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AFC West Full Division Preview 2026 · Best of the NFL Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Let's talk AFC West football, shall we. I'm GPG or
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Game Preview guy. If you're not into the whole brevity thing,
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  Speaker 1: here with a breakdown of all the moves teams in
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  Speaker 1: the division made ahead of twenty twenty six. Don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't ai as intelligent as it claims to be.
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  Speaker 1: I guarantee it doesn't understand Lebowski. But we're not here
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the dude. Denver, the reigning champs, Sean Payton,
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  Speaker 1: Bownicks and a ferocious defense all back with the Penguin
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  Speaker 1: added to their offense, so they don't expect to drop off.
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  Speaker 1: Chargers feel like they have the d and if Justin
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  Speaker 1: Herbert gets a full year with their starting tackles, new
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  Speaker 1: OC Mike McDaniel could really work some magic. Patrick mahomes
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  Speaker 1: back behind center for KC. Can they revert to dynasty
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  Speaker 1: form and Vegas has to decide if number one overall
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  Speaker 1: pick Fernando Mendoza is ready right away. If not, Captain
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  Speaker 1: Kirk gets to guide them until he's ready. Football football,
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas Raiders three and fourteen and twenty twenty five got.
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  Speaker 2: A practice with the art of being calm best.
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  Speaker 1: Too good enough for the first overall pick at least
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  Speaker 1: and a new head coach. So let some light shine
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  Speaker 1: on the black hole, won't you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Come on?
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  Speaker 4: Man?
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  Speaker 1: Who Pete Carroll Gino Smith experiment lasted one year? Done
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  Speaker 1: that time, big boy yup Income's former Seattle o ce
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  Speaker 1: Clint Kubiak, along with two new quarterbacks to choose from
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  Speaker 1: the higher profile of the two, the number one overall
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  Speaker 1: pick in the draft. Fernando Mendoza of.
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  Speaker 5: Watching NFL football on Sundays. So I watched a lot
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  Speaker 5: of coach Kubiak, and then when I was drafted a
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  Speaker 5: guy here, I was able to get the playbook. However,
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  Speaker 5: going now to be in the facility and having access
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  Speaker 5: to the film and seeing the application, seeing Kirk Cousins
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  Speaker 5: do a back in Minnesota, seeing Sam Darnold do last
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  Speaker 5: year in Seattle, see the application and what it's, how
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  Speaker 5: it's supposed to be executed, and what it's done at
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  Speaker 5: a high level, is really beneficial for my development.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you go pulling in JaMarcus now? If they want
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  Speaker 1: to let him watch, they can also let Kirk captain
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  Speaker 1: the ship. Do you like that? The Cousin signing has
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  Speaker 1: lots of good years on paper to the end zone day,
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  Speaker 1: but fel But hasn't ever taken his team to place
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  Speaker 1: as other men have gone before, in this case, deep
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  Speaker 1: into the playoffs. Cousins has just tied Johnny Unitas for
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  Speaker 1: seventeenth all time in NFL history with his two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and ninetieth career touchdown, past Kubiak, the second former Hawks
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  Speaker 1: coach in a row to take over in Vegas thirty
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  Speaker 1: plus years younger. So you're not going to see him
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  Speaker 1: at the penny slots at one of those old school joints.
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  Speaker 6: A great challenge, Yeah, there have been, There have been
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  Speaker 6: plenty of other coaches, but but why not us? Why
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  Speaker 6: not this staff? You know, why not this group of players?
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  Speaker 6: So if you look at it, if you look at
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  Speaker 6: it in a lens of you know, there's a history
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  Speaker 6: of some you know, guys that are in and out
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  Speaker 6: of here pretty quick.
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  Speaker 1: I look at it. You know what, A great challenge
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  Speaker 1: can't go anywhere? Butt up.
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  Speaker 2: Smith hands it to Jenny in the end zone, and
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  Speaker 2: as a rock who might have him in.
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  Speaker 1: The end zone, their offense last in scoring and yards
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  Speaker 1: per game, batt it.
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  Speaker 2: Into the secondary, picks up at the five.
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  Speaker 1: So the bar is low.
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  Speaker 2: Bit sacks another one. Fuck a collapsed man.
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  Speaker 1: He's coming down like most tavern level low Mendoza and
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  Speaker 1: or cousins aren't trying to fill side show Bob's sized shoes.
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  Speaker 7: Other beautiful interception of Geno Smith.
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  Speaker 1: Gino led the NFL in interceptions with seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: Hopped up in the air intercepted.
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  Speaker 1: They better hope their line gives whoever is back there
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  Speaker 1: more time than it gave Smith.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's rushed in down Ego.
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  Speaker 1: Vegas quarterbacks took sixty four sacks, most in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: You know gets away and how he's sacked at twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Left tackle Colton Miller missed most of the year. Left
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  Speaker 1: tackle Stone Forsyth fourteen sacks allowed.
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  Speaker 4: It comes Bonito and Benito's gott Gino and down Smith.
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  Speaker 1: Goes right tackle DJ Glaze should stick to scratching and
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  Speaker 1: mixing if he's not gonna block. Better gave up twelve
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  Speaker 1: and a half sacks.
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  Speaker 2: Man oh Man and Nick Benito get in their fast.
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  Speaker 1: This is why they spent big the land former Ravens
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  Speaker 1: center Tyler Linderbaum. But Glaze returns and he needs to rebound.
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  Speaker 1: Miller hopefully rebounds from his injury. They also drafted guard
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  Speaker 1: Trey Zoon in the third round, so they have some options.
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  Speaker 1: Hoping the new group can open up more lanes too.
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  Speaker 7: With today Come on maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Who Ashton Genty only averaged three point seven to carry.
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  Speaker 2: Ow's the show that Holy cow, he's a little bowling
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  Speaker 2: ball bo.
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  Speaker 1: He was hit within a yard of the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 1: Does it on fifty four percent of his attempts, the
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  Speaker 1: third highest rate among running backs with at least one
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  Speaker 1: hundred carries. He did score ten total times, though five
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  Speaker 1: on the ground with nine and seventy five yards.
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  Speaker 8: The big man has got the sway in new side.
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  Speaker 1: Pranks of joy, and he hauled in fifty five passes.
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  Speaker 9: Fash Genty his first career receiving touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: For over three hundred and forty receiving yards.
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  Speaker 2: Gedye, the five breaks a cock.
