Speaker 1: What's up, guys. Welcome into a brand new episode of
Speaker 1: Chargers Weekly. We are exactly one week away from football
Speaker 1: becoming real, and if you listen to this podcast, you're
Speaker 1: probably in a fantasy draft, and that fantasy draft is
Speaker 1: probably this weekend. So I try to time it up
Speaker 1: the right way. Friend of the show, NFL Media is
Speaker 1: Marcus Grant does an awesome job all things fantasy at
Speaker 1: NFL Network. Marcus, it's been a while, man, How are
Speaker 1: you doing doing well? Man? Just you know, we're all
Speaker 1: trying to survive, right, but football's back. That makes life
Speaker 1: a little bit better. So let's let's tee it up
Speaker 1: and get ready to go. Let's do it. What's this
Speaker 1: week like for you? I'm sure people coming out of
Speaker 1: the woodwork for advice as we get closer to the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can sort of tell. I can tell when we're
Speaker 1: getting closer because, like my Twitter mentioned and my DM
Speaker 1: start to fill up a little bit more with people, like,
Speaker 1: you know, people that maybe haven't talked to in a
Speaker 1: little while. I know this is sort of it's a
Speaker 1: weird deadweek, right, This whole non week between the preseason
Speaker 1: and the regular season is new, so I'm still trying
Speaker 1: to figure out how to survive it. So I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm treating us like an extended Week one. Basically, that's
Speaker 1: pretty much what it is. And for the purposes of
Speaker 1: this podcast, guys, what we'll do is we're gonna go
Speaker 1: through each position group, the charger or chargers in those
Speaker 1: position groups and where Marcus thinks they're gonna go. And
Speaker 1: in addition to that, Marcus is going to give us
Speaker 1: a couple of sleepers at that position that maybe you
Speaker 1: could target a little bit later. Let's just start at
Speaker 1: the top with Justin Herbert, the raiding offensive rookie of
Speaker 1: the year. I think last year the QB nine and
Speaker 1: he started Week two thirty one touchdowns, ten interceptions, over
Speaker 1: forty three hundred yards, passing a new offense, a new
Speaker 1: coaching staff, Marcus, He's proven that he has a built
Speaker 1: in connection with Keenan Allen. There's so many other playmakers
Speaker 1: on this offense. How do you view Justin Herbert in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. I still think he's a top ten quarterback.
Speaker 1: And I know there's some concerns about just the learning
Speaker 1: curve with a new offense and a new offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: but I think what we saw out of him last
Speaker 1: year sort of shows that this guy is ready to
Speaker 1: be among the top tier quarterbacks not only in this
Speaker 1: league but in fantasy football, and he's really being drafted
Speaker 1: as such. Most times I see him coming off the
Speaker 1: board somewhere as the quarterback eight or nine something around there.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to make a play for him, and
Speaker 1: probably the sixth round if you want to get him.
Speaker 1: But just with the way he jumped in last year, right,
Speaker 1: I mean literally thrown into the deep end of the
Speaker 1: pool against the Kansas City Chiefs and playing admirably in
Speaker 1: that game and just really taking off from there, I
Speaker 1: think gives people a lot of confidence. Then you throw
Speaker 1: in the weapons around him with Keenan Allen, with Austin Eckler,
Speaker 1: with Mike Williams. I think that just goes to show
Speaker 1: that people are really excited about this Chargers offense, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to make kind of an earlier play
Speaker 1: if you want Justin Herbert as your quarter back and marks.
Speaker 1: I think the mystery around it too is you mentioned
Speaker 1: a new offense. What's that gonna look like in comparison
Speaker 1: to last year? Justin has the wheels, will those rushing
Speaker 1: touchdowns potentially go up, and then the absence of Austin
Speaker 1: Ekeler for a stretch of the twenty twenty season. How
Speaker 1: much better will that make Justin? Taking all that into consideration,
Speaker 1: what do you think Justin Ceiling is in twenty one?
Speaker 1: I think In Ceiling is probably a top five quarterback,
Speaker 1: you know, I think more realistically, I think you're probably
Speaker 1: pegging him about where he finished last year, right that's
Speaker 1: eight or nine, which is you're still talking about a
Speaker 1: QB one. But I think if everything pans out, you
Speaker 1: can get him probably into that top five. I mean,
Speaker 1: I still like guys ahead of him, like Mahomes, like
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, maybe Kyler Murray. You know, you could throw
Speaker 1: maybe a Dak Prescott or maybe a Lamar Jackson in there.
Speaker 1: But there's really a small number of players that I
Speaker 1: feel like have the potential to score more Fantasy points
Speaker 1: than Justin Herbert this year. Marcus, your philosop to feed
Speaker 1: our quarterbacks, Let's say you don't get any of those
Speaker 1: guys that you mentioned, and Justin goes off the board.
Speaker 1: How wait do you? How late do you wait rather?
Speaker 1: And who are two or three guys that you'd be
Speaker 1: comfortable with getting him later dressed. Yeah, I think we
Speaker 1: still want quarterbacks with rushing upside. You know, that's the
Speaker 1: thing that Herbert does provide that. So if you can't
Speaker 1: get one of those guys in sort of the mid rounds,
Speaker 1: you can still wait until the ninth round or later
Speaker 1: and get a quality quarterback. Jalen Hurts is a guy
Speaker 1: that I like who runs the ball effectively. I think
Speaker 1: we're still learning about him as a passer, but the
Speaker 1: fact is he has rushing upside on par with a
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray or a Lamar Jackson, and that kind of
Speaker 1: gives you some some excitement. There. Another guy that is
Speaker 1: certainly available in the later rounds. You can stay in
Speaker 1: the same building at so FI stated and go get
Speaker 1: a Matthew Stafford, who I think has a lot of
Speaker 1: potential now that he's in LA working with Sean McVeigh
Speaker 1: and those receivers over there with the RAM. So he's
Speaker 1: another guy that I like. And a guy that I
Speaker 1: feel like has been really underrated this offseason is Ryan
Speaker 1: anna Hill, who has done nothing but succeed since he
Speaker 1: took over for Marcus Mariota there in Tennessee. Now they
Speaker 1: get Julio Jones, which you know, getting a guy like
Speaker 1: Julio Jones only makes your offense better, right you pair
Speaker 1: him with AJ Brown, You've got Derek Henry standing behind you.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of good things to like with
Speaker 1: the Titans, and for some reason, I feel like it
Speaker 1: hasn't really translated into maybe a high draft ADP. But
Speaker 1: I'm thankful for that discount and I'll take it wherever
Speaker 1: I can get it. All good stuff. Let's go to
Speaker 1: running back Austin Ekeler. There's some mystery around this guy too,
Speaker 1: because there is a new offense here and a lot
Speaker 1: of people are drawing comparisons to potentially an Alva Alvin
Speaker 1: Kamara type role. Austin was hurt, like I mentioned, for
Speaker 1: a stretch of last year. Where is he going in drafts?
