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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Chris Harry with you on Chargers Weekly. We

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Speaker 1: are less than one week away from the NFL Draft,

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Speaker 1: but that's just one of several items on the NFL

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Speaker 1: calendar in April. A bit later, I'll be joined by

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Speaker 1: Jack Wan of Southern California Newsgroup. We'll discuss the first

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Speaker 1: week of the team's offseason workout program. But first a

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Speaker 1: forty minute deep dive into the Chargers twenty eighteen schedule

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Speaker 1: with the voice of the team, Matt money Smith. All

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Speaker 1: right here with the voice of the Chargers, the Great

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Speaker 1: Matt money Smith on Chargers Weekly and Money It's like

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Speaker 1: Christmas in April. Now we got the draft a week away.

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Speaker 1: The schedule has finally been released. Before we go through

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Speaker 1: each game getting some of these storylines. Give me your

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Speaker 1: overall impressions of which I think of the schedule. I

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Speaker 1: optimist in me, but I think, you know, two things

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Speaker 1: jump out of me. One is how upset the players

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Speaker 1: look at that is two pronged right. One, they're pretty upset, right,

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Speaker 1: So there you go, fine, great chip on your shoulder,

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Speaker 1: prove everybody wrong. I love having that sort of carrot

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Speaker 1: in front of you, that of disrespect. And two, you know,

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Speaker 1: as much as they're upset about being disrespected, whenever we

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Speaker 1: they don't like being off schedule and they like having,

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Speaker 1: you know, their routine of what Monday is, what Tuesday

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Speaker 1: and when you start mixing in Monday nighters and as

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Speaker 1: their brutal you know, our our trip back from Denver,

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Speaker 1: I don't think we had wheels up out of Denver

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Speaker 1: fifty or five am. And that just throws your whole

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Speaker 1: again the following week against the Dolphins. But I can

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Speaker 1: So as bad as that is, I think that that

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Speaker 1: granted they have to deal with London. But I think

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Speaker 1: I love that they opened with the Chiefs. I know

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Speaker 1: as Hey, we sent out an all Pro quarterback who

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Speaker 1: threw for nearly five thousand yards last year and help

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Speaker 1: just win a division. So you can take over. And

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Speaker 1: your gift for that is Melvin Ingram and Joey Bosa

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Speaker 1: in week one. So you know, those are the first

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Speaker 1: Well that's it. Let's start with Week one, September ninth,

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Speaker 1: Chiefs come to town and like you said, money the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: This has been a thorn in their side. They've lost

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Speaker 1: eight straight to the Chiefs. Patrick Mahomes his second career

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Speaker 1: and I'd imagine you'd like to face a young guy

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Speaker 1: Let's say you play against the Chiefs in week five,

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you I mean, look, I'm a small guy,

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Speaker 1: and money the scheduling GUIDs, did you and the Chargers

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Speaker 1: but you never know. And uh, this is another homecoming

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Speaker 1: You know, it evens out the London game, right, you

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Speaker 1: And I would suspect we'll see a lot of Charger

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Speaker 1: actually do something. You know. I guess you can say

427
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Speaker 1: maybe Bill O'Brien's done a little something, but it hasn't

428
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Speaker 1: quite worked out like it has Brandy Reid in that

429
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Speaker 1: coaching tree for goodness sake, But Um. But I think

430
00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:15,959
Speaker 1: it's just, you know, it's it's what it's kind of

431
00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:19,679
Speaker 1: what Malarkey made it, which is smash mouth football. You know,

432
00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:23,840
Speaker 1: nasty tackles on offense, big bodies on defense, Wesley Woodyard,

433
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Speaker 1: you know, in the middle of that of that kind

434
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Speaker 1: of linebacking corp with Derek Morgan. Um. And it's just

435
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Speaker 1: and I mean, look, Kevin Byard, he's not a fan.

436
00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:35,000
Speaker 1: Turns out he's player and he can make a lot

437
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Speaker 1: of play. Yeah, exactly. I mean it's a it's and

438
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Speaker 1: then they say, now, jeez, and I'm looking at their roster.

439
00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:42,600
Speaker 1: I just pulled it up. I forgot they signed Malcolm Butler.

440
00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:45,280
Speaker 1: So I mean, that's a pretty darn good defense. Um,

441
00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:47,320
Speaker 1: that's a really good team. Um. And I think it

442
00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:51,040
Speaker 1: comes down to, you know, containing Marcus Mariota. And I

443
00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:52,919
Speaker 1: feel like he's trying to get away from using his

444
00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:54,919
Speaker 1: lakes as much. I don't think he likes getting hit

445
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. That's kind of the sense that I got,

446
00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:01,080
Speaker 1: is is much damage he can do with his feet.

447
00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:03,399
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem he likes to. It doesn't seem like

448
00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:04,800
Speaker 1: he likes to. So I don't know if mat La

449
00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:07,040
Speaker 1: Fleur can get that out of him or not. But hey,

450
00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,160
Speaker 1: stay in there, Marcus. We'd we'd be more than happy

451
00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:10,800
Speaker 1: to watch you try to do your damage from the

452
00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:12,960
Speaker 1: pockets of using those lakes in that four three speed

453
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Speaker 1: of yours exactly stay in the pocket. Deane lewis another

454
00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,480
Speaker 1: Patriot that's on that team as well, you know, so

455
00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:21,480
Speaker 1: offensively they may look a little bit different. Interesting to

456
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Speaker 1: see what rabel is going to do as a head coach.

457
00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,359
Speaker 1: Money the buye right in the middle of the season.

458
00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:28,840
Speaker 1: I think that's perfect, you know. I think if you

459
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Speaker 1: talk to Andy coach, you know, rest reset, get ready

460
00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,200
Speaker 1: for the back half of the year, and you got

461
00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:36,320
Speaker 1: two road games out of the gate. There you got

462
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Speaker 1: at Seattle. I think a lot of people think that

463
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Speaker 1: this is the beginning of a rebuild in Seattle, but

464
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Speaker 1: you know, Russell Wilson under center, you always have a chance,

465
00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:47,040
Speaker 1: no question. But I do think it is because they

466
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Speaker 1: didn't do much to upgrade their offensive line, um, you

467
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Speaker 1: know less unless Charger fans want to say, you know what,

468
00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:57,760
Speaker 1: they signed d J Fluker look out, So I think

469
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Speaker 1: you know, they certainly drafted, they invested a little bit

470
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Speaker 1: in the last draft, and the draft before in that

471
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Speaker 1: offensive line, see if it will manage to come to

472
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Speaker 1: gather up Dwayne Brown in a full season now and

473
00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:10,639
Speaker 1: an offseason can settle in as he was one of

474
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Speaker 1: the better left tackles in the league in Houston. I

475
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,520
Speaker 1: do like to their I like their their receivers. I

476
00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:18,480
Speaker 1: love Tyler Lockett of Kansas State and what he was

477
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Speaker 1: able to do in the return game as well. He's dynamic.

