Speaker 1: The atmosphere is amazing. It feels like everybody's clothes like
Speaker 1: it's just a warm, filling us back to the basis,
Speaker 1: the fans are even more stoke than we are, so
Speaker 1: so when you come out hand and see them so hype,
Speaker 1: it's like I have no choice but to leave. On
Speaker 1: the live flow. That was Melvin Ingram after the team's
Speaker 1: joint practice with the Rams at StubHub Center, the new
Speaker 1: home of the Los Angeles Chargers. Everybody, Chris Harry with
Speaker 1: you on the Chargers Training Camp podcast. Today, I sit
Speaker 1: down with Beto Duran, the new team reporter and host
Speaker 1: of Chargers Talk on m five seventy. But first I
Speaker 1: spoke to Chargers dot COM's Ricky Henny to recap Saturday's
Speaker 1: practice from stub Hub Center. Because it's really good. I thought,
Speaker 1: football standpoint, we got a lot of work to do,
Speaker 1: which is to be expected. We have, we have plenty
Speaker 1: of time to get that done. But I thought, from
Speaker 1: an atmosphere standpoint, a lot so many fans out here,
Speaker 1: and what I think this place can turn into can
Speaker 1: be a real, real awesome atmosphere for this season. All right,
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers after Saturday's joint practice with the Rams as
Speaker 1: StubHub Center. Now please to bring in the managing editor
Speaker 1: of Chargers dot Com, Ricky Heney. And Ricky will get
Speaker 1: to what we saw on the field in a second,
Speaker 1: but I want to start with the buzzword from Saturday
Speaker 1: night that everybody was using, and that was atmosphere. It
Speaker 1: was the players, the coaches, the fans, the reporters just
Speaker 1: raving about this atmosphere at StubHub Center. What did guys
Speaker 1: say to you after practice about playing in their new home. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it was pretty incredible. I mean, to have
Speaker 1: that kind of atmosphere. There's that word again, and Retyrolle
Speaker 1: Williams saying, you know I had that this zac same
Speaker 1: kind of feel when I played at Montana. You know,
Speaker 1: he never thought he'd have it in the NFL, but
Speaker 1: they'd love it, especially the defensive guys didn't know that
Speaker 1: once they get on a roll, the way the fans
Speaker 1: are so on top of you, it's got to get
Speaker 1: so loud. Joey Bose was like, look, we kind of
Speaker 1: tune to out because we were our practice, but we know,
Speaker 1: you know, we need a third down stop and you're
Speaker 1: in the red zone when you need the energy from
Speaker 1: the fans. This is the kind of venue that they
Speaker 1: kind of crave. And honestly, one of my favorite lines
Speaker 1: from a fan who said, you know, I had I
Speaker 1: hoped when I bought my tickets because I figured it
Speaker 1: would be a really unique situation for my kids, you know,
Speaker 1: my son to be able to be this closet to
Speaker 1: the action. But I mean this was beyond what we
Speaker 1: could have expected to be this close to real life
Speaker 1: NFL players. It actually felt like a preseason game already.
Speaker 1: You know, the fans were fans were there. It was
Speaker 1: open to season seat holders and waitless members. But the music,
Speaker 1: the DJ, just the concessions were rocking. It really did
Speaker 1: feel like a game atmosphere, even though it's just the
Speaker 1: joint practice against the Rams. Oh absolutely. I mean we
Speaker 1: had the brand new I think they're called the Thunderbolts,
Speaker 1: and you know those big video boards. I remember Joe
Speaker 1: Barksville was walking out and I asked him, you know
Speaker 1: what you think he just stops and these points of
Speaker 1: the video screen. He's like, that's cool, that's pretty sweet.
