Herbert Squared

0:00Guess what? We're not going anywhere. No, 2026 is our year. There's a coach that wants to win a Super Bowl, it's Jim Harboff. Who doesn't love a warm call? That's a beast, beastball! My God! Yeah, let's get really stressed out about all these games and it's going to go great. Yeah, we've been playing this all wrong. Yeah, that's it. I played myself. Let me know when it's World Champions, we're going to do it our guy track. We'll let the powder blues fool you. Who's got a better guy? Yeah. Let's go. Yeah. Hey. Yeah. It's Game Week, baby. Welcome back to the charger chats. Let me cohost World Dog. Same with my buddy, Kev Hagen-Duggan. Holy shit football's back. It's back, baby. that's not forget Kyle the coach dug in. It feels like a pinch me moment. Like I had my dreaming, you know, like it's until it's Sunday in the game or I guess

1:03how weird that the season opens on a Wednesday this year. Yeah. Yeah, right. That doesn't make any sense. Yeah. I need to we have Netflix. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but it definitely that's crazy. We have actual football. Me and Woli will be at the game in five days, six days. I can't believe that. That feels so weird. I was like, surely there must be another week. No, yeah, it's time. It's here, baby. We bitched about it for months and it's finally here. It's finally here. And are we ready? No, we are. No, all that bitch and worked just complain complain. The invisibility cloak of bitching and then we're here. We're here, baby. Oh, man. Well, obviously folks, tons to talk about for game week. We've got an Asable fan lined up for you as well. So let us waste no time. Start at the top. It is game week. And well, just so you folks know, normally we would be like, oh, in the Craig experiences here, we've got those for Fridays because Friday episodes are back.

2:05So be sure to stay tuned and keep your eyes peeled on Friday. We will be dropping a little extra episodes. Some a little closer to game day. Yes, Utah. Give me two. So some of the new, some of the things that have dropped, one of the big things, captains, Utah give me 10 of these bad boys. Whoa. I want to captain's. And it's like so many captains that it doesn't feel like an honor. It feels like a diss if you don't get it. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, this is like a one fifth of the team. Yeah, it's like 20% of the team is a captain. Everyone else is just whatever. I mean, like if you're not a captain, you suck. Yeah, you're probably getting traded next year. Yeah, you're not safe. It is crazy. I mean, because when I first looked at it, I was like, okay, so it looks like maybe one for every like position group. Position group? Yeah. But then you see Tully and Khalil Mack and like, well, that's okay.

3:08And then you've got like Elijah Mulden during James. That's like, yeah, I guess technically. Joe Holt and Richon Slater. Yeah, it's just like, what are we doing? Hey, whatever it is, if this is the culture that Harbo wants to do, I'm all for it because yeah, Joe Holt's a better in my opinion. Yeah, it's a little extra bit of honor, a little recognition because you got Joe Holt Richon Slater, Lad Mcconkey, day on Henley, Justin Herbert, Darwin James, Tully, Elijah Mulden, Khalil Mack and Josh Harris. So yeah, Elijah Mulden to me is the most shocking. Like, I know it's Mcconkey's first time getting team captain too, but that's pretty wild that Elijah Mulden, the guy we picked up off of waivers, like basically in training camps two years ago. Yeah, like, is now a captain of the team. It's pretty, pretty high praise, pretty cool. Good pick up. Great pick up. Great pick up. Great pick up. Yeah. I mean, these are all just going to add more patches to their practice jerseys for sure, which is great for them.

4:09And Mcconkey talking about speaking to Mcconkey being named captain for the first time said, great, full. Honestly, I was really excited about it. I take a lot of pride in that and being voted by my teammates. So much respect for them. Great for them. Hopefully, I can carry it on the right way. I just try to put my best foot forward, be there for my teammates, be the best teammate I can be. Obviously, I was super excited about it and thankful for it. And you never know when with your teammates voting on it, what they think of you, but I was really grateful for it. That's a good thing. It's actually a good way to look at it. It's like, we don't walk around like giving you five stars today. Your number one wide receiver in my book, pal. It's like we're going to go secretly on a piece of paper, write what we think. Yeah. Ta-da. This is reverse survivor. It's like, who do you want to be the captain? Who do you want to stay? And maybe that's why there's 10. Maybe this was like a 10 way tie. So even, yeah, what was it? 10 way tie. That's how we're going to look at this from now.

5:09Was it 10 way tie? It was a 10 way tie. What do we got to say? No, we got to follow the votes. It's a democratic process. That's right. But that's, that's awesome to hear from McConkey who's obviously taking it very prideful. And let's hope this captain takes off and has a great, a great season because not only am I invested in him, he's now on two of my fantasy. Of course, he is. Also handcuffed with Justin Herbert. So let's go. Let's go. All right. The other news that dropped uniforms. Now what is interesting? It's crazy. They never do this. And I'm all about this because now I can like prepare myself. Well, they've dropped uniform schedules in the past, but like, I feel like every, I feel like every Saturday, somebody's messaging us, DM us like, what are we wearing today, guys? I think that's happened multiple times. The pants having this whole graphic of Jersey pant combo feels different, but maybe not. Maybe we're not excited. That's what I was going to say. The pant combo is different.

