Chargers’ New Weapons UNLEASHED Against Chiefs | Can Herbert Finally Overcome Mahomes?

Chargers’ New Weapons UNLEASHED Against Chiefs | Can Herbert Finally Overcome Mahomes?

is Chargers. It is Chiefs in Brazil with the entire world watching. I couldn’t think of a better way to kick off this 2025 NFL season. [Music] You are Locked on NFL Crossover, part of the Locked On Network, your team every day. What’s going on everybody? Welcome in to the Locked On podcast network. I am David Drogamire, co-host of the Locked On Chargers podcast, and I am joined by the Locked On Chiefs podcast, Chris Clark and Ryan Tracy, and we’re going to talk about this amazing football game to start the 2025 season. Um, it is going to be very exciting. We’re going to get into the biggest storylines for each team, talk about the biggest matchups, the matchups that are going to decide how this game ends, and of course, we’re going to give you our keys to victory, how each one of these teams have to set up to be able to win this football game. But before we get into it, Crossover Thursday is presented by Prize Picks. Download the Prize Pix app today and use code locked on NFL to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. Gentlemen, the season is finally upon us. Hallelujah. We made it through the dead cold off season and now it’s time for football to begin again. How are you guys doing? What’s going on over there in Chiefs Land? I’m excited for football. I I can’t say it any other way. Like I It’s finally here. Like preseason was a nice little bit of wetting the appetite, but uh regular season football can’t get any better than that. and Chiefs Chargers is not normally the way that the season starts, but that’s a lot of fun, too. It surely is, Ryan. And I mean, we got a lot to talk about here with the with these matchups. Obviously, the Chiefs coming out of a yet another Super Bowl appearance. Um, it did not obviously end the way that Chiefs fans would have liked it to obviously, but you get back to the top of the mountain piece almost. Um, but this is another campaign here. Starting with the biggest storylines for the Chiefs. What would you say is the most important one to touch on as we get into this football game? You right now that with Rashid Rice out that you have Hollywood Brown back that you are able to put at least two of your three amigos out there, your top three wide receivers set and get them after because it’s been a combination of the the receiving options, the targets, as well as the protection that has slowed down this offense. And they are looking big time to prove that they can go back over the top, that they can get downfield yet again. And without Rice, it’s going to be a challenge, obviously. But with Hollywood back on, and he didn’t play in the preseason. They maybe could have dressed him for the last uh preseason game, but they chose not to just to save him for this matchup. And and obviously just goes to show when you have a division rival and you have a tough team coming at you. And you got to make this trip. I think that’s the best way forward and gives them a shot. Absolutely. And with the Chargers, guys, there’s a lot of changes. I think after the last preseason or last the play game that they played in the regular season, obviously the playoff game against the Houston Texans, it was very apparent that they had to load up on weapons in that playoff game. You look at the statline, it is Lad Mani and then there’s everybody else. He had 197 yards receiving and nobody else had more than 25 yards. And so going into this off season, the plan was very, very clear. We have to get more weapons for Justin Herbert. it just can’t have another season with the lack of weaponry to be able to arm him to do what he’s capable of doing. So that’s why they go out and they grab a Tyler Conklin. They go out and they get Keenan Allen back. They draft uh Trey Harris. They get Omaran Hampton in the first round. They go get Keandre Lambert Smith, a wide receiver they really like in the fifth round who could really run and really go up and get the football. and Aronda Gatston the second, a just primary passcatching tight end, a guy who can really stretch the field that can really threaten the seam. And they had to improve this offense. That was the major major point here. I guess the the the real question is is how long is it going to take for all of these new elements to be able to mesh and to be able to go out there and play at the level that the Chargers needed? They didn’t invest as much on the offensive line as I would have liked. They went fullcourt press on improving the weapons and that’s going to have to show itself in game one against the Kansas City Chiefs. Yeah, and it is a great question. How long is it going to take them to get to a point where they can mesh as an offense? How long is it going to take them to get on the same page? Uh to get some of the kinks worked out. You watched Mahomes struggle at times with Xavier Worthy last year just not being on the same page, not having that chemistry. And I think that that’s going to be a big thing playing into this game is their chemistry that, you know, they gained over the entire season and then working in training camp in the preseason. But also, I think one of the other biggest stories for Kansas City is what kept them from winning having even a chance to win the Super Bowl against Eagles. Don’t get me wrong, the defense had their own problems and that was an issue, but it was protection of Patrick Mahomes. And what did Kansas City do this offseason? They rebuilt their offensive line to an extent. They resign Trey Smith after they franchise tag him, which we didn’t think that they would be doing uh because of the extra salary cap. And then you go out