Speaker 1: I mean it's a huge video screen and the fans
Speaker 1: are gonna love. I mean, look, it was a practice
Speaker 1: of course there's a little extra competition you have two
Speaker 1: different teams going against each other. But and the fans
Speaker 1: enjoyed watching the action. But I really think, you know,
Speaker 1: just as entertaining to them was seeing this new home
Speaker 1: for the first time. And it was a great rehearsal
Speaker 1: for the preseason opener against the Seattle Seahawks. But Ricky
Speaker 1: on the field, yeah, but you know, go ahead, I
Speaker 1: think still fit the best. Though he's started to cut
Speaker 1: you off. But you know, they started out slow and
Speaker 1: he was not happy. But that's to be expected, you know,
Speaker 1: you need, if it was all perfect, he would have
Speaker 1: been worried. And you know, you kind of saw the
Speaker 1: charters start out a little bit slow, but then they
Speaker 1: were confident, then they got their feet under them. But
Speaker 1: like you're saying, it was a drest rehearsal for the
Speaker 1: first preseason game, which I think is going to be
Speaker 1: insane against the Seahawks on Sunday, I was just going
Speaker 1: to get into what we saw on the field. You
Speaker 1: certainly saw flashes of what this offense and defense can
Speaker 1: become in twenty seventeen. But like you said, Rivers said
Speaker 1: this after practice, if everything was perfect at this point,
Speaker 1: it would be a little bit concerning, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're still very early in camp, a long way to
Speaker 1: go on both sides of the ball. I know you
Speaker 1: had eyes on the offense for a majority of the practice.
Speaker 1: What stood out to you when looking at really the
Speaker 1: offense and the defense. I think three things. I think
Speaker 1: as a whole. I'm talking about the offense right now.
Speaker 1: I thought the run game was pretty strong. He saw
Speaker 1: a couple of nice runs by Melvin along the outside,
Speaker 1: the nice holes being brought. I thought Sean mcbrat had
Speaker 1: a real nice block on a Melvin Gordon run, opened
Speaker 1: up a huge hole. Saw Barksdale and Wiggins worked together
Speaker 1: to open up another hole, and Melvine did well. Andre
Speaker 1: Williams friends Olivers looked really, really strong. And then two
Speaker 1: individual players where I thought were really strong were Jeff Cumberlin,
Speaker 1: who's had an outstanding start to camp. He'd say he's
Speaker 1: back about twenty pounds lighter than he was when he
Speaker 1: actually signed his contract in April, and he has some
Speaker 1: great speed for a tight end. And obviously he missed
Speaker 1: all of last year with his achilles injury, but he
Speaker 1: is someone when you add him into what Antonio Page
Speaker 1: and Hunter Henry can do. Those are three pretty dynamic
Speaker 1: weapons in the pass game. From a tight end and
Speaker 1: then at wide out. I mean, Tyrol Williams is picking
Speaker 1: up where he left off that size speed combination. He's
Speaker 1: making tremendous catches. He's someone who I mean, I know
Speaker 1: he kind of came out of the blue last year.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna take anybody by surprise, but I think
Speaker 1: he'll do just fine. Ricky. All of those wide receivers
Speaker 1: have an outstanding camp. Keenan Allen looks. You know, we've
Speaker 1: talked about him coming back from the AC Tyrell Williams,
Speaker 1: like you said, picked up where he left off in
Speaker 1: the Travis Benjamin having an outstanding camp as well. I
Speaker 1: think on the defensive side of the ball, Joey Bosa,
Speaker 1: I saw you tweet about Melvin Ingram, how he was
Speaker 1: coming off the edge like a monster. Oh yeah, he's
Speaker 1: just a beast. I mean those two guys together, I mean,
Speaker 1: those might be two of the best bookkens in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And then in the NFL you need to get to
Speaker 1: the pastor the Chargers have two guys who can do it.
