Speaker 1: The late fifteen ten touchdowns. What's up, guys, Welcome into
Speaker 1: a week fifteen edition of Chargers Weekly, as always, joined
Speaker 1: by Matt money Smith. Chargers beat the Dolphins on Sunday
Speaker 1: Night Football and coincidentally, Money just swimming with the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: You were just telling about that. How about that hunt? Yeah,
Speaker 1: this morning not at a Bolsa Cheek. Ended up getting
Speaker 1: in the middle of like a lot of probably like
Speaker 1: twenty of them, man bunch of pups just flipping around
Speaker 1: in the waves, and ended up having them just swoop
Speaker 1: below me kind of getting the wave with me. It
Speaker 1: was freaking awesome. So they I think acknowledged the Charger's
Speaker 1: dominance on Sunday and they were like, all right, you win, Well,
Speaker 1: we'll give you your reward. Here we are. We're going
Speaker 1: to swim around with you for a little bit. And
Speaker 1: now I just gotta lean in after you. Somebody posted
Speaker 1: it what a mess my hair was and what I said.
Speaker 1: That was funny. Who did that, I don't know. It
Speaker 1: was just somebody who listens, We appreciate you, but yes,
Speaker 1: I don't have time. Saltwater might come dripping out of
Speaker 1: my nose during these things. It's it's it's a disaster,
Speaker 1: so money talking to Dolphins, talking to Dolphins a sporting
Speaker 1: one name, two one name waddle right exactly and well,
Speaker 1: actually know because these Dolphins actually were able to move
Speaker 1: around and gain some ground. So I don't know which.
Speaker 1: I guess they were, like j Len and Christian would
Speaker 1: be their names based on how things went on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Chargers win on Sunday night. They beat a playoff caliber
Speaker 1: football team. They get to seven and six. That was
Speaker 1: the jolt they needed. You know, we had talked about
Speaker 1: it for so long, beating a team that you would
Speaker 1: actually see in January. They do it. They improved to
Speaker 1: seven and six. The defense played awesome. Two hundred nineteen
Speaker 1: total yards of offense by the Dolphins, not including that
Speaker 1: crazy fumble that Tyreek picked up right place, right time,
Speaker 1: justin was incredible, three hundred and sixty seven yards. And
Speaker 1: I think the theme of the offense was Keenan and
Speaker 1: Mike on the field together. It looked like shades of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one right when they were putting up thirty
Speaker 1: five forty one points in a game. Man, I think
Speaker 1: something you brought up, Chris Corey Linsley, you know, you
Speaker 1: get those three guys back, and you're talking about three
Speaker 1: of the most important pieces on the field, you know,
Speaker 1: for Justin and I think also it cannot be minimized
Speaker 1: just the health. It's clear that he was affected and
Speaker 1: was a lot more injured than the Chargers, and Justin
Speaker 1: led on because he just looks like a different guy,
Speaker 1: the way he's moving, his willingness to run. You know,
Speaker 1: even with Corey back. Look, there was still a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure right Christian Watson was in the backfield. It
Speaker 1: seemed like every single time the ball was snapped, you know,
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips had a ton of pressures. I think the
Speaker 1: pressure total, if I remember right, was in the forties again.
Speaker 1: But this time he's just able to whatever. I'll just
Speaker 1: I'll scoot up here and move to my left set throw.
Speaker 1: I'll bool up, you know, bail out boot to the
Speaker 1: right set throw. And Mike is just so good. Mike
Speaker 1: Williams was so freaking good at and you're talking about
Speaker 1: what six targets, six receptions, one hundred plus yards touchdown.
Speaker 1: We say it all the time. Those aren't fifty fifty balls.
Speaker 1: Those are ninety ten balls. When you throw him to Mic.
Speaker 1: The first Catchy made was stupid, you know, just that
Speaker 1: adjustment and basically, you know, the old bowl of Dritos
Speaker 1: is Marty Schottenheimer liked to call it off the head
Speaker 1: of Xavier Howard. So you know, we were joking with
Speaker 1: Mike Golik, who joined as he was on the call
Speaker 1: for Sunday an Football with Westwood One. We well, we
Speaker 1: weren't joking, you know. I asked him, I said, hey,
Speaker 1: what do you make of all of the you know,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty redraft and the talk about where would Herbert go?
Speaker 1: And Herbert versus two? And you know, I don't want
Speaker 1: to speak for him, but he was just like, come on, man,
Speaker 1: He's like, what are we doing? Like, come on, like
Speaker 1: this is the dumbest thing ever. You know. The the
Speaker 1: idea that somehow Herbert has regressed and that you would
Speaker 1: take three or four guys and maybe in the NFL
Speaker 1: over him is the conversation. And I think he reminded everybody.
Speaker 1: And you know what I think it we think of
Speaker 1: Justin is kind of a robot, right. He never gets
Speaker 1: too high, he never gets too low. It's just I
Speaker 1: don't know what the Herbert jeans are, but you know,
Speaker 1: i'd probably submit there's maybe got to be some German
Speaker 1: in there. There's just such a steadiness to him and
Speaker 1: such a process, and this is what I'm here to do.
Speaker 1: I will complete my task and I will move on.
Speaker 1: You know. But I think you saw, and I think
Speaker 1: the team fed off it on Sunday that he was like, hey,
Speaker 1: enough of this crap. You know, I am here with
Speaker 1: the eyes of the nation upon me to remind everybody.
Speaker 1: With my guy Mike and my guy Keenan and Corey
Speaker 1: out here, I am here to remind everyone who I am,
Speaker 1: what I do, and you better pay attention. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: it's it's less about two. It's more about these guys
Speaker 1: getting their groove back and trying to get into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Justin was fantastic. Thirty nine to fifty one, three to
Speaker 1: sixty seven and a touchdown. You mentioned Mike six for one, sixteen,
Speaker 1: Keenan twelve catches for ninety two yards. There was a
Speaker 1: drive in the fourth quarter of money that I kind
Speaker 1: of coined that the Keenan Allen drive. They were going
Speaker 1: to him and he was moving the chains. And when
Speaker 1: you see Mike and Keenan on the field from start
Speaker 1: to finish, this was the first time we saw it.
Speaker 1: You see what this offense is capable of? Go ahead?
Speaker 1: DJ said it in the on the broadcast, and I
Speaker 1: think he's right. You know, we even asked coach Staley
Speaker 1: after the game, and I think it was too close
Speaker 1: for him to kind of really wrap his head around it,
Speaker 1: but we said it might not. You know, it's it's
Speaker 1: the drive of the year and it just netted a
Speaker 1: field goal, but because it made it a two score game,
Speaker 1: and to heck with four minute offense, it was eight
Speaker 1: minute offense. And like that's the thing is you can
Speaker 1: look at the totals and say, hey, three sixty seven touchdown,
Speaker 1: no interceptions, but like you look at that drive converted
Speaker 1: a third and five with the throw of the year,
Speaker 1: and it was it was just a nine yard throw.
Speaker 1: But it's a third and five and there is ten
Speaker 1: minutes five seconds left on the clock and you're up
Speaker 1: by six and man Keenan runs that out to the
Speaker 1: left sideline. He is covered, there might be one inch
Speaker 1: of separation and Herbert just freaking threads that laser. You know,
Speaker 1: it went for nine yards on the stat sheet, that
Speaker 1: ball probably traveled thirty yards on a freaking rope and
Speaker 1: you know, obviously we're so far removed now that the
Speaker 1: people that watch film and breakdown games, they've posted it
Speaker 1: so you can find it out there. But like Keenan
Speaker 1: called that ball, he gets out of bounds, he turns
Speaker 1: around and he looks at Herbert and he's just like,
Speaker 1: boy who you know, it's just exactly like there's there
Speaker 1: are many guys and I don't know if there are
Speaker 1: any guys in the league that can make that throw.
Speaker 1: So that's that's the third and five. Now he's got
Speaker 1: a third and three with eight forty four to go.
Speaker 1: Very next, you know, the very next set of plays,
Speaker 1: there were a third down bang, as you said, Keenan,
Speaker 1: Allen Drive throws to Keenan for five and a first down.
