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Speaker 1: Late fifteen to ten touchdown.

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Speaker 2: Well, welcome into a week seven edition of Chargers Weekly.

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Speaker 2: Good to be back with you, guys. Chris Hayy along

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Speaker 2: with the Voice of the Chargers, Matt money Smith. Chargers

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Speaker 2: take care of business in Denver, and that's a rarity.

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Speaker 2: We haven't seen that in quite some time. Twenty three

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Speaker 2: to sixteen. At one point of twenty three to nothing

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Speaker 2: and money what an opportunity to get back over five

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Speaker 2: hundred two and one in the AFC West and a

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Speaker 2: soft part of this schedule coming up.

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Speaker 3: I think that middle one is the big one, right,

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Speaker 3: you know, instead of being one and two in the

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Speaker 3: division and falling behind Denver, who would then be four

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Speaker 3: and two, you're two and three. The Chiefs are five

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Speaker 3: and zero. Like, that's a big one. So now they're

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Speaker 3: three and two. They're the number two wild card behind Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 3: I know it's only five games and they got twelve

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Speaker 3: to go, but hey man, you don't want to be chasing.

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Speaker 3: You want to be leading, you know, beat chased, don't

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Speaker 3: be chasing. And it's a tough place to play, and

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Speaker 3: weird things happen. And I'll say I'll say this, Chris,

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Speaker 3: like I never thought it was going to go sideways

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Speaker 3: on them. I was like, yeah, you know, I can

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Speaker 3: kind of see this. They're running the ball a lot,

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Speaker 3: they're running into stack boxes, and they're playing the clock

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Speaker 3: instead of playing the Broncos. And that's something I've I think,

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Speaker 3: like most fans, it's hard for us when you're not

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Speaker 3: in the middle of it all and you could kind

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Speaker 3: of you've got all the numbers and you know, okay, well,

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Speaker 3: here's how much time is left, here's what our lead is.

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Speaker 1: This is what we should be.

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Speaker 3: Doing, as opposed to just keep doing what you do, man,

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Speaker 3: just just keep that foot on a gas. And that's

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Speaker 3: just a different approach, you know. That's sort of the

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Speaker 3: fan view versus the we've crunched all the numbers, we

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Speaker 3: know the way this is supposed to go, and this

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Speaker 3: is how we're going to play it because all we

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Speaker 3: care about is to win. We don't care if it's

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Speaker 3: twenty three nothing or twenty three sixteen wins a win

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Speaker 3: and it's in the division and now you're two to

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Speaker 3: one and you've got a road win and you've got

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Speaker 3: a home win against the Raiders who are apparently you know, look,

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Speaker 3: things could change after we post this, but you know

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Speaker 3: they've already sent out Devonte Adams. He hasn't been on

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Speaker 3: the field the last two weeks anyway, But now you know,

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Speaker 3: kind of weird comments from Max Crosby, who knows what

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Speaker 3: that thing's going to look like the rest of the year.

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Speaker 3: So it's a nice little beginning to be two and one,

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Speaker 3: having played each of your three opponents once already in

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Speaker 3: the division. We'll take four and two in the division.

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Speaker 3: Nothing wrong with that, oh.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no question.

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Speaker 2: And you know, if you guys who haven't seen the

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Speaker 2: AFC standings, take a look at some point before Sunday,

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Speaker 2: there's four teams with just one win. The Chargers play

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Speaker 2: three of them upcoming this season. Your two and one

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Speaker 2: of the division is money. Alluded to that you're already

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Speaker 2: in the playoffs right now, and you could essentially make

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Speaker 2: the playoffs money over these next five weeks. I mean,

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Speaker 2: if you can go five and oh four and one

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Speaker 2: against these teams that are under five hundred, you do

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Speaker 2: a world of good in terms of making the playoffs

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Speaker 2: because you have some tough games down the stretch. But

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Speaker 2: at the same time you also have Las Vegas, New

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Speaker 2: England and then teams that you can get up for

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Speaker 2: like Baltimore here in five or six weeks. But before

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Speaker 2: we get to the fourth quarter, I do want to

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Speaker 2: talk about that fourth quarter. The game plan was perfect,

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Speaker 2: the balance in terms of the runs and the throws,

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Speaker 2: and again it's a product of Justin. Herbert's healthier. You know,

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Speaker 2: he was on the move a little bit. He spread

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Speaker 2: the ball to nine different receivers throughout the game, but

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Speaker 2: it was nine different receivers through the first quarter and

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Speaker 2: a half. Yeah, so Justin was dealing and he was

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Speaker 2: spreading the ball around. Obviously, the Patrick Cutan injury did

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Speaker 2: benefit the Chargers, no question, But would you like from

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Speaker 2: a game plan perspective, because it seemed very balanced.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you hit on a lot of it

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Speaker 3: there right is you look through the it was the

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Speaker 3: pass that set up the run. It's kind of how

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Speaker 3: that whole first half went, talking about sixty five to

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Speaker 3: thirty five split in favor of passes to runs, and

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Speaker 3: it was working. You know, Herbert's got a passer rating

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Speaker 3: and he's slinging around. Like you said, he looked like

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Speaker 3: that ankle felt a lot better as he was on

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Speaker 3: the move a lot. But the third downs you mentioned,

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Speaker 3: and this is a team that had struggled on third

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Speaker 3: And it's not like they were easy third downs. You know,

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Speaker 3: there's third and tens to Simmy, there's third and nines,

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Speaker 3: there's third and twelves, and when you go through them

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Speaker 3: all it's somebody different. You know, you mentioned the nine

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Speaker 3: different receivers, but I think beyond the nine different receivers,

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Speaker 3: it was also nine different receivers on third down. Like

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Speaker 3: as you go through it, it's Fojoko on one, Maconkey

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Speaker 3: on a third and nine I think had a twelve

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Speaker 3: He's got the thirty yard connection. It's camani Va Dell

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Speaker 3: down the right sideline wearing the number thirty on a

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Speaker 3: wheel route with a linebacker out there with them. It

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Speaker 3: looked awfully familiar, right like it it's Stone Smart for

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Speaker 3: ten yards. It's you know, how about Darius Davis finally

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Speaker 3: getting that reception this year instead of just a bunch

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Speaker 3: of rushes, But it was Josh Palmer had two of them.

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Speaker 3: As I'm kind of going through the whole box score.

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Speaker 3: Will Disley had one, Q had one, like every single

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Speaker 3: that's Roman Like, oh, yeah, you're you're not gonna be

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Speaker 3: able to figure this out. I got a riddle for you,

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Speaker 3: you know, and see if you can try to sort

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Speaker 3: out where this thing's going on third down, and they

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Speaker 3: just kept you know, moving it and it obviously worked great.