6:09We've always had like, Jersey's like, are we wearing the pattern blues? We wear in the whites, we wear in the alternates, whatever. But now you throw pants into the mix. And now it's a whole ordeal to what the full outfit is going to be. What is interesting to me is the, whatever, the combo we're going to see on Sunday. That's the only time we're going to see it. Powder blue with white pants. Let's see. I like it. I like the powder and white. And yeah, with the pants now, with three options for pants, I guess four. If you count the like the navies, we have eight, eight Jersey combinations this year for 17 games. Yeah. That's crazy. So most games get two or three. Yeah, the car nose, you get powder blue, white pants, two games with the full powder blue on to Rage, two games with powder blue, yellow pants, three games with white jersey, powder blue pants, three games, all white jerseys, two games, white jersey, yellow pants. And then I'm just, I'm just glad that we got three set and stone Navy Jersey.

7:13We spoke this into existence. We had a multiple episodes. We've been just begging and pleading for all navies. Yeah. Speaking of, let's go. Yeah, there you go. You can't really call it an alternate. When you wear it, the same amount of times as any of your other top jerseys that you wear. Yeah. So anything like the powder blue and white pants is an alternate. They're only playing with the shit once. Yeah. Yeah, but they also, they picked the biggest games of the year pretty much to wear the, the navies. You have, you have the Texans, the Patriots and the chiefs games all in the navies at home. Mm-hmm. Hell yeah. I can. Oh. And yeah, the yellow, the full yellow bananas are all gone. They are yellow with white pants. I'm more cool with this. This is more manageable. This looks much better. Banana Ramo we have. I'm much better. Yeah, I'm much better. So keep your eyes peeled and be sure to dress accordingly for all those games coming up. The other bit of news that dropped is just put the biggest smile on all of our faces,

8:13man, because we were, we were hoping that when it came time to draft the possibility of drafting Justin Herbert's brother, we thought, well, that would be cool, right? And then he goes to Jacksonville. And he go, well, you know, it makes, whatever. Make his own name, whatever. He's his own man, whatever. Make his own path, whatever. But then just recently, the Jaguars let Patrick Herbert hit the waivers. They wavered. Yep. You blew it, buddy. Yep. And he, tight end Patrick Herbert said, I want to sign with the chargers and sure enough he did. He fielded offers from multiple teams, but heads to Los Angeles having done extensive research on the starting QB. And he doesn't have to pay for rent. He gets to stay at his brother's house rent free. Can I stay here? Yeah. Yeah. You never borrow protein ferry. This is taking a shit to the next level. Yeah, I did.

9:13Roman with your bro. Yeah. No, that would be. Now has a, has a fiance. He has his brother living with him. Yeah. I mean, it does it. He's, this is just set up to be the season. Yeah. The vibe, just the function, function way of his life is very, very positive. Can you imagine if like Gabe neighbors was still there and he's like, Gabe, he got to go. He's just like looking out the window watching him have protein shakes together. He's deflating his inflatable mattress. He turns into Bruno from encounter. He just started living in the walls. You don't talk about. No, no, no. No, no. About Gabe. So I, I think this is great. I mean, they've pointed out that there's never, this would be historical. If there's a game that Patrick Herbert can play, there's never been a time where there's been brothers on the team where one is in the position of quarterback throwing to their brother. Question. Yeah. Jersey's, if this happens, is it going to have to be J Herbert and P Herbert or is it just

10:17Herbert? I bet Justin's just Herbert, but I bet you Patrick gets a P Herbert for your Herbert. I'm not. Yeah. Cool. I'm curious how they're going to do that because that'd be weird to give J Herbert. It's also crazy to think about because this definitely wasn't the best tight end room for him to come into and free agent. No, no. Like off the way. He's going to live on this. He's going to live on this practice squad as long as he wants to essentially. Yeah. He's got free, free room and board for that practice squad, buddy. But that would just be great if we could just get one pass of Herbert to Herbert. I've heard at least one. Oh, that the chiefs. That was just the chiefs. That would be one. Yeah. All right. There was some practice today. The day that we recorded this, Chris Rimm tweeting out the Keaton Mitchell is back at charges practice after missing the last six. As is Brandon Thompson also back. So we are back, baby. It's our show back. So I'm curious to see, you know, when we do our Friday episodes, those are great because

11:21we get our injury report and we can talk about like what's going on with these guys. Because there's never really been anything official because they don't have to talk about like what these injuries are like why was Keaton Mitch now? Why was Brennan Thompson out? What's the extent of these injuries? But the fact that they're back. Fantastic. Yeah. They were ramping them up. They're like, why are we bringing them back early? Just wait till we're getting ready for week one. Then we'll bring them back as full as we can and here we go. Mm-hmm. Hell yeah. Yeah, because I definitely, I want some, I want some deep bombs to Brandon Thompson, baby. Got some. I want some that speed on that field. We're going to have one. I know at least one against the Cardinals. I just feel it in my bones. Do you think it'll be Brennan? Or do you think it'll be somebody else? Like it's Brennan's going to be multiple deep bombs. So I think Brennan's going to get one. Bren's going to get at least one for sure. You heard it here first. It's going to be in the second half once we've peppered them up with all these quick game shit. Open up and then we're just going to be throwing it down. Feel we're not taking the foot off the gas. We are 70 70 burger. And if that happens, I'm definitely losing in fantasy to Kyle and our fantasy.

