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Speaker 1: The late fifteen ten touchdowns. What's up, guys? Welcome into

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Speaker 1: a Week thirteen edition of Chargers Weekly, as always, joined

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Speaker 1: by Matt money Smith. It's Raiders Week and Money I

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Speaker 1: was just telling you last night I popped on Hard

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Speaker 1: Knocks just you know, the Chargers were a part of

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Speaker 1: episode four, so I figured i'd I'd dive in and

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Speaker 1: check it out. And I heard DJ and Money sprinkled

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Speaker 1: throughout the montage of the Chargers Cardinals games. Very cool

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Speaker 1: to hear your voice and uh hey man two point

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Speaker 1: conversion may have saved the season. Wow. Look that's a

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Speaker 1: Mustlin game. I think this week is a Mustlin game

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Speaker 1: as well. I mean, you know, and that's projecting that,

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Speaker 1: you know, if they're not gonna win out, I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: can they beat the Dolphins shirt fighting shirt? It's just

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Speaker 1: gonna be a heck of a lot harder, you know,

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Speaker 1: based on what we've seen through you know, ten eleven

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Speaker 1: games actually, since the Cardinals are on there by this week,

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Speaker 1: so eleven games from each of these teams. They look

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Speaker 1: to have their issues, their flaws. That's why they have

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Speaker 1: the record they do, are ranked where they are, and

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Speaker 1: the Chargers got to win these games. You know, Titan's

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Speaker 1: going to be tough with the way they run the

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Speaker 1: The Dolphins look to have, you know, arguably the most

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Speaker 1: unstoppable offense in the league right now with Tyreet Kill

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Speaker 1: and Jaalen Waddle. So you want to take advantage of

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Speaker 1: the advantages. And that was a Cardinals team that I

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Speaker 1: think you sought after that loss. You know, there's just

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Speaker 1: in disarray and there's some serious issues there, you know,

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Speaker 1: with their quarterback, with coaches being let go, with attrition.

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Speaker 1: That offensive line was you know, a mess, and they

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Speaker 1: weren't able to take advantage of it until the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: And thankfully they were able to take advantage of it

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Speaker 1: there and get out with the victory. And I knew,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think a lot of people that you know,

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Speaker 1: do what we do and watch football weekend and week out.

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Speaker 1: You knew they were going for two. There was no

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Speaker 1: way they were going to send that defense back out there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they had three straight three and outs, but you don't

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Speaker 1: want to send them back out there, not when you

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Speaker 1: have an opportunity to win the game from the two

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Speaker 1: yard line. It's just that that presents a much better

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Speaker 1: option to emerge victorious, I think than trusting a coin flip,

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Speaker 1: maybe losing it and asking your defense to stop a

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Speaker 1: team that had really kind of had their way with

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Speaker 1: you for three quarters. I said on Monday, it truly

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Speaker 1: is a fork in the road moment for this team.

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Speaker 1: I think that game in that way they won, really

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Speaker 1: energized the players in the locker room and hopefully that's

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Speaker 1: something you can build on, and you know, if you

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Speaker 1: don't get it, then we're talking about a team it's

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Speaker 1: five and six that has to literally maybe win out

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Speaker 1: to get to the playoffs. And you have a team

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Speaker 1: that man the run defense is the one thing I

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Speaker 1: think we'd be talking about today if they didn't win

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Speaker 1: that game as the lead, right, like five straight games

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty seven yards on the ground are

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Speaker 1: more one hundred and eighty one allowed to the Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, defense buckled down the last half of

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, but the way it started and the

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Speaker 1: something that can happen, especially with Josh Jacobs, a running

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Speaker 1: game that's starting to get figured out here in Miami

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Speaker 1: that's a tough stretch of running backs. Bony. Yeah, I'll

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Speaker 1: start with you know, the you know, the point you

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Speaker 1: is ability to validity to that that. You know, they

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Speaker 1: the other side. Who is your opponent the previous week?

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Speaker 1: Did you get your head kicked in? Did you win easy?

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Speaker 1: Is it a short week, are you on the road?

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Speaker 1: You know, so many factors that go in week to

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Speaker 1: that does help. You know, it's, hey, Keenan's back, Herbert's healthy.

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Speaker 1: We believe in these guys. And you heard a lot

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Speaker 1: of that after the game of you know, we just

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Speaker 1: seemed like, you know, as I looked at the replies, Chris,

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Speaker 1: and I think this would be a nice vehicle into

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Speaker 1: don't mean it that way, but um, it's just they

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Speaker 1: think he was very careful not to position it that

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Speaker 1: and the guys aren't doing it. It's not what it was.

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah did a great film room on him. How

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Speaker 1: just he's a load in the run game, he's also

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Speaker 1: a pain in the passing game. Tom, what do you do?

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Speaker 1: Because I don't think the scheme really changes at this point. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe maybe Gaziano and Fijoko have a couple

431
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Speaker 1: extra games to get even more comfortable. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what the right answer is in terms of slowing Josh Jacobs.

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Speaker 1: And then you know you also have to deal with

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Speaker 1: Derek cart and Davante Adams on the outside. So I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, scheme wise, it's not scheme isn't said? Well,

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Speaker 1: I guess scheme could be the way to phrase it,

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Speaker 1: but it's just committing resources to stopping the run, right,

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Speaker 1: are you comfortable commit eight men in the box and

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Speaker 1: then saying, all right, Derek Carr is gonna have to

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Speaker 1: beat us, and and you know what, Yeah, I would

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Speaker 1: do that. I would do that. I would I would

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Speaker 1: commit the resources to stop Josh Jacobs. And I know

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Speaker 1: it's not ideal. And look, it's a reason why you know,

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Speaker 1: we talked about the AFC West being the best division

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Speaker 1: that we'd seen in a while because we knew, Look,

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Speaker 1: if you commit resources to stop Josh Jacobs, you got

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Speaker 1: the Vantae Adams out there, and he might be the

448
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Speaker 1: best receiver in the league. So you're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: contend with that and Darren Waller. And thankfully for the Chargers,

450
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Speaker 1: Waller's not out there. But like that's yes, that's that's

451
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Speaker 1: the riddle that that's the that's the riddle that the

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Speaker 1: coaches have to answer. How do we do it? What's

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Speaker 1: the best approach? And if it were me, yes, scheme wise,

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Speaker 1: if that's how you want to personnel wise, I would

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Speaker 1: commit the resources to the box and I would do

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Speaker 1: everything I could to stop Josh Jacobs. And because I

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Speaker 1: feel like Derek Carr is gonna put that ball. Look,

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Speaker 1: he threw two bad picks in the game against Seattle,

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Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs crushed him three hundred plus scrimmage yards, you know,

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Speaker 1: two hundred twenty nine in the ground. I would just assume,

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Speaker 1: see if Derek can keep doing it to Davante. Unfortunately,

462
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Speaker 1: you know, it's like this would be the JC Jackson game.

