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Speaker 1: A late fifteen to ten touchdowns.

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Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, welcome into a Week one edition of Chargers Weekly.

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Speaker 2: Year seven of the podcasts, commencing here as always, joined

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Speaker 2: by Matt Muddy Smith Buddy all the speculation, all to

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Speaker 2: talk about the draft of Combine training camp, It's over.

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Speaker 2: This is where the meat of the podcast really starts.

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Speaker 2: Against the Miami Dolphins Week one. I know you're prepping,

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Speaker 2: You're getting ready for this huge kickoff. Your initial thoughts,

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Speaker 2: my man.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we could ask for a better opponent

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Speaker 1: in Week one. You know, you think as we record this,

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Speaker 1: it's Thursday morning. You got a heck of a Thursday

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Speaker 1: night er. Let's go Lions, you know, Lions Chiefs tonight.

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Speaker 1: And this was I just think back to last year

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Speaker 1: and remember this game was back to back with San

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Speaker 1: Francisco and it was coming off they were just the

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Speaker 1: Chargers were ravaged, ravaged by injury. And I remember walking

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Speaker 1: the halls of Levi's Stadium. You know, there's just it's

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Speaker 1: a giant press box at Levi's and everybody to an

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Speaker 1: individual was talking about what a bloodbat this was going

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Speaker 1: to be. This could end up being one of the

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Speaker 1: worst Sunday night football games. The Chargers are absolutely decimated

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Speaker 1: by injuries. The forty nine ers have been humming with

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Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey. You know, they look like an absolute buzzsaw

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Speaker 1: that's going to make it to the super Bowl. And then,

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Speaker 1: of course, you know the way it turned out. They

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Speaker 1: got a lead at the half, they can't run the ball.

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Speaker 1: Brilliant bit of defensive scheming by Brandon Staley. And unfortunately

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Speaker 1: you lose three defensive linemen in that. You're down to

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Speaker 1: three defensive linemen in that game, and ultimately attrition took

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Speaker 1: its toll. They lose. Well, then that carried over to

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Speaker 1: the Miami game. Let's not forget. Then we're walking the

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Speaker 1: halls of so FI and everybody's saying the same thing. Oh,

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Speaker 1: another primetime game, bloodbath Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle and

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be humiliating. They don't have anyone, And again,

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Speaker 1: brilliant bit of defensive scheming from Brandon Staley. Josh s Heir,

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Speaker 1: Taylor comes up big, Herbert has a monster game, Tua

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Speaker 1: has the worst game of his career, and the Chargers

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Speaker 1: get out with a win. And I just I set

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Speaker 1: that as the backdrop because I believe there is scar

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Speaker 1: important game for them, that you know, for Mike McDaniel,

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Speaker 1: who's supposed to be and it is, I mean legitimately

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Speaker 1: a great play caller, a great offensive coach, that there's

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Speaker 1: you know, with their hair on fire. And I have

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Speaker 1: no doubt that the Chargers defense is like, hey, that

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Speaker 1: wasn't a fluke. You know, we were all busted up

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Speaker 1: last year and that's what our defense should have looked

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Speaker 1: like weekend and we got and we're going to prove

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Speaker 1: it and set the tone for the league the rest

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Speaker 1: of the season. So I absolutely love that this is

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Speaker 1: our opener where you have two teams that are coming

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Speaker 1: out swinging haymakers because they want to prove a point

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Speaker 1: and set the tone for the season in this first game, if.

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Speaker 2: You guys remember, that was the game I think Keenan

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Speaker 2: and Mike came back and that was really the catalysts

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Speaker 2: forgetting to the postseason. The game plan by Brandon Saley

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Speaker 2: and if you remember, I feel like that game could

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Speaker 2: have gone another way had a Loohi Gilman not gotten

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Speaker 2: It was gonna be a short touchdown. Tyreek kilbambe alow,

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Speaker 2: he's kind of set the tone with a big play

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Speaker 2: from the beginning. I found it to be a curious

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Speaker 2: game plan by the Miami Dolphins. I think they ran

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Speaker 2: course he saw Keenan and Mike back with Justin. Justin

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Speaker 2: threw for three hundred and seventy six yards, one of

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Speaker 2: his best games of his career. But Brandon Staley said it,

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Speaker 2: I believe on Wednesday Money that this is gonna be

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Speaker 2: a completely different ballgame, completely different players. Yeah, you got

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Speaker 2: Vic Fangio now running the defense. You have Ronaldo Hill

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Speaker 2: who's over with Vic and in Miami, and you know

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Speaker 3: So there's gonna be a chess match. Especially.

