On this episode of Chargers Weekly, Matt "Money" Smith and Chris Hayre are joined by The Athletic's Dane Brugler, who break downs each of the Chargers' eight selections in the 2022 NFL Draft class.
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I’m so pumped for this season. We’re going ALL IN!!! ⚡⚡⚡
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First member of the Bolt Family to show here ! Great job Chris and Money !! Been a fan 40 years !! Soooo excited for our Bolts !
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J Herb, Austin Ekeler, Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, Zion, Slater, and more. We already have a stacked offensive unit, and we just got amazing defensive players to help out DJ and Bosa, MAN I AM EXCITED FOR THIS SEASON
Bolt up baby ⚡️ ⚡️
Telesco got steals in this draft. At or near the top is our 6th round pick guard Jamaree Salyer. He’s a starter on Georgia’s 2022 National Championship team. This is a huge value pick in the 6th round. We’ve improved this OLINE by light years!
Slater Feiler Linsley Johnson Pipkins… yep! Mark my words… Pipkins will start at RT.
@JamesRichard dang, I’m super excited for this year, I think we have a bright future
Don’t worry after we start 1-3, the excitement will die down. 😅
Love the Zion Johnson pick and the Spiller pick .but really the whole draft was nice !! We did well …
As a big chargers fan going to be big for the team with the new rookies that are good ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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Pipkens looked like a beast last year.He was always a project,now with the right coaching he is blossoming and I think he will turn some haters into believers this year
Hopefully, because he was a reach drafted as a “proyect” and it has been too long, he needs to step up now
Nobody has nothing against Pipkins but Herbert is too valuable to hope that Pipkins steps up.
We need an upgrade not necessarily an all star player at RT just someone who can hold their own against top opposing defenders and Pipkins and Storm have got opportunities and we all watched the games no need to explain
Been a fan since 06
27 years old now and never been more excited in my life
It’s really hard to look back with perfect 20/20 hindsight and see the Zion pick making sense…so it’s weird that everybody is so quick to make it “make sense”. We have Guards. We dont have Tackles. Slater could “take a vacation” for a few weeks and we would have Pipkins and Storm as our PLAN A starting Tackles. As it stands, it looks like one of them will be RT, as plan A, at the beginning of the season. Disclaimer. I LOVE Zion…he was my top ranked Guard. I love all of the moves Telesco and Staley have done this offseason and I thought this years draft was miles ahead of last years. Still, we have a gaping hole at RT and a Front Office who designates ever “versatile lineman” as a Guard at the moment. SO…we skip on Penning at RT and watch the Saints pick him up 2 picks later fort LT. Who is the idiot…me for wanting Penning as an improvement over Storm Norton at a NEED position that helped lose us the chance at the playoffs, or the Saints and draft pundits who think Penning is worthy of being a Top 20 pick and starting at LEFT TACKLE….let alone just being better than Storm and Pip at RT? Either way, Penning (RAS score of 9.96 and the highest Run Blocking graded Tackle in the history of PFF) could be “moved inside” in an emergency and still have all of those measurables, just like guys like Feiler, Salyer, and Zion who ALSO played Tackle before being moved inside. None of that versatility seems to mean much if we’re just stockpiling guys to play RG and drafting guys like Horvath and McKitty as stay at home blockers to help Storm. What am I missing….if Im not missing anything, why am I the only one bringing this up?
@Dontno Nowuno What are you talking about? Pandering to a GM? I remember AJ Smith and the disaster that was his post Marty draft classes. Telesco is a gem of a GM, clearly one of the best in the league. Most GMs consider a 50/50 hit rate to be very good and Telesco’s is way higher than that. Just because you don’t appreciate what Telesco has done, doesn’t mean others don’t. My dad became a Chargers fan when Coryell became the head coach, as my dad went to college in San DIego when Coryell was the coach there and so I’m a lifelong Chargers fan (36 years old) and Telesco is the best GM we have had in my lifetime. Your whole argument of “intellectual fact driven responses” is hilarious given that you don’t have the facts. You haven’t done the work the scouting room has as you haven’t talked to each player, coaches, teamates, friends and family and you haven’t watched every hour of their college tape as well as seen them practice. You also have no idea what the draft board looked like as teams don’t release their boards. So please tell me how formulating assumptions without the knowledge base can be called an informed opinion. I don’t have one because I haven’t done the work. Which is why I trust the GM, especially one who has landed more than 50% of his first round picks.
@Aaron Smith calm down dude
@Aaron Smith yeah we can tell you’re 36. You’re tripping the nfl is changing every single year. The Zion pick gives us more line versatility same with salyer . Feiler is GOOD when he plays tackle so we can kick him out. You being this worried about this one issue is just weird man be excited you’re typing monologues to people that support the same team as you tryna convince them our franchise sucks. Fucking quit
@Jacob Jansepar wtf are you talking about? My whole point was defending telescos Zion pick. You should read before you open your mouth. I know that seems counterproductive to you young ppl but it makes what comes out of your mouth more relevant.
@Jacob Jansepar lol gosh I agree
Chargers Super Bowl 57 Champs!!!
2023 AFC & (hopefully) SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS 💯⚡️
Please meke a breakdown of the UDFAs.
Go Chargers
After watching some Salyer tape, idk how he fell to the 6th. Dominated all year at LT in the SEC, especially in the natl. championship. Plus he had to practice against like 8 first rounders every day throughout his four years at Georgia. He might be a candidate for the starting RT spot. But great depth regardless.
We have to find a way to get him on the field this year.
Love all the draft picks! Late round player I’m excited for is Ja’Sir Taylor.
Curious who the Chargers wanted to pick with their 4th rounder. TT said a few guys came off the board that hurt. They ended up taking Spiller but I think they planned to go CB. Perhaps Damarri Mathis or Jalyn Armour-Davis?
This well balanced team will play and grow together for the next several year’s.
Great Young phenom QB Justin Herbert and coach Staley.
Definitely excited for this team
Let’s Go Los Angeles Chargers!
Charge!!!!!!! ⚡️🐴 🏈
Chargers are a POWERHOUSE ⚡
ZAMIR WHITE I KNOW THE CHARGERS WANTED HIM.
I see a lot of comments on DJ but I know him most for playing Madden not being on the field. But he can lock down a TE just let him do that. I kinda like the RB pick but all they did was try to pick another Ekler they hope.
When we immigrated in 1987, we lived across what was Jack Murphy Stadium. Been a Chargers fan since then. Man, I am so excited for the Bolts this coming season. But please, let’s go back to San Diego!