Speaker 1: The late fifteen ten touchdown. What's up, guys, Welcome into
Speaker 1: a brand new episode of Chargers Weekly, as always, joined
Speaker 1: by Matt money Smith. But Money's not at his desk
Speaker 1: at the moment. It's Money looks like he's behind the wheel.
Speaker 1: Now where are you? Yes, I am, and I hope
Speaker 1: this works. My great apologies for the audio quality. It
Speaker 1: is one of the rare patients where we have got
Speaker 1: crrential rains in southern California. Oh, I forgot about that
Speaker 1: time him driving home. Yeah, so I am driving home
Speaker 1: free plug Galvin Ford in my F one fifty Lightning
Speaker 1: which has blue crews, so I don't technically happen to
Speaker 1: drive the car wheel drive itself, which is good since
Speaker 1: we're doing a podcast. But I'm coming back from Cancoon. Um.
Speaker 1: Shout out to my man Antonio and Alex. They're big
Speaker 1: Charger guys. And while Alex is sort of an Eagles guy,
Speaker 1: but Antonio is a huge Charger fan and that's how
Speaker 1: we got connected. They're doing this really cool charity called
Speaker 1: Saving our Sharks down in Islamis and kind of the
Speaker 1: Mexican Riviera and Cancoon and all that, and they wanted
Speaker 1: me to narrated documentary that they're going to be shooting.
Speaker 1: So I went down to meet a lot of these
Speaker 1: fishermen and a lot of people involved that are basically,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of abandoning their lives. That their lifestyles,
Speaker 1: their careers, I should say, of you know, five six
Speaker 1: generations of being fishermen to shifting to kind of dive
Speaker 1: operators and trying to promote tourism as opposed to just
Speaker 1: needlessly killing thousands of sharks every year. That kind of
Speaker 1: impacted the ecosystem, It impacted fishermen. I learned quite a
Speaker 1: bit this weekend by talking to them, and hopefully we'll
Speaker 1: get it all squared away and everybody'll be able to
Speaker 1: hear about it. But Antonio is a big Charger guy
Speaker 1: that he's got ten Charger season tickets and as he
Speaker 1: segues from you know, kind of an active career to
Speaker 1: more of a philanthropic point in his life, these are
Speaker 1: the sort of things he's taken on, and he asked
Speaker 1: me if i'd be part of it. It sounds incredible.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear more about it and shout
Speaker 1: out to Antonio. I'm sure Antonio listen is the Charges
Speaker 1: Weekly money, you know he does. Yeah, he and his
Speaker 1: friend Mike are big listeners, and um, that's kind of
Speaker 1: how they you know, it's Charger Games and through this
Speaker 1: that they that they found me and though, yeah, we
Speaker 1: want you to be the voice of the documentary we're shooting.
Speaker 1: We want you to come down to meet everybody and
Speaker 1: see kind of who's involved. So I got to meet
Speaker 1: you know, the doctors, the marine biologists, the fisherman themselves,
Speaker 1: and it was really a cool experience. Is short, was
Speaker 1: there for like thirty hours, but it was really incredible
Speaker 1: to kind of meet and see what these people are
Speaker 1: up to and how they're changing, you know, their their
Speaker 1: lifestyles to hopefully what they kind of told me, what
Speaker 1: a lot of the fisherman told me, is what they
Speaker 1: believe is more sustainable for the next generations to come.
Speaker 1: That they just don't think fishing shark is going to
Speaker 1: be the way for their kids to make money. That
Speaker 1: if they can shift the tourism, use their boats and
Speaker 1: learn to dive and do that sort of thing, that
Speaker 1: that's going to be the way to go. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. Hey, you go from camcoon to torrential downpour
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles I know you have a you have
Speaker 1: a busy day. This is kind of a weird week
Speaker 1: on the calendar because it's kind of that in between.
Speaker 1: We had a good conversation last week with Jeff Miller.
Speaker 1: The combine is next week, so in a bit we'll
Speaker 1: do a little primer what to expect, maybe what guys
Speaker 1: to take a look at. Maybe look at DJ's mock
Speaker 1: draft two point zero. But some some pretty big news
Speaker 1: A couple days ago. Ronaldo Hill is moving on to
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins to join Vic Fangio and his defensive staff.
