's a pretty hairy you know,

589
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: weeks ten through eighteen. Yeah, you bring up a good point.

590
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 1: We're doing this in May. You don't know what's happened

591
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: with injuries. Every team's different from year to year. But

592
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 1: just on paper, because this is all we got right now,

593
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: that that back half is tough, and we go from

594
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 1: back to back road trips Arizona, Vegas to three straight

595
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 1: AFC opponent it's that are probably all playoff contenders. Miami

596
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: December eleventh at home, Tennessee December eighteenth at home, and

597
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 1: then we'll get into at Indie Monday night. But let's

598
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 1: just start with the Dolphins. A new look Dolphins team.

599
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill, you can't avoid him. You'll see him in

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Speaker 1: Miami with with Jalen Widdle on the other side, a

601
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: pretty good running game and a new coach from that,

602
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan Tree. Yeah. Look that to me, of all

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00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 1: the games right there at the back end, that's the

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Speaker 1: one I circle as a flex alert possibility. You know,

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Speaker 1: if the Dolphins are playing well and the Chargers are

606
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 1: playing well, then that's one where I could see getting flexed.

607
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: You know, that can end up being a Sunday night

608
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: football game. I just think it's that big. You know

609
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: the fact that Miami has been taken so much incoming

610
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 1: for passing on Herbert to take Tua. They feel like

611
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: this is the year with this coach, and you know,

612
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 1: signing to Toronto Armstead getting you know, those tackles settle

613
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: Eikenberg in his second season and getting that kind of

614
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 1: right at the offensive line, You're going to see the

615
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: tour that we thought we were going to get. And

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Speaker 1: if that's the case, you know, if if Mike McDaniels

617
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 1: is brilliant of a play caller, is he's billed to

618
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: be the next Kyle Shanahan, then that's that's going to

619
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Speaker 1: be a serious sizzle matchup. We know the defense has

620
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 1: been really good. Now will it fall off with the

621
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Speaker 1: departure Brian Flores. Maybe I wouldn't be surprised if it

622
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: did a little bit. But that's that's when I circle

623
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Speaker 1: and say that could be of all the ones that

624
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at in the back end of the season

625
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: that because CBS ain't gonna let go of the Chiefs game.

626
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: They already let go of the one to Amazon on

627
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: Thursday night, so that's not happening the Raiders. I guess

628
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: technically that could be one that could get flex that

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Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me. So those are those are your two.

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Speaker 1: Those two back to back weeks could end up being

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Speaker 1: your Sunday and at football games. Yeah. And then to

632
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Speaker 1: subber at the Titans in a loaded AFC. I think

633
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: everybody forgets here with the number one seed just because

634
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 1: maybe they're out of sex seeds some of these other teams.

635
00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 1: But you're right though, you know Derrick Henry in mid December,

636
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 1: No A. J. Brown trailing Burks in the mix now,

637
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 1: and is Ryan Tannehill going to be able to keep

638
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: them afloat? They were pretty good defense. Um, it's just

639
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 1: another game where if we talk about the AFC West

640
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: and you've played five division opponents already, if you're in

641
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: the wildcard hunt, you may be competing with teams like

642
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 1: the Dolphins and the Titans. Yeah, and look, the one

643
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: thing about the Titans set defense is good. You know

644
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: that whatever the offense may be you know, Contrailer j

645
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: Simmons's first game was against How can I forget it?

646
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 1: I mean it was it was basically the end of

647
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 1: the season. You know, it was a chance for the

648
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: Chargers to say, okay, let's shake off these these early issues.

649
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: And you know it was the fumble at the goal

650
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: line from Melvin Gordon like three different times, um to

651
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 1: lose that game. But yeah, I mean you're talking about Simmons,

652
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: Harold Landry and Bud Dupree, who I thought did okay

653
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: last year started to come on lay. But look at

654
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 1: the back end, you know, with with Christian Fulton and

655
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 1: with where I'm anxious to see if Caleb Farley overcomes

656
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: that back injury that limited him last year, because man,

657
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 1: he was an incredible cornerback at Votec before that back injury.

