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Speaker 1: What's up, guys. Welcome into a brand new episode of

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Speaker 1: Chargers Weekly, as always, joined by Matt Buddy Smith. It

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Speaker 1: is Game Week, preseason game number one on Saturday against

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Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks. We got a great pot ahead coming

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Speaker 1: up a little bit later, Money and myself caught up

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Speaker 1: with the part of my take. Guys. Big Cat and

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Speaker 1: PFT Commenter were at camp for Grit Week, and of

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Speaker 1: course they had Jim Harball on and if you haven't

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Speaker 1: listened to that interview, Money, it was pretty good. It

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Speaker 1: was very entertaining. We were the first unofficial interview of

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Speaker 1: Grit Week on Chargers Weekly. Though.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So if you like those guys and we love them,

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Speaker 2: they're great. They love Harbaugh and it was great to

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Speaker 2: see them and catch up with them. They're obviously really

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Speaker 2: good for the league, and we spent I don't know,

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Speaker 2: quite a bit of time with them. So if you

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Speaker 2: like Big Cat, if you like PFT, be sure to

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Speaker 2: stick around. Figured we'd split it up, do all the

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Speaker 2: Charger stuff here up front, and then a little bit

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Speaker 2: more of the grabbing of the tookish if you will,

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Speaker 2: with those two guys having a good time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good. It's like a twenty five minute interview,

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Speaker 1: so it was entertaining. That'll be up here in a bit.

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Speaker 1: But but as you mentioned, we interviewed Will Disley last

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Speaker 1: week and it was an awesome conversation. I hope you

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Speaker 1: guys enjoyed it. But like right after we got the

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Speaker 1: news about Herbert, and you know, it is older news now.

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Speaker 1: I think everybody's processed the fact that that Justin's going

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Speaker 1: to be out for a couple of weeks and ramp

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Speaker 1: up the play in hopes of getting ready for Week

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Speaker 1: one against the Raiders. But you know, I always say

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Speaker 1: with Justin, like we've seen these micd ups with with

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Speaker 1: Greg Roman and Mark Trestman and just how kind of

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Speaker 1: in all they are, of how quickly he picked up

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Speaker 1: the offense and just how he works, how he operates.

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Speaker 1: So these two weeks I'm less concerned about Justin as

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Speaker 1: I am just kind of the overall chemistry with some

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Speaker 1: that he has to work with because this wide receiver's

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Speaker 1: room is new, so it's not just Justin. We saw Justin

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Speaker 1: going cold in his very first game ever against the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs without any reps and ripped up the Chiefs for

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Speaker 1: almost five quarters if you get over time. So I'm

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Speaker 1: really not worried about Justin, but it is kind of

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Speaker 1: a bummer that you have so many guys that are

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Speaker 1: new to this offense, you have a new system, and

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Speaker 1: you don't really have that time on task for a

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Speaker 2: YEA, the most to me what I would say to people,

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Speaker 2: and just don't chase it, Like, just nobody knows what's

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Speaker 2: not being made public. So chasing down internet doctors and

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Speaker 2: former players that think they know what's happening with his foot,

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Speaker 2: they don't. I don't care what Chase Daniels thinks about

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Speaker 2: his plant foot and how that's going to affect him

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Speaker 2: and why it's a bigger deal. And I don't care

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Speaker 2: I just don't care, and so don't because every single

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Speaker 2: person's body is different, heals differently. We don't even know

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Speaker 2: the great of the tear, if it's tear, if this

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Speaker 2: is super super preventative, and it's just the start of

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Speaker 2: something that hurt a little bit, and they're like tag

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Speaker 2: the way. Or if it's severe and they're freaking out,

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Speaker 2: you know, nobody knows, and that's people can say I'm

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Speaker 2: pandering to coach Harbaugh and I'm just a yes man,

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Speaker 2: and that's fine. But I really do appreciate I know

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Speaker 2: the beat writers don't, but I have always had issue

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Speaker 2: with coaches coming out and saying, oh, yeah, he's ahead

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Speaker 2: of schedule, we expect to. When he's out there and

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Speaker 2: he suited up, then great, let's go outside of betting

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Speaker 2: going to play or not. That's what the injury report

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Speaker 2: is for making calculated bets on contests. So like for me,

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Speaker 2: it's just a little maddening to see everybody try and

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Speaker 2: diagnose the injury. It could be serious, it could be

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Speaker 2: very serious, it could be minor. When Week one rolls

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Speaker 2: having taken all the reps with the twos the week,

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Speaker 2: That part doesn't matter to me. That's it's not great,

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Speaker 1: And that goes for really all the players too. You've

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Speaker 1: seen how Jim Harball is running this camp. Guys are

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Speaker 1: think for the fans sake too, like Money said, just

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Speaker 1: take the guesswork out of it. Just enjoy training camp,

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Speaker 1: It's just not going to be discussed. So let's not

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Speaker 1: that's just what this camp is going to be like,

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Speaker 1: So I actually think it's it's good for fans. Don't

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Speaker 1: somebody's questionable, doubtful, or probable. Right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, and I say, and here we go. Now

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Speaker 2: I'm going to talk out of both sides of my mouth,

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Speaker 2: which I do every week on this podcast anyway. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: when you have a history with Joey Bosa and you

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Speaker 2: see him running off the field holding this arm, it's like,

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Speaker 2: ah man, especially after wrecking that joint practice, He's the

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Speaker 2: for these responses as Chargers fans, So I understand that completely.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying don't react and have this flat line

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Speaker 2: But it is training camp, it is the preseason, and.

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Speaker 1: You're not going to get an answer. You're not going

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Speaker 2: It's week one. If those guys aren't out there, then yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's like, oh wow, you know, we really felt good

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Speaker 2: So I'm gonna I'm gonna think positive. I'm gonna focus

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Speaker 2: that we're gonna be able to watch, including some starters

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Speaker 2: Charba mentioned after practice yesterday or a couple you know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's work backwards a little bit. Sunday, both of

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Speaker 1: you would think right now, Christian Fulton was playing lights

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Speaker 1: and Drwin is Drwin. I thought that everybody really did

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all three levels played great. You know you had

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Speaker 2: think I heard Sean McVay say that exactly to Joey.

