Speaker 1: The late fifteen ten touchdowns. What's up, guys? Welcome into
Speaker 1: a week fourteen edition of Chargers Weekly Bolds set to
Speaker 1: hit Sunday Night Football yet again against the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: as always, joined by Matt money Smith and money It's
Speaker 1: I guess it showed me time. Right, you're six and six,
Speaker 1: you haven't been a playoff team yet. You had two
Speaker 1: playoff teams on deck, starting with the Dolphins, and then
Speaker 1: when you know, look, I feel like we keep saying it,
Speaker 1: and I think this is what's probably the most frustrating
Speaker 1: thing is they're in the games. You know, they're in
Speaker 1: these games. You know, whether it's the forty nine Ers
Speaker 1: or the Chiefs or the Raiders, like so many of
Speaker 1: these games that they have let get away from them,
Speaker 1: they're in them. You know, they're they can win these games.
Speaker 1: And it's just I think that's the frustrating part. And now,
Speaker 1: like you said, you're talking about two of the better
Speaker 1: teams in the league. You know they do it differently.
Speaker 1: And sorry about my hair for those watching the video portion,
Speaker 1: it was very cold morning. The water. It looks it
Speaker 1: looks great. Yeah, it feels great. I'm freezing right now.
Speaker 1: By the way, it was like forty five degrees this
Speaker 1: morning and the water was cold. But you look, Miami's
Speaker 1: a really good team, like legitimate Super Bowl contending team
Speaker 1: with speed everywhere. Like it's not just Tyreek Kill and
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle, Mike as Secky's and Nightmare to cover. You
Speaker 1: know what Mike McDaniels does with the run game and
Speaker 1: what Jeff Wilson and Raheem Mostert. They got speed for days.
Speaker 1: So it's a really tough matchup for the Bolts in
Speaker 1: their current physical and you know condition and their state
Speaker 1: of health. So that's why when you're you're watching this
Speaker 1: Raider game and you're up ten nothing and you get
Speaker 1: the turnover and you get no points out of it
Speaker 1: on that first one. Now you get the pick six
Speaker 1: and it just takes the offense a half to get
Speaker 1: going or two and a half quarters. It's like, man,
Speaker 1: you have got opportunities. And like you said, now they're
Speaker 1: in a position where they've got to win one of
Speaker 1: these two and maybe both, so they're not facing like
Speaker 1: the second the next game they lose, they gotta win
Speaker 1: out and like that is not a fun place to
Speaker 1: be when you find yourself having to win out to
Speaker 1: make the tournament. So I mean Sunday, I know, on paper,
Speaker 1: like I said, it looks like it's a really rough go.
Speaker 1: But so did the Chiefs, so did the forty nine.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we were talking in the hallway, Chris,
Speaker 1: with a bunch of people. They thought the forty nine
Speaker 1: Ers game was going to be a complete bloodbath and
Speaker 1: they were in it. You know, they had a chance
Speaker 1: to win that game. The last possession, defense comes up
Speaker 1: with a huge stop and they just can't quite put
Speaker 1: it together. So like that's the one thing that gives me,
Speaker 1: you know, like legitimate hope, like, oh yeah, they can
Speaker 1: totally do this. It's that they've been in every game.
Speaker 1: They just gotta figure out a way to win. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it starts with ten, and it starts with protecting number ten.
Speaker 1: He was hit fourteen times. He was sacked five times
Speaker 1: against the Raiders, and Buddy, you know, this is such
Speaker 1: a subjective list, but I was. I was just going
Speaker 1: through the season and the most important players on this team,
Speaker 1: and I would say justin one, I would say Durwin two,
Speaker 1: and I would say Corey Linsley three. And I'm just
Speaker 1: looking at Corey Linsley's season, right He went out in
Speaker 1: that Kansas City game in the second half. The first
Speaker 1: half they were dominating. They lost twenty seven twenty four.
Speaker 1: He didn't play in that Jacksonville game, they lost thirty
Speaker 1: eight to ten. The San Francisco game, one possession game,
Speaker 1: he's in it. The Kansas City game they lose by three,
Speaker 1: he's in it. He didn't play against the Raiders. They
Speaker 1: can't protect Justin Herbert, Like, Corey is so important to
Speaker 1: this team, and you know, you put Joey Boston, Rashaun
Speaker 1: Slayer and whatever order you want to put him into.
Speaker 1: But I just feel like, you know, hopefully they get
Speaker 1: good news on Corey because he really is the one
Speaker 1: piece they cannot afford to lose across that line. You know,
Speaker 1: by no means that my pushing back on it a
Speaker 1: year one hundred percent, right, He's invaluable, especially because the
Speaker 1: protections and all the stuff he does that you take
Speaker 1: that off of Justin's plate. You know that people don't
Speaker 1: recognize how much that's worth. But like, I think there
Speaker 1: are we can. We can have this conversation about so
Speaker 1: many of their players. You know, just think about that
Speaker 1: pass on fourth and nine to DeAndre Carter. If that's
Speaker 1: Mike Williams and not DeAndre Carter on the outside. If
Speaker 1: that's six foot three wins every fifty fifty ball, not
Speaker 1: you know, And I'm not trying to take a slide
Speaker 1: at Deandrama. It's just reality, you know, not five foot
Speaker 1: six on the outside fighting a six foot one Nate
Speaker 1: Hobbs corner like DeAndre Carter. Like. So there's that they had.
Speaker 1: The Raiders offensive line is not good. They had zero
Speaker 1: pass rush. I mean, you know, Morgan, Morgan Fox, you know,
Speaker 1: God love him. He was pretty much the only guy
Speaker 1: that generated anything in that game. And that is not
Speaker 1: a good offensive line. So that's where the Bosa thing
Speaker 1: comes in, Like teams have just loaded up on Khalil
Speaker 1: Mack and been like whatever, man, we got no concern
Speaker 1: with the other side. And so you know, that's where
Speaker 1: the whole I think that's like to me, that's probably
Speaker 1: one of the more more frustrating, you know, parts of
Speaker 1: the season is, man, haven't seen you know whatever it
Speaker 1: was six quarters with Joey or whatever, ten quarters with
Speaker 1: Joey Bosa and not having him here for this long.
Speaker 1: He's like, holy cow, I mean, what a freaking kick
Speaker 1: in the pants. It has thus already interrupted. You just
Speaker 1: go to the first half of the Kansas City game
Speaker 1: in Week two, Like how I looked, you know, like
Speaker 1: we're all looking at each other, like, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: what Brady Seiy's defense, this is what he was envisioning
Speaker 1: in that first half of the Kansas City game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think, like what I'm saying is there's so
Speaker 1: many different spots you can circle of where this team
Speaker 1: needs needs to pick it up. Offensive line is pressured
Speaker 1: on forty four percent of his dropbacks. Half the time
Speaker 1: you snap the ball to pass, you're under pressure. Like
Speaker 1: that's you can't operate, like you just you can't function.