Speaker 1: And where would you be comfortable selecting Austin For the
Speaker 1: most part, he's coming off the board either near the
Speaker 1: end of the first round or right at the start
Speaker 1: of the second round. But there has been a steady
Speaker 1: drumbeat of hype building for Austin Eckler over the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. And I've been in some drafts with
Speaker 1: you know, some of the other analysts and experts who
Speaker 1: do this. I have seen Austin Eckler go as high
Speaker 1: as number four overall because I think people really believe
Speaker 1: in what he can be. I mean, this is a
Speaker 1: guy who's been very productive throughout his career so far,
Speaker 1: and as you mentioned, so what are those whispers of
Speaker 1: him being, you know, the new Alvin Kamara in this
Speaker 1: offense have people very very excited. So I was in
Speaker 1: a mock draft earlier this week where you know, it
Speaker 1: was Christian McCaffrey one, Alvin Kamara went number two, it
Speaker 1: was Dalvin Cook three, and then Austin Eckler right off
Speaker 1: the board behind Dalvin Cook at number four. So I
Speaker 1: think for the most part, you're probably talking about late
Speaker 1: first round, but you know, it only takes one person
Speaker 1: in your draft to really love him and bump that
Speaker 1: draft spot up a few spots over the I think
Speaker 1: since he got in the league. Rather one of the
Speaker 1: highest catch percentages among running backs, is PPR A different
Speaker 1: ball game when we're talking about Austin Ekeler, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: a little bit higher. Yeah, yeah, you definitely do. You
Speaker 1: know the fact that you know you can count on
Speaker 1: him to get a ton of targets is a plus,
Speaker 1: and it is if a PPR world we're sort of
Speaker 1: living in nowadays, where that's that's kind of what most
Speaker 1: leagues are, and so I think that has a lot
Speaker 1: to do with it. I do think though, even in
Speaker 1: standard non PPR leagues, there's still a lot of value
Speaker 1: for Ector because we know a lot of the offense
Speaker 1: is going to run through him, and especially if they
Speaker 1: decide to use him as a back near the goal line,
Speaker 1: give him some of those rushing touchdowns. I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot of reason to be excited. But but without
Speaker 1: a doubt, the fact that this is a guy who
Speaker 1: can catch, you know, who knows how many passes this year,
Speaker 1: That's what that has people really really interested in him,
Speaker 1: all right, Marcus running backs that you could get late.
Speaker 1: I had a draft last week and I felt like
Speaker 1: it dried up pretty quickly. Who are maybe two or
Speaker 1: three guys in mid rounds, mid to late rounds that
Speaker 1: you would be comfortable taking a flyer on. One guy
Speaker 1: that I love in sort of the middle rounds is
Speaker 1: Javonte Williams, the rookie out of North Carolina now playing
Speaker 1: for the Verbroncos. He was my favorite running back to
Speaker 1: watch during draft season, because as I watched him, I
Speaker 1: didn't think he was spectacular at any one thing, but
Speaker 1: I thought he was very good at a lot of
Speaker 1: different things. And even though he's going to start the
Speaker 1: year in a rotation and he may start the year
Speaker 1: as the number two back behind Melvin Gordon in Denver,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if you see that sort of
Speaker 1: flip flop at some point midway through the year and
Speaker 1: he takes over as the lead back. So he's the
Speaker 1: guy that I love. Another one that I sort of
Speaker 1: like that that you don't have to spend a lot
Speaker 1: of draft capital on is Jamal Williams in Detroit. Anthony Lynn,
Speaker 1: who certainly charge your fans are familiar with, you know it,
Speaker 1: came out and said that he thinks Jamal Williams is
Speaker 1: kind of a one A back and wants to use
Speaker 1: him as such in an offense that I think could
Speaker 1: really be kind of a two headed monster with DeAndre
Speaker 1: Swift and Jamal Williams. I think they're gonna get very
Speaker 1: similar workloads. But the thing is, Jamal Williams is coming
Speaker 1: off the board six or seven rounds later. I would
Speaker 1: rather take that discount if I could, And I think
Speaker 1: if you're looking for a guy who was sort of
Speaker 1: again kind of later rounds getting a lot of hype,
Speaker 1: Damian Williams with the Patriots was a guy that I
Speaker 1: really liked anyway. And then when New England traded Sony
Speaker 1: Michelle to the Rams, I think that opens up maybe
Speaker 1: a little bit more opportunity for him. I think the
Speaker 1: other thing that helps Damian Williams is Cam Newton not
Speaker 1: being there, because in the past when the Patriots got
Speaker 1: closed last year, it was Cam who was sort of
Speaker 1: the de fact though running back near the goal line.
Speaker 1: Now that he's not there, maybe some of those opportunities
Speaker 1: funnel to Harris. It's a great point. Let's go to
Speaker 1: wide receivers. I think this is twenty seventeen. There's been
Speaker 1: few receivers as consistent as Keenan Allen. You know, we're
Speaker 1: talking four straight Pro Bowls. From a fantasy perspective. Last
Speaker 1: year a hunterballs nine ninety two yards eight touchdowns. He
Speaker 1: found that instant connection with Justin Herbert. I think he
Speaker 1: was targeting nineteen times in two separate games last year.
Speaker 1: How do you view Keenan Allen? Would you be comfortable
Speaker 1: having him as your wide receiver one or like a
Speaker 1: top end wide receiver two. He's a wide receiver one
Speaker 1: for me, and you know he's he's in one of
Speaker 1: those weird spaces where I think we all recognize how
Speaker 1: good he is. It's just when you talk about the
Speaker 1: rankings of wide receivers, it's who do you move out,
Speaker 1: you know, to move him up a little bit. But
Speaker 1: because of that, I think people are getting a really
Speaker 1: good value on him. He's coming off the board in
Speaker 1: say the early to mid third rounds in a lot
Speaker 1: of leagues, but he is. He's a solid wide receiver one.