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Speaker 2: It's like barking at him on the field, you know,

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Speaker 2: having a good time, Joey, you're wrecking it. You're wrecking it. Joey,

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Speaker 2: you're wrecking it. And Joey and Khalil against Remember now

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Speaker 2: he came after Stafford and forced an incompletion. I saw

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Speaker 2: And I think we saw that on display for certain

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Speaker 1: Yeah, one of the storylines going into preseason is going

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Speaker 1: to be who's going to emerge that third safety to

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Speaker 1: let Durwin do exactly what you said, money be all

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Speaker 1: uh you know j T. Woods, this is this is

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Speaker 2: There's there's a lot of guys that are and this

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Speaker 2: the best back behind the top two. Jalen Johnson the

429
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Speaker 2: wide receiver who's got sound hands. Like there's we obviously

430
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Speaker 2: know the big names that that we're talking about, the

431
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Speaker 2: Brennan rices, those sort of things, but I think when

432
00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,960
Speaker 2: you start getting into that college free agent there's there's

433
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Speaker 2: plenty more. There's plenty you know, Carson Barnhardt, the the

434
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Speaker 2: offensive lineman who really has flashed a little bit and

435
00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:05,160
Speaker 2: has shown some versatility. So there's a lot of dudes

436
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Speaker 2: that that I'm excited to kind of get my eyes

437
00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:10,320
Speaker 2: on and and see how they do. We I mean,

438
00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:12,119
Speaker 2: we had football, We got a football game, I got

439
00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,399
Speaker 2: a care if it's preseason, like, we are going to see,

440
00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:18,280
Speaker 2: you know, sixty minutes of football and it's gonna be awesome.

441
00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:19,840
Speaker 2: Regardless of what the names on the back of the

442
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Speaker 2: jerseys are.

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Speaker 1: It's the best. That's the best. And you know, some

444
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,080
Speaker 1: of these guys like you mentioned, like Patterson and Johnson,

445
00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:28,000
Speaker 1: if they don't make the Chargers, if they flash up,

446
00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:30,440
Speaker 1: they're gonna get picked up. You know, it's a big

447
00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:33,280
Speaker 1: opportunity for these guys. And that's just the other kind

448
00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:35,920
Speaker 1: of sidebar to this. Obviously, you want to see which

449
00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,879
Speaker 1: Chargers are going to be successful in preseason to make

450
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Speaker 1: the team and maybe make an impact during the regular season.

451
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Speaker 1: But this is a great story for a lot of

452
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Speaker 1: guys who who have a dream of playing in the

453
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Speaker 1: NFL and if they pop on the Chargers and the

454
00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:52,600
Speaker 1: Chargers are like, hey, listen, we have a million guys

455
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Speaker 1: at wide receiver. To Johnson, but he gets picked up

456
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Speaker 1: on a practice squad, I mean, you're gonna feel very

457
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Speaker 1: good for him and the fact that he was able

458
00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,359
Speaker 1: to kind of make his hay in preseason with the

459
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Speaker 1: Chargers and stay in the NFL. Or a guy like

460
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Speaker 1: Jared Patterson can he make the team over in Isaiah

461
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Speaker 1: Spiller or you know, they invested in a draft pick

462
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Speaker 1: with my Dell. You know, so it's going to be crowded.

463
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Speaker 1: But you know where can these guys end up? So

464
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Speaker 1: let's starve ward preseason on the other side of this

465
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Speaker 1: money But but here is our interview with the boys

466
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Speaker 1: from Pardon My Take, Big Cat and PFT Commoner. All right, money, Well,

467
00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:31,480
Speaker 1: you never know who's going to show up at the Bolt,

468
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Speaker 1: especially during Grit Week.

469
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Speaker 2: Right right, yeah's look, Grit Week at the Bolt. That's

470
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Speaker 2: that's a big honor. So I think on behalf of

471
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Speaker 2: the organization, not that they would ever want me speaking

472
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Speaker 2: for them. I think I'm probably one of the last people.

473
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Speaker 2: Thank you.

474
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Speaker 3: I'll also speak on behalf of the Chargers and say

475
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Speaker 3: thank you to us, and you're welcome back to the Chargers.

476
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:52,800
Speaker 3: So I'll do it all. I'll speak for them. Some

477
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:54,880
Speaker 3: people are going this the house that Danny Wood had.

478
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Speaker 2: Built accurate for Grit Week, the house that the Lorenzo

479
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Speaker 2: Neil Bill.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well that was the thing where we're out here,

481
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Speaker 3: we're excited. We're gonna talk to coach Harbaugh, who he

482
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:07,680
Speaker 3: has been a staple of grit week. He was like

483
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Speaker 3: our second year. We did a big interview with him.

484
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Speaker 3: People are saying, though, l A not really gritty, so

485
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:14,200
Speaker 3: you gotta get us some grit.

486
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Speaker 4: Okay, Coach Harbor is gonna change that.

487
00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:18,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he is. We're not We're not saying that.

488
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:23,440
Speaker 3: But other people were saying, you guys are soft. Okay,

489
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:24,160
Speaker 3: what do we got?

490
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Speaker 2: What's more gritty than donuts? Four hour old donuts?

491
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Speaker 1: Oh?

492
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Speaker 3: Okay, that is gritty. I just I just got back

493
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Speaker 3: in shape. This he did. He said he's gonna he's

494
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:33,199
Speaker 3: gonna get back.

495
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Speaker 2: But here's starting now on her. We're all we're all

496
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Speaker 2: one by Welcome to Los Angeles.

497
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Speaker 4: What's cool?

498
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Speaker 1: Is it?

499
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Speaker 4: Bunny? Real quick? You're from Chicago, I'm from DC. This

500
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Speaker 4: is this is a solid mass jams.

501
00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:53,840
Speaker 1: Brad worked for the now Commanders for a couple of

502
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Speaker 1: years in the Virginia area.

503
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Speaker 3: So everything fell apart the Commanders after you left. We

504
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Speaker 3: want a playoff game.

505
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Speaker 5: We went to another playoff game. I think, right, yeah,

506
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:04,440
Speaker 5: that's right, and then you leave and then nothing.

507
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

508
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:06,359
Speaker 4: I was at the game that were they won in

509
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 4: Tampa and then I left and then that's it. That's

510
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:09,520
Speaker 4: what happened.

511
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Speaker 3: So wait, so Chicago d c uh and we're here

512
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:14,920
Speaker 3: grit week. Some people are saying again, not us, but

513
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 3: some people are saying, you guys are pussy's afraid of

514
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 3: the winter. Well because you moved out here.

515
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fair. However, eighteen years.

516
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:26,880
Speaker 3: Now should if I could says I'm sorry, all right.

517
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Speaker 2: I would say. The one thing we have, it's the

518
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Speaker 2: Pacific Ocean is you guys are going to experience tomorrow.

519
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 3: Lake Michigan's pretty big, it is.

520
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,480
Speaker 2: But there are no sharks. More importantly, there's no sting

521
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 2: rays cause you guys will learn tomorrow shuffle your feet

522
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,560
Speaker 2: so you don't get a nice barb and a scar

523
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 2: that looks like that because you had to have surgery

524
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Speaker 2: to get into crosis carved out of your feet. So God,

525
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,560
Speaker 2: we've got the wild. Essentially, it's a it's a jungle,

526
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Speaker 2: but it's wise.

527
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Speaker 3: Is the grit that we need? Yeah, the great It's

528
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Speaker 3: it's a cold ocean.

529
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Speaker 2: Which it's not. It's not Hawaii.

530
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Speaker 3: I don't know why the name of Pacific. That's a

531
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Speaker 3: weird name for it. But I did find a human

532
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 3: body part in Lake Michigan like two weeks ago, So

533
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Speaker 3: I don't know if you have that. That's great, Yeah,

534
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 3: it's great.