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  Speaker 1: That's the third Genty, Mendoza, Genty, brock Bowers. Those are
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  Speaker 1: pretty nice building blocks in theory anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Has Digjety is first Caier star.
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  Speaker 1: Bowers only got in twelve games.
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  Speaker 7: What's the five touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Close to seven hundred yards and sevent t d's when
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  Speaker 1: he played.
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  Speaker 7: Mabe the Tots.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, Bowers.
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  Speaker 1: Fellow tight end Michael Mayer chipped in three hundred plus
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  Speaker 1: yards and he fall Michael Mayer his first touchdown at
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  Speaker 1: two years. Rookie Jack Beash two hundred twenty plus yards
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  Speaker 1: five starts. The only wide out to really leave a
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  Speaker 1: mark was Trey Tucker close to seven hundred yards five
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  Speaker 1: scores lots to the end.
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  Speaker 4: Zone open, That is Tucker underneath it call.
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  Speaker 1: Touchdown later picked up Jalen Naylor. He had some good
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: games for the Vikings. Comes off a career high four
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty four yards scored four times. No vegas
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  Speaker 1: Is defense also has lots of ground to make up
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  Speaker 1: ride open, so plenty of new faces being plugged in
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  Speaker 1: there too.
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  Speaker 7: The throb end zone touchdown gave.
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  Speaker 1: Up twenty five points per game. Only two teams worse
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  Speaker 1: on third down sun touchdown.
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  Speaker 7: They were at.
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  Speaker 1: Least middle of the pack in yards per game allowed
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  Speaker 1: and in the red zone come.
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  Speaker 7: On, well, come on, get up. Sack strips that up.
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  Speaker 1: But their secondary gave up the third highest completion percentage.
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  Speaker 2: Now lamb wide open on the right side of the
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  Speaker 2: end zone.
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  Speaker 1: They allowed a ninety six rating to quarterback.
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  Speaker 7: Rose it to the near side Guy down.
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  Speaker 1: Only two pass rushes produced a lower pressure rate.
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  Speaker 2: Takes a shutout field, two wide open.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty seven sacks, amid totals.
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  Speaker 3: Back to throw, steps up, fires over the middle.
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  Speaker 7: And it's caught.
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  Speaker 1: Ten of those were mad max jobs. Com com Crosby
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  Speaker 1: with twenty eight tackles for loss escaping to.
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  Speaker 3: The Crosby's chatter, he kept on Kelly.
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  Speaker 4: He had to run all the way from the wind
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  Speaker 4: to the Mendola Bay to make that sad.
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  Speaker 1: But that's how you did second most in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: I I've told you what, He's a monster. Wasn't very
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  Speaker 1: nice butt and the reason the Raiders were the second
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  Speaker 1: artist team to run.
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  Speaker 7: On I'm got to go make a play.
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  Speaker 1: Mall held ball carriers to three nine per attempt.
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  Speaker 4: The hand up through the medal.
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: Revamped their linebacker room. They let Devin White walk. One
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  Speaker 1: hundred seventy three tackles is a lot of tackles. Walter
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  Speaker 1: third most last year, third most solo tackles two five time.
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  Speaker 1: Also bid a dude a fellow VET linebacker a Landon
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  Speaker 1: Roberts who took down ninety dudes.
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  Speaker 3: On left side. Barkley couldn't get away from e Landon Roberts.
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  Speaker 1: Jamal Adams also gone played a lot at the second
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  Speaker 1: level for them, forty five tackles seventeen games.
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  Speaker 3: Then they is sacked by Adams.
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  Speaker 1: Taking their spot. Nakobe Dean four sacks, fifty five tackles
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  Speaker 1: and ten games for Philly, just needs to stay healthy.
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  Speaker 1: Has missed seven plus games two of the last three years.
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  Speaker 2: He fumbles the football.
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  Speaker 1: I think Beagles have a hill line up next to
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  Speaker 1: newcomer kway Walker another one hundred plus tackle year last year,
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  Speaker 1: four straight and four years in the NFL career high
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  Speaker 1: one twenty eight and twenty twenty five two and a
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  Speaker 1: half sacks for the second year in a row.
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  Speaker 4: Who is sacked Parsons walks a gattle which Gray.
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  Speaker 1: Walker Crosby's new mate off the edge. Quitty pay managed
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  Speaker 1: four bags for the Colts in twenty twenty five, was
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  Speaker 1: an eight sack guy the previous two years.
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  Speaker 3: Sad takes a sack.
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  Speaker 1: They still have defensive tackle Adam Butler fifty tackles from
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  Speaker 1: his spot, only one sack.
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  Speaker 4: It takes too much fun and if for the sack
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  Speaker 4: comes Adam Butler.
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  Speaker 1: Defensive tackle Jonah Laulu, on the other hand, four quarterback
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  Speaker 1: takedowns in his second year on the job, first as starter.
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  Speaker 4: Fourth sack of the season for Jonah La Lulu.
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  Speaker 1: Defensive tackle Thomas Booker, also a starter for the first time,
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  Speaker 1: Forty four tackles, seven QB hits and five passes defense.
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  Speaker 3: Here's Barkley is pulled down in the backfield. Thomas Booker.
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  Speaker 1: Malcolm Cootz four and a half bags. He played all
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  Speaker 1: seventeen games. They expected more from him.
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  Speaker 3: Coot's coming in from that side. You're right, he just
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  Speaker 3: beats Campbell.
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  Speaker 1: Same is true of Tyree Wilson, only four sacks rated him.
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  Speaker 3: Wilson sacks of it.
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  Speaker 7: It's a safety.
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  Speaker 1: Gave his stall to Kei Ron Crawford, who they picked
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  Speaker 1: up in the third round.
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  Speaker 8: Was very late the football as a basketball player, ends
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  Speaker 8: up spending some time developing over the last couple of
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  Speaker 8: years opposite of Keldrick Falk and then ended up out
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  Speaker 8: producing him as a pass rusher this year. Cd also
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  Speaker 8: one who went down to the Senior Bowl. Had a
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  Speaker 8: nice showing and helped him get into the third round.
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  Speaker 1: The brightest spot in the back corner Darien Porter, who
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  Speaker 1: held his targets to a sub ninety right as a rookie, the.
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  Speaker 3: Rookie Darien Porter getting his hand on it.
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  Speaker 1: He was one of two Raiders DB's to hold it
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  Speaker 1: down to a sub ninety rate. Eric Stokes the other.
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  Speaker 4: Eric Stokes, who has been sensational on the back end
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  Speaker 4: of the defense.
