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

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Speaker 1: seventeen edition of Chargers Weekly. Volts looking to close the

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Speaker 1: season with four straight wins and three straight in the

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Speaker 1: AFC West for the first time since twenty thirteen. Wishing

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Speaker 1: all Chargers fans a very happy New year. And let's

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Speaker 1: get it right to it with the voice of the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: Matt money Smith. All right, guys, let's see what's on

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Speaker 1: the menu. Hired by Subway, last one of twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: Here with the voice of the Chargers, Matt money Smith

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Speaker 1: money three straight in the AFC West. Potentially they haven't

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Speaker 1: done that since twenty thirteen. You and I had talked

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Speaker 1: about this the last couple of weeks. Who cares about

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Speaker 1: draft pick and draft selection and the year on a high? Now,

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Speaker 1: guess what they're doing, you know? And I think people

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Speaker 1: now realize that. And when they won the game against

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Speaker 1: the Falcons, you heard a little bit of the belly

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Speaker 1: aching of man. Can you imagine the ransom we would

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Speaker 1: get for one of these quarterbacks and how much draft

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Speaker 1: capital we'd be able to amass. And as we said,

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Speaker 1: I think you're now seeing it too. I almost feel

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Speaker 1: like there's a little bit more or maybe a different

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Speaker 1: slice of the personality of her birth that's coming out

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Speaker 1: with these wins and how important it, you know, the

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Speaker 1: victory brisket with his roommate gay neighbors. For those that

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Speaker 1: follow him on Instagram, you see the posts have become

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Speaker 1: more frequent. He's kind of cutting loose a little bit

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Speaker 1: because he's winning, and I think, yeah, he's having fun,

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Speaker 1: and you know what, I think it also speaks to

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Speaker 1: what's important to him. You know, how many how many

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Speaker 1: PEPSI Rookie of the Weeks did he win? And we

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Speaker 1: didn't see those posts on Instagram. We didn't see him

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Speaker 1: kind of flaunting or flexing and I don't know all

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Speaker 1: the different words the kids use, right flossing all over

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Speaker 1: the place about how he was doing individually. But now

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Speaker 1: that they're winning, you're seeing it, you know, and I

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Speaker 1: think that's that speaks to why it was so important

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Speaker 1: for this team to try to close, especially in the division,

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Speaker 1: with wins, draft status be and end on a note. Look,

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Speaker 1: you m seven and nine, after going through all the

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Speaker 1: losses they had to deal with, especially you know, having

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Speaker 1: a win streak following the forty five nothing embarrassment against

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Speaker 1: the Patriots and being able to rebound from that and

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Speaker 1: win four straight games, I think says a whole lot

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Speaker 1: about this team in the direction they're headed for twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one. I'm glad you mentioned Justin and his personality

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Speaker 1: because it's it has come out a little bit. You know,

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Speaker 1: he was in the heat of the heat of the

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Speaker 1: game in Vegas when he was yelling at he was

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Speaker 1: in but the Instagram posts, for instance, I think he

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Speaker 1: had a catch says I just want a ball with

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Speaker 1: my bros. And his entire team likes. You can tell

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Speaker 1: that these veterans and his teammates, they are rallying around

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Speaker 1: him because they Hey, they know he's the real deal.

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Speaker 1: And b it's just so much fun to play. Austin said,

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Speaker 1: it's been a pleasure to play with you. You know,

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Speaker 1: Austin caught the record breaking passing touchdown. So to see

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Speaker 1: the camaraderie in the guys rally around him in his

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Speaker 1: rookie season, I think that tells you all you need

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Speaker 1: to know. Well, and again, I think I think that's

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Speaker 1: why the wins were so important, you know, as opposed

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Speaker 1: to him just playing well individually, because there's no team's

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Speaker 1: success there to celebrate. It's hard, I think for for

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Speaker 1: guys to want to celebrate him when they're losing football games.

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Speaker 1: It sends the wrong message. But when they're winning football games,

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Speaker 1: it does give them an opportunity to share publicly, you know,

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Speaker 1: and their pressors or through their social media feeds. This

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Speaker 1: guy's really special where it will probably be you know,

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Speaker 1: that the team that's around him, that's helping him, you know,

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Speaker 1: in the process. And again, I think it's just so

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Speaker 1: important for the team moving forward with so many young

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Speaker 1: so many extensions well not so many, but you know,

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Speaker 1: just extensions that have been signed with Joey and Keenan

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Speaker 1: you know, one another through this individual that's just smashing

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Speaker 1: the National Football League money. I was going through just

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Speaker 1: I think if they can protect just a little bit

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Speaker 1: I remember Baker threw those twenty seven touchdowns this rookie year.

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Speaker 1: know my reply to that was, you know, and he

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Speaker 1: almost set it up as well, Ryan did. I said,

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Speaker 1: for Baker in that year? It was lack of protection.

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Speaker 1: The offensive line was probably the worst in the league,

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Speaker 1: and you know, the coaching was an issue. I said,

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Speaker 1: so for for Justin, you think about the offensive line

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Speaker 1: Brian Blaga has not been healthy all season long. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: if you get that part of it right, as you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: It was it's been nice to see Lamp actually have

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Speaker 1: And then defensively, you know, money we've talked about Darwin

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Speaker 1: There was a moment in that game where ray Shawn

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Speaker 1: But you know, you look at that game and it

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Speaker 1: You know, as he's out there was no pass rush,

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Speaker 1: four tackles. But you brought this up a few weeks ago.

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