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Speaker 2: I think at the beginning of this game, Brandon Saley

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Speaker 2: for either team to start one or zero against a

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Speaker 1: We get to January's a great, great point and I

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Speaker 1: tie breaking standpoint. The Dolphins are in a division that

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Speaker 1: and they look to have the best stacked you know, look,

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Speaker 1: Miami top to bottom might be better in terms of

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Speaker 1: you know, because it's a home game for the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: Games rarely are blowouts. So this is a big game

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Speaker 1: from that standpoint. You brought up the run. That's why

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Speaker 1: I think Coach Staley when he was asked about, you

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Speaker 1: He's like, look, this is going to look different because

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Speaker 1: a team. You know what was Mike McDaniels. You know

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Speaker 1: just I do think it'll look different, and you know

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Speaker 1: what that goes for the Chargers as well, Chris, you

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Speaker 2: So I think it starts with these coordinators. Right, you

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Speaker 2: I think fans want to believe that they're going to

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Speaker 3: Whatever it is. I think that we.

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Speaker 2: But I think for all the bombs away in the

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Speaker 3: Because keep in mind, none of these starters play in

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Speaker 1: I think the good news for the Chargers is they've

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Speaker 2: So, Mandy, this offense with Kellen Moore a lot of

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Speaker 1: the thing. The thing about the offense this year. It's

433
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Speaker 1: not just getting Slater back, it's you know, whenever you

434
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Speaker 1: talk to the offensive line coaches, they tell you it's

435
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Speaker 1: five fingers on a glove, right, and they've all got

436
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Speaker 1: to work together. That's what the offensive line is. If

437
00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:54,679
Speaker 1: one of those fingers is gone, you know, it just

438
00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:58,320
Speaker 1: kind of it eliminates what you're trying to accomplish. I

439
00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:00,640
Speaker 1: you know, and this is me stealing from a little

440
00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:02,240
Speaker 1: bit because he's the one that pointed it out to me.

441
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Speaker 1: But man, I have not been able to take my

442
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Speaker 1: eyes off Zion all preseason. It's going to be a

443
00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:10,920
Speaker 1: big year for him, I mean a big year. And

444
00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:15,639
Speaker 1: to me, that side and I again love Jamari and Trey.

445
00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:18,560
Speaker 1: That's it's this has a chance to be the best

446
00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:20,679
Speaker 1: offensive line in the league. I really believe that with

447
00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:24,399
Speaker 1: that left with from Corey to Zion to Slater, I

448
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:26,080
Speaker 1: think that left side of the line is going to

449
00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:29,600
Speaker 1: be able to do some incredible work and just serious damage.

450
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Speaker 1: You're talking about protecting Justin's blind side while he's dropping

451
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Speaker 1: back to wait for those downfield routes to develop, And

452
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Speaker 1: that was something and I give him credit in the

453
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Speaker 1: in the press or on Wednesday. He's not and he's

454
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Speaker 1: not a jerk like I am. He's not taking shots

455
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Speaker 1: at anybody on their way out the door. But he's say,

456
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Speaker 1: you know, you got to remember, I those shot plays

457
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Speaker 1: were there, but just circumstances and and how the offense

458
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Speaker 1: was running and what we were doing. It's you know,

459
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Speaker 1: that's that's the only reason why those perhaps didn't come together,

460
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Speaker 1: but they were there. And so I think now now

461
00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:05,080
Speaker 1: they're there, and you got the protection, and you've got

462
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Speaker 1: a healthy receiving corps and you know, and and Austin

463
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Speaker 1: Eckler is coming off of thirty eight touchdowns the last

464
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Speaker 1: two seasons, so the defense is no doubt going to

465
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Speaker 1: be spying him the whole time. And like it's it's

466
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Speaker 1: all in week one. It's all there for the taken.

467
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Speaker 1: Everybody's healthy, it is all there for the taking. And

468
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Speaker 1: I mean we didn't even mention, you know, Q and

469
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Speaker 1: what we might see from just those quick slants that

470
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Speaker 1: he was so effective at at TCU getting the ball

471
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Speaker 1: in his hands, you know, five yards, just a quick

472
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Speaker 1: end and he's gone like that. That's that's another element

473
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Speaker 1: that we have that we just don't have, or we

474
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Speaker 1: didn't have on this offense in previous seasons. That guy

475
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Speaker 1: that's you know, the Tyreek kill, the Jalen waddle, just

476
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Speaker 1: quick cut and go, and that's I'm anxious to see

477
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Speaker 1: how that gets worked into this whole thing.

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Speaker 3: How about Gerald Effertt.

479
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Speaker 2: I mean, aye, right, he's totally forgotten about because you know,

480
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Speaker 2: the first four wide receivers that we mentioned is keen

481
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Speaker 2: of Mike Palmer and Quintin. And how are they going

482
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Speaker 2: to deploy Austin. You know, Austin had all these dump

483
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:07,600
Speaker 2: offfs last year because they had nobody that could get

484
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Speaker 2: the ball down the field. How is Austin gonna look

485
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:12,960
Speaker 2: because we haven't seen him in a preseason game with

486
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Speaker 2: Kellen Moore?

487
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Speaker 3: Is he going to be more efficient with his touches?

488
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Speaker 2: Are they gonna use Kelly Moore as a runner and

489
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Speaker 2: Austin as kind of a joker all around the field.