535
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 2: We've had a couple of drownings recently.

536
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,719
Speaker 3: Okay, so we have an intern that I don't think

537
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 3: he knows how to swim, so I might add to

538
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,480
Speaker 3: that list. He's not sure if he knows how to swim.

539
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Speaker 3: So I'm going to take that as an exactly exactly.

540
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,920
Speaker 3: Quote to me was I've never drowned, and I was like, well, yeah,

541
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 3: neither of any of us, like we're talking about we've

542
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:27,360
Speaker 3: all not died yet, fair boy.

543
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Speaker 2: So let's see, let's give it. Let's give it a run.

544
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Speaker 2: You guys are going in the ocean tomorrow.

545
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:34,400
Speaker 3: Right, Yes, we're surfing. We don't know how to surf.

546
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Speaker 2: You'll figure it out.

547
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:36,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I don't know.

548
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Speaker 5: We were pretty good at wakeboarding at Lake Tahoe, so

549
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,080
Speaker 5: if that's any indication, I think we'll be strong.

550
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

551
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw you guys interview l way at Tahoe,

552
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Speaker 1: and actually I had to listen back to the the

553
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Speaker 1: original I remember listening to the original Hardball interview and

554
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 1: be Gauys with drinking milk and yes and all the

555
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,440
Speaker 1: quote like we've heard all the quotables, but The one

556
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,119
Speaker 1: that's still out that I have not heard yet was

557
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Speaker 1: it's not hard to be a football player if you're

558
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,919
Speaker 1: a football player. Yeah, and I was like, Okay, that's

559
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,040
Speaker 1: a gymism that I have not heard yet. Well, where

560
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: does he rank on Grit Week Guests time all time?

561
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:10,159
Speaker 2: Yeah? It was.

562
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:12,719
Speaker 3: It was crazy because it was twenty seventeen. We've been

563
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,920
Speaker 3: doing the podcast since twenty sixteen. Now we're lucky enough

564
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,439
Speaker 3: that we get invited to places. That was back when

565
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 3: we had to like scratch and claw for every interview,

566
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 3: and I remember I was just hounding, hounding, I don't

567
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 3: know if you guys know J. T. Rogan, he's a

568
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 3: great dude. He worked for Michigan. Then hounding him like

569
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 3: we just need twenty minutes, we need twenty minutes. Finally

570
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,919
Speaker 3: got the interview. We showed up Harbaugh, who had been

571
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 3: shaving and he cut himself and so he was bleeding

572
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 3: like profusely.

573
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Speaker 2: Perfect.

574
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Speaker 3: But it actually worked out perfect for us because we

575
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Speaker 3: had like ten minutes for him to stop bleeding that

576
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,399
Speaker 3: we got to like warm up with him, and then

577
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:47,720
Speaker 3: we did like a forty five minute hour interview and

578
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,120
Speaker 3: it's like, those are the moments that we look back

579
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 3: and we're like having him on the podcast that early

580
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 3: on was just huge for us.

581
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was actually a perfect way to meet him,

582
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,159
Speaker 5: to like have that delay and for him to say, like,

583
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:00,639
Speaker 5: we'll do the pod after the leading stops.

584
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:00,919
Speaker 1: Right.

585
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,040
Speaker 3: It's a perfect, perfect intro to coach.

586
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 5: And he's a great dude, all time, great guy, all time,

587
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 5: great week. Guess I'm curious, like you guys work obviously

588
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 5: somewhat closely with him. I don't know how much you're

589
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 5: talking to him during train camp.

590
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's like every day. How often

591
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 3: does Chargers Weekly come.

592
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:16,680
Speaker 2: Out every week?

593
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:17,959
Speaker 3: Okay, that makes sense everybody.

594
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, are there any questions that you have for him

595
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 5: that you've been like, because he can be intimidating guy,

596
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:25,119
Speaker 5: any questions that you'd like to know the answers to

597
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 5: Because we can ask without without burning any bridges between

598
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 5: you and Coach.

599
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 2: I think that would be something that we would discuss.

600
00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he can. We We can ask pretty

601
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 3: much anything.

602
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:37,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you'll get the answers.

603
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, if he likes somehow he likes us. We

604
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 3: went to his golf outing, uh like maybe five six

605
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,919
Speaker 3: years ago. Never seen anyone more disgusted. We were doing

606
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 3: a four man scramble and when we took the turn,

607
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 3: he asked our score and we're like, we're plus five,

608
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 3: and he's like, it's a scramble, and we're like, yeah,

609
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,160
Speaker 3: we're plus five, and he just was he just drove

610
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 3: off in his golf you guys.

611
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Speaker 4: He made up he made up the rule for the

612
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:01,239
Speaker 4: golf term.

613
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 2: Oh this is a good one.

614
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, he completely made up the rules.

615
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 2: Do you read what they were? So he calls up

616
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,680
Speaker 2: the harball, Yeah, all right, So he's this is how

617
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,639
Speaker 2: like he's wired right, the competition thing instead of just

618
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 2: a standard scramble. Everybody gets drunk by your whatever fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen,

619
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 2: you can barely stand anymore, and then you go to

620
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 2: the awards banquet and you throw up or whatever. He

621
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 2: cuts it off at fourteen holes. There is a scramble

622
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 2: winner after fourteen holes. Beginning with whole fifteen, everybody has

623
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,639
Speaker 2: to play an individual ball, all right, holds fifteen and

624
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 2: sixteen bogie or better, and you advance holes seventeen. You

625
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 2: have to par in order to advance to eighteen. And

626
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 2: then on the eighteenth everybody's there competing against each other

627
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 2: and it worked out. We ended up having a like

628
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 2: twenty two year old kid make like a sixty footer

629
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Speaker 2: for Birdie. And you would have thought that Harball had

630
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 2: like designed a new format for the Super Bowl. Yeah,

631
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 2: you're so stoked and the trophy and freaking kid a roster.

632
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, you don't know that I would believe that. Yeah,

633
00:28:57,840 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 5: that's a good rule though. I like that you get

634
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 5: a mini turn at the end of the tournament.

635
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, almost like we got a Crownder. He goes, it's

636
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 2: all bullshit. See that's him.

637
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 3: He likes to just compete. That's it. Ever competed everything exactly.

638
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 2: Have you guys done? H Look, we love obviously everybody

639
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 2: loves the pod. It's great listening to it forever. The

640
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 2: Mount Rushmore series is incredible. The last one was one

641
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 2: of my favorites. The things you believe in you're a kid?

642
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 3: Yea, yeah, dumb?

643
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 2: Have you done Mount Rushmore of grit? Did I missed

644
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 2: the Mount Rushmore? That's a good question.