Speaker 1: We know what we're going to get. That consistency is
Speaker 1: generally their weekend and week out. And as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: he seemed to have almost an instant connection with Justin Herbert.
Speaker 1: We know he's gonna get one hundred and twenty targets.
Speaker 1: We know he's probably gonna catch in the neighborhood of
Speaker 1: one hundred passes this year. He's gonna get you a
Speaker 1: round a thousand yards. He's gonna find the end zone.
Speaker 1: So you know, if you are somebody who maybe you
Speaker 1: go a couple of running backs early or like for me,
Speaker 1: I like to take a tight end early, like a
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey or a Darren Waller. If you want to
Speaker 1: get one of those guys in the first couple of rounds,
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen is generally sitting there waiting for you somewhere
Speaker 1: in the middle part of the third round. And that's
Speaker 1: a pretty good place to be to get your wide
Speaker 1: receiver one, no question about it. And I think last
Speaker 1: year there was so much uncertainty with Tyrod Taylor starting.
Speaker 1: All he knew was Philip Rivers, right, and then Justin
Speaker 1: Herbert comes in Week two and Justin spread the ball
Speaker 1: around so much, but that one constant was Keenan. When
Speaker 1: Keenan was in the lineup, another receiver, Marcus. This guy's
Speaker 1: fascinating to me this year. Mike Williams. So earlier this offseason,
Speaker 1: Joe Lombardi talked about the ex receiver position in New
Speaker 1: Orleans and how Michael Thomas played that role, how he
Speaker 1: envisions Mike Williams playing that role, and he said, it's
Speaker 1: a safe bet that Mike Williams is going to have
Speaker 1: a pretty big year numbers wise. Where would you draft
Speaker 1: Mike Williams. Is this the type of guy who you
Speaker 1: take a late round flyer on and maybe he puts
Speaker 1: up wide receiver three, potentially wide receiver two numbers I do.
Speaker 1: I like Mike Williams, and I like the fact that
Speaker 1: I don't know if everybody's sort of caught up yet
Speaker 1: because he's still being drafted round ten or later. So again,
Speaker 1: you're not putting out a lot of draft capital a
Speaker 1: guy that I think a lot of upside. And for
Speaker 1: people say, if you're playing in bestball leagues or if
Speaker 1: you just like stacking your quarterback and wide receiver together,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe it's difficult for you to get the
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen Justin Herbert combo. It's probably a little bit
Speaker 1: easier though, to get Justin Herbert Mike Williams combo and
Speaker 1: play for some of those big chunk plays potentially hopefully
Speaker 1: get some of that touchdown upside. I like him as
Speaker 1: a as a you know, a third wide receiver, maybe
Speaker 1: a little depth on my roster, and I feel like
Speaker 1: people have sort of overlooked him a little bit. But
Speaker 1: I think I think there's a big breakout year coming
Speaker 1: for him this year. And I feel like when you
Speaker 1: don't hear those names and you don't see him out there,
Speaker 1: for preseason of like the last few of you know,
Speaker 1: let's say three or four weeks, you tend to forget
Speaker 1: just the production that he could potentially have in this
Speaker 1: new offense. Marcus, a couple other receivers sleepers middle late rounds,
Speaker 1: you target middle rounds. I've I've really kind of jumped
Speaker 1: on the DeVante Smith bandwagon, the Rainy Heisman Trophy winner
Speaker 1: out of Alabama who's now playing for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 1: From the moment he was drafted. I think he became
Speaker 1: Philadelphia's best receiver. I think he's gonna get a ton
Speaker 1: of targets in an offense that I think is going
Speaker 1: to be a little more pass heavy than people are anticipating.
Speaker 1: So I definitely like him. You get to some of
Speaker 1: the later rounds, I think Deebo Samuel is maybe getting
Speaker 1: overlooked because everybody has moved on to Brandon Ayuk in
Speaker 1: San Francisco. But this Niners' offense is still going to
Speaker 1: be very productive and Deebo Samuel's going to be a
Speaker 1: part of it. And if you're talking kind of late
Speaker 1: end of draft sleepers, I'm I'm gonna be a little
Speaker 1: bit of a USC homer here and pick on one
Speaker 1: of my fellow Trojans. I'm on Ross Saint Brown with
Speaker 1: the Detroit guyons. Look, everything I have read and heard
Speaker 1: about him in Detroit suggests that he can sort of
Speaker 1: be Jared Goff's new version of what Cooper Cup was
Speaker 1: for all those years in Los Angeles. He's probably going
Speaker 1: to be their starting slot receiver. There's a chance he
Speaker 1: could be the number two target in this offense behind
Speaker 1: t J. Hawkinson, And you know, literally you can use
Speaker 1: your last pick on the draft. In some leagues. He's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be undrafted, But I do think they're good
Speaker 1: things coming for I'm on Raw and no Perriman. Now
Speaker 1: he was right that too. Yeah, Breshad Perriman is not
Speaker 1: there anymore, so that it opens up some more opportunity
Speaker 1: potentially tight end Jared Cook. I've said this a few
Speaker 1: times on this podcast over the last three years, only
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey has more touchdowns among tight ends. Jared Cook
Speaker 1: is going late or undrafted in many fantasy drafts. Where
Speaker 1: would you be comfortable? Would would you have him as
Speaker 1: a as an undrafted guy, as somebody you could take
Speaker 1: a late round flyer on. Be comfortable with a tight end?
Speaker 1: One from from week to week. Marcus, Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know if that he's a tight end one. The thing
Speaker 1: about tight end right now is that it's it is
Speaker 1: easily the shallowest position in fantasy. You've got your your
Speaker 1: big three at the top. You know, you're Kelsey, Waller
Speaker 1: and Kittle, Uh, you know, Kyle Pitts is sort of
Speaker 1: sliding into there, and then maybe you can throw a
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews or a T. J. Hawkinson in there. Then
Speaker 1: you have a whole group of guys after that that
Speaker 1: could literally finish anywhere from hiden like seven to tight
Speaker 1: end seventeen and and like you just you just throw
Speaker 1: those names up in the air and they will fall
Speaker 1: in any order and nobody will argue with you. Jared
Speaker 1: Cook's one of those guys that over the last few
Speaker 1: years especially, people look at him and I know he's
Speaker 1: not exciting. I know he doesn't get people fired up.
