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Speaker 1: dot com. What's up, guys, Welcome to the Final Drive

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Speaker 1: presented by Microsoft Surface. Chargers lose twenty seven seventeen to

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills here with Haley l Wood. Both drop

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Speaker 1: to three and eight. Haley, a lot of things went

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Speaker 1: wrong today and you saw the result. Lose by ten

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Speaker 1: of the Bills. And this is a team coming off

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Speaker 1: of buy A playoff caliber team probably gonna win the

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Speaker 1: AFC East. YEA had to play your best bowl and

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Speaker 1: unfortunately the Chargers just did not. Yeah, it was tough one.

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Speaker 1: It was a tough one today, and I think Joey

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Speaker 1: Bosa said it best after the game, where he said,

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Speaker 1: if we knew that we wanted to sort of make

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Speaker 1: season out strong, and really needed to start today against

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Speaker 1: a team that he said, you know, this team also

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Speaker 1: needed to win against a good team. And it's no

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Speaker 1: disrespect obviously to the Jets and the Jags, but we

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Speaker 1: know what their records are. But it didn't get done today.

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Speaker 1: I think defensively, you saw positives, you saw flashes of positives,

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Speaker 1: but offensively, it just never really seems like that unit

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Speaker 1: know if it's a combination of getting a guy like

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Speaker 1: Who knows, but it just never really fully felt like

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Speaker 1: But then the offense also couldn't capitalize on those when

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Speaker 1: this offense. But he did have twenty five touches today,

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Speaker 1: eighty five yards receiving. He led the team in receiving,

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Speaker 1: seventy six rushing yards today. But it's gonna take time.

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Speaker 1: Brian Bulaga, who we expected to play today at right tackle,

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Speaker 1: It just couldn't give it a go today. So you

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Speaker 1: Chargers respond, missed the extra point, a couple of fifteen

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Speaker 1: eight ball. That that fourth quarter you mentioned, just a

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Speaker 1: flurry of turnovers. Four turnover there's in that fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: okay charges to get some defensive turnovers. We've been looking

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Speaker 1: Another reason why you lose. Yeah, I think they ended

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Speaker 1: want to say, I believe that was It's not enough.

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Speaker 1: And we talk about it all the time, we do

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Speaker 1: our game previews. We talked about what's on the menu

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Speaker 1: every week, and a lot of it throughout this whole

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Speaker 1: season has come down to forcing turnovers, capitalizing on those turnovers,

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Speaker 1: And to your point, this is a team that in

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Speaker 1: a remarkable game from Bosa. I think two weeks ago

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Speaker 1: the same. Guys, we know what's frustrating. We feel you.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you sticking with us, sticking around. On the

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Speaker 1: Final Drive, presented by Microsoft's Surface Haley, We'll get back

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Speaker 1: at it this week, Week thirteen. Let's do it. Let's

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