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Speaker 3: They gosh, I want to say, I want to say

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Speaker 3: they had seven or seventeen seventeen net passyards going into

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Speaker 3: the half, Like that's how dominant the defense was. And

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Speaker 3: it was just great complimentary football and that's why they

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Speaker 4: And that first quarter.

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Speaker 2: Felt like a game in terms of all the injuries.

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Speaker 2: First off, let's just recognize the fact that coach is good.

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Speaker 2: That was that's kind of scary. I don't know, Hey,

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Speaker 2: I didn't listen to the radio broadcast. Did you get

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Speaker 2: at what point did you guys realize he wasn't out there?

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Speaker 3: So right away, Shannon did a great job and she

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Speaker 1: You know, he just came.

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Speaker 3: It was Coach that came out of that tent because

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Speaker 3: Coach is going back in the tunnel, and then she

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Speaker 3: kind of let us know via text, Hey let's keep

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Speaker 3: this private, but this is what's going on. And so

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Speaker 3: obviously we're concerned. And then we find out the paramedics

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Speaker 3: anything on the broadcast. It's not something you want to share.

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Speaker 3: they gave us the green light. They're like, yeah, go ahead,

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Speaker 3: he's fine. You're saying it was a hard issue in

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Speaker 1: So that was pretty wild.

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Speaker 3: And you know, it's a lot to put on Jesse

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Speaker 3: Miner who's never been a head coach before and you're

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Speaker 3: to see coach come back out, especially after hearing that

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Speaker 3: like he's okay. And you know, nobody, nobody makes things

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Speaker 3: off the field more entertaining than coach Harbaugh, whether it's you.

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Speaker 1: Know, spanning the team as a as a.

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Speaker 3: Way to describe you've had a child to uh to

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Speaker 3: You're two and zero against oblasions, So way to go, coach.

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Speaker 4: Yep, he'll see he's got the heart of an athlete.

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Speaker 4: Got a good.

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Speaker 2: Report Blue Twisted Steel Cardiologists, but that that blue tedg

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Speaker 2: the beginning, Lat mcconukey I think went out a couple

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Speaker 2: was it was throughout the entire game. They kind of

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Speaker 2: mentioned Jesse Menzer, just picture this like he's down, Joey Bosa,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Christian Fulton goes down. Cam Hart is starting the

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Speaker 2: And listen, these are guys who have not been thrust

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Speaker 2: So I give those guys a ton of credit. But

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Speaker 2: what Jesse Minter has done with all these interchangeable parts

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Speaker 2: been awesome. This defense has played really, really good. And

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Speaker 2: you know, you knew bo Nix was gonna get loose

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Speaker 2: a little bit in that fourth quarter, and I.

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Speaker 2: It was a product of a lot of different things,

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Speaker 2: maybe the first being that, hey, we're down our top

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Speaker 2: three corners in this football game in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's the That was it, right, So

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Speaker 3: you start the game with Tarhebe as your nickel fifth

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Speaker 3: round rookie with Cam Hart opposite Christian Fulton is your

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Speaker 3: you know, now Tarheb's got to kick to the outside.

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Speaker 3: Derwin's got to play the nickel. You've got Aj and

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Speaker 3: and you got Aj in the box, You've got Elijah

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Speaker 3: And that's in the middle of a game.

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Speaker 1: That's like that.

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Speaker 3: You know, Derwin's not practicing being the nickel all week long,

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Speaker 3: and now that's what he's got to do for a

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Speaker 3: to kick into the nickel and just kind of perform that.

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Speaker 3: But that's the magic of Derwin James and he can

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Speaker 3: just hates having that interception attached to him. And it's

434
00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:16,679
Speaker 3: like it's part of the game, you know, and so

435
00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:21,639
Speaker 3: on that play. Yeah, you know, kind of talking to

436
00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:25,000
Speaker 3: some people, they're like, Mike probably floated inside a little bit.

437
00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:25,879
Speaker 1: He's supposed to be.

438
00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,320
Speaker 3: You know what the red line is, which is basically

439
00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:30,320
Speaker 3: a middle line between the sideline and the numbers, and

440
00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:32,600
Speaker 3: that's where you're supposed to run. But to say that

441
00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:35,560
Speaker 3: he ran an inbreaker and to point out that Aaron's

442
00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:38,480
Speaker 3: throw was even inside of where he was, so how

443
00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:41,560
Speaker 3: you don't take some culpability for that and just say, look,

444
00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:44,240
Speaker 3: so Mike could have ran a better route, I could

445
00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:46,679
Speaker 3: have made a better throw, And it's something that the

446
00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:48,680
Speaker 3: two of us are going to work on. You're good,

447
00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:52,640
Speaker 3: You're completely good. But that's not who he is. He's

448
00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:56,040
Speaker 3: a bad guy. And I think that's bring Mike back.

449
00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:58,400
Speaker 3: We know what a team player he is, how much

450
00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:01,639
Speaker 3: pain that guy's played through, what the you know, what

451
00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:04,399
Speaker 3: the game means to him, what a team player he is.

452
00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:09,200
Speaker 3: Guy like he is the least of a diva wide receiver.

453
00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:11,480
Speaker 3: I mean like one of the least when it comes

454
00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:13,399
Speaker 3: to like someone that plays at a very high level.

455
00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,800
Speaker 3: And typically along with that, you know, they always say

456
00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:18,640
Speaker 3: the further away from the ball you get and more

457
00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:20,680
Speaker 3: you start yapping, more of a diva you are. And

458
00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:22,560
Speaker 3: for Mike that is not the case.

459
00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:26,200
Speaker 1: Man. So to see him have to wear that, really,

460
00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:28,720
Speaker 1: you know, it is not cool.

461
00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:31,600
Speaker 2: It was not It was not cool. He's coming back

462
00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:34,480
Speaker 2: from an acl too. He he's battling back to to

463
00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:36,919
Speaker 2: to get back to be a guy for the team.

464
00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,240
Speaker 2: And then the next day Devonte Adams shows up and

465
00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:41,960
Speaker 2: it's just like, okay.

466
00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:44,320
Speaker 1: Man, have fun, yeah, have fun. Like what I would do,

467
00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:45,880
Speaker 1: you know what?