Speaker 1: But you know, you always have a few weeks in
Speaker 1: there where Jared Cook is productive, and you know he'll
Speaker 1: find his way into the end zone he settles in.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, you don't hang in the NFL this
Speaker 1: long without knowing how to make plays, how to get open,
Speaker 1: how to make catches, how to make plays, and he
Speaker 1: does that. So I don't imagine he's going to get
Speaker 1: drafted in a lot of leagues or he'll be very
Speaker 1: late in drafts, but I can guarantee you there will
Speaker 1: be a few weeks where you have people sort of
Speaker 1: elbowing each other to try to get him off the
Speaker 1: waiver wire because the matchup is going to be good
Speaker 1: and he's gonna find his way into the end zone
Speaker 1: a couple of times. So it's one of those things where, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's maybe not sexy, but you know, sometimes sometimes
Speaker 1: you don't need sexy. Sometimes you need consistent, and that's
Speaker 1: what Jared Cook has been over his career. Marcus, if
Speaker 1: you get into a situation where those big three are
Speaker 1: off the board and you're just saying, hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna wait till the end of this draft
Speaker 1: to get my tight end, is there a couple of
Speaker 1: guys you'd feel good about. Logan Thomas is the name
Speaker 1: that I've really kind of latched onto in Washington. And
Speaker 1: you know, this, for all intents and purposes, is really
Speaker 1: just his second season as a full time starting tied end,
Speaker 1: and we saw it last year in Washington, where he
Speaker 1: was productive at times. The numbers might not have shown it,
Speaker 1: but he played really well for the football team last year.
Speaker 1: I mean before that, let's remember this is a guy
Speaker 1: who was a quarterback in college and was converted to
Speaker 1: tight end and is sort of trying to learn his way.
Speaker 1: Now they've got Ryan Fitzpatrick, who I think is gonna
Speaker 1: make that more of a vertical offense. So I think
Speaker 1: maybe some of those yardage totals which were disappointing last
Speaker 1: year will start to boost themselves a little bit. The
Speaker 1: other guy that I've started to really find myself drafting
Speaker 1: late in drafts has been John new Smith. I'm sort
Speaker 1: of curious how the Patriots offense is going to work,
Speaker 1: but just what I saw of them in the preseason
Speaker 1: suggest they want to find a way to get John
Speaker 1: new Smith in space. He's athletic, he's got good speed.
Speaker 1: If they can just whether it's some underneath stuff, some
Speaker 1: tight end type screens, just get the ball in his
Speaker 1: hands and let his athleticism make some plays for you.
Speaker 1: I like both him and Hunter Henry, and I spent
Speaker 1: all offseason kind of flip flopping between the two of them,
Speaker 1: But you know, Henry being banged up a little bit
Speaker 1: in the preseason and watching Smith work has to be
Speaker 1: sort of siding there. But I do think both of
Speaker 1: them are going to have some value at some point
Speaker 1: during the year. Marcus, I get you out here in this.
Speaker 1: I don't want to spend a lot of time on defense,
Speaker 1: but I look at Brandon Stanley, what did he do
Speaker 1: with the Rams last year? And the playmakers that the
Speaker 1: Chargers have in the secondary with Tharawa James and Chris
Speaker 1: Harris Junior in a Ballhawk and a Sante Samuel Junior.
Speaker 1: Maybe some potential sex to takeaways with Joey Boss up front,
Speaker 1: Kenneth Murray, Drew Trank Will Combining Brandon Stanley what he
Speaker 1: did with the Rams and some of these playmakers, Bots
Speaker 1: defense could be a nice play in more weeks than not. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: you know. Look, I mean, let's be real like, when
Speaker 1: you're talking about the fens Is, you're probably taking them
Speaker 1: at the very end of your draft at some point.
Speaker 1: But the Bolts are going to be definitely in that group.
Speaker 1: I think both both the defenses at SOFI Stadium are
Speaker 1: gonna be very popular with with fantasy folks, both the
Speaker 1: Chargers and the Rams are going to be on a
Speaker 1: lot of fantasy rosters, and I think a lot of
Speaker 1: teams that are successful are gonna have some success thanks
Speaker 1: to either that Charger defense or that Ram defense. Marcus Grant,
Speaker 1: NFL Media, Man, I love seeing your success. You're everywhere
Speaker 1: where can people find you this upcoming season? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: most of the stuff you can find on Twitter at
Speaker 1: Marcus G M A r C A SG. But we
Speaker 1: got the NFL Fantasy Football podcast that comes out a
Speaker 1: couple times a week wherever you download fine podcasts, and
Speaker 1: then five days a week NFL Network, we are on
Speaker 1: NFL Fantasy Live. Check that three pm. I say specific
Speaker 1: right because this is a West Coast show, three pm.
Speaker 1: Check it out. Such your DVRs it We'll be there. Oh,
Speaker 1: I love it, man, It's it's always great catch it
Speaker 1: up with you. Hopefully we can do this again during
Speaker 1: the season. And h it's getting real brother a week. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I always enjoy Chris, take care all right. As we
Speaker 1: roll on here on Charters Weekly, please be joined by
Speaker 1: Haley Elwood, tea reporter. Haley, haven't seen you in a while.
Speaker 1: How are you. I'm good, Thanks for having me. Really
Speaker 1: excited to be back joining you this week on Charters Weekly,
Speaker 1: back in the old setup. We're still rocking here, but
Speaker 1: you know it's good. Twenty twenty one man, and I
Speaker 1: joke that I haven't seed. I see Haley every day
Speaker 1: durd trading camp and leading up to this year. This
Speaker 1: has been a weird week though. I was just talking
Speaker 1: to Marcus Grant about this three preseason games. This is
Speaker 1: kind of like this dead week before that final preseason
Speaker 1: game in Week one, something that we're really not accustomed to. No,
Speaker 1: it's really funny. Chris Harris Jr. Actually Talked about that
Speaker 1: today in his press or. He was asked about it
Speaker 1: and that, like you said, this sort of week zero,
Speaker 1: this in between week, and he goes it's like, I'm
Speaker 1: not really a fan of it. He's like, I'm a
Speaker 1: creature of habit, like used to a regimented schedule, used
Speaker 1: to hey, this is what cuts happen on a Saturday
Speaker 1: day that weekend and then bam, you're rolling right into
Speaker 1: week one. Someone had asked him, well, like, isn't it
Speaker 1: kind of nice, you know, to take a little break.