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  Speaker 1: Corner Cayu Blue Kelly allowed four touchdowns, isn't coming back.
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  Speaker 1: He did pick off three passes.
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  Speaker 7: I picked off of the forty five gordline.
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  Speaker 3: It's Kelly again.
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  Speaker 1: They have Tarn Johnson now longtime bill, longtime stud nickel
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  Speaker 1: corner Taron Johnson, one of the elite Nichols in the NFL.
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  Speaker 7: Broke it up and.
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  Speaker 1: They drafted corner Trade and Stukes in the second round.
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  Speaker 8: Someone that can play in the nickel, someone can play
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  Speaker 8: as that high free safety, and some teams even thought
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  Speaker 8: he could kick outside and play corner. He got hurt previously.
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  Speaker 8: That's why he's a six year player.
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  Speaker 3: In twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 8: Missed the first four games, but man, when you watched him,
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  Speaker 8: he was.
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  Speaker 1: Impressive because the versatility of ball skills safeties. Jeremy Chin
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  Speaker 1: made up for his poor play versus the pass by
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  Speaker 1: making over one hundred tackles.
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  Speaker 4: And right there to stop Harvey for a short losses.
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  Speaker 4: Jeremy Chin.
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  Speaker 1: Safety Isaiah Paulamu allowed a team high five tds and
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  Speaker 1: a right close to one twenty, but did make ninety
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  Speaker 1: two tackles and picked off two passes. Change at kicker
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Carlson had a rough go of it, missed five
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  Speaker 1: of his twenty seven field goal tries, so they signed
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: Matt Gay missed six field goals for Washington. Started the
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  Speaker 1: year with San Francisco, so not coming off a great
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  Speaker 1: year either. This is what it all looks like on
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  Speaker 1: paper on your screen. In this case, Stu and Johnson
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: the new guys in the dB room who are in
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  Speaker 1: line to see significant snap counts. The rest of the
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  Speaker 1: starters are returning raiders who have to come together Beatles
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  Speaker 1: style to improve their play versus the past three new
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  Speaker 1: starters expected with their front seven pay for Wilson off
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  Speaker 1: the edge, Crawford part of the rotation as well. Walker
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  Speaker 1: and Dean take over the inside linebacker jobs previously held
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  Speaker 1: by White and Roberts, Cousins and Mendoza battling for the
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  Speaker 1: right to replace Gino, Genti, Naylor, Beash, Tucker, Bowers, and Mayer.
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  Speaker 1: The guys that are expected to make plays and give
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  Speaker 1: their o face a much needed boost. Raiders strength of
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  Speaker 1: schedule based on their opponents twenty twenty six expected win
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  Speaker 1: totals middle of the pack. The Jahwas who live out
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: in the desert, have the Raiders as a five to
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  Speaker 1: six win team. What's an optimistic take on their season
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  Speaker 1: with the schedule they face. Start off with a win
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  Speaker 1: over Miami. Take the Saints and maybe the Chiefs aren't
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  Speaker 1: really any better than they were last year. Beat them
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  Speaker 1: on the strip. The Jets and their old quarterbacks seem beatable.
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  Speaker 1: Brown's not expected to be much better, so a win there.
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  Speaker 1: This is an optimistic view, So an upset over the
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  Speaker 1: Chargers get Dubs versus Tennessee and Arizona for eight wins
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  Speaker 1: under the new regime. That would provide hope that things
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: are headed in the right direction. The game preview guy
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  Speaker 1: Roulette wheel went round and round and the little ball
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  Speaker 1: landed on the south side of six wins. Not sure
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  Speaker 1: that defense will be good enough to take pressure off
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  Speaker 1: the offense, which should be better under Kubiak. But their
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  Speaker 1: division opponents plus New England Buffalo, the Rams, Niners Seahawks,
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  Speaker 1: makes eleven games alone. They will play as underdogs. Denver
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  Speaker 1: Broncos reigning AFC West champs after winning fourteen games in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: The Mile High City is alive.
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  Speaker 1: Made it to the doorstep of the big Dance. Now
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  Speaker 1: it's time to see if they're ready to make it in.
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  Speaker 7: Oh. We work war runners, we work barbners.
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  Speaker 1: Equipped with a defense plenty worthy of Orange Crush membership.
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  Speaker 7: Everything you've got right, I think you've got.
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  Speaker 1: Going on an offensive line harder to get past than
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  Speaker 1: the wall around city Walk in South Park.
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  Speaker 3: Touch it is.
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  Speaker 1: Denver just needs the players behind that wall to put
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  Speaker 1: up a few more points a game and they'd be
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  Speaker 1: as super Bowl worthy as any team in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Not that they weren't. Last year. There was progress. Twenty
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: three points per game isn't terrible.
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  Speaker 4: You talk about a clutch drive, But just like I said,
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  Speaker 4: we've seen it before.
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  Speaker 1: This year they were top ten good on third down
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  Speaker 1: and in yards per game to.
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  Speaker 4: The corner of the Enzo pass to files Touchdow.
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  Speaker 1: Denver didn't the Mongolians tear that wall down fairly easily.
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  Speaker 7: I want a measurement. I want a measurement justice.
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  Speaker 1: No matter Sean Payton is allowing oc Davis Webb to
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  Speaker 1: you know, be in oc and actually call the I
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  Speaker 1: want to go forth, which my best fourth down call
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  Speaker 1: is that bow Nicks's quarterback comes off a thirty TV campaign.
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  Speaker 2: Who's on the run past. That's the goal line talk
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  Speaker 2: touchdown Denver, Cortland.
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  Speaker 1: Sutton twenty five with his arm twenty five plus both
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  Speaker 1: years in the show's fall.
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  Speaker 7: He's got a white open receiver Harvey at the goal
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  Speaker 7: line touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Denver, over two hundred and thirty one yards per game
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  Speaker 1: last season.
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  Speaker 3: Mixed a deep drop, looks left, throws the ball. He's
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  Speaker 3: got Pat Bryant in the corners.
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  Speaker 7: The Jackson touchdown Denver.
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  Speaker 1: The bro Man also punched in five tds down low
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  Speaker 1: with over three hundred and fifty rush yards.
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  Speaker 2: To the five to the goal line.
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  Speaker 7: Bow Knicks into the n zone.
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  Speaker 1: He was good. The offense was good, but to be
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  Speaker 1: great need to be more consistent.
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  Speaker 7: Both loads it up, floats on.
