Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Chris Harry with you on a Tuesday edition
Speaker 1: of the Chargers Training Camp Podcast. Today, I go one
Speaker 1: on one with Pro Bowl cornerback Casey Hayward. Hayward opens
Speaker 1: up about playing in Gus Bradley's defense, the friendly rivalry
Speaker 1: he has with Philip Rivers in the offense, and having
Speaker 1: to compete against Aaron Rodgers and Rivers in practice his
Speaker 1: whole career. We also had a surprise guest from the
Speaker 1: offense crashed the podcast. Please be joined by Casey Hayward
Speaker 1: on the Chargers Training Camp Podcast. Casey, how you doing man? Man?
Speaker 1: I'm doing good. How about you? Good? How was practice today?
Speaker 1: It was good, man. They didn't try to kill out
Speaker 1: to that day. You know, they made a little light
Speaker 1: of for us, you know, coming off a game Sunday,
Speaker 1: So it wasn't too bad. I was here with Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers about the same spot lad this week, and he
Speaker 1: spoke very glowingly of your training camp thus far. Last
Speaker 1: year you let the end phone interceptions, your first Pro Bowl,
Speaker 1: you were on the NFL Top one hundred player list.
Speaker 1: How was this training camp different this year that it
Speaker 1: was last year? For you? For me, it was definitely
Speaker 1: different because I came in like knowing how good I was,
Speaker 1: and but I was coming on being a third corner.
Speaker 1: So I was like any opportunity that getting, no matter
Speaker 1: when on man, I'm gonna just go out there and
Speaker 1: make the best out of it. And right now I
Speaker 1: was coming in as the number one, you know, with
Speaker 1: me and Jason, while Jason down, you know, there's no
Speaker 1: certain certainty who's number one, but both of us, you know,
Speaker 1: come off as the number one guy. So when you
Speaker 1: got two number one guys outside, it's gonna be hard
Speaker 1: on team. So I just came in here with the
Speaker 1: same mentality that I normally would and just come in
Speaker 1: here trying to be the number one guy. You wouldn't
Speaker 1: be a corner if you didn't have confidence from the
Speaker 1: beginning anyway, But having that season that you did have,
Speaker 1: I have to imagine that kind of raises it a
Speaker 1: little bit more than than you already had a little bit.
Speaker 1: For me, it's pretty much the same. My off season
Speaker 1: was the same, you know. I try to work on
Speaker 1: some of my weaknesses and just try to being as
Speaker 1: good as safe as I can. I go with the
Speaker 1: same train. I do the same things, you know, I
Speaker 1: do the same extra work out normally do. So for me,
Speaker 1: it's just coming in here with a different mindset. I
Speaker 1: feel like it's maybe build more target on me. You know,
Speaker 1: people want to beat you when people think you're good,
Speaker 1: So I just try to come in here with the
Speaker 1: same attitude. Casey. LA is full of stars and sports starts.
Speaker 1: You were greeted by one of them on the first
Speaker 1: day of training camp. And Kobe Bryant with the NFL
Speaker 1: being new to Los Angeles, do you think about the
Speaker 1: potential platform that you have in Los Angeles knowing that
Speaker 1: you're one of the elite corners in the NFL and
Speaker 1: if you continue to play at an elite level, even
Speaker 1: more people are going to take notice of what you're
Speaker 1: doing on the field. Of course, you think about it.
Speaker 1: You know, to a degree. LA is one of the
Speaker 1: biggest markets in the United States, them in New York.
Speaker 1: So and if anybody that does well in those markets
Speaker 1: has a chance to do things all the field that
Speaker 1: other markets don't have. So anytime you can do well,
Speaker 1: you know, and those markets got a chance. And you know,
Speaker 1: for me, it's all about staying healthy and you know,
Speaker 1: trying to play at our level. And I let that
Speaker 1: I let my play speaking then if other things come
Speaker 1: out the field, then great. Gus Bradley, the new defensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: if what waste? Are your responsibilities going to be different
Speaker 1: than they've been in the past. Definitely different scheme and
Speaker 1: where we normally run, you know, then a lot of
Speaker 1: teams run. If you watch the Falcons Jacksonville or Seattle,
Speaker 1: that's Gus Bradley's defense. So we'll we'll be doing some
Speaker 1: of the you know, some similar things that those guys do,
Speaker 1: but we also, you know, got our own flavor because
Speaker 1: we're different. Everybody got different players and coach. You know,
Speaker 1: Guss done a great job of you know, you the
Speaker 1: lies and the guys that he have and you know,
Speaker 1: especially the things that we're good at, and he's putting
Speaker 1: that in the game. We're gonna play a lot of man,
Speaker 1: play a lot of couple three you know, hopefully you
Speaker 1: can play some other defensive that those guys don't play.