Speaker 1: Will say, you know, I think Justin ran into two
Speaker 1: of those. I think he could have, you know, peeled
Speaker 1: out and rolled instead of trying to climb in the
Speaker 1: pocket right into the arms of Chandler Jones. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's a I think I don't
Speaker 1: know who it was that asked the question of Staley,
Speaker 1: but I thought it was great and it's exactly what
Speaker 1: I was thinking, is you have to run the ball,
Speaker 1: like you've got to figure out a way to run
Speaker 1: the ball. You can't just you can't have Josh Kelly
Speaker 1: and Austin Eckler average in four and a half yards
Speaker 1: per carry and run him twelve times like you that's
Speaker 1: you keep dropping justin back. And this is what it's
Speaker 1: going to look like with this offensive line. You know,
Speaker 1: you've got a sixth round pick at left tackle, a
Speaker 1: guy that wasn't you know, the fifty third man on
Speaker 1: the roster. He was like one of the last editions
Speaker 1: to the practice squad, and Foster Cerrell, you know, at
Speaker 1: right tackle. When you're talking about Chandler Jones and Max Crosby,
Speaker 1: you know, Zion's dealing with his shoulder, will clap his
Speaker 1: break glass in case of emergency for Corey Linsley, you know,
Speaker 1: and Matt Feiler when when you're in that position, like okay,
Speaker 1: you're one guy, it's it's pretty hard. It's a pretty
Speaker 1: hard deal. So against Miami, look, we know what Miami
Speaker 1: looked like. Was it last year? Was the year before?
Speaker 1: I can't remember a couple of years ago. I think
Speaker 1: they played Miami in Miami, they're playing that same defense
Speaker 1: and it's the same defense the Patriots run. And it's
Speaker 1: something that has really given justin some issues you know
Speaker 1: where they just they got six seven guys all mugg
Speaker 1: and gaps and lined up and you got to figure
Speaker 1: out where it's coming from. And they're dropping some and
Speaker 1: rushing and overloading, and against an offensive line that's really struggled.
Speaker 1: I'm anxious to see how they attack it because it's
Speaker 1: not Yeah, I would I would really love to see
Speaker 1: if the run game get going. It's a good defense,
Speaker 1: it's not a great defense. So you know, hopefully Corey
Speaker 1: can make it out there. It would be a huge
Speaker 1: return if he's able to do that. Of course, his
Speaker 1: health is paramount and first and foremost. If he's into
Speaker 1: rush and protocol, you don't want him taking any half
Speaker 1: steps to try to get out there with that. UM.
Speaker 1: So I hope it. I hope he can. I hope
Speaker 1: Tray can make it. It doesn't look like he's gonna
Speaker 1: be able to um, but it's gonna be a challenge.
Speaker 1: UM And I think, like I said, I think there's
Speaker 1: so many different spots we can circle. If only there's
Speaker 1: only that. You know that there's just so much attrition
Speaker 1: on this roster. It's it's really hard to put himTo words.
Speaker 1: And I'm not I know this is what everybody always says.
Speaker 1: I guess I kind of sound like I'm making excuses.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm just saying, look, there's it's not just
Speaker 1: one part. There's so many different spots. You can circle
Speaker 1: and say, Man, how much better would this thing look
Speaker 1: if that was there. Yeah, they got to play better
Speaker 1: with the guys. They have no doubt. Um, but you know,
Speaker 1: I think we realize what Trey Pipkins has become because
Speaker 1: he's he's a guy that they desperately need. And like
Speaker 1: you said, he didn't practice on Wednesday. Um, you guys
Speaker 1: should just check the practice reports. Uh, as we tape this,
Speaker 1: it's it's a Thursday morning. Irwin James. They had a
Speaker 1: walk through on Wednesday, so it was an estimated injury report.
Speaker 1: Derwin James did not practice with a quad. Hopefully that's
Speaker 1: not a concerning issue. Monitor that. So bastard Joseph Dave
Speaker 1: was hurting after that game with the knee. And he's
Speaker 1: your best run stuff, right, I think at this point,
Speaker 1: So if you lose him, you're already the worst in
Speaker 1: the league. And what I think is gonna happen. They
Speaker 1: didn't run the ball at all against fort night Ers,
Speaker 1: I think with good reason. Just I think the flow
Speaker 1: of the game and they needed to give points quickly.
Speaker 1: You better believe they're gonna run Jeff Wilson and Raheem
Speaker 1: Mostert a bunch on Sunday and then take their shots
Speaker 1: with Wattle and Hill. So I'm a little nervous about
Speaker 1: that run game of Miami's because you mentioned it a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. It's like, hey, you know Josh Jacobs,
Speaker 1: of course we saw what he did. You got Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry the following week. But Mike McDaniel and his track
Speaker 1: record in the running game, he doesn't have to run
Speaker 1: a ton when you have wattle and Hill and to
Speaker 1: a sling it around. But um, he's got it, and
Speaker 1: he's got it, and Wilson Mostar with the speed well,
Speaker 1: and I think you just go back to last week,
Speaker 1: and you know it's it's the it's the red flag, right,
Speaker 1: It's you've got two guys. You got to worry about two,
Speaker 1: you know, you if you can take them away, you know,
Speaker 1: you feel really good about mac Holland's Foster Moreau, you
Speaker 1: know Abdula when he comes in. You know it's not
Speaker 1: Hunter renfro and Darren Waller out there, and those two
Speaker 1: guys combined for three hundred twenty yards. Uh, it's crazy,
Speaker 1: like it's and I get it. You know, one is
Speaker 1: a great play by Asante. I thought he you know,
Speaker 1: my my radio call was terrible because I thought he
Speaker 1: swatted the ball away. It looked like he got a
Speaker 1: fingertip on it. But it ends up being a touchdown catch,
Speaker 1: you know, for forty yards for Davante. And then there's
Speaker 1: a flee flicker and you know, the safety bites and
Speaker 1: he gets two steps on on Callahan and that's that
Speaker 1: and that's another fifty yards. So you know, of his
Speaker 1: one seventy, he got ninety yards right there on those
Speaker 1: two plays. But hey, those two plays happen. M Jacob's
Speaker 1: got some you know, he just got some rhythm and
Speaker 1: he's and look, he might be the best back in
Speaker 1: the league this year. He's been playing exceptional football. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard to slow him down. But again,
Speaker 1: you know, okay, this is what we have. And I
Speaker 1: think coach Staleley pointed it. He's like, look, we had
Speaker 1: DeVante bracketted almost the entire game. You know, you're you
Speaker 1: have those two explosive plays, and again it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I get it, but you have those two explosive plays. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's why I kind of understand. And I think
Speaker 1: I think it does speak to his character that there
Speaker 1: are coaches out there that will get frustrated and say, look,
Speaker 1: our calls are right, our scheme is right, we need
Speaker 1: to execute better, and that's something throwing their players under
Speaker 1: the bus, and he just won't do it. Um. And
Speaker 1: so I credit him for that, because you know, you
Speaker 1: could do that. You can make excuses and say, I'm
Speaker 1: out there with you know, three two practice squad guys
Speaker 1: and someone we claimed off waivers um on our defensive line,
Speaker 1: and someone who was supposed to play middle backer but
Speaker 1: instead is now playing a edge, and he doesn't do it,
Speaker 1: you know. And and again I'll credit him for that
Speaker 1: because he knows it doesn't matter. Those are the guys
Speaker 1: you have to work with, so you better build them
Speaker 1: up and try to figure out how to win with them.
