Speaker 1: It's a late fifteen to ten touchdown Chargers.
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 1: Guys?
Speaker 2: Welcome into an emergency podcast edition of Chargers Weekly Money
Speaker 2: and I don't usually tape in the evenings. It's Wednesday
Speaker 2: evening and Jim Harball has just been named head coach
Speaker 2: of the Los Angeles Chargers. We are presented by Microsoft
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Speaker 2: Who has it better than Chargers fans right now?
Speaker 1: Nobody.
Speaker 3: We've been waiting, Chris, We've been waiting weeks, and true
Speaker 3: to their word, it was an exhaustive search. And thankfully,
Speaker 3: after that exhaustive search, I think speaking for all Charger fans,
Speaker 3: for both of us, for a lot of people, they
Speaker 3: ended up with the person we had hoped they would
Speaker 3: end up with. You know, it takes two to dance,
Speaker 3: as we've said, but I could not be more excited
Speaker 3: about being here right now talking to you about Jim
Speaker 3: Harbaugh being the next head coach of the Chargers and
Speaker 3: what it means for this team moving forward.
Speaker 2: It's an unbelievable day and I just I'm trying to
Speaker 2: rack my brain, especially since twenty seventeen, since the team
Speaker 2: has moved up to Los Angeles, Like, is there another moment,
Speaker 2: especially in the off season, that ranks higher than this?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I mean, you know, we talked
Speaker 2: about the search, and you brought up an excellent point
Speaker 2: last week saying, we can't think that this person's going
Speaker 2: to be a good head coach. We have to know
Speaker 2: and we know. We know that this guy just won
Speaker 2: a national championship. We know that this guy's been to
Speaker 2: a super Bowl. We know that he's elevated every program
Speaker 2: he's ever been a part of. He's elevated the quarterback position.
Speaker 2: And now he's going to be in Los Angeles for
Speaker 2: a long time. And you know, it's been funny, like
Speaker 2: the last three weeks we've been talking about this coaching search,
Speaker 2: and you know, just the comments and hearing from Chargers fans.
Speaker 2: They didn't want to hear about anybody else, And I
Speaker 2: was almost a little nervous. I'm like, what happens if
Speaker 2: they don't get hardball? Because he is option one, two, three, four,
Speaker 2: and five for every Chargers fan. So I'm glad that
Speaker 2: this is the end result.
Speaker 3: And people watching and listening can take this however they want.
Speaker 3: I don't care. I've taken a ton of incoming the
Speaker 3: last couple of days. Anyway, I don't want to hear
Speaker 3: it anymore. I do not want to hear it when
Speaker 3: it comes to the Spanos family anymore. That's it. It's over,
Speaker 3: and it should have been over for a while. But
Speaker 3: whatever the perceptions were of them and how they spend
Speaker 3: money and what was in the past is no longer.
Speaker 3: It's it's not a viable opinion anymore. I'm sorry. The
Speaker 3: family spent the billion dollars to move it out to
Speaker 3: move to LA six hundred million on the stadium, four
Speaker 3: hundred million and three in relocation fee. They spent a
Speaker 3: quarter of a billion dollars on a facility that's going
Speaker 3: to open in June that I think probably went a
Speaker 3: long way into convincing Jim Harbaugh to come here. They
Speaker 3: made Joey Bosa the highest paid edged or when James
Speaker 3: the highest paid safety, Justin Herbert the highest paid player
Speaker 3: in the NFL when they signed extensions, and then on
Speaker 3: top of that, they just had the highest paid defense
Speaker 3: in the NFL. Because Brandon Staley gave him a list
Speaker 3: of things that he needed and extensions he needed sign
Speaker 3: players he needed to keep in order to get this
Speaker 3: thing right, and every step of the way they have
Speaker 3: stepped up. And the narrative through this coaching search was
Speaker 3: They're not gonna pay him. They're too cheap. They don't
Speaker 3: pay coaches. There's no chance they get Harbaugh. It's gonna
Speaker 3: be another first time guy. Enough, it's over, like there
Speaker 3: is not there are no more boxes to check for
Speaker 3: the Spanos family. They have proven every step of the
Speaker 3: way that they are spending, that they are putting capital
Speaker 3: into this franchise to try and deliver a Super Bowl
Speaker 3: to Chargers fans for the first time. I'm in the
Speaker 3: franchise's history. So I don't mean to get on a
Speaker 3: soapbox and lecture, but I just I think back there
Speaker 3: was a moment and I don't even want to mention
Speaker 3: the person's name.
Speaker 1: He's such a dope.
Speaker 3: But I remember when Anthony Lynn still had a year
Speaker 3: left on his deal and it was the blowout at
Speaker 3: the hands of the Patriots, and I remember seeing, you know,
Speaker 3: people send me things on the social media front. They
Speaker 3: send me this video, this guy saying I've known the
Speaker 3: Spanos family for thirty years. I've been doing this job
Speaker 3: in this in this market for thirty years. No way
Speaker 3: they eat a year of his contract. Anthony Lin'll be back,
Speaker 3: He'll play out his contract because they don't play. They
Speaker 3: don't pay coaches, not the coach. And never heard him
Speaker 3: retract that statement, never hurt him, didn't at least nobody
Speaker 3: sent me the apology of oh my mistake. They did
Speaker 3: let him go year early, and they did pay him out.
Speaker 3: They're paying Brandon Staley for the final year of his contract,
Speaker 3: and they're probably gonna make Jim Harball one of the
Speaker 3: highest aid coaches in the NFL. And I don't mean
Speaker 3: to start it out with a lecture, but it's been
Speaker 3: so much of this through this process from the people
Speaker 3: that just take shots at this team and this franchise
Speaker 3: and it doesn't hold.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it just does not hold.
Speaker 3: And this is the final nail in that coffin that
Speaker 3: you cannot say they don't spend money, because this is it.
Speaker 3: That this was the last piece to that puzzle of
Speaker 3: what they will or will not, you know, reportedly spend
Speaker 3: money on.
Speaker 2: And it doesn't just stop with Harball. I mean, he
Speaker 2: has a staff that he wants to take care of,
Speaker 2: he wants to bring in best in class in everything. Right,
Speaker 2: He's not going to do this halfway, and he's not
Speaker 2: going to go to a place that's.
Speaker 1: Going to do it halfway.