468
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Speaker 3: What I would simply if I were, you know, on

469
00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,840
Speaker 3: the Pat McAfee show, I would have simply put a

470
00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:56,040
Speaker 3: cut up of all of Mike's downfield catches those ridiculous

471
00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,760
Speaker 3: acrobatic not even a fifty to fifty ball like sixty

472
00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,880
Speaker 3: four already in favor of the opponent corner and he's

473
00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:04,840
Speaker 3: still able to get it. I would just play that

474
00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:08,359
Speaker 3: cut up and say, yeah, Philip and Justin didn't seem

475
00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:10,320
Speaker 3: to have any problem with him, but hey, by all

476
00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:13,000
Speaker 3: means it's one hundred percent on him. Yeah, it's never

477
00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,439
Speaker 3: never on you, so hey whatever if he ends up

478
00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:18,919
Speaker 3: with us, if he ends up back on the Chargers,

479
00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,640
Speaker 3: that'd be great. But I do think there's I think

480
00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:25,080
Speaker 3: there's a qualifier there, and it's what happens these next

481
00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,920
Speaker 3: two days, you know, depending on how quickly the Jets

482
00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:31,120
Speaker 3: want him out of the building versus you know, auctioning

483
00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:34,480
Speaker 3: him off to the you know, are basically accepting the

484
00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,320
Speaker 3: highest offer, you know, because we're hearing at Steelers, who

485
00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:39,600
Speaker 3: we know have been desperate for a wide receiver for

486
00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:41,240
Speaker 3: a while now, and they've been in the chase for

487
00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:45,159
Speaker 3: all these guys. Look, the Saints and the Steelers, is

488
00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:48,560
Speaker 3: what Diana Rassini is reporting, and they're just going to say,

489
00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:52,080
Speaker 3: hey man, who's got the best offer, and we'll we'll

490
00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:55,440
Speaker 3: send him away. I'm sure they'd probably prefer to send

491
00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:57,760
Speaker 3: him to the Saints, get him out of the AFC,

492
00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:00,440
Speaker 3: as opposed to a Steelers team that's foign too, Chargers

493
00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:02,600
Speaker 3: team that's three and two and ahead of them in

494
00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:04,359
Speaker 3: the in the wild card race.

495
00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:07,320
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know, maybe they do

496
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:07,920
Speaker 1: him a solid.

497
00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,119
Speaker 3: Maybe Mike just says, hey man, just get me back

498
00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:11,600
Speaker 3: to La getting back with Justin.

499
00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:12,920
Speaker 1: We know what we're doing.

500
00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:16,040
Speaker 3: Apparently I can't do I'm not good enough for Aaron Rodgers,

501
00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 3: but I'm good enough to have a thousand yard ten

502
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 3: touchdown season with Justin Herbert'll that'll Suffice and Phil. What

503
00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:25,000
Speaker 3: I'm getting at Chris is I think it will depend

504
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,439
Speaker 3: on what's happening with DJ Shark. Is if they just

505
00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,119
Speaker 3: open the window he's back practicing, because that's basically what

506
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,119
Speaker 3: they signed Chark to do was to replace Mike Williams,

507
00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:33,840
Speaker 3: to be that ex to be that fifty fifty ball,

508
00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:35,440
Speaker 3: to be that four to three guy that can get

509
00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,640
Speaker 3: downfield and win those jump ball be a big target

510
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,480
Speaker 3: in the red zone. So I think a lot of

511
00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:42,560
Speaker 3: it's going to be predicated on where they think he

512
00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:44,880
Speaker 3: is and how ready he is to come back, because

513
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:49,000
Speaker 3: if a Chark is back, then you're kind of like, Okay,

514
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:51,879
Speaker 3: how are we doing this? You know, how are we doing.

515
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:52,320
Speaker 4: Quiring a guy?

516
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,200
Speaker 2: Right, it's like acquiring a new guy because he hasn't

517
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:57,120
Speaker 2: played it and we saw him in training camp make

518
00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:58,720
Speaker 2: big plays down the field for Justin.

519
00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:01,520
Speaker 4: So you're right, it's contingent on how healthy he is.

520
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,280
Speaker 3: I think that's the key, because again, if you're doing it,

521
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:08,920
Speaker 3: then you're sort of replicating that you're you're again you're

522
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:10,200
Speaker 3: going to have to try it. I'm trying to figure

523
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 3: out where I'm trying to find a Chark real quick

524
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,240
Speaker 3: because I want to make sure I get it right. Yeah,

525
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,119
Speaker 3: So six three two hundred, it's the same guy in

526
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,359
Speaker 3: terms of build. You know, Mike's a little bit thicker,

527
00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,920
Speaker 3: but six three two hundred, and he runs a four

528
00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:24,920
Speaker 3: to three, you know, and now since the injury, maybe

529
00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 3: that four three is turned into a low four to four.

530
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:30,560
Speaker 3: But still, guy's got speed. Managed to catch five touchdowns,

531
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:32,440
Speaker 3: all of them you know, kind of go balls. I

532
00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:34,880
Speaker 3: think one of them wasn't but on the Panthers last year.

533
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,679
Speaker 3: He's had a thousand yard season for the Jaguars. So

534
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:42,199
Speaker 3: I'm I basically am saying it. So if Mike doesn't

535
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 3: come to the Chargers, understand, it's just because they feel like,

536
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,359
Speaker 3: all right, we kind of already got it, and we

537
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,639
Speaker 3: feel good about where Shark is now moving forward. That's

538
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:53,200
Speaker 3: the only that to me, is the only reason why

539
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:53,879
Speaker 3: they wouldn't do it.

540
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:55,640
Speaker 4: Outside of Mike.

541
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:58,480
Speaker 2: Would you would you be in the hunt for a

542
00:23:58,520 --> 00:23:59,920
Speaker 2: wide receiver if you're the Chargers?

543
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think, you know, I think Joe's

544
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,640
Speaker 3: gonna be in the hunt for everything. I think if look,

545
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 3: if the Browns are gonna if the Browns are gonna

546
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 3: start selling and they want to maybe you know, they

547
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,159
Speaker 3: just picked up the fifty year option on Greg Newsom,

548
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,639
Speaker 3: depending on what they might want for him. You know,

549
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 3: if you you can get a corner, uh you said

550
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:22,200
Speaker 3: to there's six teams six that have one win, I know,

551
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,640
Speaker 3: you know, So if you're looking because of the situation

552
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 3: with Asante, if you can find yourself a corner, if

553
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 3: you can maybe find yourself, if you can just focus

554
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:32,720
Speaker 3: Scott Matt Locke as your full back and just kind

555
00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:34,520
Speaker 3: of and now you've got to pick up some slack

556
00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:38,439
Speaker 3: on that interior defensive line, interior aligneman. You know, I

557
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 3: think there's because it's what you're looking like. It's it's

558
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:45,119
Speaker 3: for the most part, it's non premium positions, you know.