658
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: And Kevin Byrd out there, I'd say, look, that's a

659
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: good defense and that you would expect to be a

660
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 1: pretty tight, nasty, you know, street fight again. I'll say

661
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: that that word again. Style of game that you would

662
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: expect from like a San Francisco to Tennessee and just

663
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: the way they want to play. Week sixteen, December twenty

664
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Speaker 1: six Why didn't I football in Indianapolis, get your get

665
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 1: your Saint Almost Resie and for Christmas night money, right, Yeah,

666
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: I'll take a pass on Saint Almost for Christmas evening.

667
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: But look, I'm stoked. I'm happy for the guys and

668
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 1: for the coaches that they get a Monday night football game,

669
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 1: you know, instead of having the Colts on Christmas Day

670
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: when you're flying out on Christmas even spending Christmas even

671
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 1: waking up Christmas morning in Indianapolis without your family, or

672
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: you got to fly your family out and have Christmas

673
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: in the hotel when you've got a ten am game,

674
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 1: you know Pacific time. Like that's a big break for

675
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: the Chargers to pull the Colts when they're playing all

676
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: their games on Christmas Eve, three games on Christmas Day

677
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: and one on the day after Christmas. You know, we

678
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: just did it last year. We left it like noon

679
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 1: to go to Houston on Christmas Day. So and everybody

680
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 1: I liked. Did it work out on the field, No,

681
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 1: But that was you know, that was the COVID game

682
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 1: for both teams. You know, half the roster was gone

683
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: with COVID for that game. Mike Davis got pulls in it.

684
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 1: Mike Davis got pulled off the field, you know, right

685
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: before kick was told he couldn't play, so like it

686
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: was just that was the COVID game more than the

687
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: Christmas game. I think that's you know, that's settling. I

688
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 1: think for the players that you get to eat, spend

689
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve, wake up with your family if you got

690
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 1: little ones, like so many of them do, they're opening

691
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 1: gifts and stuff, and then you can make your way

692
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 1: to the facility and get on out to Indianapolis. Because

693
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: it's a Monday night football games, You're not gonna have

694
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: to leave until probably one or two o'clock Pacific time

695
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 1: to get there, you know, in your window of eighteen hours.

696
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: So I think the Colts are going to be a

697
00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: really good team this year. I just I look at

698
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: that team and I think, you know, like you said,

699
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: if the things don't go well in the division, Chris,

700
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 1: and you're talking about fighting for wild card spots. This

701
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 1: is a big one. Um they traded for in Goackway.

702
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 1: They already have one of the best defensive tackles in

703
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,840
Speaker 1: the Forest Buckners. And I love Quitty pay and I

704
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: think he's going to be great in his second season.

705
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 1: Next level. Darius Leonard tackling machine, one of the best

706
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:26,240
Speaker 1: linebackers in football. Next level, they bring in Stefan Gilmour

707
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 1: um so defensively and Gus and Gus is coordinating, you know,

708
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 1: So that's that's um hey, look where Gus go's, Janiknackway goes.

709
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: It should have been a no brainer once I mentioned that.

710
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 1: Um So, look, that's gonna be a tough game, and

711
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be one where you know, you hope

712
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 1: there's you're not eating too much Christmas Ham, you know,

713
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: and you're able to work it through your system, all

714
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,880
Speaker 1: the parodies or the yams or the ham or the

715
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 1: or whatever it is that you you choose to Tomali's

716
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: on Christmas. I hope they've made their way through, because

717
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a tough one. And offensively, you know,

718
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,760
Speaker 1: I love you know, John Hadia, not like Jonathan Taylor,

719
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,240
Speaker 1: you know in the interior, that line opening up giant

720
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 1: holes for him to run through. Money. If the division,

721
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,359
Speaker 1: let's say it does go well, right, it's just as

722
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 1: important because I mean, these are AFC games, and if

723
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,760
Speaker 1: it comes down to Week eighteen, and like the Chiefs

724
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 1: are four and two in the division and you're four

725
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: and two in the division. If you beat Miami Tennessee

726
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis, that may decide what's happening in terms of

727
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 1: field advantage in the Division two. So for if it

728
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: goes not well or if it does go well, this

729
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: is almost like the second playoff season here in December.

