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Speaker 1: What's up, guys? Chris Harry with you on a week

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Speaker 1: fourteen edition of Chargers Weekly. Chargers hosting the Atlanta Falcons

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Speaker 1: this Sunday at Sofi Stadium. Coming up, we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: this week's opposing view from d Orlando Ledbetter of the

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Journal Constitution. But first we're gonna see what's on

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Speaker 1: the menu powered by Subway with the voice of the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: Matt money Smith. Buddy, you look back to Saturday forty five. Nothing,

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Speaker 1: not much you can really do with that tape instead

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Speaker 1: of maybe not watch it, move on to Atlanta. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what you do. Yeah, that's what you always hear.

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Speaker 1: When it's that bad, you almost want to just flush

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Speaker 1: it and again not relive. What's you know? I've been

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Speaker 1: calling games for ten years in football. It's the worst

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Speaker 1: game I've ever called, you know. I talked about it

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Speaker 1: earlier this week on the radio show. The only thing

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Speaker 1: that's comparable, and this is just me anecdotally personally, games

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Speaker 1: I've called, you know, calling a game every single week

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Speaker 1: in college or the NFL are sometimes doubling up with

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Speaker 1: one on Saturday and Sunday since twenty ten. The only

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Speaker 1: thing that's close is I called that Rams Falcons game,

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Speaker 1: which is funny because the Felements are coming to town.

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Speaker 1: At the Coliseum back in twenty sixteen, I think they

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Speaker 1: jumped out to a forty two nothing lead. The opening

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Speaker 1: kickoff bounced off the returners. I think his name was

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Speaker 1: Michael Thomas, not that Michael Thomas, but Thomas Thomas. Helmett

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Speaker 1: was like grabbed out of the air for a score

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Speaker 1: and it just spiraled from there. And this was even worse.

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Speaker 1: So I think the one thing besides, you know, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to burn the tape, I think it's important

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Speaker 1: to at least get a count who's running special teams,

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Speaker 1: you know, have the right number of guys out there.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with assignments. Blocking assignments

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Speaker 1: have been just terrible the last couple of weeks. So

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, those are things to me that

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Speaker 1: King had cleaned up. I would assume easily. I'm not

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Speaker 1: out there, you know, strapping it up and taking on

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Speaker 1: you know, one of the best special teams teams from

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Speaker 1: the last twenty years and trying to figure out what

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Speaker 1: they're doing to us. But at the same time, it

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Speaker 1: seems like just the number of missed assignments on the line,

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Speaker 1: the mistakes, the count, you know, ten twice, twelve ones.

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Speaker 1: That's just got to get cleaned up. And that to

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Speaker 1: me seems like an easy fix. Yeah, the special teams,

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Speaker 1: I feel like every week we're talking about something that

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Speaker 1: had happened in that phase of the game that really

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Speaker 1: kind of affects the rest of the game. You know,

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Speaker 1: when you have a missfield goal and a seventy yard

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Speaker 1: punt return for a touchdown, I mean, those are two

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Speaker 1: glaring things that happened that kind of set the tone.

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously running ten times in your first third

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Speaker 1: team plays and killing seven minutes off the clock to

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Speaker 1: start the game, that that kind of set the tone.

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Speaker 1: But when you had these special teams miscues and then

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Speaker 1: at the end of the half, that was just kind

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Speaker 1: of the dagger. Those things they just they can't rear

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Speaker 1: its ugly head in a game where you know you're

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Speaker 1: already behind the eight ball. And we've talked about this

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Speaker 1: each and every single week. It just it has to

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Speaker 1: be cleaned up. Against Atlanta, Yeah, I think, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, just kind of pulling that apart, right, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot there. One Mike Badge's got to make kicks.

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Speaker 1: You know, he makes that kick, and we're not having

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Speaker 1: the same conversation today. Even if it's just three points,

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Speaker 1: it's not the worst shutout in Charger history. It's not

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Speaker 1: the worst shutout in NFL history since nineteen eighty nine. Likes,

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Speaker 1: that's now off the board and it's seven to three,

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Speaker 1: and it's like, hey, yeah, they sucked seven and a

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Speaker 1: half minutes off the clock when they scored seven and

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Speaker 1: we only got three. But you still answer to scoring

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Speaker 1: drive with the scoring drive. And I'm not saying it

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Speaker 1: would have changed everything, but I think it would have

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Speaker 1: gone a long way, because now you're not looking at

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Speaker 1: a zero and starting to wonder, Okay, are we gonna

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Speaker 1: get on the board? We gotta get on the board,

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Speaker 1: and that starts hanging over you two. I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: what do they always say about Bill Belichick? You know,

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Speaker 1: he's the best coach in the history of football and

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Speaker 1: perhaps the history of sports. And what does he do.