Speaker 1: And you know, Gus Bradley's system has shown when you
Speaker 1: have guys like that up front, they could be one
Speaker 1: of the best in the NFL. Now I'm not saying
Speaker 1: they're gonna be, but they had that potential. Now they
Speaker 1: actually have to do it. It was also a special
Speaker 1: night for the organization. The team practices in their new
Speaker 1: home for the first time, and then twenty four hundred
Speaker 1: miles easton Canton at the same time, lt is giving
Speaker 1: an all time Hall of Fame speech. I think Jim
Speaker 1: Trotter said on Twitter that a Hall official told him
Speaker 1: it was the best speech he's heard in forty one years.
Speaker 1: And I know, you run the bus with the team
Speaker 1: while they're watching the replay of the practice, and it
Speaker 1: sounded like these guys were just mesmerized. It looks funny
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, guys like they're so into practice,
Speaker 1: so singularly focused, and then you know their phones are
Speaker 1: on they're like, oh wait, that was Elsie that you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, like they were so into practice. Yes, they
Speaker 1: knew Elsie was going in that night, and they were
Speaker 1: all excited about it, especially guys like Melton Gordon and
Speaker 1: obviously Philip Rivers. Then is watching them. You know, there's
Speaker 1: some of the videos they watched, they watched the Lorenzo
Speaker 1: Neal presentation. They watched Elsie speech itself, especially that last
Speaker 1: six minute quota about when he talked about you know,
Speaker 1: America and his story and it was powerful, like they
Speaker 1: were parts of the bus that were literally just silent
Speaker 1: watching it, and it was pretty special to see. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what a great night. I mean, I'm excited for this
Speaker 1: upcoming week as well because the Charges are gonna get
Speaker 1: another crack at the Rams in our vine. And then
Speaker 1: again we talked about the preseason opener at StubHub on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Do you think there's a little bit more anticipation now
Speaker 1: the second week in camp, knowing that you get cracks
Speaker 1: two different opponents coming up this week? Probably? I mean
Speaker 1: that's a very good way of putting it. I mean
Speaker 1: I think this is usually where like the quote unquote
Speaker 1: dog days start picking up, right, you know, the two
Speaker 1: more weeks to go. You just had the newness of
Speaker 1: the first week, but having a second chance at the
Speaker 1: Rams where I just know the Charges are start fashions
Speaker 1: and they hit h this past Saturday to show that,
Speaker 1: you know, they gets the scene where they left off there,
Speaker 1: so you have that on Wednesday in a different you
Speaker 1: know at the Rams, so it's a different practice, feel
Speaker 1: the different feel itself. And then you know they have
Speaker 1: Thursday off to rest up a little bit. They had
Speaker 1: a light walk through on Sunday, so that'll be the
Speaker 1: first rest day. And then you know, it's it's the
Speaker 1: first It's it's a new error, right, It's Anthony Lean,
Speaker 1: it's the Chargers in LA. It's Stubbub, it's against the Seahawks,
Speaker 1: with a lot of connections there with Gus Bradley obviously
Speaker 1: having coached there in the past and Brandon Mebane. But
Speaker 1: it's exciting. So I think having the Rams on Wednesday
Speaker 1: and then having the Seahawks on Sunday, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a really great way to really kick off this live
Speaker 1: game atmosphere. You know, there's only so much you can
Speaker 1: take from some of these joint practices, the non context
Speaker 1: of seven on sevens. You pick up some things, you know,
Speaker 1: like I said, Joey Bosa a nice strip sack, Melvin
Speaker 1: Ingraham looked good. You name some of these offensive guys
Speaker 1: that look like they had some nice flashes. But Sunday
Speaker 1: is the real deal in terms of getting on the
Speaker 1: field full pads and I think we're gonna learn a
Speaker 1: little bit more about this football team. Maybe not the
Speaker 1: starters in week one of the preseasons, but some of
Speaker 1: these backups. That's a great point because we don't know
Speaker 1: how Anthony Lind's gonna want to do it. You know,
Speaker 1: how many reps are the ones, the two, the three
Speaker 1: is gonna get. But this is the first time for
Speaker 1: Chargers fans to see what kind of a head coaches
Speaker 1: ant Lin gonna be like on game day. If he'd
Speaker 1: be he's gonna be one of those guys that like,
Speaker 1: is a you know, you know in guy's faces or
Speaker 1: is he going to be someone who's more laid back,
Speaker 1: what kind of approach is he gonna take the challenges?