645
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 3: I don't know if we have I don't know. See

646
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 3: here's the here's the problem with us is that we're

647
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Speaker 3: getting a little older, and uh, we just forget everything

648
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 3: we've ever done. Yeah, so like we I was telling

649
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 3: I was telling them the story Jerry Rice is here

650
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 3: today and I told we were like getting ready to go,

651
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 3: and I was like, did you know that Julian Edelman

652
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 3: went to Junior problem with Jerry Rice's daughter, And Hank,

653
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 3: our producer, was like, yeah, he told us that story

654
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 3: on the show, and I was just like, well, new

655
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 3: to me, And then I didn't.

656
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 5: I didn't realize that that's what they were saying. I

657
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 5: had heard the story, but I thought Julian had told us.

658
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 5: And then we saw Jerry Rice today and I was like, big,

659
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 5: have we ever had him on the podcast?

660
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,360
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah we have so so we're very so the

661
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 3: grit thing, we will we'll check into it. We'll have

662
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 3: to have our crack team, you know, our data team

663
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 3: look into it and see if we've done it, which

664
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 3: they they will fuck that up. I don't know if

665
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 3: I swear, but they will look for it. We'll do

666
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 3: the thing, and then everyone like you did this two

667
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 3: years ago.

668
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 1: What was what was the biggest difference in interviewing Jim

669
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 1: versus John Well? John had the epic story about the drowning, right, Yeah, yeah.

670
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, Were they like the same No, No, they were

671
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 5: very very different people. John was like, I don't know,

672
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 5: he was like joking around. Jim started to joke around

673
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 5: to a little bit with us, but you had to

674
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 5: like break that ice, and he wants to talk about,

675
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 5: you know, some serious things. But John was I think,

676
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 5: like way way more lighthearted in the interview than Jim

677
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 5: was initially, but like at the same time we kind

678
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 5: of like, I don't know, did Jim Harball interview stands

679
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 5: out as a very very memorable one, especially that first time.

680
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 5: John was great and he was a friendly guy. But like,

681
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 5: if I'm going to have to pick which one was

682
00:30:58,080 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 5: a better interview, it's Jim.

683
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, John is John is Jim with like twenty five

684
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 3: percent more human. That's pretty much what it sounds about, right,

685
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 3: Like Jim is like fifty fifty human, fifty percent just

686
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,479
Speaker 3: a football and then John is more like seventy five

687
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 3: percent human, twenty five percent just Yeah.

688
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 2: So was Vanny Woodhead when you guys were doing that?

689
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 2: Was that kind of grit week stuff or was that?

690
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 2: So that's what it was? So how do you cause

691
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 2: that to me symbolized grit? Like, Hey, we're in the

692
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 2: back of a conversion van. Yeah, and uh, and we're

693
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 2: gonna squeeze this dude in the middle of us and

694
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 2: everyone's gonna be uncomfortable and it's grit. Yeah, it's obviously evolved.

695
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 2: It's become quite the production. Do you guys still embrace

696
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 2: like a grit lifestyle? Like are you staying in a

697
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 2: roadside motel where there's crackheads and things like that? In

698
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 2: the parking Jim.

699
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 4: Stated an RV.

700
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have an RV. We're gonna stay in.

701
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 2: Okay.

702
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 3: I would say maybe maybe we've people like, oh, maybe

703
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 3: you got a little Hollywood maybe not as gritty as

704
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 3: the first uh couple of years, but that's also because

705
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 3: we've gotten a lot bigger, right, So we have like

706
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 3: there's like ten of us now rolling around, where at

707
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 3: the first beginning it was little three or four of us.

708
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 3: I would say, the grit stays in just how hard

709
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 3: we work. We we I mean, we love our job

710
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 3: and we just work really really hard because we love

711
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 3: doing it, right, So that would be the grit part.

712
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, I do miss some of the like diy aspect

713
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 5: of it that was fun and also having the guests

714
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 5: be a little bit uncomfortable.

715
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 3: It stood out.

716
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 5: It made it like, yeah, it took them out of

717
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 5: their pattern at their end when they're talking to media.

718
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 5: So like Bob Stoops is next to us in the

719
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 5: back seat, He's like, what the hell am I doing

720
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 5: back here?

721
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: Yeah?

722
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 3: His balls were popped. Yeah he had the little short shorts. Yeah,

723
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 3: bad angle.

724
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 5: But but what I don't miss about that, about the

725
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 5: dy aspect is like we were driving back from Youngstown, Ohio,

726
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 5: and we got a flat tire.

727
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 3: Four four all four wheels, blew out and strip, don't

728
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 3: blow four times. I'll tell you how. We bought a

729
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 3: conversion van for four hundred dollars. I got a great deal.

730
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 5: So being stuck on the side of a random highway

731
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 5: in Ohio with a drunk billy football that we have

732
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 5: to ten to make sure he doesn't wind around into

733
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 5: traffic literally make sure he doesn't go onto the highway,

734
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 5: that part I don't miss.

735
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 3: But yeah, there are some.

736
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 5: Elements where it was like, yeah, you know, sometimes when

737
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 5: you're figuring everything out on the go, you.

738
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 3: Don't have all the resources that can be fun too. Yeah,

739
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 3: and it's I mean, at the end of the day,

740
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 3: like obviously things changed, we've gotten bigger, we've had more success,

741
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 3: but we just love football. We love sports and that

742
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 3: stays consistent. Like I think the like changing having more

743
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 3: staff or having nicer accommodations, that doesn't change the product.

744
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 3: It would be like if we stop watching the games,

745
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 3: if we stop loving the sports, that would change the product.

746
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 3: And people be like, what do you guys doing.

747
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: I think it's like this Chargers team, they're a gritty team,

748
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 1: but look look at this place. I know you guys

749
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 1: just walk in. This is like it's probably the best

750
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 1: NFL facility to date. And my question for you guys

751
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: is just what do you think of the Chargers, Like,

752
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: walk going into this. You know Jim Harball, you know

753
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, you know Ben Herbert, Yeah, o asconsin Badger.

754
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 3: Yeah.

755
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 4: What do you think that this team's gonna do this

756
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 4: year and maybe over the next couple of year.

757
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 5: That's a good question. I think I think Harbaugh was

758
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 5: a home run higher. Yeah, I think it's exactly what

759
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:09,360
Speaker 5: the team needs. And having a guy like that bringing

760
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 5: in his own strength, guy, I feel like you can

761
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 5: overcome the niceness of having a new facility. So like

762
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 5: we were talking to Joe Mizzoula the other day and

763
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 5: he was saying that sometimes he looks around his house,

764
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 5: He's like this a little bit too nice.

765
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 3: I want to put a hole in the wall.

766
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:23,800
Speaker 5: So he's like convincing his wife to let him damage

767
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 5: his house a little bit. Harbaugh, I would not I

768
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 5: would not be surprised if he did something along like

769
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,320
Speaker 5: we need to make this room more working class. But

770
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 5: I think he's a home run higher. I think that

771
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,320
Speaker 5: everywhere he's been he's had success. Yeah, and you just

772
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 5: look at his track record and know that what he

773
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:40,320
Speaker 5: does works.