559
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:48,159
Speaker 3: And and unfortunately, when you're looking at premium positions, corner

560
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 3: wide receiver like it's gonna cost you a little bit more,

561
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,639
Speaker 3: although you see that Amari Cooper cost almost nothing, you know,

562
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:59,560
Speaker 3: Davante all right, third for you know, to whatever they

563
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 3: had an ex third. So and and there's that whole

564
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 3: comp pick formula, right, so if you trade, let's say

565
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 3: you trade a third for Newsom and you don't keep them. Okay,

566
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 3: well he's gonna walk and he's probably gonna sign a

567
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 3: pretty big deal. It's probably gonna get you third back.

568
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,399
Speaker 3: So it's things like that, depending on what they might want.

569
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 3: You know, if you think you're gonna have a you know,

570
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:20,120
Speaker 3: if you think you're gonna have a season where you're

571
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:22,240
Speaker 3: gonna be one of the let's say six best records

572
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:24,040
Speaker 3: in the league, and you got to trade a second

573
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,639
Speaker 3: for Newsom and it's that late second and that becomes

574
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,200
Speaker 3: a third on a comp pick, It's like, all right,

575
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 3: so we slide back around, you know, but we got

576
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:33,640
Speaker 3: ourselves a corner to help us out. So I think

577
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 3: there's there's definitely, I would assume there's I would assume.

578
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:40,840
Speaker 3: I shouldn't say definitely, would assume there's a lot of

579
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:44,880
Speaker 3: conversations going on about some positions of need, considering how

580
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:49,360
Speaker 3: thin you know, specifically, the secondary I think even more

581
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,919
Speaker 3: than wide receiver, if I had to guess, that would

582
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:58,919
Speaker 3: probably be priority one. I think I think a very sneaky,

583
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 3: you know, spot could be a running back with the

584
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:05,520
Speaker 3: injury to Gus, you know, depending on how they view Haskins,

585
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,879
Speaker 3: you know, in that hammer that Gus was, you know,

586
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,359
Speaker 3: would they be interested in a big back? And like

587
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,400
Speaker 3: I said, if you look at the if you look

588
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 3: at the standings, I'm just trying to see kind of

589
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 3: who I'd be thinking of with those one win teams.

590
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 3: If you've got Jacksonville, Carolina, Patriots, Brown's, Rams, Titans, there's

591
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 3: your one win team. So really nothing on the Titans.

592
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,880
Speaker 3: They just signed Tony Pollard. You don't want that contract. Rams.

593
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 3: Now they got Korum and.

594
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 1: Kyrone. That's not happening.

595
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:39,159
Speaker 3: Brown's you know, I mean Nick Chubb's coming off the injury.

596
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 3: It'd be certainly incredibly interesting. I just don't think with

597
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 3: JK that you're looking for that lead back. You're looking

598
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 3: kind of more for that hammer.

599
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 1: You know.

600
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:49,639
Speaker 3: The one that would be kind of interesting is because

601
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Speaker 3: I believe he's kind of fallen out of favor a

602
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:52,199
Speaker 3: little bit.

603
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:52,879
Speaker 1: I don't know if he has.

604
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 3: I shouldn't say that without Yeah, twelve thirteen, Yeah, he

605
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:58,120
Speaker 3: went from twenty five and twenty one carries to six

606
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 3: thirteen and twelve. And ramondra Stevenson is that six foot,

607
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 3: two hundred and twenty pound back in New England. So

608
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 3: maybe that's one that you could look at depending on

609
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:11,199
Speaker 3: what what it might cost you. So there's there's some

610
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,679
Speaker 3: things that that's if you're a Charger fan and you're

611
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 3: trying to connect some dots, that's where I would start looking.

612
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 3: Look at those one win teams that probably had considerably

613
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 3: higher expectations for the season, and what you might be

614
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 3: That's why I mentioned Greg Newsom on the Browns, ramondra

615
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 3: Stevenson from the Patriots. Those are two that I could

616
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 3: maybe see lining up.

617
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 2: It seems like the Browns are already waving the white

618
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,919
Speaker 2: flag getting rid of Cooper. And you know there's, like

619
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 2: you said, there's so many one win teams. Now, wait

620
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 2: till next week when some of those one win teams

621
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 2: lose again and they're going to be sellers. Probably next week.

622
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 2: You know, you got the Jags and the Patriots playing

623
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,199
Speaker 2: in London. Loser of that, you probably don't want to

624
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 2: give away a weapon for Drake May, but a guy

625
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,119
Speaker 2: like Ramandre Stevenson would be very interesting, Yeah, just.

626
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,919
Speaker 3: Because it's his lot has been dramatically dropped. You know,

627
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 3: Gibson's take getting a lot more of those carries now.

628
00:27:58,640 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 3: And that's the only reason why I bring it up.

629
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:02,600
Speaker 3: And it's just a fit. It's yeah, it's he's basically

630
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 3: built like Gus.

631
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I I do.

632
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,199
Speaker 2: I do think that the trade, the trade market's going

633
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 2: to get interesting. I think Schefter had all three of

634
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 2: the Panthers wide receivers on the block and Deontay Johnson

635
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 2: and Thelen and I think there was another guy too.

636
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, like, what do they want for Jase Horn?

637
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 3: You know what you got to you know, you take

638
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 3: a second for Jase Horn?

639
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:24,919
Speaker 1: Done right?

640
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 4: No?

641
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 3: I think that's kind of where where I'm saying, you know,

642
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 3: could it line up?

643
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 1: And we know how we know how.

644
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,679
Speaker 3: Joe Horties feels about draft capital it's very important, and

645
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 3: how he feels about compis very important. So I think

646
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 3: it's just kind of can you get that thing to it?

647
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 3: Because j C is the same deal. He's a guy

648
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 3: that's in his fourth year. Remember he was drafted ahead

649
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 3: of Rashaan They took him instead of instead of Slater

650
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 3: if I remember, right right? Yeah, I think that was

651
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 3: that same year. So he's going to be going where

652
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 3: you can just pick up his fifth year option and

653
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 3: feel pretty good about it, you know, have another year

654
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 3: with him, and you know that that to me is

655
00:28:58,720 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 3: worth a second.

656
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 2: So over the next five weeks, you know I mentioned

657
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 2: we'll get into the Cardinals. Now, Arizona's two and four,

658
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 2: New Orleans probably with Spencer Ratler coming to town in

659
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks. Two and four, Cleveland's one in five,

660
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 2: Tennessee's one and four, Cincinnati's two and four. Those are

661
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 2: the next five apartments for the Chargers. So if you

662
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:17,959
Speaker 2: can stack wins here while you see some of these

663
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 2: other teams descending, that's when you can pick up, you know,

664
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,719
Speaker 2: a key corner or running back or wide receiver, defensive line,

665
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 2: whatever the position is. I think the Charges could be

666
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 2: in pretty good Shape's let's shift to those Cardinals, the

667
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:31,240
Speaker 2: weird team.

