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chris Harris tweeting to eric Weddle and Jalen Ramsey.

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Those boys deserve that. Certainly happy for his old

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teammate Von Miller giving him a shout out there chris

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Harris of course spending the last couple of years with

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the Chargers in town here in Los Angeles and for

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more on the Los Angeles Chargers, we welcome back

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Jim, Trotter and jim when you look at the

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Rams winning the Super Bowl, what impact might that

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have on the chargers here in town? A significant

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one, omar from this standpoint, we know that

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when both these teams moved back to Los Angeles,

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there was the quote unquote fight for Los Angeles and

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we know that in the L. A. Market

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winning trumps all and to generate fan interest, you

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have to win. So with the rams winning the

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Super Bowl, you can bet that there will be

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more pressure, more incentive and more of a sense

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of urgency among the Chargers to make that playoff run

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to do that. They are going to have to

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address their defense in particular their run defense. They

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were 30th in yards allowed, They tied for 30

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seconds and uh first downs allowed rushing, gave up

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a lot of yards and average per carry as well

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as touchdown. So they've got to address that and

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they've got to get some linebackers who can cover in

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the past game, they've got a lot of money

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available under the cap and they are going to have

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to spend that defensively. So my expectation is that

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we will see the charges be much more aggressive in

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free agency that perhaps we might have seen had the

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rams not on a Super Bowl. And where do

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they go surrounding Justin Herbert with more talent and try

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to elevate his game. Well look, the key

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there is Mike Williams who is a free agent scheduled

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to be a free agent this offseason, but there

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is a lot of talent on that offense still,

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even without mike Williams, so they will probably look

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to supplement that wide receiver game. They have a

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running game with Austin Ekeler, they feel good about

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changes they made on that offensive line last year.

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But the key will be who's going to be that

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compliment to keenan Allen in the passing game and so

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They would like to resign Mike Williams, he's that

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deep threat guy that 5050 ball who can win down

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the field but he is the focus but right now

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for them going into the offseason, they have got

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to address that defense and I know for a fact

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that Brandon staley wants to get some big hogs up

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front to help deal with this run game which was

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so porous last year. Yes, certainly a sense

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of urgency there from the Chargers organization to continue to

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nip at that fan base here in Los Angeles,

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obviously the Rams doing their part, winning a Super

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Bowl this season. Jim Trotter, thank you very

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much