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Speaker 1: This is Michael Badgley and you're listening to the Chargers

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Speaker 1: Podcast Network. All right, guys, welcome to a special edition

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Speaker 1: of Chargers Weekly. As a team gets ready for Monday

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Speaker 1: and Night football Mexico City against Kansas City Chiefs. Now

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Speaker 1: joined on the line by the best information mane of football,

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Speaker 1: ESPN's Adam Schefter. You can see on Monday and Night countdown,

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Speaker 1: three pm Pacific. Adam, It's always a pleasure. How are you, sir?

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Speaker 1: Thanks bad me Fish. I appreciate the con words Mexico City.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever been? I had been? Actually was there

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Speaker 1: back in August of nineteen ninety eight for a Monday

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Speaker 1: night game between the Denver Broncos and Miami Dolphins, a

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Speaker 1: preseason matchup in which John Lay, then Broncos quartered by

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Speaker 1: tourist trash and there were doctors that speculated that he

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Speaker 1: might never play again. But he did. He came back

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Speaker 1: and they win the Super Bowl that year, and that

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Speaker 1: turned out to be the last year in his career.

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Speaker 1: But I was there. The Knight said Denvers ad its

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Speaker 1: super Bowl dreams had died. Oh how about that? Well,

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Speaker 1: Coach Lynn talked about that. I don't know if Coach

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Speaker 1: Lynn on the team that year. I believe he us.

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Speaker 1: I believe he us. Yeah, he talked about just being

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Speaker 1: there for the entire week. And for the Chargers, this

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Speaker 1: is the first time that they're gonna be on Monday

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Speaker 1: Night Football since Week one to twenty seventeen. And this

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Speaker 1: is a division game, Adam, It's in Mexico City. You

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Speaker 1: got Philip Rivers, Patrick Mahomes, and I think both teams

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Speaker 1: would tell you they got to have this one. What's

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Speaker 1: most intriguing to you about Monday Night? Well, I just

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Speaker 1: think in the fact that they should have played the

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Speaker 1: didn't and so the people there get so excited about it,

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Speaker 1: and the stadiums toorge. The atmosphere is going to be

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Speaker 1: trying to get their defense straightened out and turned around.

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Speaker 1: But the fact the matter is the atmosphere that night

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Speaker 1: is going to be electric. It's going to be, like,

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Speaker 1: I'm not joking, a super Bowl in Mexico City, and

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Speaker 1: so to me, that's going to stand out. When I

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Speaker 1: atmosphere there will be electric on Monday night. Priss. The

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Speaker 1: field conditions at the Stadio as Teca last year, obviously

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Speaker 1: the Rams and Chiefs they couldn't play. What has been

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Speaker 1: done to improve field conditions for this Monday at them? Well,

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Speaker 1: they've worked on the field and they made sure that

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Speaker 1: up that there was last year when basically there were

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Speaker 1: concerts on the field before the game, and soccer games

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Speaker 1: of events that they've blocked out this year. So we'll

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Speaker 1: see again. They all say the fields in better shape,

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Speaker 1: and we'll give them the benefit of that and we'll

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Speaker 1: see them on the night for ourselves. Well, as we

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Speaker 1: taped is the Chargers are in Colorado Springs. They're practicing

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Speaker 1: the altitude you lived in Colorado, you covered the Broncos

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Speaker 1: altitude could play a factor Monday considering what Mexico City's

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Speaker 1: a fact they really do listen to are teams that

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Speaker 1: that's the reason that you are in Colorado Springs, right

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Speaker 1: So the Chargers are doing what they believe they into.

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Speaker 1: obviously think it's a huge deal. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: Just always a pro like that, And I think the

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Speaker 1: the irony is that most of that attention seems to

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Speaker 1: too many people and you're and you know here, Joey's

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Speaker 1: player and obviously will be a priority for the Chargers

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Speaker 1: to resign during the offseason. That will take a lot

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Speaker 1: difficult negotiation with him, difficult negotiation, two awaits. Let's see

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Speaker 1: raising awareness and funds for Type one diabetics on World

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Speaker 1: Diabetes Day Thursday. They're stunning Gunner, who I believe they

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Speaker 1: Tiffany sent me a video to post on Twitter, which

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Speaker 1: loved himself. And Adam, I was going to get to

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Speaker 1: that it is fitting that I'm talking to you on

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Speaker 1: What does it mean to you personally this day, Adam, Well, honestly,

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Speaker 1: as you know Chris, when you live with this disuse,

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Speaker 1: don't need any pronouncement to say it's World Diabetes Day.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the rest of the world nurses and you know,

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Speaker 1: A couple of quick football ones before we get you

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Speaker 1: has looked entering week eleven? Adam, What don't you surprise

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Speaker 1: said at the top, both teams have to have this one. Adam, Yeah, well, listen,

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Speaker 1: before the Chiefs and Chargers of Mexico City. Adam Schefter

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Speaker 1: are always gracious with your time, but I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Chris seven. Great day with Mexico City. All right, guys, Well,

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