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Speaker 1: Hey everybody. Chris Harry with you on the Chargers Training

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Speaker 1: Camp Podcast, just four days away from the team's preseason

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Speaker 1: opener against the Seattle Seahawks. Today, my guest is quarterback

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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers. Rivers and I discussed the team's first season

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, playing in the stub Hub Center in

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Speaker 1: his optimism entering the twenty seventeen season. Philip Rivers joins

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Speaker 1: me on the Chargers Training Camp podcast, Philip, how you

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Speaker 1: doing doing great? Thanks? Second week of training camp is

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Speaker 1: underway and we're counting down of that first preseason game

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Speaker 1: Sunday at stub Hub versus Seattle. And Philip, these last

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Speaker 1: two weeks have been new for Everybody's kind of like

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Speaker 1: the first day of school. How do you think the

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Speaker 1: team has made that transition coming up to Coast of Mason.

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Speaker 1: I thought it's about as smooth as it could be.

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Speaker 1: I really do. Obviously, it's a lot of new, as

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Speaker 1: you said, for everybody, a lot of unknown, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of first force those first couple of

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Speaker 1: has done a heck of a job of making it

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Speaker 1: as smooth as possible on us players, so we can

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Speaker 1: really focus on the football and have a good camp.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty seamless at this point, right you guys. You

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Speaker 1: guys are here at a hotel in Costa Mesa, and

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Speaker 1: right now it's kind of like parallel Paz that the

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Speaker 1: complex is being set up for you guys, how et cetera.

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Speaker 1: Are those guys to get into the building and everybody

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Speaker 1: be under one roof. Yeah, I think exciting. I think again,

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Speaker 1: that'll be the kind of the last phase I think

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Speaker 1: of that transition. You know, we got to practice the

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Speaker 1: StubHub against the Rams last week, as you mentioned, we

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Speaker 1: play against the Seahawks here this coming Sunday. So I

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Speaker 1: think that's kind of the last step. When we get

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Speaker 1: in season home, year round home. I guess I should

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Speaker 1: say that's when it'll be kind of that last step

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Speaker 1: and we can really feel like, all right, we're settled,

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Speaker 1: we're here. We gotta feel for camp, we gotta feel

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Speaker 1: for the fans, gotta feel for the community all through

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Speaker 1: training camp, and then we can really just focus on

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Speaker 1: the season. You got a small east of what stub

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Speaker 1: the Rams and phil You've played in just about every

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Speaker 1: to be pretty incredible. What's the biggest adjustment for you

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Speaker 1: playing in a stadium like that. Well, I don't know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that there'll be one once. It was

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Speaker 1: really more of the sightlines and kind of the feel

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Speaker 1: of getting your depth, perception and all those things anytime

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Speaker 1: what we're used to. What was the vibe after practice

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Speaker 1: You know, we're the new we're the new new guys

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Speaker 1: the hottest tick in town. Coach Lynn comes in Philip

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Speaker 1: and we hear a lot about his preparation his attention

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Speaker 1: I think he sees it from both sides. I think

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Speaker 1: We'll see see who's some of those other guys that

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Speaker 1: You know, it's not Yeah, here's how the route's drawn.

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