668
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 4: They're two and four.

669
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 2: They crushed the Rams a few weeks ago, forty one

670
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 2: to ten. The Nighters fell asleep in the fourth quarter

671
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 2: up in Santa Clara and the Cardinals won in the

672
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 2: last seconds there.

673
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 4: And then other than that, they lose.

674
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 2: To Detroit, they get crushed by Washington a few weeks ago,

675
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 2: and then go up to Green Bay and Jordan Love

676
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 2: and that running game has their way with Arizona. So

677
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 2: Monday Night football Charges played there a couple of years ago,

678
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 2: Kyler Murray under center Marvin Harrison Junior had a concussion

679
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 2: last week.

680
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 4: Well because some.

681
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 2: Monday night game, we'll learn more about the injury report,

682
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 2: I guess throughout the weekend. But one of the things

683
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 2: I thought was fascinating looking at his targets. He has

684
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 2: thirty seven targets, only seventeen catches, and his best game

685
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 2: was the game where they beat the Rams forty ten,

686
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 2: and he had some big catches in that game.

687
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 4: Other than that, he's been held in check the entire year.

688
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, except for the red zone, you know. So he

689
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 3: had those two touchdowns against the Rams, and then he

690
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 3: had touchdown week after that.

691
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 1: In the week after that.

692
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 3: He's a legitimate nightmare in the red zone because how

693
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 3: big he is, how athletic he is. So that's really

694
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 3: where he's gonna shine and got to be super careful.

695
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 3: So you said it, right, What are the Cardinals?

696
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 1: You know? The one thing I will say they.

697
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 3: Are not good defensively, they are They're very young, and

698
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 3: you just across the board against the run, against the pass, overall,

699
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 3: it's a team that struggles on defense. So if you

700
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 3: can put up twenty in the first half against the

701
00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 3: number two scoring defense. You know, the number four over

702
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 3: yardage defense. I know Patrick Sartan was down and that's

703
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 3: a huge part of that. But Alton Slater were exceptional

704
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 3: and this is a team that it piled up a

705
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 3: ton of sacks and pressures and it was pretty clean

706
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 3: for Herbert all gained long, So that should hold. And

707
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 3: to me, this is one where I'd love to see

708
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 3: a very similar approach and a very similar result as

709
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 3: we did in Denver, where you can take advantage of

710
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 3: that defense. Because I'm gonna say, I'll say this man

711
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 3: Bonnicks was able to move and he's very crafty and

712
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 3: athletic and slippery. Kyler Murray's different animal.

713
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: Man.

714
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 3: You lose your your contained and you get undisciplined, and

715
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 3: he will go forty five yards and take it straight

716
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 3: to the house. So that's something that's got to get

717
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 3: cleaned up, I think for this week for sure, and

718
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 3: I would assume it's priority one. You got a hammer

719
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 3: in the backfield in James Connor. He's one of the

720
00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 3: most physical, best punishing runners in the league. And by

721
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 3: the way, that's that's another one that could be interesting.

722
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 3: You know, you're not Arizona off, you know, and it

723
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 3: continues to kind of get away from them. You know,

724
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 3: they want for what would they want for Connor, you

725
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 3: know kind of thing. So that's but when you look

726
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 3: right like you said, forty nine ers got twenty three

727
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 3: points through three quarters, they fall asleep in the fourth,

728
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 3: Packers thirty four, Commanders forty two, Bill's thirty four like

729
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 3: big time off, big time quarterbacks are putting up big

730
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 3: time numbers against this team, And I'd love to see

731
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 3: Justin Herbert do the same. If you're starting corners or

732
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 3: Cam and Tarheb and you've got to figure out the

733
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 3: nickel or you know, I think that, yeah, there could

734
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 3: be some there could be some issues. You know, that's

735
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 3: that's definitely possible. So look, they won and sayd Now,

736
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 3: the thing is they're two wins. They're division games. Division

737
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 3: games are weird. You know your opponent, you face them

738
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 3: a million times. You're so familiar with their tendencies and

739
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 3: what they like and what they don't like, and that's

740
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 3: what makes them weird, you know.

741
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: And those are the two games they won.

742
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 3: But at the same time, you go to San Francisco

743
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 3: and you knock off a forty nine er team that

744
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 3: was cruising and felt like they had got over the hump.

745
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 3: You know, that's team to fear, and it's a team

746
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 3: that jumped the Bills straight out the gate, you know

747
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 3: before it kind of got away from him toward.

748
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: The end there.

749
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's not I don't think it's an easy

750
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 3: game by any stretch. It's a tough game because Kyler

751
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 3: Murray's back there. But I think it's a game where

752
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 3: hopefully this offense can take advantage of what's been a

753
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 3: very leaky defense through six games.

754
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 2: I look at the game plan that the Chargers implemented

755
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 2: in Denver and just say carry it right over. The

756
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 2: Packers had thirty eight rushes for one hundred and seventy

757
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 2: nine yards last week. Yeah, the Chargers ran the ball

758
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 2: thirty eight times where I believe one hundred and twenty

759
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 2: nine yards. So run the football, keep your defense off

760
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 2: the field, especially when you're down all these corners. And

761
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 2: that's jk and then Kimani hopefully Haskins potentially, and then

762
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 2: you know, go through the air with your with your

763
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 2: receivers and hopefully DJ Shark is back and you just

764
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 2: add him to a group of pass catchers who justin

765
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 2: has evenly distributed the ball to I like the Chargers

766
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 2: chances in this one.

767
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 3: Man.

768
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 2: I do think that this is the type of game

769
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 2: and the type of defense that they can really kind

770
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 2: of impose their will on, exactly what they did last

771
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:23,840
Speaker 2: weekend Denver.

772
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Shark's a big week.

773
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 3: We've talked about it for weeks now, you know, especially

774
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 3: with Q rolling his ankle early in that game and

775
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 3: having to go get a tape and not seeming like

776
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 3: he was that you know that he was the same

777
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 3: after that. You know, that's a big one. But it

778
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,240
Speaker 3: goes back to what we said in the It just

779
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 3: is just to build on your wide receiver thoughts what

780
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 3: was said in the preseason SIMI was not given that spot.