Speaker 1: And he goes a break, He's like maybe this weekend.
Speaker 1: He's like, well, we're still working he said, it almost
Speaker 1: feels like an extra week of camp in a sense
Speaker 1: because you're kind of now fine tuning and installing things,
Speaker 1: which is something Brandon Staley's talked about doing this week
Speaker 1: now that your roster is paired down to what it is,
Speaker 1: sort of fine tuning some stuff before you get to
Speaker 1: the game planning. But it was actually really funny to
Speaker 1: hear Chris Harris's perspective on it, because he was like, no,
Speaker 1: that's weird, Like this is a little different, especially when
Speaker 1: you've been in the NFL for as long as he
Speaker 1: has too, Especially because when you have a week off
Speaker 1: you wanted to be during the season, right after like
Speaker 1: five or six games, not when you're fresh in like
Speaker 1: Champion had a bit to go at it in week one. Haley.
Speaker 1: Obviously we're gonna talk about the podcast network. We got
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff cooking starting next week. But you
Speaker 1: and I were at camp every day. Your observations from
Speaker 1: a Brandon Staley led training camp, so much new really
Speaker 1: kind of a breath of fresh air as we head
Speaker 1: into twenty twenty one. Yeah, I'm kind of gonna reference
Speaker 1: Chris Harris again because he talked a bit about Staley's
Speaker 1: philosophy and you and I heard him talk about this
Speaker 1: this week throughout camp. Whatever it is that he's very
Speaker 1: much hell bent on inputting the why, finding the why,
Speaker 1: and teaching the why as to how they do things.
Speaker 1: And Chris Harris talked about you know, from the get go,
Speaker 1: from the beginning, it wasn't hey, this is your job,
Speaker 1: this is what you're gonna do. It's hey, let's just
Speaker 1: talk football. Let's just talk about the game. Let's just
Speaker 1: talk about who we're playing and talk it out. And
Speaker 1: he said, it's just really interesting. And when you talk
Speaker 1: about that new breath of fresh air, Chris Harris said,
Speaker 1: it might be a generational thing. It might be that,
Speaker 1: you know, he is sort of new and might have
Speaker 1: kind of taken pieces of this along the way. Ronaldo
Speaker 1: Hill likened him a lot to Nick Sabin, that that's
Speaker 1: when he was with Sabin. I believe in Miami that
Speaker 1: was a similar philosophy that he had. And so it's
Speaker 1: really sort of now we're seeing that take shape. We
Speaker 1: saw it kind of go throughout training camp, kind of
Speaker 1: start in the preseason, but this is really where we're
Speaker 1: going to find out what this team is. I think
Speaker 1: just general observations. You know. Another thing that Staley did
Speaker 1: too was like in practice very similar to how games
Speaker 1: are set up, and Chris talked about this in his
Speaker 1: presser again is you know, we saw a huge emphasis
Speaker 1: on special teams, which I think is a two parter.
Speaker 1: It's partly because this team hasn't been great on that
Speaker 1: side of the ball over the last few years, so
Speaker 1: there is an emphasis on it, but also their periods
Speaker 1: in games. Chris Harris Jr. Said, where we're not out
Speaker 1: on the field, you know, we're kind of hanging on
Speaker 1: the sideline, So getting some of maybe those breaks that
Speaker 1: were put in the practice schedule, having those special teams chunks,
Speaker 1: getting guys kind of acclimated to hey, when you're in
Speaker 1: a game, you're not on the field the whole time,
Speaker 1: you're going to have breaks, and really kind of get
Speaker 1: them in that mindset because we're getting close. You know,
Speaker 1: Week one is literally a week away. There is a
Speaker 1: game to be played one week from today. Next week.
Speaker 1: I think it's Cowboys Buccaneers, I want to say. So
Speaker 1: it's just really interesting, you know, the philosophies that have
Speaker 1: kind of unfolded and now we're going to see it
Speaker 1: in action. There's so many, I think, beliefs among the league,
Speaker 1: varying beliefs when it comes to preseason and how much
Speaker 1: you play your starters, and you know, we've seen I
Speaker 1: think Josh Allen threw them all like twenty six times
Speaker 1: in The Bill's preseason finale versus a team like the
Speaker 1: Rams or the Chargers where they're not putting their guys
Speaker 1: out there until it counts. And Coach Daley has talked
Speaker 1: about these practices, how important those practices are, and I
Speaker 1: agree with you. I think one of the cool observations
Speaker 1: is seeing how much special teams was kind of put
Speaker 1: in between certain sections of practice, almost kind of simulating
Speaker 1: a game in many ways, and that philosophy. If you
Speaker 1: haven't listened to Coach Daley's presser, I think from Wednesday,
Speaker 1: listen to that. It's such an interesting press conference, talking
Speaker 1: about the why, talking about hey, the show don't or
Speaker 1: was it the show don't tell? You know, the old
Speaker 1: like journalism like show me, don't tell me. It's almost
Speaker 1: like showing you how to do something as opposed to
Speaker 1: telling you how to do something. And he had so
Speaker 1: many wisdom nuggets in that pressor that I suggest people
Speaker 1: check out But one of those things Haley that kind
Speaker 1: of struck me was I want these players to know
Speaker 1: what the other twenty one guys on the field are doing,
Speaker 1: because once I know that, then I can really be
Speaker 1: at my best in my position. So it almost requires
Speaker 1: these guys to think even more so, but to get
Speaker 1: to a point where it's so second nature you're not
Speaker 1: thinking at the end of the day. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's a huge part of it. It is just getting
Speaker 1: them extremely, extremely comfortable, whether it's with the schemes, whether
Speaker 1: it's with certain plays. I remember he talked about in
Speaker 1: that press or talking to someone like Ooe Boson running
Speaker 1: through you know, hey, we hear five plays, What do
Speaker 1: you think of these plays against this opponent? What do
Speaker 1: you like the best out of these five? Which one
Speaker 1: do you think won't be the best. And it seems
Speaker 1: also very collaborative, you know. I think back to even
Speaker 1: a pressor earlier this offseason that Kenneth Murray gave where
Speaker 1: he talked about how he's going to be playing more downhill.
