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Speaker 1: What's up, guys. Welcome into an off season edition of

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

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Speaker 1: I just got to Hawaii. I'm ready for the vacation,

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Speaker 1: but we can't leave the people hanging. Man. I don't

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Speaker 1: care if it's July sixth. We got to talk Chargers football,

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Speaker 1: right absolutely, especially, Look, I mean it's the off season.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know if you want to call it

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Speaker 1: a huge move, but certainly one that impacts the Chargers

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Speaker 1: that play the Browns in Week five. So we got

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Speaker 1: a little bit of NFL news today and I think

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Speaker 1: it's all the steculation about about, well, could Baker play

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Speaker 1: the season? And you know, and no, it'll it'll probably

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Speaker 1: be Jacoby Bursett that the Chargers are facing in Week

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Speaker 1: five when they take on the Browns. Now that Baker

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Speaker 1: has been traded to the Carolina Panthers, a team they

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Speaker 1: will not see unless they should meet in the Super Bowl. Yes,

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Speaker 1: so we will not see Baker Mayfield in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: And I want to start with so we did that

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Speaker 1: mailbag last last week and everybody loved it. But my

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Speaker 1: guy Matt tweeted us and said, I listen to this

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Speaker 1: thing for fifty five minutes, and I'm the only question

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Speaker 1: that was not answered. And I looked and I checked,

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Speaker 1: and Matt was correct. We didn't answer Matt's questions. So

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Speaker 1: one question I told Matt I off the ripol, I

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Speaker 1: would throw his question out to you, and it reads,

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Speaker 1: you think Jac Jackson will be just as good or

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Speaker 1: even better than before or will you have a slight

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Speaker 1: drop off from not being in that pat system anymore?

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Speaker 1: I remember there have been many players who have fallen

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Speaker 1: off ever leaving the Pats. Although I personally think Jac

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Speaker 1: will be just fine, I'll let you answer this. I

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Speaker 1: think brand as Daney identified him, is his type of corner.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we'll see a drop off in Jac

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Speaker 1: Jackson's game. It's a fair question. And mean, look, it's

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Speaker 1: a good question from Matt because we have routinely seen

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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick um not pay guys that are that are

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Speaker 1: getting ready to cash in. I mean, he has done

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Speaker 1: that regularly throughout his entire career with the Patriots. You know,

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Speaker 1: twenty plus years he's been he's been doing this, and

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Speaker 1: and Matt is right, you know, they go to other

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Speaker 1: places and they just don't thrive like they did, and

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Speaker 1: whether it's a wide receiver tight ends uh, even to

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Speaker 1: some degree, I mean offensive lineman, you know, I mean tune.

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Speaker 1: He's been pretty good. I think he's been He's been

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Speaker 1: pretty good in Kansas City. Uh, solder has not been

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Speaker 1: good in New York. So it's a fair question. I

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Speaker 1: think the difference with Jackson is that he's just getting

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Speaker 1: into his prime, like, and corners are different, you know corners.

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Speaker 1: Could it be system sure? Um, you know, I think

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Speaker 1: about help me out. Who am I thinking of? From

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Speaker 1: CAROLINEA that went to Washington and failed? Miserable Norman right

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Speaker 1: the corner. You know, he was a zone corner. Only

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Speaker 1: he was a boundary corner. And look, it's it was

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Speaker 1: the exact opposite with Assimwa who was a man corner.

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Speaker 1: He goes to Philadelphia and they asked him to become

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Speaker 1: a boundary corner. And so I think, Look, I think

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Speaker 1: Brandon Staley is very scheme specific. You know, he's gonna

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Speaker 1: run what he runs, and he's gonna know what corners

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Speaker 1: are going to thrive in his scheme, in his style

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Speaker 1: of defense. So it's I mean, look, if I'm projecting

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Speaker 1: Jason better than he was in New England. I think

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Speaker 1: that's probably a little irresponsible. The guy was in the

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Speaker 1: conversation as the best corner in the NFL. Could he

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Speaker 1: hit that? Sure, But at the same time, I think, look,

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Speaker 1: if he plays at the same level or even they're fine,

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Speaker 1: they are gonna be fine. And I don't see any

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Speaker 1: reason why he would, and especially when you consider you

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Speaker 1: know that we talked about this last week, Chris, right,

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Speaker 1: just the way that the two things shake hands, the

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Speaker 1: defensive line and the defensive secondary. The fact that j C.

