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Speaker 1: Everybody. Chris Harry with you on our final training camp

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Speaker 1: edition of Chargers Weekly. Coming up a beat writer's round

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Speaker 1: table to get you ready for Saturday's game against the Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: Jeff Miller of the La Times, Gilbert Menzano of Southern

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Speaker 1: California Newsgroup, and Haley Oh would have Chargers dot Com

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Speaker 1: joined me to preview preseason game number three. All right,

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Speaker 1: welcome to our Chargers beat writers round table. Jeff Miller,

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Speaker 1: La Times, Double fists and sandwiches. Rolling up for the

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Speaker 1: last day of training. Let's get a shout out to

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Speaker 1: little little Pickle. Wow, little fit you're in Costamason, want

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Speaker 1: a sandwich? Highly? It was good? It was good. It's

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Speaker 1: melts your mouth literally. Gilbert Menzano, Southern California Newsgroup, Ellie

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Speaker 1: Olwood Chargers dot Com. My partner in crime here at

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Speaker 1: the Chargers. How do you guys still doing well? It

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Speaker 1: kind of sounds when he says a little Pickles, I'm

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Speaker 1: like a rapper, like little little little It's like if

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Speaker 1: you watch Parks and Wreck with like a little Sebastian

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Speaker 1: and it is a little For the record, I'm not

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Speaker 1: just trying to be street that Actually DJ Dents play

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Speaker 1: a little little pickle today, spinning some little pickle out

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Speaker 1: here at jack hambott Well, guys, it's a wrap. This

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Speaker 1: place is a ghost town now. You know. We hit

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Speaker 1: these public practices. The stands were up all the activation

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Speaker 1: past few days. All that stuff is down. I don't

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Speaker 1: see goalposts anymore. We're closing his place down. Would you

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Speaker 1: make of the last four weeks? So are you, Jeff? Well?

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Speaker 1: The big I mean, the big takeaway unfortunately right now

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Speaker 1: I think that's what most people are on the around

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Speaker 1: the NFL are going to look at that. And the

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Speaker 1: fact that Melvin never made an appearance Melvin Gordon never

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Speaker 1: Russell ll Cooon never was able to practice here. So

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Speaker 1: though you know it, I think it was like most teams,

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Speaker 1: everybody had a good camp. It seems like this time

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Speaker 1: of year like and and so I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of good things happened here. But there on this team

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Speaker 1: is gonna uh you know, they're breaking camp so to

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Speaker 1: speak with with some questions and some holes that that

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Speaker 1: you know, we know Derwin's out for a while and

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Speaker 1: right now when when we might see those guys. So

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Speaker 1: it's they I think they've got a lot of accomplish here,

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Speaker 1: But then there's still there's still a few you know,

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Speaker 1: lingering pretty pretty big holes. Yes, answer questions, Gil, what

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Speaker 1: about you? And and just to fall upon Jeff, it's like,

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Speaker 1: what are you doing now at strong safety? What do

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Speaker 1: you know, I think we're still, you know, looking for

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Speaker 1: answers on those positions. You know, you got Transcott probably

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Speaker 1: So we don't know. But I think for those guys

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Speaker 1: last week. You're not going to replace Darwin James, because

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Speaker 1: no one can really beat Darwin James. But this secondary

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Speaker 1: is probably the deepest position group on this football team, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: and I mean Adrian Phillips even said that in his

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Speaker 1: it's schematically working different guys at different positions. But I

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Speaker 1: go back to the Saints game, good bete. What did

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Speaker 1: And to see them come back and make those plays,

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Speaker 1: you know who will step up and who can step up.

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Speaker 1: So now bringing Inman into the fold, I think that's

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Speaker 1: I just spoke, see Jeremy, Jeremy's ability to play special

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Speaker 1: teams is a big deal. And Andre Patton played well

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Speaker 1: last week. Two guys, Yeah, and again two more pieces

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Speaker 1: proving got like Don Treman, why can't you can't get discourage?