Speaker 1: So that leaves a vacancy at the defensive coordinator position.
Speaker 1: You hear some names that the Chargers are interviewing. Derek
Speaker 1: Gansley is probably the favorite for that position. I would
Speaker 1: guess just you your thoughts on Ronaldo leaving, And obviously
Speaker 1: Brandon Staley calls the defense, so not much is going
Speaker 1: to change in that, but there will be a new
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. I think, yeah, I think that's the keys.
Speaker 1: You know, Brandon calls the plays and I don't get
Speaker 1: the sense he wants to relinquish that. And if that's
Speaker 1: the case, then I don't think much will change. No. Look,
Speaker 1: you know, I think there's a lot of respect for
Speaker 1: Ronaldo in the building outside the building. That's why Vic
Speaker 1: Fangio wanted him to come with him as he's going
Speaker 1: to be taking over the defense and pretty much just
Speaker 1: been handed complete control of the defense by Mike McDaniel
Speaker 1: down there in Miami. So I think, you know, it
Speaker 1: tells you the respect that Ronaldo had from his former
Speaker 1: employer that you know, in Vic Habit had an opportunity
Speaker 1: to bring somebody into be his right hand guy, that
Speaker 1: that Rialdo is the one we've known Derek for a while,
Speaker 1: another great guy would love to see him get promoted
Speaker 1: and get the gig. And I think they're also bringing in,
Speaker 1: you know, some outside voices just to bounce some things
Speaker 1: off of. I think the one thing that jumped out
Speaker 1: at me Chris coming off the Super Bowl was, you
Speaker 1: know how those different plays you know, were attributed to
Speaker 1: different people, and you know, Andy said, yeah, I might
Speaker 1: call them the plays, but it's the process that goes
Speaker 1: into designing the plays and deciding what plays are going
Speaker 1: to go on play sheets. So I would hope, you know,
Speaker 1: if they bring somebody in that it's someone that can
Speaker 1: collaborate with Brandon, that can be another voice, another set
Speaker 1: of eyes to help them out, you know, and try
Speaker 1: to get this thing as right as possible, because certainly
Speaker 1: the last two years have not been great defensively. There
Speaker 1: have been great moments, but I think overall, you know,
Speaker 1: you would love to see someone get in there that
Speaker 1: can maybe get another look at this thing from a
Speaker 1: different angle and see kind of is there a way
Speaker 1: to do it right? And I think we talked about
Speaker 1: it last week. I don't know what that way is.
Speaker 1: I feel I feel terrible for defensive coordinators in the
Speaker 1: NFL in two twenty, there is not a fun gig.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm sure it's going to be someone
Speaker 1: that Brandon's really comfortable with, that wants to work with,
Speaker 1: that wants to collaborate with. And I'd be really surprised
Speaker 1: if it wasn't someone that was promoted from within. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you made a great point last week. Money. He really
Speaker 1: got me thinking too. Is you know we talk so
Speaker 1: much about the defense, but in today's NFL you got
Speaker 1: to miss me with all the inside baseball defense talk.
Speaker 1: When when teams are scoring thirty five points, thirty eight
Speaker 1: points in a Super Bowl or a championship game, and
Speaker 1: obviously the Chargers have talent on defense, and you say
Speaker 1: they've had their moments year three in Brandon Staley's tenure
Speaker 1: here with the Chargers, you really want to put your
Speaker 1: stamp on that defense. But there's always gonna be limitations
Speaker 1: with how the league works now, especially offensively. And you know,
Speaker 1: we talk about Kellen Moore coming in the Chargers that
Speaker 1: they need to score a lot of points. So I
Speaker 1: think consistency, having somebody that's already been in the building, um,
Speaker 1: that knows what Brandon's all about and what he wants
Speaker 1: to accomplish is a good thing. I'm sure we'll know
Speaker 1: more next week when when Tom and Brandon we'll speak
Speaker 1: with with people in the media at the combine, But
Speaker 1: it seems like it would be logical to do something
Speaker 1: from within now. Yeah, And I think, look, you know,
Speaker 1: the league is different now, and that's good. You know,
Speaker 1: you should be forced to interview people you know and
Speaker 1: and try to see if there's another candidate, because if
Speaker 1: it's not somebody that you hire, it could very well
Speaker 1: be someone that you recommend that somebody else you know hires.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a pretty tight knit group head coaches
Speaker 1: in this league, and so I think that's perhaps what's happening.