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  Speaker 3: He's got John from the touch.
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  Speaker 1: Especially when you have a line like.
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  Speaker 7: Theirs, God keep them going. I can move off all day.
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  Speaker 1: Not one guy on their O line with four sacks.
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  Speaker 9: Allowed, most one towards the end, open receiver catch into
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  Speaker 9: the hands out touchdown Denver.
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  Speaker 7: That is Cartland Sutton.
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  Speaker 1: Their line only blamed for sixteen of the twenty three
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  Speaker 1: sacks they took all the year.
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  Speaker 3: Have to throw steps up, fires over the middle.
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  Speaker 1: Pat It's taught touchdown Denver if you was taken in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. Even though Nicks led the NFL in pass attempts.
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  Speaker 1: Remarkable combo oh Nick.
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  Speaker 2: Finds his wide out Nay Atkins and on the right
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  Speaker 2: sideline and he strolls into the end zone.
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  Speaker 1: Four touchdown, same five dudes, all returned to Garrett Balls,
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  Speaker 1: Mike mcglinchy taking care of business at tackle, Ben Powers
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  Speaker 1: Quinn miners at guard, Luke Wattenberg snapping in a third
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  Speaker 1: lowest pressure rate allowed, and he questions.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: To the answer taught Cortland Sutton.
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  Speaker 1: Portland Sutton the clear number one still when he.
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  Speaker 3: Throws rows a ball for Sutton, who goes up and
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  Speaker 3: makes the catch.
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  Speaker 1: The vet with his second one thousand yard year in
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  Speaker 1: a row. Seven tds touchdown Cortland Sutton. He's found his
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  Speaker 1: own seven to eight times the last two years.
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  Speaker 3: Perfectly placed into the arms of Portland Sunon.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: They hope adding a penguin will take them to a
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: whole nother level Eugene Struther style. Jalen waddles in off
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  Speaker 1: a nine hundred and ten yard sixty d year.
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  Speaker 3: Pattle for the touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Troy Franklin cracked seven hundred yards in a second year
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  Speaker 1: half dozen touchdowns.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: For Big Three.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: No other wideouts hit four hundred yards. Pat Bryant, looking
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: to build off a three hundred and seventy eight yard
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: rookie year.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: First touchdowns seas a beauty guy.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: You guys there great heads too.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Marvin Mims three twenty two.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: That is Marvin Mims fifty two yards Stidham to Mimes.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: But he also led the NFL in punt return yards.
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: Marvin in trouble.
• 17:53
  Speaker 9: Steps out of a tackle, and Harry got marvin'sas plaster
• 17:56
  Speaker 9: Nason Line twenty.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Fifteenth ten past.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: At tight end Adam Troutman one hundred and ninety five yards.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: His blocking talents earn him lots of snaps. Evan Ingram
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: is there to catch passes fifty catches, four hundred and
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: sixty one yards close.
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: Batra Ara's not a loose stuft down the tackle inside
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: the Tim Man.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: I want to see JK. Dobbins make fifteen plus starts
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: in a season. He's been in the NFL six years
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: eleven the most he's logged nine last year over seven
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: hundred yards at five per clip.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Regarding five. R J.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Harvey benefited by getting extra reps. What's the ball into
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: the belly of Harvey in the whole touchdown walkers? How
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: about twelve total scores, three hundred and fifty plus receiving yards,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: five air TVs Bob Pumps.
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: Walks throws back of uzo, touchdown tim for R J.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Harvey seven down low to the touch to with five
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: hundred and forty rush yards and his debut season in
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: the big.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Leagues boss's right side.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Harvey into the game, the offense with room to level
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: up their d just hoping for more of the same. Okay, Well,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: if we were looking at the screen on one of
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: those old stand up video games, d E. N would
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: be listed over and over again in the top ten
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: on the defensive side.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Steff Farms defender.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: But he can't get away with an ass mixed in
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: there somewhere. I'm sure they don't give noble.
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: It doesn't matter, don't they'll get noble.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: They held teams to eighteen points per game, third fewest.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Takes ahead and ball knocked free and I done it.
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: Let's go off.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: A second on third down and yards per game.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Look at him diving in front.
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: There's a reason why he was Defensive Player of the
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: Year last year that no.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Team stingier in the red zone. Secondary held quarterbacks to
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: a seventy eight rating intercepting Jake one McMillan just one
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: hundred and eighty seven yards per game, second lowest completion
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: percentage allowed.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Forty five yard touchdown return.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: And yards per attempt allowed.
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: I believe in our pp is Wagos, Dervid week.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: And holy pass rush Batman time. Now it breaks down
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: I second second highest pressure rates away.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: The second.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Roos w sixty eight trips to QB cribs ten plus
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: more than any other team.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Risia for behind by Nick Benito.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: He's so pretty is pretty good?
• 20:43
  Speaker 9: Alan did as he throws, the ball is free, it
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: bounces around and I think covered by the Broncos.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Nick Bonito with fourteen sacks to lead the team.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: They actually got to get rid of it. Hit ball out,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: ball out.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: That's thirteen plus back to back years. Ahead of his
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: fifth season, here comes.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Bonito and Benito's gotten Gino and down Smith.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Boats Miles Garrett led the NFL in sacks with twenty three.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: He had thirty nine QB hits, second to Zach Allen.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: Smith down he goes hit the thirty two yard line.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: That pressure again. Allen and Benito Converge.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Hit the passer a whopping forty seven times as a
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: defensive end in a three four defense. I can't overstate
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: how beast that is.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: And that's the second sack today by the Broncos. Zach
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Allen gets this one.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: He sealed the deal seven times. Comes off a first
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: team All Pro seventh year.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Stroud looking pocket collapsing.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: He's in trouble and.
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: I got him.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: They have four guys coming off seven plus sax seasons.
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: If it's what he's gonna be, sack now and treble
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: Pierre Lets, he's gonna be sack Ark, is gonna be
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: spyroun and grabbed at midfield.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: That's five sacks.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Love to the Bronco.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: John Franklin Myers no longer in mix. Seven and a
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: half sacks from the inside last year.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: A sack by John Franklin Myers.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Still loaded, though Jonathan Cooper eight plus sacks three years
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: in a row, tuned into the o Cho last year,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: his fifth in the NFL. But Jonathan Cooper the first
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: one then to bring him down in the backfield once more.