478
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Speaker 1: I love Doug Baldwin. And like you said, when you

479
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Speaker 1: have you know, Russell Wilson and you have a quarterback

480
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Speaker 1: that that plays at an MVP level, it is always, uh,

481
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Speaker 1: you know, there's always a possibility where you just get

482
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Speaker 1: crushed because of that quarterback is able to carry a team.

483
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Speaker 1: And that's the kind of league we're in. It's a

484
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Speaker 1: quarterback league. But then you get to the defense and

485
00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:43,440
Speaker 1: you're like, my god, this doesn't even resemble you know, yeah,

486
00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:45,520
Speaker 1: it's a shell of it. Yeah, I mean it really.

487
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:48,200
Speaker 1: I mean, look, you still have arguably the best middle

488
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Speaker 1: linebacker in the league in Bobby Wagner, arguably the best

489
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Speaker 1: high safety in the league in Earl Thomas um So

490
00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:55,760
Speaker 1: when you have that on the back end, that that's

491
00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:58,879
Speaker 1: certainly you know, like like with Russell Wilson. You know,

492
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Speaker 1: if you want to argue that those your two quarterbacks

493
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Speaker 1: of the defense, you know, your free safety and your

494
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Speaker 1: middle linebacker. To have those two guys is a pretty

495
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,199
Speaker 1: nice thing, a nice little pair of ass that's for

496
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Speaker 1: Pete Hill to work with. Is he's trying to work

497
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Speaker 1: in some of these newer pieces. All right, money from Seattle.

498
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,680
Speaker 1: We go to Oakland in week ten, November eleventh. It's

499
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,840
Speaker 1: a game on Fox, another RUG game for the Chargers.

500
00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,560
Speaker 1: And God, you had so many great calls last year,

501
00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,159
Speaker 1: but I think the Nick Novak call may have been

502
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Speaker 1: my favorite. Well it was a huge one, right, I mean,

503
00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:27,720
Speaker 1: considering what they were coming off of. And I had

504
00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:31,240
Speaker 1: talked to Greg pop Up before that game, and luck Greg,

505
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,520
Speaker 1: I've known him for a long time, the longtime voice

506
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Speaker 1: of the Raiders, you know, one of the good guys

507
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,560
Speaker 1: around the league. And he just put it bluntly, said, Look,

508
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:41,640
Speaker 1: whoever loses this game, it's gonna be it's gonna it's

509
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,360
Speaker 1: gonna go downhill from here. Whoever wins, I think has

510
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:46,879
Speaker 1: the talent to make a run. So to know they

511
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:51,159
Speaker 1: were down to watch Philip Rivers and Hunter Henry say, hey,

512
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,719
Speaker 1: it's what we're gonna do. Try to stop it and

513
00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 1: and watch them make their way down the field and

514
00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:59,920
Speaker 1: set it up for a game winning field goal. Consider

515
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Speaker 1: what they had been through those first four weeks with

516
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,200
Speaker 1: that field goal unit, and to have no Vac come

517
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:06,199
Speaker 1: back and rescue his team. Man, you could just you

518
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 1: could feel it in the booth, you know how important

519
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 1: it was to have a kick go through as the

520
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,679
Speaker 1: clockheads zero to win a game. And I think that

521
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,880
Speaker 1: was a big reason, you know why after that win

522
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Speaker 1: they would go on to win, you know, eight more

523
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Speaker 1: out of their next to eleven, all right, week to eleven. Finally,

524
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Speaker 1: finally the Chargers back in stubb Up Center. First game

525
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,760
Speaker 1: back in six weeks, this time against the Denver Broncos

526
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Speaker 1: and money last time the Broncos came to StubHub twenty

527
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Speaker 1: one zero, first time they were shut out in twenty

528
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Speaker 1: five years. A lot of new faces, Case Keenum under

529
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Speaker 1: center now, a lot of new coaches under advanced Joseph,

530
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Speaker 1: even though they kept Joseph in so just a lot

531
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Speaker 1: of changes around him. Yeah, and I think that's, you know,

532
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Speaker 1: perhaps saving face for John Elway. You don't want to

533
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Speaker 1: fire a guy after just a single year. But like

534
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Speaker 1: you said, you know, you get rid of your DC

535
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:01,400
Speaker 1: up Joe, would you get rid of your OC guy?

536
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 1: We know? And Mike McCoy up Bill Musgrave. I don't

537
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 1: know what kind of impact that has. I look at

538
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 1: it and I still see a left tackle that was

539
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 1: in over his head last year in Garrett Bulls that

540
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,359
Speaker 1: was holding an awful lot. The interior of the line

541
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 1: is okay, you know, with Leary on that left side,

542
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 1: but it's still you know, Jared Veldier is not great.

543
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 1: I'll just leave it at that at that right tackle,

544
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 1: you know, and their their sixth linemen, and mentally Watson

545
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 1: also not great. Was very was just bad, I'll say

546
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 1: it for Oakland last year. So I think there are

547
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,040
Speaker 1: still issues on that offensive line. And if you can't

548
00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:37,879
Speaker 1: keep case Keenum upright, I'm not sure how effective he

549
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:41,199
Speaker 1: can be. So you know, that's kind of what I

550
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 1: look at. And then I think for the Broncos. If

551
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,679
Speaker 1: I'm a Charger fan, hey I hear that picks up

552
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,640
Speaker 1: for auction, Please somebody go get it, because I want

553
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Speaker 1: to see the Denver Broncos in a position where they

554
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Speaker 1: don't get Bradley Chubb. No, absolutely, that's the one thing,

555
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Speaker 1: you know, that's the one thing I do not want

556
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:02,520
Speaker 1: to see. There is another capable, not even capable, elite

557
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 1: pass rusher opposite Von Miller. And I know Shane Ray

558
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 1: was hurt for the contest last year. Um and he's

559
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: certainly one of the better, you know, if he's right,

560
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 1: he's a good pass rusher, no doubt about it. But

561
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 1: the last thing I want to see is Bradley Chubb

562
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 1: sitting there at number five and the Broncos scooping him up,

563
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 1: well money. Honestly, they haven't drafted well last year. No,

564
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:22,640
Speaker 1: you look at you look at all their picks last year.

565
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 1: Garrett Bulls was the only one who actually started a game,

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Speaker 1: I believe, honestly think I think if you go from

567
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: rounse two to seven, very minimal production out of any

568
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:34,439
Speaker 1: of those guys. Yeah, you're right. I look, John Elway

569
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,160
Speaker 1: has not drafted well. He's he's done great in free agency,

570
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 1: you know, and that's that's and that's very you know,

571
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,679
Speaker 1: and rarely does that does that get your victories, But

572
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 1: that's really where he's succeeded m you know, and getting

573
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:50,399
Speaker 1: to Marcus Ware, getting Peyton Manning, getting Manny Sanders, you know,

574
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 1: and now getting case Keenum if you believe what you

575
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 1: saw last year wasn't an aberration, but but in fact

576
00:26:56,560 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: Case playing with talent around him in good coaching. So

577
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I mean, you look at the roster.