Speaker 1: Right now he's got another third and eight. There's still
Speaker 1: five minutes, eighteen seconds. You know, this is on the
Speaker 1: Miami thirty. It's in dicker range. But five minutes left
Speaker 1: in this game, so still plenty of time to get
Speaker 1: a quick score. We now explosive to my emmy offense
Speaker 1: is and what does he do freaking that scramble? And
Speaker 1: we've been talking about it repeatedly, Chris on this show.
Speaker 1: I want to see him use those legs. He is
Speaker 1: such an exceptional athlete and more often than not, at
Speaker 1: least at some point in the game, that green is
Speaker 1: there for him. And I think that's where the whole
Speaker 1: comment I made about the injury and not letting on.
Speaker 1: I think now that these games mean what they mean,
Speaker 1: you better went out to get into the playoffs. Like
Speaker 1: now you're seeing it now, it's like, Okay, now I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put myself in harm's way. I'm gonna get that scramble.
Speaker 1: And that's when you saw that emotion come out, you know,
Speaker 1: when he did the whole mic drop first down signal.
Speaker 1: It's just something we haven't really seen from him. So
Speaker 1: I think as much as he might, you know, tell
Speaker 1: you he wasn't paying attention and doesn't pay attention, and
Speaker 1: I could believe that too. I think there's a little
Speaker 1: something extra going into this one. Yeah, he also knows
Speaker 1: what's at stake here, you know, to get to seven
Speaker 1: and six. Based on everything that happened on Sunday, a
Speaker 1: lot of things went the Charger's way, right except for Monday,
Speaker 1: where the Patriots beat the Cardinals. But you know, the
Speaker 1: Jets losing, the teams that were behind the Chargers that
Speaker 1: we thought could make a little bit of a run
Speaker 1: the Steelers and Raiders. They lost. I think since he
Speaker 1: has really kind of cemented themselves into the postseason, they
Speaker 1: they win the division now. But but now the team
Speaker 1: is seven and six, and let's get to the defense
Speaker 1: to a ten of twenty eight. He was off target
Speaker 1: all evening. But we talked about the fact that, okay,
Speaker 1: this this may be a game you get to score
Speaker 1: thirty to win, and I'm so glad we were wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad that this this defense allowed just two
Speaker 1: hundred and nineteen yards of offense to the Dolphins. No
Speaker 1: Derwin James, no Bryce Callahan, no Sebastian Joseph Day, the
Speaker 1: way that they played in the secondary, and really money,
Speaker 1: Let's just start with the first play. They take a
Speaker 1: deep shot to Tyreek Hill. Look at a Loehi Gilman
Speaker 1: kipping the ball away saying, no, it's not gonna be
Speaker 1: like that tonight. It was Brandon Staley's best game. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't. I don't think there's any question about that.
Speaker 1: You know, look, he had a great he had a
Speaker 1: couple great games last year against the Chiefs. I thought
Speaker 1: his game plan was as good as any we'd seen
Speaker 1: trying to crack the code that was Mahomes. Of course,
Speaker 1: the one in Kansas City would have been I think
Speaker 1: it would have probably registered as that had those two
Speaker 1: interceptions not gotten taken away from the Chargers, that should
Speaker 1: have stayed interceptions. But to me, look, with the Chips
Speaker 1: being down, got to win this game own the tiebreaker
Speaker 1: between the team that looks like it very well could
Speaker 1: end up with the same record as you at the
Speaker 1: end of the season. And again with a rookie sixth
Speaker 1: round pick playing the slot instead of one of the
Speaker 1: best slot corners in the league, Bryce Callahan and Alloie Gilman,
Speaker 1: who's been solid every time he's been called upon, and
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to take anything away from him, but
Speaker 1: in place of the best safety in the league in
Speaker 1: Derwin James, and I bring those two up because now
Speaker 1: you've you've got to slow down this passing attack. That's
Speaker 1: the number one passing attack in the NFL, and many
Speaker 1: just had a superior approach and scheme and plan for
Speaker 1: this offense. And the way he took out their go
Speaker 1: to play, you know, the motion Tyreek waddle two man
Speaker 1: game one goes outside on the curl. The other one
Speaker 1: goes inside on the curl. It's a layered concept and
Speaker 1: they just wouldn't let him get inside, and they pressed.
Speaker 1: Instead of playing scared, they played strong and it changed
Speaker 1: and DJ said it. You know, he said it from
Speaker 1: the go. You know, he's like, oh, I like this.
Speaker 1: He goes there. Their linebackers are getting depth there, their
Speaker 1: clog in the middle. They are making sure. You know,
Speaker 1: Kenneth almost had that interception, you know, and Drew knocked
Speaker 1: that ball down. That would have been a big completion.
Speaker 1: And I think that was a bit of a warning
Speaker 1: sign to two, like no, no, no no, no, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to operate outside the numbers. You don't like doing it,
Speaker 1: but it's all we're giving you, and it's clear that
Speaker 1: he was not comfortable doing that. You mentioned the ten completions.
Speaker 1: Remember four of those were on the drive when the
Speaker 1: Charge are playing soft coverage, just trying to get that
Speaker 1: thing under the two minute warning, knowing as long as
Speaker 1: they don't score before the two minute warning, they've got
Speaker 1: to recover an outside kick to win this game. So
Speaker 1: it was three of seventeen at halftime. Yeah, I five
Speaker 1: in completions. There's something in the in the third quarter
Speaker 1: of middle of the third quarter or something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it was. It was a masterful plan and
Speaker 1: it was an aggressive plan. And I love that. You know,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna go down, go down on your shield.
Speaker 1: You know, pardon the pun with it being the NFL,
Speaker 1: but you know, don't go down, run and scared and
Speaker 1: try and to keep these guys in front of you,
Speaker 1: because that's just we've seen what this team has done,
Speaker 1: you know, to the tune of two hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: passing yards per game and a guy that had one
Speaker 1: hundred more receiving yards than the next closest receiver in
Speaker 1: the league in Tyreek Hill. I mean, he broke the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins single season record, you know, in their thirteenth game.
Speaker 1: Like it's so I love what coach did. And I
Speaker 1: also just you know, I think because you're down as
Speaker 1: much as you are on that line, like to see
Speaker 1: more and Fox, who's been he's been so good all year. Um,
Speaker 1: just kind of breakthrough with that huge sack. And to
Speaker 1: see Van Noy, I mean he had a Van Noy drive.
Speaker 1: It was the three and out tackle for loss on
Speaker 1: first down, sack on third down for his first sack
Speaker 1: of the season, So kudos to coach, to Josser, who
Speaker 1: played fantastic in the slot. I mean he pretty much
Speaker 1: was looking at Waddle the whole game. You know, Wadle
Speaker 1: had nothing. Wadle had I think he had his first
Speaker 1: catch in the fourth quarter. Yeah, so you know, you
Speaker 1: credit all those guys. It's a great plan executed perfectly,
Speaker 1: and I do think it's got the potential to have
Speaker 1: um a carryover effect and it's not just a single
Speaker 1: loss for the Dolphins and not just a single win
Speaker 1: for the Chargers. But I think you know, now all
Speaker 1: the talking heads all week long, there is an immense
Speaker 1: amount of pressure on Mike McDaniel and TUA to not
Speaker 1: lose their third straight, to not you know, show that
Speaker 1: the book is out and now we know what to do.
Speaker 1: You know, Brandon Staley gave a blueprint to the rest
Speaker 1: of the league of how you slow this team down,
Speaker 1: and now they've got to overcome that. And I think
Speaker 1: on the flip side, it's Herbert saying, hey, guess what
Speaker 1: I got. I got Gerald Everett, I got Mike Williams,
Speaker 1: I got Keenan Allen, I got Corey Linsley out here.
Speaker 1: Watch how explosive. This is now enough with your six
Speaker 1: and a half yards per attempt and all I'm doing
Speaker 1: is taking checkdowns. Let's go get it. Yeah, we'll get
Speaker 1: into that offense against the Titans on Sunday real quick.