774
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think the Chargers are They've definitely got a

775
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 3: huge amount of upside. Yeah, it's say, I would say,

776
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 3: next five years at least bare minimum AFC Championship game.

777
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 3: That's just what Harbor does. He just wins, and so

778
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 3: you guys will be I have a Chargers is a franchise?

779
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 3: Are interesting? I have a soft spot because I think

780
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 3: the last time I ever won a fantasy football league

781
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 3: was when I had an LT and sick. Yeah, and

782
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 3: your colors are cool. Yeah, that helps a lot. But

783
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:06,839
Speaker 3: there's a little bit of curse around here that maybe

784
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 3: hopefully this changes it. With the facility in Harball, we

785
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 3: thought about bringing Boltman back.

786
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 2: We kind of have a pseudo Boltmanturday. He was here

787
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 2: last time. No, he's not the original.

788
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 3: He's the original at the at the City Hall, right,

789
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,839
Speaker 3: He's one of the greatest pictures of all its moscifically

790
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:26,359
Speaker 3: minded mascot I've ever seen.

791
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 2: Yeah.

792
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 3: Yeah.

793
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 2: The one thing we constantly hear from fans is they

794
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 2: feel as though there's Herbert slander out there, that there's

795
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 2: Justin Herbert slander there is. That's how the So where

796
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 2: do you come out on the Herbert slander? Do you

797
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:39,840
Speaker 2: subscribe to it?

798
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 5: Or it's like a perfect product. The discourse around Herbert

799
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 5: is a perfect product of the Internet. He's a great quarterback,

800
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 5: and then you get people talking about what a great

801
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 5: quarterback he is, and then people hear all this hype,

802
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 5: and then when he doesn't win three Super Bowls, they're like,

803
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 5: this guy's overrated, and then they go it's like a

804
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 5: backlash to the takes that they're hearing.

805
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 3: I think he's a very good quarterback.

806
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 2: Yeah.

807
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:02,919
Speaker 3: Yeah.

808
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 5: If Jaden Daniels for the Commanders turns out to be

809
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 5: as good as Justin Herbert, I will be so excited.

810
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 5: That would be the best thing that I've ever experienced

811
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 5: as a Commanders fan.

812
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 3: Right there, was. I mean, obviously I'm all in on

813
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 3: Caleb Williams, but there was a rumor, maybe started by me,

814
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,359
Speaker 3: that the Bears were going to trade the number one

815
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 3: pick for Justin I remember that. Yeah, and everyone's like that,

816
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 3: like that's crazy. The Chargers never do that. I'm like, yeah,

817
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 3: that's the point. Justin Herbert's he's shown that he can

818
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 3: do it. But yeah, it's it's weird. It's a he's

819
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:36,240
Speaker 3: I think if you called I don't know, twenty four teams,

820
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two teams, they would take him in a second.

821
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 3: You know, like there's there's probably only like five or

822
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 3: six guys ahead of him. But not having that like

823
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 3: signature playoff run is everyone. I mean, Lamar deals with it. Yeah,

824
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:49,840
Speaker 3: Lars won two MVPs.

825
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 1: Had like five different offensive coordinators may even dating back

826
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 1: to Oregon. It's like he has to learn a new

827
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: offense every year. And you know, some of the micd

828
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:58,839
Speaker 1: ups with Greg Roman have been awesome. Just like, dude,

829
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 1: I don't know how he's in this offensive.

830
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 3: Right, you know, right to change over and then and

831
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 3: we talked about on our show, like Patrick mahomes is,

832
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 3: he's a thief of joy It's the same thing that

833
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 3: happened with Tom Brady, where it's like you, when you

834
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 3: have a force like that in the league, everyone else

835
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 3: gets viewed differently. It's like, but that's not really like,

836
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 3: yeah he's not Patrick Mahomes, that doesn't mean he's not incredible.

837
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:21,240
Speaker 3: There's only one Patrick Mahomes.

838
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 2: The uh just going to Caleb just we're in LA

839
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 2: and yeah, I want to hear it was such a weird.

840
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 2: It was a weird time because he's coming from Oklahoma

841
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 2: and Lincoln's here and everyone's kind of excited, but they

842
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 2: still didn't live up to expectations. And then the following

843
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 2: year was so bad that there was kind of like

844
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 2: this pushback. It was just a really odd stay for

845
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 2: a guy that won the Heisman Trophy at USC, a

846
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 2: powerful head coach that had finally replaced like all these

847
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 2: years post Pete Carroll, of them just kind of having

848
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 2: their head up their ass, and yet it wasn't really embraced.

849
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 2: It was a really weird time. And so like as

850
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 2: someone who you know, I was born and raised, I've

851
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:58,919
Speaker 2: lived here for thirty three years, so I barely even

852
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 2: remember Chicago. But like a mediocre quarterback, I can remember

853
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 2: being excited about Rex Grossman and Kyle Orton, Like Caleb

854
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 2: Haney the way he runs around him. Okay, all right,

855
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 2: he's gonna get you a couple two tree playoff. Yes

856
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 2: you can get excited. Yes, So, like I can only imagine, Oh,

857
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,240
Speaker 2: the height's got to be insane.

858
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 3: It's insane. And I try to remind myself. The thing

859
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 3: that sucks for Cale Williams, it's not his fault. He

860
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 3: was the number one pick for two years, so you

861
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 3: spent two years of the media essentially trying to poke

862
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 3: holes in him and be like, Wow, he does this

863
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 3: and he does that. It's like, just let him go

864
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 3: play football. And I think he's from everything I've heard,

865
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,959
Speaker 3: he's like the leader that you want. And you guys

866
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 3: saw it firsthand, some of the interactions he had with

867
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,799
Speaker 3: his you know, teammates and like sharing awards and all

868
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:46,800
Speaker 3: that stuff. So yeah, I'm pumped.

869
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 1: Their defense was so bad it is, Yeah, I mean

870
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 1: he had to build them out so much. And you know,

871
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 1: one of the one of his weapons we know very

872
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:54,399
Speaker 1: well Keenan Allen. I mean he's one of the best

873
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: route runners in the league. You have a doons a,

874
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 1: you have DJ Morrige that got paid, so like he

875
00:38:58,719 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 1: has an embarrassment of riches.

876
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, Gerald Everett who was here last year to Yeah,

877
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 4: you know, so Gerald set up it's set up for them.

878
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 4: Their defense is pretty good.

879
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the thing is, it's it's set up better

880
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:11,359
Speaker 3: than any Bears quarterback has ever walked into. So if

881
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 3: it doesn't work this time, I.

882
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 2: Just it might be over for everyone. When when the

883
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 2: coaching higher cycle was going around, I would assume that

884
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 2: you both wanted Harbaugh, that you were both pushing hard

885
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 2: for Harbor to be the commanders, to be the.

886
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 5: Actually I always had I had dan Quinn one. He

887
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 5: was one one one one one one, and then Harball

888
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:35,440
Speaker 5: was like, you know two just two, but.

889
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 4: The brotherhood was coming to DC.

890
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:37,279
Speaker 1: Ye.