578
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 1: I mean, Bradley Roby's a good pick in twenty fourteen

579
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,679
Speaker 1: for him. Again, I don't know about Shane Ray because

580
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 1: of the injuries. But yeah, you look up and down

581
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 1: the roster and it's not very impressive what he's done

582
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,120
Speaker 1: in the draft. That's why I would hate for him

583
00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: to just catch a break and get someone like Bradley

584
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,880
Speaker 1: Shops slipped to him, because four quarterbacks go in front

585
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,160
Speaker 1: of him. Yeah, that'd be worst case scenario. H Week

586
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:30,320
Speaker 1: twelve Cardinals will skip over this one. Obviously. The Chargers

587
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 1: and Cards are gonna play in the preseason. They have

588
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: new head coach of Steve Wilkes. Sam Bradford may or

589
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 1: may not be under center in late November. We have

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Speaker 1: no idea. What would you say, Yeah, we can say

591
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 1: yes or no. I think I'm gonna lean know, you know,

592
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 1: I think we don't know as well. Maybe Mike lem

593
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: and maybe Mike let him maybe maybe a rookie. They're

594
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Speaker 1: another team in the market for a franchise quarterback. Week

595
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Speaker 1: thirteen Money. This is my favorite game of the year.

596
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:54,679
Speaker 1: I think this is that measuring stick game for the

597
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 1: Chargers against the Steelers. You go cross country ten am,

598
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 1: kickoff on the West Coast Seelers along with the Pads,

599
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: they've been the bullies on the black in the AFC.

600
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 1: This is a great spot to see how they stack

601
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: up on the road. Yeah, you know what I would

602
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,920
Speaker 1: say too if and I know, you know, you can't

603
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 1: look that far ahead, but that's the game I would

604
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:15,120
Speaker 1: circle and I would say, you know, because I saw

605
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 1: I think Melvin Ingram was the first one I saw

606
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 1: on Twitter was pissed about it and say, hey, you

607
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: don't like that that you didn't get a primetime game.

608
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,119
Speaker 1: Well here you go, there it is. It's sitting right

609
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: there for you. So they December second flexes are now

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00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,919
Speaker 1: in play. Go make that a Sunday night game for us.

611
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,719
Speaker 1: Go on, go do it. You guys start out you

612
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 1: know by winning, you know, close to double win nine

613
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 1: or ten games here to start the season, and let's

614
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: let's get to the Steelers and you'll have your primetime

615
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 1: game that you guys are upset about not happening, because

616
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 1: that's sitting right there for you, a potential AFC championship preview. U.

617
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 1: The Steelers certainly have the talent to make it back there.

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00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 1: The Chargers certainly have the talent and finished in a manner.

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Speaker 1: If they can pick up where they left off and

620
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 1: have some continuity and be more comfortable and settled in

621
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Speaker 1: their new city and with the roster and new head

622
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 1: coach and coordinators and all that, then Uh, this is

623
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Speaker 1: like you said, I think this is that that nugget

624
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 1: to put out their for him. Let's let's force the

625
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 1: league to flex this game to Sunday night or Monday night.

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00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 1: This storylines here too. I mean, you got ab versus

627
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 1: Casey Hayward. You get the pouncy bros going against each other,

628
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 1: and then you got what I think is the biggest

629
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Speaker 1: the quarterback class of two thousand and four, Big Ben

630
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 1: versus Rivers. This may be the last time they go

631
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 1: head to hit. I mean, I don't know how the

632
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 1: schedule is going to shake out of the next couple

633
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 1: of years. But you know, Ben, you know, has been

634
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,719
Speaker 1: talking about retirement. It seems like for the last year

635
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 1: or two. You know, Phillipson playing at a high level.

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Speaker 1: But that's that's just an intriguing matchup. To me. You

637
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 1: got big ben versus Rivers, maybe for the last time,

638
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 1: no question, And I do think that that those are

639
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 1: you know, it was fun to watch the Eli Manning

640
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: storyline last year, even though two teams were coming in

641
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 1: at zero and four a piece, so that kind of

642
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 1: overshadowed it a little bit. But I'm with you, it

643
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 1: makes for great storylines, you know. And like you said,

644
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown versus Hey Word, you know that just the linebacker.

645
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: Obviously you lose Ryan Shazier sadly unfortunately, but you just

646
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 1: think about those linebackers and what those linebackers have been

647
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 1: for the Steelers over the last fifteen years. And with

648
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 1: Bud Dupree and t J. Watt, I mean, you still

649
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 1: have really good players at that level of the defense,

650
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 1: and I think it makes it certainly makes for on paper,

651
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 1: a great matchup. And like I said, what I hope

652
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 1: if things go according to how the Chargers believed they

653
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 1: could go a potential AFC Championship or AFC Division Around

654
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 1: preview Week fourteen, Chargers come back home to take on

655
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 1: the Bengals. It's a one oh five game December ninth,

656
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: and this one scares me, buddy, this is the this

657
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: is the trap game for me, because four days later

658
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 1: it's like deja vu. It's week fifteen the Chiefs Thursday

659
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: night football word week. Yeah, it's a short week to

660
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 1: get ready for a divisional road opponent who's had your number,

661
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 1: you know, and we saw what happened last year you

662
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: were there thirty thirteen. Revenge has to be on the

663
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 1: mine here in a hustle environment. Yeah, I just don't know,

664
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: you know, it's hard for me to figure out what

665
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: the Bengals are. It just is, you know, because you

666
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 1: look at that roster and I know, you know, last

667
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: year you could blame it on the offensive line, and

668
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: they certainly look like they've tried to fix that, you know,

669
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: in the trade for Courty Glenn. We know a j

670
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: Green is you know, one of the best and gives

671
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: everybody trouble. And we started to see, you know, towards

672
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 1: the end of the season that flash from Joe Mixon

673
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: and and you know what a special running back he

674
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: can be on the field, um, you know, because he

675
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,959
Speaker 1: is a three down back that runs a four four

676
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: and when you think about that, you're like, oh, what

677
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 1: is he like to ten to fifteen? So he's almost

678
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 1: two hundred forty pounds of just straight muscle um. And

679
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 1: know how much the run gave this team issues last year,

680
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: And like you said, when when you factor that in

681
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 1: and what he's capable of doing with another you know,

682
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 1: with a year under his bell, perhaps distancing himself with

683
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 1: punching a girl in the face at the home and

684
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: having that dog him all season long as it should have.

