The Raiders take the field for the first time with the new play caller under Greg Olson.

So what is it going to look like as they travel to SoFi to take on the charges in week 13?

We break that down plus more on Thursday's edition of the Locked-on Raiders podcast for November 27th, 2025.

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text today. We'll actually close out the show and the week tomorrow hearing from you calls and text because on Thursdays is crossover edition. It's a crossover Thursday. So what we do, the next team that's up on the schedule, the host of that show, and myself, we compare and contrast, we talk about storylines, we talk about matchups, and we talk about keys to victory. So this time, week 13, is the LA Chargers at SoFi Stadium. Daniel Wade, one of the host of Locked-on Chargers and myself, will do exactly that. Storylines, matchups, keys to victory, segment one, segment two,

segment number three.

So we'll go ahead and jump into that. Of course, it is Thanksgiving. So happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. Hopefully everyone's able to enjoy it, have a really good meal, spend some time, be safe out there, listen to this show and enjoy it and obviously get a lot of football action in as well, triple header on Thanksgiving and then, of course, the Black Friday game as well. And so whenever you get the opportunity to hear this show, hopefully you're able to, like I said, enjoy it and spend some good quality time with your family. And we'll jump into segment number one as soon as I tell you about the title sponsor of the show, which is prize picks. Download the prize picks apps today. use promo code locked on NFL to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. So off top, we talk about storylines. What is the biggest storylines for a 7 and 4 Chargers team that's coming off a whooping by the Jacksonville Jaguars before they went into their by week and a 2 and nine Raiders team who no longer has chip

Kelly as their play caller but now it's Greg Olson let's go ahead to jump into part one and

segment one of our conversation cue what's that man the show we've done many times before in

many different situations and we got another one this weekend yeah we do and in different

circumstances the last time we did this it was early in the season season. Both teams were playing for a lot. Now the Chargers are playing for a lot still, and the Raiders are trying to find themselves. And, you know, the auditions for the 2026 Raiders starts on Sunday against the Chargers. So if you want to be on this team next year, right, you got to put your best foot forward. That's players and coaches. So we'll see what happens. But yeah, there's a lot on the line for both teams, but they're different, different reasonings as far as, as far as the, you know, the results of this game. Absolutely, man. I think, you know, when Pete Carroll took over, obviously, I didn't love it as someone that covers the chargers because it meant, you know, they had a real guy in charge and someone that could at least, you could foresee putting something together and kind of bringing them back. And it was probably never a one year thing, right? And I think a lot of this, I mean, the Chargers have had an extreme amount of turnover in the first two years under Jim Harbaugh with players and coaches alike. So the Chargers are kind of in year two of that process of like finding whoof kind of fits the new culture and the new identity that Jim Harbaugh is trying to instill with the Chargers. And as we've seen like, there have been ups and downs and the Chargers have lost to some teams they shouldn't have so far, including, you know, the two-win giants and the three-wing commanders. So this is a super important game for them. But I think for the Raiders right now, I mean, what do you think the biggest story is? I mean, we talked a little bit before the show. Obviously, having a new offensive coordinator is a big deal. Chip Kelly gone. What do you, what are you kind of taken away from that? Yeah, that's where it is right there. With Chip Kelly being gone, Greg Olson now actually being the play caller, he's going to be the play caller now for the second time in his career with the silver and black. He's been the OC three times, but the second time was with John Grude and John Grum was the play caller. So I want to see what this offense looks like with Olson. It's not a whole lot you can do when you're in week 13, right? There's not like a bunch of wholesale changes you can make. But what I'm interested in is the rhyme and the reason. You know, is there going to be more emphasis on the run game, which is something Pete Carroll's been trying to send that message through the media and anyone who will listen multiple times throughout the season, you know, need to run the ball more, need to run the ball more. It's so funny. When you think about this game, this is two coaches going up against each other that traditionally want to run the hell out of the ball. And I don't think that so far this season, either one of these coaches has ran the ball as much as they wanted to. But I know that Pete Carroll, as he said earlier, that, hey, Olson knows me. He's been with me. He was with me in Seattle. He knows what I like. So I'm interested to see if there's going to be a more emphasis on the run game. And the offensive line was horrendous last year or last week against the Cleveland Browns giving up 10 sacks. Is this offensive line going to perform better? Can they help protect Gino a little bit more? Can they get that run game going so they don't have to worry about Gino dropping back 40 plus times? Like those are the kind of things I'm looking for. I mean, I don't think this team's also going to rattle off six wins in a row and be battling for a place in the playoffs at the last second. I'm not crazy and delusional like that, but I do think that it has a chance to look different. And Pete Carroll, more importantly, has a chance to prove to the powers that be that, yes, I can lead this team. I don't need to be a one and done coach. Absolutely, right.

And I think for the Chargers, obviously, protection-wise, they've dealt with a lot of the same stuff. And I think that's the hard thing, I guess, with Greg Olson taking over is, like, how much different can the offense look if the offensive line plays like it did last week, right? Because it's just you're in an unwinnable situation there. And that has been with the charges losing Joe Walt and Rashon's later, the kind of whole thing this season is like, yeah, you hope that Greg Roman could come up with a better way to protect Justin Herbert and still have a decent, you know, moderate offense and be able to have some consistency from week to week. And it's just, it's so hard to parse the blame at that point. Is it Greg Roman not being able to schematically do what he can with the weapons they have? Right. Even though the offensive line is bad. Or is the offensive line so bad that we're just never going to know what this offense could have looked like if the offensive line and the protection was a little bit better. But I think for the charges, obviously big news this week, on Marion Hampton could have a matchup between the first two running backs taken in the 2025 draft, has been, at least the window has been opened for the chargers to be able to bring him back. And it turns out he had a fractured ankle, not a sprained ankle, which is now why he's missed the last seven weeks. And it would be interesting to see if they can get him back for you right a running game that has been inconsistent and i remember Greg roman talking in his opening press conference he's like hey can you imagine justin herbert with a great running game that's like i'm still trying to coach you know i still i still want to see it and see what that looks like but i mean to be, that this game is what it is for the Chargers.

They have to win this game. But the schedule that they have coming up, it's not that you're

overlooking the Raiders. It's just that you, the margin for air is so thin that they have to

find three wins the rest of the season against the Raiders, Texans, Eagles, Chiefs, Broncos,

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