891
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 3: He's a great coach. So yeah, of course I think

892
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,959
Speaker 3: any team should have wanted Harball. Yeah, I'm I'm Matt

893
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,399
Speaker 3: Eberflus is my guy. He's our coach. And anyone who

894
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:49,439
Speaker 3: says that I might have texted coach Harbaugh a hype

895
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 3: video of him in his Bears highlights, being like come

896
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 3: back home. Uh yeah that was true. I did that.

897
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 5: He probably just saw the come back home part and

898
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:00,399
Speaker 5: then remembered about being a Chargers back.

899
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:02,400
Speaker 3: He probably didn't watch the video, and he was like,

900
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 3: I like it was it was I was basically recruiting him.

901
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 3: It was a it's a very emotional video.

902
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:12,879
Speaker 2: Are you are you doing the bo is their name?

903
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, watch, I'll play a little if we look at this,

904
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:20,440
Speaker 3: tell me you don't. I mean, I can't believe he

905
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 3: didn't take me up sometime. It's a great video. So

906
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 3: it gets you pumped up. He said, thanks cool, all

907
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,880
Speaker 3: glory to God. Sure do you value our football and

908
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 3: family relationships and good times? Cherished him. Thanks for caring

909
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 3: and supporting. There are enough doubters and haters in the

910
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 3: world much respect and gratitude for you and yours. Jim,

911
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 3: so basically like cool, But I'm nicest way to say, like,

912
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 3: cool video, bro does nothing for me. I took my

913
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:50,759
Speaker 3: shot shot.

914
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 1: I watched I watched the interview again from like seven

915
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,400
Speaker 1: years ago, and I saw the Charger's helmet in the

916
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 1: corner of his office and I was just like, man,

917
00:40:57,719 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 1: this is like a foreshadow.

918
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's I mean, that's the beauty like the

919
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,319
Speaker 3: Chargers are taking. It's not a risk because Jim Harbor

920
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:06,279
Speaker 3: is not a risk. But when you bring in a

921
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:09,359
Speaker 3: guy like Jim Harbaugh, he is he runs the show.

922
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 3: And I think that there's dysfunctional franchises, maybe the two

923
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 3: of ours, the Commanders and Bears, where ownership doesn't want

924
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 3: to have someone come in and run the show. They

925
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:22,279
Speaker 3: don't want to have this force of personality. So credit

926
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 3: to Chargers because they're like, yeah, like you.

927
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 2: Know, when you bring in Jim Harbaugh, it's his.

928
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter if the owner, GM, whatever, it's Jim

929
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 3: Harbaugh's team, and that's what you That's that means you're

930
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 3: ready to win though, that means you're you're focus on

931
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 3: winning because that's what he's gonna do.

932
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 2: Said, you know, all these years of being in the

933
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 2: business and doing it like you guys are still hardcore fans,

934
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:44,800
Speaker 2: Like you don't want to watch you don't want to

935
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 2: read the paper, nobody reads paper, you don't want to

936
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:49,799
Speaker 2: watch TV after a loss on Monday. It is still

937
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 2: that strong inside you.

938
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:51,239
Speaker 3: Yeah.

939
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 5: Unfortunately, like our well big Cat, I guess being a

940
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 5: Chicago guy.

941
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:57,839
Speaker 3: Like Chicago, the media is very big there.

942
00:41:57,960 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 5: So even if the Bears aren't that good, sometimes it

943
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 5: talked about for me, at least my only thing was

944
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 5: if we lose on Sunday, nobody's going to talk about

945
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 5: the Commanders on Monday anyways, unless we got beat by

946
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 5: the Cowboys, you know, and then we'll talk about that

947
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 5: game to the highlights. So but yeah, we do still

948
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,839
Speaker 5: very much care deeply about our teams because like that's

949
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 5: why we became sports fans.

950
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:20,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we're actually a little nervous that, like the podcast,

951
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 3: we've been doing it for eight plus years and we've

952
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 3: never like I had twenty eighteen, the Commanders have had

953
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:29,840
Speaker 3: like blips if our teams are good, I don't know

954
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 3: if people want to listen anymore. So we're a little

955
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 3: nervous this year, like we're losers and people like to

956
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:35,839
Speaker 3: see us lose.

957
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't want it to be like a Bill

958
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 2: Simmons Celtics. Yeah, right, so we screw Rainbow.

959
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 5: Like I don't know what's Hank on the podcast and

960
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 5: his like the the big thing that he does is

961
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:47,319
Speaker 5: he wins a lot, and then we just shipped on him, right,

962
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 5: which is like kind of how we how we handle

963
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 5: that and I think winning if you if you look

964
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,479
Speaker 5: at all the sports fans in America, ninety five percent

965
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:54,799
Speaker 5: of them.

966
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:56,800
Speaker 2: Are losers, right, just like us, much more relatable.

967
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 5: We don't want to alienate our audience, right, I hopefully,

968
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 5: Well this is not gonna happen.

969
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,440
Speaker 3: We keep telling ourselves, like what happens if both of

970
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:05,760
Speaker 3: our quarterbacks are just awesome?

971
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 2: No, that're be great.

972
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, the odds are.

973
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 1: We're both I mean I'm just thinking about that, like

974
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 1: one two, like, yeah, that's kind of wild.

975
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:14,280
Speaker 4: Do you think Jaden will be better than Caleb?

976
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:14,879
Speaker 3: Yes?

977
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, I disagree, and I firmly believe that he's

978
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 5: gonna be. I don't think he's gonna be that much

979
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 5: better than he's from out here he's from Yeah, So

980
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 5: what's the what's the book on him?

981
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 2: What was he?

982
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 4: What was he like in field?

983
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:33,439
Speaker 2: Super skinny, you know, like ridiculously skinny at Arizona State,

984
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 2: and you know took him a while, but you know,

985
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:37,880
Speaker 2: you find the right place and all of a sudden

986
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 2: it just clicks, and that seems to be what else

987
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 2: he was for him? Yeah, yeah, I think it's you know,

988
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 2: trying not to get him busted in half.

989
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 3: You know, we don't have a great track.

990
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:49,400
Speaker 1: If he slides like Robert didn't, then we got problems.

991
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I love the training camp stories that come

992
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 5: out every year, and it seems like we we go

993
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 5: through the same like three or four stories.

994
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 3: They get rehashed all the time.

995
00:43:56,320 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 5: And and this year the the Jade and Daniel has

996
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 5: consulted with the Washington Nationals on how to slide story, Yeah,

997
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,839
Speaker 5: came out really early. It's like, let's let's wait until

998
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 5: we at least see something in the game. And then

999
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 5: also there's other people that can teach you.

1000
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,040
Speaker 3: How to slide besides the professional baseball team, right exactly.

1001
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 5: But yeah, like like I alluded to, we don't have

1002
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 5: a great track record in DC with with mobile quarterbacks.