Speaker 1: On this defensive performance again the money. I look at
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, seventeen points, seven points come off that ridiculous
Speaker 1: fumble picked up by Tyreek right place, right time, nothing
Speaker 1: but green grass in front of him, and it's sixty
Speaker 1: of one hundred and forty five passing yards from TWA
Speaker 1: come off a play where Mike Davis falls down and
Speaker 1: Tyreek scores. And you know you're not gonna hold Tyreek
Speaker 1: down for four quarters. I don't care who you are. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's just that's just who he is. He's that ridiculous.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Brandon Staley having like two of his best
Speaker 1: games last year against Kansas City. He knows all about
Speaker 1: Tyreek Kill and what Tyreek Hill can do for an offense.
Speaker 1: I thought they played masterfully get given up or not
Speaker 1: allowing that the middle of the field to be utilized
Speaker 1: by TWA. So now a completely different brand of football
Speaker 1: comes to SOFI Stadium on Sunday. The reeling Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 1: They've lost three straight the first time since Mike Vrabel
Speaker 1: took over in twenty eighteen. They desperately need a win.
Speaker 1: So they're coming into SOFI knowing that the Jags are
Speaker 1: kind of nippet at their heels. The Jags have Dallas
Speaker 1: on Sunday. They don't want to lose this game and
Speaker 1: then have some sort of tiebreaker situation a week eighteen
Speaker 1: where the Jags somehow get in. So this is a
Speaker 1: really big game for the Titans, and it's a huge
Speaker 1: game for the Chargers when you consider what's going on
Speaker 1: right now. Right now, they're in eighth place outside looking in.
Speaker 1: The Patriots, who played the Raiders on Sunday, have the
Speaker 1: tiebreaker over them. The Jets have the Lions, and you
Speaker 1: mentioned those Dolphins Saturday night in Buffalo, snowy Buffalo, single degrease, single,
Speaker 1: single degrease. I look at all those teams, right. I
Speaker 1: guess if you're a Charger fam money, you're rooting for
Speaker 1: the Bills on Saturday Night. You got a root for
Speaker 1: the Raiders the Sun and then you got a root
Speaker 1: for the Detroit Lions against the Jets. And I look
Speaker 1: at that Dolphins team This could be tricky for them.
Speaker 1: They could kind of fall out of favor here because
Speaker 1: of that tiebreaker that the Chargers have over them. Now.
Speaker 1: I mean, the good thing is, even though they're sitting
Speaker 1: in number eight right now, the Chargers are still in control,
Speaker 1: like they It doesn't seem like it because they're not
Speaker 1: in the seven, but they do. Because the Dolphins and
Speaker 1: the Patriots play each other, So either the Patriots will
Speaker 1: end up with one more loss than the Chargers, or
Speaker 1: the Dolphins will end up with the same record as
Speaker 1: the Chargers, and they only had to had tiebreakers, so
Speaker 1: it's all still there. They don't have to cheer for
Speaker 1: anyone unless they're planning on losing a game. Look the Titans,
Speaker 1: they are dealing with serious injuries, you know, and if
Speaker 1: you go through look, not all losses and not all
Speaker 1: wins are equal and aren't the same. So I think
Speaker 1: if you look at the way they've lost these last
Speaker 1: two weeks, how beat up their secondary is. You know,
Speaker 1: Caleb Farley out, j Moore is out, Elijah Molden is out.
Speaker 1: They've lost their best defender this year. David Long has
Speaker 1: been exceptional as that interior linebacker man. He has been
Speaker 1: everywhere and he's out on ir one of their best
Speaker 1: pass rushers, Errold Landry, is out, Like really, they are
Speaker 1: decimated on that side of the ball. Chris, and you
Speaker 1: mentioned a different style of play and what they want
Speaker 1: to do. You know, they want to get a lead
Speaker 1: and then they want to lean on you, lean on
Speaker 1: you with Derrick Henry and keep your offense off the
Speaker 1: field and play that great sound defense. And what happened
Speaker 1: these last two weeks, you know, look the Dolf the
Speaker 1: Bengals game was kind of more of that Titan style
Speaker 1: of game. Twenty to thirteen. I think they lost. Grind
Speaker 1: it out. Can you get that last possession, you know,
Speaker 1: and get out to win? You know? So, but the
Speaker 1: two after that, man, that's that's what this has to
Speaker 1: look like. Yeah, you know, it's it's play to your strengths.
Speaker 1: It's Mike Williams downfield, It's Keenan Allen middle of the field.
Speaker 1: It's Gerald Everett without David Long out there middle of
Speaker 1: the field. It's like, you know, I want to see
Speaker 1: that nine yards you know, per attempt style offense, attack
Speaker 1: the secondary, get up because I'll tell you I went
Speaker 1: through there. I was going through and just kind of
Speaker 1: watching plays. And as I was watching all the plays
Speaker 1: back to back to back, I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: let me kind of just go back and look at
Speaker 1: the play. Let me look at the play by play
Speaker 1: for each of these and man, I'll tell you when
Speaker 1: you they just don't know what to do when they
Speaker 1: get down, it's a disaster. Like when they get down
Speaker 1: by two scores, you start looking okay, So now they're
Speaker 1: down twenty six fourteen, three plays negative twenty yards, punt,
Speaker 1: three plays zero yards, punt, one play negative six yards, fumble,
Speaker 1: Like that's what it starts to look like because they
Speaker 1: just can't do what they want. And that was the
Speaker 1: Jacksonville game last week. Now, granted, they really I don't
Speaker 1: expect them to turn the ball over in the first
Speaker 1: half three times and at least to seventeen points. I
Speaker 1: mean that, you know, they really did themselves in in
Speaker 1: that game. But if you go to Philly, like that
Speaker 1: game is kind of tight through the first quarter and
Speaker 1: a half, you know, two quarters, you know, and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Philly gets that late touchdown right
Speaker 1: before the half. And now I go to the third
Speaker 1: quarter and three plays negative seven yards, punt, four plays,
Speaker 1: nine yards punt, four place negative ten yards punt, four plays,
Speaker 1: ten yards punt. That's what I'm getting at, and so
Speaker 1: that's that's the key, and that's what I have in
Speaker 1: Mike Back and Keenan Back. And we know what Austin's
Speaker 1: able to do. If you commit too many resources on
Speaker 1: the back end, Well, now here comes your check down
Speaker 1: on your screens and Austin's going, you know, crazy on
Speaker 1: those sort of plays. So the fact that that they've
Speaker 1: got all these guys back now on that side of
Speaker 1: the ball, I think changes the calculus dramatically for Joe Lombardi.
Speaker 1: And you can get back to what this thing looked
Speaker 1: like last year. And all the people complain about stick
Speaker 1: and dig and curl and checkdowns and not going through
Speaker 1: your progressions, Okay, enough, you got to see what it
Speaker 1: looked like last week. And I think they're gonna see
Speaker 1: a double down effect this week, and you're going to
Speaker 1: see a lot of explosive plays out there on the field.
Speaker 1: If Trevor Lawrence and the Jags can do it, if
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts and their Eagles can do it, I have
Speaker 1: no reason to not believe Justin Herbert and the Chargers
Speaker 1: can do it. Yeah, it's quite simple. Don't play their
Speaker 1: style right, fight right, you want to play your style
Speaker 1: of fight. And I think the Titans a few weeks
Speaker 1: ago went to Arrowhead, played their style of football. Darnier
Speaker 1: won it in overtime. Right. You look at the last
Speaker 1: two weeks, Jalen Hurts three hundred eighty yards a J.
Speaker 1: Brown going off. Hurts was the NFC Offensive Player of
Speaker 1: the week. The following week, Trevor Lawrence three hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty eight yards. Evan Ingram went crazy and Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 1: was the AFC Offensive Player of the week. And you
Speaker 1: notice what happened. It's it's completely just echoing what you said.