490
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Speaker 2: I mean, there's so many questions that we're gonna get

491
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Speaker 2: some answers to on Sunday, and the test being this

492
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Speaker 2: Dolphins defense that you mentioned. How do you think this

493
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Speaker 2: Vic Fangio brand and Staley familiarity with each other is

494
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Speaker 2: going to play out throughout the course of the game.

495
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Speaker 2: I think it's all about adjustments. They know each other

496
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Speaker 2: like the back of their hand. And you know, obviously

497
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Speaker 2: Vic has different personnel, say for Bradley Chubb than he

498
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Speaker 2: had in Denver, but a lot of really good players.

499
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Speaker 2: You talk about Jalen Phllips maybe being the best.

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Speaker 1: I think let's just go back to twenty twenty one, right,

501
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Speaker 1: and do you have when you look at those Bronco games,

502
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 1: you know that now the second one they smoked him right,

503
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:08,199
Speaker 1: thirty four thirteen, but they lost twenty eight thirteen. You

504
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 1: go back to twenty twenty and you know, and you

505
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Speaker 1: lose thirty one, Well, they score thirty in that one,

506
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Speaker 1: but then they win nineteen to sixteen. The point I'm getting, like,

507
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,200
Speaker 1: to me, Vic Fangio does a really good job against

508
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Speaker 1: against the Chargers, against just and you know who's again

509
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,399
Speaker 1: he got him a couple times. But and that's nothing

510
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,280
Speaker 1: against It's not Ding and Herbert at all. It's just

511
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 1: vic is. Vic Fangio is a really good defensive coordinator.

512
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Speaker 1: There's gonna be a it's a serious chess match. And

513
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Speaker 1: I'm certainly happy that the guy taking snaps for the

514
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Speaker 1: Chargers is one of the smartest quarterbacks in the league

515
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Speaker 1: that just so happens to be the most physically gifted

516
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Speaker 1: as well. Like that's that's the sort of thing you

517
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Speaker 1: need to be able to overcome. Not only you know

518
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Speaker 1: Vic Fangio coordinating it. But I don't want to make

519
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,600
Speaker 1: it a name salad. But as I said, Bradley Chubb,

520
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Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips, Christian Wilkins, you know, Raekwon Davis is your

521
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,480
Speaker 1: nose tackle big three hundred and fifty pounds. Even Zach

522
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:03,120
Speaker 1: Seeler has been really good on the interior that line,

523
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Speaker 1: getting push. Xavian Howard we know has led the league

524
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 1: in interceptions before you know, Javon Holland, former teammate of Herbert's,

525
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,440
Speaker 1: one of the best young safeties in the league. This

526
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Speaker 1: thing is, this is a really good roster defensively that

527
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Speaker 1: Vic gets to work with. And we saw what he

528
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Speaker 1: was able to do in Denver, just didn't have a

529
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Speaker 1: quarterback to balance it out, and ultimately, you know, the

530
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Speaker 1: defense would get worn out from being on the field

531
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Speaker 1: too long. So now he's got an offense that can hum,

532
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Speaker 1: he's got a defense that's super talented. It's gonna be

533
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Speaker 1: a challenge, this is It's gonna be a really tough

534
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Speaker 1: game to win. It's gonna be a really good competitive game.

535
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Speaker 1: These are two of the most talented rosters in the league.

536
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Speaker 1: And I would not suspect to see anything but a brawl,

537
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,479
Speaker 1: a freaking street fight between these two teams.

538
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Speaker 2: I hate to be like prisoner of the moment here,

539
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:57,000
Speaker 2: but we have the ability to look ahead. These guys

540
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,879
Speaker 2: are focused on Miami, but you know, you look at

541
00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 2: the importance of this game. Next the next week, you

542
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 2: got to go to Tennessee against Mike Vrabel, a Mike

543
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:08,679
Speaker 2: vrabel coach team on the road. The week after you

544
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 2: got to go to Minnesota. It's never easy to beat

545
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 2: the Minnesota Vikings in Minnesota, and last year then you

546
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Speaker 2: come back for the Raiders, So you know, this is

547
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Speaker 2: a This is a huge game. I'm not saying it's

548
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,240
Speaker 2: must win because it's Week one and you know anybody

549
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 2: can say that, but the fact that it's against an

550
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Speaker 2: opponent that you expect to be competing with for a

551
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,920
Speaker 2: playoff spot, uh, that's a big deal. It's at home,

552
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 2: that's a big deal. You got to go on the

553
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,199
Speaker 2: road against Tennessee Titans. So I think everybody's kind of

554
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 2: writing off because of what happened last year. They were

555
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,680
Speaker 2: decimated by injuries, like Malik Willis was in the game,

556
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:45,400
Speaker 2: uh for the Titans when they when the Chargers beat

557
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 2: them at SOFI Stadium last year and they barely beat them.

558
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 2: It took a Mike Williams Barracle catch to get them

559
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:53,919
Speaker 2: in field goal range to win it. So I just

560
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,880
Speaker 2: I don't want to be like, hey man, you have

561
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,160
Speaker 2: to win this game, but this is this is a

562
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:04,640
Speaker 2: big deal to start the year. Want to know there's

563
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,640
Speaker 2: gonna be you know, all in is I think drops today.