Speaker 1: But it has certainly been challenging, and it's um, it's unfortunate,
Speaker 1: you know, it is unfortunate that that it's been this
Speaker 1: amount of injury and this amount of attrition that this
Speaker 1: this team has had to deal with. You know, you
Speaker 1: got to overcome Slater, all right, we'll plant sail, you're here,
Speaker 1: and we'll be able to run away from him and
Speaker 1: we'll try to just protect them as best we can.
Speaker 1: And they were able to do that for a little
Speaker 1: bit there. Um, you know, you lose Bosa. Okay, we
Speaker 1: got a blitz more than we thought, and you know,
Speaker 1: but to lose what they've lost, you know, to lose
Speaker 1: both Pipkins and Slater, you know, and Lindsley and you know,
Speaker 1: and on the defensive side seven and now if Joseph
Speaker 1: Day is out eight eight defensive linemen, it's crazy. It's
Speaker 1: just it's it's untenable. Um. But again, I think what's
Speaker 1: most frustrating is they're in the games. Like they are
Speaker 1: in the games, and I think that's where some of
Speaker 1: the questions about scheme and play calling are gonna raise
Speaker 1: their hand, because they're in the games. And I think
Speaker 1: you have to credit the scheme and the play calling
Speaker 1: because they're even in them. But then you get frustrated
Speaker 1: because you can point to one or two plays. You know,
Speaker 1: with the Raider game, it was the third quarter. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like and that's not scheme, that's Austin for fourteen
Speaker 1: yards fumble, cash it in for seven. You know, it's
Speaker 1: Dick or missing a fifty two yard or cash it
Speaker 1: in for seven. You know, that's your three point lead
Speaker 1: becomes an eleven point deficit in forty eight seconds or
Speaker 1: whatever it was. You know, And yeah, it's it's rough,
Speaker 1: and you know, I think they got some help too.
Speaker 1: I think that's the one thing to remember is like
Speaker 1: everyone's pointing out, well, they would have been able to
Speaker 1: control their own destiny because the Jets lost and the
Speaker 1: Patriots lost, and they would have been the seven. And
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, well they still those losses still help them.
Speaker 1: You know. It's it's not like those losses don't help them.
Speaker 1: So thankful the Jets were able to, you know, come
Speaker 1: up short against the Vikings and the Patriots you know,
Speaker 1: got blown out. So hopefully that that holds, and a
Speaker 1: lot of their schedule tends to get tougher from here.
Speaker 1: So it's I know, I'm kind of talking in circles,
Speaker 1: but I'm just trying to know it's but now it's
Speaker 1: on them money, because now it's on them. And again,
Speaker 1: all the injury stuff totally get it. The most injury
Speaker 1: team in the NFL, um or one of the two
Speaker 1: or three most injury teams in the NFL. But these
Speaker 1: are their six wins, right, The three and nine Broncos,
Speaker 1: the one in ten and one Texans, Uh, the Browns,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, the Falcons, who am I missing? The Raiders
Speaker 1: and the raided one. So all those teams are under
Speaker 1: five hundred. So it's actually, this is perfect. This is perfect.
Speaker 1: If you belong in the playoffs, you'll beat these teams
Speaker 1: coming up. You'll you'll beat the Dolphins, and you'll beat
Speaker 1: the Titans, or you'll at least split and get and
Speaker 1: hopefully get to ten and see if that tiebreaker is
Speaker 1: in your favor. So you know, we can talk about
Speaker 1: the injuries and it's it's terrible. You know, I'd love
Speaker 1: nothing more than to see Rashawn Slater and Joey Bosa
Speaker 1: and all these guys. You know. The low key thing
Speaker 1: you mentioned too, that forty Niners game when you lose
Speaker 1: Covington and Abonia, I mean that was the that was
Speaker 1: just a dagger to them. When when when we talk
Speaker 1: about the run, and you brought up something too that
Speaker 1: I wanted to get into the third quarters. The third
Speaker 1: quarters over the last five games, I think they have
Speaker 1: a total of three points. Yep, a total of three
Speaker 1: point three points. They have to figure out a way,
Speaker 1: especially against the team like Miami who's gonna score twenty
Speaker 1: seven to thirty five points on Sunday, they have to
Speaker 1: figure out a way to score in the second half,
Speaker 1: score consistently, and come out a halftime with a little
Speaker 1: bit of juice because that has definitely hurt them in
Speaker 1: you know, this last stretch. They've won some of these games,
Speaker 1: but either either take yourself out of it or you
Speaker 1: know you're you're close, but fourth quarter you can't sustain it.
Speaker 1: And look it's again I mentioned Miami, the challenges they present,
Speaker 1: and you know they're good against the run. Um, the
Speaker 1: Chargers are not a good running team. They're not very
Speaker 1: good against the pass, and they allow a lot of points.
Speaker 1: So you know they're bottom ten in points allowed. You
Speaker 1: can score against this defense. Um, the problem is are
Speaker 1: they going to make you one dimensional? Because of how
Speaker 1: good they are on offense. You know, they are a
Speaker 1: top five offense. They are fourth in scoring. Uh, they're
Speaker 1: top I don't I don't know where they're at in yards,
Speaker 1: but I'm assuming they're you know up there. I know
Speaker 1: in passing, their way up there because of of Tyree. Yeah,
Speaker 1: their second in passing um and they are where they're
Speaker 1: at and rushing, yeah, rushing they don't. They're they're at
Speaker 1: eighty nine point seven, but they're much better than that
Speaker 1: number suggests. They just don't have to run. They don't.
Speaker 1: They don't have to because they have these explosive plays.
Speaker 1: So slowing down again, Giseki waddling and Hill is going
Speaker 1: to look, we know what it was like. We faced Hill.
Speaker 1: We've seen Hill twice a year for the last five years,
Speaker 1: you know, so it's like, we know what that looks like.
Speaker 1: It's not easy turnovers. They look, they won the turnover
Speaker 1: battle against the Raiders and weren't able to cash it in.