730
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,400
Speaker 1: I guess these AFC opponents that are all going to

731
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 1: be competing for a wild cards. That's a great point. Yeah,

732
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,800
Speaker 1: right there in that stretch, Miami Tennessee colts outside your division.

733
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: But you know your first tiebreaker had to head a

734
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:57,399
Speaker 1: second tie breaker division record, third tiebreaker conference record, fourth

735
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,919
Speaker 1: tiebreaker common opponents. So you know, there you go. It's

736
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:04,239
Speaker 1: those are that's that's a great point. Those are three,

737
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 1: even though they're not in division, incredibly important game just

738
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:11,319
Speaker 1: because they count toward that particular tiebreaker that comes into

739
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: play and came into play last year, so you know,

740
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: and then and that's why you know the Pittsburgh ended

741
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: up getting in. So this next one is not a

742
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 1: division game, it's not a conference game, but it may

743
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:28,800
Speaker 1: have the bigness of any game on the seventeen game schedule.

744
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 1: It's the Rams and Chargers on Sunday Night Football on

745
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:35,840
Speaker 1: New Year's Day. It's a Chargers home game on NBC

746
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,400
Speaker 1: Money against the Super Bowl champs. I think that this

747
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:43,840
Speaker 1: has a little bit of extroduce Brandon's Daley Sean McVeigh

748
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: Rams Chargers. I mean, this is a great way to

749
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 1: kick off twenty twenty three. Yeah. Look, I know maybe

750
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: it's I don't know if you would call it petty

751
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:54,840
Speaker 1: or what, but yeah, it's the biggest game on the schedules.

752
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 1: To me, it really is. I mean, I get the

753
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 1: Chiefs and you want to win your division and the

754
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 1: players won't say that, and that's fine. Are the players,

755
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: you know, they can say the Chiefs games and the

756
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 1: Raiders games and the Broncos games are all equally the

757
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: biggest games on their schedule every year. But to me,

758
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: this is the one you both play in the same stadium.

759
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: The Rams just won the Super Bowl last year. The

760
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 1: Chargers are trying to climb that mountain in Los Angeles

761
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: as well. We know it's all about winning in this city.

762
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't think anyone would argue that

763
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: the Chargers have the more exciting team with the way

764
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: they play, specifically on offense, that they've they've got more

765
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 1: sizzle by having Justin Herbert in Derwin James. You know,

766
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:36,879
Speaker 1: if you want to play the Aaron Donald's card, I'll

767
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:38,760
Speaker 1: put you know, Aaron Donald's the best player in football.

768
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: I'm not going to argue that. But in terms of

769
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,320
Speaker 1: who do I want to watch play defense, I like

770
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 1: watching Derwin James and Joey Bosa played defense just as

771
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 1: much as I like watching Aaron Donald. So you know,

772
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 1: it's a huge game, and it's it's beyond the field.

773
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,800
Speaker 1: It's it's a game that is beyond the field. This

774
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,919
Speaker 1: is how you know. This is our this is our roster.

775
00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 1: And I'm speaking for the Chargers, I guess, which they

776
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 1: probably don't want me to do, so I'll just say

777
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 1: this is the Chargers roster. This is what it looks

778
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: like when Justin Herbert takes the field. This is the

779
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 1: style of football that Brandon Staley coaches, and you can

780
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 1: compare and contrast with what's going on on the other sideline.

