Speaker 1: The late fifteen ten touchdown. What's up, guys, Welcome into
Speaker 1: a week nine edition of Chargers Weekly. Back from the
Speaker 1: buye here with Matt money Smith. Why do you think
Speaker 1: everybody needed to buy? How was your buying? Well? My
Speaker 1: by selfishly was great. It happened to land on my
Speaker 1: daughter's homecoming out on the East Coast, so we had
Speaker 1: a Monday night game or no, we had a home
Speaker 1: game for my middle daughter's parents weekend up at cal
Speaker 1: Poly Slow and then ended up having to buy a
Speaker 1: week for my oldest daughter who goes to Dartmouth. So
Speaker 1: that's a heck of a long trip. So it's nice
Speaker 1: to squeeze those two in on back to back weekends.
Speaker 1: Really enjoyed it. I assume you had a great weekend
Speaker 1: as well. I saw all the photos of you and
Speaker 1: the twins, and obviously with it being Halloween and stuff,
Speaker 1: worked out very well selfishly for those of us that
Speaker 1: work for the team and lose all of our weekends
Speaker 1: for a team of nineteen weeks, Sundays are at a premium, right,
Speaker 1: so it was nice to It's like the it's like
Speaker 1: the one Sunday year you get to sit on the
Speaker 1: couch and watch red zone and and be a fan
Speaker 1: for a day. And uh, we're back at it now.
Speaker 1: Man um back from the by Chargers four and three
Speaker 1: Falcons on deck speaking a red zone that that Falcons
Speaker 1: Panthers game was insane last week. It looked like the
Speaker 1: Panthers were gonna win it. Uh, Eddie Panaro didn't Eddie
Speaker 1: Pannero miss a field goal against the Chargers when he
Speaker 1: was a member of the Bears in Yeah, yeah, he
Speaker 1: misses that forty eight yard extra point after the fifteen
Speaker 1: yard penalty, then he misses a thirty three yard or
Speaker 1: in regulation that would have put the Panthers really right
Speaker 1: in the mix in the NFC South. But now the
Speaker 1: Falcons four and four, they're alone in that division place. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not a very good division. But um, we'll get into
Speaker 1: that matchup. But I want to start with this trade
Speaker 1: deadline money. Were you surprised the Chargers didn't make a move?
Speaker 1: Did you think it was necessary that they had to
Speaker 1: make a move or is it just a matter of
Speaker 1: getting guys back towards the end of the year and
Speaker 1: trying to play good football with what you got. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think there's so much nuanced to that question,
Speaker 1: not knowing you know what you know. And and look,
Speaker 1: I've said this before, like you can make the finances work,
Speaker 1: you know you And that's like Brandon Cooks, you got
Speaker 1: to take on eighteen million bucks guaranteed money next year.
Speaker 1: You know, So there's things like that. But you know,
Speaker 1: you can convert salary to signing bonus, you can extend,
Speaker 1: like there's ways to work that. You know. You look
Speaker 1: at what the Dolphins did trading for Bradley Chubb and
Speaker 1: immediately handing him one hundred and ten million dollar contract,
Speaker 1: after giving Tyreek Kill the richest wide receiver contract, after
Speaker 1: you know, after all those free agent signings they had
Speaker 1: in the offseason. So you can do it. I mean,
Speaker 1: it can be done. And then you got to ask
Speaker 1: what's the draft capital that's required in order? Like you know,
Speaker 1: there's a couple names that, yeah, I thought would really
Speaker 1: help this team. And Cooks we talked about it before
Speaker 1: the Houston game. Like, to me, he's just a you
Speaker 1: need speed on this team. You know. We talked about
Speaker 1: it last week on the bye week and just what's
Speaker 1: inhibiting this offense. There's no speed. It's just every defense
Speaker 1: is content to hey, if you're gonna beat us deep
Speaker 1: go ahead, we don't. We don't think you can. So
Speaker 1: I think, you know, with Robbie Anderson going to the
Speaker 1: Cardinals a couple of weeks ago for a sixth and
Speaker 1: a seventh, you know you gotta worry about injury guarantees
Speaker 1: the following year if he gets hurt, twelve million bucks
Speaker 1: kicks in all that stuff. But you can make all
Speaker 1: that work, So I guess you know. Ultimately, to answer
Speaker 1: your question, yes, I think, considering Mike is down for
Speaker 1: a while, Keenan's hamstring has proven to be a real
Speaker 1: issue instead of a minor injury, I would have really
Speaker 1: liked to see them. I would really have liked to
Speaker 1: have seen them acquire a receiver, particularly someone with speed.
Speaker 1: And again that's just me not knowing. You know what
Speaker 1: what was being you know, requested in a giveback. You
Speaker 1: know what trade picks are you sending back to Houston
Speaker 1: for cooks or you know what kind of injury guarantees
Speaker 1: or what kind of contract demands is Robbie Anderson making
Speaker 1: if he's going to come to your team, you know,
Speaker 1: considering he was a bit of a malcontent in Carolina,
Speaker 1: like all that stuff. I'm not privy too. But just
Speaker 1: to answer your question, Yeah, I would really have liked
Speaker 1: to have seen them acquired a pass rusher and a
Speaker 1: wide receiver. I think this team is good enough. I
Speaker 1: think they're I think they are good enough to get
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, and if they are getting healthy by
Speaker 1: the end of the year, I would hate to see
Speaker 1: them miss the postseason because this middle stretch where they
Speaker 1: have just been ravaged by injuries, has cost them a
Speaker 1: couple of games and they end up missing the playoffs
Speaker 1: by a game or two. And then you know, we're
Speaker 1: sitting in Week eighteen and Joey Bose is healthy, and
Speaker 1: Keenan's healthy, and Mike's healthy, and Rashaun Slater is ready
Speaker 1: to come back, and it's like, you know, it's just
Speaker 1: I think that's where the frustration comes in. It's like, man,
Speaker 1: they need help these next three four weeks to try
Speaker 1: to go five hundred over the next four games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: these next three games at Atlanta, at San Francisco and
Speaker 1: then home for Kansas City. Money this offense, right, it
Speaker 1: doesn't sound good with Keenan um for this week. We
Speaker 1: know Mike's gonna be out, so the wide receiving corps.
Speaker 1: If Josh Palmer plays who just got out of concussion protocol.
