Andrew Hawkins

I was going to say it didn't sound young.

Yeah. I mean, it wasn't prize fighting. I don't know what the hell happened. His face looks wicked swollen, man. Did you get shot? What is going on?

But, Hawk, for the people— I don't know how to approach what's going on here. First off, I seen you this morning, and I didn't see you. You know why?

Sat down. Even as Dan started talking, I have like a condition I call face blindness. Also because I was reading a book. Where I don't look at people's faces. I was reading a book like a spy. Dude, it's... It looks bad. I mean, it looked like you. I don't know if you really fell or you're getting abused at home.

It looks like he was the defender whose face Marshawn Lynch ran through a motherfucker of. Does it look fleek? It's lit, Dan.

I'm looking at you because I didn't see the game last night, Dan. I got to be honest with you. I was traveling, and I would love to lie. If we were on the mothership, I would have just faked it. But too much respect for you to lie. What would faking it sound like? I would love to know what that would sound like. Let's do this a different way.

Listen, when you look at the Denver Broncos this season, they have actually relied mostly on their defense and what Vance Joseph has done. Like, I like what Bo Nix has done as well. And it's obviously a match made in heaven with him and Sean Payton. But there have been times where you feel like the play calls are being called around some deficiencies he has.

And there were moments that popped up last night. And when you look at a game like that and you need your defense to step up, well, now when they don't, You have cause for concerns going into this stretch of the season, which is the most important part. Nailed it.

It makes you really believe, like, damn, Draymond really went over last night.

Hey, there's money in it.

As I'm sitting there and I'm enjoying a caramel macchiato watching this game late night with my feet snuggled up in an Ohio State Buckeye Snuggie that my wife gifted me on my birthday in college in 2008, I thought to myself, this is what you want. when you came into this season from Harbaugh.

Because you think about Justin Herbert and his arm strength, and you feel like he should have always been in the class with Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes. The list continues. And last night when you got that glimpse of how Harbaugh has really brought his talent to the forefront and filled in that blind spot for him to get the most out of him.

And there's moments where you see that incredible arm strength, right? And then that's where you get excited about and you finally feel like... This is what the Chargers needed to get over the hump.

17-year-old blanket that you're snuggled up in. Hey, it's why it's my lucky blanket. Here's what you do.

That's what Lyd McConkie has with Justin Herbert. Down the stretch, you saw it in those moments on third down.

Oh, okay. We had this conversation last week, too. He's a hockey player. This is what I like about you. I live for this, man. Yeah, I like that.

Give me a few steps over here, bro. I've got chills, man.

Oh, sorry.

So good. And when you look at the way that he performs, really when you get into that late November, December part of the season, it makes you feel good about what you have as a quarterback, right? For what he has to follow up with Aaron Rodgers, obviously legendary there. But to be able to raise the bar that I feel like he has in that, I don't know if I'm being serious right now.

I was still heavy into the first fake bit.