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

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Speaker 1: Camp podcast. Today I sit down with offensive tackle Russell o'coon.

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Speaker 1: O'coon discusses his move to LA from the division rival Broncos,

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Speaker 1: spearheading the Chargers new look offensive line, and his many

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Speaker 1: interests outside of football. It was a real fun conversation.

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Speaker 1: So without further ado, here's Russell o'coon. Okay, Russell o'coon

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Speaker 1: joins me on the Chargers Training Camp podcast. You follow

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Speaker 1: him on Twitter at Russell o'coon. Russell, thanks for joining me. Man,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing? I'm great, I'm great. How are

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Speaker 1: you I'm doing well? How was how was practice today

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Speaker 1: before you guys get ready for the Saints? Ah, Man,

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Speaker 1: practice is great. Guys are flying around. We really responded,

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Speaker 1: especially after our showing you in the preseason game. One

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Speaker 1: we find our competitive advantage? And I was decided to

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Speaker 1: see the guys flying around today and we're looking forward

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Speaker 1: to practicing against the Saints. I was pumped to have

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Speaker 1: you on, Russell, because you have so many interests beyond

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Speaker 1: the field. Yeah. Yeah, but I do want to start

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Speaker 1: with football, a few football questions, then we'll get to

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Speaker 1: everything off the field. You come over from a division

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Speaker 1: rival and the Denver Broncos. For fans who may not know,

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Speaker 1: explain the process this offseason that ended up with you

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Speaker 1: beingcoming an la georger. Yeah. I don't necessarily know where

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Speaker 1: And as I was released into free agency, I wanted

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Speaker 1: a tremendous upside that I had a good passer, a

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Speaker 1: last year. What is Week one going to be like

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Speaker 1: for you on Monday Night football? Going back there at night?

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Speaker 1: You have that stage on Monday Night Football and ESPN. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'd be remissed to say I haven't really thought about it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, those guys, especially their defense, are really good.

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Speaker 1: They're they're really good, and and I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: if if we are who we think we are as

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Speaker 1: a Chargers, like, it'll be a tremendous task to go

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Speaker 1: out there and beat them on the road. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, isn't that what football is? Right? Football is

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Speaker 1: you know, And I love football just for that. But

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Speaker 1: for now, we got Saints coming in tomorrow. I got

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Speaker 1: to practice. Well, got three more games a preseason we

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Speaker 1: we're going to be as a team. You're entering your

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Speaker 1: you played in twelve playoff games, two Super Bowls, you

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Speaker 1: And just you know, with these years that have gone

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Speaker 1: days at grind, every days at battle, and everything matters.

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Speaker 1: And I really pushed myself to really figure out. And

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Speaker 1: So does it hurt that you know this division and

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Speaker 1: Knowing that this is an offensive line in transition? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I'm fortunate because I get to play two of

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Speaker 1: we really put the challenge for ourselves to be the

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Speaker 1: I said at the beginning, you're a man of many

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Speaker 1: there's so much to do. Man, I've lived here for

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Speaker 1: eleven years. I don't think I've scratched the surface. Let's

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Speaker 1: start with food, because I know your food guy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So like, yeah, I'm down to see as many places

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Speaker 1: That's the thing to Orange County. You're you're probably forty

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Speaker 1: You know, speaking of podcasts, because this is the Chargers

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Speaker 1: I know your podcast guy too, what podcasts are you

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