Speaker 2: You don't leave the University of Michigan and become the
Speaker 2: highest paid coach in college football and leave that for
Speaker 2: an NFL job. That's just okay, right, you know, the facility,
Speaker 2: obviously the money, but also putting together. They're a first
Speaker 2: class staff. I just want to read Dean Spanos and
Speaker 2: John Spanos's quotes in the in the press re at
Speaker 2: least real quick, just for folks.
Speaker 1: Who those are fantastic.
Speaker 2: The Jim Harball was just epic. I can't wait, all right,
Speaker 2: So so Dean goes. Jim Harball is football personified, and
Speaker 2: I can think of no one better to lead the
Speaker 2: Chargers forward. The son of a coach, brother of a coach,
Speaker 2: and father of a coach who himself was coached by
Speaker 2: the names of Sham Beckler and Dicka. For the past
Speaker 2: two decades, Jim has led hundreds of mens to success
Speaker 2: everywhere he's been as their coach. And today Jim Harball
Speaker 2: returns to the Chargers. This time is our coach who
Speaker 2: has it better than us? And then John, you don't
Speaker 2: build a resume like Jim's by accident, and you don't
Speaker 2: do it by yourself. You need a team. And nobody
Speaker 2: has built a team more successfully and repeatedly in recent
Speaker 2: history than Jim Harball. His former players swear by him
Speaker 2: and his opponents swear at him. Jim is one of one,
Speaker 2: and we couldn't be more excited to have him back
Speaker 2: in the Chargers organization as our head coach. So I
Speaker 2: think this just kind of plays to your point, money,
Speaker 2: is this this ownership group? I think really from twenty
Speaker 2: seventeen on, like, let's just not forget when Anthony Lynn
Speaker 2: was hired in twenty seventeen, he had a really good
Speaker 2: rookie year, start at one four and ended strong the
Speaker 2: following year with Philip Rivers under center. Twelve and four
Speaker 2: you win a playoff game, right, So you know, I
Speaker 2: think Anthony Lynn earned that extra time with the Chargers.
Speaker 2: They went to get Brandon Staley because Brandon Staley was
Speaker 2: in charge of the number one defense in the NFL,
Speaker 2: and guess what Philly wanted Brandon Staley and a lot
Speaker 2: of other teams wanted to talk to him too, So
Speaker 2: they were looking for that young and upcoming coach in
Speaker 2: the in the likes of or Sean McVay right like that.
Speaker 2: They were looking for that, thinking that that could be
Speaker 2: the formula. And guess what, everybody was on board, all right,
Speaker 2: So you can't tell me that not everybody was on
Speaker 2: board when Brandon Staley's press conference happened, and everybody was
Speaker 2: and they started pretty well. They win a different route
Speaker 2: this way. Jim Harball is much different than all the
Speaker 2: guys before him, the last three that we talked about,
Speaker 2: the first time coordinators. He's proven, and I think just
Speaker 2: pairing him with Justin Herbert money. Justin Herbert's the biggest
Speaker 2: winner in all of this because Jim Harball plays a
Speaker 2: style of football where it's not all on the quarterback
Speaker 2: to win football games. And I feel like we have
Speaker 2: seen Justin kind of try to put the team on
Speaker 2: his back and sometimes it doesn't work out. And I
Speaker 2: don't think he's gonna have to do that anymore. I
Speaker 2: think it's I think his play is going to be
Speaker 2: elevated because of Jim Harball. And I think that Jim Harball,
Speaker 2: although it may take a year or two, right, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of salary cap and things that need to
Speaker 2: be kind of decided here over the next couple of months.
Speaker 2: But the Chargers are really good hands and I think
Speaker 2: Justin Herbert of anybody here is probably the biggest winner.
Speaker 1: Certainly.
Speaker 3: And you described it perfectly, which is we know the
Speaker 3: style of football Jim Harball is going to play because
Speaker 3: he has played it everywhere he's coached, whether that was
Speaker 3: San Diego, Stanford, San Francisco, or Michigan.
Speaker 1: It is all the same.
Speaker 3: It is physical, it is line play, It is a
Speaker 3: running game. It is a beat the snot out of
Speaker 3: you and finish you off in the fourth quarter. And
Speaker 3: for those that think, well, wait a minute, you got
Speaker 3: this Ferrari and Justin Herbert and you're not going to
Speaker 3: take it out a second gear, No, that's not what
Speaker 3: it is. What it is is, Oh, we're setting you
Speaker 3: up for the knockout. We're setting you up for the
Speaker 3: knockout because we've got the heavyweight champ and he's just
Speaker 3: gonna jab and jab and jab. Because our line's gonna
Speaker 3: beat you up. The running game's gonna beat you up.
Speaker 3: And when you're not looking, here comes play action downfield
Speaker 3: home run. Because the Chargers have a guy that can
Speaker 3: do that, and there's no better way to make Justin
Speaker 3: Herbert more effective and to make use with a vertical
Speaker 3: passing game in a downfield passing game than by having
Speaker 3: defenses on their heels. How many times during the season
Speaker 3: did we talk about the Chargers failing to dictate terms?
Speaker 3: That it had been long been a I felt like
Speaker 3: almost a mantra of mine that we would discuss this,
Speaker 3: Chris that why is it that every game they go
Speaker 3: into they allow the opponent to dictate the style of play. Oh,
Speaker 3: we're going to let Tennessee drag us into the deep end.
Speaker 3: We're going to play in a shootout with the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: No more.
Speaker 3: From now on, Jim harbaughd dictates terms. You are going
Speaker 3: to play a physical, slobber knocker style of football. And
Speaker 3: I can tell you right now there are three people
Speaker 3: in particular that we're not happy with the news today,
Speaker 3: and they are Andy Reid, Antonio Pierce, and Sean Payton
Speaker 3: because they know what this means. They know what it
Speaker 3: means and what it feels like to come out of
Speaker 3: a game that this guy coaches and how his teams
Speaker 3: play and how his brother's teams play. Because look, they're
Speaker 3: all Harbaughs. John and Jim are a product of Jack
Speaker 3: and they all believe, and they're a product of beauchem Beckler,
Speaker 3: and they are all a product of the same football philosophy,
Speaker 3: and that is bust your ass in practice, play physically
Speaker 3: and outlast. And we've talked about it in the past.
Speaker 3: Tight end with his hand in the ground, full back
Speaker 3: running God's play power, and you beat the opponent into
Speaker 3: you beat him into submission, and that's how you win football.