Speaker 1: But Derrick Henry had ninety six of his one hund
Speaker 1: any one rushing yards in the first quarter, so twenty
Speaker 1: five yards. When they get down and they don't have
Speaker 1: a plan, b it gets ugly. It gets ugly for
Speaker 1: the Titans. So I say, it's it's really easy that
Speaker 1: the key is to stop in Derrick Henry and to
Speaker 1: get up early on this team. And what I was
Speaker 1: kind of confused by last week, Bunny, was why Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniel and company didn't try to run the ball a
Speaker 1: little bit more, especially early in that game, to kind
Speaker 1: of set the tone. They kept throwing the ball and
Speaker 1: kept missing, and then you know, you get to a
Speaker 1: point where you know, it doesn't really make sense to
Speaker 1: run the ball in the second half, Jeff Wilson gets hurt.
Speaker 1: But I was a little confused why Miami didn't try
Speaker 1: to take advantage of the Chargers run defense last week.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought it out. I was just about
Speaker 1: to say it. I'm glad you did, because that's the
Speaker 1: key is Miami could have run the ball. They were
Speaker 1: running the ball effectively, and for whatever reason, they abandoned it.
Speaker 1: So there's you know, I give you the positive. Now,
Speaker 1: the flip side of that is, you know, you have
Speaker 1: to figure out a way to slow down Derrick Henry,
Speaker 1: you know, because he can run and he can you know,
Speaker 1: with how this Chargers run defense has behaved all season long,
Speaker 1: it's you know, just crazy to think that this isn't
Speaker 1: going to be an incredible challenge for them. It is,
Speaker 1: and it is curious. I don't I'm sure going back
Speaker 1: that Mike McDaniel's going to be sick looking at the
Speaker 1: tape because he could have run. You know, Jeff Wilson
Speaker 1: was running hard. Raheem Moster was running hard. They're gonna
Speaker 1: five six yards per carry, you know, and they just
Speaker 1: got rid of it. And now they're off schedule, you know,
Speaker 1: because maybe they got three on first down incomplete second down,
Speaker 1: now it's third and seven and here we come and
Speaker 1: two is not comfortable, so you know, and that just
Speaker 1: tended to be you know, sort of. And then they
Speaker 1: were throwing on first down, and now they're behind the
Speaker 1: sticks on second down, and it just seemed like they
Speaker 1: were constantly playing catch up. That's not going to be
Speaker 1: the Titans. They are going to give the ball to
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry on first or second down every single drive,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to try to keep them off schedule,
Speaker 1: and it's not gonna be easy. The one thing I
Speaker 1: will say, especially if Durwin's not out there, you know,
Speaker 1: and hopefully he will be, you know, yesterday, we're doing
Speaker 1: this on Thursday. Yes was scheduled day arrest. So we'll
Speaker 1: see whether or not Derwin can get out there with
Speaker 1: that quad. But you know, it's gonna be another Lowe Gilman,
Speaker 1: Drew Trank, Will Kenneth Murray, you know type game. Make
Speaker 1: sure those run fits are right, and get after it,
Speaker 1: you know, and it will not be easy. I can
Speaker 1: tell you that right now. So the idea that they've
Speaker 1: kind of figured something out, no, that was independent for
Speaker 1: the Miami game, you know, And I don't. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying I'm doubting that Brandon's Daily can come up with
Speaker 1: something equally as effective. I'm sure he can. It's just
Speaker 1: the idea that it's going to be easy is crazy.
Speaker 1: Because Derrick Henry's too good, Mike Rabel's too good. It's
Speaker 1: a it's an okay offensive line. And that's why I
Speaker 1: said you've got to get up by two scores. They're
Speaker 1: much better at run blocking as they should be if
Speaker 1: you're going to build that team. Of course you're going
Speaker 1: to build it with let's get big, physical malers on
Speaker 1: the offensive line and run the ball. They have not
Speaker 1: been good in pass pro at all. Like I'll just
Speaker 1: through let's see. Let me pull it up here. I
Speaker 1: go through their line and you got Brewer twenty seven pressures,
Speaker 1: three sacks, Ben Jones the center, you never get you
Speaker 1: know much from there. But Nate Davis thirteen pressures, three sacks,
Speaker 1: Petite Friar thirty four pressures five sacks ratings. He's been
Speaker 1: solid six pressures and then Dennis Daley forty one pressures
Speaker 1: eleven sacks. So that's what I'm saying. You've got to
Speaker 1: get up, get up two scores, force them to pass
Speaker 1: and get after. It is the way to do this,
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Speaker 1: to going back to Week five, money the Chargers rushing defense.
Speaker 1: This was the Cleveland game. Two hundred and thirteen yards
Speaker 1: allowed Denver. It was that nineteen sixteen game, ninety eight
Speaker 1: yards allowed, and then here we go Seattle two thirteen,
Speaker 1: Atlanta two h one, San Francisco one fifty seven, KC
Speaker 1: one sixty three, Arizona one eight one, Vegas one fifty four,
Speaker 1: and then Miami they were nineteen for ninety two. So
Speaker 1: because the way they won, I think we forget that. Hey,
Speaker 1: the run defense is still an issue, and you have
Speaker 1: one of the best running backs in football coming to
Speaker 1: town on Sunday, so it's going to be paramount for
Speaker 1: them to stop Derrick Henry. You know one thing I'd
Speaker 1: like to see, I'd like to get your take on
Speaker 1: this too many Well, one thing i'd like to see
Speaker 1: starting Sunday, and as we kind of closed this year
Speaker 1: going into the hopefully the playoffs with the Chargers, I
Speaker 1: like to see Joshua Kelly getting more more carries. Four
Speaker 1: for twenty nine. He had that twenty two yard rush.
Speaker 1: He looks fresh, he looks like he's kind of getting backed.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have a lot of tread on him this year.
Speaker 1: And I just feel like, especially in a game like this,
Speaker 1: if you do get up and you do want to
Speaker 1: control the clock a little bit like that could be
Speaker 1: the guy in the second half that can kind of
Speaker 1: keep the clock in your favor. I think the one
Speaker 1: reason why we didn't see it is just how effective
Speaker 1: they were passing the ball, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 1: to me, it was just it was working, and it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you got you got ten, let's just keep
Speaker 1: the ball in his hands and let's keep attacking because
Speaker 1: they got no answers, you know. So I think that
Speaker 1: to me, like that was the one difference from this
Speaker 1: when they averaged five and a half yards per play.
Speaker 1: They had seventy eight plays to the Dolphins forty nine.
Speaker 1: So it's like even though they only ran it, you know,
Speaker 1: they didn't run it nearly as much. You know, they
Speaker 1: had eighty two yards rushing three hundred and fifty passing.
Speaker 1: When you include the sack numbers, you know they were
Speaker 1: running it for three point six per rush. They rushed
Speaker 1: twenty three times. That's a pretty good number. I know
Speaker 1: it's not when you can put it in context of
Speaker 1: fifty one passes, But to me, I think it was
Speaker 1: more of an offense where, hey, they can't stop us,
Speaker 1: and I think you're gonna see some of that. I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna see a lot of that from the
Speaker 1: Titans as well, because I'll tell you like that was
Speaker 1: the other thing that stuck out to me is when
Speaker 1: I went through that schedule, and I'll just pull it
Speaker 1: up real quick again, neither team ran the ball effectively.
Speaker 1: If you look like Jacksonville ran the ball for sixty
Speaker 1: yards two point four per rush. I want to say
Speaker 1: the Eagles, who are, obviously, you know, especially with Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 1: one of the best rushing teams in the league. I
Speaker 1: go to team stats. Here we go rushing eighty seven yards.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm sorry, sixty seven yards two point eight
Speaker 1: per rush. That's why those are so good, because they
Speaker 1: can they can switch their style week to week. You know,
Speaker 1: they said this is gonna be a Devinte Smith ag
Speaker 1: Brown game today. So that's what I mean. Like when
Speaker 1: it comes to the Titans, you know, they're they're a
Speaker 1: stout run d I mean, you got you know, you
Speaker 1: look at the interior that defensive line with Simmons and
Speaker 1: Tart and Walker, and you got Autry on the edge,
Speaker 1: you know, and Bud Dupree flying off the edge as
Speaker 1: a pass rusher like and again, it's changed a lot
Speaker 1: without David longum. But I think that you can get them,
Speaker 1: you can get them through the air. And I think
Speaker 1: that's why you've seen those last two games. They're blowouts,
Speaker 1: and yet you look down and you see the team
Speaker 1: couldn't run for but two and a half yards per carry.