781
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,240
Speaker 3: He earned it, man. He earned it with big catches,

782
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 3: he earned it with blocking. And I think that's why

783
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 3: you saw coach Harbaugh kind of when asked about it,

784
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 3: about that play, you know, kind of describe it the

785
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 3: way he did and like, hey, man was coming for

786
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 3: that guy. He does everything right, practice habits, you know,

787
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 3: just dedication to his teammates, not getting the targets, but

788
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 3: still out there blocking his tail off whatever you need

789
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 3: him to do. And then he gets his opportunity and

790
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:17,800
Speaker 3: man does he deliver, you know, on a third on

791
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:21,359
Speaker 3: a potential three and out and being able to track

792
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 3: that ball and secure it as it's sailing over the

793
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 3: head of Riley Moss, who's essentially blocking you the whole way.

794
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 3: It's a perfectly thrown ball from Herbert, But what a connection.

795
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 3: And and you know that's what Simmy is too. He's

796
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 3: a big body, he's a physical guy. And it's that

797
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 3: same Mike Williams role that they're trying to fill that

798
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 3: they're trying to find. So getting Shark back, having Simmy

799
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 3: kind of get more and more comfortable and he and

800
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 3: Herbert developing that chemistry. Yeah, it's it's been great. There

801
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 3: was that one over the middle. I have no idea

802
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:51,879
Speaker 3: why I'm even saying this, but it just popped into

803
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 3: my head that one throw over the middle on a

804
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 3: third down that could have perhaps changed dramatically changed the

805
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 3: second half and could have led to a touchdown drive

806
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 3: because I think lad would have got another twenty twenty

807
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:02,479
Speaker 3: five yards after the catch had it hit him and strive,

808
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 3: but it just barely got tipped as it was on

809
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 3: its way to him on that crosser over the middle.

810
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 3: He may have even pulled away from there was no

811
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:10,919
Speaker 3: one behind him, there was no safety help behind him,

812
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 3: and he had gotten a step on the nickel and

813
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 3: Herbert looked like he was putting it right on the money,

814
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 3: but then it got tipped and kind of went behind

815
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 3: him incomplete and they ended up having a punt. But yeah,

816
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 3: I like the wide receiver group. I think it's I

817
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 3: think it's been solid. They each provide something different, and

818
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 3: Greg Roman has been able to maximize their talents. And

819
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 3: now that we have that running back wheel, you know

820
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 3: with Videll, you know the role that Eckler played en

821
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 3: route to the most touchdowns rushing and receiving over a

822
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 3: two year span. See if we can get some more

823
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 3: of that going.

824
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 2: Ladd starting to heat up too, four for forty three

825
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 2: in this game.

826
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 4: He was targeted eight times, and.

827
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 2: Justin in his presser on Wednesday, just talked about how,

828
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 2: you know, he makes life easy on a quarterback. He

829
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 2: comes back to his routes, he knows where Lad's going

830
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:59,240
Speaker 2: to be at all times, and just his ability.

831
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 4: You're starting to see the yards after catch.

832
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 2: Potential with Lad, and I think it's just a matter

833
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 2: of time before he starts to break a few but

834
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 2: his toughness, man, I give him a lot of credit

835
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:09,800
Speaker 2: because you could tell he was in a lot of

836
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 2: pain that first quarter.

837
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:12,400
Speaker 4: And then yeah, I think he got hit on the

838
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 4: sideline too. I don't know. I don't even know exactly

839
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 4: what it was.

840
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 1: He got wrong.

841
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 3: He just kind of got hit in his neck, just

842
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 3: sort of crumpled it. And I think he took a

843
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 3: shot in the back. So it's almost like he was

844
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 3: sitting down, like his legs didn't come out from under him,

845
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:26,320
Speaker 3: who was sliding forward. Instead his legs got out in

846
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 3: front of him, and so he was just kind of

847
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 3: like this as the guy hit him sort of right now.

848
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 3: And that's the that's the danger zone, right. He's someone

849
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 3: who's dealt with back issues, so you hope he's okay.

850
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:36,800
Speaker 3: But he's tough.

851
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: Man. He's tough. He's fast, he's so good at running routes.

852
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: You know.

853
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 3: I said it on the Believe with you know, the

854
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 3: Believe Show with Lorenzo because he had mentioned, oh, man,

855
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 3: I feel like this team's really missing keenan al and

856
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:55,800
Speaker 3: if only he were still here for those third down catches,

857
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:59,240
Speaker 3: And I just said, look, you give me the twenty

858
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,840
Speaker 3: twenty four Keenan Allen and the twenty twenty four lad mcconkee.

859
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:04,400
Speaker 3: And I don't think this is a hot take. I'll

860
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 3: take laddi Erconky all day, you know. Just I'm not

861
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 3: saying career. I'm saying right now, in this moment, he's

862
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 3: to me giving everything that Keenan gave with the explosive

863
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 3: element after the catch. He is such a clean, precise

864
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 3: route runner. He's got exceptional hands, and on top of that,

865
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:26,919
Speaker 3: he can freaking go. He's a four to three guy.

866
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 3: So that's not what they're you know, kind of what

867
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 3: and forbid from me to tell freaking Lorenzo and Kneel

868
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,799
Speaker 3: anything about football. But I said, for me, that's not

869
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 3: what they're missing. It's that outside take the top off.

870
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 3: Let's loosen this thing up so it can breathe like

871
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 3: that it would it was. It's more no, I wish

872
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:46,439
Speaker 3: they had Mic back than I wish they had Keenan back.

873
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,919
Speaker 3: Like to me, that's the bigger issue, not I don't

874
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 3: feel like they're missing the Keenan Allen role at all.

875
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,319
Speaker 3: I don't feel like there's third down opportunities that guys

876
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 3: are dropping or they're not getting open or like that's

877
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 3: not the issue to me. It's more I get to

878
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 3: sing to Breeze man. You've got to you got to

879
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,400
Speaker 3: loosen things up so there's not seven guys every time

880
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 3: and then eight and even nine in the in the

881
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,360
Speaker 3: in the box or within not maybe not even necessarily

882
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 3: in the box, but creeping toward the box every time

883
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:12,799
Speaker 3: they snapped the ball.

884
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 2: Well, if they do they did against the Broncos on

885
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 2: third down, then yeah, it's we're good. We're good on

886
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 2: third down money. You know, we even talked about this

887
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 2: before the draft, how every year we're gonna we don't

888
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:28,839
Speaker 2: know the names yet, but there's gonna be rookies who

889
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 2: contribute to this team, right, Yeah, just just look at this.

890
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 2: Joe all Is back. I think we know he made

891
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 2: a world of difference on the right side.

892
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:39,439
Speaker 1: One pressure, one pressure for Slater. That's it.

893
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 4: That's it.

894
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 2: It's it's like order has been restored in Charger Lands.

895
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 2: Those guys back, you just raved about lab McConkey said,

896
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 2: you'd rather have them over Keenan Allen twenty twenty four

897
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 2: second round pick Junior Colson battle on some injuries.

898
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:54,720
Speaker 4: I think he had three tackles on.