Speaker 1: Is there just ticking tires and trying to figure out
Speaker 1: is there is there somebody else out there. Let's make sure,
Speaker 1: you know, we leave no stone unturned before we just
Speaker 1: go with the guy we feel really comfortable with. But
Speaker 1: I do think there's, you know, something to be said
Speaker 1: for for there being a favorite. And I think that
Speaker 1: that's sort of where, you know, where I'm leaning where
Speaker 1: I think this thing ultimately goes. And again, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be hard to bring somebody in from the outside when
Speaker 1: Brandon really has got his hands all over this defense.
Speaker 1: You know, it's as far as the candidates that will
Speaker 1: be available, you know, I'm not quite sure you know
Speaker 1: what what would be out there that that you would say, Wow,
Speaker 1: that's a really good hire just because it's still going
Speaker 1: to be Brandon call in the defense. Yeah, yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 1: And we get to the combine portion of the offseason
Speaker 1: next week. Money, You've covered a bunch of these. Just
Speaker 1: give me maybe like one or two things that that
Speaker 1: really stand out to you when you step into Indianapolis
Speaker 1: and what fans I think should be looking at and
Speaker 1: looking forward to. Yeah, I think, um, I think one
Speaker 1: thing that happens every combine is there's there's some wow
Speaker 1: and people. And I understand the people that are saying,
Speaker 1: like a big deal, nobody, you don't you don't, you know,
Speaker 1: why do I need old linemen run in a forty
Speaker 1: or my defensive linemen running a fort you know those
Speaker 1: sort of things. But there are wow moments, you know.
Speaker 1: I think back to last year and you know, Jordan
Speaker 1: Davis was a wow Momentah, man, that big, that moved
Speaker 1: that fast and was that agile, was a big wow.
Speaker 1: And I think you saw, you know, I think you
Speaker 1: saw when he was out there. Unfortunately had some injury issues.
Speaker 1: You know, oh yeah, this guy's got that jews. So
Speaker 1: there's always those, you know, and the Chargers have a
Speaker 1: couple of those players. You know, justin Herbert put on
Speaker 1: a show in the throwing drills. Darlin James was you know,
Speaker 1: just a complete freak just walking. When you just stood
Speaker 1: next to him, it was like, my god, look at
Speaker 1: this person. You know. So there's you know, Joey Bosa.
Speaker 1: There there are those guys, and there's gonna be those
Speaker 1: guys this year. You know, Will Anderson and Jalen Carter
Speaker 1: are gonna be those guys and they're gonna show out
Speaker 1: and um and then every now and then, and it's
Speaker 1: funny because it makes you wonder. We've had it like
Speaker 1: every year in a row. Now you know where d
Speaker 1: came that cap. It was like, dude, how how is
Speaker 1: this guy not gonna work in the NFL? He's you know,
Speaker 1: and it's like, wells it his route running or his hand.
Speaker 1: But when you were on the field and you saw
Speaker 1: it him and aj standing next to each other, You're like,
Speaker 1: my goodness. Um, you know, so you had that a
Speaker 1: few years ago. I mentioned Jordan Davis. Uh last year there,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's been I'm trying to think. I know
Speaker 1: there's been more because like I said, every year we
Speaker 1: have it. Um. Oh, Tarik Woolin last year, I remember,
Speaker 1: you know, standing, I was sitting next to land Zerline,
Speaker 1: our friend, and and Tarik runs is forty and I'm like, so,
Speaker 1: so tell me what's going on with this guy? Now?