Speaker 1: The one that they coughed up the Raiders cashed in
Speaker 1: for seven. The two that they got from the Raiders
Speaker 1: they were able to get three points out of. You know,
Speaker 1: that's that's a problem. I don't know what it is
Speaker 1: in third quarters, because again, this third quarter was weird, right,
Speaker 1: they had, you know, points that they left on the
Speaker 1: table and who knows what would have happened with that drive.
Speaker 1: But it's a fourteen yard game, you know, when you're
Speaker 1: pushing toward midfield, and you're feeling pretty good about the rhythm.
Speaker 1: The Raiders miss a field goal before the half, so
Speaker 1: you're up thirteen ten. Here's your first possession. Now we've
Speaker 1: ripped off an explosive play for almost twenty yards and
Speaker 1: the ball gets coughed up and turned over. You know. Okay,
Speaker 1: Now next drive managed to move the ball a little bit.
Speaker 1: Now we're let's get three on the board, you know,
Speaker 1: and let's let's get back into this game. Let's cut
Speaker 1: the lead to one and bang miss field goal. So
Speaker 1: at least in that third quarter they were able to
Speaker 1: move the ball. It wasn't, you know, your three and out,
Speaker 1: three and out kind of offense. So maybe that's a
Speaker 1: little bit of encouragement that I'll take out of that.
Speaker 1: But you're right. I think it's what four total touchdowns
Speaker 1: this season in the third quarter in twelve games. It's crazy,
Speaker 1: like you can't and especially the way that this defense
Speaker 1: is getting run over, they're just gonna wear down by
Speaker 1: the end of the game. And that was the thing
Speaker 1: in the third quarter of this past Sunday is that,
Speaker 1: you know, it was like an eight minute drive that
Speaker 1: spilled into the fourth quarter. So it's like, not only
Speaker 1: did you have that kind of nightmares start to the
Speaker 1: second half, then the defense was on the field forever
Speaker 1: because Josh Jacobs was just getting five six ten, five, five,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah. And the thing that I think, again,
Speaker 1: just I keep using the words I think it's the
Speaker 1: right word. I think what's frustrating is then this team
Speaker 1: will come alive, you know, it'll it'll, it'll come alive
Speaker 1: in sort of moments, you know, like at the end
Speaker 1: of that at the end of that third quarter. All right,
Speaker 1: at the end of the four I should say, in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, I'm going to the Sorry I was
Speaker 1: looking at the wrong game there in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: Bang they score seven. Now they're on the Raiders side
Speaker 1: of the field, and like when you go through, you know,
Speaker 1: take the San Francisco game out of it. But now
Speaker 1: you're like you look at the Chiefs and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we got a touchdown in the fourth quarter after totally
Speaker 1: getting shut out in the third. It's like, God, that's
Speaker 1: it's just you're chasing. You're constantly chasing. Make the fourth
Speaker 1: quarters the third quarter, and then you know, if you
Speaker 1: can flip those two, I think you'll find yourself in
Speaker 1: a much more tenable position to come out with wins.
Speaker 1: It's just you know, we we We've talked about the
Speaker 1: slow starts too. At some points those popped up. Then
Speaker 1: it looks like they kind of remedied those. It's just
Speaker 1: a matter of playing a complete game against the playoff
Speaker 1: caliber opponent, and they're gonna have an opportunity to do
Speaker 1: that over these next couple of couple of weeks. You know,
Speaker 1: I've heard I think Bill Barnwell was talking about it yesterday,
Speaker 1: and I heard Benzole of The Ringer talk about it
Speaker 1: the week of the night game. Just how good the
Speaker 1: Dolphins are in the middle of the field. Like Towah
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field, if he has success there,
Speaker 1: it's a rap. So I'm looking at the linebackers Tranquil
Speaker 1: and Murray and um. If they're able to kind of
Speaker 1: control the middle of the field, it'll be a tough
Speaker 1: day for the Chargers. So you know, the explosive plays, yes,
Speaker 1: with with Waddle and Hill, but it doesn't matter who's
Speaker 1: going over the middle. To A has seemed to kind
Speaker 1: of own that part of the field throughout the entire season.
Speaker 1: And let's look, it's no secret. I mean, I love
Speaker 1: to a coming out of Alabama. I just hit his
Speaker 1: receivers in rhythm. He's got that, He's got that subtle explosiveness.
Speaker 1: Doesn't have the biggest arm, isn't the most mobile guy,
Speaker 1: but he is. It's I hate to use the Tom
Speaker 1: Brady comparison, but it's just in the pocket, he's able
Speaker 1: to move enough and he's able to explode enough where
Speaker 1: he's he finds those windows and he delivers the ball
Speaker 1: in rhythm. And it's just what they've done is they've
Speaker 1: built a team around the quarterback. And for all the
Speaker 1: people that were complaining about Brian floor As getting let go,
Speaker 1: I think you're seeing why they let him go. He
Speaker 1: just never believed in Tuah and you know he wasn't
Speaker 1: a too a guy. It was clear, and so I
Speaker 1: think they knew what they had, and you know, McDaniels
Speaker 1: knows what he has, and I think they've built a
Speaker 1: team around his strengths and he for all of the
Speaker 1: you know, Charger fans that want to do the two
Speaker 1: of versus Herbert and oh we got over on the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I think if you asked the Dolphins, could
Speaker 1: could we do it over again? Of course they would
Speaker 1: take Herbert. I mean, it's nothing against that. I don't
Speaker 1: you know. I appreciate the two is in the MVP
Speaker 1: conversation absolutely, but hey, guys, got Tyreek killed Jalen Waddle.
Speaker 1: You know, he's got my Kisiki out there. It's it's
Speaker 1: a pretty different situation than Herbert's face this year. But like,
Speaker 1: I even hate that conversation. It doesn't matter. I hate
Speaker 1: guys aren't going to get traded for each other, so
Speaker 1: it does not matter. They're both really good players. Like
Speaker 1: I said, appreciate the exactly. Can we just appreciate both
Speaker 1: of these guys, man, I think it's all the people
Speaker 1: conversation that we're trying to bury him. I was like, dude,
Speaker 1: guy's good. He's hurt. He busted up his hips something fierce.
Speaker 1: He's got no offensive line, he doesn't have any real weapons.
Speaker 1: Waddle was hurt his rookie year. Like, just give him
Speaker 1: a minute. He's a good player and you're gonna see it.
Speaker 1: He's gonna look really good at so far on Sunday.
Speaker 1: So I hate that whole thing that this is a
Speaker 1: two of versus Herbert thing. It's not. The circumstances could
Speaker 1: not be more different, you know, this year for these
Speaker 1: two players, but they will be tied together, you know,
Speaker 1: inexorably for the rest of their careers, which is fine.
