Chargers Season in Jeopardy? Why Rashawn Slater’s Injury Changes EVERYTHING

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All right, number two on the Furious
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Five. More football here in LA. Raan
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Slater is gone for the season. And this
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was going to be Justin Herbert's left
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tackle. He had just signed a deal to
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make him the highest paid offensive
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lineman left tackle in the NFL weeks
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before he goes down with a seasonending
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injury.
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I like how the bolts are built. I have
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always liked that Jim Harbaugh walked in
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and said, "I've got a franchise QB, but
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I don't want to make him have to win
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games for us." Which is exactly what
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happened to the previous two coaches. It
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was give Justin Herbert the football and
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pray that he's going to bail you out of
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out of harm's way. What Harbaugh wanted
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to do was smashmouth, run the football,
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play defense, build the offensive line,
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which is what he has done everywhere
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he's been. San Francisco obviously very
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good. Michigan, they won a national
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championship. That's how th those teams
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were built. He wants to do that with the
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Chargers. You know, Slater was a massive
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part of that. He's going to move Alt,
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last year's number one overall first
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round pick into that left tackle slot
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and move some things around to the
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offensive line. I don't love it. Alt is
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if you're gonna have to do it, you do it
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with a guy that's got that type of of
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ability, that type of size. But this is
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a massive, massive, massive injury. And
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because it's an offensive lineman, most
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people, it will not register how severe
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this is. I thought the Chargers came
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into this season with real possibility
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of doing damage in the playoffs. I
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didn't think they could go to a Super
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Bowl, but I did think they could be a
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problem in year number two under
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Harbaugh and understanding and
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developing what their style is. They got
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a taste of the postseason last year.
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They have an identity, but losing Slater
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for the year is a massive,
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absolutely massive loss. I cannot
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underscore this enough for who they are.
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the blind side of Justin Herbert's, you
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know, pocket and how great Slater is
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that you're gonna be hardressed to find
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a bigger injury across the NFL this
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season. I'm serious. Now, of course,
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with their starting quarterback that
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goes down, that's bigger. But in terms
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of a non-quarterback injury and what the
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guy means to the team, that's in terms
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of the preseason, that will likely be
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the most important injury of the NFL
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preseason. That's how big that

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