Speaker 1: So I think it's possible. It's very similar to what
Speaker 1: we saw against Miami. You know, I don't think I
Speaker 1: don't think coach Staley wants Justin to be throwing the
Speaker 1: ball fifty times every single game. But these are playoff
Speaker 1: games essentially, and whatever, you know, whatever's working, I think
Speaker 1: is what you're gonna see. And for all we know,
Speaker 1: look that that could end up if they're lightboxes and
Speaker 1: and they're just dropping you know, seven guys, eight guys
Speaker 1: in Russian three or And that was the interesting thing
Speaker 1: about Miami is man Christian Wilkins got home every single snap,
Speaker 1: like why are you running five guys? Why are you
Speaker 1: running six guys that the line of scrimmage instead of
Speaker 1: you know, committing that extra body on the back end
Speaker 1: to try to slow that pass attack down. It was
Speaker 1: very it was they had a very poor It was
Speaker 1: a poorly coached game by the Dolphins all around. I
Speaker 1: don't know why they they they blitzed as much as
Speaker 1: they did, because you know, we've seen with those two tackles,
Speaker 1: Serell and Sawyer it's been a bit of a struggle.
Speaker 1: And it just seemed like, you know, between Phillips and
Speaker 1: and Wilkins, like they were just they were back there.
Speaker 1: It felt like, you know, and I know that wasn't
Speaker 1: the case. It just felt like they were back there
Speaker 1: every single snap. Well, Mney, even Chargers fans will tell
Speaker 1: you that that Jalen Phillips roughing the passer was well,
Speaker 1: we said it in the moment where that's a terrible call.
Speaker 1: It's all you'll take it. But it was a terrible call,
Speaker 1: and like it happens, you know that, especially with that
Speaker 1: particular call. I mean, I'm assuming there's probably through thirteen
Speaker 1: games now, twenty to thirty of them out there. You're like,
Speaker 1: what are we doing? And you know, so go ahead, no, no,
Speaker 1: go ahead. I was just gonna say, it's good to
Speaker 1: see them beat a team like this, but you gotta
Speaker 1: see it again, you gotta see it on Sunday, and
Speaker 1: I just go back to the two games in early November.
Speaker 1: Money just how completely different the offense is Now this
Speaker 1: Chargers Falcons game where Joshua Palmer had to be the
Speaker 1: number one guy and made some plays down the stretch,
Speaker 1: and that forty nine Ers game where like DeAndre Carter
Speaker 1: was catching balls in the first half and they had
Speaker 1: a they had a lead against the Niners. Now, just
Speaker 1: offense looks so much easier for the Chargers with Mike
Speaker 1: and Keenan out there, Like it actually looks like the
Speaker 1: team from twenty twenty one that that if you have
Speaker 1: those guys on the field from start to finish, you're
Speaker 1: capable of scoring thirty plus points a game. So I
Speaker 1: think they yeah, and that's that's the encouraging thing. Now
Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, it's it was all. It was the
Speaker 1: same play caller, it was the same quarterback, it was
Speaker 1: mostly the same weapons last year. We're justin through for
Speaker 1: over five thousand yards. Okay, And and now they're starting
Speaker 1: to get those guys back. You mentioned Corey Linsley. He
Speaker 1: is just so big for this uh, for this Chargers offense. Um.
Speaker 1: One thing that they have struggled with that the Titans
Speaker 1: have struggled with as well, is this this crazy third
Speaker 1: quarter thing where they can't score in the third quarter.
Speaker 1: The Titans in the second half of games. They're averaging
Speaker 1: five two points per second half this season, so they
Speaker 1: can't score at all in the second half. So I
Speaker 1: think it goes to the fast start getting on top
Speaker 1: of these guys. And I'd like to see a third
Speaker 1: quarter touchdown at some point. Money, I think Sunday would
Speaker 1: be a good start. That's crazy, Tuck, Yeah, right, I
Speaker 1: think it would be a good start. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: like it's funny too, because you know, remember there was
Speaker 1: also the issue with first quarters, and you know, for
Speaker 1: a chunk of the year. So if you told me
Speaker 1: I can only get one, give me the first quarter,
Speaker 1: you know, get get this team up ten nothing, get
Speaker 1: this team up fourteen nothing, fourteen three, something like that.
Speaker 1: I think it's the key. But you know, if if,
Speaker 1: if you want to pick nits, and we might as well,
Speaker 1: because you know, they won the game. And look, these
Speaker 1: are not going to be easy games down the stretch.
Speaker 1: It's not because you're going on the road. You know,
Speaker 1: the game in Denver's Bad at Denver's Bin, that's not
Speaker 1: gonna be an easy game. In Week eighteen, the Monday
Speaker 1: Night football in Indianapolis, the day after Christmas that's gonna
Speaker 1: be a packed house, it's gonna be a hostile atmosphere.
Speaker 1: That's not going to be an easy game. Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 1: running the football like that will not be an easy game.
Speaker 1: So I think it's worth kind of into I'm telling
Speaker 1: you the Rams game exactly, ramsall just till the end.
Speaker 1: McVeigh has no incentive to lose. They're not they're not
Speaker 1: taking exactly you know, exactly, um so kind of what
Speaker 1: what they need to do because the big problem, I mean,
Speaker 1: two for six in the red zone, Like you cannot
Speaker 1: have that against one of the worst red zone defenses
Speaker 1: in the league. Same thing against the Raiders. You go
Speaker 1: back that Raider game and they were terrible in the
Speaker 1: red zone, Like, you have got to be better than that.
Speaker 1: And I think that's where some of the issues with
Speaker 1: the play calling. Nobody liked the fourth down call, the
Speaker 1: DeAndre carter I mean that that thing was absolutely ravaged
Speaker 1: across the country. And it's just it's nothing against carter Um.
Speaker 1: But I fully subscribe to players, not plays. I do
Speaker 1: not give me Mike Williams, give me Keenan Allen, give
Speaker 1: me Austin Ekeler. When when it's nutcut in time, and
Speaker 1: you gotta have it. I better see the ball in
Speaker 1: one of their hands. That's just that's all there is
Speaker 1: to it, you know. And you saw it on that drive,
Speaker 1: that eight minute drive was what it was all Keenan,
Speaker 1: you know, it was Eckler like it that that's like
Speaker 1: somehow that just I get it. You've been sitting on
Speaker 1: this play all year. We're gonna catch him that. No,
Speaker 1: plays don't win. More often than not, players win. Plays
Speaker 1: don't win. You know. I loved I loved the mesh.
Speaker 1: The fact that they had Austin run a freaking mesh,
Speaker 1: not even a wildcat snap direct run, but the fact
Speaker 1: that he freaking ran a mesh with Josh Kelly, read
Speaker 1: the end and freaking when it ran with Kelly decided
Speaker 1: to keep it and tuck it inside for for eight yards.
Speaker 1: It was awesome. That's great. But when it's fourth and goal,
Speaker 1: Mike Williams, Keenan, Allen, Gerald, Everett, Austin, that's what I want,
Speaker 1: you know, And really it's one Mike Williams, Keenan, Allen
Speaker 1: or Austin Ekeler. That's that's what you gotta have. That
Speaker 1: drive in the fourth quarter that they held the ball
Speaker 1: for as long as they did and got that field
Speaker 1: goal to go up to pause sessions. Didn't that drive
Speaker 1: remind you of Week one in Washington a little bit? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Years ago. Yeah, they held onto the ball and they
Speaker 1: won the game at the end, like you don't even
Speaker 1: give your opponent an opportunity or enough time to get Now,
Speaker 1: I will say this that on the side, kick out
Speaker 1: a little Harry and thank god for Nick Neeman special
Speaker 1: team space man. Yeah, come on, Josh, you're a wide receiver,
Speaker 1: freaking ball Ricochet's office knee. They can't make it easy, Chris.
Speaker 1: We can't have nice things, you know. They just saw that.