Speaker 1: And it's what's he gonna be like? And then obviously
Speaker 1: Wiz has an offensive Chargers fans know, and yes there
Speaker 1: are some tweaks to it, but it's a defense the
Speaker 1: side of the ball. I think fans are really gonna
Speaker 1: want to pay that to two the first time to
Speaker 1: see Gus Brads four three at work. And while who
Speaker 1: knows how many reps each player is gonna get, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get a feel to see how this new look
Speaker 1: squad is and that's that's pretty exciting, to be honest. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is when position battles tighten up and we really
Speaker 1: see this fifty three man roster really coming to fruition.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited to head to Coach the Mason for
Speaker 1: a week two of training camp and I'll see there, Ricky.
Speaker 1: He's he headed the managing editor of Chargers dot com.
Speaker 1: You can follow him on Twitter at Chargers r Henny,
Speaker 1: and I will see you, assume I manula. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm with the King of Carson, the new Chargers be
Speaker 1: reporter frame five seventy betto Duran joins me better? What
Speaker 1: is up, buddy? Oh? I used to be the unofficial
Speaker 1: mayor of Carson. I used to be a commissioner at Carson.
Speaker 1: But now the Chargers move to LA and I become
Speaker 1: the King of Carson. I'll take it. Man, Welcome to
Speaker 1: my beautiful city. Temporarily, You've always been the King of Carson. Listen,
Speaker 1: I've known Better for such a long time at Lakers games,
Speaker 1: and he's everywhere, Dodgers games, you name the event, he's there. Better,
Speaker 1: Now that you are the Chargers reporter and this team
Speaker 1: is playing in a place, you grew up. What does
Speaker 1: that mean to you personally? Man? It's crazy. Football left
Speaker 1: me when I was in junior high and for a
Speaker 1: long time, not that I was a bitter fan. I
Speaker 1: was just like, okay, it's not here, out of side,
Speaker 1: out of mind. There's always the talks of could they
Speaker 1: come back, and it was like, okay, when they do,
Speaker 1: they don't get sided. Now to actually see the NFL
Speaker 1: and the circus around it and what is involved with it,
Speaker 1: and the ceremony, the how huge these dudes are. I've
Speaker 1: covered USC in UCLA and yeah they're big, but the
Speaker 1: pro level is completely different. And to see them playing
Speaker 1: here in Carson. It's a place where I kind of
Speaker 1: went to school at Domingus Hills Stubpub, been here for
Speaker 1: Galaxy games and all these other different events. But it's
Speaker 1: crazy to think that there's gonna be NFL in the
Speaker 1: stadium and it's just gonna be a good vibe. It's
Speaker 1: fun so Charges fans as though we're actually taping this
Speaker 1: at Stubbubs. Yeah, during the Rams and Chargers first joint practice,
Speaker 1: and I love this vibe. Man, there is not a
Speaker 1: bad seat in the house. I okay, when they said
Speaker 1: they're gonna play here, you know. Of course, a lot
Speaker 1: of people were making little jokes about it. Oh it's small,
Speaker 1: but this could be a huge advantage to them. If
Speaker 1: you get the crowd rocking and you get everybody behind you,
Speaker 1: This place does get loud. I've been here for international
Speaker 1: soccer games where you do get it. You feel it
Speaker 1: like everybody's on top of you. There is no bad
Speaker 1: seat at all. We were talking about it like the
Speaker 1: top deck would be a premium seat anywhere else in
Speaker 1: the NFL. That's like the best club level. Oh yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: and the signage around it everything, And no, we're not
Speaker 1: selling this because we're working with the Chargers. It has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with it. I walked in and I'm like, whoa.