12:21But I'm okay with it. I'm okay with it. And lastly here, we've got a bit of Amarian Hampton hype. CBS sports Douglas Klauson made a bold prediction for each team ahead of the 2026 season picking Hampton, winning the rushing title as his choice for the chargers. Klauson wrote Jim Harba wants to run the ball. He doesn't want to see Justin Herbert lit up for 50 to 60 sacks again. And he has Joe Walton, Rashon Slaterback plus editions of Jake Slotter and Cole Strange to the interior of the offensive line. That means Harba is going to ride the 2025 first round pick Amarian Hampton to a Russian title. That first round pick for me at put six overall. That was a good work. That was a steal. That was a steal at this. Right after Kevin passed on him. I haven't been to other leagues. It's fine. I got my I got my chair. But not Kyle's got to like have one.

13:22He's a little bit of a little baby brother. Got a little bit of a while. I got him in two out of my three out of my three league. I haven't been three out of my five. I got more. You need to get him in the charger shot one. No one. There's no confirmation. I'm in the green. I took him in every single league. That's just not fair to everyone else. Come on. No, it would be going all in, which you're unwilling to do. A pair of shut your face. Shut your. You're divided. You're diversifying your portfolio by not drafting him in the charger. That league. Well, if I don't have him, I have Keaton. I have a lot of chargers. I'm fine. All right. You're not going to bring you're not going to bring me down. This is our week one. I'm not going to be brought down by you on the set of so Kyle. I'm feeling good. Let's move on. And so I'm already going to go to that one 50 and two touchdowns and you lose to me. It's fine. No one in another league. You're not understanding. This is okay. We're moving on. Well, the Doug and brothers are moving on and we'd like to move you folks over to our sponsor this week. My bookie because hey, if you want to start the football season with a bet that feels

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16:27Oh, ask the question once upon a time in an old lady's purse a family called Houchilly were given a curse by a witch in the woods in a candy field home who never skipped arm day and was bad to the bone until the day that lightning did strike were a Houchilly child had left their bike beside the cartage the witch did a door setting it up. Lays and creating some smalls and from that day forth their family name is forever tied to the lightning bolts games. Can this curse be lifted my friends? So a Super Bowl can be the next seasons end. Caleb you buy and see you next week for victory brisket and fresh cardinal beak. Oh yeah, give me a side of beak. Yeah, give me a deep in a beak. Yeah, just like just throw it in there. You just kind of chew on it. You don't swallow that. So you just not know. Yeah, it's all going to the same place. Um, all right. Well, great question. I love starting off with big red bolts fan and, uh, yeah, I think the curse could be

17:29lifted. I think more confident than I've ever been in the however many seasons we've done of this, you know, I'm always a little confident. This year I'm super confident. So I'll take that for what you will. Here comes the super confident Kevin. Yeah, not just regular confident. Super confident. Let's see if I can level up from super. Yes. Yes. No, I mean, I'm loving watching all of these pundits and people talking about chargers taking it all the way to the super. It's a possibility of an LA versus LA Super Bowl. Hmm. That's going to be amazing. Yep. Let's do it at home. To do it at home. Both teams at home at home game. God, man. I mean, I'm on it's in the script. Uh, but big red bolts fan. I think we can lift it. Thank you, buddy, for asking the question. Let's move on now to Terrell Cooper who asked the question question for the bold fam. If you were in the next edition of Madden, what would your rating be? Extra points for your position. Extra points for your attributes like catch rating, tackling, et cetera, who's

18:30got it better than us. K, love you. Bye. It's in this. It's in the sports. A sports. It's in the game. It's in the game and it's in the sports. It's in the sports. It's in the sports. It's in the generic sports. All right. Well, this is interesting. What would our ratings be if we had to be in Madden? What would be what would be our position and what would our rating share? God. Sad. I don't want to do this. I want to have to reflect this much about myself. No. This is like this is like therapy stuff right here. It is. Athletically catch rating, tackling, what are our attributes? Right. Well, first up with position offense. Yeah, where are you going? Where do you think you fit on the NFL roster? Obviously not well anywhere, but if you had to go somewhere. I'd say offensive line just because I'm guard is your experience.

19:33But I'm six foot one. I'm not able to do that here. That's what we're doing. We're not saying where are you going to make the team? We're just saying what position are we putting you out? Where will you do the least amount of damage? Is we're trying to figure out here? Well, Bradley Boathman did play last year. So let me throw me in there. You can go on that center and do fine. Yeah, I would definitely 40. I could be 43 out of 43. He was 42 out of 42. I could be 43 out of 43. I'll say offensive line center. Okay. Yeah, I would say. I would probably say offensive line two. I'd go guard. He's a guard guard guard. What do we, what does this say about what we think about offensive lineman? That we need help. They don't run. Yeah, what that's the other thing too. If this is a Mike McDaniel offense, I'm not going to do well. Because if I could just plant my feet and protect the quarterback, that's fine.