Speaker 1: I just don't think if if Herbert comes out with
Speaker 1: a win, it's like, see he's the game or two
Speaker 1: is not? He lost against the forty nine ers and
Speaker 1: he had to win that game against charge that he
Speaker 1: didn't two as a bump. No, he's not. If Herbert loses. See,
Speaker 1: you guys got all excited about the big physical presence,
Speaker 1: but it's the guy that has the mastery of an
Speaker 1: offense like to that is what you know you really
Speaker 1: needed to No, it's it's a team. It's twenty two guys, man,
Speaker 1: you know, it's at the same time on the field,
Speaker 1: and all each of them have an impact on how
Speaker 1: a play turns out, either preventing forward progress or gaining moment,
Speaker 1: you know, or gaining yardage. So it's unfortunately, you know,
Speaker 1: you're coming in at a decided disadvantage. You know, it
Speaker 1: looks like the Dolphins might be a little banged up.
Speaker 1: I know, to run Armstead has been a little banged
Speaker 1: up this week, that'd be a huge loss. He did
Speaker 1: not practice, so that would be a big, big disadvantage
Speaker 1: for that offensive line. Yeah, I'm with you, though, I
Speaker 1: think it's Listen, it's fun for fans Sunday night football
Speaker 1: to a Herbert, and I'm sure that was a big
Speaker 1: reason why NBC flexed into this game, is to see
Speaker 1: those quarterbacks on a big stage. But this is the
Speaker 1: Dolphins against the Chargers, and it's this Chargers team that
Speaker 1: has to find a way to beat a playoff team.
Speaker 1: To get to seven and six, they gotta go to
Speaker 1: they gotta go four and one, at at least four
Speaker 1: and one. They have to go ten wins. Right, ten
Speaker 1: wins is is a must. I think it's and then
Speaker 1: it's a tiebreaker. I would say I think it's it's
Speaker 1: very very possible that it is in the tiebreaker at
Speaker 1: ten and seven. I think the Jets have shown that
Speaker 1: regardless of their their remaining schedule. This week they're at
Speaker 1: the Bills, they get the Lions, Jaguars, and then they
Speaker 1: finish at Seahawks at Dolphins. I don't think there's any
Speaker 1: reason to count them out of any of those games
Speaker 1: with the way that defense is played, as well as
Speaker 1: that that defense has played, and you get the Patriots
Speaker 1: and you know the Jets and the Patriots are now
Speaker 1: done with one another. You know, the fact that the
Speaker 1: Patriots get the Cardinals and the Raiders in their next
Speaker 1: two they might be able to build a little bit
Speaker 1: of momentum and finish the season out Bengals, Dolphins, Bills,
Speaker 1: and maybe they have something. Who knows what the Bills
Speaker 1: are going to look like at the end of the year,
Speaker 1: if they're still fighting for the division or if they're
Speaker 1: you know, if they can take a game off in
Speaker 1: week seventeen. So that's an issue. And those are the
Speaker 1: two teams that are in front of them. You know,
Speaker 1: that's just for the seven. The Dolphins at six and
Speaker 1: the Bengals at five. They're too clear, I mean too
Speaker 1: clear with five to play in the lost column. That
Speaker 1: would lead need to believe you gotta win out, you know,
Speaker 1: in order to try to overcome them. And now the
Speaker 1: unfortunately the Chargers have slipped in the conference standing, so
Speaker 1: they don't have the tiebreaker anymore. They're four and four,
Speaker 1: Patriots are five and three, Jets are five and four,
Speaker 1: Dolphins are six and two, Bengals are five and three
Speaker 1: you know, in the conference, so you're not gonna win
Speaker 1: the tiebreakers. Oh, you have to go four and one,
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Speaker 1: about and we haven't talked about the teams behind them? Right,
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying the Raiders beat the Rams. They're
Speaker 1: six and seven, all right, It's not like, you know,
Speaker 1: San Francisco be tough the Chiefs week eighteen. They may
Speaker 1: not have anything to play for. And how about the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. Like the Pittsburgh Steelers have a Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: list Ravens team they play the Panthers, that Raiders Steeler
Speaker 1: is like a loser Leavestown game. You play the Ravens again,
Speaker 1: and then you got the Browns week eighteen. So I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that those guys are gonna win out, but
Speaker 1: they certainly are putting a little pressure on the teams
Speaker 1: that are trying to get in into that seven seed
Speaker 1: right now. So not only do you have would I
Speaker 1: would not, Chris, I would not be the least bit
Speaker 1: surprised if the Steelers went out. It would not. Mike
Speaker 1: Tomlin is the best damn coach. He is so good
Speaker 1: when you the way they did see him at the
Speaker 1: podium yesterday. He was talking about you're talking December football.
Speaker 1: It's like we apply the pressure. It's like we apply
Speaker 1: the pressure. Yeah, you know, but they are two and
Speaker 1: six in conference, you know, so they would have to
Speaker 1: win out, go seven and six in conference and be
Speaker 1: part of a tiebreaker situation. And look, they won the
Speaker 1: tiebreaker last year, right and they ended up punching their
Speaker 1: ticket in So um, yeah, it's it's it's not good.
Speaker 1: It's not you think about the way they lost to
Speaker 1: the Jags. The Seahawks game, and it's just like, holy cow,
Speaker 1: we knew that we'd be looking back at some of
Speaker 1: those going there. It is. That's the one you circle,
Speaker 1: and you know, I know we're not not trying to
Speaker 1: to not spread hope here, that's for sure. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think they can do it because, like I said,
Speaker 1: they're in every game. They're in all these games that
Speaker 1: they lose against good teams, Kansas City twice, San Francisco,
Speaker 1: the Raiders last week. They are in these games. You know,
Speaker 1: they got blown out twice, the Jags and Seahawks, and
Speaker 1: they were just weird, lifeless games. But I think you
Speaker 1: put it best, you're going to have to beat a
Speaker 1: good team to get into the tournament. And really the whole,
Speaker 1: the whole idea of the tournament is will this team
Speaker 1: be healthy? Because this team is healthy when the playoffs start, okay,
Speaker 1: look out, because we know what it looked like through
Speaker 1: six quarters. So you know, that's that's the sad part
Speaker 1: of it is if they lose these next two and
Speaker 1: then just freaking route their final three games, you know,
Speaker 1: against the Colts, the Rams and the Broncos and Joey
Speaker 1: Boss out there with Khalil Mac Wrekin's shop. You're like, man, yeah,
Speaker 1: why do this to us? Why why make them nine
Speaker 1: and eight and everybody's healthy, and you're like missed it
Speaker 1: by a game again. So I got faith in the
Speaker 1: coaching staff. I would love to see him run the
Speaker 1: ball a little bit more and figure out a way
Speaker 1: to to kind of lessen the pressure on that offensive
Speaker 1: line and Justin Herbert or just tell Justin he has
Speaker 1: got to start rolling out. Man, Hey, we're taking this snap.