and you trade Joe Tuni, who has been a stalwart and one of the best guards in football. Big surprise there. Huge surprise for a lot of people, but it made sense for what they’re trying to do. And then they go and sign a left tackle in Jaylen Moore, who’s not even going to end up probably playing in this game. At least you hope he doesn’t because that would mean there’s an injury of some sort. And you get Josh Simmons in the first round like everybody thought he was going to be missing time this season and he hasn’t missed a snap I don’t believe in even in OTAAS like even going back to OTAAS I don’t think he missed a snap at the left tackle position they have rebuilt or I guess maybe retoolled their offensive line I guess is maybe the better word and I feel a lot better about it this year than I did last year. Obviously, you have a question at left guard. We’ll talk about that a little bit later. But the big question I have is or the what I’m looking at is they are better across the board when you look at their top six offensive linemen, not just the top five because Jaylen Moore can play probably four positions on this line and that’s a huge help when you get injuries throughout the season. Yeah, no question about it. I mean, the phys offensive line is a physically demanding position. There’s going to be attrition. We see it every single year. It’s the teams that have the best quality depth that can weather that storm to while they wait for their starters to get back on the field are the teams that we routinely see at the end in the playoffs. The teams that are trying to vive for a Super Bowl championship and that’s obviously what we’re all trying to do. As far as the offensive line for the Chargers, I wish they would have done more. I mean, it’s one of the things that we talked about so much in the offseason, me and Daniel. Are they going to add more? It’s the same center. It’s the same left guard that’s out there. Yes, they went out there and they grabbed the big ticket. Mai Beckton, the 6’7, 363 lb people mover and just a straightup Mer. He is definitely going to be an improvement at the right guard position. But is that enough? Right. And we’ll talk about some of those key matchups a little bit later on as I’m sure we will because the test is going to be straight out the gate. As we know, the defensive line for the Kansas City Chiefs sports one of the most dominant interior presences in the National Football League. So, will Mai Beckton be able to stay healthy? Will he be able to open up holes for a running game that quite frankly was not good enough last year? That’s why they go get a Naji Harris. That’s why they go get an Omaran Hampton to be able to improve a rushing attack that just frankly has has to be better in 2025 for the Chargers if they want to compete. That’s the story line I’m going to be looking at is can they be able to weather the storm on the offensive line and did they make enough improvements on that interior to be able to handle the challenges that they’re going to see. And the biggest one probably coming up on Friday. That’s going to be interesting to find out as well because Chris Jones is not exactly renowned for just uh taking on triple teams and stopping the run all by his lonesome. So, uh, you know, let’s get some passing downs and we’ll see what happens. But Beckton is is certainly going to be somebody that they have to know where he’s at at all times and it’s going to be interesting matchup. Yeah, it most certainly is. I think for the Chiefs, is there any other kind of storylines you want to talk about before we move on to the biggest matchups? The big thing is that there’s one anchor in the secondary. His name’s Trent McDuffy and everything else is uh work in motion at this point. So, it’s a two-edged sword knowing that what the Charters need to do is utilize those new options in Marin and Naji and come downhill. Should they get into third, uh, they got to throw the ball, it’s still not going to be exactly what it’s been in the past where you feel like the Chiefs have the advantage on third down. I don’t know that that’s true this time. It’s going to be a brawl the whole way. It most certainly is. And that’s especially what the Chargers and Jim Harbaugh and Greg Roman want to do. They want to make it a knockdown, dragout, physical fight. That’s the type of football that they want to play. We’ll see if they have the personnel to be able to get into it. And speaking of that, we got to talk about some of those biggest matchups between the Chargers and Chiefs in this game. And we are going to do that right after this. But first, I got to talk to you guys about Door Dash. It’s almost the weekend. Time to look back and crown this week’s MVP on who delivered. 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And they struggled a lot last year handling stunts and twists. And you know, Steve Spagnolo, the defensive coordinator of the Chiefs, is going to make things difficult for the Chargers. Going to have to make them think on their feet, have to react after the snap. It’s going to be a very, very big test. But that’s going to be one of those matchups where if you can just hold Chris Jones at bay, Ryan, you could have yourself a better chance of winning in this football game. As far as the biggest matchups that you see on that side of things, what is the biggest matchup you want to talk about here to start things off? You know, it goes back and forth for me and I think the biggest question leads to the biggest matchup and yes, moving Chris Jones around to to get on Beck and to get on Johnson. There’s going to be a lot and that’s certainly one of them. But the opposite is true as well. And and for me, it’s not necessarily a player on a player. For me, it’s Jesse Mter