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Speaker 1: You just stick him on Davante Adams and say you

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Speaker 1: go where he goes. Don't worry about anything else. It

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Speaker 1: is you and him. I don't care about what you know,

466
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Speaker 1: we're not going to play, you know, zone concept or

467
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Speaker 1: you gotta worry about quarters or whatever, cover three. Just

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Speaker 1: freaking stick on Davante and we'll do everything else. And

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Speaker 1: that's the way you would have approached this game. And

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Speaker 1: then you commit your resources to stop in Jacobs. But

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Speaker 1: if it were me, that's what I would do. As

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Speaker 1: far as the offense. Yeah, look, if you can do it,

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Speaker 1: of course, I'd love to see you. Let's go big

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Speaker 1: and then have them have to throw. But you know what,

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Speaker 1: Seahawks scored a ton of points in that game thirty four,

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Speaker 1: and they kept running it. They kept running it. They

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Speaker 1: did not stop. Josh Jacobs carried the hell out of

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Speaker 1: that ball. In that game and overtime in the fourth

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Speaker 1: quarter when they were down and needed it, carried it

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Speaker 1: on a third and one and a fourth and one,

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Speaker 1: didn't get it late in the game. Like they are

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Speaker 1: committed to running the ball now, Josh McDaniels has realized,

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Speaker 1: this is what I have to do to win football game.

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Speaker 1: How about the Raiders stopping the run and it's slowing

485
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Speaker 1: the Walker? I think he had fourteen for twenty eight

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Speaker 1: if I read that correctly. I mean, so they they

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Speaker 1: got after it and Jerry Tillery was out there figure

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Speaker 1: that one out. You know, I think one of the

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Speaker 1: worst run defenders that we'd seen last year and through

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Speaker 1: this year and the reason why he's not on the

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Speaker 1: Chargers this year. And he was part of that defensive

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Speaker 1: line that held Kenneth Walker at one point nine yards

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Speaker 1: per carry. Jerry Tillery reunion on Sunday. I think we

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Speaker 1: got a question about Jerry two. Is there any hope

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Speaker 1: for the Chargers run defense against Henry and Jacobs on

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Speaker 1: the schedule? We kind of answered that. I think to

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Speaker 1: your point money about the fourth quarter life if they

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Speaker 1: can kind of carry over what they did in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter into that Vegas game. I think that'd be

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Speaker 1: a nice sign. By the way, you're you're going straight

501
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Speaker 1: to Derrick Henry, don't don't sleep on Mike McDaniels and

502
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Speaker 1: freaking Jeff Wilson and they figured something out there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that that may be the more scary one, by the way,

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Speaker 1: because you have that you cannot commit resources to it

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Speaker 1: because of Tyree killing. I believe that to be the

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Speaker 1: scariest one. I think that is this kind of you know, uh,

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Speaker 1: excuse we got we got some Joey Bosa questions and

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Speaker 1: a doctor don't know, don't know. Um, this was from

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Speaker 1: t k uh would be good to do a quick

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Speaker 1: injury summary on who we expect to be back for

511
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Speaker 1: the stretch run, Who is not Slater situation known? What

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Speaker 1: about Geiten or palm guitans out for the year? Uh?

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Speaker 1: No guests on Joey at this point, Any chance we

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Speaker 1: have them for the Dolphins or Titans. Love the pod

515
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 1: listen all year. Thanks. This is from Tid Kennedy. Appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: You We just don't know, like we don't know. We

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Speaker 1: know Derwin do not practice on Wednesday. Um, Bryce Callahan

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Speaker 1: did not practice on Wednesday. I think Darwin had a

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Speaker 1: hip Bryce Callahan had a groin, Mike Williams did not practice,

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Speaker 1: um Corey Linsley did not practice with the concussion. So

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Speaker 1: those are all things to kind of monitor throughout the week.

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Speaker 1: You know, there'll be another injury update today and then

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Speaker 1: obviously Friday will be the big one. And uh and

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Speaker 1: if you don't know, by the way, you know you

525
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Speaker 1: have access listeners to the injury report if you just

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Speaker 1: go to Chargers dot com. There's a little tab there

527
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Speaker 1: that says injuries and you get to see exactly what

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Speaker 1: we see when they send it to us. They post

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Speaker 1: it so you can follow along day by day. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they're not going to give you a whole lot. It's

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Speaker 1: medical is always tricky, and Coach Stealey usually gets that

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Speaker 1: question at the top of his Wednesday presser and usually

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Speaker 1: addresses it. I guess to the best of his ability.

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Speaker 1: So money, let's take a quick break. We got a

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Speaker 1: ton of questions about the offense and the Raiders take

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Speaker 1: let's continue with these questions both of fifteen. This is fun.

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Speaker 1: In your honest assessment, which players are named to the

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl and All Pro Team this year? You saw

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Speaker 1: you saw guys like Drew Tranquil and Drwin and Austin

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Speaker 1: I believe kind of tweets some stuff out Thursday morning. Um,

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Speaker 1: Austin Ekelers, I've been to a Pro Bowl. He deserves

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Speaker 1: to be to a Pro Bowl. He's he's gonna go

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Speaker 1: this year, I think so. I think Austen, Yeah, Eckler's going.

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Speaker 1: I think Herbert would go. Uh, I think Durwin would go.

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Speaker 1: And would you say, you know, Drew TRANKI is having

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Speaker 1: a pretty good year. Is he on the fringe there?

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Speaker 1: You think he should Drew should go with the interception,

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Speaker 1: with the sacks, with the tackles. Um, he absolutely should go. Um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would say, I think that's that's about right. Durwin,

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Speaker 1: Uh Derwin, Tranquil from the defense, Herbert Eckler Linsley, although

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Speaker 1: with him being out, he's probably gonna be out for

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Speaker 1: a couple here would be my guest with the concussion,

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Speaker 1: so that's gonna be a tough one. So yeah, that

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Speaker 1: sounds about right. I think you're looking at for Herbert Eckler, Derwin, Shranquil,

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Speaker 1: and look, if Khalil can get to eleven twelve sacks,

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Speaker 1: you know, if he can, if Joey comes back for

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Speaker 1: maybe the final three or four games, if he can,

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Speaker 1: then Khalil could maybe get to eleven twelve sacks and

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Speaker 1: he could find himself out there as well. Somebody asked

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Speaker 1: about Drwin's chances for Here we go Blake if we

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Speaker 1: make the playoffs, is there a chance dj will get

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Speaker 1: some love for Defensive Player of the Year. I think

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Speaker 1: he'd have to go on quite the tear in December

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Speaker 1: if he's going to get Defensive Player of the years.