Speaker 1: The fact that you and Jason are so good playing man,
Speaker 1: how much more versatile does that make the defense and
Speaker 1: what you guys can do on Sundays. I think it
Speaker 1: helps the coordinator when you can just play man, when
Speaker 1: you can play man. You can you can do so
Speaker 1: many different things inside the boss, call up different coverages.
Speaker 1: But you know, for me, I think the cover of
Speaker 1: three definitely helps us out, you know, take some stress
Speaker 1: off us sometimes instead of playing man. You know, it
Speaker 1: can help you out playing something on behind you. What's
Speaker 1: the biggest lessons that you've learned from Gus early on
Speaker 1: in the off season, going into the first couple of
Speaker 1: weeks of training camp, just some advice and just just
Speaker 1: his teachings. What's what's kind of resonated with you? Probably
Speaker 1: in mindset you never know, it's never as good as
Speaker 1: you think, it's never as bad as you think, you know,
Speaker 1: So always coming with a level head every day, no matter,
Speaker 1: no matter the circumstances. He's gonna come with a lot
Speaker 1: of energy and that runs off on us. And I'm
Speaker 1: trying to become a you know, a better leader every
Speaker 1: level that I play that I've been a captain, So
Speaker 1: I find a way to lead and become one of
Speaker 1: those guys. And that's what I'm trying to become. Of course,
Speaker 1: your partner on the other side as a pro bowler too,
Speaker 1: when Jason Varette you missed twelve games last year, when
Speaker 1: both of you were on the field together. Just how
Speaker 1: good can you guys be in this Gus Bradley system.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna be pretty good. Like you said,
Speaker 1: as long as we stay healthy, I think we have
Speaker 1: a chance to be one of the top tendams. And
Speaker 1: when you want the top tenams, you help your defense
Speaker 1: out and you help your team out. For me, it's
Speaker 1: bigger than trying to be the best corner or being
Speaker 1: the best duo. It's about winning and if we can
Speaker 1: help each other win and be good on the outside
Speaker 1: and we win, that's what it's about for me. Do
Speaker 1: you pay attention to that stuff that the tandems? You
Speaker 1: look at what's going on Denver with to Leave and
Speaker 1: Harrison Roby in New England with Gilmore war and Butler
Speaker 1: and some of these elite corners around the NFL. How
Speaker 1: much do you pay attention to those guys in an
Speaker 1: effort to I don't know if it's if it's a
Speaker 1: motivating thing, or you know, just kind of how you
Speaker 1: stack up with the rest of these elite corners in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Of course you look at those guys, but
Speaker 1: you kind of worry about yourself. Those guys are good
Speaker 1: in their own system and their own teams. So you're
Speaker 1: just trying to worry about yourself because you know, as
Speaker 1: football go on throughout the season, you watch those guys
Speaker 1: and you you become fans of those guys. So it's
Speaker 1: not like you know all of them are trying to
Speaker 1: compete with them. You're trying to compete with your team
Speaker 1: and try to win every game. But you look at
Speaker 1: those guys and you know, get all guy's respect because
Speaker 1: those guys are good and they got good teams. Look
Speaker 1: at your front four, and it starts up front with
Speaker 1: Melvin Ingram and Joey Bosa, even Brandon me Being and
Speaker 1: Legit getting pressure to have a tandem like Ingram and
Speaker 1: Bosa up front, it's got to make things a little
Speaker 1: bit easier for you in the secondary. What have you
Speaker 1: seen from those guys during training camp and really just
Speaker 1: the short time you guys are out on the filthy
Speaker 1: together on Sunday, for sure, we know the ball can't
Speaker 1: be held too long with Joe and Melvin, me Bang
Speaker 1: and Corey against a lot of pressure, we know the
Speaker 1: ball got to come out, and so when we bring
Speaker 1: out blitzes, we know the ball got to come out,
Speaker 1: even faster. So it's like, if you can win with
Speaker 1: a foreman in front, get some size with the foreman
Speaker 1: in front, and get some pressure, you can do different
Speaker 1: things in the back end. And that's what we're hoping
Speaker 1: this year that Corey me Bang, Melvin, Joey and all
Speaker 1: the rest of those guys can get a lot of
Speaker 1: pressure for us and hope we can cover on the
Speaker 1: back end. I'll make the quarterback hold the ball longer
Speaker 1: than expect that. One of the things I've enjoyed during