899
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 3: Sunday, was greating coverage over the middle of the field,

900
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:58,759
Speaker 3: played great a.

901
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 2: Boy Bee still, I think more of a projection here

902
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 2: at this point, tar Heeb still start, cam Hart start,

903
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 2: Keimani Vadell first touch touchdown. Brendan Rice hasn't been needed

904
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:15,399
Speaker 2: because of the other nine guys we mentioned just through

905
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:15,839
Speaker 2: the ball too.

906
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 4: So when you.

907
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:21,840
Speaker 2: Get contributions like that from your draft class in week six,

908
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 2: like this is in week thirteen or week fourteen. This

909
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:28,479
Speaker 2: is week six and I'm counting one, two, three, four, five,

910
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 2: Six of those guys made a meaningful contribution Sunday in Denver.

911
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 2: That's remarkable, man. And this heads off to Hortez and

912
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 2: Alexander and that whole staff.

913
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 1: No doubt.

914
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 3: And then you know when you kind of go through

915
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 3: when you go through it and you go through the

916
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,800
Speaker 3: box score and you see just like think about the

917
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 3: development of Quinton Johnston and how much different a receiver

918
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:55,799
Speaker 3: he is this year, you know, plucking Simmy and saying,

919
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 3: oh no, he's he's not a practice squad guys, Simmy's

920
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 3: a rossy. Like it's on top of that, it's like

921
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 3: that stuff. It's what Will Disley did in that game

922
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 3: with those four catches for twenty six yards and how

923
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 3: effective that wide receiver screen is. It's like, yeah, it's

924
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,800
Speaker 3: the draft picks. But Elijah Molden with his second interception,

925
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 3: a guy that was you know, acquired mid training camp

926
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,280
Speaker 3: because they were like, oh, you're gonna make them available,

927
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 3: We'll take them, you know, like before week one. So

928
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 3: what I mean like, it's it's all of those Tier

929
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 3: Tart you know, who had two pressures in that game

930
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,760
Speaker 3: and a QB hit you know, in like twelve snaps

931
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,800
Speaker 3: that like to as soon as Miami waved him, bang,

932
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:35,840
Speaker 3: go get them, you know. So it's all of that.

933
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 3: It's not just Christian Fulton. When you see how important

934
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 3: he is and the value that he has. It's like

935
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 3: we had mentioned and Poona Ford, who's just been sensational,

936
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,240
Speaker 3: who's playing at a Pro Bowl level. Like we said,

937
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 3: you know before the season, if you can get fifty

938
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 3: percent of these signings to work out, it should be

939
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,319
Speaker 3: a good year. If you can get fifty percent of

940
00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 3: the and think about who we're listening, Poona four, JK. Dobbins,

941
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 3: Gus Edwards, will Disley, Hayden Hurst, Bradley Boseman, Tier Tart,

942
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,840
Speaker 3: like Elijah Molden, if Christian. If you can get that

943
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 3: Fnzel pairman exactly, if you can get fifty percent of

944
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 3: those guys to hit, you might be onto something. And

945
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 3: they're running at about an eighty or ninety percent clip

946
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:26,399
Speaker 3: right now.

947
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, Denzel, that could have changed the tenor of the

948
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 2: game had they gotten that two point conversion in the

949
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 2: fourth quarter, No doubt.

950
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,720
Speaker 4: He was like a missile, man. And that that really

951
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 4: I think.

952
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:39,880
Speaker 2: Put I think Chargers fans minds that he's Okay, they

953
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 2: didn't get the two point conversion.

954
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 4: This is going to be really hard for them to.

955
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 2: Come back now had they gotten it, Man, it's a

956
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:45,439
Speaker 2: one possession game.

957
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:47,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no doubt.

958
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 3: And and I think, and so I think, like this

959
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 3: is this is the thing about hypotheticals, And I think

960
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 3: why coaches get sort of frustrated with it, because you know,

961
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:58,360
Speaker 3: that's sort of what I'm thinking in the moment. And

962
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:00,439
Speaker 3: then I was able to sort of before I start

963
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:05,840
Speaker 3: freaking out, I start, I take a step back, breathe,

964
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 3: and I say, Okay, One, this team and this staff

965
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 3: does not lose games like this. Number one, there's no

966
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 3: reasonab believe Number two they're playing that last drive way different.

967
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 3: If that's the case, knowing that they still need two

968
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 3: scores and an on side kick. That field goal drive

969
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 3: where they gave up all those yards, it's being played

970
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 3: completely differently, So like that's something to remember too, is like, yeah,

971
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 3: they gave up the field goal and there's an on

972
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:37,919
Speaker 3: side and then there's a penalty on the formation, which

973
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 3: you never like to see, and everybody's freaking up at

974
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:42,440
Speaker 3: the same time, like in terms of long term, are

975
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 3: we seeing some of these issues creeping? No, it's the

976
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 3: way it was designed, it's the way, it's what the game,

977
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 3: it's what situational football called for, and that's why they

978
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 3: were able to get that field goal and have that

979
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 3: onside kick opportunity. So don't freak out that it's showing

980
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:58,760
Speaker 3: some sort of cracks and that's what's happening.

981
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 2: I'm glad you mentioned the coaching staff too, because also

982
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 2: when I look at these next five weeks, and this

983
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 2: is not a knock on the opposing coaching staff by

984
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 2: any stretch, it's just I think praising what's here in

985
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 2: Los Angeles with coach Harball and Mint and Roman and

986
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:16,439
Speaker 2: the whole experienced staff. I mean, if you look at

987
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 2: the coaching and quarterback against the teams that they're playing

988
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:24,240
Speaker 2: the next five weeks. You know, give me Justin over Murray,

989
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 2: Spencer Rattler, Deshaun Watson, Will Levis and then Joe Burrow

990
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 2: and Herbert. I think that that's a wash. You know,

991
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 2: Harball against Gannon, Dennis Allen, Kevin Stefansk gives a good coach,

992
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 2: kind of has his hands tied at the moment. First

993
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 2: year guy in Callahan and Zach Taylor, Like, give me

994
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:44,920
Speaker 2: Harball five out of five. I mean, when you have

995
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 2: the advantage at coach in quarterback going into seemingly every matchup, man,

996
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:52,760
Speaker 2: it makes you feel good as a Chargers fan.

997
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 1: No doubt.

