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Speaker 1: the Final Drive, presented by Microsoft Surface. Here at SOFI

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Speaker 1: Stadium as the Chargers lose twenty one sixteen to the

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Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers alongside Haley Elwood. Actually we're not next to

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Speaker 1: each other. We're You're in a suite. I'm inna suite.

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Speaker 1: We got our masks on this. We're trying to be

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Speaker 1: safe here. Yeah, hey listen it, Chargers a tough one.

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Speaker 1: I think turnovers are the story of this game. Turnovers

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Speaker 1: are absolutely the story of this game. Three in the

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Speaker 1: first half, which led to twelve points for Carolina. They

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Speaker 1: capitalize off of each of them. I mean, that is

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Speaker 1: the one thing that coach Lynn has preached all off

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Speaker 1: just hard to win games when you turn the football

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Speaker 1: same time. Too. Clearly the story of the game, clearly

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Speaker 1: the last drive of the game. If things ended up differently,

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Speaker 1: we'd be having a very different conversation. It would be

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Speaker 1: about overcoming adversity. And they certainly did that in the

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Speaker 1: little too late at that point, as Justin Herbert said,

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Speaker 1: they kind of got in a rhythm in that second half,

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Speaker 1: the turnovers the absolute story of this game for sure, Haley.

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Speaker 1: The title of this, my guess, is the final drive.

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Speaker 1: It was almost an epic final drive that Herbers always

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Speaker 1: It definitely felt that way. I will tell you this much.

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Speaker 1: I have learned that I have a lot of gray

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Speaker 1: that way. It was literally down to that final final play.

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Speaker 1: And I think one of the most interesting things that

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Speaker 1: buddy Brack in Chargers communications. Herbert becomes the third quarterback

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