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: And that will surely do it.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: They had four other guys who racked the quarterback at
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: least four times.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Three l pro coost School at the White Jersey.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Second nose tackle Malcolm Roach in the pot with a
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: career high four to twelve games, two starts.
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: It's alsfect.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Andrea Tillman with four coming off the bench in his
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: second year after a five sacked rookie year. He's like
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: a really good sixth man.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: In hoops Tilman and a loss of nine.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Even their corners shop Jaquan Millon four bags the dfense
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: along with two iron t's and a low seventies rate versus.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: The pass, Oh baby, they con according to.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: League corner Riley Moss a sub ninety rate, leading the
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: NFL with nineteen passes defensed in his third year of works.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: The middle intercepted.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: That's boss kind of buried the cornerback lead here.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: May he loads it up home r ball down the
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: east sideline.
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: That is not for twenty years.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: The pass or tan the second a low seventies rate, that's.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: What I expect flu every day, not sometimes all the time.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Just another ho home stellar year from the human eraser.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Immediately not half his feet A big hit by passer.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Tan Zadei Baron allowed a triple digit rate to quarterbacks
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: as a rookie did come up with his first pick.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: They think he's a star in waiting.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Rockos able to take it away with Jade Baron.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: All three of their safeties tough on quarterbacks as well.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Talanoa Hufunga a hit in his first year in Orange,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: over one hundred tackles while holding his targets to a
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: low eighties rate. Eleven passes knocked down and.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: The way they go and Smith's gonna get sacked worst
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: of all outcomes.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Brandon Jones not one touchdown allowed in his fourteen games
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: play the low fifties rate.
• 24:22
  Speaker 9: It may bring five hit if he throws, deflected it
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: in intercepted, it gets picked off on the play.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Brandon Jones on the ricochet.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: And Denver's defense the second hardest team to run on.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: There were no weaknesses to try and take advantage of.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Alex Singleton back to his tackle monster ways one thirty
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: five last year, one twenty plus and five of the
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: last six.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: He's down for a loss, with Alex Singleton there to
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: make the play.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Justin Sternad played his way into a new contract four
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: and a half sacks, close to sixty tackle, getting more
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: playing time due to green Law's absence, and they're happy
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: with will Lutz's toe perfect on extra points twenty eight
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: to thirty two one field goal attempts.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: And denverst over to the FC championship.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Did very little changed with that defense, no need for
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: even a nip and a tuck secondary Hufunga and Jones
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: at safety, McMillan PS two, Moss Baron at corner, still
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Franklin Myers the only loss to the front seven Alan Jones,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Roach mucking it up on the inside, Cooper, Ellis, Bonito,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Tellman off the edges, Sternod and Singleton handling inside linebacking duties.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Waddle the one big change on offense. Didn't lose anyone though,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Joins Sutton, Franklin, Mems Bryant, Little Jordan Humphrey at wide receiver,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: the troutman Ingram Duo at tight end, still Dobbins and
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Harvey at running back, Nicks at quarterback. Denver probably the
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: team that tinkered the least with its roster this offseason.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: They're twenty twenty six. I could strength the schedule isn't
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: overly hard either.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: That's when you.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Average their opponents expected win totals out. Here's who they play.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Let's play the ceiling game, adjusting them to a ten
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: win type team. They beat Jacksonville at home, the Hawks
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: since it's in Denver, Arizona down the Chiefs at home,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: take Carolina, Vegas, Pittsburgh, Miami. The Jets clean Vegas up,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: defeat Buffalo since it's a home game, and finish with
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: wins over New England and the Chargers. That's thirteen wins.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: And if you want to argue, they can sweep Kansas
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: City and it's more like a fourteen win ceiling Who
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: could argue? I can't see great out of this bag,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: but I see them getting to ten Doves. Defense is
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: still elite and Penguins thrive in cold climates.
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: Right as the hell of an opportunity, the hell of opportunity.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: We are, Kansas City Chiefs twenty twenty five. Well, remember
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: that Citizen Kane song. I've seen better days. I've been
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the star of many plays. I've seen better days in
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: the bottom drops out. That was Chiefs football last season.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I read more see you can tell it's AI because
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: it mistook Citizen Kane and Citizen King Andy Reid. Patrick Mahomes,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Vince Lombardi, Bart Star nineteen sixty eight, Chuck
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: nol Terry Bradshaw nineteen eighty.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: We're going We're right back on it. We're right back
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: on it.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Somebody shot Jr. And your dynasty ended.
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: And we're gonna stay aggressing. We're going to stay aggressing
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: the game.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Let's go twenty one points per game.
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: The ball off of his hand, right hand and shoulder
• 27:32
  Speaker 9: and into the arms of Andrew mccooba.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Twentieth in yards per game over the air. That picked
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: up like to be where to dart twenty second on
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: third down.
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: It's knocked out and and jump play.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: A far cry from what their offense was producing at
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: its peak, Shouter, And it's been two straight years of
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: subpar offensive output.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: So the Chiefs turn it over for a second consecutive possession.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes twenty two touchdowns touchdowns, a career low, a
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: sub ninety rate.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: All night, dominate everything opportunity.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Career low completed sixty two percent of his passes. Those
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: fall to his second Guess what career low? His O
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: line has a first team All Pro at center and
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Creed Humphrey.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: God, that's a good second half.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: How about a minute?
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Cut it up man Josh Simmons looked solid as a
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: rookie left tackle when healthy.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Touchdown He's dot was wild ten days running the football, but.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: He was one of three starters that spent multiple games hurt.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Casey gave up forty seven sacks. Mahomes took thirty four
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: in his fourteen games, second most times he's been dumped
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: in a single season.
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: That will be sacked back at the eleven yard.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: They finally cut ties the laundry king right tackle Juwan
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Taylor won't be lined up next to Mahomes anymore. The
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: projected starting five All Chiefs last year. Jalen Moore expected
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: to replace Taylor at right tackle. He made six starts
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: last season and gave up three and a half sacks,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: which was tied for the most on the team. Even
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: though the rest of that group played roughly two hundred
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: more snaps, none of them allowed Mahomes to get dropped
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: four times. President of the SWIFTYE Fan Club, Travis Kelcey.
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: We'll get up on some point over.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Eight hundred and fifty yards find so on.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: W Outen Kelfy Travis Kelsey.
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: Touchdown five tds.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: I know he's at the end of the road.
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: More we got we all keep him doing it, though, and.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: He's had much better years.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Such the Chiefs all time touchdown Rucker.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: But not a lot of tight ends are good for
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: those kind of digits.