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Speaker 1: It seems like he plays so many positions and it

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Speaker 1: actually draws some attention away from how specially is two

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Speaker 1: or three more sacks, two or three more interceptions, dot

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Speaker 1: dot dot let me see him looking so yeah, let's

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Speaker 1: see if he's got three turnovers in the last two games.

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Speaker 1: If it's gonna be tough, that would be yeah. I

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Speaker 1: would say it's gonna be very tough. Just kind of

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Speaker 1: looking at you know, Chris Jones has ten sacks, eleven

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Speaker 1: tackles for loss, couple forced fumbles, you know, in the

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Speaker 1: chiefs of the number one seed. I think you look

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Speaker 1: at what Max Crosby's doing in Vegas. I know they

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Speaker 1: don't have a winning record, but he's probably the best

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Speaker 1: pass rusher in the NFL. Right now. We're gonna see

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Speaker 1: him on Sunday, you know, with his ten sacks, you know,

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Speaker 1: his two forced fumbles, Like that's um, it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: very hard. Speaking of Max Crosby, Yes, this is from

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Speaker 1: da Max Crosby period. How do we stop him from

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Speaker 1: wrecking the game like he did in Week eighteen the

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Speaker 1: last season. This is a game too where one of

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Speaker 1: the entries I did not mentioned. By the way, the

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Speaker 1: name mentioned Michael Parsons. Yeah, no he's not. I forgot

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Speaker 1: about Michael. It's like, yeah, that's not happening. It's not happened,

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Speaker 1: much as I'd love to see it. Yeah, hey, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't put it past Irwin to have an awesome

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Speaker 1: December and put himself in the kind of exactly what

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Speaker 1: would have to happen. As it stands right now, I

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00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: would say the gap between he and Mica is quite

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Speaker 1: substantial considering where the Cowboys are and what Parsons has

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Speaker 1: done weekend and week out. But yes, he is your

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Speaker 1: November Defensive Player of the month, he wins the December

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Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the month. And yes, now he's in

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Speaker 1: the conversation. So Max Crosby, we we saw it week

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Speaker 1: eighteen last year. You mentioned the year he's having. How

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Speaker 1: about Chandler Jones has half a sack this year? It's

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00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 1: been a mess. They thought they were gonna upgrade the

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Speaker 1: defensive backfield with rock your scene and you know, be

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Speaker 1: able just to plug Chandler Jones in there for Yannick

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Speaker 1: at Gakway. Look at it's a precipitous drop when it

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Speaker 1: when it's gone, and you know, Chandler's been doing it

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Speaker 1: for a long long time, and it just does not

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Speaker 1: look like that juice is there this year. That was

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Speaker 1: there last year. So how do they stop Max Money

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Speaker 1: with this offensive line? If if Trey can't go, you

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Speaker 1: have Foster Sorell And we saw Falster had a tough

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Speaker 1: go i think against Nick Bosa a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: Then you get you get Max Crosby, and then you know,

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Speaker 1: we didn't really mentioned the fact that if Corey Linsley

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Speaker 1: doesn't play, what a blow that is. He saw what

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals defensive line was able to do and get

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Speaker 1: him after justin it sacking him quite a bit. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like nine sacks in the last two games, that's a

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Speaker 1: that's a rough time. Or two. Yeah, I think it

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Speaker 1: was like nine in the last three. Or's a line

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Speaker 1: in the last two, nine and the last two. I

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Speaker 1: think right, he was nine in the last two. So

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Speaker 1: after thirteen over the first nine, that's exactly what it was.

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Speaker 1: Thirteen over the first nine, nine in the last two.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a tough deal. And we saw it

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Speaker 1: last year was Storm Norton and Max Crosby just I

637
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 1: think it was every snap he was in the backfield

638
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 1: and it totally affected the way the Chargers were, you know,

639
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 1: what they were trying to do offensively. I'm the only

640
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: thing you really can do is just run away from him.

641
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: You know, wherever he is, you're booting the opposite direction.

642
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: And because you know, I just think right now we

643
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 1: kind of know what the tie ends look like. And

644
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: you know, unfortunately, the blocking just has not been there

645
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 1: this year from that group. It's been a real struggle.

646
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, in Foster Sarell's defense, it's

647
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 1: just it's a lot to ask man, you know, and

648
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: Jamari Sawyer as well, Like you have got a sixth

649
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: round rookie that's at left tackle and an undrafted looking

650
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: for a job four months ago free agent at right tackle.

651
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: That is a rough deal. And that's why I think

652
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 1: it's like I say, hey, just run away from him. Well,

653
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: wherever he goes, he's going to have a decided advantage.

654
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 1: You know. That's that's the problem. And that's nothing. That's

655
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: not a slide on Sawyer and Surrell. That's just the

656
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 1: reality of it. It's not going to be easy. The

657
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 1: best way to overcome it is to run right at him.

658
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: And you know, and unfortunately, the Chargers run game offensively

659
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 1: has not been good. So if you can try to

660
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: get that going again. Hey there's our friend Jerry Tillery.

661
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 1: If you can just run right at him and established

662
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 1: a run game with Josh Kelly now that he's back

663
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: with Austin and with Isaiah Spiller, I think that's that's

664
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: the best remedy, is not. You can't allow him to

665
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 1: just pin his ears back and pass rush on every play.

666
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: You've got to get him to have to think, Okay,

667
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: I've now been burned, you know, for eight yards to

668
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: carry because I keep coming up field. I've got to

669
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 1: take a beat and slow down and set an edge.

670
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: And I can't just go get the pastor So that's

671
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: what you have to do. Came in. That's the same thing.

672
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: I think you have good answer there. Who will the

673
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 1: Charger's counter with the face off against Crosby? I think

674
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 1: running the vocal would be Austin. Yeah, there you go.

675
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 1: But you know what, it's a nice thingue into this

676
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: question from our guy a Fear. This is a question

677
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: for money. Will the Chargers abandon the run versus the

678
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: Raiders and let Herbert Cook, Mike Peyton Manning forget the run,

679
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: air it out can't do that because if you abandoned

680
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: the run. What did we just say, Max Crosby's got

681
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: an incredible advantage on that defensive line against the offensive line,

682
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: So if you abandoned, He's just coming every single play.