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Speaker 1: He holds up a mirror and he shows you in

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Speaker 1: magnifies your flaws better than anybody else. He has done

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Speaker 1: it for two decades. And what did we know going

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Speaker 1: in that the Chargers had serious, serious special teams issues.

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Speaker 1: Boy did he exploit those and boys, it ugly when

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Speaker 1: you're looking at mirror and and I think that's clearly

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Speaker 1: what you know everyone, Oh, you know we talked about

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Speaker 1: it last week, right, Well, it's probably gonna take away

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Speaker 1: special teams and said, we're gonna crush this team on

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Speaker 1: special teams. I can tell you that right now. And

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Speaker 1: they went out there and they did. Yeah, and I

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Speaker 1: mean he really took away the entire offense. They couldn't

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Speaker 1: that's but you're right, it starts with those special teams

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Speaker 1: because if you can't win there and you give up

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Speaker 1: gigantic plays, you're not gonna win a game against Anybody's

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Speaker 1: just deflating, It's right, It's just you know, it's deflating.

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Speaker 1: It's humiliating. It's you know, because it's it's found points, right,

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Speaker 1: It's it's they find and like she's just look at

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Speaker 1: the kickoffs, right, when you look at Bailey in those kickoffs,

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Speaker 1: what if we seen all season long through, what's it

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Speaker 1: been out thirteen games or whatever, Yeah, twelve games, what

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Speaker 1: have we seen. We've seen eleven teams routinely boot the

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Speaker 1: ball out of the back of the end zone. You know, hey,

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Speaker 1: we don't want to return, let's just get it out

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Speaker 1: of the back of the end zone. They'll start at

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Speaker 1: the twenty five. They're dumb enough to bring it out.

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Speaker 1: Then you know, good for us. Every single one of

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Speaker 1: those kicks was dropped in the right corner or the

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Speaker 1: yard line, And like that just goes to show you

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Speaker 1: this is someone who's looked at what the options are

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Speaker 1: and said, oh, wait a minute, I think we can

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Speaker 1: figure out how to exploit this because we're five yards closer.

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Speaker 1: My coverage team can get down there. We're not given

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Speaker 1: them the twenty five. We're going to give them the seventeen.

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Speaker 1: And that's going to give us eight yards every single kickoff.

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Speaker 1: something we can exploit. I think I think there's a

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Speaker 1: kind of watching the way they ran that game and

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Speaker 1: then just speaking to your you know, your your next

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Speaker 1: it is tough. They are so good at what they

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Speaker 1: there's your there's your interception. They're just they're so good,

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Speaker 1: They're so freaking good, and it's it was terrible to

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Speaker 1: watch it, but at the same time, it was poetic

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Speaker 1: to watch it and just see, you know, kind of

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady, you still got Bill Belichick back there, and

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Speaker 1: you now know, you know why the Patriots have been

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Speaker 1: so good for so long. Uh you flip it to

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Speaker 1: Orleans Saints, they're playing better football. Yeah, and we've talked about, hey,

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Speaker 1: you got to stop the run. You knew the run

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Speaker 1: You know they're still trying to find that pass rush,

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Speaker 1: important just because of how bad Herbert had it and

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Speaker 1: not entirely all this fault. It's hard to get anything

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Speaker 1: couple of times, and it's Bill Belichick that's running games

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Speaker 1: Last Sunday gets the Pats and you know, I know,

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Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler's back. You know, you have a full compliment

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Speaker 1: so they've played well inside the AFC West. Again. It's

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Speaker 1: a team with an interim pit coach and Raheem Morris

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Speaker 1: who has them playing pretty well into December. So you know,

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Speaker 1: the window. They're playing pretty good ball right now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: right it's you know, this is a good it's a

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Speaker 1: solid offensive line, but i'd like to see Bosa get

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Speaker 1: And they do such a good job with so many

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Speaker 1: going to see that with the Falcons. It's going to

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Speaker 1: be more, hey, your best guy versus my best guy,

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Speaker 1: much like we saw with the Bills. And let's see

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Speaker 1: We're excited about it. This Atlanta team, you know that

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Speaker 1: new coach and the new general manager. So Justin Herbert,

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Speaker 1: the Charger's rookie quarterback. Obviously everyone had a down game

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Speaker 1: Agains the Patriots last Sunday, but he's been playing pretty remarkable.