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: Three miles an hour New York Movie fifteen.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Maybe give Rashi Rice a full year and he should
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: be an eleven hundred plus yard double digit TD guy.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Touchdown five hundred seventy one yards. Really five tds in
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: just eight games last year.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Todd left side Rice angling touchdown.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Five hundred and thirty two yards for xavier' worthy.
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: It's a block he gets one now two.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Turning on the.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Speed, Taekwon Thornton, the deep threat over four hundred yards
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: on just nineteen catches mass is.
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: Todd Taekwon Thornton touchdown.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: They go forth without Hollywood Brown gave him close to
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: six hundred yards and five tds tot touchdown. Could we
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: see a new and improved k C Rush attack? Biggest
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: ad of the off season was signing Kenneth Walker off
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: his Super Bowl MVP performance went for over one thousand
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: yards during the regular season, nine hundred plus yards in
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: three of his four years.
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: By Kay is so good. He's got the stop start,
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: but his feet are always moving.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: He takes over the void left by Isaiah Pacheco Casey
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: starter most games last year over four hundred yards under
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: four yards per carry.
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: So protect what the touchdown?
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: So was Kareem Hunt, who's also gone. He led the
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: team with over six hundred yards and eight ds.
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: Touchdown. It's a lucy.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Offense in the end, has some spleaning to.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Do good cut what what I'm here to go?
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: And improving to do with Walker being the only new part.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Why the gods to right by the way to get
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: away chase.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: To their defense. The primary reason they stayed close in
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: so many games, held teams to nineteen a game, the
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: tenth fewest yards per game allowed d and eighth best
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: inside the.
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: Twenty defense pitching a shutout here.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: The secondary was the strength held quarterbacks to an eighty
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: nine rating, a nice low six to seven attempt That's
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: a good thing in this case, fewer than two hundred
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: yards per game, giving up only eighteen passing touchdowns allowed.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: That's top five good. They head into twenty twenty six
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: without their top two to twenty twenty five corners, though
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: corner Jalen Watson two sacks two interceptions didn't allow a
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: single touchdown.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: That accepted by Jolen Watson.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: And of course they traded Trent McDuffie to LA.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: This is a pick going the other way and it's McDuffie.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Which is why they felt compelled to trade up in
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: the first round to get corner. Monsieur Delaine.
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: I remember when you go back to when McDuffie was
• 32:37
  Speaker 8: coming out.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: It's like he's a perfect player.
• 32:38
  Speaker 8: He just doesn't have that rare size and length McDuffie.
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: We know what he's become. I see some similarities here.
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: He is always in phase, very sticky in man coverage.
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: You referenced this game against Clemson CD. You couldn't slip
• 32:49
  Speaker 8: a piece of paper between.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Him and the receivers in that game.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: He was out.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Stanley joins youngster Chris Rowland. Wallace eleven games, only two starts,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: but came up with.
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: Pick that's intercepting nor A Moss.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Cornerback Christian Fulton only played eight games, but a low
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: eighties rate and six passes defense.
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: Christian Fulton comes up from the secondary to knock them down.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Liked what they saw from corner Noel Williams. Only five
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: starts yet seven passes defensed in a mid seventies rate.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Stroud in the middle.
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: It is nearly and maybe intercepted. I'm thinking hit the
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: ground did hit the ground? Ain't complete.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: They also have a new safety in a lowhi Gilman
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: nine passes knocked down ninety raps between Baltimore and LA
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: last year.
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: Hello Gilman and mc bill picked up.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: He takes Brian Cook's spot, gave them eighty five tackles,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: though knocked down six passes.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: Nice job breaking it up by Cook.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Tamari Connor tackled one hundred and seventeen dudes, two of
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: them quarterbacks.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: WS go the time, but look at this.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Connor comes up their backside. Did not get a ton
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: of help from their front. Twenty second in sacks, nineteenth
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: in pressure rate, and they blitzed more than your average
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: bear right over.
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: The defender's head.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, anybody Chris Jones eight up seven Pickinnick
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Baskets led the team in sacks and quarterback hits.
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: Every game name every game mean much more.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: George of the Jungle car loftis their only other threat.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: And na back at the seven yard line, so what
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: is he going to do?
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: The Smurf's next Carl loftis only six sacks, but twenty
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: three quarterback hits isn't bad. But the rest of their
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: front didn't do much sack wise, so they used their
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: other first rounder on defensive tackle, Peter Woods.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: The quickness is what you're buying here.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Some of the comparisons were to Byron Murphy.
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: I think Byron Murphy's a little stronger, less stouter, but
• 34:34
  Speaker 8: the similarity and that that quickness and they're ability to
• 34:36
  Speaker 8: get up the field.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: He's got tons of range.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: And they dropped a second rounder on defensive end are
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Mason Thomas.
• 34:42
  Speaker 8: They get someone who can really be a fastball and
• 34:44
  Speaker 8: fly off the edge and plays with unbelievable energy and tenacity.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: And our Mason Thomas coming.
• 34:51
  Speaker 8: Off the edge, you see his ability. He can win
• 34:52
  Speaker 8: up top or if you're going to overset him, he's
• 34:55
  Speaker 8: going to be able to get right inside your shoulder
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: and win on the short path to the quarterback.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Defensive tackle Ashton Galotti returns one and a half sacks
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: seventeen games, two starts. They hope all those guys hold
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: the line against runners the way last year's group did.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: They held him to four a carry.
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: Scrap his look suck.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Nick Bolton was everywhere. Six passes defense, ten tackles for
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: loss and over one hundred and fifty tackles. Watch If,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: known for his ability against the run, great instincts, gets
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: his hands under it. Drew Trankwell, a fellow triple digit
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: tackle guy, ten behind the line of scrimmage.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: I love that Loos.
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: They'll get a loss of two yards.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Still rocking with Harrison, Butker at kicker not the best year,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: missed five field goals and four extra points. But there's
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: ten ths God, So here's the look from above. Secondary
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: will look quite a bit different Delayane from mcduffy. They
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: brought in Cater Kohu too, who was hurt all last year,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: had a couple of good seasons for Miami. This will
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: be his year. Five Williams should see more snaps, Gilman
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: for Cook at safety. Couple changes to the front seven
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Carloftis Jones, the known commodities, Thomas and Woods, the two
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: rookies they hope can shine right away. Bolton and Trank
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: will returning as the starting middle linebackers and the offensive playmakers,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Hunt Pacheco and Hollywood departing Walker the only new face
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: expected to play a prominent role. They're basically banking on
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Mahomes Kelsey Worthy in Thornton to produce at a higher
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: level than last year. What might the Walrus have up
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: his sleeve for this year to give them a spark?