564
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 2: We're taking this on a Thursday. They're going to have

565
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,439
Speaker 2: everything that happened at the end of last year at

566
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,360
Speaker 2: that Jacksonville game, and you can see on the faces

567
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 2: of the players and coaches what that night meant to

568
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:24,679
Speaker 2: them and what this season means to them because of

569
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 2: the experiences that they went.

570
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Speaker 3: Through last year.

571
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Speaker 2: So this is a this is definitely a bounce back

572
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 2: opportunity right at the beginning of the year to show that, hey,

573
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 2: you know, we're past what.

574
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Speaker 3: Happened in Jacksonville.

575
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Speaker 2: We're focused on twenty twenty three, and we're gonna beat

576
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Speaker 2: a good opponent at home to show you.

577
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Speaker 1: It's a great point because we know that it dogs them.

578
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 1: They don't like hearing about it. It was, you know,

579
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,440
Speaker 1: almost it was eight months ago. They're sick of talking

580
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: about twenty seven nothing. But it happened, and it's going

581
00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:00,159
Speaker 1: to be talked about as it's being talked about on

582
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,919
Speaker 1: every single twenty twenty three preview show, no matter what

583
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,400
Speaker 1: channel you're watching it on. When the Chargers come up,

584
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: the first thing that is discussed is they blew a

585
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:12,960
Speaker 1: twenty seven to nothing lead in the playoffs, and that's

586
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,400
Speaker 1: how their season ended. You know, that's the year before

587
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,479
Speaker 1: they lost to the Raiders in a week eighteen winner punches,

588
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: they're taken into the playoffs and the Chargers there is

589
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:27,120
Speaker 1: no better way to stop that conversation than by, you know,

590
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,640
Speaker 1: beating a team that a lot of people are picking

591
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,439
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs. Many people are picking them to

592
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Speaker 1: win the division. Some people are picking them to go

593
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl. They think it's that talented of

594
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: a team. So you set the tone in Week one

595
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Speaker 1: with a victory. I don't care if it's by one

596
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 1: point or if it's by one hundred. You set the

597
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 1: tone with a win, and that way, now people are

598
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 1: talking about, well, this was a showdown between two teams

599
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 1: that we could totally see contending for their division or

600
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 1: winning the wildcard, and now the Chargers have the win

601
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 1: and the tiebreaker against Miami that gives them a huge

602
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: leg up the AFC. That's that's the quickest way to

603
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 1: end the conversation. It's been. You know, we've been around

604
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 1: Derwin long enough to know he's one of the best,

605
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: one of the best interviews on the team. There's an energy,

606
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: he loves talking. I don't know if you've noticed he's

607
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 1: been different this preseason. He's been very short with his answers.

608
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 1: Everything is very stock. We just got to get out

609
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: there and play. We know what we got to do.

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Speaker 1: It's been a completely different Derwin James. You can see

611
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: just that pinpoint focus that he has got on this

612
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: game because he doesn't I can tell like it's I'm

613
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 1: not trying to play amateur psychologist here, but it's almost

614
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 1: like he's uncomfortable puffing his chest out because of how

615
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,239
Speaker 1: it ended last year and how last season went. Like

616
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Speaker 1: he is not his typical big swagger, you know. I'm like,

617
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: he's different. It's just if you go and look at

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Speaker 1: I wish I could pull it up or if we

619
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Speaker 1: if we had the sound, I would I would share

620
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: it with you. But like when you when you here,

621
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Speaker 1: we go, I'll just kind of give you an idea.

622
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Speaker 1: Here's the transcript. So here is uh Derwin I'm looking

623
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Speaker 1: he has one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen,

624
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Speaker 1: forty fifteen. Sixteen questions were asked of him in this presser.

625
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 1: One two of them are more than one sentence. Answers

626
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Speaker 1: answers two out of sixteen questions, two of them, how

627
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Speaker 1: do you feel healthy and ready to go preparing for

628
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: Tyreek Killing Jalen Waddle hard to simulate the speed. Guys

629
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Speaker 1: on our team be giving us great looks beginning of

630
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 1: a new season, just looking to start it fresh. That

631
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 1: was last season. I like, it's just on beating Miami

632
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: last season. That was last season. They're ready to play

633
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: this game. Like there, you can tell you can when

634
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: you have someone that has that type of talent and

635
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 1: you just see that, You're like, oh man, this dude.

636
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: Not that he doesn't always come out ready to play,

637
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 1: you know, one hundred percent, But I don't mean to

638
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 1: keep repeating myself with the same point. I'm not used

639
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 1: to seeing that from him. I'm used to seeing him

640
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,719
Speaker 1: smiling and having a great time with the media, and

641
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: that has not been Drwin this preseason.

642
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 2: I smiled because he sets the tone I think for

643
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 2: the entire team. You know, you go around the league

644
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 2: money and everyone has like eight nine ten captains. The

645
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 2: captain's are on this team really, in my opinion, is

646
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 2: Justin Herbert and Derwin James. Derwin James, I think kind

647
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 2: of sets the tone for the entire fifty three. I

648
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 2: think even with Brandon Staley, I think that he's been

649
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 2: a little bit more matter of fact this year in

650
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 2: some of his answers, because these guys are sick of

651
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 2: talking about it, and I think, you know, a lot

652
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 2: of it was media driven last.