Speaker 1: They're kind of retooling him in his role in this
Speaker 1: defense to be more like what he did at college,
Speaker 1: because that's what Staley felt he did best and so
Speaker 1: kind of being really collaborative and getting on the same
Speaker 1: page so that, like you said, you know what everyone's doing,
Speaker 1: but that there aren't questions. And I think it was
Speaker 1: Joe Ready who when he was talking with Chris Harrison
Speaker 1: the presser today, said, you know the word freelance, Like, so,
Speaker 1: no one's really freelancing. Everyone kind of knows what they're
Speaker 1: going to be doing, knows what works best, and that's
Speaker 1: sort of on the cuff. Mentality won't be quite as there.
Speaker 1: Although look, we know it's the NFL, We know that
Speaker 1: things happen in games, and you always have to stay
Speaker 1: on your toes, but preparing as much as possible so
Speaker 1: that you do feel as most comfortable as you can
Speaker 1: once a game kicks off. That game kicks off ten
Speaker 1: days from as we're taping this on Thursday. And what
Speaker 1: I think is just so wild, Hailey, is we have
Speaker 1: no idea what to expect September twelfth in Washington on offense, defense,
Speaker 1: special teams. This is all new. We see what we
Speaker 1: see on the practice field before practice now during training camp,
Speaker 1: but because we haven't seen any of these starters in preseason,
Speaker 1: that intrigue surrounding that game and who's on the other side.
Speaker 1: When we talk about Chase Young and Mantes Sweat and
Speaker 1: all these really cool storylines within the game. It has
Speaker 1: to be so fun for Chargers fans to just think
Speaker 1: about getting to September twelfth and then actually watching it
Speaker 1: here in ten days. Yeah, it really is a new era.
Speaker 1: And when you talk about the lack of starters that
Speaker 1: played in the preseason, it's a huge surprise. It is
Speaker 1: going to be a huge surprise because obviously the preseason
Speaker 1: and Staley talked about this too, you know, things are
Speaker 1: very vanilla, things are very basic to a point where
Speaker 1: you just want to know what you can get out
Speaker 1: of some of these guys who are on the bubble
Speaker 1: or that you might have questions about. And so I
Speaker 1: think once you know, we do see that, it's going
Speaker 1: to be really interesting and really exciting and to see
Speaker 1: it all come together. And I think another huge part
Speaker 1: of this too is the fans are back. You know,
Speaker 1: having fans back and stands and having more of a
Speaker 1: real NFL atmosphere is going to be something that's also
Speaker 1: really exciting. Is this twenty twenty one season unfolds just
Speaker 1: because of the fact that that was missing last year,
Speaker 1: you know, especially for us out here in LA we
Speaker 1: did not have any of that. I know some games
Speaker 1: on the road they were sprinkled in, but still not
Speaker 1: to the effect that it could have been. So I
Speaker 1: just think all of that is it's really intriguing and
Speaker 1: we'll see, but we're really excited. I also, I just
Speaker 1: want to take a moment to say, just like, how
Speaker 1: crazy is it that the season is pretty much almost here.
Speaker 1: I Mean, we joke all the time about off seasons
Speaker 1: and how you know, people ask us like, oh, what
Speaker 1: do you do in the off season, and it's like
Speaker 1: what off season? You know? And now here we are
Speaker 1: in early September and we're ready to just you know,
Speaker 1: roll it on one more time. I'm excited to actually
Speaker 1: just talk about football, but because we do get to
Speaker 1: a point where we're talking about the potential of this
Speaker 1: team and what could be and you know, on paper,
Speaker 1: all these things in the offseason, all thirty two teams
Speaker 1: right now have some sort of hope that they're gonna
Speaker 1: have a winning season or they're gonna make a run
Speaker 1: at a wildcard spot or a division title, a conference championship,
Speaker 1: a super Bowl. Now we can see it shake out
Speaker 1: and for the Chargers, you play the NFC East, you
Speaker 1: got two tough games really off the rip against Washington
Speaker 1: and Dallas before going to Kansas City and the Raiders.
Speaker 1: You got the Broncos with a pretty loaded team. Now,
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater, we know is gonna be under center. What
Speaker 1: if conversations that you've had at training camp. I know
Speaker 1: you've talked to a lot of people just about this division,
Speaker 1: and we know it starts with Kansas City and everybody
Speaker 1: is chasing them at this point. But after that, you know,
Speaker 1: Vegas has had their moments. The Broncos have a pretty
Speaker 1: good defense. When you talk about that loaded secondary and
Speaker 1: having Von Miller and Bradley chubback, and then the Chargers,
Speaker 1: I think the biggest piece in addition to justin Herbert
Speaker 1: Hilly is just having a Derwin James back. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think look like you said, it starts at Kansas City.
Speaker 1: They are you know, they've been at the AFC, They've
Speaker 1: been at the Super Bowl, excuse me, two straight years
Speaker 1: in a row, one the AFC Championship two straight years.
Speaker 1: They are you know up there, they've won the whole Enchilada.
Speaker 1: They fell short last year. I think I saw a
Speaker 1: tweet yesterday, and I might be wrong about this, and
Speaker 1: I'm trying to correct myself and find it, but I
Speaker 1: think I saw that the Broncos have had one of
Speaker 1: the least amounts of roster turnover from year to year,
Speaker 1: which means that they actually really like the guys who
Speaker 1: they had, and now they're kind of working with it.
Speaker 1: And Teddy Bridgewater obviously going to be starting there at
Speaker 1: Joe Lombardi today actually said he has so much respect
Speaker 1: for him, very familiar worked with him obviously in Nora
Speaker 1: or Lenson. He goes, man, I wish that guy was
Speaker 1: in a different division, But you know, it's the NFL.
Speaker 1: It's a little incestuous. Everyone kind of comes and goes,
Speaker 1: and it makes their way. And then you look at
Speaker 1: you look at the Raiders. You look at a team
Speaker 1: that's very familiar with this Chargers team now just because
Speaker 1: of a lot of the coaches that have gone over there.
Speaker 1: You think of Gus Bradley, run my list, and then
Speaker 1: a lot of the players too familiar face and Denzel
Speaker 1: Perriman now coming over. So that Week four game is
Speaker 1: going to be so interesting to me. And you and
Speaker 1: I have talked offline about this, but just from a
Speaker 1: defensive Raiders perspective, and how they'll handle the Chargers offense,
Speaker 1: which is going to be different as we know, but
Speaker 1: yet there is familiarity. They know Keenan Allen, they know
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, they know these guys. I think this is
Speaker 1: still one of the most competitive divisions in the entire NFL,
Speaker 1: and I think it's going to be competitive against again,
Speaker 1: excuse me, this year, and I'm really excited to see
Speaker 1: it unfold again. You have you know, the Chargers play
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and the Raiders very early, they play Denver
Speaker 1: twice very late, and then they close out the season again.