685
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: You know, that's sort of in the rear view, and

686
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: you wonder if he settles in here. And that's a

687
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,719
Speaker 1: team that has always had talent. I mean, you can

688
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 1: make a compelling case that save Aaron Donald Geno Atkins

689
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 1: the best defensive tackle in the league, and he is

690
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 1: so disruptive, and those are the type of players that

691
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: tend to give rivers a little bit more trouble when

692
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: pressure just comes straight up the middle. We saw in

693
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 1: that Eagles game with Fletcher Cox. So you're right, I mean,

694
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 1: the way you know, the way the roster shakes out,

695
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 1: the way the schedule lays out, with the showdown Thursday

696
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: night in at the Chief, like you said, it went

697
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: so horribly wrong last year, you just hope that that's

698
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: not one that gets them. But I go back to

699
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 1: kind of, maybe, where is this team at that point

700
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: if they are playing as well as they're capable of playing,

701
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 1: as the end of last season suggests they should be playing,

702
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 1: I can't you know, at that point, when you're looking

703
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: at the last quarter of the season, you're thinking about

704
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 1: home playoff games, and that tends to get your hyper

705
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: focused on every single game in front of you instead

706
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: of looking ahead like, hey, you know, if we beat

707
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:04,239
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, we're gonna have the division and we can

708
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: lock it up. You know what I mean exactly, tend

709
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: to take more of that one game approach. Yeah, and

710
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 1: that goes down to this this hot start. If you

711
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 1: can start hot and win you know, four or five

712
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: and take care of home you're not in the position

713
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 1: you were last year where you're like, oh, well, if

714
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: this team loses and we win, we got a shot

715
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 1: to get in the playoffs. It's none of that. It's

716
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: just you're focused on trying to get home field. Week sixteen,

717
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: the Ravens December twenty second or twenty third, and this

718
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: is a team, you know, similar to the Chargers went

719
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: nine and seven, nearly missed the playoffs. And it's hard

720
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 1: to predict, you know, especially in April. It's hard to

721
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 1: predict who's going to be good in twenty eighteen. But

722
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: it's hard to discount John Harball led Ravens team in December. Yeah,

723
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 1: they've just you know, they're always solid. You know, you

724
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: said it. You looked at last year and like this

725
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 1: is this team good? Are they? Yeah? They would they

726
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 1: should have gone ten and six? You know it is

727
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 1: what a fourth and nineteen or whatever fourth and whatever

728
00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: that play was. You know, they win that game to

729
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 1: go to the playoffs, and it's and it's a Baltimore

730
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 1: team that continues to have, you know, a strong freaking defense,

731
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: you know, and that's what it's built on. I don't

732
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: have a lot of faith in Joe Flacco. Um. I

733
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 1: wasn't that impressed with their running game last year. What

734
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 1: about all RG three money? What about RG three right exactly?

735
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: You know, I think I think RG three will probably

736
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 1: play as much as he played in Cleveland last year.

737
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 1: You know, maybe a game or two or I don't

738
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 1: I don't quite understand that, but whatever, you know, teams

739
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 1: need backups. And I've always liked Michael Crabtree as a receiver. UM,

740
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,359
Speaker 1: I liked the John Brown signing to give him that speed.

741
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 1: If John's healthy, you know, and we certainly hope he is,

742
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 1: considering what he's been dealing with, UM to take the

743
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 1: top off the defense. So that's an interesting pair of

744
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 1: receivers considering how much they've struggled to find anybody to

745
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: catch the ball. So yeah, it's a it's a look.

746
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:52,239
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm saying the same thing about every team.

747
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: Right when you start going through NFL rosters, You're like, yeah,

748
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,240
Speaker 1: it's an NFL roster. There's a lot of really good players,

749
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 1: you know, regardless of who the team is or what

750
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 1: their record was last year. And that's just you know,

751
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 1: Baltimore is I think the epitome of a really really

752
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 1: good roster without a lot of great players on it.

753
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:15,879
Speaker 1: I guess if that, you know, and I recognize, Look,

754
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 1: Terrell Suggs is great, He's just pretty darn old. Yeah,

755
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 1: you know. I mean he's going into I think is

756
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: what fifteenth season, sixteenth season, whichever one it is. He's

757
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 1: getting up there, and you know, they're just they're just

758
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 1: not the same, you know, it's not the same sort

759
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 1: of level of dominance. You know, they used to be

760
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,439
Speaker 1: great on defense, and now it just seems like they're

761
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 1: a really good, solid team. And I don't know what

762
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco is. I just I really don't. I mean,

763
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 1: I know he's a Super Bowl winning quarterback, but man,

764
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:50,320
Speaker 1: if you asked me to start ranking quarterbacks, I'm not

765
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 1: sure if I get the Joe Flacco. If I'm at

766
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 1: like ten or twelve or fifteen, yeah, it'd be a while.

767
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: It'd be a while, especially, you know, as soon as

768
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: you get that money, and that's how it changes a

769
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 1: little bit too. Money. Once Flacco got paid, you can't

770
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 1: pay everybody else. And I think that's right. The roster

771
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 1: falls apart. Yeah, the roster falls apart. And I think

772
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 1: as he knew some obviously, he does a great job drafting,

773
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: and that's why you have solid, a solid team, I think,

774
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 1: year in year out, because you draft will. But you know,

775
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 1: the Ravens, like like many teams, are a wildcard in

776
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,800
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen and a week seventeen, it's kind of funny

777
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,280
Speaker 1: because the Chargers are going to end the year in Denver,

778
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,320
Speaker 1: a place where they started it in twenty seventeen. We

779
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 1: all remember how that that game ended in Week one

780
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 1: of twenty seventeen. You know, these games sometimes they mean everything,

781
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: sometimes they mean nothing. But I think regardless, Chargers, it'd

782
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 1: be nice to get a win at Mile High. Yeah,

783
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 1: I think that's case. You know, scenario for them is

784
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,879
Speaker 1: the Broncos are bad again, you know, and they got

785
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: Tase Keen them on a two year deal and maybe

786
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: they packed the Lynches in there. Or if they draft

787
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 1: a quarterback in the first round, if they decide one

788
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 1: of those guys you know, slips to them and they

789
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 1: want to take Baker Mayfield or they want to take

790
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 1: Josh Rose and because he's there, or Mark Jackson, if

791
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: they trade down, whatever it may be, and you're facing

792
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: a team that's that's look into the future, you know.

793
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: And again I think it just kind of speaks to

794
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:12,240
Speaker 1: what we went through with, you know, them trading away

795
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:14,959
Speaker 1: a little bit of their secondary and the offensive line

796
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:18,359
Speaker 1: issues that they continue to have, you know, and how

797
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: good can that team be? How much? You know? And

798
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: I think it just revolves around do you believe in case?