Speaker 1: You're gonna roll every time. You're gonna roll left on
Speaker 1: this Player're gonna roll right on that play. You cannot
Speaker 1: stand in the pocket because it's not gonna hold up,
Speaker 1: not with this group and not with teams not respecting
Speaker 1: the run. I mean, dude, there were plays against the
Speaker 1: Raiders when I went back and watched it, they're rushing three,
Speaker 1: three against five and the pockets collapsing. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: three against five. You got Cleland Furrel was just a spy.
Speaker 1: So they're rushing three. He's standing there making sure that
Speaker 1: Herbert doesn't take off, just kind of moving into the
Speaker 1: lane where he would be able to take off, and
Speaker 1: the pockets still collapsing. So yeah, what's the channel with
Speaker 1: Jones had half a sack this season going into the
Speaker 1: game half a sack, sack, three sex. And then you
Speaker 1: have you have Bradley Chubb, you got Jayleen Phillison. We
Speaker 1: have our old friend Melvin Ingram in town on Sunday.
Speaker 1: So they are it is not a fun bunch. It
Speaker 1: is not a fun bunch, that's for sure. So it's
Speaker 1: look again, you've said it. You've you've got You've got
Speaker 1: to beat a good team. And these are good teams,
Speaker 1: you know. Ingram's got six sacks, Phillips got five sacks.
Speaker 1: Shove just showed up and has two and a half
Speaker 1: sacks in his four games he's played with them, and
Speaker 1: they just got because they the way they the way
Speaker 1: that they get after you. You know, they got twenty
Speaker 1: nine sacks, I mean, and they are all over the field,
Speaker 1: Manny Agba ray Kwon Davis. You know, Christian Wilkins got
Speaker 1: a sack and a half from the interior. So to
Speaker 1: Zach Siler, you got two sacks for your safety, Brandon Jones,
Speaker 1: you got three sacks for linebacker Jerome Baker. Like they
Speaker 1: are all over the field because that's what they do.
Speaker 1: They're just throwing six at the line dropping out two
Speaker 1: and you don't know where the four coming from. And
Speaker 1: that's tough for Foster Sarell Jamari saw your Zion Johnson
Speaker 1: rookies in this league that are trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what games are they playing. It's gonna be a really
Speaker 1: tough go for that offensive line. So what's so, what's
Speaker 1: the key? How do you? How do you attack this?
Speaker 1: You know, Mike Williams will be such a big piece
Speaker 1: to this if he if he can go, because you
Speaker 1: gotta You can't match the speed of Tyree Hill and
Speaker 1: Jay Lobattle, but at least you have a big body
Speaker 1: guy who can get those eighty twenty balls. As we
Speaker 1: always like to say, Um, you have Keenan out there.
Speaker 1: Austin is gonna have to have a great game. But
Speaker 1: I really feel like Mike Williams, man, he's got to go,
Speaker 1: and you know you want him to be right, but
Speaker 1: you know to match that offensive firepower, you need eighty
Speaker 1: one out there. Yeah, I normally I you know, they
Speaker 1: don't turn the ball over, they score a ton of touchdowns. Um,
Speaker 1: I think I think you said it earlier. You know,
Speaker 1: I think the path is you're just gonna have to
Speaker 1: trade punches and try to win on offense. You know,
Speaker 1: their defensive give up some plays there. You know they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to figure out how to crack that code
Speaker 1: and probably outscore them. You know. I felt that way
Speaker 1: about the Raider. We talked about it. We said in
Speaker 1: the Raiders game, get some turnovers and you're gonna probably
Speaker 1: have to outscore them. And they weren't able to do it,
Speaker 1: you know, and they lost twenty seven to twenty. I
Speaker 1: think that's kind of the key. You're probably gonna have
Speaker 1: to score twenty eight points to beat this team. Can
Speaker 1: you do it? That's that's gonna be the way it happens,
Speaker 1: because I just don't Seven of those points came from
Speaker 1: the defense, you know exactly. That's what I mean. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, you get a well, you get a turnover
Speaker 1: in the high red zone and you can't get any
Speaker 1: points out of it. It's a three and out essentially,
Speaker 1: it's a four and out. They went for it on
Speaker 1: fourth down, like you know, your other turnover you're convert
Speaker 1: into a touchdown because it's a pick six. Your offense,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't even you know, you take care
Speaker 1: of it yourself. So the problem is, you know, two
Speaker 1: has got five picks. They've only fumbled the ball seven times,
Speaker 1: so they don't turn it over. You know, that's the problem.
Speaker 1: You know, the Raiders turn it over, and they did,
Speaker 1: and they were only able to get seven out of it,
Speaker 1: you know, on the pick six, and weren't able to
Speaker 1: get anything out of that turnover deep in that you
Speaker 1: know the Raider territory. You take that, and then you
Speaker 1: combine that with the pick six and now you're at
Speaker 1: fourteen nothing and you can really start rolling. But unfortunately,
Speaker 1: just it's really hard to it's really hard to take
Speaker 1: much from this Niners game because you know, the Chargers
Speaker 1: don't have the personnel that the Niners have on defense.
Speaker 1: But you know, the Dolphins did give the ball away
Speaker 1: a couple of times. They were oh for seven on
Speaker 1: third down. Third down defense was excellent for San Francisco.
Speaker 1: They they're awesome. They're a really good team and even
Speaker 1: with Brock Purty men they may be able to do
Speaker 1: some damage in the NFC. Thefense go there were you know,
Speaker 1: I went back and watched all the throws. There's still
Speaker 1: some really good plays out there, like two is still playing,
Speaker 1: you know, I know there were a couple bad. Like
Speaker 1: you said, some bad turnovers in there, but you know,
Speaker 1: there's still plays that are out there that you're like, man,
Speaker 1: it's that's scary, It's it's you know, and I think
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that are pointing that out
Speaker 1: that yeah, it wasn't the prettiest thing, and you threw
Speaker 1: two bad picks. But at the same time, there's some
Speaker 1: other plays out there that it's like, yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: still explosive. You're still talking about I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: numbers now because I was like, man, I felt like
Speaker 1: he threw for a ton of yards. Yeah, that's still
Speaker 1: eighteen completions for three hundred yards. Eighteen completions went for
Speaker 1: three hundred yards. So again, yes, the interceptions were bad.
Speaker 1: You know, it looked like they were terrible on third down,
Speaker 1: But talking about three hundred yards on eighteen completions, that's
Speaker 1: what you got to try to slow down. Very few
Speaker 1: teams in the NFL are capable of doing that. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: And I think again, what's been what's been the big
Speaker 1: issue for the Chargers this season, it's, you know, explosive plays. Yes,
Speaker 1: we held Josh Jacobs in check, we held Davante in check.