Speaker 3: And again, for people that don't think that necessarily is
Speaker 3: in step with Justin Herbert, it is exactly in step
Speaker 3: because now you have an opportunity to protect, to present
Speaker 3: to him a counter punch. Doesn't have to do everything.
Speaker 3: There's gonna be a big old back behind him. I
Speaker 3: can promise you that. I don't know what his name
Speaker 3: is yet, but it's gonna be two hundred and fifteen
Speaker 3: pounds plus and it's gonna be a hammer.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Maybe it's Corum, could be could be you know,
Speaker 2: we saw we saw Pete Carroll do that a little bit,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: And that's the other thing that that to keep in mind.
Speaker 3: This is someone who just coached thirteen games of college
Speaker 3: football against some really, really good players, and he perhaps
Speaker 3: has a better idea of those intangibles, the things that
Speaker 3: aren't on a stat sheet or aren't a measurable that
Speaker 3: shows up at the combine. But I remember, in this game,
Speaker 3: in this moment, this is a guy who stepped up
Speaker 3: and met the moment, and I those are things that
Speaker 3: carry over. So you have this incredible advantage going into
Speaker 3: the draft and going into undrafted college football college free
Speaker 3: agents of that frame of knowledge and that base that
Speaker 3: he has, and likely a number of his staff that
Speaker 3: are going to be coming here with him that are
Speaker 3: going to be able to share that with the new
Speaker 3: general manager as well.
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Speaker 2: manager and you know, coaching staff, that's a big thing.
Speaker 2: At this point, we'd just be speculating as to who's
Speaker 2: going to be on the staff. You know, you hear
Speaker 2: the name Jesse Mintzer from Michigan and that style of
Speaker 2: defense that has been.
Speaker 1: Really got to come. Chris, that has to come.
Speaker 2: I mean, if it comes, he's so good. And you
Speaker 2: look at what Mike McDonald's doing in Baltimore and just
Speaker 2: how he has shut down the likes of Ben Johnson
Speaker 2: and the Detroit Lions offense and Kyle Shanahan's offense and
Speaker 2: really just just making it miserable for offenses all year long.
Speaker 2: That style of play I think you can expect with
Speaker 2: the Chargers. And obviously we will know much more about
Speaker 2: who's going to be on the staff here in the
Speaker 2: days and weeks to come, But you know, from a
Speaker 2: general manager perspective, I think I just saw rap sheet
Speaker 2: tweet that a Horties from Baltimore is going to be
Speaker 2: flying in for a second interview. Obviously ties to John,
Speaker 2: I think you cannot go wrong with anybody in the
Speaker 2: Baltimore Ravens front office. It's just a it's just a
Speaker 2: proven track record of success from Newsom to Da Costa
Speaker 2: to all all the guys that have been there for
Speaker 2: a long time as well. So pairing Jim with somebody
Speaker 2: that he's comfortable with, you know, you read the tea
Speaker 2: leaves and that that could be a potential option here
Speaker 2: as he flies in, I guess tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like it's down to two. That's what
Speaker 1: it feels like.
Speaker 3: Right Brandon Brown's in town today for his second interview,
Speaker 3: and as we do this podcast, he's probably having dinner
Speaker 3: with the spanos Is right now, or maybe that was
Speaker 3: something this afternoon, and tomorrow it'll be Joe Ortiz. So
Speaker 3: if I'm reading the tea leaves, those are your two
Speaker 3: finalists and it comes down to them presenting their vision now.
Speaker 3: I would imagine, you know, Brandon Brown presented it to
Speaker 3: Jim Harbaugh and the spanos Is today and tomorrow it'll
Speaker 3: be Joe Ortiz that presents his vision to Jim Harbaugh
Speaker 3: and the spanos Is as well. And it's that partnership
Speaker 3: that we talked about. And I think for everybody that
Speaker 3: thought Jim was going to want to rest too much control,
Speaker 3: I think what we're seeing here is probably some pushback
Speaker 3: on that as well, that no, I just want to
Speaker 3: find the right person. Let me you know, let's make
Speaker 3: sure that you're not going to hire a GM that's
Speaker 3: a bigger personality than Jim Harbaugh. So you're going to
Speaker 3: have to find someone that's a good partner with him.
Speaker 3: He's just done it for too long. He's been too successful.
Speaker 3: He's too good at what he does. He builds a
Speaker 3: team a particular way and plays football a particular way.
Speaker 3: So you're going to have to find that partnership. So
Speaker 3: I think this is the smart way to do it.
Speaker 3: Once Harbaugh agrees to the deal, let's highlight a couple that,
Speaker 3: you know, a couple of the interviews that we really
Speaker 3: like that we believe resonated with us, and let's present
Speaker 3: those to coach and make sure everybody's got this partnership.
Speaker 3: I would be I don't know if there is one,
Speaker 3: but I'd be very surprised if we didn't discover that
Speaker 3: there was some sort of connection with Coach Harbaugh and
Speaker 3: Brandon Brown. I would imagine there's probably something there. I
Speaker 3: don't know what it is because it came from the
Speaker 3: Giants and so I don't know. I think it was
Speaker 3: with the Eagles for a minute too, So not quite
Speaker 3: sure if there's a relationship there or how the two
Speaker 3: might know each other, but I would imagine there's there's
Speaker 3: got to be something in that I think speaks to Hey,
Speaker 3: you guys, this is this is a lot of work.
Speaker 3: You know, building a team is a lot of work,
Speaker 3: and it's not something that you can task head coach with.
Speaker 3: It's just too hard to do. So you got to
Speaker 3: find that right partner, and that's what I would imagine
Speaker 3: they're they're getting into. But just going back to the
Speaker 3: first point you made before you mentioned Georgiz is I've please,
Speaker 3: I've got to believe that Jesse Minner is coming with them.
Speaker 1: I just I have to believe a huge part of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be, it'd be a huge get offensively.
Speaker 2: You know, you've heard different names from Greag Roman, Kellam
Speaker 2: Moore still in the building. It would just be speculating
Speaker 2: at this point. But I think that we know the
Speaker 2: identity of what the offense is going to be, and
Speaker 2: it's just going to be an extension of what Jim
Speaker 2: Harball has done at really every level that he's won
Speaker 2: at And having Justin Herbert as the centerpiece isn't the
Speaker 2: bad thing having Rashaun Slater. But looking at this roster,
Speaker 2: money man, this is gonna be a lot of turnover.
