Speaker 1: We do have the brand new offensive coordinator for your
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers to be at the bolt with the
Speaker 1: voice of the Bolts and the new Bolts OC Mike McDaniel,
Speaker 1: fresh from Miami and looking quite clean, joining us on
Speaker 1: your Southern California Toyota Dealers celebrity hotline after his big
Speaker 1: press conference and a little bit of a media whirlwind
Speaker 1: and then headed back on vacation. Right when this is over, coach,
Speaker 1: welcome and thank you so much for doing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm very intimidated. You guys's voices are phenomenal. And
Speaker 2: Joe Shan doesn't talk like this. No, he does not
Speaker 2: nice reference, He's good.
Speaker 1: How has your day been, what's it been like? Give
Speaker 1: us a little idea of what the process has been like,
Speaker 1: kind of resetting and looking at your options and ending
Speaker 1: up here.
Speaker 2: Well, I think you know part of the whole process.
Speaker 3: It's a whirlwind for sure, and you don't anticipate having
Speaker 3: all these options, and then you have some options you're
Speaker 3: afforded to bye bye uh just whether it's good merit
Speaker 3: or whatever. But ye, it forces you to find some
Speaker 3: conviction and you don't really know your your compass as
Speaker 3: to uh you know, if you are in a position
Speaker 3: where you can you have a couple of teams to
Speaker 3: that that are that are interested in you, that it
Speaker 3: really sets your focus on what's important to you. And
Speaker 3: you know, I think I found really everything that's vastly
Speaker 3: important to.
Speaker 2: Me here with the Chargers.
Speaker 3: I think it's something that uh, you know, I feel
Speaker 3: very fortunate to be a part of, but very hungry
Speaker 3: to deliver on, you know, the results that are still
Speaker 3: out there on the table. You know, I think there's
Speaker 3: a lot of players here that that have the ability
Speaker 3: to be great. In My job here is to is
Speaker 3: to make those players, uh take them from good to
Speaker 3: great and from great historic and all the things in between.
Speaker 3: So I'm fired up, but I'm very convicted and in
Speaker 3: being here and being a part of this team and
Speaker 3: what we have in store for us moving forward.
Speaker 4: As someone who's kind of been in football as long
Speaker 4: as you have, kind of take us through sort of
Speaker 4: your perceptions of Coach Harbaugh getting in a room with
Speaker 4: him as you decided to be part of this and
Speaker 4: and what it is that that maybe the two of
Speaker 4: you have going that that made this feel like the
Speaker 4: right fit.
Speaker 3: Well, I think first and foremost he understood that. You
Speaker 3: know this, this is really put The most important thing
Speaker 3: was that we we had some sort of marriage that
Speaker 3: was consensual, that he didn't try to sell He didn't
Speaker 3: try to sell me on something he wasn't. He was
Speaker 3: his authentic self and that really speaks to me. You know,
Speaker 3: I think some of the core values of football from
Speaker 3: a starting point we share, particularly from line of scrimmage
Speaker 3: play and how to win football games and take control
Speaker 3: down the stretch of the season. You know, I admired
Speaker 3: the things that he's done throughout his career. The first
Speaker 3: time I played against him, one of the best teams
Speaker 3: I've ever played against. I was in Washington at the
Speaker 3: time in twenty eleven, played against his Niners team that
Speaker 3: destroyed us and we had no chance. And then watching him,
Speaker 3: you know, I actually one of one of the first
Speaker 3: examples of a coach being being able to make a
Speaker 3: supreme difference in a program. He gave to me, you know,
Speaker 3: at the University of San Diego. You know, I played
Speaker 3: at Yale and we we drubbed the University of San
Speaker 3: Diego the year before he got there. And then this
Speaker 3: first year with Josh Johnson. Uh, you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: get the numbers wrong, but it was like something like
Speaker 3: forty five to zero in favor of Yale. And he
Speaker 3: gets there the next year and drubbed us like fifty
Speaker 3: five to eight, and I was like, wow, you know,
Speaker 3: that's what I want in my career, is to be
Speaker 3: able to be a coach on the sidelines and possibly
Speaker 3: impact a program to the degree.
Speaker 2: That they are.
Speaker 3: You know, without him, they were getting drubbed by Yell
Speaker 3: and they were doing the drubbing on Yale. So I
Speaker 3: always kept him in my scope. And then, you know,
Speaker 3: getting feet on the ground here his appreciation that was true.