Speaker 1: Why is he not? Why? Why is why? Is just
Speaker 1: too raw? You know, they're too stiff in the hips
Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff. And but that was
Speaker 1: a wild moment. Treek running, you know, he is gigantic
Speaker 1: and when he ran that four, three forty. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody was like, Okay, maybe we got to reassess this,
Speaker 1: and they didn't, and the Seahawks got him in the
Speaker 1: fourth round and you know, he's he's incredible. So those
Speaker 1: are the things I think. I think we've we've had
Speaker 1: an interesting run. But you know, my time with the
Speaker 1: combine has been interesting where I've seen the pendulum swing
Speaker 1: back and forth and back and forth, and oh, you
Speaker 1: can't put too much stock. It's all about the tape
Speaker 1: and how then it'll swing the other way. How do
Speaker 1: we ignore traits? You know, that's how Toron Armstead becomes
Speaker 1: a third rounder and Tariq Wiolin's a fourth rounder and
Speaker 1: dcame that casts a second rounder because we ignored traite.
Speaker 1: So I'm interested to see where we're at and that
Speaker 1: pendulum swing. Just look last year, you know, the number
Speaker 1: one pick Trayvon Walker came because of traits and Aidan
Speaker 1: Hutchinson went number two overall because he didn't have the
Speaker 1: same length and the same physical measurements as as Trevon Walker.
Speaker 1: But I can say you right now, you'd be the
Speaker 1: number one pick, you know, if they had a chance
Speaker 1: to do it over again. So it'd be interesting to
Speaker 1: see which way that pendulum swings at the combine this year. Obviously,
Speaker 1: when Herbert was drafted in twenty twenty, you know, we
Speaker 1: dug into all the quarterback prospects because we knew that
Speaker 1: there was a high chance that the Charges were going
Speaker 1: to draft quarterback at number six. Overall this year, I'm
Speaker 1: just looking at DJ's box draft two point zero, and
Speaker 1: there's so many intriguing prospects money around number twenty one.
Speaker 1: DJ has Quintin Johnson from TCU, the speedster wide receiver
Speaker 1: at twenty one, and that's just an example of a
Speaker 1: guy that I'm really excited to see in Indianapolis. Guys
Speaker 1: like that. You mentioned Hyatt from Tennessee last week, the guys,
Speaker 1: the guys with the speed at the wide receiver position,
Speaker 1: as well as some other positions. But let's just start
Speaker 1: a wide receiver. M Johnson is an example of a
Speaker 1: guy who I think would would compliment this offense perfectly. Yeah. Look,
Speaker 1: he very well could for people that are seeing some
Speaker 1: mock drafts with him in ten at eight, at eleven,
Speaker 1: and you know, how the heck are you gonna make
Speaker 1: it twenty one? He has some drop issues, so that
Speaker 1: very well, could be the way that he slides. And
Speaker 1: you know when when you look at it and you
Speaker 1: figure out, okay, is that on him? Is it under
Speaker 1: thrown balls? Like what, Let's let's get into these drops
Speaker 1: and get a look at him. So maybe there's a
Speaker 1: possibility and these slides. I mean, look, that would be great.
Speaker 1: And as we said, offense, let's go, let's just keep adding.
Speaker 1: You know, if it's John Robinson, if it's Quinton Johnson,
Speaker 1: if it's Dalton Kinkaid or mayor like I just I
Speaker 1: think keep adding to the offense. You know, I have
Speaker 1: no problem with that. And I think that's what you're
Speaker 1: going to start seeing more and more of these mock
Speaker 1: drafts to do as they start to post because of Herbert,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe having a bit of a down year
Speaker 1: last year statistically. And you know, you heard what Austin
Speaker 1: Ackler had to say when he was making the rounds
Speaker 1: at the Super Bowl about how important Jalen was and
Speaker 1: how much defense has changed after they had didn't have
Speaker 1: that speed element out there. So Ben Johnson makes a
Speaker 1: lot of sense. And I won't be surprised at all
Speaker 1: if it's someone you know from that side of the ball,
Speaker 1: even though everybody's saying, well, how do you give up
Speaker 1: that many points and you don't try to fix the
Speaker 1: defense through the draft? Yeah, you know, Dalton Kinkaid is
Speaker 1: this guy you listed a few times here. I think
Speaker 1: DJ has him going to the Packers at fifteen Mayor
Speaker 1: from Notre Dame a few slots after the Chargers, I
Speaker 1: think to Cincinnati. So those are two guys. Also in
Speaker 1: the conversation, we've talked about the need of a tight end,
Speaker 1: specifically a pass catching tight end. DJ Kincaide is the
Speaker 1: best of the bunch in that regard. So your your
Speaker 1: thoughts on Mayor versus Kinkaide, I guess you'd take either one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's I've said it too many times and
Speaker 1: it's me. I'm not trying to drop names if you
Speaker 1: want to call it that, but I just have this
Speaker 1: incredible bias for Kincaid, you know, and the USC defense
Speaker 1: was not good, but when you see someone take over
Speaker 1: a game like that, you know what the potential is
Speaker 1: where even though a team was so you know, for
Speaker 1: lack of a better term, light in the ass defensively
Speaker 1: that like USC was last year, just with their personnel,
Speaker 1: you know, especially in that linebacker level. They could not
Speaker 1: cover him, like, they did not have an answer and
Speaker 1: they threw it to him. Every single player can't rising
Speaker 1: just said, looked at Dalton. Kinkad was like, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: where I'm going. What are you gonna do about it?