799
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: Do you believe Cases is a quarterback that, when put

800
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 1: on this roster is capable of helping, you know, do

801
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 1: what he did in Minnesota with a really good defense.

802
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:33,439
Speaker 1: I mean, the defense is still really good. I don't

803
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: think there's any denying that. So it's just a question of,

804
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,359
Speaker 1: you know, are they going to get that quarterback play?

805
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: Do they have an offensive line that can protect the

806
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 1: guy that needs to be protected, that needs to be

807
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: kept up right, because we saw what happened to him

808
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: in other stops where he wasn't He was not very

809
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: very effective, and that all you have to do is

810
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: go back two years with the Rams, who had no

811
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 1: offensive line and very few playmakers around him, and he

812
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: just was miserable. So I think that's kind of what

813
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: I would look after is hey, hopefully by the time

814
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 1: they get to week seventeen, the Broncos are looking toward

815
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,840
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen already. Well, listen, I like this schedule. I

816
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:11,280
Speaker 1: really do. And I think mainly because I like this team,

817
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 1: and you know, you go into years sometimes when you

818
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: don't know if you're gonna be you know, let's say

819
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 1: you'd be seven to nine, eight and eight and you're like, oh, well,

820
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 1: Patriots get Patriots, gonna be tough game. You know, this

821
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: is a schedule where you look at it, and you

822
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,919
Speaker 1: look at how this team played down the stretch. This

823
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: is a team that should win most of these games

824
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. Yeah, when I think when I look

825
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,319
Speaker 1: at a schedule, I just kind of you know, like

826
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: we talked about, when are they home, went around the road,

827
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 1: when are the cold weather games? You know, when you

828
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 1: think about that short week and going to Kansas City

829
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 1: when it can be crazy cold in the middle of December.

830
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 1: I mean, we know it. We just went through it

831
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 1: last year. It was very cold for that Thursday night,

832
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 1: or out there at the Broncos is that at three

833
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:55,839
Speaker 1: feet of snow game in Denver on December thirtieth. You know, again,

834
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 1: those can always be equalizers and just really muddy up

835
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: literally in some to some degree, muddy up a game.

836
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:05,399
Speaker 1: I think about that stretch at the start, and as

837
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: you mentioned, when I look at those first seven games

838
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 1: before the buy, you know, I think, worst case, if

839
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: this team is what we think it is, is two losses.

840
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: Worst case. Best case is undefeated. You know, as they

841
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 1: get that win at the Rams, which looks to be

842
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: the toughest one there, and they are what we think

843
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 1: they are, you know, they win all their home games,

844
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 1: and there's no reason why they shouldn't win a game

845
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 1: at the Bills and at the Browns. And that's how

846
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: you win a division. You know, you win all eight

847
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: of your home games, and you play five hundred on

848
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 1: the road, and you get twelve wins and the division

849
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:37,839
Speaker 1: crown is yours. And I think when you look at

850
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: these road games Bills, Rams, Browns, Seahawks, Raiders, Steelers, Chiefs, Broncos,

851
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 1: go four and four and win your home games and

852
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: there's your twelve wins, you know, and when you're at

853
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 1: the Bills, at the Browns, at this rebuilding Seahawks, you know,

854
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 1: at the Raiders, Chiefs or Broncos with new head coaches,

855
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,319
Speaker 1: you know, are new quarterbacks with the Chiefs head coach

856
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: with the Raiders. I mean it just it lays out,

857
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: like you said, really well based on who their opponents

858
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 1: aren't what they have in the division, you know, either

859
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:04,839
Speaker 1: a new quarterback or new head coach. Money. You've been

860
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: more than gracious with your time. Man, can't thank you enough.

861
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 1: We got the draft next week. Any thoughts at number seventeen,

862
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 1: I mean, this is it looks like defensive line linebacker

863
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:18,760
Speaker 1: are are really the two positions that the Chargers probably

864
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: going to home in on at least in the first

865
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 1: three rounds. Um, yeah to me, you know kind of

866
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 1: from what I've been hearing. And I don't know what

867
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 1: John Sponoson and Tom Telesco have been talking about, but

868
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 1: I think for me it comes down to two players.

869
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: I think if the draft breaks right for the Chargers, uh,

870
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: one of two players, Like if it took to really

871
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,400
Speaker 1: be able to say, holy crap, this broke our way,

872
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: is if Derwin James or Vita Bay are there? Yeah,

873
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 1: I think if you get either, just the idea of

874
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:50,839
Speaker 1: Derwin and what he could do in that Gus Bradley scheme. Um,

875
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,360
Speaker 1: if you play him in the box like Cam because

876
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 1: he's big and nasty, if you play him high like

877
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: Earl Thomas because he's rangy and crazy athletic, Um, just

878
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 1: so many possibilit he's there, or just a complete and

879
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: total athletic freak that Vea is. And I just bring

880
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 1: those two names up and people like, just no way,

881
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: those guys are last until untill seventeen. Well, if you

882
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 1: have five quarterbacks, you know, now you're only talking about

883
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 1: eight players. You know now you just need them to

884
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,439
Speaker 1: last one of those two guys to have seven other

885
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 1: position players go in front of them, and you can

886
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:26,400
Speaker 1: certainly make a case with sae Quon and Bradley Chubb

887
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 1: and Quenton Nelson and Minca Fitzpatrick and Denzel when you

888
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 1: see what I'm getting at Tremaine Edmonds, real Kinsman. Okay,

889
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 1: we're there now. One of those two guys is there

890
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 1: are just from those names. I just rattled off, all right,

891
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 1: a quick break and then Jack Wang of Southern California Newsgroup,

892
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 1: So the Los Angeles Chargers schedule is out, and boy,

893
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 1: it's nice to finally know how we'll be spending our

894
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 1: Sundays this fall. How many Charger games did you make

895
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: last year? Matt? I made twenty four preseason games in

896
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 1: sixteen regular season games last year. Which are you circling

897
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 1: for this season? This season? I'll circle the Niners and

898
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 1: Cardinals as they play the NFC West, and let's not

899
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 1: forget about those rivalry games. Pe you seriously don't want

900
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,360
Speaker 1: to miss this. Visit fight for LA dot com or

901
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 1: call eight seven seven Chargers to share Mats experience. Season

902
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: tickets on sale now, all right. Phase one of the

903
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,319
Speaker 1: Chargers offseason program kicked off. This week of the Hope

904
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,399
Speaker 1: Performance Center, please be joined by Chargers beat writer Jack

905
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,839
Speaker 1: Wang of Southern California Newsgroup. And Jack, the team back

906
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,919
Speaker 1: together under one roof, and this is a great opportunity

907
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: for the media really to hear Coach Lynn and other

908
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: leaders of the team. What were the highlights for you

909
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: from the open media session? You know, I think we

910
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:42,440
Speaker 1: got to see a few of the new players, you know,

911
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,840
Speaker 1: Mike Pouncey was there. Pretty Much everyone that they picked

912
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 1: up during the offseason in free agency was there. Pouncey

913
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 1: talked about, you know, meeting Philip Rivers for first time.