20:34But if I got to run downhill, forget about it. I'm all about those cut blocks. Just take out some angles and slow them down for a second. That's what we have in there. I will, I will say this for Adam. I do think he has some moderate quickness. Ladder quickness. I feel like you would shock us. Yeah, some hit flexibility. I think you could really talk to him. Maybe that'll be our next page. And in reality, I don't know what we're missing out of. That's true. There's a lot of untabbed potential in here. I just looked it up just to know what are the lowest rated baddened players on the game. Typically dealing for us. And this is 100% I changed my answer what I should be because I also did this in high school. The lowest rated players are usually long snappers. And they get it 25 to 26 overall range. Okay. I say I'm a long snapper. Give me a solid 14. I think that's pretty good. I think that's pretty good. I won't always get it back there.

21:35It might bounce a few times, but I will be fried. There will be average is not going to be there. You're not getting down the field and making any tackle. No, I'm going to look like JK Scott last week. It's just kind of getting in the way. Yeah, I'll do my best. I like that answer. Yeah. What position would you be, Kyle? I don't know. I mean, obviously I have to default to what I put in high school. I was a middle linebacker in high school. So I'll go stick my head, try to take on some lead blocks and not I would love for you to try that. That would just one pop. You just have to do one play and then you can retire. Like would you do it? I would have to retire. Yeah. I'd be injured. I'd be dead. Yeah. It's too fun. And my reading is somewhere in the teens for sure. I don't know. Yeah. I would. I think Kevin Kevin was a 14. I'll go 15 for me. Okay. Cool. So I guess we'll first. Yeah. I'd have to be teens maybe I'm maybe just edging into the double digits of 10 as maybe my open goal.

22:39Yeah. Good number. Yeah. That's it's an honor. Honestly. All right. Well, there you go. Terrell, buddy. Thank you. Question. Let's move on now to Zach Shelton who asked the question. Hey guys, looking forward to the season starting on the 13th. As it is my birthday on the 6th, my wish is for this team to put the league on notice and go out swinging. Let's win the AFC West to start with. I do have a question for you guys though. I'm both signs of the ball. Who would you most like to see breakout and have their best seasons? For me, it's Gadsden and Henley. Henley has been doing great on defense the last couple of years, but let's have him put more people on notice. Well, happy belated birthday. Yeah. Happy birthday, bud. Yeah. But I think this is a great question as far as who do we think who will have their best season? I mean, we're not just talking about who's going to have a game or who's going to get the most here.

23:39It's just going to have their best season. Just as I remember. Yeah. Think so. Best season. Yeah. Incoming. He's going to beat his rookie season for sure. Mm. It's going to happen. I think there's a high likelihood of him having his best season. And he's obviously being more healthy with not being hit 40 times a game with a coordinator that gets kind of gets guys open for you. You don't have to make hercules throws every time. I mean, we saw that in the preseason and the five snaps that Justin took that that bomb touchdown. He was wide open. That was not like he contested needed to drop it on a dime. That was he was wide open because of all the shifts and motions and play actions off of it. It's like you have defenders kind of confused and not knowing what to do. So I think that that potential to up his numbers. And I think he should have the best season for sure. Defensively a guy that I really want to see like break out. And I think has the potential with his physicality and size to be a pro bowl type player is cam heart.

24:41I mean, we see the way cam heart hits like he is. He is like just has a tenacity at corner that usually get out of a safety. He plays the corner position like a safety, but can be locked down. So if he can say healthy for a whole year, I think if cam heart can have a really big year, that's going to be huge for the chargers on defense. Definitely. Nice. Who do you think on defense, sir, Kevin? I like the day on Henry. He's just always been there. He's been consistent last few years. So I'll go Zach on this. I think him getting in the pro bowl and getting a little more recognition would be very earned. I think on the offensive side, my pick is going to be, and this might be a little bit of surprise. I'm going to say David and Joku. I think he could potentially have the best season. That's the best career would be awesome. That would be cool. Him being with a bunch of nerds over there in Cleveland, not a good quarterback. He's going to finally get one of what he's capable of. That'd be really special. Yeah.

25:41That's what I'm saying. I mean, I was just looking at the stats. I mean, the most yards he ever had was eight hundred and eighty two, which is a lot for a tight end. It's a lot. But I mean, I think the most touchdowns he's ever had was like six in a season. I think we can, I think we can pump those numbers. I think we can pump the boost those babies up. And defensively, I'm going to say just because he just got nominated for team captain, I'm going to say Elijah Molden. I think he could potentially have his best. All right. All right. So I think a little team captain energy might give him a little bit of a boost. And we might see some big plays from him this year. Getting that star bump. So there you go, Zach, buddy. Thank you for asking the question. Let's move on now to gas man. Who asked the question? What's up, you silly bitches? Time to start marking down your game attendance for the year. I just purchased my ticket to attend my first Chargers own game ever versus the Texans. And I'm psyched. I'll be sitting in section three 28.