Speaker 1: camp is watching Philip and you in the secondary go
Speaker 1: back and forth just healthy. It's healthy, jawing right and
Speaker 1: traded Kim, it's healthy. But to go up against this
Speaker 1: offense every single day in practice with the weapons that
Speaker 1: they have at wide receiver and tight end and running
Speaker 1: back and of course Philip, and then you go back
Speaker 1: to your time in Green Bay with Aaron Rodgers and
Speaker 1: all the guys that you have with Jordy Nelson and
Speaker 1: Jennings and that whole crew. We're talking about two Hall
Speaker 1: of famers. Really, in my opinion, how much have you
Speaker 1: benefited from having guys like that on your team your
Speaker 1: entire career? Really? I know it's kind of crazy, isn't
Speaker 1: it to go up against two guys like that, going
Speaker 1: with starting with a rod weekend and week out. You know,
Speaker 1: it made me better, you know, going against those guys
Speaker 1: and then come right here and go to Phil and
Speaker 1: go against the wide receiver that that we have. It
Speaker 1: has to make us better going into the season. And
Speaker 1: I think that was about last year. We had some
Speaker 1: unfortunate injuries, but that was guys who still able to
Speaker 1: do a lot on offense. So with some of the
Speaker 1: key guys that they have back and some of the
Speaker 1: key guys we have back on defense, we should have
Speaker 1: a We should have a good team if we could
Speaker 1: stay healthy and make a lot of plays down the
Speaker 1: run and win the fourth quarters. How do you compare
Speaker 1: the intensity with Philipp and Aaron Rodgers? You know what, Phil,
Speaker 1: Phil might talk a little more than a little bit more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Phil might talk a little more. I talk a little
Speaker 1: more to feel or two. So it's like we got
Speaker 1: this competitive juice. Man. I'm like, shoot, if I don't
Speaker 1: talk to somebody else got to talk. And it's just
Speaker 1: normally be me Jo little or Trey Boston talking and
Speaker 1: Phil to be talking or Kennan to be talking and uh,
Speaker 1: and Nick their coach to be talking, so we'll just
Speaker 1: be jarring back. But I'd probably say Phil talk a
Speaker 1: little more. Well. Both of them just so competitive, they're
Speaker 1: doing it so much. They doing it different and whatever
Speaker 1: gets those guys going. Both of those great their own rights,
Speaker 1: but that raises the intensity and camp. You got feet
Speaker 1: off that energy. Yeah, no doubt. We just with me
Speaker 1: and feel we try to get each other every day.
Speaker 1: I try to get a ball off of him or
Speaker 1: he tried to do something off me. And if he
Speaker 1: does do something off me, he gonna let me know.
Speaker 1: And if I do, I'm gonna let him know. We're
Speaker 1: taking a bottle casey were taking this on Tuesday. Who
Speaker 1: won today? I think it was pretty even fifty fifty.
Speaker 1: I think it was pretty easy. Like I said, it
Speaker 1: wasn't like a heavy day. It was more of a
Speaker 1: light day. But throughout the throughout the camp, I think
Speaker 1: defense might be up maybe a day or two ahead
Speaker 1: of the offense if I had to stay keep a
Speaker 1: score right, Yeah, speaking Hall of famers, another one comes
Speaker 1: to town on Thursday and drew right to practices for
Speaker 1: two days Thursday and Friday, and then the game on Sunday,
Speaker 1: how do you guys prepare for a team as a
Speaker 1: practice opponent, then you're gonna get three cracks at him
Speaker 1: throughout the week, and then obviously Sunday. Man, it's the
Speaker 1: same as last year. We played them in the regular
Speaker 1: season last year. I'm pretty sure they're not doing too
Speaker 1: much things different unless they got a new coordinator, which
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if they did, but they got the
Speaker 1: same players, the same quarterback. Joe Bridge is so good.
Speaker 1: I remember facing them when I was in Green Bay
Speaker 1: and he torched us like straight towards us. And last year,
Speaker 1: you know, we held our own against him. Last year,
Speaker 1: I think we might have held held him to his
Speaker 1: lowest quarterback rating of the season. So I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: he's gonna be goning for us, so we'll be gone
Speaker 1: for him. That's and that's just as a comp you know, competitor,
Speaker 1: we just try to go to each other. I was
Speaker 1: talking to Williams of ESPN yesterday, and since two thousand
Speaker 1: and two, Philip Rivers and Drew Brees have started every
Speaker 1: single game for the Chargers, with the exception of six.