Speaker 1: It's Palmer, It's DeAndre Carter, it's Michael Bandy, it's Jason Moore.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the speed a couple of weeks ago and
Speaker 1: last week too, and there's no speed on the field.
Speaker 1: I wonder what Joe Lombardi can do to kind of
Speaker 1: maybe change how they play offense over these next couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, knowing that you don't have your best deep
Speaker 1: threat and maybe your best receiver and Mike Williams and
Speaker 1: you're you're one and one in Keenan Allen and you
Speaker 1: can give Austin the ball a bunch of times, but
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't give it to him thirty five times, right,
Speaker 1: So so how do you make this offense work? Do
Speaker 1: you make Spiller more featured? Do you give Michelle Moore carries?
Speaker 1: Do you try to be a run head the offense?
Speaker 1: And you know, take your shots when when you can.
Speaker 1: It's kind of tricky based on the current personnel that
Speaker 1: they have. Yeah, you know, I think, Look, I wish
Speaker 1: I had the answer to that, And I feel bad
Speaker 1: for Joe because I have no idea how you do it.
Speaker 1: You know, this is a defense and you saw, you know, PJ.
Speaker 1: Walker last week, light him up for three hundred fifty yards,
Speaker 1: you know, and DJ Moore I have a career day.
Speaker 1: So it's a bad pass defense and you've got Justin
Speaker 1: Herbert back there. But now Justin's trying to develop chemistry
Speaker 1: in the middle of the season with Jason Moore and
Speaker 1: Michael Bandy DeAndre Carter, you know, without his two go
Speaker 1: to guys out there, you know, without Mike Williams and
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen, two dudes he implicitly trusts. And I think
Speaker 1: we saw that in the Seattle game where Bandy's getting open,
Speaker 1: but it's just it's something's off, you know, like the
Speaker 1: pass is either too far in front of him, or
Speaker 1: Bandy's not able to come back, or like he's just
Speaker 1: flat he's not flatten out the route enough or he
Speaker 1: is flattening out. Like it just seemed like something was
Speaker 1: a little bit off with those two. And I think
Speaker 1: that's a chemistry thing that he clearly has with Keenan
Speaker 1: and Mike Williams. So with Gerald Everett, it's just it's
Speaker 1: like there's an issue every week. You know, there's a
Speaker 1: drop or there's just like a misread or there. You know,
Speaker 1: you think about the pick six against you know, against
Speaker 1: Kansas City, Like every game there's been something like that
Speaker 1: ball ricochet's off his hands for the interception. You know
Speaker 1: that quite that relationship hasn't quite materialized. So I think
Speaker 1: that's what people don't quite understand is, you know, you
Speaker 1: can't just throw guys out there and they're ready to go.
Speaker 1: You know, it takes a second for a quarterback and
Speaker 1: a receiver to get into sync. And you know, and
Speaker 1: I guess that's flies into the face of me saying, hey,
Speaker 1: go get a receiver. Well I'm talking about getting a
Speaker 1: speed receiver. I'm done, like getting someone who can just
Speaker 1: go and Herbert Killed, yeah, yeah, and open things up
Speaker 1: for Austin, for Gerald Everett, for those underneath routs and you.
Speaker 1: And then that's the thing, like, yes, is DeAndre Carter fast, Yes,
Speaker 1: but he's not a physical receiver. You can't same thing
Speaker 1: with Andy. Like when you watch when Joe tries to
Speaker 1: play them on the outside, when Coach Lombardi tries to
Speaker 1: play on the outside, they can't get off press. That's
Speaker 1: just not the kind of receivers they are. They're not
Speaker 1: big enough, they're not strong enough. So that's where the
Speaker 1: problem comes in. You know, we're still talking about Josh
Speaker 1: Palmer's single game last year when he filled in for Keenan.
Speaker 1: You know, we're still waiting for Josh to emerge. We
Speaker 1: thought this was going to be the year, especially as
Speaker 1: the third receiver, and he looks so darned good in
Speaker 1: the preseason and training I should say in training camp.
Speaker 1: So there's just so many questions around, and I don't
Speaker 1: think people realized what that injury to Jalen Guyton meant
Speaker 1: for this team and how dramatically it would affect the
Speaker 1: way their offense looks. I mean, like when you look
Speaker 1: at it, it's crazy to think you have Justin Herbert
Speaker 1: as your quarterback and what Chris. When I go completion
Speaker 1: completed air yards per completion, Justin Herbert is thirty second
Speaker 1: in the league. Four point for to put that in perspective.
Speaker 1: Two is at eight point four, Josh Allen is at
Speaker 1: seven point four. The guy we're going to see, Marcus
Speaker 1: Mariote is at seven point one. Jacoby Brissette is at
Speaker 1: six point nine. You know, like Russell Wilson is at
Speaker 1: six point Like four point four is annemiic Like that
Speaker 1: is like that and that speaks to the issue they're
Speaker 1: having with lack of explosive plays. You know, completed air
Speaker 1: yards per pass attempt. He's thirty second, you know, and
Speaker 1: you look at Jalen Hurts, you know he's got double
Speaker 1: the you know, the completed air yards per pass attempt,
Speaker 1: like Gino Smith is in the top five. Josh Allen
Speaker 1: to it, like those are the guys who are up there,
Speaker 1: and you think about those offenses and how many points
Speaker 1: they're putting up on what they look like, and then
Speaker 1: how far back And the other thing that's weird is,
Speaker 1: you know, Herbert's I getting sacked. It's the number one
Speaker 1: team in the league in sacks. It's like, so, what's
Speaker 1: not happening? You know, like that, what do you attribute
Speaker 1: it to? Is it? Is it speed of wide receiver?
Speaker 1: Is it Justin and his injury? Maybe? Is it the
Speaker 1: offensive line shake ups week in and week out? Like
Speaker 1: where would you go in turn? Maybe? Probably maybe the
Speaker 1: speed at receiver number one? And I just feel like
Speaker 1: Justin's still battling through something. We don't really hear about
Speaker 1: it much, but we were told when when this injury occurred,
Speaker 1: that this was going to be something that that's not
Speaker 1: going to go away anytime soon. I think the answer
Speaker 1: to that is yes, all of those. Yeah, it's all
Speaker 1: of them, you know. And yet look, Justin doesn't look right.
Speaker 1: There's just no two ways about it. He doesn't look right.
Speaker 1: And I think it's you know, it's not trying to say, hey,
Speaker 1: what's going on. I think we know what's going on.