against Josh Simmons because Josh is prepared. He’s he’s an excellent athlete. He is ready honestly a year before I thought he he would be. But it’s about overloading him. It’s about getting in between him. And Kisu Matia, who is new to the left guard position, was playing at left tackle last year. That that division. Can you drive a wedge there? Can you confuse them enough with what your front looks like in order to get that slight advantage? And the good thing is Simmons has great recovery time. Maybe the best feet they’ve had at left tackle since Eric Fischer or before. He was clearly tackle one in this class on all of my boards. No matter what I was looking at, he’s going to have to rely on all those skills. It’s not just going to be Mac. It’s going to be everything thrown at him. And I think that is the chess game that will show up on the field that maybe has a lot more going on underneath the surface for sure. Uh because with the Chargers defense, it’s not just about Khalil Mack, who by all accounts looks like an absolute animal in the offseason. He has been revitalized. He is absolutely solely focused on making sure that the Chargers not only get to the playoffs, but win a playoff game. He has not won a playoff game in his illustrious first ballot hall of fame career. And so obviously he’s only one man, but like I said, it’s not just Khalil Mack. You also have to worry about one of the best blitzing safeties in the National Football League in Derwin James, who now they know Jesse Mentor knows that he makes his most impact close to the line of scrimmage. He was a second team allpro slot corner last year who was an absolute maniac rushing after the quarterback. Derwin James is like he shot out of a cannon. But speaking of Derwin James and matchups, we obviously can’t talk about any matchups if we’re not talking about Derwin James and Deon Henley versus the other First Ballot Hall of Famer on the other side of things, the man who just got engaged to one of the biggest pop stars on the face of the earth, Travis Kelce. It’s always appointment television, gentlemen. Chris Clark, this is a matchup that absolutely is going to help decide this football game. How has Travis Kelce looked in the offseason? Does he look good? And it seems like there’s been some whispers out there that this might be him or his last season riding into the sunset. I would say it’s possible it’s going to be his last season. We don’t know. He’s tried to deny and say that he doesn’t want to talk about it naturally. Yeah. And he said, you know, they’ll figure out the contract after this year. So, uh, you know, trying to make it sound like he could be playing for another season. I think he’s looked better this off seasonason and this training camp and preseason than he looked probably most of last year. And part of that I think could be I think he was a little dinged up at times last year, but I also don’t think he was in the kind of shape that I think he’s in right now. So I do think that he is going to be in a better position this year than he was last year. And I do think it’s going to be a key in this game. I don’t know. I’m not gonna say that I don’t think that Travis Kelce is going to be a key in this game, but I do think one of the biggest keys and when you start talking matchups is going to be the Chiefs wide receivers against the against the Chargers safeties. Because if you start taking a guy like Hollywood Brown and Xavier Worthy and Taekquin Thornton and you’re able to pull out the safeties in the corners going down the field, that’s going to open up everything underneath. So, it’s a question of how do you defend that? How do you go up against a Chiefs offense that looks like from what we saw in the preseason and from everything we saw in training camp wants to throw the ball down the field and wants to attack and they have the speed to do it. That’s going to be an interesting matchup for sure because with Jesse Mentor, I mean we didn’t obviously in the preseason you don’t see much. They don’t really game plan. They don’t really do much. However, he did uh do a simulated pressure with a big man driving in the coverage and he he did grab an interception because of that. So Jesse Mentor can get very very creative with his blitz packages. And um obviously with Patrick Mahomes, he’s one of the absolute best at performing offscript and out of the structure of the play. So it’s something you’re really going to have to pay attention to. And I think, you know, as far as another big matchup here on my side and really just for this football game in general, uh, Ryan is Trent McDuffy, the fantastic corner of the Kansas City Chiefs going up against the secondyear demon Lambo Lad Mani. That is going to be an absolutely phenomenal matchup. And obviously not just because these are two of the best young players in the NFL, but it’s the byproduct of what it does to the rest of the guys that now will have more favorable advantageous one-on-one opportunities that they’re going to have to win because now there is no, you know, oh, I don’t know what Lad Mccon is going to bring to the table. The scouting report is out. You know how good this guy is. You know, you have to pay attention to him. You have to game plan for him. So, it really makes it obviously that much more important for the guys like Quinton Johnston, the guys like Tyler Conklin, the other gentlemen that are a part of this Chargers offense to be able to get open and take advantage of the opportunities that they get because Trent McDuffy is going to be paying quite a lot of attention to Lab Maki in this football game. Yeah, if I’m in the room with Steve, I I’m telling Spags to just put him on him all day. Cart him around. Is Is Lab gonna get a whip route on him? probably that’s