914
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 1: They didn't really have any sort of pre existing relationship,

915
00:42:55,840 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 1: but there's a mutual respect between them just from ring

916
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 1: about their their respective reputations around the league. Um. He

917
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 1: actually told a funny story about, you know, when they

918
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 1: were in the meeting room, he accidentally sat in in

919
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 1: Phillips seat, so he had to get up in a

920
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 1: movie different response to Yeah, they're both excited to kind

921
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 1: of get that quarterback center relationship going. Uh. Pouncy is

922
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,720
Speaker 1: a guy that has a lot of experience making calls

923
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. Um, so Phil could get a

924
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 1: little bit more help in that respect, but I think

925
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:33,399
Speaker 1: that's going to be a significant roster improvement for them

926
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:38,360
Speaker 1: heading into the season. Um, you know, a couple of absences, nothing,

927
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: nothing really out of the ordinary, unexpected, Melvin ingram H,

928
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:47,800
Speaker 1: Joey Bosa, Melvin Gordon, all guys that you know. Lynn

929
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 1: said that he's been in touch with and and expects

930
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 1: to show up at some point in the coming weeks.

931
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 1: But um, it's sort of like last year, disguise taking

932
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: time and deciding to work out on their own a

933
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, we should player if I Phase one

934
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: it's two weeks long and it's really just limited to

935
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: strength and conditioning activities. You can only be on the

936
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,959
Speaker 1: field for I think ninety minutes max, and it's two

937
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 1: hours at the facility. It's two hours for weights. So

938
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 1: it's something where it's your point, you know, the Melvin's

939
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 1: and Joey, I'm sure they're training on their own and

940
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:22,399
Speaker 1: we'll get there at some point. You mentioned Philip Rivers Jack.

941
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 1: He's entering his fifteenth season in the league, he's thirty six,

942
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: he's coming off that Pro Bowl season. Yet a lot

943
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:31,320
Speaker 1: of the offseason chatter has been filled with the talk

944
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 1: of the Chargers finding his successor. I think he was

945
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: asked about that. What was his answer, and what did

946
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 1: you think of his answer? You know, I think it

947
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 1: was interesting because in terms of them potentially drafting quarterback,

948
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 1: it was kind of similar to last year and I'm

949
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: sure years before where he faced these kind of questions

950
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: and he was you know, you played it cool, said,

951
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: you know, they're they're gonna do that at some point.

952
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 1: The room's gonna have to get younger at some point,

953
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 1: and I'm ready for it. But I still think that,

954
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:02,360
Speaker 1: you know, I can play for for several more years.

955
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: And I think the interesting part was when he said

956
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: that back in January. Now, this was the first January

957
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:11,919
Speaker 1: in a long time where he felt like he could

958
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 1: go a whole entire season, and you know, I think

959
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 1: he compared it two years past, where I think you'd

960
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 1: have nagging, little injuries kind kind of trailing into into

961
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:28,359
Speaker 1: the month out of the season. This year, he felt great.

962
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:30,840
Speaker 1: You know, he felt he felt a lot better than

963
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:33,680
Speaker 1: he has and I think that was a little surprising,

964
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 1: just because you know, he also had kind of a

965
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 1: major injury scale last year with being in the concussion

966
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:45,279
Speaker 1: protocol and potentially seeing that streak of consecutive starts end.

967
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 1: So I think that's an encouraging sign for them heading

968
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 1: in season. And you know, the Chargers absolutely haven't drafted

969
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks in twenty thirteen, taking Bret Sorrenson in the

970
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:59,719
Speaker 1: seventh round. You know, I wouldn't be totally shocked if

971
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 1: that drought continues, just because you know, they made some

972
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 1: moves to shore the quarterback depth chart. But I know

973
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:07,919
Speaker 1: a lot of fans are itching for them to kind

974
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:11,279
Speaker 1: of establish a clear line of suspension. Yeah, it goes

975
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:14,080
Speaker 1: back and forth because you think that they may get

976
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:16,320
Speaker 1: the future here in the first or second round, let's say.

977
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 1: But then when you add to the quarterback room and

978
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: a guy like Geno Smith, somebody Anthony lends familiar with,

979
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 1: you already have Cardell Jones there. And I think what

980
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 1: Phillips said, it really struck me, the fact that he

981
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 1: said he could he could go a whole other season

982
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 1: in January. I mean, the guy is going to be

983
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,360
Speaker 1: thirty seven in December. But to your point, he had

984
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:39,240
Speaker 1: the concussion scare this past year, but he probably had

985
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 1: one of his best years, especially in terms of efficiency

986
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:45,399
Speaker 1: check because he didn't turn the football over. I think

987
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 1: he threw the ball away more and was a little

988
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 1: bit more conservative with the football. And I think that

989
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 1: style of play is really going to suit him in

990
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 1: his last few years in the league, you know, whenever

991
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 1: he decides to hang it up. Yeah, I definitely agree

992
00:46:57,719 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 1: with that, And I think a lot of that is

993
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: also trusting that he has a better team around him.

994
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:05,399
Speaker 1: You know that he had a top three defense last

995
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:07,759
Speaker 1: year that could really, you know, get the other team

996
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,480
Speaker 1: off the field. So I think he probably felt like

997
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:12,880
Speaker 1: he didn't have to force the ball as much as

998
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 1: he did in recent years. I think there were a

999
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:16,879
Speaker 1: couple of games where you see that where you saw

1000
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:20,080
Speaker 1: that waiver a little bit, especially in those two games

1001
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:22,799
Speaker 1: against Kansas City. But you know, if they keep kind

1002
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: of building a strong roster without around him, you know,

1003
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: especially on the offensive line, I think you can you

1004
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 1: can see a smooth transition for him into kind of

1005
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 1: the last stage of his career while also being being

1006
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:38,919
Speaker 1: fairly productive. You know, Jack, this is also an opportunity

1007
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: to get updates on guys that weren't contributors last year,

1008
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: and if healthy, we're expecting Force Slamp, Mike Williams, Jason

1009
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 1: Frett to all come back all be Impacts starters in

1010
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:52,399
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. In the case of Force Slamp and Mike Williams,

1011
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:55,439
Speaker 1: you're adding last year's first and second round draft picks

1012
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 1: to the offense. What was the update on those two guys. Yeah,

1013
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 1: I think Mike Williams, he's pretty much healthy. You know,

1014
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 1: he ended last year, you know, able to participate in

1015
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:08,719
Speaker 1: all the practices, able to get into games, and it

1016
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:11,280
Speaker 1: was just kind of a matter of learning the offense

1017
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 1: and feeling comfortable in the offense. And because he basically

1018
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 1: lost his entire offseason, I think he got injured that

1019
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 1: first day of working mining camp and really never got

1020
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:23,279
Speaker 1: back into the flow things. He was kind of just

1021
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 1: way behind the ball in terms of building chemistry with

1022
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:32,880
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers and you know, just feeling like the scheme

1023
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 1: was second nature to him. So I think this will

1024
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:38,400
Speaker 1: be a big benefit to him getting these next several

1025
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 1: months under his belt. Forrest Lamp, you know, I think

1026
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 1: it's I'm curious to see what he's able to do.