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what about the botched snap
Speaker 1: on first in goal and the failure. You're already in
Speaker 1: field goal range. All you have to do is take
Speaker 1: three knees kick it, you know, Rynd the clock all
Speaker 1: the way down and now we got a freaking botched
Speaker 1: exchange and you gotta fall on it. You're thinking about
Speaker 1: turning the ball over instead of kicking a field goal
Speaker 1: to go up nine. They could. They don't make it easy.
Speaker 1: M Yeah, that's that's when you got to figure out, like, hey, dude,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna be out there. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you're going back out there. We may send somebody else
Speaker 1: out there, you know, may send Bandy out there moving
Speaker 1: forward or something as opposed to getting you out there
Speaker 1: after watching a ball slip through your hands and ricochet
Speaker 1: off your knee. That he again, they don't they don't
Speaker 1: make it easy. That's never so, so what are we
Speaker 1: thinking for for Sunday? I think we kind of laid
Speaker 1: it out quick start. You gotta stop Derrick Henry, and
Speaker 1: I think you got to take advantage of this Titan
Speaker 1: secondary with with I think this is another Mike Williams
Speaker 1: game money. I think this is where you take advantage.
Speaker 1: You know what a j Brown was able to do.
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram was the was the guy for the Jags
Speaker 1: to get one hundred and sixty plus receiving yards. So
Speaker 1: and that's Gerald Everett, you know, middle of the field, attack,
Speaker 1: middle of the field. With David Long out um their
Speaker 1: secondary again decimated. You know. The It's funny just how
Speaker 1: different I feel now about the offense. And it sounds
Speaker 1: like we're gonna have Tray back, So that's gonna be
Speaker 1: another boost for this offensive. That's another thing. Man like
Speaker 1: he and he makes a decisive difference on the right.
Speaker 1: Huge difference, I mean gigantic difference. Um, because now you
Speaker 1: know you feel good about one full side of the
Speaker 1: offensive line. It's like, okay, well now we can run away,
Speaker 1: you know if Jamari is a little leaky. Now the
Speaker 1: one issue for this game is going to be the
Speaker 1: same as last game. And that's why I'm not as concerned.
Speaker 1: But look, Jeffrey Simmons, like Christian Wilkins, like Chris Jones, Um,
Speaker 1: these guys are really good interior pass rushing, defensive lineman's
Speaker 1: defensive lineman. So the thing that gives me hope is
Speaker 1: just watching how deftly Justin navigated all the pressure. It
Speaker 1: did not matter where it was coming from, and he
Speaker 1: was able to escape over and over. And that's like,
Speaker 1: that's where just all the you know, pardon that the language,
Speaker 1: just the dumb ass conversations that people were having about
Speaker 1: two of versus Herbert. Yeah, and it's like people talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, if you redrafted twenty and I know it's
Speaker 1: for clicks, and it's because nobody watches your stupid show speak.
Speaker 1: So you've got to figure out a way to get
Speaker 1: some traction and have him tune in fine, but like
Speaker 1: to say that if you redrafted twenty twenty, it go.
Speaker 1: Burrow hurts to Herbert. It's just stupid. It's because all
Speaker 1: you need is a pair of eyes. And I didn't
Speaker 1: freaking play I didn't play defense in the NFL and
Speaker 1: have thirty career tackles, you know, and I can see it.
Speaker 1: So if I can see it, then you know it's
Speaker 1: nothing more than manufactured clickbait. The way that he is
Speaker 1: able to move and throw on the move that there
Speaker 1: are and look, I want to make sure that I
Speaker 1: delineate these two. Patrick Mahomes is the best quarterback in
Speaker 1: the league at making something out of nothing or extending
Speaker 1: plays and doing something incredible to just rip your heart out.
Speaker 1: There's no one better. The difference between what Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: does and what Justin Herbert does. Herbert will put the
Speaker 1: ball exactly where it has to be, no matter the
Speaker 1: level of duress. It's that that's what gets people to
Speaker 1: freak out and post clips on social media because no
Speaker 1: one else can do it. And that's why you see
Speaker 1: all those clips of Justin Herbert cause it's like this
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. The guy is on a full sprint
Speaker 1: to his right, sets his feet within a third of
Speaker 1: a second, and that ball is uncorked for sixty yards
Speaker 1: in the air on a dot, I mean, on the
Speaker 1: freaking money. And that's the difference. Like that's and like
Speaker 1: I mentioned that that third down throw on that first
Speaker 1: third down to that eight minute drive that ended the game.
Speaker 1: Essentially man was at a throw and he's under pressure.
Speaker 1: And if it's climbing two yards this way and then
Speaker 1: cutting two yards to his left and throwing back to
Speaker 1: his right, his throws to five physics. Like so that's
Speaker 1: that's where you know, I think now seeing Justin Herbert
Speaker 1: being recognizable to the Justin Herbert were used to these
Speaker 1: last few weeks, it's like, Okay, now I feel a lot.
Speaker 1: I feel a lot better about how things are going
Speaker 1: because he's got his weapons, he's got his health, he's
Speaker 1: got Corey Linsley back, and this is what it's supposed
Speaker 1: to look like and this is what I'm used to seeing,
Speaker 1: and it's a and you're going to see a lot
Speaker 1: more social media of Justin Herbert of throws like that
Speaker 1: when he made to Keenan, like the whin he hit
Speaker 1: mic on that traveled like sixty yards in the year
Speaker 1: and it's all happening at the right time with four
Speaker 1: games in front of them, and I don't think that's
Speaker 1: a coincidence, Chris, like that's a thing Like to me,
Speaker 1: I think it's okay, Look, let's just treadwater, treadwater, treadwater,
Speaker 1: and you know they're in like each of those games,
Speaker 1: there was you know, one big drive the Arizona game,
Speaker 1: huge drive punt return. Here comes Herbert. You know, bang
Speaker 1: bang bang had to have it, and you get those
Speaker 1: half to have it plays. So I do think there's
Speaker 1: something too. That's where the injury thing comes in. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, is it's like, Okay, we've done it. We've
Speaker 1: been able to overcome all of this and tread water
Speaker 1: long enough to punch a ticket to the tournament. Now
Speaker 1: we just got to go do it. And I think
Speaker 1: you're seeing much more aggression, willingness to take hits, extending plays,
Speaker 1: knowing you're going to take a shot because it's there,
Speaker 1: it's there for the taking, and he's gonna go get it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the ebbs and flows of a season. You know, you know,
Speaker 1: if the Charges end up making the playoffs, you're gonna
Speaker 1: look back at that Atlanta game and be like, wow,
Speaker 1: they did that with guys that normally aren't starters, or
Speaker 1: the Arizona game executing that two point conversion to beat
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, Like it's gonna be games like that that
Speaker 1: will eventually hopefully get this team in the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: want to close this by kind of getting your thoughts on.
Speaker 1: I think it's fun now. Obviously the Charges all they
Speaker 1: gotta do is take care of their own business and
Speaker 1: the postseason, but it is fun to see all the
Speaker 1: key matchups around the AFC and playoff positioning because if
Speaker 1: the Chargers get in, they likely won't be the fifth
Speaker 1: seed player in Tennessee or Jacksonville. They'll be the sixth
Speaker 1: of the seventh seed because I think Cincinnati and baltiwar
Speaker 1: they have a pretty comfortable I don't know about Baltimore,
Speaker 1: Like Baltimore should not have won these last two games,
Speaker 1: Like that's the That's the one thing is you know
Speaker 1: they're gonna be playing let's third string quarterback this week. Um,
Speaker 1: you know Huntley is not gonna play this week, and
Speaker 1: I don't know what the health of Lamar is, so
Speaker 1: you know that's like it's what's so frush, Like you
Speaker 1: know you you had mentioned the h you had mentioned
Speaker 1: like how everything had broken. The first thing that popped
Speaker 1: in my head was like, except Baltimore, because the Broncos
Speaker 1: should have beat them. I mean, freaking ten to nine,
Speaker 1: ten to nine because of a backup quarterback. You can't
Speaker 1: win that game, Denver. And then the Steelers freaking Mitch
Speaker 1: Trubisky with three picks in the red zone, although Kenny
Speaker 1: Kenny would have won the game. Yeah, but I'll say this,
Speaker 1: I think I'm happy the Steelers are out. I just
Speaker 1: I had and I was like, I could totally see
Speaker 1: them when they were they were trending. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: was almost kind of hat but I think, you know,
Speaker 1: they get the Steelers again, they get the Bengals again.