683
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 1: And we know his motor. I nobody's got a better

684
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: motor in the league. He'll just keep coming and coming.

685
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:06,719
Speaker 1: We saw it last year. Um what But but what

686
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: I do think you can do to counter it is,

687
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 1: you know, Keenan is just so good at getting open fast.

688
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 1: You know, that's the one thing is he gets open

689
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: in a hurry, and you can just you can speed

690
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: that clock up and just get the ball out. And

691
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 1: you know, now Crossby's flying up field and you've got

692
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: a little vacated spot. You know, Keenan always finds that

693
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: soft spot, and you're just completing fives and sevens and

694
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: methodically moving your way down the field, you know, churning clock.

695
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: So it's the best. That's really the only way to

696
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 1: counter it. It's not with protection, it's it's and like

697
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 1: I said, because you're you've got either Sawyer or or

698
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: Pipkins I'm sorry, or Sorell, and it's just gonna be hard.

699
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: It's gonna be hard. You know. That's Josh Williams by

700
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 1: way of Delaware. Okay, with another sputtered second half performance.

701
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:00,080
Speaker 1: Do you believe the offensive struggles in the same I

702
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 1: could have to put points on the board eighteen and

703
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 1: three games. An execution problem or lack of adjustments. Yeah,

704
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: I wish I knew. This is one I don't have

705
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: an answer for. I don't get it, Chris. It's it

706
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 1: doesn't It just takes one play, you know. That's a

707
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 1: thing like it just seems like in the third quarter

708
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,359
Speaker 1: it's always one play. I think last week they got

709
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 1: that first first down and then I want to say,

710
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,919
Speaker 1: Sawyer got a holding penalty. If I remember, right, I don't.

711
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 1: I don't quite remember. Let me see if I can

712
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: go to the play by play and remember how because

713
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,359
Speaker 1: I remember this start of the third quarter, they had

714
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 1: that great oh no, their first possession, they got the

715
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 1: field goal. That's right. They stalled in the they had

716
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 1: a goal to go and just bang bang too. You

717
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: had the short run and two incomplete passes, So that's

718
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 1: where that one stalled out. But I think it was

719
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 1: the next one. Yeah, the four play punt there you

720
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 1: go first and ten twenty three yards on the first play,

721
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 1: twenty three yards on the first member that was that

722
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 1: Herbert scramble, and then minus one yard, minus three yards

723
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: on the next two plays, and you're out. And it's

724
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,879
Speaker 1: just it's see, it's not just one thing, right, it's both.

725
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,279
Speaker 1: It's it's it's a lack of I think execution and

726
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 1: then maybe adjustments at the same time, because you don't

727
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: have one thing kind of dictates. No, it just seems

728
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 1: like in every one of those possessions, there's that one

729
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,959
Speaker 1: because the very next drive was a three and out

730
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:26,880
Speaker 1: and it was a sack. Yeah, that was the one

731
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 1: where Allan just basically stepped over will Clap's head and

732
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: was in Herbert's lap immediately and it was a sack.

733
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:37,359
Speaker 1: And now you're at second and fourteen and that's it. Well,

734
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 1: we'll think about that too, man. Yeah, you know what

735
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: for Will Clap is in that same category. I mean,

736
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 1: he's doing his best. There is all pro center on

737
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:48,839
Speaker 1: this team that's not in the football game. And look,

738
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 1: Zach Allen is gonna be Zach Allen's gonna be one

739
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 1: of the best interior defensive linemen you face all season.

740
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,439
Speaker 1: You know, it's not a household name. It's not Aaron Donald,

741
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 1: Chris Jones. But Zach Allen is good and he's having

742
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,839
Speaker 1: a heck of a year. So you know, JJ watt

743
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: Zach on the interior that line that is nasty, and

744
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 1: you know, I think you gotta cut him some slack. Yeah,

745
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: you got a rookie right tackle. Um, And you know,

746
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 1: let's give Trey Pipkins a lot of crap out. You know,

747
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 1: he's played well, and he's played hurt, and you know

748
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: it's it's a guy that they've actually been able to

749
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 1: rely on. I remember he got hurt in that Cleveland game.

750
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:23,439
Speaker 1: He came back. Um, so he's been he's been beat

751
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 1: up these last few weeks and and still kind of

752
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,799
Speaker 1: stays in this fight. Um from our guy Dan. Hey, guys,

753
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 1: hope he had a great holiday weekend. Which side of

754
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: the football do you feel needs to improve more? As

755
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: much as the defense gets dragged by the fans, in

756
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 1: my opinion, they've also done enough for the team to

757
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 1: win these last three games. Thoughts. It's it's not just

758
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 1: one side. I think it's both. I mean, I think

759
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 1: the offense. I don't think that's an I would just sorry,

760
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: go ahead, Chris no, I just I think it's obviously

761
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: the run defense, but the offense has to be more

762
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 1: efficient in the second half. So it's like it goes

763
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: his hand at hand to me, I think both sides

764
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,279
Speaker 1: need to improve collectively for this team to have a

765
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: chance to go to the posting. Yeah, I just disagree

766
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 1: with with the position. You know, the the offense had

767
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:12,720
Speaker 1: the lead with one hundred and six seconds left against

768
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, you know, so that's that that suggests Okay,

769
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 1: well that's not the case. In the last three games.

770
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 1: The offense had the lead with a minute forty six

771
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,399
Speaker 1: left and that you know, it's Patrick Mahomes. But yeah,

772
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 1: you got it. You got to hold them. You're up,

773
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: you're up four. They need a touchdown. You've got to

774
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: win that game. Um. Yeah, the defense, the defense held,

775
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 1: you know and showed up in in Arizona. But you know,

776
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 1: when when the defense knows you need a touchdown, you know,

777
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:42,799
Speaker 1: it's not like it's easy. It's not like Herbert's just

778
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: making easy work of it. Man, that's a that's a

779
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 1: labor that's the offense carrying their weight as well. So

780
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: now I would just disagree with with that position. I

781
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: think it's you know, all three facets have to execute

782
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 1: with how much how much attrition this team has had

783
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: to deal with this year. You need it in all

784
00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:01,800
Speaker 1: three phases and that's why they won that game in Arizona.