653
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 3: Year, you know, super Bowl or bust.

654
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 2: Look at all these new additions Khalil Mack all all

655
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 2: these different guys that they got that Brandon Staley had

656
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 2: coached in the past that are going to help J. C.

657
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 2: Jackson this year. It's more just all right, you know what,

658
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 2: just show me, show me on the field. I don't

659
00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 2: want to talk about going to the playoffs. I don't

660
00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 2: want to talk about winning the division. I don't want

661
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 2: to talk about going to the super Bowl. We have

662
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 2: all the talent in the world. We have maybe the

663
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 2: most talented roster in football, you know, if you're just

664
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 2: looking at the starters, right, I mean, there's a handful

665
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 2: of teams that I think can say that they have

666
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 2: arguably one of the most talented rosters of football. The

667
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:22,959
Speaker 2: Chargers are one of them. They don't want to talk

668
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 2: about it anymore, and I don't think fans want them

669
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 2: to talk about it anymore. They want to see it.

670
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 2: They want to see it starting week one, and I

671
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 2: love the fact that Derwyn James is setting the tone

672
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 2: in this way, you know, because frankly, I don't need

673
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 2: to hear we don't need to hear any cliche answers,

674
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 2: or we don't need to hear anything beyond let's just

675
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 2: go win a football game. And I agree with you money,

676
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,479
Speaker 2: I've noticed that difference in Derwin.

677
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 3: I think it's a good thing.

678
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 2: And I think if Derwin is acting like that, you

679
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 2: best believe that that's permeating through the locker room because

680
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 2: he sets the tone for the entire organization.

681
00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 1: In my opinion, I no doubt there's You know, the

682
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: Chargers have had it both ways right in the media,

683
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 1: particularly in social media, which is what players tend to

684
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 1: see because they're all on it. You know, they don't

685
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: have to turn on they don't have to turn on ESPN,

686
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: they have to turn on Fox Sports one. They have

687
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: turned on you know, Channel two to watch you and

688
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 1: Jim talking about it like that. That's a destination. It's

689
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 1: already in front of them on social media because they're

690
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 1: on it. It's a way for them to expand their

691
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 1: their personalities and make money and expand their brand and

692
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: do all of that. So they see it. And the

693
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 1: Chargers have been both a social media darling and a

694
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: social media punching bag. It's been both things, you know,

695
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 1: and and I to me that, you know, one of

696
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: the things about being anointed that team, and I felt

697
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 1: like they were last season. Last season in the preseason,

698
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: after they made the signings. You know what, Brandon Staley's

699
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 1: got his pieces. Now here's j C. Jackson, they got Sebastian,

700
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 1: Joseph Dan and Austin there's the middle of that line

701
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 1: that they needed that wasn't there last year. And a

702
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: lot of people picked them to win the Super Bowl

703
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: and or to dethrone the Chiefs for the first time,

704
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: and when it didn't happen, they get upset. People take

705
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: that personally as though like somehow the Chargers did them

706
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: wrong some way and now they have to pay it.

707
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:11,919
Speaker 1: So now of course they become the punching bag. And

708
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 1: you know, the twenty seven nothing collapse in the postseason,

709
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 1: those players have seen it. They can't get away from it.

710
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 1: I would imagine anytime they post something, if they dare

711
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 1: get in their mentions, there's hundreds of twenty seven nothing

712
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: choker Charger like, that's what they have to see. So

713
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 1: because you know, God knows, I see it you know.

714
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,799
Speaker 1: And I I'm a nobody, you know, but if I

715
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: get into my mentions, that's all I get. If I

716
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 1: post anything about the Chargers, I gotta wear that. And

717
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: I'm I'm on a field. I'm just got the calls

718
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 1: of games, you know, so I can only imagine what

719
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,839
Speaker 1: it's like for them. And I think that's why you're

720
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:53,280
Speaker 1: seeing this very like think about the stuff Joey's talking about,

721
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: like he's again one of the and we, like I said,

722
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,919
Speaker 1: we talked to him yesterday and he was still his great,

723
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:04,359
Speaker 1: quick witted, lighthearted self, but it was a matter of

724
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: factness to him. And you listen to the way he talks,

725
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 1: I don't want, you know. And he brought this up

726
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: with us yesterday and we've heard it throughout the preseason.

727
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,439
Speaker 1: It's my eighth year. You're young, and you think it's

728
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 1: gonna be easy and you're gonna make five super Bowl.

729
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 1: He goes, this is my eighth year. I gotta get to.

730
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 1: I got to get to and win a Super Bowl.