Speaker 1: And they couldn't do anything. And I think when you
Speaker 1: get to see that, that's sort of level of domination.
Speaker 1: It's very reminiscent of Travis Kelsey. When you have someone
Speaker 1: that has the ability that with that size, you know,
Speaker 1: with those hands and with that route running, you know,
Speaker 1: sort of prowess, it's a very hard riddle to solve.
Speaker 1: So I I think that's probably why DJ and his
Speaker 1: second mock is moving him up, because he's probably hearing
Speaker 1: that sort of thing from people around the league. I know,
Speaker 1: you know, as he typically describes it, he's like my
Speaker 1: top fifty or what I think of the players the
Speaker 1: mock draft is what I think the teams are thinking.
Speaker 1: So that that's my guest with Kinkaid is that as
Speaker 1: we talked about him, when some people were saying they
Speaker 1: thought maybe he might be a second round or even
Speaker 1: third round, or I was just like, come on, man,
Speaker 1: I've seen I see football dominance and I saw it
Speaker 1: on that Saturday Evening Man and its name was Dalton Kinkaid,
Speaker 1: Mayor straight. I think, you know, Mustra's going to get
Speaker 1: a lot of run. You know, you're going to start
Speaker 1: to see and look, I think we know how valuable
Speaker 1: that position is. I think you just look at you know,
Speaker 1: you look at the position and the teams that advance
Speaker 1: and the teams that are excelling offensively, and quite a
Speaker 1: few of them have that particular position and that that
Speaker 1: level of pass catcher at that position. And it's nothing
Speaker 1: against Gerald Evert, who had a career year and made
Speaker 1: some big plays. It's nothing against Donald Parham, who unfortunately
Speaker 1: continues to deal with some injury issues. But I think
Speaker 1: if you can get someone that's the level of talent
Speaker 1: as Hunter Henry was, what jumps out at me more
Speaker 1: than anything, Chris is when you look at some of
Speaker 1: these mock drafts that are coming out and you're starting
Speaker 1: to see, you know, both Kinkaid's going to be in
Speaker 1: all of them, as I said, Mayor's going to be
Speaker 1: in all of them, and I think you're going to
Speaker 1: start seeing guys like Musgrave and like it just goes
Speaker 1: to show you that this position is going to be valued,
Speaker 1: and if the Chargers want to address it, you know,
Speaker 1: they were lucky. Remember when Hunter was drafted, he was
Speaker 1: the number one tight end and somehow he slipped the
Speaker 1: second round and they were able to scoop them up.
Speaker 1: I just don't I don't see that happening. I think
Speaker 1: you're going to end up with, you know, probably the
Speaker 1: top two tight ends and maybe three going in the
Speaker 1: first round, just because of how important that position is.
Speaker 1: All right, but let's take a quick break. We'll wrap
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Speaker 1: One more position I want to ask you about. And
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the edge rusher position and it's pretty
Speaker 1: top heavy, you know, the top ten. You see a
Speaker 1: lot of guys there. I look at the situation with
Speaker 1: Joey Bosa and Khalil Mac. Joey, you know he's had
Speaker 1: some injury issues. Khalil has a pretty big cap number.