781
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 1: And for someone calling the game, it's very exciting and

782
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: I'm very excited selfishly that I will be sitting and

783
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:25,399
Speaker 1: DJ will be sitting in the booth where we call

784
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: home games, and JB and Maurice Jones, Drew are going

785
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 1: to have to move their asses down about two hundred

786
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 1: feet to do the game in Sofi Stadium from the

787
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,359
Speaker 1: visitor's booth. I will not be able to get enough

788
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 1: of that. I will be wildly excited by that being

789
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 1: the case on Sunday night. The whole world's watching too.

790
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 1: I think that's that's what gives us another layer, is

791
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 1: that this is an NBC game, and you know, you

792
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: covered sports in this city for so so long. If

793
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:03,839
Speaker 1: the Chargers can put together an awesome season and then

794
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 1: in week seventeen take care of the Rams en route

795
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:12,359
Speaker 1: to the playoffs, I mean this takes you another jump

796
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: here in the city. And with Justin Herbert as your quarterback,

797
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: I think the sky's the limit. And look, I think

798
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 1: the big part of that is and I say it's

799
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 1: that big of a game because the Rams just won

800
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:25,800
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. If the Rams didn't just win the

801
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, I don't necessarily feel the same way about it.

802
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 1: And I say, yeah, it's a big deal. It's head

803
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: to head, it's you know, you're you're both in your

804
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 1: infancy here in Los Angeles in terms of big picture,

805
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,920
Speaker 1: and there are still a lot of fans hearts and

806
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:42,319
Speaker 1: heads to be won over and you're fighting for that. Hey,

807
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: we want to be the team of Los Angeles. But

808
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 1: the Rams just won the Super Bowl, you know, and

809
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 1: you can't take that away from them. So what you

810
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: can do, though, is knock them off at the back

811
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: end of the season. We know how hard it is

812
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 1: to repeat. And we also know because I, like you said,

813
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 1: I've been doing this a long time an old man,

814
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 1: but I remember them. I think about the Ben Holland

815
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 1: UCLA teams. You know, they went to back to back

816
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: to back final fours and there just wasn't a lot

817
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: of juice there because of the style that they played. Now,

818
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 1: when you look at the names that were on those

819
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: teams should have been you know, I mean with Russell

820
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,319
Speaker 1: Westbrook and and Zach Levine and Kevin Love and are

821
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 1: not Zach Levine but Kevin Love and Russell Westbrook and

822
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 1: those guys out there, uh, Aaron of Flower Like, they

823
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 1: should have had sizzle, but they just didn't because of

824
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,399
Speaker 1: the style of play. So to have the Chargers play

825
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 1: football in the manner they do um with the players

826
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 1: that populate this roster currently, that's an exciting game and

827
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:43,320
Speaker 1: I think it could go a long way. If it

828
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 1: we look, we just every single week I would I

829
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: would show up at Sofi Stadium. I was treated to,

830
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: you know, a wildly entertaining product every single week. The

831
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 1: Steelers game, the Browns game, the Raiders game, the Chiefs game,

832
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 1: like you know, and then we went on the road.

833
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: It was the same, you know, the Raiders game to

834
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 1: end the season, the Chiefs game in Kansas City, like

835
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: it was. It's just the Bengals game. Like They're just

836
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 1: a fun team to watch, and I'm excited that you can.

837
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 1: You're gonna be able to do it. And the Chargers,

838
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: the Chargers, they're gonna be wearing their powder blues and

839
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:23,359
Speaker 1: the Rams are going to be forced to wear those

840
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 1: stupid bone uniforms that look like they threw their whites

841
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: in the washing machine with a brown T shirt. So

842
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 1: that's gonna make me happy to Rose Bowl January second,

843
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 1: January first MS Chargers. All right, I don't know who

844
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: makes that decision that is that? Is that a John

845
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:43,280
Speaker 1: Spano's decision. Who comes up with the uniform schedule, whoever

846
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 1: comes up with the uniform schedule. I want powder blue

847
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: with gold pants, so the Rams have to wear bone.