785
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: All right, speaking of one one phase here, how his

786
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:08,359
Speaker 1: special teams coordinator Riot Ficking changed this unit from one

787
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: of the worst to one of the best in the league. Well, numbers,

788
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:13,760
Speaker 1: it's been a yeah, I mean a ton of different personnel.

789
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:17,800
Speaker 1: Number one, you know, you've got a new punter, and

790
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:22,240
Speaker 1: then I think JK has changed the punt coverage dramatically.

791
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 1: Dramatically with his hang time lack of return, guys don't

792
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 1: have to deal with a return on every single punt

793
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: like they did last year. You know, Ty would boom

794
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: the heck out of the ball, but it had no

795
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:38,319
Speaker 1: hang time, so he'd have these ridiculous gross numbers, you know,

796
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 1: at like forty nine and a half or fifty you

797
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: know yards gross, but then the net was like thirty

798
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,799
Speaker 1: eight because they're getting twelve yards per return and you know,

799
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 1: guys aren't able to set up. So I think with

800
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 1: the way that j K Scott punts, you know you've

801
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:56,399
Speaker 1: got guys that are able to man their assignments like

802
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 1: you know that return by Carter Special Teams wise. You

803
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: know you heard the guy talk about it. It's like

804
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 1: we've practiced that man and it was called on the

805
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: sideline return, right, we all knew this is this is

806
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:09,320
Speaker 1: your assignment. You know, every man has to make his block.

807
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 1: If you don't, If one doesn't make the block, it

808
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 1: recks the whole thing because you've got to make that wall.

809
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: And they were able to execute. So I think, you know,

810
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: coach Ficken has done a great job of you know,

811
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 1: preaching what he needs, and they now have the guys

812
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 1: they drafted. Look Dean Leonard, Jossier Taylor they make that

813
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 1: play against the Broncos. You know those are two rookies,

814
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 1: two new guys in the game that are out there. Yeah,

815
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 1: you know, two new guys that are out there. So

816
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 1: I think you're getting And remember, like it's hard to

817
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: commit financial resources to special teams. You know. I think

818
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,760
Speaker 1: if you if you gave Tom Telesco some truth serum

819
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 1: and said, hey, should you have kept Derek Watt for

820
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 1: ten million bucks, he'd say absolutely, you know, and even

821
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 1: though his primary role with Special Teams, it's like you

822
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 1: need that guy, And I think when you have to

823
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: replace him and you get young and you do it

824
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 1: through the draft, you're just hoping, you know, and I

825
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:01,839
Speaker 1: think that Nick Neimani, Yeah, Nick Neiman has been able

826
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,320
Speaker 1: to be that guy in his second year. Xander Horvof

827
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 1: has been able to be that guy. Joss here, Taylor,

828
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:09,239
Speaker 1: Dean Leonard, They've been able to be that guy. And

829
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: I think that's helped a lot. JK. Scott special teams

830
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 1: players the way. By the way, who's going to be

831
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 1: the X factor on offense for the Chargers to take

832
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 1: out the Raiders defense on Sunday? This is from Kevin

833
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 1: the Red Dog eighty eight. I don't know if I'll

834
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 1: necessarily take out the Raiders defense, but just staying with

835
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: a guy who's been awesome on special teams and on

836
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 1: offense is DeAndre carter Man seven for seventy seven and

837
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: a touchdown. He has stepped up in the absence of

838
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:42,320
Speaker 1: both Mike and Keenan and now you know, Justin trusts him.

839
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: This was a guy who really only had wide receiver

840
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:49,319
Speaker 1: jews last year, and I think at Washington he was like,

841
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 1: you know, a wide receiver four, wide receiver five. He

842
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: comes into this program with that potential flexibility at wide

843
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 1: receiver five and look at him, he's making huge impacts

844
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:01,799
Speaker 1: Layton game or late in the season. Rather, I guess

845
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 1: I'll just say, Chris, I hope it's not him, because

846
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 1: I'd love for it to be Mike Williams, Josh Palmer

847
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 1: and Keenan Allen out there. You know That's what I Yeah, well,

848
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: that's what my hope is, that that Mike's ready to

849
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:14,319
Speaker 1: come back. I'm thinking x X factor. You know, the

850
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 1: X factor guy is the guy that's not Keenan, right,

851
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm saying. I don't know if he

852
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 1: would get the reps then, right, if we can get Keenan,

853
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 1: Mike and Josh out there as yours, your three and

854
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,839
Speaker 1: you're thirteen personnel, then that's what I would love to see. Um,

855
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,879
Speaker 1: he's been great, You're right, you know, I think he's

856
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,279
Speaker 1: been great, and I'd love to see him more on

857
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 1: those jet sweeps and just trying to figure out how

858
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,360
Speaker 1: to get that timing right on those calls because I

859
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:38,759
Speaker 1: think he's such a weapon, um and and they're gonna

860
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 1: need it because obviously Mike didn't practice yesterday at the

861
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 1: time when we're you know, when we're doing this, see

862
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:45,359
Speaker 1: whether or not he's able to get out there. But man,

863
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 1: that would be such a huge help considering how he

864
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:49,799
Speaker 1: torched him in Week one and how he torched him

865
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 1: in a Week eighteen last year. Would love to see

866
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 1: Mike Williams out there. Um X factor, boy, oh boy.

867
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:00,840
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking defensively, you know, I'm just gonna go

868
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,400
Speaker 1: Drew Tranquil. I know it's you know, we I already

869
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 1: talked about him being a Pro Bowl or so. Was

870
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 1: that really an X factor? But I just think if

871
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 1: you can get Drew to make some of those big

872
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 1: splash plays like Derwin did last week forced fumble interception,

873
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:13,920
Speaker 1: I think Drew's capable of doing that. If we can

874
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:17,479
Speaker 1: get a Drew Tranquil interception, a sack, you know, maybe

875
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: a strip sack, I think that that could end up

876
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: going along way. I think you're gonna need to get

877
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: turnovers in this one like you did last week, you know,

878
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:27,280
Speaker 1: in order to get the win from Gerald to the Chargers.

879
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,239
Speaker 1: Start out with the pass to start the game and

880
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 1: then work to run in and get the offense to

881
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 1: run more smoothly. I just score points. Yeah, I think

882
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: that's I don't appreciate it, but I think that's you know,

883
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 1: but I kind of know what he's getting at, Like,

884
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:42,879
Speaker 1: do we run the ba do we run the ball

885
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,840
Speaker 1: too much on first down? Maybe, you know, maybe be

886
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 1: nice to see him, you know, on cork one on

887
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 1: first down. I think the trick and I'd like to

888
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 1: see Josh Kelly get going money a little bit suddenly.