Speaker 2: There's been a lot of turnover. It's gonna be a
Speaker 2: lot of big decisions that need to be made. Not
Speaker 2: everybody is going to be in that locker room in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Probably a podcast for another day, but
Speaker 2: just knowing that you have the head coach in tow,
Speaker 2: you know, I think it puts a lot of players
Speaker 2: on notice too, like, hey, this is the new sheriff
Speaker 2: in town. It's gonna be a lot different than it's
Speaker 2: been in the past. And you know it's all laid
Speaker 2: out there now. You know, there's gonna be free agency
Speaker 2: for a lot of guys. I think. You know, I'm
Speaker 2: sure Jim has kept his eyes on the league and
Speaker 2: has kind of skin this roster, skimmed this roster and
Speaker 2: seeing the guys that he thinks he can win with
Speaker 2: and guys that he thinks probably should go elsewhere, And
Speaker 2: it's just gonna look drastically different. I don't think in
Speaker 2: a bad way, Like I know, it's gonna take some time.
Speaker 2: I don't want to say that, hey, overnight, Jim Harball
Speaker 2: is gonna be hoisting a Lombardi. You never know, but
Speaker 2: there's a lot of work to be a couple of years.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: He went from six and ten to thirteen and three
Speaker 3: in the NFC Championship game in his first year, you know,
Speaker 3: took a team that was six and ten his first
Speaker 3: year coach of the forty nine ers thirteen and three.
Speaker 3: Same players. Now they were really good players. But you saw,
Speaker 3: you saw the leap from Navarro Bowman the elite. You
Speaker 3: saw MyDD Brooks the leap, Alden Smith the elite, you know,
Speaker 3: to all pro level players on the defensive side of
Speaker 3: the ball. And then Alex Smith, who had almost been
Speaker 3: written off to some degree. Now y's a team into
Speaker 3: the NFC Championship game. Frank Gore, who had always been
Speaker 3: a very steady player, now becomes a Pro Bowl and
Speaker 3: All Pro level player. Under Jim Harbaugh, they built that
Speaker 3: offensive line anchored by Joe Staley, and you just think
Speaker 3: about what that old line looked like under Harbaugh. So
Speaker 3: I'll give it to you. I don't want to put
Speaker 3: you on the spot, Chris. But earlier today DJ came
Speaker 3: on with Petros and me and he said, and I said,
Speaker 3: what do you what do you make of the roster?
Speaker 3: How much do you think it's going to chan? And
Speaker 3: he said out he goes, well, because I was thinking
Speaker 3: about this, and I'll put it to you and let's
Speaker 3: see if we come up with the same names. Okay,
Speaker 3: just give me some names of hardball players that are
Speaker 3: already on the roster, and the exact same three we
Speaker 3: because you know, it's not like I'm gonna go through
Speaker 3: twenty players.
Speaker 1: But the first three, He's like, there it.
Speaker 2: Is Herbert, Rashawan, and Darwin.
Speaker 1: So we did Herbert, We just took off the tape.
Speaker 2: Okay, he Herbert it, yeah, obviously, Okay, so Herbert out
Speaker 2: of it. Okay, uh, Rashawn, Darwin and Tuley.
Speaker 1: There it is bing bang boom players. And what do
Speaker 1: you got.
Speaker 3: You got a defensive playmaker and a captain of the defense.
Speaker 3: You got an edge rusher, and you got a left tackle.
Speaker 3: It's a pretty good place to start. Yeah, those three
Speaker 3: guys and.
Speaker 2: Edge rusher, who has who has the effort level of
Speaker 2: like a Max Fronz who just is always going, you know,
Speaker 2: like like Rashwan, a big ten guys, So so hardball
Speaker 2: coached against him. Tully, I think he's gonna a stud.
Speaker 2: And then obviously, you know Derwin. We know what Drwin
Speaker 2: has done in the past, and he had a tough
Speaker 2: year last year, but I could see he might be.
Speaker 1: The only guy.
Speaker 3: He might be the only guy in the building that's
Speaker 3: more competitive than Jim. Like that's that that to me,
Speaker 3: is that that's to be able to have those three
Speaker 3: things in Obviously the quarterback you have anchors defensive you know,
Speaker 3: pass rusher, left tackle, captain of the defense, captain of
Speaker 3: the offense. So you've got these foundational blocks that you
Speaker 3: can now build around, you know, in terms of and
Speaker 3: then like you said, we can get into it down
Speaker 3: the road a little bit, but I do think it
Speaker 3: bears mentioning. You're probably you're gonna need to remake I
Speaker 3: think the tight end room in the running back room
Speaker 3: to fit the style of play that Jim Harball requires.
Speaker 3: You are going to need tight ends to play with
Speaker 3: a hand in the ground and knock the snot out
Speaker 3: of you. You're going to need a big back that
Speaker 3: is going to be a hammer at the end of
Speaker 3: games and able to change the you know, to change
Speaker 3: the calculus of a defense as they're trying to get
Speaker 3: the ball back. And you've got this massive offensive line
Speaker 3: with tight ends, full backs, running backs that are coming
Speaker 3: at you. So those those are things which you know,
Speaker 3: we can get into the number five overall pick and
Speaker 3: what that means, you know, for does that mean it
Speaker 3: now becomes a tackle instead of a wide receiver? It
Speaker 3: does it bring Rock Bauers into play now as a
Speaker 3: full service tight end or does it still mean you know,
Speaker 3: I need football, I need I need incredible football players.
Speaker 3: And that's where the and when you think about the
Speaker 3: receivers in this draft, you've got the Ferrari and Malik
Speaker 3: neighbors and and to me and in both a Donsay
Speaker 3: and and Hairs and Junior, you've got big, gnarly, punch
Speaker 3: you in the face wide receivers that are physical, that
Speaker 3: are explosive, that are true difference makers. And so it'll
Speaker 3: be interesting to see what direction he wants to go
Speaker 3: there or if you just want to trade out because
Speaker 3: you know, you need to really rebuild this thing and
Speaker 3: to restock it and to get a lot more bodies
Speaker 3: that fit sort of this new style of play that
Speaker 3: they're going to be getting after.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no question, you know, I think i'd put Henley
Speaker 2: as like the fourth.
Speaker 3: Like I mentioned him too, and DJ was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: he goes definitely, that's funny. So he was the other
Speaker 3: one that I mentioned that the DJ's like, yeah, I
Speaker 3: didn't think about the rookie Henley, but certain just because
Speaker 3: we haven't seen him play a lot, But yes, certainly
Speaker 3: I think that's someone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like.