26:43What pro tips do you have for this rookie visiting sofa? What's going on with Thunder Rally? I heard they may be getting booted from the usual tailgate spot. F**king the Texans and bolt the f**k up. Can you love you? Bye. Well, that's great news. That it's wonderful news you get to go to your first game. Yeah, Texans. That's going to be a fun game. Yeah, that'll be later in the year when things are really important and we'll have a better idea where we're at. So that's a good game to go to. Very good. Yeah, we used to be in section 307. So the 300s are great. I would just say get there early. Yeah. Like there's a lot of stuff going around the perimeter like get there early for that. But go into the stadium so you can actually get in there before everyone starts rolling in. That would be my biggest piece of advice. Yeah, you definitely want to check out all the thunder alley stuff and you want to make sure that you visit all as many tents as you can. Everybody's got food. Everybody's got drinks. Hydrate. I can't stress that enough.

27:43Hydrate as much as you can because it's been like 500 on being hydrated enough. Aren't you old dog? I will trust me. I'm bringing some electrolytes with me this year. I mean, will it drink less than both of us? It's not a drinking issue. It's just an absolute heat issue. Just an asphalt face issue. Yes. No shade issue. It's the heat and just the minimal amount of alcohol that I drink is enough to sometimes tip me over the edge. So I can't stress enough. Stay hydrated. Follow the densel paraman rule. Stay hydrated. And yes, far as what's going on with thunder alley, we've heard some rumblings too. We don't know anything specific. I reached out to a very close friend. I got a little more insight on it. So basically what's happening is in the parking lots, they're starting to build the stuff around the stadium. So like the new hotels going in, there's a bunch of new development around what used to be parking lots are now that. So it's the outside tailgating can only be done in that was at the pink lot, right?

28:44That's always yeah. That's it. So it's just it's getting a little more constricted of where where it can be done. So like visiting fans. Interesting. Not going to be tailgating because there's not enough to them. So honestly, it's almost more like a little more exclusive now because you can't do it. It's kind of more funneled down. So that's what I gathered from our good friend Karen, who I reached out to today to get to the bottom of this. Awesome. Yeah, I've heard rumors of like crackdowns on what you're allowed to have at the tailgate to moving forward. I don't know. There's a get there while you can if you're going for the first time, it sounds like this year will still be normal. Go over there. It's awesome. The vibes are incredible. It is a great, great tailgate. I'm I'm always impressed at the tailgate that our charger fans put on with all the crap and shade we get for the lack of numbers. There's a lot of ones we got. We put out. Yeah, we have we have a good time. It's fun. Mm hmm. All right, gas man. There you go. There's some tips for you, buddy. Thank you for asking the question. Let's move it on now to Tom Lidle.

29:45Tom who asked the question. Tom. The game week. It's game week. Let's fucking go. In honor of the slap, I just ordered a TOT jersey. I can't wait to get it. Not sure if it'll be here for game one. F*** the chiefs. Okay, week one predictions. Who's getting the first deep pass plus 20 yards or more? First TD, rushing and pass. First INT. Will Hobba be wearing McDaniel glasses on the sideline? Final score predictions. And one request of the boys. Say the F out of Taco Bell. Stop by and get some of the cooks meet in your mouth with love. Kill of you. Bye. Tom, you're the sound. You guys better go find Tom. Oh, we will. We will put Tom's meat in our mouth. Do it. Oh, Karen, take that sound, right? But that's killer that he got a tart jersey, dude. Yeah, that's pretty badass.

30:45That's a badass jersey there, Tom. Nice job. Yeah, that's good. Cool. All right. Some predictions. Who is getting the first deep pass? Who do we think? 20 plus yards. Yeah, you go first, Kyle. No, no, no, you go. You had something on the tip of your tongue. I want to hear it. Yeah, I think it's 100% Quentin. 100% Quentin. Quentin, okay? 100%. I put my arm in it. I'm going to do a prop bet on that. I feel like it's going to be Quentin. No problem. Okay. I think Quentin is going to have the odds to do it. I think that makes the most sense. But I think that the Cardinals know anything that's going to be the one guy they're trying to take away on a deep ball. Because that's kind of his game nowadays is the over the top guy. It might not be a 20 yards in the air, but I think little Maconkey is going to get one and go for 20 early in game one. I think to do, there's just so much hype around Maconkey now that Quentin's gone, having that target share boost up a little bit and being named to Captain.

31:47I think he's going to be the guy that McDaniel tries to find ways to get open underneath that he can get in that little quick motion, get the mismatch and be able to take off and go. So I think I'm going to put my money on Maconkey with the better odds because I think Quentin is the most likely. I think the dark horse out of all of those guys, we saw him try to feed the ball multiple times in preseason. I think Charlie Kohler might actually get the first. I'm into that. I can guess the blocking tied in with the 20 pluster in game. I think he's I think he's the dark horse man. I think they're going to try to feed him the ball more than we think. Well, the question is if it's 20 yards in the air if it's a catch and run because that's a different thing, but yes, I'm with you. Trying to qualify it. I'm trying to understand it. I was going just like plus 20 in the air. You guys were like, let's dump it off and run 20. Different. Well, who do we think is getting the first touchdown brushing in pass?