848
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:55,440
Speaker 1: That's that's of paramount importance in that contest. If you

849
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 1: take anything from this podcast, cutting it like the forty

850
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:04,840
Speaker 1: seven minute mark, there you go, stupid bone. Week eighteen

851
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:09,320
Speaker 1: at Bronchos, who knows man? Who knows? Well? There's what

852
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: I know? Bles game? Who knows what? What? What's going

853
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: to be needed to begin to the playoffs? Could be

854
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson just at Herbert in prime time. Could mean

855
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: absolutely nothing. I hope it means nothing for the Charger's sake.

856
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 1: What I do know is our um our trip to

857
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: Denver is going to be tested because year in and

858
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: year out, we get unseasonably warm games in Denver. It

859
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 1: is crazy. We show up there, it's November and it's

860
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 1: sixty degrees. We go there and it's Octoba, end of

861
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 1: October and it's seventy five degrees. Like, what is how

862
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 1: we continued to dodge the eight inches of snow and

863
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:54,320
Speaker 1: the ten degree temperatures of Denver? So January, what is

864
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 1: it seventh or eighth? Yeah, that's gonna be tested. It

865
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: is certainly going to be tested of clear skies forty

866
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 1: to sixty degrees at kick because that's what we've had

867
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 1: for the last five years. So we'll see what we'll

868
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: see what Week eighteen has in store for us. All Right,

869
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 1: I want to end the pot on this. If I

870
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 1: gave you a pair of tickets for three home games

871
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:22,879
Speaker 1: this year, rank them go three to one or one

872
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: to three whatever we three, all right, so let me

873
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 1: see let me go through this. Okay, Well I already

874
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 1: said the Rams, um. You know how important I think

875
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:35,399
Speaker 1: that game is. But like, look for entertainment purposes, I'll

876
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 1: go number one. Give me the home opener, you know,

877
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 1: give me, give me Raiders. That that'd be the one

878
00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:42,760
Speaker 1: i'd take first, just because you know, there's something specially

879
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:44,800
Speaker 1: about the first week of the season. It's the Raiders.

880
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'll take I'll take Raiders one, and then

881
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 1: I will take then I'll take the Rams, take the

882
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:59,840
Speaker 1: Rams two, and I'll take the Chiefs three. You know. Otherwise,

883
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: like you know, I look at the Jags, the Seahawks,

884
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:05,360
Speaker 1: you got Miami in there. I wouldn't mind seeing the

885
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 1: two of versus Herbert Bowl. That could be fun, actually,

886
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: and I do get to see the Chiefs every year.

887
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 1: So yeah, you know what, I'll I will spurn the

888
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 1: Chiefs for the Miami game because I'll have already selfishly

889
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 1: seen them, and yeah, so let's go. Raiders would be

890
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:22,800
Speaker 1: my number one, Rams my number two, and let me

891
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 1: get out there. See that teal, see that deal of

892
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 1: Miami and the two A Herbert Bowl. All right, I

893
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 1: had mine written down already. Have Raiders one week one,

894
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 1: I have Broncos two, Russell Wilson week. That's true primetime game.

895
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 1: Those are always fun. Yeah, you know what, I'm going

896
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: back to the Rams because at Sunday night football or

897
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 1: something about primetime that's a lot more fun. Yeah, and

898
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 1: then three I had the Rams week seventeen, and there

899
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:47,399
Speaker 1: you go. I don't know, just talking about it makes

900
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 1: me kind of want to move it up a little

901
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: bit more. But we'll keep it with those three Rams,

902
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:54,840
Speaker 1: with Broncos, good home schedule, brocosms, you know, good home schedule. Obviously,

903
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 1: the AFC West is a gauntlet. You got those three

904
00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:00,040
Speaker 1: games and then you got the Rams, the Dolphins, the

905
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:03,720
Speaker 1: Titans that were the best record in the AFC last year, Henry,

906
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: we both didn't have the Chiefs in the home schedule.

