The Lightning Round: A Los Angeles Chargers Podcast

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Garrett, Jamie and Craig review the Chargers entire 2023 draft class, offer insight on each pick, choose their favorite/least favorite pick and draft the whole 2023 class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Garrett is joined by Anthony North who covers TCU to talk about the players the Chargers drafted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Chargers select TCU wide receiver Quentin Johnston. Garrett talks about the player & the fit for the Chargers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Call Sheet on Fans First Sports Network returns with 3-time championship winning coach and NFL fan K.T. Smith. Join K.T. in sharing his coaching perspective and how it translates to the NFL game. On this episode, Coach Smith sheds light on a trend at No. 13 and talks to FFSN's Dan Burnham from This is the Jet Life about the Aaron Rodgers deal from Green Bay to New York. Learn more about your a...

The NFL Draft is this Thursday so Garrett, Craig and Jamie play Chargers General Manager on TWO mock drafts. They walk through a joint mock draft of how they would attack the draft then it goes off the rails on the second mock. The second mock draft is what they think Telesco would do and it slowly turns into a worse case scenario. Listen and prepare yourselves for the NFL draft starting Thursday....

Garrett jumps on to break down round by round how he would attack the Chargers draft by position group. He lists his favorite four from each position group and where he believes there is the most value by each pick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The NFL team at Fans First Sports Network banded together for a comprehensive mock draft of the first round of the 2023 NFL Draft. Who did your favorite team select? Join FFSN's K.T. Smith amd Steel Curtain Network's Bryan Anthony Davis for all the hot takes, cool picks and big surprises. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Lightning Round draft podcast is back with Garrett, Jamie and Craig to share their NFL Draft profiles and on this show the guys cover the Wide Receivers in the 2023 draft class. They go over some of the top prospects, list their personal top guys, also give some sleepers and possible fits for the Chargers including what round they begin looking for these positions in the draft. The Wide Receiv...

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The Lightning Round draft podcast is back with Garrett, Jamie and Craig to share their NFL Draft profiles and on this show the guys cover the Linebackers and Edge Rushers in the 2023 draft class. They go over some of the top prospects, list their personal top guys, also give some sleepers and possible fits for the Chargers including what round they begin looking for these positions in the draft. T...

The Lightning Round draft podcast is back with Garrett, Jamie and Craig to share their NFL Draft profiles and on this show the guys cover the Running Backs and Tight Ends in the 2023 draft class. They go over some of the top prospects, list their personal top guys, also give some sleepers and possible fits for the Chargers including what round they begin looking for these positions in the draft. T...

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After almost nine years on Bolts from the Blue this will be our last Lightning Round Podcast on the website. We will continue recording content but it will not be a part of this network. Before we get to the details of what’s next Jamie & I would like to thank everyone who has helped support the podcast and grow it to what it is today. Even if you listened for a few seconds and turned it off, the...

The Lightning Round draft podcast is back with Garrett, Jamie and Craig to share their NFL draft profiles and on this show the guys cover the Interior Defensive Line in the 2023 draft class. They go over some of the top prospects, list their personal top guys, also give some sleepers and possible fits for the Chargers including what round they begin looking for these positions in the draft. The De...

The Lightning Round draft podcast is back with Garrett, Jamie and the new addition Craig Smith to share their NFL draft profiles and on this show the guys cover the Offensive Line in the 2023 draft class. They go over some of the top prospects, list their personal top guys, also give some sleepers and possible fits for the Chargers including what round they begin looking for these positions in the...

The Lightning Round draft podcasts returns with the NFL draft profiles and on this show the guys cover the cornerbacks and safeties in the 2023 draft class. Before they get to the draft profiles they break down the Trey Pipkins contract, how it was the right timing to cut Matt Feiler then the Morgan Fox news breaks. Fox re-signed with the Chargers for two more years. Once the give their live react...

The Lightning Round Podcast breaks down the first day of Free Agency. The guys map out how the Chargers attacked the Linebacker market and why they pivoted to the veteran linebacker Eric Kendricks. They explain how Kendricks fits into the Chargers system and how improves this defense. They then shift to moves the Chargers want to make and if they are still interested in re-signing either Linebacke...

The Chargers open up Free Agency by re-signing their former 5th round pick out of North Dakota State quarterback Easton Stick. The back-up quarterback signed a one year deal worth $1.647 million, including a $152,500 signing bonus and $1 million of that fully guaranteed. Garrett talks about what that means for the Chargers quarterback room now and heading into the 2023 NFL Draft. The Chargers also...

The Chargers made four contract restructures last week with a pair of edge rushers (Khalil Mack and Joey Bosa) as well as a pair of wide receivers (Keenan Allen and Mike Williams). While the money the team saves is important Jamie dives deep into what the numbers mean, how it is spread out over the deration of the players contract and what it might mean for the players future with the Chargers. Jo...

Just a few short day ago the Chargers restructured a pair of wide receivers contracts and now they restructure the contracts of a pair of their edge rushers. The Chargers created almost $26M in cap space by restructuring the contracts of edge rushers Joey Bosa and Khalil Mack. Jamie gives all the details on the contract restructure and breaks down where the Chargers stand now. After he breaks down...

The Chargers created $14.3M in cap space by restructuring the contracts of wide receivers Keenan Allen and Mike Williams. The team now sits just over $8.6M over the cap. Jamie gives all the details on the contract restructure and breaks down where the Chargers stand now. After he breaks down all the numbers Jamie suggests some possible cuts that could still come before they need to be cap complian...

The Lightning Round Podcast continues it’s offseason coverage with just a couple more days before Free Agency; on this episode they cover outside free agents that could improve the Chargers roster. The guys go bargain shopping and cover some of the Chargers biggest needs and provide some players in their price range that the team could sign to improve their roster. They breakdown why the players w...

It’s time to kick off the offseason shows for the Lightning Round Podcast with an eye toward Free Agency; on this episode they cover all the Chargers internal Free Agents. They dive into the long list of the Chargers internal free agents and whether they would re-sign those players and if they think the team will re-sign those players. Afterwards, they cover possible cuts and they dive into multip...