Speaker 3: Based on the way he played in college, no doubt
Speaker 3: it's he. He looks like someone that he can really
Speaker 3: especially look at those linebackers in Baltimore. Just so think
Speaker 3: about this, Mike McDonald, Jesse Minner, these are guys that
Speaker 3: were together. So Charger fans do yourself a favor and
Speaker 3: pay very close attention to that Baltimore defense. That's what
Speaker 3: we're talking about. With jesse Minner, that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 3: He did at Michigan, and particularly when it comes to
Speaker 3: Henley and Derwin. I want you get a look at
Speaker 3: Patrick Queen and at Rokwan Smith and at Kyle Hamilton
Speaker 3: and how those guys are playing. And that's kind of
Speaker 3: what we're getting at with Henley and with Derwin and
Speaker 3: what we're going to be looking.
Speaker 2: For money money that the Sunday night game. I think
Speaker 2: we talked about it afterwards, but I have never seen
Speaker 2: a more violent defense than the Baltimore defense. Just like
Speaker 2: the way that they were they were hitting that night,
Speaker 2: and I know the Chargers kept it close but it's
Speaker 2: a violent defense. And you know from Patrick Queen to
Speaker 2: Roquan Smith. Like Roquan Smith, I think he was miked
Speaker 2: up last week against Hugh Oh. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: And if not mistaken, I think Ortiz is the one
Speaker 2: who had really good notes on on Roquan and and
Speaker 2: brought him Overge.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, how do you how do you know that, Chris?
Speaker 3: How do you know that about How do you know
Speaker 3: that about Ortiz and Roquan?
Speaker 2: Was it on X?
Speaker 1: Nope?
Speaker 3: Did you say that because John Harbaugh mentioned it in
Speaker 3: his presser? And if and if and if you don't
Speaker 3: think that John's trying to give his guy a little
Speaker 3: nudge here, knowing that he was having that dinner tomorrow
Speaker 3: or having that interview tomorrow, If you don't think he
Speaker 3: wasn't trying to Hey, little nugget, Joe Ortiz is the
Speaker 3: guy that that was doing all the work on Roquan
Speaker 3: and convinced us to make this trade. And now you
Speaker 3: see the benefits. You better believe that's brother sending a
Speaker 3: signal to brother like, hey, I.
Speaker 1: Got your guy. Okay, he's right here. This is going
Speaker 1: to be your guy. I love what you's funny.
Speaker 2: I love when the guys do that, though Muddy, like
Speaker 2: I said, like Les Sneid did. He spent his first
Speaker 2: three minutes of his uh yeah exit talking about Raheem
Speaker 2: and it's just you know, you want to brag on
Speaker 2: your guys, But I mean, yeah, how about that little nugget?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: When I heard I was watching the pressure today, I
Speaker 3: started cracking up. I was like, this is too good.
Speaker 3: John trying to send a signal to the Chargers into
Speaker 3: his brother. Hey, this guy's been doing it here for
Speaker 3: twenty five years. He deserves a shot. He's really good.
Speaker 3: Which is interesting because you know we play the the
Speaker 3: Chargers play the AFC North next year, so we're gonna
Speaker 3: be at Baltimore.
Speaker 1: We got a hardball Bowl.
Speaker 2: You don't know it's it's it's in La.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's in La.
Speaker 2: I think it's in La. Let me just check that
Speaker 2: as we you know this is.
Speaker 3: A or are we in Pittsburgh in Cleveland? You're right,
Speaker 3: I think we're I think we're in Pittsburgh and we're
Speaker 3: in Cleveland and we have Baltimore here, yeap, Baltimore, absolutely.
Speaker 2: Right, Because uh fans were saying like, oh, that should
Speaker 2: be the kickoff game. If the Ravens win the Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: it won't be. The Ravens are gonna get the rain
Speaker 2: on the open. But you know what, somebody mentioned Thanksgiving,
Speaker 2: and I feel like that's the perfect primetime Thanksgiving game.
Speaker 2: Is the Brothers family coming together in Los Angeles. I
Speaker 2: have to believe it's gonna be a primetime game, and
Speaker 2: I think that that may be the best plate for it.
Speaker 2: So you know, once the schedule comes out, we can
Speaker 2: we can dish on that, but sure, I don't. I
Speaker 2: don't know what else you want to talk about right now,
Speaker 2: because there's so much that's going to come out. As
Speaker 2: we take this on a Wednesday tomorrow, we're probably gonna
Speaker 2: get a little bit more intel as to who some
Speaker 2: of the coordinators he's eyeing, the general manager is gonna
Speaker 2: come out. I just I'm I'm happy for Chargers fans
Speaker 2: because you and I see all the same comments and
Speaker 2: just the way that this is kind of dragged out.
Speaker 2: Since that that that game in Las Vegas, we've kind
Speaker 2: of hit different stages of I can't believe this is
Speaker 2: happening too. All right, Let's let's finish the season two,
Speaker 2: all right, we're gonna interview cast a wide net. The
Speaker 2: wide net was casting. I mean, I give the Spanish
Speaker 2: family a lot of credit for casting this wide net
Speaker 2: and interviewing the likes of Mike Rabel and Ben Johnson
Speaker 2: and all these up and comers too, leaving no stone
Speaker 2: unturned because obviously, you know Jim Harball, you don't know
Speaker 2: what he's gonna do. You don't know what he ultimately
Speaker 2: wanted to do. But we found out today. And I
Speaker 2: give the Spanish family a ton of credit for making
Speaker 2: sure that they get this thing right. And they closed
Speaker 2: the deal, and they certainly did it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you better coming off a five and twelve season
Speaker 3: and having six primetime games that probably did not excite
Speaker 3: the networks too much. Toward the end of the season,
Speaker 3: they're thinking, probably dial this back now down there like
Speaker 3: maybe three. No, Jim Harbaugh and Justin Herbert, you better
Speaker 3: believe there's gonna be a lot of prime time. There's
Speaker 3: gonna probably be a holiday game in there. There may
Speaker 3: be a flight to Germany to play the Panthers or
Speaker 3: a flight to Brazil to play somebody out. I mean,
Speaker 3: this is this is a this a big day. It's
Speaker 3: a big day, and a huge congratulations to John and
Speaker 3: Dean Spanos and to everybody else in the front office
Speaker 3: that was part of this, you know, Ed and Janie
Speaker 3: and just everybody that works up there. That's all part
Speaker 3: of the decision making process, because look, they hired a
Speaker 3: superstar and you need it in this market. And beyond that,
Speaker 3: so much more important than that, they hired the guy
Speaker 3: that everybody thinks is going to bring a super Bowl.