Speaker 3: You know, he'd been he'd been very genuine, you know
Speaker 3: in conversations with me, you know, along my process as
Speaker 3: a head coach, whether it's owners meetings or you know,
Speaker 3: on on the visit in particular. But you know, I
Speaker 3: could just tell that, you know, he's a he's a
Speaker 3: guy that there's there are few and far between of
Speaker 3: you know, I'm a I try to model myself as
Speaker 3: an authentic version of who I am, and I don't
Speaker 3: you know, I'm pretty rigid in that. And Jim Harbaugh
Speaker 3: to me, ironically, from my perspective, I see him as
Speaker 3: a visionary of who I try to be, which is
Speaker 3: a man unique to his own that cares about developing
Speaker 3: players and cares about winning and spends his time thinking
Speaker 3: about how he can connect people to have the best
Speaker 3: example of football on the field. So I thought it
Speaker 3: was a very natural fit from the onset, and the
Speaker 3: more that I've talked to him has just given me
Speaker 3: the same reasons of conviction why I'm so happy to
Speaker 3: be here today.
Speaker 1: Petros and Money Show. Mike McDaniel is our guest on
Speaker 1: a five seventy LA Sports, your home of Chargers Information
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers. When they talk about I mean, you're
Speaker 1: a well respected offensive man in the highest level of football,
Speaker 1: and you have earned that over and over again in
Speaker 1: your career. When people say, hey, this is a modern
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, you know, what does that mean to you?
Speaker 1: Because you've always been pretty balanced guy. People think that
Speaker 1: modern offense means throwing the ball every down. I guess
Speaker 1: in some.
Speaker 3: Way, well, you know, I think it's it's trying to,
Speaker 3: you know, continually reinvent what the football that the subtle
Speaker 3: details are to how you're doing offense that gives whatever
Speaker 3: manifestation of defense that's out there. Gives them problems while
Speaker 3: staying true to the fundamentals and techniques. You know that
Speaker 3: that's that's the calling card of you know, really what
Speaker 3: what I see offenses is there's an illusion of complexity
Speaker 3: to a degree, and how to patternize all the different
Speaker 3: things that you can, uh try to get your group
Speaker 3: of players to operate with supreme conviction since they know
Speaker 3: the the play and the defense doesn't, and trying to
Speaker 3: get guys to work in unison to attack how defenses
Speaker 3: are problem solving defense at this this particular time in football.
Speaker 3: So you know, I think I've always been was so
Speaker 3: fortunate to be placed in the National Football League with
Speaker 3: who I was placed with, getting a job early with
Speaker 3: the Shanahans. We we led the league in motions for
Speaker 3: probably the better half of a decade and a half,
Speaker 3: you know, all the way back to Houston, and reduce
Speaker 3: splits and you know, just really doing things that you
Speaker 3: invent off of necessity or ways to keep a competitive advantage,
Speaker 3: not you know, for invention's sake. So attacking the ways
Speaker 3: defenses are, you know, it's changed in the last handful
Speaker 3: of years, and to stay ahead of it, you have
Speaker 3: to continue to change as well. That's something I've never
Speaker 3: hesitated to do. But the it's the ebbs and flows
Speaker 3: of the National Football League, and every year the game
Speaker 3: changes to a degree. A little bit two years ago
Speaker 3: we were talking about how the scoring was up across
Speaker 3: the league and defensive coaches didn't know what they're doing,
Speaker 3: and now they know what they're doing again.
Speaker 2: You know, it's kind of I think.
Speaker 3: To be modern, I would say you have to be
Speaker 3: willing to evolve within season and between seasons, which is
Speaker 3: something that we will very much do with.
Speaker 4: All you mentioned Houston and so think about you with
Speaker 4: Kyle and Matt Schaub and then Washington. You think about
Speaker 4: RG three and that historic twenty twelve season. So all
Speaker 4: the different places you've been, all the different quarterbacks you've
Speaker 4: been with, how much changes and like what you do
Speaker 4: based on that position, the guy that touches it all
Speaker 4: every snap.
Speaker 3: It is the number one motivator to you know, to schematic,
Speaker 3: really focus and where you know you're you're trying to
Speaker 3: figure out which, you know, what things to feature within
Speaker 3: that person's game.
Speaker 2: It's one of the reasons it's so excited to.
Speaker 3: Be here is I don't see a limit to the
Speaker 3: things that you know, our quarterback is able to do
Speaker 3: and so you you.
Speaker 2: You'd you'd really just try to create.