1003
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 3: And the odds aren't in our favor when you like

1004
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:22,839
Speaker 3: look at first round quarterbacks, like there's it's usually about

1005
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 3: fifty per bus. So we're really rooting hard against like

1006
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:28,760
Speaker 3: Bonix and Michael Pennox and JJ McCarthy.

1007
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 2: Point.

1008
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 1: So you look like the twenty twenty class, you you

1009
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 1: had Burrow, Herbert and Tua all got paid the first

1010
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:35,879
Speaker 1: three guys off the board.

1011
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 4: So maybe maybe this class will be similar.

1012
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hope. So let's hope, except I hope Drake

1013
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 3: may stinks. Yeah. Still, Patriots is gonna be the best

1014
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 3: one of.

1015
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys have been great. I don't want to

1016
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 2: keep you much longer, but like, what's I guess just

1017
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:54,479
Speaker 2: to wrap it up on grit week, Like is grit

1018
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:57,399
Speaker 2: you guys don't wear sunscreen and get the crap cook

1019
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 2: out of you and like you go home with the

1020
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 2: gnarliest sunburn. And I'm trying to figure out how we

1021
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:02,879
Speaker 2: can make this a little bit rougher of a spot

1022
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 2: since you're staying in the South Bay.

1023
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll figure out some ways to get gritty. This

1024
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 3: week's football though, like grit Week is obviously we talked

1025
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 3: about grit Week, but it's really the like football's back,

1026
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 3: so just being a training camp. We're going to go

1027
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 3: to three different camps. That's great.

1028
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 2: It's not packing a tennakope and like growing up, we'll

1029
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 2: see that we might do that.

1030
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 3: We might have to do the milk mile. Yeah, yeah,

1031
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,319
Speaker 3: I think we actually are going for We are going

1032
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 3: on Tuesday. Must we're good friends and muss he's going

1033
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 3: to run us through a workout. Yeah, okay, so that

1034
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 3: will be best. He's going to kick our ass and

1035
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:37,800
Speaker 3: that will be very very high grant.

1036
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what we're we're like the unofficial start

1037
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 1: to Grit Week, you know, the the invisible start to

1038
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 1: Grit Week.

1039
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:45,479
Speaker 4: So we appreciate you guys being on this weekly.

1040
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 3: So that was a treat.

1041
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:50,320
Speaker 1: The beginning of Grit Week started in El Segundo and

1042
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 1: it started with an interview with Chargers Weekly. How about that.

1043
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 2: Appreciate those guys and highly recommend pardon my take, it's

1044
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,320
Speaker 2: fun pod. Listen to it. I do it, so I'm in.

1045
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:03,799
Speaker 2: And it was great that they gave us that much

1046
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 2: of their time, and even really a lot more than that.

1047
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 2: So good luck to those guys for the remainder of

1048
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 2: Grit Week. I know they spent it out here in

1049
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:12,839
Speaker 2: La I have not had a chance to hear how

1050
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 2: all of their adventures have gone completely. Been a little

1051
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 2: bit busy with the radio show and getting ready for

1052
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 2: this game and all that, but I'm sure I'll catch

1053
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 2: up and find out how the Pacific Ocean treated them

1054
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 2: and whether or not it was gritty enough.

1055
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:27,439
Speaker 1: I saw they were with Muscle at the Galen Center

1056
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 1: when Win sprints or something.

1057
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:32,840
Speaker 2: Right, throwing up in a trash can. I'm sure we

1058
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 2: love Muss He's awesome, but yeah, we got football. I

1059
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:38,440
Speaker 2: mean we got football on Saturday, and now we have

1060
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:44,680
Speaker 2: football every Saturday but two beginning this week, so outside

1061
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 2: of Labor Day weekend and I think it's the fifth

1062
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:49,759
Speaker 2: of October. Outside of that, we're good. We have got

1063
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 2: a football game for you once a week from the

1064
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,720
Speaker 2: Chargers all the way through the first week of January.

1065
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:58,760
Speaker 2: It's fantastic. We finally arrived.

1066
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: It can't get any better. We talked about a lot

1067
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 1: of the individual guys and performances where we want to

1068
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: see individually, but just overarching, I want to see what

1069
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 1: this offensive defense looks like.

1070
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 2: Right.

1071
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:13,360
Speaker 1: We talked about the physicality, the running the football, getting

1072
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:16,759
Speaker 1: after the quarterback. On defense, what Jesse Miner's scheme is

1073
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 1: going to look like. And obviously it's going to be

1074
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:20,399
Speaker 1: very vanilla on both sides, but you can at least

1075
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 1: see like the identity of a football team. This is

1076
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 1: the first step to that.

1077
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's and I, like I said, I enjoy. I

1078
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 2: enjoy watching the back end of the roster and watching

1079
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 2: it come together. You know, you mentioned these guys getting

1080
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:40,279
Speaker 2: picked up, but I was actually when when you were

1081
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 2: talking earlier, I was kind of going through the archive

1082
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:45,400
Speaker 2: dates and I was just kind of checking the practice squad.

1083
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 2: And when you go to last year's practice squad, you

1084
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 2: know what, do you see a Christian Covington who had

1085
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 2: an impact on the team. Alex Ericsson think about the

1086
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:55,800
Speaker 2: big catches that he made. Tys Shelby as an edge rusher,

1087
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 2: you know, made some plays. We had Xander Horbat, you

1088
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 2: know who had a couple of touch down catches as

1089
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 2: a fullback, practice squad player, Christopher Hinton who had to

1090
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:07,399
Speaker 2: come in and become a starting interior defensive tackle by

1091
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 2: the end of the year. So like, there's players out

1092
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:12,759
Speaker 2: there and I'm the practice squad that are going to

1093
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:15,359
Speaker 2: have an impact on this team. So it's just kind

1094
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 2: of like a way for you to almost build the

1095
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:20,800
Speaker 2: breadth of your knowledge when it comes to the Chargers

1096
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:23,800
Speaker 2: roster and and try to figure out who these you know,

1097
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:26,919
Speaker 2: who's who are the players that you should be paying

1098
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:30,400
Speaker 2: attention to right Who's who are the ones that flash?

1099
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 2: And that's something that Jesse Minner said is you know,

1100
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 2: you never know. Football is a weird sport and you

1101
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 2: never know who's gonna pop here in the preseason. But

1102
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 2: he said, someone's gonna because it happens every single year

1103
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:47,719
Speaker 2: for every single team. Someone just they they're like, oh wow,

1104
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 2: I know that guy had that going, you know, and

1105
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 2: it could be something is you know, for the for

1106
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 2: the folks that pay attention to the skill positions, like

1107
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 2: I said, is boring as Carson Barnhardt. But now you've

1108
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:00,359
Speaker 2: got depth on your offensive line. You feel really good

1109
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 2: about that going into a season where you know it's

1110
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 2: hard to keep all five guys healthy for all seventeen games.