Speaker 1: This reminded me of like opening day a baseball where
Speaker 1: you're like, you want to get the early because you
Speaker 1: want to see what it's all about. And you see
Speaker 1: the signa, you see the lightning bolts all over the place,
Speaker 1: and the fact that they added those extra seats on
Speaker 1: the broom underneath the scoreboard. That's huge. It just looks cool,
Speaker 1: and the concessions are rocking already with this. You know,
Speaker 1: the first preseason game is not till next Sunday, but
Speaker 1: this already feels like a game atmosphere. Yeah. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: another thing. It's obviously the staff here at Level Up Center.
Speaker 1: They've done a lot of different events, and we were
Speaker 1: talking to a friend of mine who works here. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, they have high school games here, they have
Speaker 1: the college uh pro what's that? The college All American
Speaker 1: game here, so they know what it's like to handle football.
Speaker 1: But it's more of their staff how to deal with
Speaker 1: thirty plus thousand fans that are gonna be here. So
Speaker 1: it's good. It's a good environment. And also the fact
Speaker 1: that you see people with a smile on their face.
Speaker 1: That's what gets me. And like I've been reporting this
Speaker 1: business the sixteen years and when you go to work
Speaker 1: every single day and you love it for yourself, but
Speaker 1: when you still see the fans and little kids, a
Speaker 1: dad holding the son with a jersey on, and like
Speaker 1: that is what I wish I would have had as
Speaker 1: a kid. But now, without a doubt, I'm bringing my kid.
Speaker 1: Well actually I can' because I'm gonna be working. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make sure I'm gonna make sure my kid comes
Speaker 1: with somebody who could bring him But that's another thing.
Speaker 1: My son is twelve. He's in that age of he
Speaker 1: has a team. He likes the Seahawks because Pete Carroll's NSC.
Speaker 1: That's his deal. But I even asked him, like, what
Speaker 1: about this the Chargers. He's like, yeah, well you're working
Speaker 1: with them. I want to go. And it's those are
Speaker 1: the fans that they're getting, the kids who are still impressionable,
Speaker 1: and that's what you want to do, build the next
Speaker 1: generation of fans. It really hit me on Sunday, day
Speaker 1: one of camp, with five thousand fans came out the
Speaker 1: coast of Mesa. It was unbelievable. And you've been there
Speaker 1: all long for your first week on the job. What
Speaker 1: was your takeaway from that first week? And custom I
Speaker 1: wasn't there for day one. Remember you're texting, You're like, okay,
Speaker 1: what's it like? You were going back and forth telling
Speaker 1: me and I'm like, okay. I was excited to get
Speaker 1: there on Monday. Monday I knew could be crowd. What
Speaker 1: got me was the Tuesday crowd, the Wednesday crowd. It's
Speaker 1: the summer and we're not gonna give you the cliches.
Speaker 1: All the Southern California a lot of things to do,
Speaker 1: but it's hot out there at eleven o'clock. There's no
Speaker 1: shade and you see the people in the crowd owen
Speaker 1: and owing over a player going over the middle for
Speaker 1: ten yards and it's like, yeah, the hardcore fans are
Speaker 1: showing up. You also have the people who just want
Speaker 1: to see what's going on, and you're having thousands of
Speaker 1: people having experienced and they're up close and where the
Speaker 1: media ten is at. I was sitting there on Friday
Speaker 1: and you had some fans saying, yeah, we drove from Oregon.
Speaker 1: I heard another person drove in from Arizona. They're going
Speaker 1: to Disneyland. That's what they all say they were doing.