32:50Oh, Marian. Oh, Marian is going to score the first touchdown of the year. I think he will. And then I think I think I think Quentin is going to score the first receiving touchdown. I think it'll be I think with you on rushing, I think it'll be in Joku on receiving. Mm. Sweet. I think we're all in agreement on the rushing. It'll definitely be Hampton. And I was I'm going to say Q. I think it'll be cute that'll get it. But first interception. Who's in to sepcile? My heart wants to say Derwin, but I feel like they just don't throw at whoever Derwin's covering anymore. Like they're smart. However, they feel like they show film of Derwin picking up and slamming Kelsey and they go, look, we're not going to win this game, but don't put us on the ESPN for the next week. Don't throw it wherever Derwin is. So I'm going to go with my my prediction for a guy that we really need to step up and have a big year in Camar. Nice. I like that.

33:51Nice. Who do you think, Kevin? Let's go Elijah molding. Nice. Same thing. I think he's roaming around a little more. Can think he's going to grab one. All right. I'll say I'll say, I'll say, Henry, I'll say, Henry gets up there in the next one. All right. A little short pass. I can. All right. Okay. Will Harbob be wearing McDaniel glasses on the sideline? No. No. I would love that cool. But it's the other way around. McDaniel is not going to have influence on what Harbob does. You may see McDaniel come out and khakis, but it's not going to be the other way around. Yeah. I'm with you. And as far as score predictions, you're just going to have to wait for Friday there at time because that's when we get what both predictions, baby. Sorry. No, we got it. We gave him a lot of answers. I think this is fine. It's just come back Friday time. We'll have our both predictions. Be careful talking down on Taco Bell. We will come over and have some of you. But Taco Bell is my absolute true out of the game.

34:53What you're talking about? What you're saying about the Chalupa's bro? That crunch wraps your cream screams my name as soon as the game's over. Oh, it's slaps. It does. It's all pretty good. Thank you. I ask you the question. Let's move on now to Darryl 21 who asked the question. Hey, guys. Are we ready? Oh, yeah. As we get up for week one, what are we realistically predicting besides a win? Who? Do we think we'll see a massive passing attack or running attack? Or do we feel it may take a minute and our expectations should be tempered a bit. I'm not addressing the defense as we are not worried about it. Talk amongst yourselves and we'll see you Tuesday, guys. It's game time. K love you by who? Excellent Darryl. I like that. Speak amongst yourselves. Yeah. Talk amongst yourselves. Give me a topic. All right. So I think this is interesting because we've been talking about predictions and this is

35:56more like should we be ready for a pedal to the metal type of answers again. Make a couple of serious to finally find the groove. Yeah. I think my expectation for week one is we're going to run the ball really, really well. Obviously Justin is going to throw the ball, but we all hope that we have a comfortable lead at halftime. I would say if we're not up by multiple scores, it's not been a good first half. And then you come out in the second half and really just run the ball down their throat. So I anticipate a really heavy run game to be able to establish that and get things set up. And then, but I think we're going to see some deep, deep passes from Justin in the right timing. But I don't know, it's hard. It's hard when he got Justin Herbert, you know how much hard ball loves him. You don't want to put a leash on the man. So I think it'll be a pretty even 50, 50 split between run pass, which is a lot of run for us. Yeah. Yeah, I think because I'm worried about it because we said this exact same thing last year

37:00under our previous offensive coordinator and they came out and threw the ball like 50 times. So I think our new offensive coordinator is much smarter than that. I think we are going to run the ball. Yeah, it's all right. Yeah, it's a smart to do better plan. I think there will be there will be there will be more of that. But I think Justin's definitely I think it'll first couple series as long as there's no penalties, we're going to get a rhythm. That'll be good. We have a penalty in the first series or two. We're going to get back and then that'll kind of shit, shit, shit, opposite. Yeah. Sorry for the extra double F bomb. Sorry. Not just editing my, repeated my F bomb. It's game. It's game week. I'm ready. We're all bullies locked in. I'm ready. Yeah, but I think if we can keep a rhythm in those first two series where we don't have any penalties and we can just kind of get the ball going, we'll be in great shape through us the game. They haven't played like Justin's played like two series, three series. Yeah. Max and the preseason hasn't played any football yet. So I think what Kyle said is they're going to open it up with the run.

38:00Maybe some easy passes of dump off to Colour or you know, Keaton gets one, Hampton gets one, we're running up the middle like the first five, six plays. It's like that. And then we start to just let's test Justin a little bit. Let's see what we got with this. And then the running just behind it, just like always keeping them on their toes. So I don't expect Justin's going to get touched very much in this game. I think it'll be because of that plan. Yeah. Yeah, I think, you know, we talk about last season, how many times you got hit and just a practically record breaking amount of sacks and pressures and hits. He's got a better offensive line. He's got a better offensive coordinator. He's got a ton of targets, man. He's got better players around. He's got, yeah, just a lot of options are going to be available to him. And when you have an offensive line that's going to give you time to make those like reads and decisions, it's not like, oh shit, get the ball out as quick as possible. And even then you've got a Marion Hampton, you got to keep in Mitchell's possible guys. I can just take it off to the races. So I'm, I'm very much looking forward to it. And I would agree.