1027
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:47,480
Speaker 1: Wants to get into some contact, you know, he and

1028
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 1: Jason Barrett, who missed essentially all of last season with

1029
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:54,160
Speaker 1: another knee knee surgery a year ago, you know, they're

1030
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 1: both on the field this week. I don't know exactly

1031
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:00,920
Speaker 1: what that means for their schedule that Anthony lens at

1032
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 1: their quote right on schedule, but you know, it'll definitely

1033
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:08,279
Speaker 1: be encouraging if they can do some contact, you know,

1034
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: coming off those knee injuries. You know, Philip talked about

1035
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 1: the importance of having Mike Williams in this offseason program.

1036
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:16,880
Speaker 1: I think he preached that really at his end of

1037
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 1: regular season press conference. What are your expectations of Williams

1038
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 1: this year? We only saw those flashes in a few

1039
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 1: games in twenty seventeen, but it seems like when this

1040
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: guy's fully healthy, you put him on the other side

1041
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 1: of Keenan Allen, you already have Tyroll Williams, Travis Benjamin.

1042
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:34,440
Speaker 1: I mean, this offense could be even more explosive than

1043
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:37,240
Speaker 1: it wasn't twenty seventeen with Williams in the full. Yeah,

1044
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 1: I think that's definitely true. You know, he gives them

1045
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:44,160
Speaker 1: a guy with a big body, definitely another red zone target,

1046
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:47,759
Speaker 1: you know, if he breaks out, you know, I think

1047
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:51,399
Speaker 1: it's interesting to see what that does to Tyrell Williams' role.

1048
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:54,880
Speaker 1: He's a guy that they you know, kind of found

1049
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 1: it as an undrafted gem and the guy that they

1050
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 1: extended as a extended the qualifying offer to as a

1051
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 1: restrictor free agent Um. But it's it's kind of like

1052
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 1: last year, you know, where they have a bit of

1053
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:10,879
Speaker 1: a potential logjam at receiver and you know, a year

1054
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 1: ago ended up being Dontrell Inman that they moved on from.

1055
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:17,280
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that that will necessarily happen with Tyrell.

1056
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:21,319
Speaker 1: I think Tyrrell's more talented than Montrell Um, but you know,

1057
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:25,359
Speaker 1: Tyrell still isn't a guy that they invested a top

1058
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Speaker 1: ten overall draft pick, and so they'll be interesting to

1059
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 1: see how that death chart shakes out. With Mike Williams,

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00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, it's kind of it's kind

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00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 1: of cantalizing. I remember seeing him in that National Championship

1062
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:41,600
Speaker 1: game with Clemson and he he's a guy that just

1063
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:44,800
Speaker 1: jumped out at you, you know, and I haven't really

1064
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 1: seen that guy since, so, you know, hopefully you know,

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Speaker 1: him getting these these workouts in UM, you know, gives

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Speaker 1: us another taste of that guy. Yeah, I think it

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00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:59,040
Speaker 1: was a little bit unfair to Mike two in that

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00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:02,359
Speaker 1: when he was ready to go. We've moved on, right,

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00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:04,239
Speaker 1: We moved on from training camp, We've moved on from

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00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 1: offseason workouts. I mean, you're installing game plans on a

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00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 1: weekly basis. So it was really difficult for him, I think,

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00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:13,080
Speaker 1: to catch up, get with the speed of the NFL

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00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:16,560
Speaker 1: and just have that chemistry with Philip right off the bat.

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00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 1: It just doesn't happen like that in the regular season.

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Speaker 1: I think we saw flashes, especially in that Buffalo game,

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00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:25,279
Speaker 1: of what he can become. So I think a lot

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00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 1: of fans are excited to see him in twenty eighteen.

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00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:30,800
Speaker 1: And then another guy you mentions, Jason Varrette. This is

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00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 1: a guy who's only played five games the last two seasons.

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00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:37,600
Speaker 1: Trevor Williams filled in admirably. We saw what Desmond King

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00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 1: was able to do in the slot, and obviously Casey

1082
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 1: Hayward lockdown corner and the Chargers locked him up for

1083
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:46,400
Speaker 1: the next few years. What your expectations of Verrette? I

1084
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: think it's really you can't expect him to come in

1085
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 1: and start sixteen games because he's never done it, But

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00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:55,799
Speaker 1: just adding him to the secondary has got to be

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00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 1: a plus for Gus Bradley. Yeah, you know, it's a

1088
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 1: really interesting place for the secondary to be in because

1089
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 1: there's so much talent, so much top end talent, even

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00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 1: without Jason Brett. You know, you have Kasey Hayward, who

1091
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:11,279
Speaker 1: was a two time Pro bowler now and is come

1092
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 1: just you know, signed a big extension. You have Trevor Williams,

1093
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: who you know looks like another undrafted gem, Desmond King

1094
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 1: who really broke out as kind of a do it

1095
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 1: all playmaker last year. And then you add Jason Brett,

1096
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:28,959
Speaker 1: who you know, when healthy, which is a big gift.

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00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:31,800
Speaker 1: You know, he's a top five quarterback in the NFL.

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00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: And now if they get him for today half a season,

1099
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:40,760
Speaker 1: then is it better to have him kind of entrenched

1100
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:45,840
Speaker 1: in the role opposite Casey Hayward or is it easier

1101
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:48,960
Speaker 1: you know, to have him to maybe keep Trevor on

1102
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 1: the outside and play Jason in the spot and set.