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Speaker 1: Jackson's playing behind a defensive line that's going to have

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Speaker 1: a rotation of Joey Bosa, Khalil Mack, Kyle Van Noy,

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Speaker 1: you know, Chris Rump, who we all believe is going

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Speaker 1: to take a big jump this year, Morgan Fox in

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Speaker 1: I agree with you, and you know you can. You

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Speaker 1: could save the Pads system and Matt's correct, and you

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Speaker 1: know you could point out all the guys that you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: Joey Bosa and Khalil Max. So from that perspective, maybe

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Speaker 1: JC has a better year, but I don't know how

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Speaker 1: you have a better year when you lead the league

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Speaker 1: and interceptions but virtually season in and season exactly. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: good question, Matt, and I apologize we didn't get to

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Speaker 1: you money. I want to go into just the AFC

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Speaker 1: my mind, are all more than capable of getting to

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. But I want to start with Philip Rivers.

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Speaker 1: We heard from Philips, yeah, a few days ago, and

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Speaker 1: he talked about Justin Herbert, but he also just he

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Speaker 1: talked about being a being a Chargers fan and his

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Speaker 1: favorite moment being that twenty eighteen game, throwing that fade

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Speaker 1: to Mike Williams two point conversion maybe what probably my

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Speaker 1: Phil again, and and it also got me thinking, like man,

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Speaker 1: Phil in the booth, like I get Tom Brady, I

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Speaker 1: get trying to make that big splash But whoever gets

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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers or convince Philip Rivers to come out of

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Speaker 1: retirement from coaching or just coach while also doing a

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Speaker 1: Monday night football or one of the big you know

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Speaker 1: CBS games, I think that that would be the home run.

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Speaker 1: Well like I don't, I don't think I'm breaking any

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Speaker 1: news or I'm sharing any state secrets. Um when I

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Speaker 1: when I say they have, they've tried everything. They have

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Speaker 1: tried everything. Can you do this night? Can you do

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Speaker 1: this night? What if we fly you in morning of

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Speaker 1: and and fly you home that night. You don't even

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Speaker 1: have to do production meetings? Like that's that's the level

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Speaker 1: that these networks are on with Philip Rivers. They all

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Speaker 1: know they know that. You know, I think we've had

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Speaker 1: this conversation before. And and I love Tony Romo because

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Speaker 1: you know the thing about about Romo and the way

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Speaker 1: he calls a game. People talk about, oh, the play

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Speaker 1: predicting and stuff. That's not it. It's the enthusiasm. It's

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Speaker 1: the excitement. It's it's the guy that's that knows exactly

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Speaker 1: he's excited as you are. You know, you'll have guys

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Speaker 1: that's the enthusiasm, like, oh, man, Dad gumming, he's sixteen

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Speaker 1: of Herbert. Man, that'd be so cool, Like that's that's

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Speaker 1: the difference. And I think that's you know what. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: but he threw the dig in He's like, but you

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Speaker 1: don't want to be at Cleveland thirty quarterbacks and twenty

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Speaker 1: five years like that. Those are like the little digs

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Speaker 1: like exactly he couldn't. You can't help himself. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: with Drew Brees, but they ain't Philip. They're just they're

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Speaker 1: not and nobody is. And that's why they know he

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Speaker 1: and some people thought it was poor sportsmanship that kind

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Speaker 1: I mean? Like that talk about a network selling the

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Speaker 1: like gold statar like Kirk Herbstreet college college football, he

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Speaker 1: on Sunday night. We got a dinner squared away with

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, he lives in Nowhere's Ville, Alabama right now,

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Speaker 1: because you're right, Like, I mean, he can do it

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Speaker 1: his youngest son is what like Gunner? Is it Gunner?