Speaker 1: I think it was two hundred and thirty four of
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty games. It's pretty wild that those
Speaker 1: two guys have been under center for the Chargers for
Speaker 1: the last fifteen years. That's crazy. That's crazy. And those
Speaker 1: guys play been playing a lot of football. Drew Brides
Speaker 1: been playing doing it for a long time. Philip been
Speaker 1: doing it for a long time. Anytime you got longevity
Speaker 1: like that, you got potentially, and you've been playing well,
Speaker 1: you got potential to be a Hall of Fame And
Speaker 1: both of those guys are. Going back to last weekend's game,
Speaker 1: it wasn't the result you guys wanted, but a lot
Speaker 1: of positives in that first quarter. Of course on offense,
Speaker 1: drive right down the field, you get seven. You hold
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson to three points in that first series. What
Speaker 1: has the beginning of this week been like in correcting
Speaker 1: some of those mistakes that happened, especially starting that second
Speaker 1: quarter and beyond. We haven't watched it yet. We'll watch
Speaker 1: it today, that's afternoon, but we know we got to
Speaker 1: correct It's something. It's minor things, you know, lining up here,
Speaker 1: up at the right spots. You know. All this is
Speaker 1: new for especially on the defensive end, you know, especially
Speaker 1: a game game like setting definitely different in practice, but
Speaker 1: I think we'll be able to correct those things. The
Speaker 1: young guys will do a lot better, the older guys
Speaker 1: will do a lot better, and I think as a
Speaker 1: whole other defense, I think we will do a lot
Speaker 1: better this week coming up as vets, what do you
Speaker 1: guys say to the younger guys who may have had,
Speaker 1: you know, their first taste of the NFL or not
Speaker 1: not have the experience that you've had. Trey Boston said
Speaker 1: he wanted to help those guys along this week and
Speaker 1: try to help them bounce back against the Saints. Say,
Speaker 1: welcome to the NFL. That's how it is, young guys.
Speaker 1: When you're playing in the nfls you got I tell
Speaker 1: people after the first game, you're not a rookie anymore.
Speaker 1: And that's how people treat you. Because the ball is
Speaker 1: gonna come to you. If you're on the dB, and
Speaker 1: if you had a wide receiver, guy's gonna get in
Speaker 1: your face. Get Melvin Gord behind you. What's up man?
Speaker 1: What's up? Mellie mal Man? This is Melvin Gordon. Elvin
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Speaker 1: Birds come get to Eminem man. Casey, Los Angeles. How
Speaker 1: how has the transition been for you? What have you
Speaker 1: enjoyed about the city in your in your short time here?
Speaker 1: And I love I love the city. I was out here,
Speaker 1: I come out here all the time. And so being
Speaker 1: out in LA, you got the good food, you got
Speaker 1: the good weather, yep, and got uh the nice women.
Speaker 1: So you can't beat any of those things I just name,
Speaker 1: especially the last there you go, it's the check we
Speaker 1: we got check marks on all the above. There lastly,
Speaker 1: Chargers fans in Los Angeles, what do you want them
Speaker 1: to know about Casey Hayward both on and off the
Speaker 1: football field, man on and off, the great guy on
Speaker 1: and off the field, heck of a player on My
Speaker 1: hope to continue to play at a high level for
Speaker 1: you guys. And I do a lot of good things
Speaker 1: off the field as well. I got my own foundation.
Speaker 1: I do a lot of things back called Hayward Hands
Speaker 1: and if you just listen to the name, of course
Speaker 1: it is my last name, but were putting hands in
Speaker 1: up because we try to touch so many different like
Speaker 1: things around where I'm from. We do back to school, Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: big Thanksgiving dinner, Chris much drive, camps Um scholarships this year.
Speaker 1: We did ten thousand scholars ten thousand dollars worth of
Speaker 1: scholarships this year, the two students, and we just trying
Speaker 1: to do so much things back home because you know,
Speaker 1: growing up, you know you can wish that people could
Speaker 1: come back that's successful around your area, and that's what
Speaker 1: we're trying to do. Where can people go to learn
Speaker 1: more information about your foundation? You can go to you
Speaker 1: can first you can go to my page. I got
Speaker 1: Hayward hands up right now. But we're working on like
Speaker 1: some of the you know, the things behind it and
Speaker 1: updating website right now. But Hayward hand or you can
Speaker 1: just go to me, go to my page Instagram or
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Speaker 1: you can check me out. You will see all my
Speaker 1: things on their things I put up and it'll be
Speaker 1: all about me. Casey. This was fun, man. We had
Speaker 1: a little little cam and them brother and then well, hey,
Speaker 1: we will see you throughout the week and then let's
Speaker 1: let's get after against the Saints. Thank you, all right, thanks,
Speaker 1: no problem, Okay, that'll do it for today's Chargers Training
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