731
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 1: I got these guys around me that I believe, you

732
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 1: know that we all believe in each other. We owe

733
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: it to each other, you know, talked about bulking up

734
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 1: how he needs to be better against the run, how

735
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 1: he needs to set that edge. He's talking about playing

736
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 1: the wide nine and just not quite being comfortable when

737
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:36,840
Speaker 1: it first started, and how he's adjusted, and how he

738
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 1: needs to get you know, that hand in the dirt

739
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: a little bit more as opposed to you know, being

740
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 1: in a two point stance all the time. Like he's again,

741
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 1: these these superstars, they just they sound different, They sound different.

742
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: It feels different going into this season.

743
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 2: The thing, too, money is that it's not just like

744
00:35:56,320 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 2: one guy who can change this narrative, has to be everybody.

745
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 2: And I think that's what Irwin is I think preaching

746
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,800
Speaker 2: is that, you know, if we're going to change the narrative,

747
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 2: if we're going to erase what happened last year, we

748
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 2: all have to do it together.

749
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,839
Speaker 3: It can't just be me. It can't just be justin.

750
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 3: It can't just be Khalil.

751
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,879
Speaker 2: You know, you don't think Joey's a little upset how

752
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 2: his season ended in Jacksonville last year, you know, everything that.

753
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 3: Happened in the game, but also not being around.

754
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 2: He's talked repeatedly about how he felt like, you know,

755
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 2: he didn't want to let Khalil Mack down, and you

756
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:35,799
Speaker 2: know how important it is to him to pair up

757
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 2: with Khalil and live up to the potential and the

758
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 2: expectations that were set when Khalil was traded here. So

759
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 2: there's a there's a chip on everybody's shoulder, and I

760
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 2: think there's a collective one with how things ended. And

761
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 2: I think you look at the personal and individual guys

762
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 2: in their career. Joey talking about, Hey, you know what,

763
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:55,839
Speaker 2: it's time for me to win. Now, It's time for

764
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 2: me to get to a super Bowl and win it.

765
00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 3: Derwin.

766
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,720
Speaker 2: He's been an All Pro, he's been a Pro Bowler,

767
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 2: He's the best safety in football.

768
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:03,479
Speaker 3: We know that he needs more now.

769
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 2: Brandon Staley, you win nine games your first year, ten

770
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 2: your second.

771
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 3: What now?

772
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,359
Speaker 2: Right time to go? Time to win a division, Time

773
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 2: to get to a super Bowl. Justin Herbert, you just

774
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,439
Speaker 2: got a ton of money. You regard as a top

775
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 2: five quarterback in the league. Time to win. Everybody has something.

776
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 2: Austin Eckler, you didn't get the money you wanted. You

777
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 2: deserved it. Go prove that you deserve it. For twenty

778
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 2: twenty four, everybody's got a story. Keenan Allen, Mike Williams,

779
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,280
Speaker 2: I can go on and on guys who were injured,

780
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 2: Rashaun Slater. You don't think Rashawn has something to prove

781
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 2: this year. People forgot about him, like he wasn't the

782
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 2: best left tackle in football because.

783
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:42,399
Speaker 3: He missed most of the last year.

784
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 2: So everybody has their own personal thing that they are

785
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 2: trying to achieve this year. But I think the collective

786
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,280
Speaker 2: and really the fan base money. I think the biggest

787
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:52,959
Speaker 2: thing that I get from the fans is they're second

788
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 2: heard about it. They just want to see this team

789
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 2: win and compete. And the fans are excited because they

790
00:37:57,800 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 2: have a new offensive coordinator, They got a ton of

791
00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 2: personnel on offense that has the potential to be very explosive,

792
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 2: and football is back. So I'm just I'm excited because

793
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:11,760
Speaker 2: the season's back. But also you see all the personal

794
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 2: reasons while these guys are ticked off and ready to

795
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 2: go in twenty twenty three.

796
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 1: So yeah, and look, I think to get beyond the

797
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 1: you know, attitude and the approach and get into the

798
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 1: okay that's yeah, Yeah, everybody wants to win, right, All

799
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,359
Speaker 1: these teams want to win, and that you know, they're

800
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: all going to come in feeling that way I think

801
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,919
Speaker 1: in terms of just the game and how they win.

802
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 1: You know, one of the interesting things I want to

803
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:40,760
Speaker 1: make sure I give credit to the right. I feel

804
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: like it was Popper that did the article on the

805
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:47,400
Speaker 1: Athletic about the defense the last couple of days, and

806
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 1: if it wasn't, I apologize to whoever it might have been.

807
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: But they talked to Sebastian Joseph Day and kind of

808
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: about being in this this defense again, and he made

809
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,720
Speaker 1: a point that that I've been making and I sound

810
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: like an apologist, and it's not. It's not me being

811
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:10,879
Speaker 1: an apologist. It's me pointing out the reason why this

812
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 1: defense has not lived up to expectations is because of explosives.

813
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,919
Speaker 1: It's not that they get gashed playing and play out

814
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 1: for six yards and eight yards and six yards and

815
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: five yards against the run. That's not what it is.