Speaker 1: The guy took a shot and he's got fractured rib
Speaker 1: cartilage and it probably hurts to throw every time he
Speaker 1: drops back there. He lost his left tackle. His interior
Speaker 1: line has been you know, his center, his most trusted
Speaker 1: offensive lineman has been dealing with knee issues and had
Speaker 1: a vicious bout of food poisoning that kept him out
Speaker 1: a week and then clearly was not himself in the
Speaker 1: game against Seattle. You know, Zion has kind of regressed
Speaker 1: a little bit after starting out the season strong. Matt
Speaker 1: Feiler I don't think has played as well as he
Speaker 1: had as he did last year, you know. And Trey
Speaker 1: has the MCL, like every single offensive lineman as an issue.
Speaker 1: So I get it. Man, you got fractured rib cartilage.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be taking shots, you know, because
Speaker 1: you want to keep playing so I think I think
Speaker 1: there's myriad issues that have led to one of the
Speaker 1: most explosive offenses in the NFL since Justin took over
Speaker 1: in week two, you know, two plus seasons ago to
Speaker 1: now becoming one of the most check down heavy offenses,
Speaker 1: least explosive offenses in the league. And and I'm assuming
Speaker 1: they did some serious self scouting, you know, through this
Speaker 1: two week window to try to figure out, Okay, do
Speaker 1: you have to scheme it up? What do we have
Speaker 1: to just show just in the film to say, hey, look,
Speaker 1: you're all right, you know, you're I know you're where
Speaker 1: the clock is in your head because of who's in
Speaker 1: front of you. But here, let's watch this together. You know,
Speaker 1: here's this route Deandres coming open here if you just
Speaker 1: kind of climb a little bit and shift there, you know,
Speaker 1: or let's use your legs a little bit more, let's
Speaker 1: roll out, let's do some designed runs to keep the
Speaker 1: you know, because Justin has not runned all this year.
Speaker 1: Like you think about what Josh Allen is doing and
Speaker 1: how his legs are just a ridiculous threat. And obviously
Speaker 1: what Marcus Mariota is doing Atlanta for Arthur Smith. We're
Speaker 1: going to see that firsthand, like Justin can do that.
Speaker 1: So I think that's maybe that Pittsburgh game money. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they gave it to him and he took it every time.
Speaker 1: Every time he took it every time, you know, Mahomes
Speaker 1: does it like that's and that's one of the greatest
Speaker 1: weapons that Justin has. I mean, he's an incredible athlete,
Speaker 1: he's fast, he's elusive, and he just so happens to
Speaker 1: be six six, two hundred forty pounds. So like that's
Speaker 1: got to come into play. I think some of those are.
Speaker 1: I think, you know a lot more of those RPOs
Speaker 1: have got to come into play, you know, where you're
Speaker 1: using that threat at his legs to maybe maybe that's
Speaker 1: how you know you can get the defense to be
Speaker 1: on their heels, because to me, defenses have been on
Speaker 1: their toes, you know all season long. You know, since
Speaker 1: the second half of the Kansas City game and the
Speaker 1: rib injury. There has to be a response coming out
Speaker 1: of the bi offensively, and we just don't know what
Speaker 1: that's gonna be. How are they gonna come out against
Speaker 1: the Falcons? Do you try to match the Falcons with
Speaker 1: the running game with you know, Austin and Sony similar
Speaker 1: to what you did in Cleveland maybe a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the answer. Josh Palmer being
Speaker 1: relied upon to be the number one guy when you
Speaker 1: don't have a Keenan and Mike on the field, that's
Speaker 1: something that we just don't know about. And then you
Speaker 1: flip it to the Falcons man. Arthur Smith is a
Speaker 1: wizard offensive calling plays. Mariota is using his legs. DJ
Speaker 1: did a great film room on just for Mariota running
Speaker 1: plays and and how Derwin is gonna have to be
Speaker 1: that guy to kind of sniff those out and stop him. Plus,
Speaker 1: you know they haven't used Kyle Pitts very well or
Speaker 1: Drake g. London very well. Pitts in particular, but I
Speaker 1: think Pitts had five for eighty in a touchdown last week.
Speaker 1: You don't want to see him get going against the Chargers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's come on, he's definitely come on. I'm a huge
Speaker 1: Arthur Smith guy. Absolutely love what he was able to
Speaker 1: do in Tennessee. You think about, you know, just the
Speaker 1: career of both Ryan Tannehill and and Derrick Henry. You know,
Speaker 1: Henry was being to some degree labeled as a bust
Speaker 1: before Arthur really got his hands on him. When Lafleur
Speaker 1: went to Green Bay and Arthur took over as OC,
Speaker 1: that's when you really saw the emergence of the King
Speaker 1: Henry version of Derrick Henry. Ryan Tannehill's career was resurrected
Speaker 1: under Arthur Smith. Now you're seeing Marcus Mariota and his career.
Speaker 1: I met was just the offensive player of the week.
Speaker 1: You know he's got when you look at you know,
Speaker 1: when I'm doing my game prep, I just saw it.
Speaker 1: I gotta go back to it. Like you think about
Speaker 1: now that he's getting comfortable and settling in to this
Speaker 1: offense and getting sort of his head around it and
Speaker 1: figuring out what Arthur, what Coach Smith is asking him
Speaker 1: to do. Mariota is in the last four weeks, his
Speaker 1: passer rating two was number one, Josh Allen number two,
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow number three, Jalen Hurts, number four, Marcus five,
Speaker 1: like he's Kyle Pitts has emerged as a legitimate weapon.
