Raider Nation's LA Takeover and Harbaugh's Debut at SoFi

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00:00I want the silver and black.

00:04I want the Raider Nation to take over SoFi Stadium.

00:08I want the Raider Nation to remind everybody that this is still Raider country, LA, and

00:15hopefully they take over the place because I want Jim Nance and Tony Romo on the broadcast

00:20to say, wow, Tony, there's a lot of Raider fans here for the opening and for Harbaugh's

00:27debut.

00:28I hate to see all of a sudden a lot of powder blue and just a little bit of black.

00:32What do you suppose happens, Eric?

00:33I think it's going to be half and half.

00:36I think you're going to see a lot of Raider fans.

00:38I think that's to be expected, but I think the Charger fans are going to show up as well

00:42just because, again, this is a new era.

00:45It's Harbaugh's debut.

00:47I think if you have Charger season tickets, you're less inclined to sell them versus what

00:54happened last year where obviously they were on their last legs in terms of Brandon Staley

01:00and what was happening there, and they ended up firing Staley after the end of that game.

01:06And don't forget, part of the storyline, Tom Telesco, who for many, many years was the

01:10architect of the Chargers roster, which was a good roster, just didn't win, a lot of talent,

01:16didn't win.

01:17Tom Telesco is now the general manager of the Raiders.

01:19He was fired by the Chargers after the Raiders put up 63 on him last year.

01:23So a little revenge factor there, Tom Telesco.

01:27Don't also forget.

01:28I don't know if you guys remember how pissed off Devante Adams was, was that the Chargers

01:32media social team for calling him trash in their NFL schedule release video.

01:36And Devante was trying to remind everybody, I averaged like 130 yards against that team

01:42and I killed that team.

01:44And now that defense who's older, like I'm going to go in there and crush that team.

01:49So I'm looking at Devante, I think his number 79 and a half out the water, he's going to

01:53get way over that.

01:55Okay.

01:56I love that play already.

01:57What do you think about that, Eric?

01:58I like that play as well, considering who's back there in the Chargers secondary.

02:03You look at Jacoby Myers, Brock Bowers, Samir White's going to be running the football now

02:08instead of Josh Jacobs.

02:10The only concern is Gardner Mischu is the one throwing them the football.

02:13So, you know, somebody has to throw Adams the ball in order for him to get those yards.

02:19And so that's a concern is how is he going to handle the pressure of being the starter

02:25for the Raiders?

02:26And is he going to be able to get Adams the football enough?

02:30So Eric, listen, you could be mad as you won't as a social media team for the way that they

02:35rolled out the schedule, you can be as fired up as you want as a Raider fan about what

02:43somebody could be, but the rub about to meet the road and Gardner Minshew's on his fourth

02:47team, if I'm not mistaken, and five or six seasons for a reason.

02:52Okay.

02:53And ain't no condo got beat out for that job for a reason.

02:56You got to have the right person to row and use a ball.

03:00I, as, as, as much of a fan I am, uh, Devontae Adams, and these two will attest to that.

03:07You have to have the right guy throwing you the ball.

03:10So I'm not excited about the Raiders season at all.

03:13And I'm a huge fan of the head coach.

03:15I'm a huge fan of Antonio Pierce.

03:17I just don't see it happening.

03:20I think that's fair.

03:21Browner, when you look at, like you said, if you have a quarterback competition, you

03:25probably don't have a quarterback in your building.

03:28And I think that's certainly the case.

03:29Uh, when you talk about the Raiders, I think it's one of the reasons why all the speculation

03:34with Dak Prescott, one of the potential landing spots is the Raiders in terms of, you know,

03:40if he becomes a free agent, but teams are going to be bidding on his services.

03:44I also expect the Rams to be one of those teams considering Matthew Stafford's getting

03:49long in the tooth.

03:50But when you look at the Raiders season right now, they're obviously going to do their best

03:55to try to protect Gardner, which means run the football, play good defense behind them.

04:00And again, I think that's one of the matchups that we're after really watch is the Condor

04:05Max Crosby going against that rookie right tackle in Joel.

04:10Is he going to be able to hold up, give Justin Herbert enough time to get the ball to guys

04:15like Josh Palmer and Lab McConkie?

04:18And will they be able to establish the run, which is obviously what Harbaugh wants to

04:22do.

04:23He wants to hard nose grinded out running game in terms of taking some of the pressure

04:28off of Justin.

04:30Will they be able to do that against a pretty good, you know, Raiders defensive front that

04:35also has Christian walk into the added free agency.

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