Speaker 1: You know, right now they're sick nine and four, so
Speaker 1: they'd have to lose, you know, if they lose. Let's
Speaker 1: start with games same Let's start with the Browns game
Speaker 1: Saturday night. They play the Browns, and Browns are favored.
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson has looked not good, but terrible. But uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's in Cleveland, and like you said, you're really
Speaker 1: shorthanded at the most important position on the field. So
Speaker 1: you're you know, now that I think of it money,
Speaker 1: Like if you go to me, that's the one. Like
Speaker 1: I look at them at the Ravens and I say, okay,
Speaker 1: at Brown's third string quarterback, Falcon's fine, I'll give you
Speaker 1: the win. You know, a Desmond Ritter and a team
Speaker 1: that's been terrible knows defense, who knows but Desmond Ritter,
Speaker 1: he may be good. Yeah. I mean the one thing
Speaker 1: that Baltimore has going for it is they're now healthy
Speaker 1: on in the running back room. And you saw how
Speaker 1: much different that looked against the Steelers, you know when
Speaker 1: when they were healthy. I mean JK. Dobbins one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty and uh in a tug. I'm just looking
Speaker 1: at the numbers over the rushing yards there. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: rush for two fifteen. So like that's the one thing
Speaker 1: is that that you know they can overcome, is they
Speaker 1: can just get those get that running game going, lean
Speaker 1: on you and get to win. But I mean the
Speaker 1: Steelers were the better team. Mitch Drubisky was just Mitch
Speaker 1: Drubisky and through three picks in the red zone and
Speaker 1: a game that they lost by and I think they
Speaker 1: had a missfield goal too in a game that they
Speaker 1: lost by two. So that's the one at Look, if
Speaker 1: you can somehow win out and get to the five.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, though, Nashville or are you going to Jacksonville?
Speaker 1: That's what I mean. So Like the one thing though,
Speaker 1: is there's like Bengals don't scare me, Ravens don't scare me,
Speaker 1: Titans don't scare me. Chiefs. We know they can trade
Speaker 1: punches without a question. They should have won the first game.
Speaker 1: They were up by four with one hundred seconds left
Speaker 1: in the second game. They are quick matchup I'd like
Speaker 1: to see. And I'm just saying, like they've beat you
Speaker 1: twice this year, You've been close with them. You know
Speaker 1: how to play there. We know Mike Williams how he
Speaker 1: likes to play there. Like I wouldn't mind being the
Speaker 1: seventh seed and at least given another shot, you know,
Speaker 1: as long as the actions are right. That's my only
Speaker 1: issue with that one is I want Bosa back. I
Speaker 1: want Slater back. Yow that we're talking about Slater looks
Speaker 1: like he might be ready for the regular season. Like,
Speaker 1: if that's the case, and you tell me they're all
Speaker 1: ready for Week one of the postseason, if they're able
Speaker 1: to punch their ticket then totally fine. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's freaking And the other thing about like the other
Speaker 1: thing about getting the five is, like I said, I
Speaker 1: think that's a It's not universal, but I think it's
Speaker 1: a very popular position. I wouldn't be surprised to see
Speaker 1: wild card teams win. So now, if all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you're the number one wild card team, you know, you
Speaker 1: don't have to go to Buffalo. If you win that
Speaker 1: first round, you know, you very well could end up
Speaker 1: hosting because I'm going to the standings now, like if
Speaker 1: you were, if you were to tell me right now,
Speaker 1: let's say the Chargers get in, you know, and let's
Speaker 1: say the Bengals or the let's say the Ravens or
Speaker 1: the Bengals somehow, let's say the Ravens slide out like
Speaker 1: we thought. You know, now you got the Ravens playing
Speaker 1: the Bengals, you know, in the first in the first round,
Speaker 1: two teams that know each other really well. Lamar Jackson's healthy, Like,
Speaker 1: you could totally see that upset. If Miami, you know,
Speaker 1: somehow is able to freaking get on a roll and
Speaker 1: and take twa and I mean those guys could win,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like that's like that. That's
Speaker 1: why I think this could really break well if if
Speaker 1: they can win out, if they can if they they
Speaker 1: win out, win these last five games after knocking off Miami,
Speaker 1: I do think they have a shot at eleven and
Speaker 1: six at the five seat. I think that is a
Speaker 1: very real possibility. So let's go to Let's go to Miami.
Speaker 1: Because between Miami, New England and the Jets, they're gonna
Speaker 1: beat each other up. Is not going to make the
Speaker 1: playoffs in the in the doll two of them are
Speaker 1: probably not going to make the playoffs. It's it's that's
Speaker 1: very possible. It's possible. You look, you look at them.
Speaker 1: They lose to the nine Ers thirty three seventeen, they
Speaker 1: lose the Chargers, they have the Bills on Saturday night.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be freezing. Bills are a touchdown favorite. Then
Speaker 1: you have the Packers and Aaron Rodgers at home. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's not a gift. Should win that game, they should
Speaker 1: win it. But then you gotta go to Foxborough and
Speaker 1: it ain't gonna be warm, and it can be warm there,
Speaker 1: and then you close with the Jets, and that could
Speaker 1: who knows if that's for the seventh seed. I think
Speaker 1: that's gonna end up being a winning in you know,
Speaker 1: if the Chargers business game, I think that'll like to me.
Speaker 1: That's why if the Chargers have found something here offensively,
Speaker 1: win out, get to eleven and six, you know, don't
Speaker 1: be that seven seed and have to go to Kansas
Speaker 1: City week one or Buffalo and then go to Kansas
Speaker 1: City or Buffalo week two. Like that's the one thing
Speaker 1: I'd like to see them avoid is can you avoid
Speaker 1: having to play those two teams and back to back weeks?
Speaker 1: You know, if it's the Bills you end up playing,
Speaker 1: that's a very physical defense that beats the crap audio
Speaker 1: and now you got to respond and go try to
Speaker 1: take on Patrick Mahomes and trade blows with him, you know,
Speaker 1: and not to mention you know what Josh Allen and
Speaker 1: those guys can do to a defense. Um, you know.
Speaker 1: So that's that's the one thing. Like, if they can
Speaker 1: at least get up to the six and avoid having to,
Speaker 1: you know, take on those two teams and back to
Speaker 1: back weeks, I think is ideal. But they gotta win. Look,
Speaker 1: they still gotta win. This team has been very inconsistent.
Speaker 1: You think about those games, against the Seahawks and the Jags,
Speaker 1: and it's like, how does that happen? Like, how does
Speaker 1: this team get blown out by those two teams? You know,
Speaker 1: the Seahawks who just lost at home to the Panthers.
Speaker 1: You know the Jags who were lost for five weeks straight,
Speaker 1: you know, and yet both of those teams just laid
Speaker 1: the lumber to the Chargers. So I think there's still
Speaker 1: reason to exercise caution. Don't don't start, you know, looking
Speaker 1: at Southwest dot or Delta dot com, who are part
Speaker 1: of American Airlines dot com, whatever however it works. I
Speaker 1: think it's AA dot com. Have a private dinner with
Speaker 1: Drwin Ye, don't start looking yet. Let's you know, if
Speaker 1: they if they're able to do to Tennessee what they
Speaker 1: did on Sunday, and I'm gonna start feeling pretty good
Speaker 1: about this. But you know what it also like when
Speaker 1: you mentioned like the blowout losses to Seattle in Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: it's just a reminder of though a seventeen game season
Speaker 1: is so freaking long. Man. Like the Rams when they
Speaker 1: traded for Odell and Vaughan, they lost like three in
Speaker 1: a row, and everyone's like, oh my god, that's the
Speaker 1: worst trade ever, What did you do? You mortgage your future?
Speaker 1: They got on a run and they won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: The Bengals nobody, I don't even know if people were
Speaker 1: really talking about them before December, you know, like, no,
Speaker 1: did you know at the right time? Honestly, the Chargers.