all right. He runs that as maybe my favorite route that he runs. That’s going to work in your advantage because I think elsewhere you’re setting yourself up. Got to remember too, Christian Fulton’s now one of the starting corners on this roster on this side of the ball. That changes everything. Now, obviously Joe Harris is new. Uh my Smith is new. Okay, that’s fine. There’s not a whole lot of familiarity there. But I’ll take Fulton against a rookie any day of the week. And then is Keen really gonna exploit him? Is he really going to exploit Watson? I think that’s maybe the matchup that turns into the biggest question mark that I’m waiting to see. One thing that we can’t discount is that relationship and that chemistry that Justin Herbert and Keenan Allen so clearly and obviously have. And Keenan Allen got signed about a month ago and was already voted to be a kind of secondary captain of this football team. That just goes to show you kind of how this team views him and how important he’s going to be because outside of Keenan Allen, guys, it’s a very, very young Chargers wide receiver group that a lot of guys that only have two or three years in this league. So, it’s very, very important for him to be able to show up and provide that chemistry because it’s going to be needed. Keenan Keenan Allen’s going to have to be there on third down to be able to move the chains and keep this thing moving. But that is going to wrap things up for this segment here. We have to get into the keys to victory for each one of these football teams. What do these teams have to do to be able to win this game? We are going to get into that right after this. But first, I got to tell you guys about Mazda. This is Mazda’s Moving the Game Forward, brought to you by those who believe it’s not just about playing the game, it’s about redefining it. Because these moments do more than win. They push what’s possible. They remind us to go go the extra yard, shift into that gear, and keep moving the game forward. It will be incredibly important for the Chargers to keep moving forward, and that starts on Friday against the Chiefs. 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David Drogamire here of the Locked On Chargers podcast joined by Chris Clark and Ryan Tracy of the Locked On Chiefs podcast and we have been the hosts of the Lockdown Chargers and Chiefs podcast respectively for what is this seven or eight years now guys. There’s been a lot of continuity here with the AFC West podcast here on the Lockdown Podcast Network. Um, so we have been covering these teams for a very, very long time. And now we’re at the part of the program where we got to talk about what each one of these teams need to do to be able to put themselves in position to start their season 1 and0. As you know, technically the Chargers are the home team. I’ll kick things off to the visitors to start this thing off. All right, Chris Clark, we’re going to talk about the most important matchups in this game as far as Charger Chiefs in this football game. What is the most important matchup for the Chiefs in order to win this football game? I still think it comes down to Josh Simmons and whoever he goes against. Kansas City struggled mightily at the left tackle position. They’ve had five different left tackles in their uh in the last five seasons or sorry in all their five Super Bowls. I apologize. They’ve had five different left tackles. You cannot continuously do that. I understand injuries happen and that’s part of it, but getting continuity there, getting a left tackle that you can build around and getting Mahomes in a situation where he is comfortable and he doesn’t feel like he has to always be checking, you know, on that side of the ball to verify whether or not he’s going to be getting hit is extremely important and it starts this week one. If they can establish a good foundation at left tackle, it is a huge deal for not only this game but the entire season. Yeah, no question about it. You got to make sure and protect Patrick Mahomes. Uh like I mentioned earlier though, I think one of my keys to to kind of combat that directly is you got to keep Patrick Mahomes in the pocket. You cannot allow him to operate offscript and to be able to play that backyard football that he does so incredibly well extending the plays just being fast enough to get past you and get to the first down lines just over and over and over again. So you have to keep him in the pocket. You have to shut down those running lanes. You got to keep him kind of in structure while getting pressure in his face. Got to have that pocket collapse around him so he can’t escape and extend the play that we’ve seen so many frustrating times when the Chargers and Chiefs play. It absolutely has to happen. As far as the second thing, Ryan Tracy, that the Chiefs have to do, what would you say that is? It’s really straightforward. Don’t let them beat you up. You have to stop the run. It’s very simple. Jim wants to do it. Don’t let Don’t let him fool you. Anybody who’s watching who’s a Chiefs fan, uh there is no joking about it. He wants to run down your throat. He will until he’s forced not to. You have to go take the initiative. You have to do everything you can to stop that run. And it’s going to be tough. Derek Naughty just return rejoined this team like uh four minutes before they took off for Brazil. So like he’s he knows the system. He should jump right back in, but he’s got a back. He’s had a tricep. There’s all kinds of injury history there with an older player that’s coming in and is now going to have to man that front in the gap next to Chris Jones. They’re going to run at you. You got to keep the linebackers clean. You got to make sure that they can come downhill. Now, the linebackers are