Speaker 1: But they decided to pop in and it was cool
Speaker 1: with the axis for it and like nothing. I've never
Speaker 1: been around it. I've never seen it. I've always gone
Speaker 1: as a reporter, whether the Raiders were an OX start
Speaker 1: or when I would go down to sat Naga with
Speaker 1: the Charger were there. It's a different vibe. But this
Speaker 1: is just I mean, they've done everything right and like,
Speaker 1: once again, we're not chill for the team right here.
Speaker 1: They've done everything right in the first week, better on
Speaker 1: the field. Why did you see that stood out to
Speaker 1: you on your first week at the job. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you something. And I was asking you this because
Speaker 1: you've been around the team, You've done a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff in the NFL, and I'm without that. I'm giving
Speaker 1: it out there. I'm new to the end of film.
Speaker 1: I did stuff with the Rams last season behind the
Speaker 1: scenes on the broadcast, but were I'm involved covering the team.
Speaker 1: I'm excited for it every single night. Once I got
Speaker 1: the job a couple weeks ago, I was reading up
Speaker 1: and down, Okay who went to TCU? Like LT Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean, we know the Philip Rivers, we know the
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon's, but I want to know the ins and outs,
Speaker 1: who the kickers that's gonna be going up against Lambeau.
Speaker 1: I'm all that stuff. I just love reading about these
Speaker 1: things and the stuff in practice. But what I've stood
Speaker 1: up stood out to me this week. And maybe it's
Speaker 1: because I've also had ACL surgery. Not that I'm an
Speaker 1: lee athlete, but Keenan Allen last year, I were watching
Speaker 1: that game and I was like, oh, dude, he's bawling
Speaker 1: the first quarter, then blows out his knee, and I
Speaker 1: know how hard it is. For somebody to rehab. Just
Speaker 1: in general, I can't even demagine what it's like for
Speaker 1: a world class athlete to rehab, have your entire season
Speaker 1: taken away from you, watch your team go on, and
Speaker 1: then try to get back and contribute. And this week
Speaker 1: I've been pressed by Keenan Allen because he seems like
Speaker 1: he's a leader. In the drills. He's always the first
Speaker 1: one to go with Philip Rivers. He's also the guy
Speaker 1: telling the rookies, which you could do here and there.
Speaker 1: You see him talking to Mike Williams, and that's being
Speaker 1: done away from the cameras. It's done on the spar
Speaker 1: field at ten o'clock, and when you could easily run
Speaker 1: through the drills and run through the motions because hey,
Speaker 1: I'm established here, I'm so and so will do is
Speaker 1: none of that. I like the way Allen is working
Speaker 1: this week because he's a leader. Melvin Gordon looks like
Speaker 1: he's upset at the world when he's coming out of
Speaker 1: the backfield, like he has a lot to prove. I
Speaker 1: like that. And then the secondary there are some barking
Speaker 1: going on back there and I'm not gonna name one name,
Speaker 1: but let's just say all the DPS and I were
Speaker 1: saying it next to each other when Philip was going
Speaker 1: back and forth with the secondary and that's just that's
Speaker 1: because they were in the red zone. It was like, oh,
Speaker 1: love it. That is what camp is all about. And
Speaker 1: this is mind you, this is day three. We have
Speaker 1: a long way to go, but you can already sense
Speaker 1: that football is here when you see that back and
Speaker 1: forth and that it's just so fun to watch. And
Speaker 1: it's also I've been around long enough covering f cuc
Speaker 1: LA or whether it's the Dodgers or the Lakers. When
Speaker 1: you go in through a camp and there's not games
Speaker 1: that matter, you have guys that go through motions and
Speaker 1: when you've been on teams that are bad or teams
Speaker 1: that allow that cultural I give coach Lynn a lot
Speaker 1: of credit. He is no nonsense because when you're gonna
Speaker 1: ask Coach Lynn the question, you better come correct. It
Speaker 1: reminds me of some of the other NBA coaches where
Speaker 1: they're gonna school you. If you ask U talk about
Speaker 1: or who you make that talk about Davis, don't say
Speaker 1: talk about it. You've been ask some damn question, and
Speaker 1: don't ever ask a question just for the sake of
Speaker 1: asking the question like ask him something of importance, because
Speaker 1: Coach Lynn is not wasting his time with anything. And
Speaker 1: I like that. And you can already tell when you
Speaker 1: talk to some of the players he's leading by example.