816
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 1: It's and I think it was Sebastian Joseph Day that

817
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:33,919
Speaker 1: mentioned it. It's those sixty yard run against Houston. It's

818
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: those plays that would lead that led to this run

819
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: defense being ranked where it was, And look, you can't

820
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 1: have those plays. That's how you lose games. I mean,

821
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 1: you're giving up touchdowns on sixty yard runs. I'm not

822
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: saying that the run defense is better than advertised because

823
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: you know, playing and play out, they're stopping the run

824
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 1: and they are putting teams into some third and launch. Well,

825
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,720
Speaker 1: that wasn't happening last towards. You know, that wasn't happening

826
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 1: as much last year because of the injuries, specifically to Joey,

827
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:02,279
Speaker 1: when teams just started running at Kyle van Ney relentlessly

828
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 1: and he was being asked to play a position that

829
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: he wasn't comfortable playing and it took him five, six,

830
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,359
Speaker 1: eight weeks to figure it out before he was able

831
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 1: to set that edge to become a pass rusher. And

832
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 1: we remember kind of that switch with Kyle and how

833
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,359
Speaker 1: much better he became when they went on that four

834
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: game win streak toward the end of the season. So

835
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:23,840
Speaker 1: I think it's important to put everything in context, and

836
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:27,880
Speaker 1: I feel like that's that's what I'm most excited to watch,

837
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 1: is we're going to look at a defensive line that

838
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: is Mac Johnson, Joseph Dave Bosa. We're going to look

839
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 1: at a linebacking duo that's Kendricks and Kenneth Murray, and

840
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:43,240
Speaker 1: we are going to look at hopefully j C. Jackson,

841
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 1: Asante Samuel and Mikey Davis as your corners, and a

842
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 1: Lowhi and Derwin is your safeties. That's what's going to

843
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: be out there. That's what's supposed to be out there.

844
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,279
Speaker 1: Those are guys that have been this defense now long

845
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 1: enough to be comfortable with, save Eric Kendricks, who, by

846
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 1: all accounts listening as I said earlier in the pod

847
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: to the defensive players, everybody's very excited about being the leader,

848
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 1: you know, communication wise and getting it set up of

849
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:11,840
Speaker 1: this defense to make sure everybody is in their right spots.

850
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:15,359
Speaker 1: And I'm not going to say any names, but there

851
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 1: were misd assignments last year. There were just there were

852
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: misd assignments, and that's how you end up with explosives,

853
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 1: bad angles forgetting Oh that's right, he's handing off to me.

854
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: This is my job. There's a lot of that on

855
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 1: the back end of this defense, and it just it

856
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: would get away from him last year, or when Joey

857
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: went down attacking that edge that wasn't Khalil Mack. And

858
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,840
Speaker 1: you know how much we hear how much better Kenneth

859
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Speaker 1: Murray is this year, and how much more comfortable he

860
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: is with Eric Kendricks next to him getting him set up.

861
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: There was a lot of that in that run game,

862
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 1: where you're you're not quite where you're supposed to be,

863
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: and that's how these things get away. It's what you know.

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00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: It's one of the things that Joseph they talked about

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Speaker 1: in that article. It's like this everybody's he goes, here's

866
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:04,840
Speaker 1: the thing about this defense. It's everybody's got to be

867
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Speaker 1: on the same page. And when they are, it's music.

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Speaker 1: It's beautiful, but it's it's harder to do. But if

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Speaker 1: you can do it, that's how you end up as

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Speaker 1: the number one defense in the league, like they were

871
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,959
Speaker 1: with Brandon Staley coordinating the Rams, and that's what they're

872
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Speaker 1: looking forward to proving they can do this year.

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Speaker 3: Danny Markino sent this to me.

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Speaker 2: Brandon Staley's three and zero in week one games as

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Speaker 2: a head coach and a coordinator, so that bodes well.

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00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 2: And uh right, there's a lot of a lot of

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00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 2: great games. I think this is one of the mor

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00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 2: key games. Money, Let's let's end it here. What do

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Speaker 2: you think will decide this game? Not knowing anything?

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Speaker 1: To me, it's defense. It's it's exactly what I just

881
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: mentioned it's preventing explosive plays, which against this particular team

882
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: with Jalen Waddle and Tyreek Hill is not easy to do.

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00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 3: But I atoll did nothing in the game last year too.

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Speaker 1: By the way, right two catches I think, right? Yeah,

885
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 1: And Tyreek Hill of course had the fumble return. He

886
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:05,759
Speaker 1: then had a touchd on in the second half as well,

887
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 1: but and he should have had one on the first

888
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 1: play that to have missed or that to a mist him.

889
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Speaker 1: But also, like you said, a lowie got his fingertips

890
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: on it. I do think that that this will be

891
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 1: a if the defense plays how we believe it can play,

892
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: go in the game, I have full faith that the

893
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 1: offense is going to be able to get something. That is,

894
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 1: I think the offense is gonna hum. I really do

895
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 1: believe that. To me, it's more of a and well,

896
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 1: I see now I say that, and I forget about

897
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:38,359
Speaker 1: Vic Fangio and just how good he is. But yeah,

898
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 1: I think I still think I give you know, I

899
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,919
Speaker 1: still I still have that faith in Justin to Justin

900
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 1: Herbert and that offense to overcome. Even as good as

901
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,359
Speaker 1: Vic Fangio is and as talented as the players are

902
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 1: that he's putting out there. I think the offense is

903
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 1: going to score points. To me, it's it's defense. That's

904
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Speaker 1: what it'll probably come down to.