907
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 1: That's how the home schedule is. Yeah, and that's stupid.

908
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:10,959
Speaker 1: If I do have to make it three, you should

909
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 1: have just made it one like one, or I want

910
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:14,800
Speaker 1: to make it three. I want to make it interesting.

911
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 1: All right. Yeah, I've been asking the same question for

912
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 1: the away games. Pair tickets, three games on the road

913
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 1: with your buddies. What are you picking? Um? Okay at Chiefs?

914
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 1: For sure, I love Arrowhead, love that stadium, Love that

915
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:34,319
Speaker 1: atmosphere is going to be that's number one. Uh number two?

916
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 1: No Texans, no Browns, uh no Falcons at forty nine.

917
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:41,320
Speaker 1: But I hate that stadium and stadium is such a

918
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 1: piece of junk um. It's just not a great place

919
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:51,839
Speaker 1: the way they designed it. But it's close Arizona. Okay.

920
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: So one at Chiefs, two at Raiders, uh three, how

921
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 1: about this at Broncos. I'm doing the three AFC West games.

922
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:06,360
Speaker 1: You're just you're just hoping for sixty degrees January seventh?

923
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:09,879
Speaker 1: Could I think it's I just don't think. I think

924
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:12,880
Speaker 1: it's gonna be something. I am banking on it being something.

925
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 1: And those are three awesome atmospheres like they are. Just

926
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 1: you know that it was electric inside Allegiant last year

927
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 1: in Week eighteen. It's always it's my favor. I think

928
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 1: it's the best tailgate in all of football at Arrowhead.

929
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 1: I don't think anything's close. Maybe the Packers, but the

930
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 1: Chief's tailgate is spectacular. And hey Charger fans, if you're

931
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 1: going out there, uh, you know what, I'm not gonna

932
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 1: say it yet. I'm gonna wait because I don't know.

933
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 1: I tickets don't go on sale yet and I'm not

934
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:41,799
Speaker 1: gonna let somebody steal it from me, So I'm gonna

935
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:46,400
Speaker 1: wait to share that little nugget. Um Arrowhead is Arrowheads

936
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 1: awesome and and obviously mile High is great. It's so

937
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 1: fun to be at a Bronco game, you know, incomplete.

938
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:53,840
Speaker 1: When they screamed that on third down, the whole place shakes.

939
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 1: It's it's a really fun place to see a game.

940
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:59,719
Speaker 1: I got Chiefs one. Uh. I got forty honors too,

941
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 1: just because of the storylines. And it's Sunday night football.

942
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 1: And I know it's not in San Francisco, but you

943
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: make a weekend of it, sure in your weekend in

944
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 1: Santa Clara. And then the Raiders. I'm with you, man.

945
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 1: Like I thought that atmosphere was awesome. I didn't know

946
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 1: what to expect it allegiant, but like their house band,

947
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:19,359
Speaker 1: it was like it's the perfect Vegas it's great. It's great.

948
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: It's all it's Vegas. It's great. See now I'm looking

949
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 1: at him, I'm like, you know, maybe San Francisco because

950
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:29,720
Speaker 1: it's prime time, but now I just uh. Levi's Stadium

951
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 1: is one of my least favorite stadiums in all the NFL.

952
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:35,320
Speaker 1: I don't know why they're They should be the Santa

953
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 1: Clara forty Niners, right, they're not even closest. I just

954
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:40,399
Speaker 1: it's like, I just mean, like the way they built

955
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:44,919
Speaker 1: the stadium, it's just seats everywhere, Like it is way

956
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:48,799
Speaker 1: too big, it's way too spread out. It never gets

957
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 1: that loud. It's there's just there's something weird about it.