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Will the schedule help? They have the tenth easiest trek
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: if you account for their opponents twenty twenty six expected
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: win totals and with their own expectation being placed in
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: the ten to eleven range, it tees up a solid ceiling.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: But when you look at their schedule it looks pretty daunting.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Just know their expected strength of schedule is on the
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: easy side due to having Vegas twice, Miami, Arizona, and
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: the Jet. Their first six opponents have over under marks
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: below theirs. They play Seattle on the road, so give
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: them a loss there. The second bout with Denver is
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: a road tilt. Then it's the Jets, Falcons and Cards
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: before road games in Buffalo and La. Cincinnati's on the
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: road too, Pats and forty nine Ers are at arrowhead
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: at least still. That run from week twelve against the
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Bills to week seventeen, which is on the road versus
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: the Chargers is quite the gauntlet. Had one of those
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: mystics read the palms of my hands showed ten wins,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: which falls under their ten and a half over under mark,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: something about their complacency this offseason at wide receiver just
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: seemed odd. But maybe my hands were dirty when she
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: checked him out.
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: What's that a statement?
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: Bro?
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: We got enough look around like always.
• 37:45
  Speaker 9: Tell y'all happy tut a back full quarter, Bro, this
• 37:48
  Speaker 9: was gonna be fun with all y'all.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: Bro.
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: Okay love.
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: La.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Chargers eleven and six a year ago, another playoff showing
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: another first round exit, but hope of bounds. If their
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: pillars for protection can stay up all of twenty twenty six,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: they think they have a shot to play for the
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: silver football in their home stadium.
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: Believe in it? Do you believe?
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: This might be the first season preview we've ever started
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: talking about hog Mally's aka Big Uglies aka O linemen,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: two of them specifically at the center of the conversation.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: At the center really of LA's twenty twenty six offensive outlook.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Left tackle Rareshaun Slater missed all of twenty twenty five.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Right tackle Joe all missed eleven games. The pair would
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: have been in the debate for best tackled duo in
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: the NFL.
• 38:38
  Speaker 7: You gotta be good from run out from this moment.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Right instead, Justin Herbert is knowledgeable about different grasses as
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Chiech and chong Rber dropped back. He's only one team
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: allowed a higher pressure rate. LA's QBS planted sixty times that.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: He's knocked out at sacked five secs.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Game on Herbert, six different guys gave up five and
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: a half sacks.
• 39:04
  Speaker 7: Hey, hey, downt a go.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: They had backups drop out her It was like watching
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: a techmobile game where the person playing defense guesses the
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: right play.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: This is easily the worst game of his career.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Their poor o line play really standing out in the
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: red zone, where they were twenty ninth, which left them
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: with a twenty one point per game average.
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: We got a gay point. We got good point, brot
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: we got a good point.
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: Hey, we got good points right too.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: They grabbed a new guard in the draft, Jake Slaughter,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: second rounder, not sure if he's related to that sergeant
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: guy or not. They let's set him as a guard.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: He was a center there at Florida.
• 39:41
  Speaker 8: But they signed Tyler Biattish in free agency, so they're
• 39:44
  Speaker 8: gonna give him a whirl at guard. Remember Mike mc
• 39:47
  Speaker 8: daniel's new offense there, new coordinator.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: They're gonna really value.
• 39:51
  Speaker 8: Guys to see that last note, quick to the second level.
• 39:53
  Speaker 8: Getting out in space, you're gonna see very athletic offense
• 39:57
  Speaker 8: applying for the Chargers, getting those two tackles back, and
• 40:00
  Speaker 8: you've also got a fallback. You had an injury at center,
• 40:02
  Speaker 8: Slaughter can kick inside and do that.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: They also signed guard Cole Strange former Dolphin and got
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: a badass at center. And Tyler was with Washington last year.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: You know that's not how you say it, but it's
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: how I say it. When you account for Slater and
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Alt's lack of playing time, it's like they have a
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: brand new line for twenty twenty six. If they can
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: hold the line better, they feel like all the needed
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: pieces are in place.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Makes a shot to the ends up for a copy
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: touch stop.
• 40:31
  Speaker 7: Shot.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Us Herbert received an MVP vote for his efforts while
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: taking a beating.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: The expot touchedop t Andre Lefford Smith.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: My goodness made the Pro Bowl off twenty six TV passes,
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: over two hundred and thirty yards per game. Taking a shot,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: there's McCarty cock touchtern, most TV passes he's had since
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: year two.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: Half Half did the episode I'm Mariot. Half did it
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: first receiving touchdown in his career.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Herbert used his legs to escape more than he had
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: ever done before. Career high in rush attempts and yards
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: two yards shy of five hundred.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Exoy slides for a Quack touchdown.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Herbert hoping he can hand off to Amarian Hampton more
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: often this year. The rookie only played nine games over
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: five hundred yards on four to four a pop when
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: he played.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Hampton in the Enzo touchdown, all.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Of which led to more playing time.
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: For Bye Dell.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: He's got to get to the quarter he does there
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: we go.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: He gave him over six hundred yards for one a
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: carry in his second year. His Hoots, Body Bada pass
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: catching group. At the time of this writing, Keenan Allen
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: wasn't on the roster. Led the team in receptions in
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five seven hundred and seventy seven yards shoes.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: All the looks he got led to fewer for McLevin
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: and his second season, the hockey.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: Talk touched up shots, let's go, hey, what do you do?
• 42:06
  Speaker 7: Stand sucked?
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: Yup?
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: Shucks fans yep. I was like, when you score, go's
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: do rad the conk sock?
• 42:12
  Speaker 7: He't running over here? Look Dad, he's not here.
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: I didn't know what you were doing.
• 42:16
  Speaker 7: I'm just gonna celebrate right in front of me, and
• 42:18
  Speaker 7: he's gonna running.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Lad mcconkee still led the team with seven hundred and
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: eighty nine yards. His Hawaiian id got him into the
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: zone six times.
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: You give him a one on one and he give
• 42:28
  Speaker 7: the double troper wickl.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Quentin Johnston also over seven hundred yards in his year.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Three to the zo looking for fu.