Speaker 3: It's going to maximize the talents of Justin Herbert in
Speaker 3: ages twenty six through thirty one at least, and I
Speaker 3: hope twenty six through thirty six and forty or whatever
Speaker 3: that the two of them are going to be locked
Speaker 3: like Belichick and Brady, Harbaugh and Herbert. It works as
Speaker 3: we said, you know, with alliteration, and it's exactly what
Speaker 3: this franchise needed. You can't not take advantage of the
Speaker 3: talent you have at quarterback when it's a quarterback league.
Speaker 3: You needed someone that was a winner more than anything.
Speaker 3: We discussed that at nauseum, that you needed someone to
Speaker 3: walk through those doors at that new facility in June
Speaker 3: that players look at and go, this guy knows how
Speaker 3: to win. He's gonna He's gonna kick my ass, you know,
Speaker 3: in camp and in practice, and that cake walk is
Speaker 3: over and it's going to be physical, and it's not
Speaker 3: gonna be fun. He's gonna air you out, he's gonna
Speaker 3: run hot, and he's gonna hold you accountable and things
Speaker 3: are gonna be a little uncomfortable, but he's gonna win.
Speaker 3: So that's all he's done his whole life. And there
Speaker 3: it just it made too much sense. It made way
Speaker 3: too much sense for these two parties to get together
Speaker 3: and do this. Someone as competitive as he is, with
Speaker 3: the advantage you have with the quarterback, with the situation
Speaker 3: where you've got both jobs open, to pair it up
Speaker 3: with a general manager, you've got a top five pick,
Speaker 3: and you still have anchors, young anchors on your team
Speaker 3: to build around in Slater to Lee, Derwin and Justin
Speaker 3: and it just I can't wait to see what it
Speaker 3: looks like. Like you said, there's still because we're doing
Speaker 3: this right after the announcement, still a lot to be
Speaker 3: sorted out. Once the staff gets put together and the
Speaker 3: general manager is announced, we'll come back to another one
Speaker 3: and start to break down how this thing might shake out.
Speaker 3: But for now, you got to play Andy Reid, Sean
Speaker 3: Payton twice a year. Antonio Pierce knocked the Chargers around
Speaker 3: for sixty three. Our old friend Tom Telesco's over there.
Speaker 3: You know, we know what he does with his first
Speaker 3: round picks. They got the thirteenth pick. Now you got
Speaker 3: to find a quarterback. Be interesting to see where they
Speaker 3: go with that. But you know, and that's just the division, Chris,
Speaker 3: Jim Harbaugh's got to go up against John Harbaugh. He's
Speaker 3: got up against Mike Tomlin. You know, he's got to
Speaker 3: go up against you know, Josh Allen and Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3: This is a gnarly division. And now knowing that the
Speaker 3: Chargers not only have the quarterback, they have the head
Speaker 3: coach that you believe can go in with a game
Speaker 3: plan and win any of these games because he's proven
Speaker 3: he's done it in the past, all the way to
Speaker 3: the super Bowl. It's just a completely completely different feeling
Speaker 3: around this team moving forward.
Speaker 2: They got an alpha now, I mean they got a
Speaker 2: guy who you know, money. Like you said, there's not
Speaker 2: many coaches that could come into the AFC West and
Speaker 2: still be an alpha, right. There's maybe Belichick and Harball.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's another coach. Yeah, maybe Vayble to
Speaker 2: a smaller degree, but you have Harball and I just
Speaker 2: I was thinking about this because you've been the voice
Speaker 2: of the Chargers since they moved up to Los Angeles
Speaker 2: in twenty seventeen, and there's always been kind of stages here, right.
Speaker 2: You know, it's very hard to move a team. They
Speaker 2: were at the stub Hub Center and Dignity Hell Sports
Speaker 2: Park for a few years. The big shiny Sofi Stadium
Speaker 2: was kind of you know, it was a little that
Speaker 2: sobering when COVID happened and you couldn't have fans in
Speaker 2: the stands, and then you know, the second your fans
Speaker 2: come into Sofi. They have a brand new facility now
Speaker 2: that they're opening later this year. That's about ten minutes
Speaker 2: from Sofi Stadium, right next to Lax and El Segunda,
Speaker 2: right next to the Lakers and the Kings. And now
Speaker 2: they have a Hall of Fame type head coach, someone
Speaker 2: who's been to a Super Bowl and just won a
Speaker 2: national championship. I think that this is finally the year
Speaker 2: that we can say the Chargers are here. Right. They
Speaker 2: have plannar roots in Los Angeles, They have their own
Speaker 2: brand new facility, and they got a pretty good head
Speaker 2: coach to boot with a franchise quarterback. So today feels different, right,
Speaker 2: It just from everything that's happened over the last several
Speaker 2: years and stay in the course and trying to find
Speaker 2: the right formula. Seems like today they found.
Speaker 1: It, no doubt.
Speaker 3: And just look at the final four and you tip
Speaker 3: your cap to Dan Campbell for getting the Lions there.
Speaker 3: But I think in the case of the Lions, you
Speaker 3: had top ten picks for the last half decade. It's
Speaker 3: about time you cash those things in, you know. But
Speaker 3: Kyle Shanahan been to a Super Bowl. Andy Reid has
Speaker 3: won multiple Super Bowls. John Harbaugh has won a Super Bowl. Like,
Speaker 3: here's what matters in this league, coaching and quarterbacking. Coaching
Speaker 3: and quarterbacking, and maybe you have one that surpasses the
Speaker 3: other considerably and that's why you get here. And or
Speaker 3: maybe you have both, or maybe the quarterback is just
Speaker 3: so good it overcomes everything. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: And look for Dan Campbell for all the incoming he
Speaker 3: took at that presser, you know, the bite and the
Speaker 3: kneecap on the way down, and bite your kneecap on
Speaker 3: the way back up and oh, there's just some meathead.
Speaker 3: They took on his personality, they took on that team
Speaker 3: plays the way that guy talks, and there's not a
Speaker 3: lot of physical teams like that. Baltimore Ravens are a
Speaker 3: physical team. We know the San Francisco defense is a
Speaker 3: physical team. We see that the Chiefs have the greatest
Speaker 3: quarterback of his generation right now, of his era, right
Speaker 3: now and perhaps could go down as perhaps of all time.