1103
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:54,840
Speaker 1: So it will be really interesting to see what Gus

1104
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:57,759
Speaker 1: decides to do move into the defensive line. Jack Chris

1105
00:52:57,840 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 1: McCain he's now an unrestricted free agent, and Corey lead

1106
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:02,879
Speaker 1: you we know he is suspended for the first four

1107
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:05,719
Speaker 1: games of the year. You know, free agency really never

1108
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:07,920
Speaker 1: stops in the off season, so it's still an option

1109
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 1: to fill defensive line needs through free agency, But with

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00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 1: the draft a week away, how likely do you think

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00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 1: it is if they attack those needs on the D

1112
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:21,200
Speaker 1: line in those first couple rounds of the draft. I

1113
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 1: think it's pretty likely. You know, you you look at

1114
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:25,879
Speaker 1: mock drafts. I think Dron Payne is a guy that's

1115
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,839
Speaker 1: been connected to them a lot. I think if if

1116
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 1: Vida Veya fell to number seventeen, they'd be thrilled. But

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00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:35,759
Speaker 1: I think generally, especially in those early rounds, they're kind

1118
00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 1: of in a situation where you know, they have enough

1119
00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:44,359
Speaker 1: a complete enough roster that they can really go in

1120
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:46,799
Speaker 1: sort of a best player available direction. You know, they

1121
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 1: could go they go safety, they could go linebacker, they

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00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 1: go offensive tackle, or they could go defensive tackle like

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00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:57,279
Speaker 1: we said. But you know, I think Vita Vea or

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00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:59,400
Speaker 1: Dram Pain, either of those guys who would fit in

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00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:02,840
Speaker 1: pretty well at number seventeen. You know, it leads me

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Speaker 1: to my next question, how do you prioritize immediate needs

1127
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 1: versus let's say quarterback of the future, best player available?

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Speaker 1: Because is there so many positions that have been linked

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00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:13,960
Speaker 1: to the Chargers Jack, As you will know, if we

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00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:17,840
Speaker 1: talk about defensive line, we talk about linebacker, safety, maybe

1131
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:21,319
Speaker 1: a right tackle, the quarterback of the future. You can't

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00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 1: get five six different positions in those first two rounds.

1133
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 1: So how do you think the Chargers balanced that going

1134
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 1: into that first round knowing that last year you drafted

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00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:34,600
Speaker 1: a wide receiver when you had a lot of talent

1136
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:38,279
Speaker 1: at wide receiver. It's interesting to me because of the

1137
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 1: needs that this team has, I think at linebacker, in

1138
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:45,560
Speaker 1: defensive line specifically. Yeah, you know, I think I think

1139
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 1: looking at the move that they've made over the last

1140
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 1: couple of years, that they still seem very much like

1141
00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:56,719
Speaker 1: a franchise that in a winning out mode, which which

1142
00:54:56,880 --> 00:55:00,200
Speaker 1: makes me very skeptical that they would want to they

1143
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 1: want to pick a quarterback high, especially given the way

1144
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 1: that Philip played last year, what he said on Monday

1145
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 1: about just how good he feels physically, and even when

1146
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 1: Anthony Lynn said on Monday just that you know, if

1147
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,680
Speaker 1: they do draft a quarterback, it's a guy that they're

1148
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:19,320
Speaker 1: gonna sit and leave on the bench for several years.

1149
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 1: So because I think because they're in a window mode,

1150
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 1: I would be I would expect him to kind of

1151
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 1: fill one of those other needs unless they're just really

1152
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:32,239
Speaker 1: in love with one of the quarterbacks, and one of

1153
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 1: those guys falls to number seventeen. But it also feels

1154
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:37,240
Speaker 1: like a year where there's going to be an early,

1155
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:40,640
Speaker 1: early run on quarterbacks, kind of like the Don mcnabbier

1156
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:43,320
Speaker 1: where I think there's five guys from the top twelve,

1157
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:45,360
Speaker 1: so you know it might not even be a question

1158
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:48,719
Speaker 1: for them once to get down the number seventeen. All right, Jack,

1159
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 1: last thing for you, man, I want to make you

1160
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:52,520
Speaker 1: put your GM head on your tom to leasco. Who

1161
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:56,439
Speaker 1: are you taking? Who are you taking at number seventeen? Overall? Who?

1162
00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 1: All right? Um, let's think, let's say the sake of

1163
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:05,000
Speaker 1: this conversation, Jack, that five quarterbacks go in the top fifteen,

1164
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:07,680
Speaker 1: because I think it's certainly possible this year, So a

1165
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 1: lot of talent being pushed up to seventeen. Yeah, Um,

1166
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 1: I think I would take I would take either of

1167
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:17,279
Speaker 1: the top two linebackers if they were there, Roquants with

1168
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 1: or Tremaine Edmonds m Admunds. I think you look at

1169
00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:22,560
Speaker 1: him and you just it's just a freak and it

1170
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:24,680
Speaker 1: would be so exciting to see him kind of get

1171
00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:30,200
Speaker 1: molded in a gust Bradley defense. Um, Vita Vea I

1172
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:32,239
Speaker 1: think would be great at seventeen. You know, those are

1173
00:56:32,239 --> 00:56:34,359
Speaker 1: all guys who I think those three guys could all

1174
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:37,239
Speaker 1: potentially go in the top ten. But if there's a

1175
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:40,279
Speaker 1: run on quarterbacks and if there's you know, weird things

1176
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:42,000
Speaker 1: tact in the the draft, you know, there's also a chance

1177
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:43,799
Speaker 1: that any of those three guys kind of slips down

1178
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 1: a little bit, and hey, um, Tom Talasco, you know

1179
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:48,840
Speaker 1: he has a history of prating ample couple spots to

1180
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 1: get the guy that he wants. UM, So I think

1181
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:53,839
Speaker 1: any of those three guys, I'll be in love with um.

1182
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:56,839
Speaker 1: And then maybe I think offensive tackle. You know, that's

1183
00:56:56,880 --> 00:57:00,880
Speaker 1: not always the most exciting position in the draft, but

1184
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:05,120
Speaker 1: it's always worth shoring up up Brian, especially if you

1185
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:09,320
Speaker 1: want to get the best possible performance out of Philip

1186
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:12,120
Speaker 1: Rivers over the next few years, and you get off

1187
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:14,719
Speaker 1: to tackle. If you're trying to get a guy at seventeen, no,

1188
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:17,400
Speaker 1: Mike mcclenchi or Colton Miller, those are probably the guy

1189
00:57:17,440 --> 00:57:20,040
Speaker 1: that you're looking at. Jack's gonna be fun, man. The

1190
00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:23,480
Speaker 1: draft is always high drama, and everybody thinks they know

1191
00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:25,720
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. Nobody knows what's going to happen. So

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00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:28,439
Speaker 1: excited to see what happens next Thursday. And I will

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Speaker 1: see you at the Hope Performance Center next week. Man,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you joining us. Yeah, no problem, anytime. That'll

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Speaker 1: do it. My thanks to Jack and Money for joining me,

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Speaker 1: and thanks you all for listening. Be sure to subscribe

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Speaker 1: to Chargers Weekly on Apple Podcasts, and if you could,

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Speaker 1: please leave review help spread the word. Quick housekeeping note,

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Speaker 1: our next pod will be after the NFL Draft, and

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Speaker 1: it'll be a big one. We'll have exclusive interviews with

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Speaker 1: players and instant analysis from the draft. We hope you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's episode and until next time, I'm Chris Harry