1111
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:09,200
Speaker 2: It just rarely happen. So it's like, you know, it's

1112
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 2: it's something that's Cam Hart, the raw tools of Cam Hart,

1113
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 2: and whether or not these coaches are able to begin

1114
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:18,320
Speaker 2: to develop this guy who is incredibly raw but just

1115
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 2: crazy measurables in athleticism and if they can figure that out,

1116
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 2: you want to talk about cracking a code. This dude is.

1117
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:29,240
Speaker 2: You know, you're talking about like Tarik Woolen level speed, height, range,

1118
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:32,839
Speaker 2: you know, at length, all that, and if they can

1119
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:36,879
Speaker 2: then get those cornerback instincts and abilities into him, that's

1120
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 2: going to be an incredible find. And he's been running

1121
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 2: with the twos, So there's there's plenty of guys. I

1122
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 2: don't mean to make it like a name Salad. I

1123
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,759
Speaker 2: don't want to do that, but there's there's plenty of

1124
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 2: dudes that that are going to be out there. Even

1125
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:53,439
Speaker 2: though Justin Herbert has hurt that Zach I mentioned Zach

1126
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:56,359
Speaker 2: Hines six seven, two hundred and sixty pound tight end

1127
00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 2: that I think's got a real real shot to make

1128
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 2: this fifty three men round.

1129
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what's it's not a name salad because

1130
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: these are guys who we could be talking about in

1131
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:06,440
Speaker 1: week seven of the regular season.

1132
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:07,800
Speaker 3: It's just what it is.

1133
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:07,880
Speaker 5: Like.

1134
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:10,240
Speaker 1: Josellah Taylor looks like to be locked at at Nickel

1135
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:12,759
Speaker 1: as of this moment. Tarheeb still is a guy who

1136
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:14,800
Speaker 1: they drafted. I want to see what he looks like,

1137
00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 1: how has he developed throughout the first two weeks of

1138
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 1: training camp, and can he make an impact and kind

1139
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:23,719
Speaker 1: of continue to elevate in stack bricks. You know, it's

1140
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:27,359
Speaker 1: preseason and I always loved looking at storylines and things

1141
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:29,479
Speaker 1: kind of off the field. I think that the fact

1142
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 1: that Mike McDonald is the head coach is pretty cool

1143
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:36,239
Speaker 1: because Mitter and McDonald obviously they work together. McDonald was

1144
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:39,480
Speaker 1: the defensive coordator at Michigan, so you're going to see

1145
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 1: probably a lot of similarities defensively, with what McDonald and

1146
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 1: Mintter do and that kind of chess match with some

1147
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:49,120
Speaker 1: of these backup players at least is kind of fun.

1148
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 1: Plus coach harball Son is a special teams coordinator. If

1149
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:56,840
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken for Seattle's right, So you know, it's

1150
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,400
Speaker 1: a little bit of a family reunion at so Far

1151
00:50:59,480 --> 00:50:59,920
Speaker 1: on Saturday.

1152
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:02,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be great if you can make it out.

1153
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 3: Make it out.

1154
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:05,880
Speaker 2: If you don't have tickets, I'd say they're probably you

1155
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 2: can track them down. Yeah, you know, go ahead, look

1156
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 2: at the various ways you can get them. And I

1157
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 2: would imagine it's a great opportunity for you to get

1158
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:14,320
Speaker 2: into sofar to watch a bunch of guys play football

1159
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 2: and have a good time. It's a Saturday afternoon, it's

1160
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:19,920
Speaker 2: not too late, it's not too early. It's kind of

1161
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 2: in that sweet spot at four o'clock. And I'm really

1162
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:24,919
Speaker 2: looking forward to it. I'm excited to do it on TV.

1163
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 2: I'm excited to do it again like we did last

1164
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:29,480
Speaker 2: year up in San Francisco with Dan Fouts and DJ.

1165
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 2: It's a great watch and listen. So if you're driving

1166
00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:34,359
Speaker 2: around you want to get it on the radio, you'll

1167
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:35,960
Speaker 2: get it. If you're at home and you can get

1168
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 2: it on the TV. Get it. It was really fun

1169
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:42,600
Speaker 2: and insightful, and DJ and Dan had an incredible chemistry

1170
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 2: with each other, and if nothing else, you're gonna want

1171
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 2: to watch essentially three hours of them just talking football

1172
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:53,720
Speaker 2: because you could tell they really enjoyed each other, bouncing

1173
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:56,759
Speaker 2: things off about what they see and what it was

1174
00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:59,800
Speaker 2: and what it is and where it's going. And you know,

1175
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 2: we all think of Dan Fouts as, you know, one

1176
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 2: of the greatest quarterbacks and one of the greatest chargers

1177
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 2: in franchise history, but I think we also forget that

1178
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 2: this was the number one analyst in college football for

1179
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:13,560
Speaker 2: a long time and someone that you know, was the

1180
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:17,399
Speaker 2: voice with Keith Jackson of that game and was able

1181
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 2: to watch players developing and recognize which ones were going

1182
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 2: to take the next step and what those traits were.

1183
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 2: And you could just see that rekindled and I could

1184
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 2: hear that rekindled in Dan last year when we did

1185
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,879
Speaker 2: the game and he and DJ were able to kind

1186
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:34,920
Speaker 2: of put watch the game through that same lens, and

1187
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:38,279
Speaker 2: how exciting that was for Dan Fouts to be able

1188
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:40,920
Speaker 2: to do it with him was really cool just to

1189
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:43,399
Speaker 2: be you know a guy that was in the middle,

1190
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:45,720
Speaker 2: literally in the middle of the two of them hearing

1191
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:48,239
Speaker 2: them have those conversations. So I'm really looking forward to that.

1192
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:50,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got the best of the best in that

1193
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:54,360
Speaker 1: Money Smith on television on Saturday as well, and just

1194
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:57,840
Speaker 1: two refreshing analysts man like Dan Pulls no punches and

1195
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:01,799
Speaker 1: DJ is as insightful as it gets. Like you said,

1196
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 1: Shannon on radio, you got Jamie Maggio on the sideline.

1197
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:09,040
Speaker 1: And we have a both Central pregame show at three thirty,

1198
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:11,359
Speaker 1: so a half hour ahead of the game with Jim Hill,

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00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:13,800
Speaker 1: Jalili Die and myself and then we'll do a postgame

1200
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 1: show afterwards as well. So a ton of Chargers football

1201
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:20,120
Speaker 1: on the air on Saturday. So, as Money mentioned, if

1202
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:22,680
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be at the game, next best thing

1203
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 1: pop on the tube and watch us.

1204
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:26,360
Speaker 2: Absolutely looking forward to it.

1205
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 1: Absolutely. All right, Well, guys, enjoy Saturday, whether you're at

1206
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:33,759
Speaker 1: SOFI or you're watching it on television. We will break

1207
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:37,359
Speaker 1: down what we saw next week ahead of a big

1208
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 1: one against the Rams at SOFI in week two. But

1209
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:43,759
Speaker 1: until then, at Joyge Chargers Football for Mattmuddy Smith, I'm

1210
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:45,399
Speaker 1: Chris hay Rey this has been Chargers Week,