889
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: I think. The thing to remember though, is, you know,

890
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 1: you got Max Crosby and an old line that is

891
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 1: that is down three of your five starters, and and

892
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 1: you know, for you know, if you consider Zion he's

893
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: a rookie so and Matt Filer's had a bit of

894
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:07,399
Speaker 1: a rough go this year. So that's the offensive line

895
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 1: you're talking about right now. So it's easier to say, hey,

896
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: let's just pass it around, you know, and abandon the

897
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 1: run since it doesn't really work. That's a waste of

898
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 1: a down. Well, no, it's not, because you're you're dealing

899
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,919
Speaker 1: with again, a really good pass rusher. They can wreck

900
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:24,240
Speaker 1: a game, bionic superhero. Why can't we play two running

901
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:26,840
Speaker 1: backs Ecklin Kelly or Spiller or Max tight End on

902
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 1: every play to help protect Herbert give him more time

903
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 1: to the throw down to the field. Given enough time,

904
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 1: Herbert can make any throw to any receiver. Agree, completely agree.

905
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 1: I would love you know, I would love to see

906
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 1: owned by the way, I said thirteen instead of eleven

907
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:44,879
Speaker 1: on the three receivers, because now I'm like, I would

908
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 1: love to see more thirteen. Yes, I'd love to see

909
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:49,799
Speaker 1: more three tight ends and match protect and let someone

910
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:51,919
Speaker 1: go out and make a play, you know, one hundred percent,

911
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 1: I would love to see more of that bionic superhero.

912
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 1: There you go. Yeah, three receivers eleven, three tight ends, thirteen.

913
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 1: My bad. This is an interesting question, Richard Miller. Is

914
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: there anyone unconventional on the roster, regardless of current position,

915
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:08,759
Speaker 1: that Sailey can coach up with the power and length

916
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 1: to set the edge versus the run on defense like

917
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: what New England did with Troy Brown at corner of

918
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: years ago. But at edge, I don't know, maybe late

919
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 1: in the year to be experimenting with that type of situation.

920
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 1: That was a thought with Van Noyon, you know, because look,

921
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 1: he's been an inside linebacker most of his career, his

922
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: entire career. Remember they tried that with Kenneth at the

923
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:29,919
Speaker 1: end of last year and it didn't really worked out. Yeah,

924
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 1: so he's trying, he's just not happening. Let's see, we

925
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 1: got through a lot of these good This is from

926
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 1: mar Would you say that at this point the offense

927
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 1: and defense is what it is. Getting some players back

928
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:48,799
Speaker 1: may help, but you know, she's not sure if this

929
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 1: team can really do what they need to do in

930
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 1: the playoffs as currently constructed. No, I would disagree with that.

931
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 1: I don't think it is what it is because you've

932
00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 1: got too many players out, you know. I I think

933
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 1: it's you know, I know you said I think the

934
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 1: question had it in there. But yeah, this offense is

935
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: going to look completely different. We saw it in the

936
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:08,919
Speaker 1: game against the Chiefs. You know, when Mike Williams, Keenan

937
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 1: Allen and Josh palmerre your three receivers, this offense is

938
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 1: going to look different. They're going to be more afraid

939
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: of the pass and they're going to commit more resources

940
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: and now you can run the ball. So to me, no,

941
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 1: the offense is not what it is. If, especially if

942
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: you can get Donald Parham healthy and we know what

943
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 1: kind of weapon he can be in the red zone, Like, yeah,

944
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:31,320
Speaker 1: this this offense will look completely different if it's healthy.

945
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,279
Speaker 1: Of Corey Lindsley's healthy of Trey Pipkins healthy, if in

946
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 1: fact they start the playoffs and all of a sudden

947
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 1: for Shaun Slater's out there, Yeah, this offense is not

948
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:44,359
Speaker 1: what it is. Same Defensively, they run for the most part,

949
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 1: teams are running away from Khalil Mack, so they are

950
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 1: running to where Joey Bosa would normally be set up.

951
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 1: You put both out there, and now you have bo

952
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:53,839
Speaker 1: Khalil coming from the edge, and you think about what

953
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: it looked like in that first half against the Chiefs,

954
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 1: in the game against the Raiders, you know, it's just

955
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 1: a different deal. So yeah, they're not what they are

956
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 1: because we believe that those players are going to be back.

957
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 1: So that's why I would just say it's not the case.

958
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 1: It could look dramatically different if Boss out there on defense,

959
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: and if Mike Keenan and Josh Palm are all play

960
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:20,799
Speaker 1: in wide receiver on offense from Max Money, who do

961
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 1: you expect to line up across from Davante Adams Asante

962
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: or Mikey Davison both. I think they're going to move

963
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 1: them around. I think you'll see some bryce if they

964
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 1: put them up in the slot I think they'll just

965
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 1: probably maintain their positions. I don't think you're gonna see

966
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 1: I don't think it makes sense to have Asante travel.

967
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:37,920
Speaker 1: I think you'll see, like we did in Week one,

968
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 1: it's a tight game. You'll see dear one on him.

969
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 1: You know, we saw drewe on him in that that

970
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:46,799
Speaker 1: Week one game and a couple pivotal on a couple

971
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 1: pivotal snaps. So that would not surprise me at all,

972
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 1: especially with no Darren Waller out there. If the Chargers

973
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: end up making the playoffs, which see do you think

974
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,399
Speaker 1: they will wind up with? This is from Zach Well.

975
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 1: I think you know, five, six or seven. I think

976
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 1: I think seven is probably it, right. I mean, you

977
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 1: look at at the way it's well, look at Miami.

978
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 1: So if Miami loses to San Francisco and the Chargers

979
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 1: beat the Raiders, that's a wild card tiebreaker right on Sunday.

980
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 1: And now I guess that's true. Maybe that gets you

981
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 1: to five or six. If you avoid seven, you probably

982
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 1: avoid Buffalo or Kansas City, and that means you're going

983
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: to Baltimore or Tennessee or Cincinnati. So I think i'd

984
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:32,720
Speaker 1: I'd like to be in that five or six seed.

985
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 1: So I know that I'm going to Baltimore, Cincinnati or

986
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:37,880
Speaker 1: Tennessee as opposed to Buffalo or Kids. I think the

987
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:40,279
Speaker 1: reason why, like for me, I'm not I don't fear

988
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:42,399
Speaker 1: any of the teams. I know you don't either, Chris,

989
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: But like last year, I would have said I don't

990
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 1: want to go to Kansas City or Buffalo in a

991
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:48,359
Speaker 1: Week one, you know, in the wild card round or something.