Speaker 1: So like they're they're starting to figure it out. They're
Speaker 1: starting to get comfortable with what, you know, Coach Smith
Speaker 1: is asking them to do. And the fact that Cordarrol
Speaker 1: Patterson's coming back, and you've got Algier who really kind
Speaker 1: of got was able to get his feet wet. He's
Speaker 1: a bruising back. And we obviously know what this Chargers
Speaker 1: defense has looked like against the run, you know, as
Speaker 1: there was a temporary fix there for the first couple
Speaker 1: of weeks and it has since completely fallen apart back
Speaker 1: to the dregs, you know, twenty seventh against the run,
Speaker 1: and they've pretty much allowed an explosive run in every
Speaker 1: single game they've played this season. Look at just the
Speaker 1: distribution here of rushing yards. Because so Patterson was out
Speaker 1: for the last few weeks, he still needs a team
Speaker 1: with three hundred and forty rushing yards Algier three twenty four,
Speaker 1: Mariota two eighty, Huntley two sixty five. So you don't
Speaker 1: know who's getting the ball, and they're all running it
Speaker 1: pretty efficiently. Five point nine, three point nine, five point one,
Speaker 1: four point six A pop, Mariota something his click. He
Speaker 1: looks like Oregon Duck Mariota. And I know that Arthur
Speaker 1: Smith and him had a relationship in Tennessee. We saw
Speaker 1: Mariota a couple of years ago on Thursday Night Football
Speaker 1: when Carr went out early in that game. Late in
Speaker 1: the season, he's played really good ball right now. And
Speaker 1: you know, I think when we saw the schedule come
Speaker 1: out and coming out of the by going to Atlanta,
Speaker 1: it's like, all right, man, this is a game you
Speaker 1: absolutely need to take care of. This is gonna be
Speaker 1: very tough football game for the Chargers defensively when you
Speaker 1: know you're down Rump and Bosam, Kyle van noy on
Speaker 1: one side, Khalil Mack on the other. Every single week
Speaker 1: it seems like there's been a big explosive run for
Speaker 1: a touchdown and they got a bunch of guys who
Speaker 1: are capable of doing that. Yeah, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: it's you mentioned it, you know, and even pretty much
Speaker 1: since Joey went down, they've really struggled to find that
Speaker 1: pass rush. You know, it's really only come on Drew Trank,
Speaker 1: Will Blitzes, Derwin, James Blitzes, you know, Rump, you know,
Speaker 1: Rump nor Van noym have been able to fill that
Speaker 1: void and give you any pass rush whatsoever. We've seen
Speaker 1: it from Morgan Fox. I thought, I think he's played
Speaker 1: very well on the interior in terms of, you know,
Speaker 1: providing some pass rush. Um you know, The problem is
Speaker 1: with Mariota. Now you've got to set an edge. You've
Speaker 1: got to keep him contained because like you said, he's
Speaker 1: got two hundred in rush yard, you know, two hundred
Speaker 1: eighty rush yards, So you know you got issues there. Um,
Speaker 1: this is not going to be an easy team to defend,
Speaker 1: you know, not with the threat of their run game.
Speaker 1: So it's you know, it's you gotta and we know,
Speaker 1: like I said, the issues that this defense has had
Speaker 1: against the run. So you've got to play that stout.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to have their win in the box.
Speaker 1: And now you're talking about Drake London and that big
Speaker 1: body you're down j C. Jackson. You know Kyle Pitts, who,
Speaker 1: like I said, has emerged, and the idea would be
Speaker 1: just to do what you do with Travis Kelsey right
Speaker 1: all right there. When there's Kyle Pitts, go get them.
Speaker 1: But I think because of the issues they've had against
Speaker 1: the run, you know, you've you my guess is they're
Speaker 1: gonna probably play And like that's the thing, like you
Speaker 1: can't play a lot of time. It's it's hard to
Speaker 1: put a lowie out there, you know, and try to
Speaker 1: sort of put a shell on it that way, Just
Speaker 1: that's not gonna work. Like So that's it's a it's
Speaker 1: a tough matchup. It's a really tough matchup for this
Speaker 1: Chargers defense. And you know what, it's been a tough
Speaker 1: matchup for every defense. Look what they did, and granted
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers were down like darn near their
Speaker 1: whole team, but I mean, you know, they doubled up
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. Um, you know they were able
Speaker 1: to put up some you know, the points weren't there,
Speaker 1: but they put up some serious yards against the Bengals.
Speaker 1: Like those are good defenses that the Saints they put
Speaker 1: up twenty six on the Rams, they put up twenty seven,
Speaker 1: Like this is an offense that can move the ball
Speaker 1: and score points. Say to me, like beat Seattle too,
Speaker 1: didn't they? Yeah, absolutely went up there, beat them twenty
Speaker 1: seven twenty Like, put twenty seven on them. So I
Speaker 1: think I think, to your point, Chris, what I think
Speaker 1: this game? Charge are gonna win this game. I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna look like Cleveland. I think this is gonna
Speaker 1: have to be like a thirty one twenty. This is
Speaker 1: gonna have to be a Justin Herbert special. This is
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's I think that's just the only
Speaker 1: that's the path to victory that I see is that
Speaker 1: this is a Hey, Justin got two weeks to rest
Speaker 1: those ribs. You know, he's a lot more comfortable, and
Speaker 1: even though he's down as receivers, he's just such a
Speaker 1: special quarterback. We talked about it. You make you know,
Speaker 1: average receivers good, good receivers great, you know, And I
Speaker 1: think it's a game where he makes average receivers good
Speaker 1: and and does some special things to get this team
Speaker 1: a win with Austin Eckler, you know, again, like a
Speaker 1: twenty eight twenty five, a thirty one twenty eight, thirty five,
Speaker 1: thirty one style game is what this thing is probably
Speaker 1: gonna have to look like for the Chargers to come back,
Speaker 1: you know, with a victory. So coming out of this
Speaker 1: by four and three and money, I'm just looking at
Speaker 1: the conference right now and things are kind of clearing
Speaker 1: up already. Right then. We're only in week nine. I mean, Chargers,
Speaker 1: if the season ended today, you're the seventh seed. You
Speaker 1: got Miami in New York in front of you at
Speaker 1: five and three. Baltimore is looking pretty good right now
Speaker 1: with this Jamar Chase injury, I could see them maybe
Speaker 1: pulling away. I think they have a pretty soft schedule
Speaker 1: coming up. Case five and two, Tennessee five and two,
Speaker 1: who you play later? Six and one, Bills and then
Speaker 1: the wild Cards, the Patriots, the Bengals. I mean, the
Speaker 1: Colts do not look good the three four and one,
Speaker 1: But you beat Cleveland, you beat Denver. These next three
Speaker 1: games are so important for the Chargers. Man too. If
Speaker 1: you can go two and one and get to like
Speaker 1: six and four and just kind of hit Arizona, hit
Speaker 1: the Raiders, and then you get into that stretch with
Speaker 1: Tennessee in Miami, you're in good shape. But like you know,
Speaker 1: typically we say, oh, these NFC games, if you drop them,
Speaker 1: not the worst thing in the world. Now, when you're
Speaker 1: four and three and you're kind of in this jumbled
Speaker 1: mix in the AFC, you need everyone you can get.