a good group and they have jelled together to become one of the the I would say top half. I won’t call them top five, but top 16 in the league. Sure. But you get on them and you get physical with them, that’s where things start to break down. So, you got to be clean. You got to get to the ball and you got to attack. particularly Hampton. I’m a little upset. I got to tell you, Hampton was my RB1 in this draft. Hate seeing him in blue. Uh but there’s ways to combat that. You throw a little red on, it all works out. So, you got to attack that run. No question. And it’s it’s a big part of the key for success for the Chargers. I mean, and last year, the Chiefs did an excellent job of of mitigating the rushing attack for the Chargers. The Chargers ran it 38 times in the two matchups against the Chiefs for only 121 yards. That’s only 3.1 yards per carry. every single team that you play against will take that every single day of the week and twice on Sunday. So that’s why it was so important for the Chargers to go get an Naji Harris, to go get an Amarian Hampton, who these guys, they break tackles. They force three, four, five guys to drag you to the ground and they’re falling forward. The Chargers, they have to do that. They got to beat the Chiefs up in this game. They have to dominate the line of scrimmage. They have to play ball control offense. keep that Patrick Mahomes offense off of the football field as long as humanly possible. And for the Chargers, when they are on the field, outside of running the football, which you definitely have to do, they have to hit the play action game. Last year, Justin Herbert was downright lethal in play action. 95.1 PFF grade when utilizing play action. eight touchdowns, only two interceptions, and a completion percentage over 74% for Justin Herbert when he is hitting the play action. They were fantastic at it last year with one of the worst running games in the NFL. If that running game is even league average this year, it’s going to make it so much more potent and deadly for the Chargers play action game. And also last year, Justin Herbert could not run. He was very banged up going into the season. He had the planer fascia injury. and then during the season had two separate ankle injuries that he had to play through where they just couldn’t run the football. They couldn’t they had to really condense the playbook to be able to protect him. Now he’s fully healthy and I firmly expect that he will run more with the football and that’s only going to help that play action game be that much more deadly. Yeah. And I think that that’s going to be something that Kansas City needs to take needs to take into account when they’re playing defense. They need to figure out who’s going to be marking Justin Herbert. While he’s not, and I want to be clear, he’s not obviously a Lamar Jackson type or even really Josh Allen. Like, that’s not the case. But he is somebody that can beat you with his legs if you give him the opportunity to do it and you have pass coverage downfield. So, I I do think that that’s something that’s going to be a big key in this game is is slowing down the running game. And it doesn’t just me necessarily mean the running backs. That could also mean Justin Herbert. But when I look at this game, this is a this is a statement type game for Kansas City. And it’s not that I think they need to go out and they need to win this game to have a chance to do anything this year. Obviously, game one, who knows what the season’s going to bring, but the reality is is you go back and you look at how their offense played last year, they struggled because they didn’t have the wide receivers. They struggled because they didn’t have the protection. it. I said that the protection was important and it is, but you have wide receivers now that you have to take advantage of. And Patrick Mahomes, while he’s been fantastic at so many things throughout his career, struggled with the deep ball last year. if they can come out and establish the deep ball game one and and even if they only hit, you know, half of them and they take, you know, five or six shots and they only hit half, that still is going to be something that’s going to be a huge advantage for this Chief’s offense because it’s going to make everybody else feel like they have to back up and then it’s going to open up the intermediates and the passing in in the uh running game. One thing we know about these two teams, guys, is that they know each other extremely well. These games are always very close and they usually come down to who has the football last. So, we will see who has the football last in this game of the Chargers and the Chiefs in Brazil with the entire world watching. But that’s going to wrap things up for this Crossover Thursday episode. I’ve been your host, David Drogmire, with Chris Clark and Ryan Tracy of the Locked Chiefs podcast. Please check out our podcasts as we will of course give you our keys for success and some predictions as we tell you who we think is going to win this football game. Thank you so much for joining us on this Crossover Thursday and take it easy and enjoy the game.

Chargers vs. Chiefs: Brazil Showdown Kicks Off 2025 NFL Season. Can Justin Herbert outgun Patrick Mahomes in this international spectacle?

Los Angeles Chargers face the Kansas City Chiefs in a high-stakes season opener. Key matchups include Chris Jones vs. Mekhi Becton and Derwin James shadowing Travis Kelce. Hosts analyze offensive line changes, defensive strategies, and the critical role of the running game. Chris Clark and Ryan Tracy join to dissect both teams’ offseason moves and their impact on this clash.

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FanDuel
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