992
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 1: I felt like they had a advantage over other teams.

993
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:53,839
Speaker 1: Don't feel you know, Buffalo has really struggled this year,

994
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 1: especially lately Kansas City. We've seen the Chargers hang with them.

995
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:00,919
Speaker 1: You know, if Justin Herbert get hurt in that Week

996
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 1: one and they get some calls to go there a

997
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 1: week two, I should say I think they win that game.

998
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 1: They had the lead with a minute forty six to

999
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 1: go this last time, so I feel good about them

1000
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 1: trade and punches with the Chiefs. I think your point

1001
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 1: about the Dolphins is great. You know, beat the Raiders

1002
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 1: win that game against Miami because here's why, Because there's

1003
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 1: gonna be what I just pointed out. You know, wildcard

1004
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: teams are gonna win. So if you can work your

1005
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:27,320
Speaker 1: way up to that six, or maybe even the five,

1006
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: you know, because look, the Bills got to play the

1007
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 1: Dolphins again, they got to play the Patriots again. They've

1008
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 1: got to play you know, they do not have let

1009
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 1: me click on their schedule they have. They got the

1010
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: Jets again, they got the Bengals, the Patriots, the Dolphins

1011
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 1: at Patriots twice. Dolphins, Jets, Bengals, like, they do not

1012
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 1: have an easy stretch. So like, if you could somehow

1013
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 1: work your way up to the five, you might be

1014
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 1: hosting a playoff game, you know, because then you get

1015
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:56,240
Speaker 1: into the playoffs and it's like, okay, it's Bills versus

1016
00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 1: Dolphins in the first round. The Bills knock them off

1017
00:48:58,200 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 1: and they're the wild card team, or the Dolphins knock

1018
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:01,239
Speaker 1: them they're the wild card team. Now you get a

1019
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 1: home game. So that's where trying to work your way up,

1020
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 1: you know, it might benefit. But I think that the

1021
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 1: thing about you know, the thing about this year is

1022
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 1: I just don't I don't necessarily have a fear or

1023
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 1: an aversion to the road. I just you know, I don't.

1024
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: I don't think it really matters. I don't think they're

1025
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 1: on the road. Yeah, they've played much exactly they're much

1026
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:23,680
Speaker 1: better on the road than they are at home. So like,

1027
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:25,799
Speaker 1: it doesn't really bother me all that much. Just get in.

1028
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 1: And they've won close games on the round, you know,

1029
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,839
Speaker 1: I think that's that's really important. Get I think the

1030
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:32,279
Speaker 1: fact that it's been kind of ugly in your six

1031
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:35,719
Speaker 1: and five you lose the fact that you've gone on

1032
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 1: the road and you've won four games. The two you

1033
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:40,319
Speaker 1: lost where to San Francisco, which you held a lead

1034
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 1: in in the fourth quarter, in Kansas City, which you

1035
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:45,880
Speaker 1: are dominating that first half. So I think every time

1036
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:49,399
Speaker 1: they've gone on the road, Um, you know, Derwin said

1037
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:51,920
Speaker 1: it to me on Saturday, said there's something about getting

1038
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:53,840
Speaker 1: on the bus, getting on the plane with your guys,

1039
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:57,799
Speaker 1: and getting after an opponent in their place. So I'm

1040
00:49:57,840 --> 00:49:59,840
Speaker 1: with you on that. I think the only reason I

1041
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:03,320
Speaker 1: want to avoid Buffalo is if there's any sort of blizzard,

1042
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:06,919
Speaker 1: right and it's wild in in uh. I mean, look whatever,

1043
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:09,799
Speaker 1: everybody else, Look, it's it's why they had to win

1044
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 1: that game against Arizona. It's set up for them to

1045
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:14,880
Speaker 1: win a handful of these games. You know, Miami has

1046
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 1: got to play the They've got to go to Buffalo

1047
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:20,920
Speaker 1: in December, they've got to you know, they've got to

1048
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 1: play at our place. They've got to play at San Francisco,

1049
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 1: They've got to play at New England in December. You know,

1050
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 1: like they they've got a rough go. We mentioned what

1051
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:31,960
Speaker 1: the Bills schedule is. You look at the you know,

1052
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 1: the Bengals who just went on the road and won

1053
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:36,839
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. But they've got the Chiefs this week. They've

1054
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 1: got the Browns with the Shawn Watson I wouldn't be

1055
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:41,239
Speaker 1: sprouted as the Browns one out. You know, they're starting

1056
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 1: to kind of hit their stride a little bit here,

1057
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 1: and I just believe Deshaun Watson is that good of

1058
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:48,799
Speaker 1: a quarterback. They got to go to Tampa, They've got

1059
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:50,719
Speaker 1: to go to New England. They've got the Bills at home.

1060
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 1: They've got the Ravens at home. Like you look at

1061
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:55,360
Speaker 1: the way these other schedules are laid out for the

1062
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:57,680
Speaker 1: teams in front of them. The Patriots who are in

1063
00:50:57,719 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 1: the eight, you know, because they have a tiebreaker right now, Bills,

1064
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 1: and then they get at Cardinals at Raiders. But then

1065
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 1: they get Bengals, Dolphins, Bills to close. Like you look

1066
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 1: at strength of schedule, the Chargers is so much easier

1067
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: than it, just based on what teams have done up

1068
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 1: to this point. I know there are no easy games.

1069
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:16,880
Speaker 1: I'm just saying. They played a four win team in

1070
00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 1: the Cardinals last week, They're playing a four win team

1071
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:21,320
Speaker 1: in the Raiders this week. Then they get the Dolphins

1072
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 1: and Titans at home. Then they're playing a four win

1073
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 1: team in the Colts, a three win team in the Rams,

1074
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:28,279
Speaker 1: and a three win team in the Broncos. They go

1075
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:31,239
Speaker 1: win these games and it is it is set up

1076
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:34,279
Speaker 1: for them to take advantage of the schedule. I know

1077
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 1: they've got their own issues injury wise and stuff, but

1078
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 1: it is set up for them to be able to

1079
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: make a run. All right. Last question that's from Tom

1080
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:45,920
Speaker 1: Tom t Lesco's burner account. Love it. I don't know

1081
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:48,280
Speaker 1: if this is really Tom, but not really a question,

1082
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:50,719
Speaker 1: but would like to see more Gerald Everett's screens and

1083
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,560
Speaker 1: to start using him on end around sweeps. He has

1084
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:56,959
Speaker 1: some serious yackability that we need to utilize. Love the show.