958
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 1: It's it's not you know for me, like that's part

959
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 1: of it. I'm the kind of person that when I

960
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 1: get to a stadium, I want to walk around, I

961
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,240
Speaker 1: want to check it out. I'm walking through the concourse,

962
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 1: I'm checking out whatever their monument park kind of thing is,

963
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:08,319
Speaker 1: and and Levi's just has none of that. And their

964
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: fans are jerks, so there's that too. It's you know what,

965
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 1: it's easy for chargist fans. You get to you probably

966
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 1: you probably get a decent seat there. The Colts are

967
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 1: my honorable mention. Like I just I don't know. I

968
00:48:19,719 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 1: got a salt spot for Indie. But it is the

969
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 1: Sember twenty six. You've got to travel on Christmas, like selfishly,

970
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: for me, I'm gonna probably fly home it spend Christmas

971
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:29,319
Speaker 1: with you know, our family, with my parents, and then

972
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:32,359
Speaker 1: drive down. But that was the only reason I left

973
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: the Colts off. It's like, you know, if you've got

974
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 1: to travel there, well, now you're traveling on because you're

975
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:39,880
Speaker 1: losing time. So you're traveling on Christmas Day. Now they

976
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 1: do have a red eye, so I guess technically, if

977
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 1: you want you celebrate Christmas, you have a great time.

978
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,319
Speaker 1: You take the red Eye to Indie, spend all day

979
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:47,759
Speaker 1: in Indie hanging out, and then go to the money

980
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:50,359
Speaker 1: in football game. It's not a bad deal. We're giving

981
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 1: you options. We talked a lot of logistics, a lot

982
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 1: of logistics. This was a logistics podcast more than anything.

983
00:48:56,920 --> 00:49:00,080
Speaker 1: You're welcome everybody. It's fun though, brother, I mean lista,

984
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:03,919
Speaker 1: it's May twelfth, and we now know how to plan

985
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:06,720
Speaker 1: out our fall a little bit better. Circle some dates

986
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 1: and if you're a fan, like I said, this is

987
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:12,080
Speaker 1: a perfect time to start playing those trips to Kansas

988
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 1: City to Vegas, San Francisco to Indy whatever. Yeah, get

989
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 1: after it, get after it. It's fun to go on

990
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 1: the road. For the most part, fans, believe it or not,

991
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:26,799
Speaker 1: are pretty polite and cool when you're on the road.

992
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 1: The drunken fights that you see are the outliers. They're

993
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:34,479
Speaker 1: not the norm, you know. And I've been walking around

994
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:36,359
Speaker 1: the parking lot and I got to wear Chargers gear

995
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,920
Speaker 1: to call the games. Everybody's usually been super cool at

996
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 1: all these places, so I can't encourage you to go enough.

997
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 1: It's it's a lot of fun. And hey, let's get

998
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 1: you in there on week one. Huh on Charger fans,

999
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: Let's let's pack that place on Week one against the Raiders.

1000
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 1: That thing. Yeah, let's let's get that thing going. The

1001
00:49:56,840 --> 00:50:01,600
Speaker 1: revenge factor man, the stewing for an entire offseason just

1002
00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:03,800
Speaker 1: to play them on week one and get out of

1003
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:07,320
Speaker 1: the WI Mac get get after his former team about

1004
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 1: all that stuff, dude, I can't wait. Uh, we'll be

1005
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:11,960
Speaker 1: back next week. We'll probably talk a little bit more

1006
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,759
Speaker 1: rookie mini camp and and OTAs. But this was fun,

1007
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 1: but oh yeah, I enjoyed it. Got to talk about

1008
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 1: flights and hotels and parking lots. It was great. It's

1009
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 1: all about logistics, all right, Guys for money, I'm Chris

1010
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:25,840
Speaker 1: has been charges weekly