• 42:39
  Speaker 7: Oh Cue led the.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Team with eight scores, eight tds, seven hundred plus yards
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: back to back seasons.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: If throw to the end zone over the shoulder touched up.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: If Keenan doesn't come back, it should lead to a
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: bigger role for Trey Harris started his NFL career off
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: with thirty receptions and over three hundred yards shut and
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: tight end to Ronde Gadson really shined after he got
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: it going. He's looking to build off a six hundred
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: and sixty four yard rookie season.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: Oh Rod Day Gadston, And if you thought it was
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: a fluke, think again.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: If they can get another four points or so out
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: of that group, their defense doesn't lose any ground. They're
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: a serious contender. They held teams to twenty a game and.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Ben set choose chump the round top.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: Five and yards per game allowed on third down and
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: in the red zone top ten, and takeaways.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Popped up off to your cart's hands into the arms
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: of day On Henley.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Their strength. That secondary held quarterbacks to less than one
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: hundred and eighty yards per game.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: Acept Day through his receiver, gets the.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Rookie j nickets to a seventy five rating, lowest in
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: the NFL.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Are Sepday, big man. Oh, the ball is out and
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: the ball is out again, and the charger's full on it.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: My goodness, it always starts with Derwin back there, James.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Another gem of a season. Over ninety tackles, three iron t's,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: no tds allowed, low fifties rate as a result, good.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: At the game.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Girlish tarheb still is looking like CB one material a
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: mid seventies rate in his second year. Six passes defensed,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: not a touchdown allowed.
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: Deep for Deebo Samuel fighting against his man complete that.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: Dante Jackson comes off a nice year sub seventy rate
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: team high twelve passes defensed in four picks. We cam
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: Hart the one key corner with a rough rating, but
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: he got his hands on eleven passes ahead of his
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: third year in the pro.
• 44:44
  Speaker 8: Hearts down the middle and Tipton picked intercepted by cam Hart.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: Safety Elijah Molden gave up a rating close to one
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: hundred over fifty tackles twelve games played.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: Rout over the middle, intercepting Holy Smoke.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: Bucks safety Tony Jefferson with thirteen games played, they'd take
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: more of the same. A low fifties rate four picks
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: as Iero TD's given up and.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: Shot the game, lord I believable way to head this game.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Their secondary working in unison with their front forty five sacks,
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: top ten good goes on Bondale's finest two ley two
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: polo two trending the right way four and a half
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: sacks rookie year eight and a half as a soft
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: a team leading thirteen in his third year hunting quarterbacks.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: Stop kind of got cut back, hit and drop by two.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Khalil Mack returns his sack total five and a half
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: last year in twelve games, five and a half to
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: eight four of the last five years. Still a pain
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: for tackles to deal with. For sixty minutes.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: Her cup's Khalil Mack in the exode. He drops up safety.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: I'll raise your hands and put it together with Chargers got.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: Two points and they picked up a key Mesidor in
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: the first round, So there are plenty at outside linebacker.
• 46:01
  Speaker 8: You see the bend and close at the top of
• 46:03
  Speaker 8: his rush. It's outstanding. The interior rush.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: They'll use him in this capacity with the Chargers two.
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: He does some of that as well, and he whipped
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: up on guards.
• 46:12
  Speaker 8: A lot of his production came from inside.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: Justin a boygbe with a mini breakout in his year
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: two six bags most of his snaps as a backup.
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: This time it is Justin boyke b.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Rest of the beef in the middle. We're there to
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: clog things up. Dropping didn't quite do that well enough.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty five, they'd like to play runners a
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: little tougher this year, gave up four to three a carry.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: He's got it, He's gone. Barkley going to the end.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Zil replaced DeShawn Hand twenty nine tackles, one and a
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: half sacks with Vet Dalvin Tomlinson. Same kind of numbers
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: with Arizona in twenty twenty five.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: Burrow in trouble again and Burrow goes down. It's Dalvin Tomlinson.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: Jamari Caldwell got five starts as a rookie, thirty one
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: tackles and a sack.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: Smith.
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: He'll be swarmed, no chance, as they brought the big man,
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: Jamari Caldwell, the rookie from.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Oregon behind them. Dayon Henley, their star second level linebacker
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: two I INT's one hundred plus tackles for the second
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: year in a row, career high three and a half
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: sacks in his third season.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: Paroettes, and that's where he's taken down by Henley.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: He was paired with two Vets linebacker Denzel Perryman, fourth
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: year in a row with twelve or fewer games played.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Troy Die saw extra snaps in Perryman's place, close to
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: sixty tackles, five for a loss, and.
• 47:35
  Speaker 9: Here goes Nicks chase by tie, you'll swat at the
• 47:38
  Speaker 9: ball and minimal gain on the play.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Dicker the kicker back to kick it. Cameron hit over
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: ninety percent of his field goal tries, thirty four for
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: thirty five on extra.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: Points kick and the kick is good.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: Here's how it all pencils out. Then the front seven
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: isn't much different. Tomlinson in for mister Hand. Hopefully Spiccoli
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: isn't bummed about that. Mesidor gives them four QB hunters,
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: Mac Tooley and Bud Dupree all back, Henley, Parriman and
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: die behind all of them. Secondary comes back intact. If
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: it ain't broke, don't fix it. Jackson Hart still at corner,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: Molden and Jefferson at safety, James wherever he needs to be.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: Offensive playmakers also the same, Save Keenan all hoping to
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: produce at higher levels with improved O line play. Trey
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: Harris seeing more action with Allen's departure. Lads numbers probably
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: go back up too, Herbs at quarterback, hopefully a full
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: ship from a Marionette running back. LA heads into twenty
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: twenty six with high expectation. Still a nine and a
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: half over under is still a projection of more wins
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: than losses. They do have a tough division if KC
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: rebounds Chargers twenty twenty six projected strength to schedule is
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: on the hard side twelfth most difficult when you average
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: their opponents expected win totals for the upcoming season. Let's
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: play with their slate and see what a conservative ceiling
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: might be for them. Beat Arizona and Vegas to start.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: Take Denver at home and pull off a road wind
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: over KC, the Texans at home, the Jets in New England,
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, sweep Vegas. Let's go with a win at
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: SOFAR over San Francisco, followed by wins over Miami and
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: Kansas City to get to twelve wins. Look, knowing Herbert
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: had a beer or two this summer means he's relaxed.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: Game preview guy likes to knock one back too. I
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: just can't afford the kind he enjoys. But in my
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: relaxed state, I'm seeing double digits. Man, I'm not a lightweight.