Speaker 3: I mean, six consecutive AFC Championship games. My god, so
Speaker 3: and and you have a Lions team, physical team.
Speaker 1: What do they do?
Speaker 3: Lions run the ball, Run the hell out of the ball.
Speaker 3: That's why they drafted Jamior Gibbs number twelve overall. And
Speaker 3: nobody's making fun of that pick now, and what that
Speaker 3: guy can do? You know they drafted old lineman Taylor
Speaker 3: Decker first round or Piney Sewell first rounder. Look at
Speaker 3: the forty nine ers traded multiple picks to get Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 3: a former first rounder here. That's what they want of
Speaker 3: their identity, to be traded a first round or to
Speaker 3: get Trent and Williams paid him a bunch of money.
Speaker 3: What do the Ravens do O line and run the
Speaker 3: ball with you know like it works, it works. And
Speaker 3: now the now the Chargers happened. They got it with
Speaker 3: a quarterback, and they got it with a head coach,
Speaker 3: and man, I would it's early. They got to prove it.
Speaker 3: I'd put that pair up against anybody. You tell me
Speaker 3: you can take any head coach and quarterback pairing in
Speaker 3: the league. And I know it'll start with Andy Reid
Speaker 3: and Patrick Mahomes because of what they've been able to
Speaker 3: do together. But man, this is this might be right
Speaker 3: behind it. You know, John Harbalamar Jackson is gonna win
Speaker 3: a second MVP this year.
Speaker 1: This is right there. I believe that to be the case.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you can retool and reload pretty quickly in
Speaker 2: the NFL. And again there's there's a lot of household
Speaker 2: names that frankly can't be here next year because of
Speaker 2: the cap numbers. So we're gonna find out who those
Speaker 2: names are going to be very shortly. But you know,
Speaker 2: you mentioned the Lions, and you know they really they
Speaker 2: hit on that, that Golf and Stafford trade. But but
Speaker 2: I just I look at the contributions that they've gotten.
Speaker 2: You mentioned Jamir Gibbs, Sam Laporta, I mean Campbell, they're there,
Speaker 2: their linebacker, I mean Jack. You have guys that are
Speaker 2: contributing immediately. And again, if you bring in a smart
Speaker 2: personnel mind and pair him with Harball, Harball knows his
Speaker 2: tight he knows what he needs to be successful, whether
Speaker 2: that's in free agency or the draft. So if you
Speaker 2: hit on some draft picks, retool this roster and maybe
Speaker 2: get more out of some of the guys who are
Speaker 2: currently on the rostery. I don't know who it's going
Speaker 2: to be, but I venture to say there's some guys
Speaker 2: that are currently on this roster that maybe didn't perform
Speaker 2: or you didn't see their potential this year, You'll see
Speaker 2: it this year, right. Jim Harbaugh's gonna identify some guys
Speaker 2: that he said, you know what, I think that this
Speaker 2: guy could be better. I think he can fit in
Speaker 2: my system, but we got to get more out of him.
Speaker 2: What does he do better? And I don't know who
Speaker 2: those guys are, like I said, but I have a
Speaker 2: feeling that there's some players on this roster that maybe
Speaker 2: didn't make the impact in twenty twenty three, that they're
Speaker 2: going to make in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll say, you know, one that's a free agent
Speaker 3: that we didn't mention, and I think is fair and
Speaker 3: because he doesn't necessarily fit the profile of a Jim
Speaker 3: Harbaugh type. But man, you'd be hard pressed to tell
Speaker 3: me that Gerald Everett wasn't one of the hardest workers
Speaker 3: and one of the biggest effort givers from this past
Speaker 3: season when it did not matter what the score was.
Speaker 3: I'll never forget him for that Raider game when they
Speaker 3: were down and he's out there cracking helmets and fighting
Speaker 3: for extra yards and still yapping at guys and trying
Speaker 3: to get something going with this team. And I think
Speaker 3: we've seen that from him. You put someone one on
Speaker 3: one with Gerald Everett, he's going to break the tackle.
Speaker 3: You're not getting him down, And so I think they're
Speaker 3: you know, that's just to your point that there may
Speaker 3: be players you don't think of on this roster that
Speaker 3: that end up. Isaiah Spiller's a big back. It's a
Speaker 3: big dude, you know, so you know, think about he's
Speaker 3: he's a bigger guy. He's a lot bigger than Austin
Speaker 3: and Joshua. So I think it's you know, that's that's
Speaker 3: another one that comes to mind is here's a legitimate
Speaker 3: two fifteen, two hundred and twenty pound back. You know,
Speaker 3: the clock's in at six feet and that's sort of
Speaker 3: more in the style. So yeah, like you're gonna you're
Speaker 3: gonna carry over a lot of these players.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of the Yeah, I was.
Speaker 2: Gonna say money like saw your or Zion, Like those
Speaker 2: are the guy guys I'm thinking about, Like they have
Speaker 2: an extra gear they got to get to right, and
Speaker 2: I think the gym could probably get that.
Speaker 3: No, that's the whole line play, you know, o line,
Speaker 3: and that'll be the interesting you know, that'll be the
Speaker 3: interesting debate. You know, you're I don't think you're gonna
Speaker 3: get rid of all four those guys, all four of
Speaker 3: those contracts. Maybe you do, but you you can keep one.
Speaker 3: You can restructure, you can figure it out, you know,
Speaker 3: it certainly seems I think about Justin Smith and then
Speaker 3: I look at Joey Bos and I'm like, eh, I
Speaker 3: see that.
Speaker 1: I can see it. And also, let's not.
Speaker 3: Forget I've you know, I feel bad doing it, but
Speaker 3: I've told the story before. I remember standing on the
Speaker 3: sideline at training camp when joint practices Joey Bosa's I
Speaker 3: can't remember who he was running with. Maybe it was
Speaker 3: Kamara or so who did they who do they have
Speaker 3: joint practices with?
Speaker 1: This year? Was it? Uh?
Speaker 2: This year? It was uh?
Speaker 1: It was it New Orleans?
Speaker 2: It was New Orleans, it was New Orleans. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: was New Orleans.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was New Orleans. Or No, No, it wasn't
Speaker 1: it wasn't New Orleans. Yeah it was. It was because Derek.
Speaker 2: Carr was I wanted you to sit with that with
Speaker 2: Derek Carr.
Speaker 3: Right, And I remember Joey ended up. I remember Joey
Speaker 3: ended up. Or it may have been two years ago
Speaker 3: when he ended up covering Kittle, or maybe it was
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 1: No, it's this year.