Speaker 3: Something where you can utilize all those skill sets without
Speaker 3: you know, necessitating him to be at his most elite
Speaker 3: level of play at all times for us to do well.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: To me, I think I feel so fortunate that we
Speaker 3: were kind of bouncing around the National Football League. This
Speaker 3: will be my eighth different team. Within all those stops,
Speaker 3: You've had different problems to solve from the uh, from
Speaker 3: the quarterback position, and I think that makes me a
Speaker 3: much better coach as I sit here today than if
Speaker 3: I were, you know, just in one system, say with
Speaker 3: like Tom Brady, and just had Tom Brady doing it
Speaker 3: the whole time.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: So I think, uh that the you bring up the
Speaker 3: Washington days and that was such an impactful.
Speaker 2: Point in all of our careers.
Speaker 3: You know, I was the receiver coach, Sean McVeigh was
Speaker 3: the tight ends coach, Kyle was.
Speaker 2: The O C, and Matt with Floor was the quarterback
Speaker 2: coach like Miami of Ohio.
Speaker 3: And within that we we jumped into a zone read
Speaker 3: which none of us on staff had ever had experience with.
Speaker 3: And typically people kind of like get cliniced.
Speaker 2: We didn't.
Speaker 3: We had to problem solve from uh you know, uh
Speaker 3: led led by Kyle and uh his uh brashness and
Speaker 3: and foresight, and we lived in the pistol, which people
Speaker 3: hadn't done. And uh, you know, I think that was
Speaker 3: a very formative time for all of our careers where
Speaker 3: you stopped looking at the execute of you know, I
Speaker 3: don't look at taking a system and putting players in
Speaker 3: the same situations that other players were in.
Speaker 2: I look at more of how to take advantage.
Speaker 3: Of certain types of skill sets, and then the collective
Speaker 3: kind of brings you into a new trajectory of what,
Speaker 3: you know, what your offense looks like.
Speaker 2: So to me it it, I'm very I would have
Speaker 2: it no other way.
Speaker 3: During it, you don't like to move all the time,
Speaker 3: and you're you know, you don't feel like you have
Speaker 3: a solid ground within the National Football League as a coach.
Speaker 3: It makes it difficult, but it's also forces you to
Speaker 3: be your best self and continue to evolve, which I
Speaker 3: plan on taking advantage of this year in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Well, this is fascinating, and you've been so generous with
Speaker 1: your answers. Usually people are a little bit less detailed
Speaker 1: when it comes to football.
Speaker 2: Oh, I will talk my face out.
Speaker 1: No, it's a while. We love it. I love it.
Speaker 1: But usually you know, this is complex for us because
Speaker 1: when a guy usually comes to La a coach or
Speaker 1: or you know, it's more fun with the young players.
Speaker 1: We warned them, you know, about going Hollywood. But you're
Speaker 1: a man of great contradiction, you know. I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: I mean you're dressed like you're going to the club,
Speaker 1: but you get up at four in the morning, yep,
Speaker 1: and you have all of these I mean, how do
Speaker 1: you see yourself in the city of Los Angeles. I
Speaker 1: mean there's gonna be a lot of shopping.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I better be good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're gonna be here.
Speaker 2: I better be good. I better be good to afford it. No,
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: I like what the world has to offer. There's so
Speaker 3: many different you know. I had never been on a
Speaker 3: plane until I was thirteen years old. I was born
Speaker 3: and raised in a landlocked, landlocked state of Colorado, And
Speaker 3: you know, I think there's different things to take from
Speaker 3: all sorts of people in different environments. You know, I've
Speaker 3: vacationed and spent probably the most time in the country
Speaker 3: since outside of the places that I've worked has been
Speaker 3: in southern California. So you know, every summer I was
Speaker 3: down in the Laguna Beach for probably got married in
Speaker 3: Laguna Beach, and and better half, well probably the last
Speaker 3: decade I've spent almost every summer, so I'm very familiar
Speaker 3: with the area, a place I've always dreamed of coaching.
Speaker 3: I think, Uh, you're very fortunate if you're able, uh
Speaker 3: to call this place home and coach professional athletics. So
Speaker 3: I plan on taking full advantage of of what this
Speaker 3: city has to offer and create the the best, newest
Speaker 3: improved Mike McDaniel that the world has seen. What does
Speaker 3: that look like? I don't even know, So how would you?
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 4: We'll see. I'm looking forward to who knows the artistic
Speaker 4: community of Laguna Beach through the art of football from there. Well,
Speaker 4: we appreciate it, coach. Good luck.
Speaker 2: Your grandma's very sweet, by the way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you, coach. We appreciate it. Good Luck.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 2: Thank you.