Speaker 1: I think you you know when you look at it.
Speaker 1: So let's just look at the you know, the way
Speaker 1: that the conference is shaken out, right, So your division leaders,
Speaker 1: Bills in the East, Titans in the South, Chiefs in
Speaker 1: the West, Ravens in the North. All right, so those
Speaker 1: four and I feel comfortable saying I think that holds.
Speaker 1: I think that ends upholding. I think those are your
Speaker 1: division winners. Now you ask yourself, are you better than
Speaker 1: the Jets? You know, I feel especially since they lost
Speaker 1: Breet Hall, you know, their offensive line. They just lost
Speaker 1: a Laja vera Tech Tucker. There's so many questions about
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson and decision making. You got disgruntled Denzel Mimbs
Speaker 1: and Elijah Moore who would wanted to be traded at
Speaker 1: the deadline and weren't. So yeah, I think obviously the
Speaker 1: Jets are in play. Do you feel like you're better
Speaker 1: than the Dolphins? No, I think just if we're being
Speaker 1: honest with one another. No, you know that's that's the
Speaker 1: most explosive offense going right now. That's not in Buffalo,
Speaker 1: and they just added brand. You'd prove us wrong in
Speaker 1: a month, right when they No, I just mean right now,
Speaker 1: I mean right now, you know, when when they're healthy.
Speaker 1: It's a different conversation. I'm just talking about right now.
Speaker 1: Can you maintain your slot? That's kind of what I'm
Speaker 1: getting at. If they're the number seven right now, can
Speaker 1: you maintain this slot? Can you move up or do
Speaker 1: you slide back? You look what's behind you. You know,
Speaker 1: Patriots are interesting. You know, it's they're they're they're frisky.
Speaker 1: I think you feel comfortable saying that the Bengals are
Speaker 1: after a slow starter, starting to hit a little bit
Speaker 1: of a rhythm. But then you see, I think the
Speaker 1: Bengals are very similar to the Chargers. You know, they
Speaker 1: have a great week and you're like, okay, here we go,
Speaker 1: now they're back, and then all of a sudden, they
Speaker 1: have a game like they had against the Browns and
Speaker 1: you're like, what the hell was that at. So I
Speaker 1: think the Bengals and the Chargers are in that exact
Speaker 1: same conversation you brought up the Colts, the one that's
Speaker 1: you know, the win against the Browns is going to
Speaker 1: prove to be huge because now you're two weeks away
Speaker 1: from getting to Shaun Watson back and you know what
Speaker 1: that run game looks like. The defense has been a
Speaker 1: mass for the most part. But like that's where we
Speaker 1: now start going, Okay, if they're in the seven spot,
Speaker 1: the Jets slide back. Well, now let's see, you got
Speaker 1: two slots to play with, and we're talking about the Browns,
Speaker 1: the Bengals, the Patriots, the Dolphins, and the Chargers. Like
Speaker 1: that's I think that's where we start to kind of
Speaker 1: have this conversation of you know, how do they hang
Speaker 1: on right now? They're it is fingernails on that cliff,
Speaker 1: hanging onto that seven spot, you know, just a half
Speaker 1: a game ahead of the Patriots right now, so and
Speaker 1: a minus twenty five point differential. Patriots and Bengals both
Speaker 1: have plus differentials, you know, and had really slow starts
Speaker 1: to the season. The Chargers, you know, have had that
Speaker 1: three game win streak. Can they rediscover some of that magic?
Speaker 1: And you know, fans may be frustrated with the way
Speaker 1: that they're winning or the way they're losing frankly right now,
Speaker 1: But if you hang on, you can win ugly in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: you can win up in San Francisco if you're in
Speaker 1: the mix and Keenan Allen is back at full strength,
Speaker 1: and Mike Williams is back at full strength, and Joey
Speaker 1: Bosa comes back at full strength, which I think would
Speaker 1: be huge for this defense. It's a seventeen game season
Speaker 1: for a reason. Man, there's ebbs and flows. If you
Speaker 1: can get these guys back towards the back half of
Speaker 1: the year, this team, frankly, played a lot better last
Speaker 1: year than their playing right now and missed the playoffs.
Speaker 1: It could be eight and nine, nine and eight not
Speaker 1: playing their best ball. It's still make the playoffs and
Speaker 1: still get some of these guys back. So that's why
Speaker 1: I find it so fascinating about this this year money,
Speaker 1: because outside Buffalo and Philly and and maybe you put
Speaker 1: Casey in Dallas right right below that, it's a very
Speaker 1: average NFL in twenty twenty two. Parody. It's been a
Speaker 1: it's been a year of parody, no doubt. I think
Speaker 1: the one and I think just kind of going back
Speaker 1: to the trade you know question, I think you look
Speaker 1: at the teams that believe their contenders. You know, the
Speaker 1: Vikings ad Hockinson, The Eagles add Robert Quinn. You know,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins add Bradley Chubb, the Bills ad Naheim Hines.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs go out and get Kdarius Tony, the Ravens
Speaker 1: get Roquan Smith. You know, the Jets get James Robinson
Speaker 1: to fill in for Breece Hall. Like I think that's
Speaker 1: you know, sort of where I go back to your
Speaker 1: trade question. You know, I think that's that's where, like, hey,
Speaker 1: it would be would have been pretty cool to see
Speaker 1: them say, you know what, it's a good team through
Speaker 1: six quarters. Man, we were feeling good about this. Square're
Speaker 1: actually feeling good after eight quarters, even though they lost
Speaker 1: that game to the Chiefs. Felt like the refs completely
Speaker 1: robbed them of two interceptions in that game. So not
Speaker 1: even six quarters through eight quarters, they're like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: this is a good team. This looks like one of
Speaker 1: the best teams in football. And then injuries just hit,
Speaker 1: and like you said, it's it's all about sustaining until
Speaker 1: those guys start coming back, you know. And if boss
Speaker 1: is going to be eight weeks, well that's gonna be
Speaker 1: by Arizona, you know. And like you said, these next
Speaker 1: three games, if you can figure out, you know, the
Speaker 1: San Francisco games, the one that I'm really concerned about,
Speaker 1: just because they're healthy on the defensive front, and with
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey now and Trent Williams is back like that,
Speaker 1: they're they're getting healthy. Had a bad time for the Chargers.