Speaker 1: The Chargers were up twenty four nothing on the Bengals
Speaker 1: right last year, twenty I think or something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know, it's it's about getting right hot at
Speaker 1: the right time. I want to go through this schedule,
Speaker 1: the Pats and the Jets, just to do it, Pats
Speaker 1: Raiders and then so that's in Vegas and then let's
Speaker 1: go Raiders. The Patriots have to play the Bengals and
Speaker 1: Dolphins at home and both are not going to be easy.
Speaker 1: And then the Bills to close it out, and I
Speaker 1: think the Bills are going to have to win that
Speaker 1: to get the one seed. Yeah, so now that that's
Speaker 1: that's that's why I said two of these teams may
Speaker 1: not make it, you know, And I think, and look,
Speaker 1: that's what's going to have to happen for the Chargers
Speaker 1: to get in, right as two of them are gonna
Speaker 1: you know, one can get in. But again, who's it
Speaker 1: going to be, you know, is it the Dolphins that
Speaker 1: have to go to cold weather climates and historically never
Speaker 1: play well. Teams from Miami do not play well in January.
Speaker 1: It's always been an issue with them in this particular
Speaker 1: division where you have the Patriots, Bills, and Jets all
Speaker 1: playing in cold weather cities and the Dolphins end up
Speaker 1: having to go there. That the schedule makers always hose
Speaker 1: them by giving them two of the three at the
Speaker 1: end of the year because they just like doing it
Speaker 1: um and so they've got to overcome that, you know,
Speaker 1: and and not slip to you know, not slip to
Speaker 1: seven losses or even maybe eight losses if things go
Speaker 1: really bad, you know, and all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 1: they lose to Buffalo, they've dropped three in a row.
Speaker 1: And then you're staring at the Patriots and Jets to
Speaker 1: close the season. We know how good that Jets defense is,
Speaker 1: and what Robert sala is able to do. You don't
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be able to dial up something to
Speaker 1: you know, to force Mike McDaniel to shift and tow
Speaker 1: it a deal, you know, like Brandon Staley did, to
Speaker 1: do something that they're not comfortable doing so. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: like that's why I wanted to. I set the tone
Speaker 1: at the start of the pod, like the good thing is,
Speaker 1: and you can go through the Jets schedule if you want.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure you started. I mean they got
Speaker 1: they got one of the hottest teams of football Sunday.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Lions are playing really well. They have
Speaker 1: an explosive offense. I'm actually gonna be a fun matchup
Speaker 1: to see that that Lion's offense against this Jets defense
Speaker 1: beat up Mike White. And then then you got the Jags,
Speaker 1: who may be playing for something on Thursday Night Football
Speaker 1: a week from today. Uh. Then Jets Seahawks, Seahawks are
Speaker 1: still in the mix for a playoff spot. And then
Speaker 1: like you said, the Dolphins, which could be the flex
Speaker 1: game that could be a win and in game yeah
Speaker 1: they yeah, they have they have a pretty favorable run.
Speaker 1: You know, the Lions are great offensively, defensively, they started
Speaker 1: to come on. Aidan Hutchinson has definitely raised his hand
Speaker 1: as you know, Oh yeah, this is why that guy
Speaker 1: was in the conversation as the number one pick and
Speaker 1: he maybe should have been the number one pick as
Speaker 1: good as Trayvon Walker has been with those splash plays.
Speaker 1: Hutchinson's been exceptional and he's really come on. But that'll
Speaker 1: be it'll be interesting if the Lions offense isn't able
Speaker 1: to just you know, throw the ball all over the
Speaker 1: yard like they have been. Because this Jets defense has
Speaker 1: been so good. You know, we'll see whether or not
Speaker 1: they can win a tight game, a grinded out game
Speaker 1: the Jags. Again, I don't think they. I think the
Speaker 1: Jets defense is probably going to be able to slow
Speaker 1: that thing down and take advantage of it. Seahawks back
Speaker 1: down to Earth a little bit, yeah, definitely. I mean,
Speaker 1: what's Gino got? I think seven turnovers in his last
Speaker 1: four games after like five total in his first nine,
Speaker 1: So that's been a bit of an issue. And then,
Speaker 1: like I said, I think that Dolphins game could come
Speaker 1: down to that, you know, because they got to go
Speaker 1: three and one to punch their ticket in everybody does
Speaker 1: you know, everyone's gonna have to go at least three
Speaker 1: and one. So there you go. We just want to
Speaker 1: give you a little red zone viewing this weekend before
Speaker 1: the Chargers play the Titans one twenty five Pacific on Sunday.
Speaker 1: So I think that's it. Money, that's it. You gotta
Speaker 1: take care of business on Sunday gets the Titans get
Speaker 1: to eight and six, and then you got three winnable
Speaker 1: games that you have to show up four and take
Speaker 1: care of business man. Yeah, and uh you know when
Speaker 1: I'll give a free plug in case you haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: I just want to get the details by going to
Speaker 1: UH chargers dot com. Here where is it? I'm doing
Speaker 1: something pretty cool? Oh nice? What do we got? We
Speaker 1: are doing a flag football charity. Oh, Battle of the goats,
Speaker 1: Battle of the goats, Battle the goats. Yes, it's Ladanian
Speaker 1: versus Antonio. They're the captains. But cheez, come on, let
Speaker 1: me get where are your gin? Let me find my
Speaker 1: email so I can give the plug. My great apologies. No,
Speaker 1: so hey. I talked to LT on Sunday about it.
Speaker 1: He said he's coaching, but there he may have the
Speaker 1: itch to play. There we go that you may see
Speaker 1: a player coach on on Monday. We got Mookie. Mookie
Speaker 1: BET's gonna be out there playing. Um, we have got
Speaker 1: my old friend Akbar Basha bi Emila. He better not
Speaker 1: he better keep his head on a swivel ioe him
Speaker 1: one now granted. If I try to give him one,
Speaker 1: I'll bounce off. You pay money? You playing Heck, no,
Speaker 1: I'll turn I'll explode into dust. No, I'm the MC,
Speaker 1: I'm MC in the whole thing. Um. But yeah, anybody
Speaker 1: that used to watch Fantasy Live, they may remember when
Speaker 1: Akbar decided to break me in half when I wasn't
Speaker 1: looking at him. Um, hush, Menzada gonna be out there,
Speaker 1: Clinton Portis, Terrell Owens, t J Ward, Willis, mcgahey, Orlando scanned, Rick,
Speaker 1: Ricky Williams, Gonna be out there, Um, trying to find
Speaker 1: let's see, as you mentioned, l oh, yeah, dude, it's
Speaker 1: it's freaking packed with people. It's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. So it has happening on the nineteenth, and
Speaker 1: I'm trying to Yeah, Mookie beats Sterling, Kay Brown, Um,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to fine. Let's see Chargers Impact Fund is
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Speaker 1: gates open at six, kickoff at seven o'clock. Let's do it,
Speaker 1: and Money mentioned all those stores in the game lt
Speaker 1: versus Gates. The coaches got it regularly, Landry and Belichicks.
Speaker 1: You know, I feel like my hair was a little
Speaker 1: better today, not correct, it was improved, you know what.
Speaker 1: Whoever did whoever did the meme though, if you want to,
Speaker 1: if you want to keep doing them and just kind
Speaker 1: of we can like look at like week fourteen money,
Speaker 1: Week fifteen money, that was a sixteen one bad one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that was a particularly bad never because I
Speaker 1: wear the stocking cap when I get out of the
Speaker 1: water to heat my head up, so you know, right
Speaker 1: before I sit down, I just pull it off and
Speaker 1: it's just like, yeah, look at that nightmare. It's the best.
Speaker 1: It's all about the content, you know. But you know whatever, man,
Speaker 1: I'm a fool. I have no dignity. I don't care.
Speaker 1: It's all good. You got to swim with dolphins this morning. Bro,
Speaker 1: you're winning. You're winning, all right, guys. That's gonna do
Speaker 1: it for us for money, I'm Chris has been charges weekly.
Speaker 1: If you're at so far on Sunday, say hi, and
Speaker 1: we'll see that