39:01I think our run game is going to be solid passing game. I think it's just going to get sprinkled. And when it finally starts like when we start feeling that rhythm, it's just going to take off, dude. It's just going to be a rocket ship. Yeah. Minimizing mistakes is all we need to do. Yeah, I think that's an excellent point. Yeah, minimize those penalties, dude. I think it's, it would be different if we were playing the Seahawks or we were playing the Patriots. Yeah, playing a top tier team. This is a team we know we should beat. Don't, don't get too fancy. Don't overcomplicate it. Just go out there and play smart football. Don't make mistakes in when the game. I think that's going to be what the mindset is going into the game. That would be a good mantra for a week one. Just play smart. There you go. Darryl Buddy, thank you for asking the question. It's moving on that way. There could dare. There could dare. No, ask the question. Hello, judge and champ, my amazing family. Hello, both of them, my amazing fan base. First, my baby, World Dog. I have changed my supermod prediction. I'm going with the Lions versus Chargers that supply stadium Valentine's Day, baby, because

40:03these two hungry fan bases are starving for a championship. Bolts win in a classic shootout, 41 to 34, baby. Second, Senate and I, World Dog Fantasy draft team was selected by a dear, now Mr. Hortis, LOL, baby. My starters are QB Herbert running back Hampton in Montgomery. White receiver Lad and Brian Thomas, Titan LaPorta, Flexed Dune, say kick of the dicker, defense, challenges, baby. I was picking 11 of a 12 man league. I paid $100, baby. First two picks I went Hampton Herbert and he thought, please, how good did I do, baby? Now we have one question, please. Let me stance on what kind of game? Omarian Hampton has, baby. We start with my lovely coach Kyle, followed by my amazing friend Kevin and we finish strong with my baby, my heart, my love, my life forever. World Dog, baby. PS, bull prediction. Omarian Hampton 200 total yards, three touchdowns, sets the tone for offensive player

41:04of the year, baby. Bolts win 37 to 9, BTFU. Okay, love you. Bye, baby. Love it. A theory you're winning your fantasy football. Yeah, it's a win, win. Somehow a theoretical score prediction there just made it more real that we're going to be playing a game on Sunday. Yeah, I got a little bit of goosebumps just with the score prediction. Like crazy. Love it score prediction. But for some reason, and actual out in the air score prediction for Sunday made me so excited. Yeah. That's all. Made it real. It's beautiful. But as far as your fantasy football team, I like to say, it might be a little rough for you. That's how long I'm saying. Yeah, you got a big buy week that week. Yeah, like your Herbert and Lad, if they're he's throwing, obviously a handcuff there in the Hampton. Looking nice. I don't know what your scoring is, but I'm with you, dude. We support you. We support. We support this 100%. But your question stats on what kind of game Amari and Hampton has.

42:06What do we have? He's predicting 200 total yards and three studies. Yeah. Yeah. That's gracious. I hope if the score prediction holds up for what he has of winning 30. What was it, 37 to 9? Yeah. I think you, I think the starters get tapered off there in the second half. So I think you get more come on a vital and keep Mitchell. But I think that Omari and Hampton is going to have 100 plus yards. Anytime someone running back, it's over 100 yards in the NFL. It's a good game. Like it's, it doesn't take 200 yards to be an incredible game for a guy. So if you can start the season off with 100 yards, and I really do think he'll score twice. I think, I think we'll get down into the red zone and let's get after it and get going. And he's going to be our garbage touchdown guy balls at the two yard line. He's going to score. I think, I think he has total between receiving and rushing 120 and two touchdowns. All right. And leads to a victory over Kevin week one offense.

43:07Fair. If we went out and give a shit, fantasy to the second area of my team. I'm with you. I think Omari and Will rush for over 125 yards. I really do believe that. I think he's, he, I think one, Tuddy makes sense for me. Just with how many weapons are hard to say. He's going to go off and just going to keep him here. And there I think we're not going to always get down to the goal line and need to punch it in. So I'm going to go 125 and the Tuddy for Sunday. 125 total yards are just rushing. Just rushing. He could go crazy with the receiving. But I'm not, I'm not feeling that old. I'm just not ready to throw that out there. Maybe Friday. I'm very good. Very good. I'm going to, you know what, if you're, I'm just going to, I'm going to, price is right. You know, I'm going to say he's going to have 201 total yards. $1, $1, $1, $1. 201 and three Tuddy sounds just about right. I think first right. Yeah. So there you go, a theory buddy. Thank you for asking the question. And we go out of Asphalt fam with Tony Francis who asked the question.

44:10Listen up, kiddats. This past Sunday is the last one with no football for 22 in weeks. I'm so fucking bolted up right now that I might explode. My first question is directed to you, coach. Looking at the entire schedule this year, do you see any trap games that the outcome could surprisingly disappoint us in which road game will be our toughest? My second question is directed to you, Cam. Obviously we're starting to know, but which road game see Hawks or Bills in week three and four give you the most hope to win. PS, how are we looking at operation bolted perfectly? And my last question is directly you will dog with the final rosters now complete. Who is the one player the book fam is not talking about today that will surprise and amaze us all this season. Hey, there's always the Raiders burn the kingdom, kick the donkeys two more sleeps until football and suck my butt.