Speaker 1: I think it's the best way to put it. So
Speaker 1: that's why I just think this Atlanta game is so critical.
Speaker 1: I think it is so critical where you're not looking
Speaker 1: at a losing streak, you know, and sliding back and
Speaker 1: falling under five hundred and stuff. You know, you get
Speaker 1: to five and three and now you got two games
Speaker 1: to play with, just to stay at five hundred until
Speaker 1: you start getting those reinforcements back and adding you know
Speaker 1: some you know, just and it's not even necessarily adding
Speaker 1: guys that aren't out there. But now Trey Pitkins feels
Speaker 1: back to his normal self at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: year when he was, you know, really just playing really
Speaker 1: good right tackle. You know, Corey Linsley is back to
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. Justin Herbert is back to a hundred percent,
Speaker 1: Josh Kelly is back out there. Like that's what I'm
Speaker 1: getting at. You know, it's not I know, I'm maybe
Speaker 1: I sound like a broken record and I'm talking in
Speaker 1: circles a little bit on the pod, But like, that's
Speaker 1: why these next three weeks are so critical, because we
Speaker 1: know these guys are coming back, and as long as
Speaker 1: you can stay in the fight and in the hunt
Speaker 1: for the playoffs until they get back, I feel good.
Speaker 1: You know, we're talking about, Oh, this is a gnarly stretch, Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: if you can make it through it, you know, then
Speaker 1: you get Arizona and then you get Vegas and you
Speaker 1: get Tennessee at home, you get the Colts. You know,
Speaker 1: where are the Rams going to be in week seventeen
Speaker 1: with all the tumult they're they're in Tampa this week.
Speaker 1: They could be three and five, you know by the time,
Speaker 1: you know, at this time next week and three games
Speaker 1: back after having been swept in the division by the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers and not having played the Seahawks yet, like,
Speaker 1: like the back end of the season could really work
Speaker 1: in the chargers favor if they can just figure out
Speaker 1: a way. And they did. Look, they figured out how
Speaker 1: to win ugly against Denver. They figured out how to
Speaker 1: win a shootout in Cleveland, they figured out how to
Speaker 1: hang on, you know, after blowing a twenty four point
Speaker 1: lead in Houston, Like they were able to win ugly.
Speaker 1: So win pretty. You know when Pretty in Atlanta score
Speaker 1: thirty one points, have everybody say that's the Justin Herbert
Speaker 1: we remember and we have not seen in four or
Speaker 1: five weeks. You know, I'm so glad you mentioned some
Speaker 1: of these other guys because we seem to focus in
Speaker 1: on Keenan and Mike and Rashawn for good reason, and
Speaker 1: Joey Bosa, j c. Jackson, all of these big names
Speaker 1: that have been out, but um, you know, Pipkin's gutted
Speaker 1: it out in Cleveland, and um, Corey has been in
Speaker 1: and out of the lineup and has gutted it out,
Speaker 1: you know. So there's guys who Josh Kelly another one
Speaker 1: who was who was a great number two to Austin
Speaker 1: in that Cleveland game. These are pieces that have been
Speaker 1: in and out of the lineup or having been one
Speaker 1: hundred percent that you're hoping we'll get to full strength
Speaker 1: in coordination with these guys coming back that you know,
Speaker 1: the big names that we talk about. So it's not
Speaker 1: just the big names. There's been guys that have been
Speaker 1: playing through injury, um that may not be at full
Speaker 1: strength or have been in and out of the lineup,
Speaker 1: which causes further I think maybe disruption on our offense
Speaker 1: or a defense. So you know, right now, you know,
Speaker 1: Chris Rump is another example a guy who, um, depth
Speaker 1: is gonna be tested now with just Van Noy and
Speaker 1: uh In Khalil as your starters on the edge, Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think that's and again no reinforcements, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of where the whole whole. Robert Quinn
Speaker 1: was traded for a six or whatever it was. It
Speaker 1: set like that's sort of where that that trade deadline,
Speaker 1: I think for fans comes in, like how you know, okay,
Speaker 1: let's go through your draft picks this year. Your most
Speaker 1: successful draft pick out there is the second you traded
Speaker 1: for Khalil Mack. You know, I know it costs you
Speaker 1: twenty two million bucks. But like J T. Woods has
Speaker 1: not been active for a game, Isaiah Spiller has one
Speaker 1: carry on the year. You know, Jamari Sawyer has played great,
Speaker 1: your sixth round pick, but you know Xander Horbath has
Speaker 1: been you know, touchdowns back to back weeks to start
Speaker 1: the season, but not necessarily integral part. You know, Dean
Speaker 1: and Jassier have you know, had one critical play together
Speaker 1: against the Broncos that led them to the win. But
Speaker 1: Kennesa's saying, you gotta be careful. You don't value your
Speaker 1: draft picks too much. You know that, expecting all seven
Speaker 1: of those to make an impact, you know, for a
Speaker 1: team that's really built to win right now. And I
Speaker 1: think that's where maybe some of that frustration came from.
Speaker 1: But again, it takes two, you know, it takes two.
Speaker 1: It takes a partner. You know, you've got to find
Speaker 1: that partner that wants to work with you. And you know, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: it's not like there were thirty trades and the Chargers
Speaker 1: were the only team that didn't do it. I think
Speaker 1: there were eleven, you know, and so it's not like
Speaker 1: and look some of them I didn't even like, you know,
Speaker 1: like the the idea of expending uh, you know, a
Speaker 1: second for Chase Claypool that was awfully rich um. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, I get it. They need to
Speaker 1: develop justin fields, you know, wins and losses be damned
Speaker 1: in Chicago this year, you've got to develop that quarterback
Speaker 1: you've traded to firsts. He's shown you flashes. You've got
Speaker 1: to give him opportunities. So like when you say, oh,
Speaker 1: what about Chase Claypool, Yeah, they paid a premium because
Speaker 1: their quarterback needs wide receivers. They have to evaluate him,
Speaker 1: you know, and figure out, you know, where he is.
Speaker 1: So like, each each exchange is, you know, is its
Speaker 1: own entity. It's not like it's you know that the
Speaker 1: Chargers aren't in this vacum where oh, well they could
Speaker 1: have gotten Claypool for that second or what you know,
Speaker 1: that's not not how it works. It's not necessarily how
Speaker 1: it works. So you know, it's again they're going into
Speaker 1: Atlanta with Jason Moore, DeAndre Carter, Michael Bandy, and Josh Palmer.