Speaker 1: You know, we bracketed them and we were able to
Speaker 1: limit his Yeah, but you had two catches for eighty
Speaker 1: seven yards. Yeah. And that's that's what this Dolphins defense
Speaker 1: is built on. That incredible speed that when Tua hits
Speaker 1: hill or waddle in stride, they are gone. So that's
Speaker 1: why I think it's you know, yeah, that's why I
Speaker 1: think it's it's what when you said, what's the key,
Speaker 1: I think the key is it's offense. Got to be right.
Speaker 1: You know, Big Eckler game, Big Keenan game, Big Mike
Speaker 1: Williams game, you know, big Gerald Everett game. You know,
Speaker 1: it's got Josh Kelly, you know, hammer away. It's gotta
Speaker 1: I think this has to be an offensive game. It's
Speaker 1: gonna have to. They're gonna have to figure out how
Speaker 1: to win a game this season by scoring points. Well,
Speaker 1: I guess it would be their second right. They had
Speaker 1: to figure out how to score points against the Texans
Speaker 1: because the defense let them back in the game and
Speaker 1: the offense shut down on the third quarter. But they
Speaker 1: need to score points. You know, I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: looking at the Chargers schedule right now, and twenty four,
Speaker 1: twenty four ten, there's the thirty four against Houston. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they dropped thirty on Cleveland, and then it's nineteen twenty three,
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, the twenty seven against the Chiefs, twenty four
Speaker 1: against the Cardinals, and then twenty against the Raiders. That's
Speaker 1: got to be twenty eight to thirty point performance if
Speaker 1: you're going to get out with a win here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think thirty plus. You gotta score thirty plus to
Speaker 1: win this game. Yeah, absolutely, it's gonna have to end
Speaker 1: up being there. Their third thirty point performance of the year. Yeah. Hey,
Speaker 1: fans know what this is. They know what's at stake,
Speaker 1: and they know that if this team is worthy of
Speaker 1: the playoffs, these next two home games the Sofi Stadium,
Speaker 1: we'll prove that to be true. Hey, at least they
Speaker 1: get him at home, you know, they get We've been
Speaker 1: saying it. At least you get the Dolphins, and although
Speaker 1: they have been better on the road than at home,
Speaker 1: but you know, get healthy, don't worry about traveling, take
Speaker 1: the extra day to get your body right, you know,
Speaker 1: and and hopefully you know, and I know Drew was
Speaker 1: dealing with some serious flu issues in that game against
Speaker 1: the Raiders as well. He was not doing well on Saturday,
Speaker 1: so you know, hopefully maybe you know that that's now
Speaker 1: gone and he's feeling a lot better and can be
Speaker 1: at one hundred percent. I saw him yet, I did
Speaker 1: something with him for his might cause my cleats yesterday,
Speaker 1: and he looked to be in good spirits. And I
Speaker 1: don't think he was on I don't think he was
Speaker 1: on the injury report. Um hopefully he wasn't. But he's
Speaker 1: gonna be. He's gonna play big role in this in
Speaker 1: this game money in terms of just stopping the run
Speaker 1: and just being in the middle of the field and
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what he was going to do next. Right,
Speaker 1: get a turn, do what they did against the Raiders.
Speaker 1: Pop that thing in the air. You know, tips and overthrows,
Speaker 1: Tips and overthrows. You're gonna need those so and they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to find a pass rush. And again, I
Speaker 1: think if that means manufacturing it, and it's not the
Speaker 1: greatest idea to blitz when you got Tyreek Kill and
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle out there, But if you you cannot allow
Speaker 1: these teams to pick you apart, and I think if
Speaker 1: you have to create pressure and commit resources and extra
Speaker 1: bodies to do so you just you gotta do it.
Speaker 1: You cannot allow them to have forever because just the
Speaker 1: coverage won't hold up. I will say that at home
Speaker 1: on Senate night football, there'll be some juice in the crowd,
Speaker 1: and guys love to play on Sunday night. Man, sure
Speaker 1: get your Yeah, Herbert, Herbert's different on primetime. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then the equalizer exactly exactly Herbert's equalizer. This could be
Speaker 1: this could be a Herbert put put put everything on
Speaker 1: Herbert's back game and and let him go to work.
Speaker 1: You know, I think it's gonna it's gonna actually require that.
Speaker 1: Don't put everything, you know, just just take a little
Speaker 1: bit off, just like, let him just just maybe not
Speaker 1: forty four percent pressure rate. See if you can get
Speaker 1: that number down to like, I don't know, thirty seven,
Speaker 1: you know, just thirty three. How about on just a
Speaker 1: third of his drop backs instead of nearly half of
Speaker 1: his drop backs he's under pressures. See if we can
Speaker 1: figure out a way to do like to me, I
Speaker 1: would almost just if Mike is playing, I would almost
Speaker 1: max protect. You know, it's not a Josh Palmer game,
Speaker 1: it's not a DeAndre Carter game. It's you know, freaking
Speaker 1: twenty three personnel, you know, or it's twenty two and
Speaker 1: you've got horve Off and you've got you know, Josh
Speaker 1: or Austin, and then you got both McKitty and and
Speaker 1: Gerald or McKitty and freaking Rogers and it's just Keenan
Speaker 1: and Mike go make a play and give Justin that
Speaker 1: extra beat because we know he's got the ability to
Speaker 1: fit his passes into the tightest windows and make those
Speaker 1: ridiculous throws. I almost wonder if they're going to maybe
Speaker 1: take that approach and see if that'll work, because it
Speaker 1: just it's it's not working with five man protection. It's
Speaker 1: just not what about you know, And again it's it's
Speaker 1: all about the defense, and you dictate, they kind of
Speaker 1: dictate how you play. But do you remember last year
Speaker 1: Sunday football. I guess the Steelers for Justin was just
Speaker 1: running all over the field man, you know, like like
Speaker 1: maybe that's a wrinkle, And again, I think a lot's
Speaker 1: contingent on his ribs and how comfortable he feels doing that,
Speaker 1: But like unleashing him as a as a runner man,
Speaker 1: he's he's a really really good rusher. He can run
Speaker 1: the ball. You just gotta do it maybe, yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: some design runs. I don't know. You's got to do
Speaker 1: it more. And I think he's got to be Look,
Speaker 1: I'm not the guy that's got to get hit by
Speaker 1: a two hundred and fifty pound linebacker. So by no
Speaker 1: means am I saying, hey, you got to go out
Speaker 1: there and sacrifice yourself, because I'm sure it does not
Speaker 1: feel good getting into that car crash. But you know,
Speaker 1: there's that play in the game last week where he
Speaker 1: slides short of the sticks and there were another two
Speaker 1: yards there and he still could have slid, And I
Speaker 1: think that's you know, I think that's sort of what
Speaker 1: that's the next progression for him. It's, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: we do not want you putting yourself in a position
Speaker 1: of peril. Your health is of paramount importance to this team.