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00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 2: And I think it's going to be a you know,

906
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:00,960
Speaker 2: we talked about the myth of halftime adjustments, but just

907
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:04,839
Speaker 2: adjustments throughout the course of the game, especially in Week one,

908
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 2: because you know, these both both teams have months to

909
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:11,439
Speaker 2: prepare for this, so you don't know how somebody's.

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00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:12,839
Speaker 3: Going to come out. I think adjustments.

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00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,439
Speaker 2: And then also, you know, we talked about this months ago,

912
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 2: but some of the things that plagued the Chargers getting

913
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Speaker 2: off to a fast start, the slow starts in the

914
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Speaker 2: third quarter. I want to see how those things change

915
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three with Chris, you know, because that

916
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 2: was something that just really this team was behind the

917
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 2: eight ball so many times in the first quarter and

918
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Speaker 2: then so slow to start a second half. So you know,

919
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 2: if you score, let's say you score seventeen points in

920
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 2: the in the second quarter, can you sustain that in

921
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Speaker 2: the second half and keep your foot on the gas.

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Speaker 2: That was the thing that I think really plagued this

923
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Speaker 2: team last year is just the inopportune slow starts in

924
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Speaker 2: the second half, are allowing your opponent to get up

925
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Speaker 2: ten to nothing.

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Speaker 3: I remember Atlanta.

927
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Speaker 2: You know they end up winning that game, but going

928
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Speaker 2: down ten nothing, not really having the ball in the

929
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Speaker 2: first quarter, kind of setting the tone and putting the

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Speaker 2: game on your terms.

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Speaker 1: It's a great point, and it's it's funny you chose

932
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Speaker 1: that path right the Atlanta because I think I'm thinking

933
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Speaker 1: the opposite. Like you're blowing out Houston and you let

934
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Speaker 1: them get back into the game. You're up ten to

935
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 1: nothing on Kansas City and you let them get back

936
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Speaker 1: into the game. You are absolutely throttling the Dolphins, and

937
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 1: yet you let them get back into the game. You

938
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Speaker 1: got to make sure you're recovering on side kick and

939
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:35,919
Speaker 1: win the game by six, like they gotta They gotta

940
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 1: have that killer instinct, foot on the throat. We're up

941
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 1: twenty seven nothing on Jacksonville, and guess what at the

942
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 1: end of this game, it's gonna be fifty to nothing.

943
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: You know, it's not hang on, hang on, it's you know,

944
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 1: continuing to just get after it and continuing to stay aggressive,

945
00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:00,800
Speaker 1: not play the clock, play the opponent, and just keep

946
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: doing what got you that lead in the first place,

947
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:06,360
Speaker 1: and have that that's a great one. That's win the

948
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,880
Speaker 1: third quarter. Win the third quarter, because we you know,

949
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 1: that's just win. Win the third quarter because they've had

950
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 1: way too many leads at the half that end up

951
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 1: leading to losses. So go out there, win the third quarter.

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Speaker 1: It's great, it's a great one.

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Speaker 3: I think we've exhausted this thing.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited. I'm excited for this season. I'm always excited

956
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Speaker 2: to doing this podcast with you. We'll have you covered

957
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:33,800
Speaker 2: next week recapping this game and looking forward to Tennessee.

958
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Speaker 2: But in the meantime, I got a quick plug Chris

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00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:38,760
Speaker 2: before you before you lock it out, I forgot.

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Speaker 1: So we're posting this on Thursday. Lorenzo O'Neil and I

961
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Speaker 1: the great charger fullback that blew open all those holes

962
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 1: for Ladanian Tomlinson. We will be on Bally's West. I

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Speaker 1: believe moving forward, it's on tonight at Thursday night. That

964
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Speaker 1: the time they move because a lot of it will

965
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:58,799
Speaker 1: depend on Angels baseball and live events and things like

966
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Speaker 1: that that might be on Ballely, but I believe it's

967
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:03,839
Speaker 1: right around ten pm. We're going to do a half

968
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Speaker 1: hour every week and it'll replay through the course of

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Speaker 1: the weekend going into the game, but half hours believe

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Speaker 1: Chargers with Lorenzo O'Neil This week, Brandon Staley gonna join us,

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Speaker 1: so you get the head coach talking a little bit

972
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 1: of ball on Valley's West there, so if you have time,

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Speaker 1: be sure to check that out.

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Speaker 3: Beautiful.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully we get lo o' neil on this podcast throughout

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Speaker 2: the course of the season.

977
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Speaker 1: Hey, he mentioned he wanted to, so for sure be

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Speaker 1: great to have him moving forward.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt. All right, guys, for money, I'm Chris.

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Speaker 3: This has been Chargers Weekly. Enjoyed the game on Sunday