Speaker 1: Did you see me the the other day when he grab
Speaker 1: one of the running back by the face? Malf I
Speaker 1: saw him on Thursday with every single position group and
Speaker 1: how he was so hands on. And again, this is
Speaker 1: a guy who comes from the school of Bill Walsh,
Speaker 1: of Mike Shanahan, of Bill parcels Rex Ryan, so he
Speaker 1: has that experience. He was a well respected assistant. We
Speaker 1: all know that. And everything I've heard to this point
Speaker 1: from his first day as being the head coach is
Speaker 1: that this guy has impressed everybody. Well I saw him.
Speaker 1: Was it unn data? But was it Friday? So the
Speaker 1: Chargers have two practice fields and I was going on
Speaker 1: the far side while I was watching the receivers and
Speaker 1: their quarterbacks. Who at it? But that's the also side
Speaker 1: where they put the players on the pup list. And
Speaker 1: he's over there talking to the strength and conditioning coaches
Speaker 1: and they're setting up cones out there for some of
Speaker 1: the players to come work out, and Coach Slynn is
Speaker 1: out there. I remember talking one of the interns. I'm like, wait,
Speaker 1: why is the coach out here talking without the strength
Speaker 1: and conditioning guys. That's the attention to details. It turns
Speaker 1: out that he was having the strength and conditioning guys
Speaker 1: inform him of what they were doing with the guys
Speaker 1: back and forth. Now not that he's over like he's
Speaker 1: making sure everything's involved, or he's like making sure that
Speaker 1: it's his way or nobody's way. It just seemed like
Speaker 1: he was listening to them and he wanted to know.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of organizations, are a a lot of coaches
Speaker 1: in all sports where they're so hands off, where they're
Speaker 1: let's just say, I'll to lunch on a lot of things.
Speaker 1: But when you're paying attention to the smallest minute detail,
Speaker 1: that says a lot about you as a leader. It
Speaker 1: definitely does. And today, you know, like I said, we're
Speaker 1: taking this on a Saturday. This team actually has a
Speaker 1: chance to hit somebody else with the RAM. And the
Speaker 1: Chargers are also going to be in Irvine next Wednesday
Speaker 1: at training camp. What are you looking to see this
Speaker 1: second week of camp? Battle the second week of camp,
Speaker 1: now we're starting to see guys get cut you can't
Speaker 1: if you're not healthy enough. We've seen him with a
Speaker 1: couple of players. They're gone. You're gonna eventually start getting
Speaker 1: ready for game situations. You're gonna have to trim the roster.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have guys who they might be following asleep
Speaker 1: out the next day. As one player said, the first
Speaker 1: week is everybody's cool, it's kumbaya, we all get along,
Speaker 1: and then you realize that dude, right there's gonna be
Speaker 1: taking money from my family. He's taken food from my family.
Speaker 1: And if I mean this isn't where the starters are
Speaker 1: being established. This is your roster filler guys, the backbone
Speaker 1: of your teams, the guys that are gonna make the
Speaker 1: special teams for you. That are the nuts and bolt
Speaker 1: of a squad. And you gotta have all strong fifty three.