Speaker 1: You have to protect yourself first and foremost. But yeah,
Speaker 1: let's look at these plays and let's remember, hey, instead
Speaker 1: of being in because most of those runs are second
Speaker 1: down runs, and it's like, instead of being in third
Speaker 1: and two, let's being first in ten. Let's because then
Speaker 1: we can open up the playbook a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Third and two we're limited, and let's let's go first
Speaker 1: in ten, So just get those make sure you know
Speaker 1: where the sticks are, because is the second you start
Speaker 1: that slide, everyone's got to back off. If they think
Speaker 1: you're about to start the slide, they're gonna back off.
Speaker 1: So just know those extra two to four yards are there.
Speaker 1: Let's go get them, you know, let's go get them,
Speaker 1: all right? Man? Well, hey, I'm hoping a week from today,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll be talking about the seven and six
Speaker 1: Chargers going up against Derrick Henry and the Titans with
Speaker 1: with a lot on the line. But yep, gotta take
Speaker 1: care of business. It'll be fun. I'm looking forward to it. Man. Um,
Speaker 1: what's your appetite level for senate night games? You guys
Speaker 1: like the booth? I do? Yeah, I do? In terms
Speaker 1: of schedule, Um do I like them? I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think if I do. I just I love the juice,
Speaker 1: you know, I love seeing Tariko and I love seeing
Speaker 1: you know, Mike's just the best. And I love seeing um,
Speaker 1: you know, Colin's worth rolling around. I like all the attention,
Speaker 1: you know, all the all the national media that show
Speaker 1: up that you end up catching up withst of it right,
Speaker 1: it is. It's great, Like I really do enjoy it.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. I know for scheduling, it's not
Speaker 1: the best you know to um but whatever, it's like,
Speaker 1: the juice is too good, man, the juice is way
Speaker 1: too good. When you're there, it's it's awesome to be
Speaker 1: in the middle of it. And it's probably gonna be
Speaker 1: our last one because of who remains on the schedule.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to enjoy that. I mean, obviously we
Speaker 1: have the Monday night or Monday nights. I'm not crazy about.
Speaker 1: Sunday nights are the ones that I love. Um Mondays
Speaker 1: are cool. You don't think that, uh, you don't think
Speaker 1: that Baker Mayfield is gonna move the needle for January first.
Speaker 1: It could be good, could be for something. Look, I
Speaker 1: have I have the utmost faith in Sean mcvayh He's
Speaker 1: as good as there is in the league. And if
Speaker 1: if you know, I think for all the incoming that
Speaker 1: Baker takes, Look, Baker's a better option than John Woolford
Speaker 1: and Bryce Perkins. I can tell you that right now.
Speaker 1: Smart flyer smart flyer by them considerably better. Um So, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think maybe there's gonna be a little sistle there.
Speaker 1: Maybe mcmacon find some stuff. But that teams a mess
Speaker 1: that you want to talk about an offensive line. It's
Speaker 1: a complete disaster. Uh, no running game. Uh, Cooper cups out.
Speaker 1: Alan Robinson's out for the year. You know, Aaron Donald's
Speaker 1: now missing games for the first time in his career.
Speaker 1: Like that team's a hot mess. So you know, um,
Speaker 1: we'll see. But again, I'm all about the juice on
Speaker 1: Sunday man. Let's I will say this, though I don't
Speaker 1: know who made the decision, I don't like it. You
Speaker 1: know how I feel about the Royal blues. They're my
Speaker 1: favorite uniforms, the Royals, And I don't know why you
Speaker 1: ditch the Royal Blues. I don't know why you would
Speaker 1: ditch the dan fouts. You know, this has like Epic
Speaker 1: in Miami vibes to it too, you know That's what
Speaker 1: I mean. It's like, how do you like? What do
Speaker 1: you come on? I think epic in Miami. What were
Speaker 1: they wearing? What was Chuck Muncey wearing? You know, let's go,
Speaker 1: I'm a google it right now, Chris epic they were
Speaker 1: wearing they were wearing whites in the game Miami, they
Speaker 1: were wearing whites. Yeah, they were wearing whites with the name.
Speaker 1: But they were wearing whites, but they had the gold
Speaker 1: pants and the helmets. The helmets are royal blue. You know,
Speaker 1: that's the that the helmet. And you know what, like
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, why do you have this shade of teal?
Speaker 1: That's the shade of teal that you should be wearing
Speaker 1: the epic in Miami. Shade of teal is the teal,
Speaker 1: not this lighter shade of teal. Like when you look
Speaker 1: at the Chargers uniform in that game, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: the gold pants with the lightning bolt, and it's the
Speaker 1: royal blue numbers. It's the royal blue helmet. It's not
Speaker 1: the powders. That's what I'm talking about. Uh, forty years
Speaker 1: it's Uh, I guess this goes so I guess it's
Speaker 1: forty one years January second. Uh, this is the epic
Speaker 1: in Miami. But what now would be it would have
Speaker 1: been forty one year? Anniversary is January second, two thousand, Yeah,
Speaker 1: January second is the for this past year was the
Speaker 1: fortieth anniversary. This past year was forty This past year
Speaker 1: was forty in January, So this is this is the
Speaker 1: fortieth year exactly would have been technic. I guess we
Speaker 1: would have ah so much fun. And I'm the NFL's
Speaker 1: one hundred Greatest Games, number four epic in Miami. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: how do you it's uh football, It's gonna be uh.
Speaker 1: There'll be a lot of bump shots to you know,
Speaker 1: Dan Fouts and company in Miami. Oh, I can remember.
Speaker 1: I know for a fact there are, because they had
Speaker 1: already called and said, hey, who do we get in
Speaker 1: touch with um to get some of these Dan Fouts.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, here, you go reach out to Levine.
Speaker 1: He'll uh, yep, he'll hold us. He's got you, He's
Speaker 1: got you, all right, dude. Well hey, it'll be the
Speaker 1: box score right now. Fouts, Uh, let's see where is it.
Speaker 1: Let's get to it, baby, I'm trying to get to
Speaker 1: the bang here it is. Um God, what a great
Speaker 1: season that was. I remember watching that game on TV
Speaker 1: and I was like, this is funny, Money. It was funny. Coincidentally,
Speaker 1: this may need to be the score for the Chargers
Speaker 1: to win, right eight. If Money had months, he had
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty in a tug, uh, Fouls had
Speaker 1: four thirty three and three tds. I mean, geez, it's
Speaker 1: freaking awesome. Yeah, good stuff. Let's get a repeat. Let's
Speaker 1: get a repeat of the epoch. It's so far, let's
Speaker 1: do it all right, Budd, look forward to seeing you
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Fans look forward to seeing you guys. Uh,
Speaker 1: bring it. It's gonna be a good one for money.
Speaker 1: I'm Chris. This has been charges quickly