Speaker 1: What we'll see what happens with that over the next
Speaker 1: month or so. The edge rusher position, is that something
Speaker 1: that you would consider in the first round if the
Speaker 1: right prospect was there, or is that something that maybe
Speaker 1: free agency can take care of. I don't know, Just
Speaker 1: I know that that's going to be an important position
Speaker 1: for this team in twenty twenty three and beyond. You
Speaker 1: gotta think of the future, no doubt. Look, I think
Speaker 1: you know you kind of go through you know, depending
Speaker 1: on who you want to attribute it to. You know,
Speaker 1: I guess Jerry Reese was kind of the second guy
Speaker 1: in line. But like you know, old line to get quarterback,
Speaker 1: protect the quarterback, get the quarterback. You know, So those
Speaker 1: are those are premiums. And I think that's sort of
Speaker 1: the key with you know, drafting in the first round
Speaker 1: is if you know, for people that kind of don't
Speaker 1: follow along, and I'm sure we'll get DJ and he's
Speaker 1: so much better at doing you know, this part of
Speaker 1: the combine than I am. But you know, there aren't
Speaker 1: thirty two first round prospects ever. They're just you know,
Speaker 1: typically it's somewhere between fourteen and maybe like twenty. If
Speaker 1: it's a really good draft, you'll get twenty guys, maybe
Speaker 1: twenty two with a first round grade on him. So
Speaker 1: after you get past that number, now that whole need
Speaker 1: or that drafting philosophy sort of comes into play. Right, Okay,
Speaker 1: so we've got it's like you know, they typically will
Speaker 1: have made is a rest round grade. This is the
Speaker 1: second round grade this earth and then once you so
Speaker 1: let's just say there's all the first round grades that
Speaker 1: the Chargers had on these guys when they get to
Speaker 1: twenty one are gone. Well, now you can open it
Speaker 1: up a little bit, and now you can say, look,
Speaker 1: we really got hurt on the defensive line, you know,
Speaker 1: when all of our injuries hit at edge, you know,
Speaker 1: we had very little depth, you know, and Chris Rump
Speaker 1: was dealing with some injuries this year and that limited
Speaker 1: his viability. Kyle Van Noise a free agent and had
Speaker 1: a really good back half of the season, So he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna get some money out there. You hope you
Speaker 1: can afford him. Sounds like he's interested in staying and
Speaker 1: wants to work with the Chargers to stay. Morgan Fox
Speaker 1: had the best pass rushing career of his you know,
Speaker 1: bat pass rushing season of his career. He's going to
Speaker 1: be looking for a race, so that makes things tough.
Speaker 1: And I think when you get into those predicaments, Chris
Speaker 1: and you're twenty million bucks over the cap, that's where
Speaker 1: the draft comes into play, and it's, hey, all things
Speaker 1: being equal, we really would we really like this tight end?
Speaker 1: Would we really like this speed receiver here in the
Speaker 1: first you know, looks like we're pretty even with you know,
Speaker 1: this pass rusher that seems to have slipped. Let's go
Speaker 1: get them, and that that very well could happen. The
Speaker 1: problem is, I think there are some really good pass
Speaker 1: rushers in this draft, and I think they're gonna end up,
Speaker 1: you know, I think you're gonna end up with a
Speaker 1: run you know on them early. I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: look at maybe six seven, you know, edge your interior
Speaker 1: rushers coming off the board. By the time the Chargers
Speaker 1: pick at twenty one, Yeah, that's kind of where it
Speaker 1: looks like it's gonna head. And then you know, the
Speaker 1: Chargers pick seventeen last year and we were talking about
Speaker 1: Jordan Davis to talk about wide receivers that get Zion there,
Speaker 1: you know, so at twenty one, it's it's kind of
Speaker 1: that similar boat. You see best available on your board,
Speaker 1: you bet shut up with your needs and see what
Speaker 1: happens last thing for your money. And I think that
Speaker 1: this is the most fascinating part of the combine is
Speaker 1: everything that happens off the field, right This is where
Speaker 1: trades in free agency and meetings with agents and all
Speaker 1: the business of the NFL kind of kicks off. Everybody's
Speaker 1: in the same place. I know. I'm sure you've had
Speaker 1: stories over the years where you've talked to guys, and
Speaker 1: you know that JW. Marriott Barr is always hopping and
Speaker 1: people are talking this is where, this is where the
Speaker 1: league is really gonna take shape, starting in Indianapolis. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and you could argue the first domino that's
Speaker 1: gonna follows Derek Carr, you know, because he can sign
Speaker 1: wherever whenever he wants. And then you would like to
Speaker 1: think he's probably gonna want to do that sooner than later,
Speaker 1: you know, and get a jump on Aaron. Say, you know,
Speaker 1: if he wants to try to beat Aaron Rodgers to
Speaker 1: the punch and say, look, you want Aaron, I may
Speaker 1: go sign somewhere else you want me, Let's get this
Speaker 1: deal done now or else I've got you know, the
Speaker 1: Saints want him, so there's got to be some sort
Speaker 1: of deal there from them. I mean, he's so I
Speaker 1: think that's gonna be interesting to see whether or not
Speaker 1: that can get put together at the combine, you know,
Speaker 1: or if the Aaron Rodgers then gets put together at
Speaker 1: the combine. But yeah, there's always something that happens, you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's I mean, heck, Davante Adams, I mean, these
Speaker 1: things happen early, you know, It's not like you got
Speaker 1: to wait until March or April or after the draft
Speaker 1: or at the start of free agency. Like you said,
Speaker 1: this is when the seeds are planted for what's to come.