1085
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:01,239
Speaker 1: Chris some money touchdown Chargers. Well, you know, look, we

1086
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:04,279
Speaker 1: just just a statement money. He likes cheryld. We saw

1087
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:05,800
Speaker 1: it when the game was on the line. They trusted

1088
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:07,440
Speaker 1: him you know, that's where it comes from. I do

1089
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 1: think there was some issues early between he and Herbert

1090
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:11,759
Speaker 1: just not necessarily being on the right page, Like you

1091
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:16,480
Speaker 1: know that. You know that pick six in Kansas City

1092
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 1: was very similar play, Like, that's what he was supposed

1093
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 1: to do. He's supposed to set up shoot, was it

1094
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:23,880
Speaker 1: Jalen Watson, You're supposed to set him up with those

1095
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 1: steps out and then cut in, And he just didn't

1096
00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:27,120
Speaker 1: put his foot in the ground and cut in, and

1097
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:28,440
Speaker 1: that's how he ended up with that pick six that

1098
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 1: lost the game. So I think when you have that

1099
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:33,280
Speaker 1: happened early, and I think there were some critical drops early.

1100
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:36,560
Speaker 1: I think maybe there were some you know, look, it's

1101
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 1: it's just natural for that to happen. I do think

1102
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:43,759
Speaker 1: that's disappeared, though. I think Justin does trust him. Think

1103
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:45,319
Speaker 1: about that drop at the start of the second half

1104
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:49,759
Speaker 1: against forty nine ers like they're the chiefs um So,

1105
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:52,480
Speaker 1: I think there's still a little bit there. But I

1106
00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: was so like I said, I think it was so

1107
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:56,520
Speaker 1: great for him to be the guy that caught that

1108
00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 1: pass to win the game in the two point conversion

1109
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:01,320
Speaker 1: because you need him. He's he's a really good player

1110
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:06,000
Speaker 1: and you need him all right? Money final thoughts, I

1111
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 1: guess we kind of answered everything as it relates to

1112
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:12,320
Speaker 1: this Raiders game. Like I said to DJ on Wednesday,

1113
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 1: nothing weird will happen, right, nothing weird ever happens between

1114
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: the Raiders and Charges. Nothing, nothing else. It's not gonna

1115
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:20,439
Speaker 1: be easy, just like you know, I know I said

1116
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 1: I wanted to blow out against the Cardinals, and I

1117
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 1: think you know why. You look at the offensive line.

1118
00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:25,759
Speaker 1: You looked at the way they behaved after the game.

1119
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 1: Now I got Patrick Peterson and Kyler Murray yelling at

1120
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 1: each other on social media, like the team is just

1121
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:32,320
Speaker 1: a mess, and I just wanted them to take advantage

1122
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 1: of that. You know, the Raiders look like they've settled down.

1123
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:36,800
Speaker 1: You know, if they lose these two games, both in overtime,

1124
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 1: and they're sitting, you know, with with three wins or

1125
00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 1: two wins or whatever, they I think they what are

1126
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:46,360
Speaker 1: they got now? Four or five? I think four and seven?

1127
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: There you go, they got two wins instead of four.

1128
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:50,399
Speaker 1: Then yeah, I'm like, hey, this is a complete mass

1129
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 1: go bulow the doors off them. But I think they

1130
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 1: have belief now we can win out. It's not gonna

1131
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:56,759
Speaker 1: be easy. They gotta play the Chiefs and forty nine ers,

1132
00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:57,960
Speaker 1: but they get them both at home, and it's like,

1133
00:53:57,960 --> 00:53:59,720
Speaker 1: if we went out, we're in the we're in the tournament,

1134
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:01,560
Speaker 1: so just go win out. I think they do have

1135
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:04,239
Speaker 1: a little bit of belief right now, so you're gonna

1136
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:06,440
Speaker 1: have to take their punches, and it's gonna look exactly

1137
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: like it's looked in each of the last three weeks.

1138
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:10,840
Speaker 1: You know it's gonna be tight or four weeks against

1139
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 1: the Falcons. You know they're two and two the last

1140
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:14,919
Speaker 1: four weeks, it's come down to the last possession. They've

1141
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:17,440
Speaker 1: lost two, they've won two. Let's see if you can

1142
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:19,640
Speaker 1: string another one in a row here and get that

1143
00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:22,080
Speaker 1: second win and improve to seven and five and feel

1144
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 1: good about these next two games at home and see

1145
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 1: if you can really get on a roll. Yep, another

1146
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:30,399
Speaker 1: primetime game after Sunday. How about that? Man, was it's

1147
00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:34,439
Speaker 1: gonna be six because I'm sure they'll give Yeah, they'll

1148
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:37,759
Speaker 1: be flexed out in New Year'sday, I'm sure. But all right, dude,

1149
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 1: let's do it. I'll see you this weekend for Vegas,

1150
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:43,400
Speaker 1: and guys, always appreciate the questions. Man. We had a

1151
00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 1: we had a ton of them. I think we got

1152
00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:48,919
Speaker 1: to most of them. Always appreciate you guys listening. Hey,

1153
00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 1: final thing, Bunny, how about that crowd in Arizona. That

1154
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:55,239
Speaker 1: was awesome, most power, the most Charger Road fans I've

1155
00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:57,160
Speaker 1: seen since Week eighteen last year. You know, there were

1156
00:54:57,200 --> 00:54:59,919
Speaker 1: a ton allegiant for that Week eighteen game against the Raider,

1157
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 1: but I think this is the most I've seen since then.

1158
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:07,440
Speaker 1: Thousands like it was. The Charger's sideline was full of

1159
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 1: powder blue and hey, tip of the cap. If you

1160
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:11,200
Speaker 1: didn't see it, I didn't. I don't see if they

1161
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:13,080
Speaker 1: put it on social or not. But how about Herbert,

1162
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:15,200
Speaker 1: you know, doing the whole lap and just high five

1163
00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:17,320
Speaker 1: and everybody on his way out, like the entire field

1164
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:19,120
Speaker 1: went one hundred yards on the sideline and then all

1165
00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:22,800
Speaker 1: the way through the end zone into the tunnel. Very classy,

1166
00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 1: Very cool of him to recognize that those people made

1167
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:29,120
Speaker 1: their way out to a visiting stadium. And I really

1168
00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:30,719
Speaker 1: like seeing that from our vantage point where we were

1169
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 1: sitting in the booth. Well said, well ended, dare for money,

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Speaker 1: I'm Chris. This has been Chargers Week.