Speaker 1: I think I think they get them all three again.
Speaker 1: You get the Broncos after Thanksgiving, I want to say,
Speaker 1: and then you get the rest of the three Casey
Speaker 1: Denver in Vegas in December and January. And so you know,
Speaker 1: that's we can say this now and we'll probably talk
Speaker 1: about it in season. That's the easiest road to getting
Speaker 1: to the playoffs is winning your division and winning those games.
Speaker 1: And everyone has a clean slate, and we're about to
Speaker 1: start it off very soon, and we should know pretty
Speaker 1: early where this Chargers team's at. When we talk about
Speaker 1: Washington Dallas, Kansas City, Oakland, Oh, by the way, Cleveland,
Speaker 1: who a lot of people think could be making that
Speaker 1: next step, Baltimore, New England. It's not an easy schedule
Speaker 1: by any means to start, so you're gonna have a
Speaker 1: pretty good idea of where you're at and if you can,
Speaker 1: if you could start those first seven games above five hundred,
Speaker 1: you really set yourself up, especially when we know that
Speaker 1: these guys have not really played together in this scheme,
Speaker 1: from the offensive line to the back end of the
Speaker 1: second dary. You're going to gain confidence each and every week.
Speaker 1: So it won't be easy to start, but if you
Speaker 1: can kind of keep your head above water a little bit,
Speaker 1: you can really make a run in a seventeen game season.
Speaker 1: That's a huge part of it. And I think the
Speaker 1: great thing about this Chargers team is as unfamiliar as
Speaker 1: some of those positions might be, there is a guy
Speaker 1: who has seen it before, has done it before, has
Speaker 1: been part of this team before in those areas. So
Speaker 1: you look at the offensive line. It's kind of funny
Speaker 1: to say, but Brian Blaga is like the returning vet,
Speaker 1: even though this is only his second year at the Chargers,
Speaker 1: but he has the familiarity with Corey Lindsley obviously going
Speaker 1: back to Green Bay, he's been a great resource from
Speaker 1: what I've heard with Rashawn Slater. So but to your point,
Speaker 1: getting that unit working together in week one for really
Speaker 1: the first time is going to be a task and
Speaker 1: going to be interesting. And then you look at the
Speaker 1: back end of the secondary. You know, you have Derwin
Speaker 1: who's coming back, which is just phenomenal and fantastic. And
Speaker 1: we've heard all training camp along just the acumen that
Speaker 1: he has, which we knew, but you know now he's
Speaker 1: taken on more of a role and more of a
Speaker 1: responsibility in this Brandon Staley defense calling the plays. And
Speaker 1: then you have someone like Chris Harris. We talked today
Speaker 1: again about having to play some safety, be back there
Speaker 1: and sort of just be the kind of catch all
Speaker 1: guy to help other guys get in positions and get
Speaker 1: in places. And so I think that's one thing though,
Speaker 1: that as young as they are, there are veterans at
Speaker 1: certain positions that can kind of help some of those
Speaker 1: younger guys along the way. That's right, And you know,
Speaker 1: from a fantasy perspective, I just talked to Marcus Grant
Speaker 1: about this Chargers offense, and Joe Lombardi obviously comes over.
Speaker 1: There's going to be some New Orleans influences. But Austin
Speaker 1: Eckler is a guy that is just He's so intriguing
Speaker 1: to me because he missed a stretch of last year
Speaker 1: and we saw what Alvin Cabara was able to do
Speaker 1: in that offense. We know what Keenan has done. We've
Speaker 1: heard Joe Lobardi talk about Mike Williams in playing that
Speaker 1: X receiver in the numbers that he could potentially put
Speaker 1: up offensively if we dive just a little bit deeper
Speaker 1: into this Haley with Justin, we've heard coach Daley talk
Speaker 1: about how they want to make this offense for Justin,
Speaker 1: not he has to conform to it. I can't wait
Speaker 1: to see what that looks like come September twelve. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm totally with you on that. I think you know
Speaker 1: it's so funny reading Mina Kimes's article that she wrote,
Speaker 1: her feature that she had on Justin Herbert and if
Speaker 1: you haven't read it, for anyone listening like go toastand
Speaker 1: dot com, please read it. It was very interesting and
Speaker 1: enlightening and when she just talked with him about again
Speaker 1: that Week two game that started against Kansas City finding
Speaker 1: out seconds before kick off. Look, we've run it through
Speaker 1: a million times, but it still is just so crazy
Speaker 1: when you stop and think about that moment and how
Speaker 1: he really just took the reins and never looked back
Speaker 1: and set records and one offensive Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1: And so I think, you know, that's part of it.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes you've seen other teams do that, Like
Speaker 1: you look at Buffalo, You've seen them sort of conform
Speaker 1: to Josh Allen and what he does best. And I
Speaker 1: think it's really great that you're going to see that
Speaker 1: out here now and and really what it is that
Speaker 1: he can do and with those pieces around him. We
Speaker 1: know his rapport with Keenan, we know Mike getting involved,
Speaker 1: but like you said, Austin Eckler, what Austin's role is
Speaker 1: going to be in all of this, who's going to
Speaker 1: be behind him is sort of the change of pace back.
Speaker 1: I just think it's it's really exciting right now to
Speaker 1: kind of see it all, like you said, in camp,
Speaker 1: just kind of the little inner working sort of come together.
Speaker 1: But really now we're just limited to twenty minutes out
Speaker 1: there practice they're stretching, they're activating their phone rolling, they're yeah,
Speaker 1: doing some individual work. But we're going to be just
Speaker 1: as surprised as everyone else in Washington for that Week
Speaker 1: one game, which is going to be again to your point,
Speaker 1: just a really really good times, a big test against
Speaker 1: a solid defense. But I just think there's so much
Speaker 1: optimism now, like you mentioned, for everyone around the league.
Speaker 1: But it is fun to kind of have that new
Speaker 1: era just sort of unfolding and you can feel it
Speaker 1: and you get that vibe. Helly, you said it best.