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Speaker 1: When this Charge's offense is on, what do you think

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Speaker 1: the biggest challenges that Atlanta's defense faces when you have

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Speaker 1: guys like Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, Hunter Henry and then

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Speaker 1: Austin Ecklerher's returned to the lineup. Yes, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: The Falcons have done a good job of stopping the run.

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Speaker 1: But the past defense has been shaky all seasons, and um,

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Speaker 1: They weren't dare justin hunt Herbert to do that. They'll

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Speaker 1: worry about Mike Williams, and they don't really dark wis

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Speaker 1: I know he's hurt earlier in his career, but you know,

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Speaker 1: it looks like he's a forty nine catch just sixs

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Speaker 1: coverage for sometimes. I think Keyan O'Neill the safety would

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Speaker 1: be the answer the other time. So, yeah, they got

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Speaker 1: special teams units. Well, speaking of special teams, Young Way

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Speaker 1: um you've seen him really kind of entrenched himself with

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Speaker 1: the Falcons NFL's leading score. I believe how is Young

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Speaker 1: Way Coop and what is he met actually to this

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Speaker 1: this Falcons team? Just the ability to hit those field

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Speaker 1: goals and be really a reliable player for them. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no question about it. Right now, he's got to be

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Speaker 1: an MVP uh and and part of that's a good

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Speaker 1: thing and parts of bad. The bad part is they're

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Speaker 1: stalling in the red zone. He's getting a lot twenty

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Speaker 1: nine yard field goals, but the good part is he's

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Speaker 1: hit his last five from fifty or more, including a

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Speaker 1: fifty four yard or so. Matt Ryan said, Hey, we

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Speaker 1: just got to get to the thirty eight yard line

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Speaker 1: and we know we got points, so we don't want

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Speaker 1: so they got a little extension. Went young Wayku, he's

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Speaker 1: H took away. They took away his kickoff. Dude, he's

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Speaker 1: in there. So now moving forward, we'll m you know,

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Speaker 1: see if he can continue to make field goals. He's

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Speaker 1: hit his last twenty four going back to week four

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Speaker 1: of the season. Final thing for you, obviously, both these

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Speaker 1: teams disappointing seasons, not gonna be in the playoffs, but

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Speaker 1: still a lot to play for for these guys. May

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Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta put good things out on film.

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Speaker 1: You're playing for each other, they're playing for the guy

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Speaker 1: next to you. What do you think it's gonna decide

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Speaker 1: this game based on everything that you've seen from the

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Speaker 1: Falcons this season, Well, you know they got a challenge.

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Speaker 1: You got the thirtieth pass defense going against the number

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Speaker 1: three passed offense, So that's gonna be tough. You know,

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Speaker 1: you know I'm seeing points. I'm seeing points. Not gonna

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Speaker 1: be a shutdown game. Uh, just worried. I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 1: the charge is gonna show up after last week in

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Speaker 1: the forty five to nothing embarrassment. So I'm thinking this

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Speaker 1: is gonna be a really tough game for the Falcons.

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Speaker 1: Coach Glynn. I don't know if he took over special teams,

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Speaker 1: but he was talking about it. But you can't. You

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Speaker 1: can't give up what they've been giving up, both special

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Speaker 1: teams and be competitive in the National Football League. If

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Speaker 1: they get that under control, we're gonna have a really

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Speaker 1: tough football game on Sunday or two teams probably not

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Speaker 1: going anywhere by playing for Pride. D Orlando Ledbetter, I

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Speaker 1: wish I was gonna see you as so Fi Stadium

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, but hopefully we'll catch up down the line.

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Speaker 1: Really appreciate your time and your insight today, Chris. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for having me on your podcasts and good Lucky I

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Speaker 1: missed you on I missed that. No me la. All right, guys,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for us. A big thanks to

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Speaker 1: d Orlando Ledbetter and Matt money Smith for joining me

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Speaker 1: and of course, thanks to you all for listening. Be

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Speaker 1: sure to download and subscribe to the Chargers Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: wherever you listen to podcasts, enjoy the game on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: have a great weekend, and until next time, I'm Chris

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