Speaker 1: The good part of that is the quarterbacks, Justin Herbert
Speaker 1: and as long as Joe Lombardi and Justin and Shane
Speaker 1: Day and you know, Chris Batty are all able to
Speaker 1: get on the same page because they had two weeks
Speaker 1: to prepare for it and get some chemistry, then I've
Speaker 1: got more faith in it than I would where somebody
Speaker 1: else playing quarterback, you know, and then hopefully, you know, Mike,
Speaker 1: this is week two. Now you're talking about maybe Mike
Speaker 1: getting back for the Arizona game. Hopefully Keenan gets three
Speaker 1: weeks arrest here if he's not going to play in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and that hamstring is finally ready to go, and you
Speaker 1: can try to hit some rhythm, you know, and close
Speaker 1: out the season strong and just get into the tournament
Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden you're healthy, and that
Speaker 1: the Chargers become the proverbial team that nobody wants to
Speaker 1: play because everybody's not back out there and we look like,
Speaker 1: you know, they look like they did in Week two
Speaker 1: against Kansas City like a freaking buzz saw. Let's get
Speaker 1: to the rookie conversation real quick, because you're right. Threason
Speaker 1: four is should be making an impact on a football team,
Speaker 1: J T. Woods. We haven't seen Isaiah Spiller got one
Speaker 1: touch in that Seattle game. And I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: other side of Seattle and seeing guys like Terke Woollin
Speaker 1: and Kobe Bryant and the two tackles and Kenneth Walker.
Speaker 1: These guys are all contributing right now. Do you think J. T.
Speaker 1: Woods can make a difference at some point during the
Speaker 1: second half of the season, especially with the deaf being
Speaker 1: tested in the secondary? And is it time to give
Speaker 1: Isaiah Spiller a little bit more run, especially when you
Speaker 1: know you're down speed at the receiver position and you're
Speaker 1: down Joshua Kelly and you saw the success that you
Speaker 1: had running the football a few weeks ago. Maybe Spiller
Speaker 1: can fill that void. And by the way, he can
Speaker 1: catch the ball out of the backfield too. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to, Chris, I mean, because because really, Sony
Speaker 1: has been good at short yardage. You know that's really it.
Speaker 1: Sony has not been explosive. He's not been really a
Speaker 1: threat in the passing game. He's had a couple us
Speaker 1: options that have been you know, solid receptions. But to me,
Speaker 1: you know, he is it's third and one and let's
Speaker 1: go get two yards, Like that's when they really used him.
Speaker 1: So Isaiah has has got to become a part of
Speaker 1: this running attack, you know, he just he has to
Speaker 1: like Josh Kelly was and how he had emerged and
Speaker 1: how much better it looked with him out there. But like,
Speaker 1: to me, it's so much bigger than that. I think
Speaker 1: it's a blocking it. The front is getting no push,
Speaker 1: They're getting pushed back, and that's the issue with running
Speaker 1: the ball one two. I think it's scheme. I would
Speaker 1: love to see, Like give me some DeAndre Carter in motion,
Speaker 1: just flip him some some of those you know Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes special shovel passes when he's kind of streaking across,
Speaker 1: or give him some jet sweeps just to show it,
Speaker 1: you know, just to put it out there, you know.
Speaker 1: So I think that's the sort of stuff that I
Speaker 1: expect to see in Atlanta with the extra week of
Speaker 1: prep and just kind of and that's the other thing,
Speaker 1: like when you watch when you're watching these other teams,
Speaker 1: you know, when you get the week off and you
Speaker 1: see what the Cowboys are doing with Tony Pollard and
Speaker 1: what Dack's doing from a running standpoint at the quarterback position,
Speaker 1: or you know what what the Eagles are doing with
Speaker 1: a J. Brown and how how Nick our old friends
Speaker 1: Nick and Shane are scheming it up, you know out there,
Speaker 1: um with Jalen Hurts, like you you're seeing some of
Speaker 1: these teams and you're like, man, that's like, okay, let's
Speaker 1: see some of that. Let's get some of that going here,
Speaker 1: you know. And you know what Gino and and and
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll are doing up in Seattle, you know what,
Speaker 1: Like you said, it's all rookies, um. And it's amazing
Speaker 1: what one rookie class can do for a team, you know,
Speaker 1: because you think about the the Richard Sherman class with
Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner and Richard like you know, and and and
Speaker 1: what that can mean for a team, and like you
Speaker 1: see it, um. You know. Now, look, some classes take
Speaker 1: longer to develop, takes two three years. Maybe they have
Speaker 1: players in front of them. You know. I think the
Speaker 1: idea with JT was, you know, you allow Derwin to
Speaker 1: play that money that star and JT and and Nas
Speaker 1: can both play in that too high shell up top,
Speaker 1: and so you end up playing a lot of dime
Speaker 1: with Derwin as that you know, that dime backer. But
Speaker 1: you know, with how badly it's been against the run,
Speaker 1: and just the inability to get pushed against the run,
Speaker 1: and just the way Kenneth Walker ran over him last week,
Speaker 1: I think is certainly alarming, and it's it's hard to
Speaker 1: envision that. So I think, you know, going back to
Speaker 1: your original point of you know, should these rookies be
Speaker 1: making more of an impact? I think when you look
Speaker 1: at some other teams, yeah, but also who's in front
Speaker 1: of him? You know? And I think when when Josh
Speaker 1: was healthy, we felt good about Austin and Josh being
Speaker 1: your one two punch, When when Kelly had found that
Speaker 1: rhythm again, I you know, I feel like, yeah, Sony
Speaker 1: has not quite shown what we had hoped he might
Speaker 1: show when he was signed as a free agent. So
Speaker 1: I might have put Spiller in there and just given
Speaker 1: him a look a little bit. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: Corners might be asked to do something now, you know,
Speaker 1: Dean Leonard and Joss here with the injury to you know,
Speaker 1: did j C. They may be asked to get out
Speaker 1: there for a couple of reps and you know that's
Speaker 1: where we may see them to come into play. But again,
Speaker 1: Xander Horvath had touchdowns the first two weeks, and Jamar
Speaker 1: Sawyer has been great. You know, it's been great as
Speaker 1: a fill in sixth rounder for Rashawn Slater and not
Speaker 1: getting too leaky and having the line completely break down.