Speaker 1: It never stops. It's an all year round situation here
Speaker 1: in the NFL. But the podcast schedule and the way
Speaker 1: it shakes out, it's been a lot of what could
Speaker 1: happen around the draft to combine free agency. Next week
Speaker 1: we ramp up on the Chargers podcast network and we're
Speaker 1: talking just straight ball during the twenty twenty one season,
Speaker 1: and Playmakers is back for season three. I know you're
Speaker 1: excited to get this thing rolling again. Yeah, I'm really
Speaker 1: excited we are back for season three. I know we
Speaker 1: kind of have a little bit of a different cadence
Speaker 1: where we take some time off. I like to honor
Speaker 1: Women's History Month in March, it's some special guests, and
Speaker 1: then we come right back when the season unfold. So
Speaker 1: Week ones as is going to be the incomparable Shannon Farren.
Speaker 1: I know, someone you and I just love and adore,
Speaker 1: and she's great at what she does. But she's she's
Speaker 1: a great I think tone setter too in terms of
Speaker 1: kicking off the season, and I think she's going to
Speaker 1: bring a really interesting perspective, not only just on kind
Speaker 1: of what's happening with the Chargers and what she saw
Speaker 1: during the preseason, but she had a really interesting twenty
Speaker 1: twenty in terms of how her role was affected by
Speaker 1: COVID and now she's going to be back on the
Speaker 1: literal sidelines as that whole what was it called Operation
Speaker 1: Zone Mode is a thing of the past. Is now
Speaker 1: we're we're still in COVID, but we're hopefully the mote
Speaker 1: is forever gone, right, forever gone, not gone wood with
Speaker 1: that one. So I think just having her sort of
Speaker 1: really kind of breakdown a little bit just how different
Speaker 1: a year like twenty twenty was for her and her
Speaker 1: role and then getting into this Chargers team and like
Speaker 1: I said, sort of what she saw throughout the preseason
Speaker 1: for those three games is going to be great. I
Speaker 1: think throughout the year, I'm you know, as you are
Speaker 1: talking with different network trying to get different guests booked,
Speaker 1: and I think for what people can expect from playmakers,
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a mix. You're gonna
Speaker 1: see some familiar faces like Shannon, some friends of the
Speaker 1: show as we'll call them, but also some new faces,
Speaker 1: some new amazing women throughout the industry that we're going
Speaker 1: to highlight. And one of the cool things that I'm
Speaker 1: also working on with the NFL is trying to get
Speaker 1: as maybe as the year winds down, someone from the
Speaker 1: league to talk about Super Bowl fifty six, which, look,
Speaker 1: we hope the Chargers are in it, but it's in
Speaker 1: our backyard. It's in Los Angeles this year, are going
Speaker 1: to be at so FI Stadium, and so to be
Speaker 1: able to have someone on to kind of talk about
Speaker 1: what to expect. Hopefully we should know the halftime performer
Speaker 1: by then, but you know, kind of brought in the
Speaker 1: horizons a little bit, talk about some of the really
Speaker 1: great things that are also going on at the broader
Speaker 1: NFL level as well. Well. It's a must listen, and
Speaker 1: I know you got some big time guests that I'm
Speaker 1: not going to name yet, but you just have to
Speaker 1: find out on Wednesdays. Yeah, we'll have to find out.
Speaker 1: We're in the process of booking and I think I
Speaker 1: have week two and week three nailed, but I don't
Speaker 1: want to give it away quite yet, just in case
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of a scheduling staff. Absolutely. And
Speaker 1: then also, hey, we're bringing back the Final Drive on
Speaker 1: Monday mornings, and I think what's cool about this is
Speaker 1: we're gonna try to get on a player or beat
Speaker 1: writer or somebody to really kind of recap the game
Speaker 1: after having a little bit of time to process everything
Speaker 1: that happens, whether it's the press conferences out of the
Speaker 1: locker room, and just kind of a Monday morning quarterback,
Speaker 1: if you will. But we're gonna be bringing that to
Speaker 1: y'all Monday mornings, Hailey. I'm looking forward to that as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with our Microsoft surfaces will be that's right, putting those
Speaker 1: back up here somewhere, making them visible. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: think anytime you can kind of break down rehash, hopefully
Speaker 1: we'll have some wins, some awesome wins to talk about.
Speaker 1: That'll be fantastic if those happen. But like I think
Speaker 1: you said, I think adding a voice. I remember when
Speaker 1: we would kind of do a postgame pod a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, having you know, Eric Williams, who was
Speaker 1: with us at the time for ESPN, just another voice
Speaker 1: to kind of bring a perspective, different perspective. We're a player,
Speaker 1: will be awesome. And man again, we're rolling week one,
Speaker 1: rolling half. We got Final Drive Mondays, we got Playmakers Wednesdays.
Speaker 1: We have Chargers weekly and puro Chargers in that Thursday
Speaker 1: to Friday time frame as well. So Francisco Pitto, agent
Speaker 1: Garcia Marquez. Love those guys, man, they are They just
Speaker 1: bring such great positive energy to this organization. And I'm
Speaker 1: really excited for them kicking off puro Chargers in season
Speaker 1: two and Haley. It all starts next week. I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to seeing Shannon on the pod and getting this
Speaker 1: thing going. Yep, we're gonna get it going. We're really excited.
Speaker 1: It all starts Monday, might be Labor Day, not for
Speaker 1: US game week, Monday games day, no days off, first
Speaker 1: day of prep for a for Washington apparently, and yeah,
Speaker 1: really excited about that. Also, really quick note about Frience
Speaker 1: that's going to Adrian loved having those guys at camp,
Speaker 1: Man when you talked about vibe and energy like every
Speaker 1: single day they were out there, and I think the
Speaker 1: fans when they would kind of intermix and the bleachers
Speaker 1: and do stuff with them, they loved them too. So
Speaker 1: they're just they're awesome. If you're listening to this, chances
Speaker 1: are you were in those bleachers, and chances are you
Speaker 1: probably talked to a Fritz is going sub point during camp.
Speaker 1: So love having those guys on board. Excited for playmakers, Haley,
Speaker 1: We're gonna sign off until next week. That's gonna do
Speaker 1: it for us. A big next to Haley ol Wood
Speaker 1: and Marcus Grant for joining me. Be sure to download
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Speaker 1: Have a great weekend. Week One starts next week. I'm
Speaker 1: Chris Harry sept