Speaker 1: This is where those guys need to step up, and
Speaker 1: if you don't, they're gone. The position battles, yeah, are
Speaker 1: certainly going to tighten up here over the next couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. Sunday is the first test against somebody else
Speaker 1: in preseason, with the Seattle Seahawks coming in and Chargers talk,
Speaker 1: that's the debut. Ye talks all about. So Charger Talk
Speaker 1: will be on AM five seventy. It's a two hour
Speaker 1: postgame show for you, the fans. I'm gonna be the
Speaker 1: host of it. Chris is gonna be involved as a segment,
Speaker 1: Matt money Smith to play plays, gonna involved, the Hardwick
Speaker 1: is gonna be involved. It's gonna be We're gonna go
Speaker 1: around for segments. But the nuts and bolt of it
Speaker 1: is the fans. So the way that I Heeartmedia is
Speaker 1: doing it, this is pretty awesome. If you're a charge
Speaker 1: of fan, there's you. There's no way you could show
Speaker 1: up to the stadium uninformed. It's a four hour pregame
Speaker 1: show that it is going to keep you informed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not on the pregame show. I'm gonna be listening.
Speaker 1: But the pregame show is gonna be on six forty,
Speaker 1: and then at five to seventy is gonna be also there,
Speaker 1: and then Matt money Smith the hard would do the game.
Speaker 1: Then after the game, there's gonna be an hour network
Speaker 1: post game by network means that's where they talk to
Speaker 1: the players of the coaches. It's like nuts and bolts,
Speaker 1: and then after that it's two hours with me where
Speaker 1: it's like, you want to call him vent cool, you
Speaker 1: want to figure out who's gonna be good for your
Speaker 1: fantasy team. Cool, I'm gonna be taking your calls and
Speaker 1: that'll be on five seventy every single game this season
Speaker 1: started with Sunday's preseason game one. So I'm excited back
Speaker 1: to the radio roots. And what's cool about this is
Speaker 1: that my boss has told me, you know, don't worry
Speaker 1: about anything here. It's we have rules so we can
Speaker 1: fall by. But if the fans are upset, let them be.
Speaker 1: If they're happy, let them be. Like I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: the sounding boarder for you. So it's fun. It's it's
Speaker 1: interactive in it. We're gonna it's not gonna be your
Speaker 1: traditional Hey, let's go to Chris in La. What do
Speaker 1: you have to say? It's like, hey man, we're at
Speaker 1: the games. Do you have fun as the cool? Would
Speaker 1: you like what you didn't like? You know, stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and look at it, Chris, it's twenty seventeen. Let me
Speaker 1: know about yourself. He let me know about your Instagram post,
Speaker 1: let me know about all this stuff. And we're not
Speaker 1: gonna put our head down. We know that you're as
Speaker 1: got the best snap check game in the city. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: bethelevision if you want to follow it. But also it's interact.
Speaker 1: It's twenty seventeen. I know you only care about your
Speaker 1: damn fantasy teams. And I know you got three four
Speaker 1: of it because you're calling a charger talk with me.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna make sure it's involved because it was
Speaker 1: gonna be going. It's gonna be two hours to be fun, man,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be a big rule of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't wait. Charge your talk with better durand he
Speaker 1: is the new charges report on a five seventy. Check
Speaker 1: his reports out throughout the week. Oh, you want to
Speaker 1: hear starts and sixth in the morning, five seven? How
Speaker 1: many how many reports? Okay, so in the morning at
Speaker 1: six or seven am, there's one report. Then I do
Speaker 1: a practice report with Victor Brick at ten at eleven.
Speaker 1: Then as soon as practice is over, I go on
Speaker 1: with Fred Rogan at one, and then after that we'll
Speaker 1: go with Matt money Smith depending off the Dodger in
Speaker 1: town in the afternoon. So lots of chargers information. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no excuse if you if you want to charge
Speaker 1: your information, you go to charges dot com. You listen
Speaker 1: to Better during the week, and then of course Charger
Speaker 1: Talk next Sunday. Charger Talks Talk Snapchat are already doing
Speaker 1: a snapchat looking to snapchat live. Here a podcasts with Better,
Speaker 1: Duran Better. Thank you, my man, we'll see you this week.
Speaker 1: Let's go. That'll do it for today's Chargers Training Camp podcast.
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