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Speaker 1: I think I think he's like what eleven twelve, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and who knows. By then, maybe we'll get our first

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Speaker 1: female college football quarterback in high school quarterback and it's

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Speaker 1: got away eighteen twenty years for that. That's great. Philip

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Speaker 1: it's it kind of speaks to you know, how Brandon coaches,

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Speaker 1: how how coach Staley coaches, and what he's always kind

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Speaker 1: the interview, I think it was on the Tennis channel

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Speaker 1: You know, look, he's a fan of tennis. He said,

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Speaker 1: Bolton was exceptional last year, exceptional as a rookie. You know,

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Speaker 1: Willie Gay when he's healthy, has been effective. One Thornhill

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Speaker 1: was really good before he got hurt in that game

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Speaker 1: I like the rookies. I like McDuffie and Karloftis. And

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Speaker 1: then I mentioned this last week, you know, or two

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Speaker 1: weeks ago when we were talking about it, you know,

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Speaker 1: that Creed Humphrey and Trade Smith played so well by

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Speaker 1: the end of that season and given Patrick Mahomes some

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Speaker 1: comfort in the middle of that offensive line. I think, um,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna go a long way. So it's it's hard

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Speaker 1: for me to count them. It's hard for me not

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Speaker 1: to put them in as a lock. I just i'd

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Speaker 1: got to see it, and and you know what, Andy

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Speaker 1: Reid's gonna just he'll retool that offense with Tyreek Hill,

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Speaker 1: al Jujuspi, Schuster's in Valdes, Scantlings in the Rookie sky

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Speaker 1: Mores in So they'll find a way to score thirty

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Speaker 1: five points a game. You know it this way, So

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Speaker 1: put it this way, right, you gotta have your your

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Speaker 1: three division, So basically you have to put four teams

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Speaker 1: ahead of them. So in order to put them in

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Speaker 1: that category, you would have to give me four teams

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Speaker 1: that you like better than the Chiefs, right, the Chargers

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Speaker 1: in the division. You know, is that you mentioned the Broncos,

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Speaker 1: So there's two. Now you got to give me two

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Speaker 1: more so because and then they're not one of the seven.

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Speaker 1: So what other two teams are you putting ahead of that?

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I can't put the Pats

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Speaker 1: ahead of the Chiefs. I can't put any of the

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Speaker 1: the AFC South. So to me, that's why it's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're a lock, They're they're going, they're they're better than

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Speaker 1: than four other teams in the AFC. But he just

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Speaker 1: going through that list, it it makes me realize just

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Speaker 1: how tough it's going to be to get a playoff

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Speaker 1: spot in the AFC. I think the Chargers are more

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Speaker 1: than capable. But you look at those first two weeks

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Speaker 1: against the Raiders and the Chiefs, and then right after that,

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Speaker 1: the teams that we talked about not likely to make

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Speaker 1: the playoffs are on the Charger of schedule. So just

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Speaker 1: that that first quarter, first five weeks of the season,

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Speaker 1: Chargers got to come out swinging. Look, I think I

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Speaker 1: think the Chargers have a team that suggests they should

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Speaker 1: be favored in every game they play. You know, I

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Speaker 1: think that's that's the level of of talent they have

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Speaker 1: on this team. And I think, like you said, getting

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Speaker 1: off to a good starts great because we know, you know,

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Speaker 1: when you go one or owen two, then all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, it's like, you know, it's only sixteen percent

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Speaker 1: of the teams that have started owing two that man

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Speaker 1: that just starts going to hit their head, you know,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's not a fun exercise to have to

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Speaker 1: deal with. Um. We've talked about it all the way

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Speaker 1: up through. You know that that week nine, which would

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Speaker 1: be eight games because they're bye week, is at eight.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at it right now. You know, Vegas, Kansas

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Speaker 1: City on the short week, Jacksonville, Houston, Cleveland, Denver at home,

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Speaker 1: Seattle at home, at Atlanta, Like that's it's a pretty

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Speaker 1: good start. And then when you go to the back

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Speaker 1: end and you've got at Vegas, Miami, Tennessee, at Indie,

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Speaker 1: LA at Denver, like you know, win equity, it's going

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Speaker 1: to be important, and you're hoping that your team is healthy.