Speaker 1: So that's been a great pick as well. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1: I mean Sawyer goes in for a reason because Slater's
Speaker 1: out and Spiller. We may see maybe this back half
Speaker 1: of the season is going to be the the impact
Speaker 1: that this team needs. I guess we'll get out of
Speaker 1: here on keys of the game, and you kind of
Speaker 1: said it like this needs to be a Justin Herbert
Speaker 1: special offensively. Defensively, it don't have to be a Derwin
Speaker 1: James special. I told you DJ kind of broke down
Speaker 1: plays of of Derwin kind of sniffing out the run.
Speaker 1: But with Kyle Pitts there too, I mean you may
Speaker 1: have to play Dirwin everywhere. I mean, what do you
Speaker 1: think the key is defensively because the run game, it
Speaker 1: starts there. But when you have weapons like Drake Leonard
Speaker 1: and Kyle Pitts just out there, you always have to
Speaker 1: account for him. Yeah, to me, it's it's kind of
Speaker 1: the same thing with the Seattle game. You know, it's, hey,
Speaker 1: let's just get some pressure on Gino, Like, okay, if
Speaker 1: he can, if he can get the reads, if you're
Speaker 1: blitzing and it's Drew or it's Kenneth or it's Derwin,
Speaker 1: and he's able to get the ball out and they
Speaker 1: beat you, fine, But I just felt like defensively, they
Speaker 1: allowed him a clean pocket and all kinds of time
Speaker 1: and they weren't able to slow down Kenneth Walker, and
Speaker 1: Gino was just taking those ten twelve I mean, think
Speaker 1: about those third downs. They had third and twelves, third
Speaker 1: and fifteens, and they're just rushing four and no one
Speaker 1: can get home. You know, there's just no pass rush.
Speaker 1: Opposite Khalil, he's getting double team and I think, to me, defensively,
Speaker 1: I just like to see him get more aggressive. I would.
Speaker 1: I would really like to see them get more aggressive.
Speaker 1: Drew is so good at time and up his blitzes.
Speaker 1: You know, Kenneth when he's been given a single assign meant,
Speaker 1: hey go here fast. He's been good this year, you know,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, Derwin is exceptional at timing up
Speaker 1: his blitzes and get into the quarterback and being able
Speaker 1: to get buy chips from the tight end or the
Speaker 1: running back to get sacks or create pressures or hurries.
Speaker 1: So defensively, that's what i'd like to see. I just
Speaker 1: you know, what if Mariot is able to beat you.
Speaker 1: You know, he's never been the most accurate quarterback. I
Speaker 1: know his accuracy has been way up this year, but
Speaker 1: just he's got enough of a resume that he's had
Speaker 1: some accuracy issues. You know, I would love to see that.
Speaker 1: Don't don't let them pick you apart, you know, don't
Speaker 1: let them dominate time of possession. Don't let them deflate
Speaker 1: you because they're converting third and twelves and third and
Speaker 1: sixteens like we've seen regularly this year. Go get them,
Speaker 1: you know, and if they get you, they get you.
Speaker 1: So I think defensively, that's what I like to see.
Speaker 1: But ultimately I'm looking at it right now, Chris, I
Speaker 1: mean points, chargers thirty one, Falcons twenty nine yards, chargers
Speaker 1: twentieth the Falcons thirty first. Passing yards Falcons thirty second,
Speaker 1: UH scrimmage yards per play Chargers twenty nine, Falcons thirty first.
Speaker 1: Like a score points man, get out there and take advantage,
Speaker 1: because they didn't take advantage. You know of the Seattle
Speaker 1: run defense that was allowing one hundred and seventy yards
Speaker 1: per game. They did nothing. Um, you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta take advantage of a team's weakness. And through
Speaker 1: eight games, that's what the Falcons are. It's halfway through
Speaker 1: the season. They've told you they cannot stop the pass.
Speaker 1: So go on out there and get it and let's
Speaker 1: see if you can win a shootout. Yeah, maybe a
Speaker 1: big day for Palmer and Gerald Everidge. Yeah, oh it's
Speaker 1: in coming to the backfield. You never know. Right on
Speaker 1: p one hundred percent, I think that's and it's gonna
Speaker 1: have to be if they're gonna come back here with
Speaker 1: a win, and and I fully believe they can. I
Speaker 1: one hundred percent believe that this is a winnable game. You've, yes,
Speaker 1: the Falcons are four and four and in first place,
Speaker 1: but when you look at their season twenty seven, twenty six,
Speaker 1: thirty one, twenty seven, twenty seven, twenty three, twenty three,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, fifteen. You see what I'm getting at there,
Speaker 1: all tight games because their defense can't stop anyone. So
Speaker 1: you're gonna be in this game. You know you should
Speaker 1: be in this game. And you know, Herbert with the
Speaker 1: extra week to get those ribs healthy, you know, I've
Speaker 1: got I got faith that this is going to be
Speaker 1: that Justin Herbert special and he's gonna remember, he's gonna
Speaker 1: remind a lot of people, you know why he's being
Speaker 1: talked about as Hey, if you had the number one
Speaker 1: pick of any quarterback in the league for the next
Speaker 1: ten years, who do you want. I just I feel
Speaker 1: like it's going to be that kind of game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna have to be right without without Keenan
Speaker 1: and Mike. If Justin can show, hey, we can get
Speaker 1: this done on my shoulders. Yeah, you get to five
Speaker 1: and three in today's NFL. Five and three is pretty
Speaker 1: good in today's NFL, especially in the NFC. We'll see
Speaker 1: what Joe Lombardi cooks up offensively money looking forward to it, man,
Speaker 1: I'll see you this weekend and see if the Bolts
Speaker 1: can get back in the wing column. Get to five
Speaker 1: and three, before another NFC game, NFC West Sunday Football.
Speaker 1: Guess the Niners. We'll get into that next week. But
Speaker 1: Atlanta this Sunday exactly. Just as long as I don't
Speaker 1: see at the Varsity nine am with one of those
Speaker 1: greasy burgers because we stayed out too late on Saturday night,
Speaker 1: will be good. Yeah, that would be a problem, right, Yes,
Speaker 1: it would be all right for fuddy up Chris. This
Speaker 1: has been charges weekly Week nine