Speaker 1: And look, this is you. I think you brought up
Speaker 1: a great point that people don't quite remember too often,
Speaker 1: and that's agents. You know, this is where Tom Talasco
Speaker 1: could be having some meeting with agents about all right,
Speaker 1: we want to keep your guy, but we're twenty million
Speaker 1: bucks over the cap. How do we keep your guy?
Speaker 1: What what can we do? Let's work together. So I
Speaker 1: think that's also important to remember. You know, it's not
Speaker 1: a fat accompany that Khalil Mack and Keenan Allen and
Speaker 1: these big salaried veterans have to be released in order
Speaker 1: to make the number right. You know, if they can
Speaker 1: get some cooperation and they can figure out a place
Speaker 1: to meet in the middle, then yeah, that's you. You
Speaker 1: can return this team and you can get you know,
Speaker 1: Mac to to be on one edge and Joey on
Speaker 1: the other like you had envisioned and you had for
Speaker 1: those first two games and it looked great. Um, so
Speaker 1: I think that's that's certainly something that i'd be very
Speaker 1: surprised if Tom Talasco, you know, wasn't going to be
Speaker 1: doing quite a bit of when he's down in Indianapolis
Speaker 1: is meeting with agents and seeing how is this puzzle
Speaker 1: going to get put together for this roster considering how
Speaker 1: much money we spent last year in free agent in
Speaker 1: free agency, and while we enjoyed that meal, the check
Speaker 1: has now been dropped off at the table and we
Speaker 1: got to pay it in twenty twenty three, exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, hey, next week we're gonna be at
Speaker 1: our home offices, but we'll get some We'll get some
Speaker 1: folks that are in the Indianapolis on radio row with
Speaker 1: the Chargers to join us and talk about the what's
Speaker 1: going on there, and you know, everything from free agency
Speaker 1: to the draft. There's so much news going on right
Speaker 1: now around the NFL money. I'm gonna let you get
Speaker 1: to it. Man, you're a trooper for for for driving
Speaker 1: in this rain and doing a first class podcast. My men, Well,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Chris, as I back into a spot
Speaker 1: because there's some sort of southern California Edison truck behind
Speaker 1: me with sirens on that's trying to get me out
Speaker 1: of the way, I appreciate it. I apologize to those
Speaker 1: Charger fans that probably deserve better than what I'm giving
Speaker 1: them right now. But no crazy week. Honestly, if if
Speaker 1: we don't put this video up, I want this to
Speaker 1: be teaching tape on how to properly drive in southern California.
Speaker 1: Reign there you go. Can they give me a ticket
Speaker 1: for that? Is there a way for them to retroactively
Speaker 1: get me a ticket for driving while while zoom while
Speaker 1: being on a video broadcast? So hopefully not? No, no, Well,
Speaker 1: if that's the case, we will put the video up.
Speaker 1: There we go. Whatever, Let's see what happens live dangerously, Chris,
Speaker 1: Let's roll the right, all right, buddy for buddy up, Chris.
Speaker 1: This has been Chargers Weekly. We'll talk next week Indianapolis.
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