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Speaker 1: I'll say, you know, it's interesting just to steal some

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Speaker 1: content from from ESPN, they Jeremy Fowler wrote the article

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Speaker 1: about the best pass rushers, h per exacts and scouts

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Speaker 1: that were pulled, and there were only two teams that

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Speaker 1: had two players in the top ten. And it goes

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Speaker 1: back to our conversation about what do we do with

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Speaker 1: the Raiders. You know, Max Crosby and Chandler Jones. We're

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Speaker 1: we're in there. Crosby at five, Chandler Jones at seven.

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Speaker 1: The only other team, of course, Chargers Joey Bose at

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Speaker 1: four and Khalil Mack at nine. So like that's where

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Speaker 1: the difference that that's where the Raiders think can get

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Speaker 1: tough is when you have a pire too money exactly exactly,

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Speaker 1: But I do think those two are a notch below.

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Speaker 1: I think those two are a notch below Watt Mac

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Speaker 1: and Crosby and Jones. They're good and they're there, you know,

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Speaker 1: but Gregory has not been able to stay healthy. He's

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Speaker 1: been suspended, he's got a couple strikes against him that's

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Speaker 1: hanging over his head. And Chubb has not been I

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Speaker 1: think as dominant as advertised you know when when he

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Speaker 1: first got drafted to be paired with von Miller. Because

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Speaker 1: he can't stay healthy either. But look, it's tough. We've

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Speaker 1: talked about it. The AFC is nasty, it's a gauntlet.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be a rough go, and we just

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Speaker 1: continue to speculate as we're you know, the day we

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Speaker 1: record this, we're three weeks out. You know, in three

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Speaker 1: weeks we'll be a Jack Hammett, you know, watching these

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Speaker 1: guys starting to get after it, and man, I cannot wait.

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Speaker 1: This is our last month without football. We will have

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Speaker 1: three games, you know, in August, we'll have joint practices,

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Speaker 1: a couple of them, you know, rams and Cowboys, and man,

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Speaker 1: I cannot wait to get them out there. So it's

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Speaker 1: not just us putting together lists and answering mailed by

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Speaker 1: a questions and you know, doing it from Hawaii and

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Speaker 1: instead we're doing it from Jack Hammett, or we're doing

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Speaker 1: it from the facility and we're having we're having some

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Speaker 1: serious fifty three man roster depth chart, all that sort

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Speaker 1: of stuff. Conversations and if you hope with this this

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Speaker 1: lad in the podcast, you're a dedicated Charger fan. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate you certainly technical action, but hey, you're in

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Speaker 1: Hawaii and you're still doing it. I was in Hawaii

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Speaker 1: last week and we still did it. So look, we

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Speaker 1: love doing it. We love, we love delivering it to

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Speaker 1: the people. Little inside Baseball. We're gonna have a very

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Speaker 1: seamless podcast for you. I've cut out four different times

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Speaker 1: during this podcast. I don't know if you'll notice. You

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Speaker 1: may notice, but I've cut out outward different times, and

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Speaker 1: we can hear the trade wind Appreciate them. We can

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Speaker 1: hear the trade winds. You are recording this at six

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Speaker 1: pm your time. You're coming up on a sunset around

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Speaker 1: seven fifteen. Get on on that beach with your with

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Speaker 1: your wife and enjoy Hawaii and getting this six Get

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Speaker 1: the heck out of here, all right, buddy. Appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys listening this charges weekly. We'll see you

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Speaker 1: next week. As Money said three weeks to Kim