45:11All right, he's until football, baby. All right, very good. Tony taking this up strong. What? Starting with you there, coach. Yeah, trap games. Yeah, I'm looking over the schedule now that there's obviously no trap games starting week three all the way through week 10, right? The hardest schedule in football and those are all there's no trap in there. Those are just going to be tough games no matter what. Immediately after we play the jets, but I don't that doesn't feel trappy to me that feels like we we get enough wins on that that series. You have a good game. You like finally we get beat the jets and then you go to a new we have new England Sunday night at home, but then we hit the flight all the way to Tampa Bay the following Sunday on a semi short week. Tampa Bay should be good, but no one's expecting them to be the ringer of the NFC. That feels to me like it could be a trap game.

46:14We all know we don't travel well to the East Coast. It's a tough game coming off that crazy stretch. So that to me is like a game we should win that I'm a little bit worried about could be could be a little trappy. Toughest on the road game. Dude, that Seattle game week four, that's going to be tough. I don't know what I don't know what that Buffalo I know Buffalo is a tough environment, but it feels like early enough in the season, but you go Buffalo straight to Seattle. Seattle I've gone to a game there. My wife's cousin is married to Golden Tate and we got to go out there and watch a game when he was on the sea ox. That place is no joke. They say they're the 12th man. I hate their fans. They're super annoying, but they are very loud. That is a very much a home environment and coming off of a Super Bowl. Now maybe they don't have a good start to the season and it's a different case, but as of right now, I think that's going to be a really, really tough away game for us this

47:18year. Excellent answers, Kyle. Love that. All right, Kevin. Kyle just kind of jumped in on what I was going to talk about. So thanks Kyle for doing that. You did exactly the opposite of what I'm going to say. I answered my question. You did? It's correct. He kind of asked us both the same thing. So let's go with the between the bills and the sea ox, even though they won the Super Bowl last year, I think I'm looking at the opponent that has about a quarterback. So I think it's a lot easier for me to say that, you know, Darnold will not play as well as outline. I just thought that's the easy breakdown simplified. They're both going to be away games. We're going to be hard. You can take the 12th man out if you beat the shit out of them, but I think Josh Allen is still Josh Allen. Whether you're beating their team on defense or not. So I think I think the sea hocks are more of a more of an interesting one than others. Very good. Yeah. I mean, that's stretch to the schedule just sucks. Yeah.

48:18It's going to be rough. You go all the way to Buffalo. Then you got to go to Seattle. That's just tough. Very. And operation bolt up perfectly. Yeah. Yeah. So the, this was brought up on our Patreon zoom draft. Yes. My beautiful wife was sitting behind me. And it is the first time she heard about it. Because I was trying to lace and groundwork before it was actually trying to hope it would just pass. And you was hoping that I could like the blower of a zoom hang out like it's like, it could be like honey, don't disappoint these guys. Was it my mistake for where not wearing headphones during the draft? Yes. Was my wife in the room I was in and could hear everything. Yes. So I think the odds have lowered a bit. I think we're not super bowl favorites anymore for the shaving a lighting bolt inside of my cap. But it's a long season. And just a little spray paint, dude. Just get a little bit of that hair paint. We're going to go game by game. I'm not looking too far ahead.

49:19I'm just sticking to the fundamentals. And then we'll find a way to shave a lighting bolt in one of my caps. One game at a time. Just find find a concert or something. Joe's really wants to go to she's out of town for the weekend. Yeah. I'm hard to take an error. It's going to be in the third. This is kind of a special thing. So, you know, I'm just going to have to I don't not going to tell you what I'm going to do because then it might get the chill here. Yeah. So just just know. Teasing peas. I know what you want. Always be working. You're trying. I'm trying. All right. And as far as a player, the bolt fame is not talking about today that will surprise him. He's in the maze of soul season. I mean, I kind of said it earlier, I really feel like David and Joku is that dark horse that nobody's talking about every fantasy draft. He is so far down at the bottom, nobody even remembers that he's available because they're so focused on all the other tight ends. So I mean, I think that he could come in as the veteran and really just show what it means to be a tight end for the chargers with Justin Herbert as your quarterback.

50:20I'm with you. So there you go, Tony. Thank you for asking the question. Thank you. Everybody for asking questions and ask both family greatly appreciate it. Remember folks, it's game week. Remember we've got a Friday episode. So keep your eyes peeled Friday. Bolt predictions are coming. The game is coming. Oh my God. It's going to be amazing. But I think that's going to do it for this episode of Charger Chat and Final Thoughts of Gentlemen. It's Christmas week. Let's get some presents on Sunday. Yes. Yeah. We've all been good boys and girls this off season and we get big presents. We get that bike. We've been one on Sunday. Yeah. But thank you. Thank you. The half. That's going to do it for this episode of Charger Chat folks. Don't forget to bolt up because we're ready for any squad any place. I love you. Bye. I love you. I love you. Bye. And now a word from our sponsors are meeting tired of warning vacations where there's only one captain telling you what to do.

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