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Speaker 1: You gotta keep bating and keep pushing to get that

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Speaker 1: But yeah, they they seem like they're pretty lowered up

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Speaker 1: you're Arre Pannick. Well you know what does it mean

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Speaker 1: for me? But I think those guys guys still got

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Speaker 1: And Andrew Patton, you know, put it on tape a

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Speaker 1: it comes to cut day to remember, Hey, I remember

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Speaker 1: that our Tavis at that play. You want to have

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Speaker 1: And I'll throw into Jeremy and Jeremy Davis. He's great

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Speaker 1: on special teams too, And it's one of those things

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Speaker 1: like does that value add something to him that maybe

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Speaker 1: what else you'll go for? Uh, we haven't mentioned Forest

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Speaker 1: it in there. But yeah, it's a battle there at

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Speaker 1: the left guard spot. I keep thinking it's Forest Lamb's

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Speaker 1: job to lose. But Dan Feeney had a great game

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Speaker 1: a week ago. I don't he was playing center, but

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Speaker 1: he was playing some some time at left guard also.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I think it's the old line to see

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Speaker 1: I have a lot of questions for that. Uh you

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Speaker 1: know it's Transcot the guy, or you go back to

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Speaker 1: Sam Tavy or you know, Trey Pitkins. Do you have

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Speaker 1: a chance to kind of you know, breakthrough that. You

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Speaker 1: know that rotation there. So I think for me is

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Speaker 1: watching more of the old line. I know Rivers won't

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Speaker 1: play well, it sounds like you won't play on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: but you know, another game for those guys on the

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Speaker 1: under their belt and kind of see how they do

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Speaker 1: against the Seahawks. What about you, Jeff Well, I think

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Speaker 1: I'll probably go back to the quarterbacks. Uh. And it's funny,

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Speaker 1: let's be clear about this. We're talking about two guys who,

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Speaker 1: if the Chargers have their way, will never play the season, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, if everything goes well, Tyrod Taylor's

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Speaker 1: I think when you're when you're talking about what's what's

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Speaker 1: you know, is this game worth watching? I mean a

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Speaker 1: lot of these games have become hard to watch because

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Speaker 1: no one's playing. This game is very interesting for that.

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Speaker 1: That's that standpoint. I think Cardell is an interesting guy

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Speaker 1: in that I think a lot of fans are kind

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Speaker 1: of over him and there's kind of like this guy.

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Speaker 1: We've given this guy so many chances when you know,

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Speaker 1: so it's interesting to see him now actually making making

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Speaker 1: some plays and maybe we're seeing a little hint of

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Speaker 1: what he could be and why Anthony Lynn loves him

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Speaker 1: and why the other coaches other other places he's been

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Speaker 1: we saw it on display. So I think it's it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to see what happens with with those

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Speaker 1: two young quarterbacks and ultimately what it means in another

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks when the when the roster decisions are made.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait for Week one, but these next two

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Speaker 1: weeks are so important for this team because you fill

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Speaker 1: out your roster and there's going to be guys that

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Speaker 1: make an impact at some point during the year. And

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Speaker 1: it starts Saturday. Haleyo Wood gonna be on the sidelines.

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Speaker 1: A seven for those out of market, broadcast nationally on

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Speaker 1: Joan press Box. I'll be eating with Jeff Jeff Biller.

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Speaker 1: Well you know what I'm gonna be doing. That that's

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Speaker 1: pretty well known. I love the fact, all right, So

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Speaker 1: you didn't see this, but Jeff came over with two sandwiches,

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Speaker 1: one or each and forgot his phone, came back still

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Speaker 1: had a sandwich in his hand. Pub little Pickle if

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Speaker 1: you want a pub a bet the end. I think

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Speaker 1: it'd be a nice ending. Oh, I just I can't

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Speaker 1: say enough about a little Pickle. I mean this is

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Speaker 1: I said it, that little pickle one training camp, no

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Speaker 1: question about it. That's the winner trade to get winners. Guys,

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, and that's gonna do it for us.

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Speaker 1: A big thanks to Jeff, Gill and Haley for joining me,

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Speaker 1: and of course thanks to you guys for listening. If

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Speaker 1: you like the podcast, be sure to subscribe on Apple

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