998
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 3: Look, coaching is important. Look at the Chiefs. It's not

999
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:00,840
Speaker 3: just Patrick Mahomes. It's not just Andy Reid, Andy Reid

1000
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:04,799
Speaker 3: and Patrick Mahomes. It's not just Kyle Shanahan. It's not

1001
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 3: just Brock Purdy. It's Kyle Shanahan and Brock Purdy. Like

1002
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 3: it's a great cop Like that's how you win. You know,

1003
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 3: it's Bell, it's not just Bill Belichick. It's not just

1004
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:18,840
Speaker 3: Tom Brady. It's Belichick and Brady. It's like it matters,

1005
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 3: you know, the coaching matters in this league, and you

1006
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:25,760
Speaker 3: hit it right on the head. It's a great point,

1007
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 3: is you know that that's we often focus so much

1008
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 3: on the players, as we should. They're the ones that

1009
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:34,759
Speaker 3: have to play, But you also have to think about

1010
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 3: coaching and how much it comes in you know, how

1011
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 3: much it comes into play in games that tend to

1012
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:45,319
Speaker 3: be tight. You know, games are typically not blowouts in

1013
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 3: this league for the most part. So I'd like to

1014
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:48,919
Speaker 3: see one on Monday. I don't think I will. It's

1015
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 3: just it's so rare that you see a blowout. But

1016
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:54,840
Speaker 3: I was hoping for one against the Broncos. I was

1017
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 3: really kind of like, wow, man, it'd be nice to

1018
00:45:57,560 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 3: to come out of the gates. Let's make it twenty

1019
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 3: seven and see if you can get a three and out,

1020
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 3: maybe make it thirty. And now let's just plant their

1021
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 3: asses on the bench, you know, and for the fourth

1022
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 3: quarter and kind of give them a little bit of

1023
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:10,240
Speaker 3: a breather.

1024
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:15,399
Speaker 1: So but you know, like I said, what football is, well,

1025
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 1: it's everybody loves the NFL.

1026
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 2: It's a divisional opponent on the road in a place

1027
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 2: where they have lost nine of ten exactly. So to

1028
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 2: be up twenty three to nothing and to have some

1029
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 2: of the injuries and some of the things that happened.

1030
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 2: You know what, I think that the fact that the

1031
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 2: offense held the ball for as long as they did. Money,

1032
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:36,359
Speaker 2: Actually the Chargers defense had to they had to work

1033
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:37,280
Speaker 2: in that fourth quarter.

1034
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 4: It actually helped them in the long.

1035
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 1: Run, exactly. Yeah, give the yeah.

1036
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:43,239
Speaker 3: I think it was my gosh, like we said that

1037
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 3: one drive was ten minutes twenty nine seconds in the

1038
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:48,200
Speaker 3: first half, So defense just got to kick back and

1039
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 3: chill on the first half. And look, a lot of

1040
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 3: that was on them, you know, forcing three and outs,

1041
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 3: forcing the turnovers, force fumble, the interception. So they they

1042
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:57,359
Speaker 3: earned their rest. But as you said, they allowed them

1043
00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 3: to be fresh in the second half and bow up

1044
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 3: when they need to bow.

1045
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 1: Up and get out with that victory.

1046
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 2: All right, Money, what's going to decide Monday? If you

1047
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 2: had to pick one key to Monday, what would it be?

1048
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 3: I mean, I just I think there's believe it or not.

1049
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 3: I think there's a bunch, right. I think it's what's

1050
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 3: the health of the corner situation? Is Marvin Harrison playing

1051
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:19,720
Speaker 3: is you know? But to me, it's it's controlling Kyler Murray.

1052
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:21,840
Speaker 3: It's really just stopping the run, and this is the

1053
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 3: number one run defense in the league, so they should

1054
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 3: be able to do that. Don't let James Connor get rolling.

1055
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:29,359
Speaker 3: Don't let because I would assume they're going to run

1056
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 3: a lot of RPOs and some zone read and some

1057
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 3: mesh with he and Kyler. So just keep doing what

1058
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:38,880
Speaker 3: you're doing on defense and do not let that ground

1059
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 3: game get after you would be probably to me the

1060
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 3: key if you can do that, if you can make

1061
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 3: them one dimensional, you can get after that old line,

1062
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:49,279
Speaker 3: get some get some pressure, heat them up, try to

1063
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 3: create some turnovers. Because I think the offense is going

1064
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:53,840
Speaker 3: to be fine, So for me, it's more defense. I

1065
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 3: assume the offense is going to have a really good game,

1066
00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:00,400
Speaker 3: but defensively, I think it's make sure, make sure just

1067
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 3: not get loose on you.

1068
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 2: And if if the offense is a good game, that

1069
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 2: means a defense may not be on the field for

1070
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 2: as long as uh as we're anticipating.

1071
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:08,240
Speaker 4: Because JK.

1072
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 2: Dobbins and Haskins and Videll, if they can run effectively

1073
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 2: like the Packers did last week and how they did

1074
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 2: against the Broncos, maybe a little bit better than Hey man,

1075
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 2: you control the clock you have a healthier justin Herbert

1076
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 2: with a bunch of weapons, and maybe maybe DJ Shark

1077
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:24,879
Speaker 2: is that that X factor. Maybe he plays and has

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Speaker 2: a has a splash play, has a has a downfield

1079
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Speaker 2: play that we've been craving.

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Speaker 1: No doubt. I'd love it, would love to see it,

1081
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Speaker 1: because you'd.

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Speaker 4: Love to hear the call.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to hear the call exactly.

1084
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Speaker 3: You get you get this thing opened up, man, and

1085
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:41,439
Speaker 3: you're really going to see Lad McConkie do some work.

1086
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 3: If you can start to get those two high safeties

1087
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:46,359
Speaker 3: and get guys on their heels instead of on their

1088
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 3: toes because they're worried about what's getting behind them. Uh,

1089
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Speaker 3: then that's that's that's going to be a different look man.

1090
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Speaker 3: It's going to start to open up, and that's going

1091
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Speaker 3: to help with the run game, and it's gonna help

1092
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Speaker 3: with tight ends and the seams, and it's gonna change everything,

1093
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 3: you know, which is why I know they're sniffing around

1094
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Speaker 3: Mike Williams and why they're excited about the return of

1095
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 3: Chark because it's what this offense has desperately needed and

1096
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 3: maybe just the last piece to drop in there to

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Speaker 3: get this thing rolling.

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Speaker 2: All right, guys, cross check this pod with the injury

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Speaker 2: report over the weekend because some of the things we're

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Speaker 2: talking about may have a bigger emphasis on Monday Night,

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Speaker 2: especially at the corner situation and seeing what happens with

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Speaker 2: DJ Shark and some of these other injuries that the

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Speaker 2: Chargers had after Denver.

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Speaker 4: Looking forward to Monday Night money, see if they get

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Speaker 4: to four and two. You and me Bolt, Yep for Buddy,

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Speaker 4: I'm Chris. This has been Chargers Weekly