Speaker 3: He was covering Commar and he just looks up and
Speaker 3: he's like, what am I ef in doing? Like what
Speaker 3: am I even effing? And like, I think we've heard
Speaker 3: that he was never quite comfortable with what was asked
Speaker 3: of him. Yeah, and so there's I think that's something
Speaker 3: to keep in mind with with Joey and and moving
Speaker 3: forward and all those names I rattled off, you know,
Speaker 3: mod Brooks, Alden Smith, Justin Smith and those dudes that
Speaker 3: performed and just think about the guys up at Michigan
Speaker 3: and and how those guys have for all those aiden
Speaker 3: Hutchinson Joey Bosa, Like, come on, I mean we're we're
Speaker 3: shopping in the same aisle on that exactly. So that's
Speaker 3: something I think to keep an eye on. I if
Speaker 3: Joey Bosa stays healthy, it's not even in the conversation.
Speaker 3: It's what's this cap number thirty two? All right, we'll
Speaker 3: figure out how to work around that. Well, we'll figure
Speaker 3: out how to work around that. Let's let's let's sort
Speaker 3: that out, because that guy ain't going anywhere. I know
Speaker 3: the injuries are a concern, but that's a Jim Harbaugh player,
Speaker 3: if you know, just going back to what he had
Speaker 3: in San Francisco and what he's had in Michigan. There's
Speaker 3: always been a pass rusher in the first round or
Speaker 3: second round from Michigan in the draft.
Speaker 2: And man like I think Khalil Macks a harball player too.
Speaker 2: It's just that does does the money work? Right? A
Speaker 2: guy who is a veteran who can play on the
Speaker 2: other side of Tully. Let's say, I don't think you
Speaker 2: can go wrong with Joey or Khalil Heck, it'd be
Speaker 2: great to have them both, but just the cap is
Speaker 2: telling us something else.
Speaker 3: I think the cap would suggest otherwise that it's going
Speaker 3: to be hard to keep both of them. You're probably
Speaker 3: gonna have to pick, would be my guess.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and that's again, and.
Speaker 3: That could mean what can you fetch in a trade?
Speaker 3: You get anything for Khalil in a trade? Maybe can
Speaker 3: you get anything for Joey boson the trade? Yes, even
Speaker 3: with the injuries. Absolutely, I can promise you people are
Speaker 3: going to be lined up to trade for that guy.
Speaker 3: So that's where I guess a little bit of the
Speaker 3: conversation could come in, because you get to get rid
Speaker 3: of more of the dead money if you end up
Speaker 3: with a trade, as opposed to just straight out moving on.
Speaker 2: I want to ask you how weird it was for
Speaker 2: you to watch Tom tell.
Speaker 1: Us go to the Raiders press conference today.
Speaker 3: Funny, it was really funny to see the water that
Speaker 3: said just win baby on it as hilarious. But I'm
Speaker 3: happy for Tom. He's a great guy. He's a great friend,
Speaker 3: great friend of the show that we do. Watched it
Speaker 3: all the time. We talk to us about what we've
Speaker 3: been talking about. Just a really good person that you
Speaker 3: know you can always, you can always, and I guess
Speaker 3: maybe we can help him out a little bit by
Speaker 3: crafting a narrative. But you can always tell the character
Speaker 3: of someone based on how they treat people that can't
Speaker 3: quite elevate them in their professional lives, and Tom, I
Speaker 3: think is a testament to that and all the relationships
Speaker 3: that he had with people on the team. So happy
Speaker 3: for him, family, trust, respect, But still very happy for
Speaker 3: him and happy you know, he gets to stay close
Speaker 3: to home, his son can finish up his final year
Speaker 3: at CDM with with him just being over in Vegas,
Speaker 3: a quick jump away, and in that way, they're they're
Speaker 3: square there.
Speaker 1: So I'm happy for him.
Speaker 3: But yeah, sweep them and let them win all the
Speaker 3: year now and then meet him in the playoffs and
Speaker 3: win a third time, no.
Speaker 2: Doubt, no doubt. Yeah, Tom's all class.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And it's just football, you know, It's just football, and
Speaker 2: that's the business people people bounce around all the time.
Speaker 2: And I'm glad that he laid it on his feet.
Speaker 2: And it's going to just add more injury to the division.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: I mean, you have Antonio Piers, a young and upcoming
Speaker 2: coach who isn't in the same class as as a
Speaker 2: paytent or a hardball or a read. But you never
Speaker 2: know what he can become. And you know there they
Speaker 2: may be a quarterback away. Their defense played really well
Speaker 2: down the stretch. We know that.
Speaker 3: It's weird, though, Chris, isn't it. It is weird that
Speaker 3: Raiders hung a sixty three on the Chargers and they
Speaker 3: hire Time and the Dolphins scored on every possession in
Speaker 3: the opening week against Brandon and had like two hundred
Speaker 3: yards of a half for Tyreek Hill and they hire
Speaker 3: him as their DC.
Speaker 2: It's like, are they gonna hire him?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, They're gonna hire him. Yeah. Wow, wow, it
Speaker 1: is It is funny.
Speaker 2: It is funny.
Speaker 1: This is weird.
Speaker 2: It's but whatever, and this is man, this is just January.
Speaker 2: It's gonna get weirder. There's a lot more openings, free
Speaker 2: agency trades. I mean, I can't wait for all of it.
Speaker 2: The Combine. We're gonna be cooking at the combine. Man,
Speaker 2: We're gonna be cooking at the combin. It's gonna be
Speaker 2: a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be fun. It's gonna be a fun combine trip.
Speaker 3: We'll be doing it from there.
Speaker 2: I think that.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think next week we're gonna have a lot of
Speaker 2: a lot of fun stuff and sore for you guys
Speaker 2: once we kind of get the the press conference stuff
Speaker 2: all shaped out and hopefully talk to a lot of
Speaker 2: people next week about a new day in Los Angeles
Speaker 2: for the Chargers. Jim Harball is the head coach and
Speaker 2: we're just getting started. When it comes to content, I'm
Speaker 2: glad that we were able to do this money. If
Speaker 2: you're listening to this on Wednesday night, congratulations you're one
Speaker 2: of the first few to do so, because I think
Speaker 2: this thing is going up right away.
Speaker 1: Looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: All right, guys for money, I'm Chris. This has been
Speaker 2: Charged Weekly. We'll see you next time.