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Speaker 1: This is Michael Badgeley and you're listening to the Chargers

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Speaker 1: Podcast Network. What's up, guys. Chris Hery with you on

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Speaker 1: a brand new episode of Chargers Weekly. Twenty twenty Training

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Speaker 1: Camp presented by so Far the Pads are on this week,

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Speaker 1: and I'm really excited about this interview coming up Jim Nagy,

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Speaker 1: executive director of the Reese's Senior Bowl. Four of the

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Speaker 1: six rookies that the Chargers selected in the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: draft participated in the Senior Bowl. Jim's gonna give us

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Speaker 1: his insight on Justin Herbert on a Lohe Gilman on

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Speaker 1: Josh m Kelly on kJ Hill. We're also going to

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Speaker 1: talk about a few guys from the twenty nineteen Senior

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Speaker 1: Bowl now Zadderlee, Drew Tranquil, and Donald Parham. So as

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Speaker 1: you see these guys start to make plays over the

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Speaker 1: next couple of weeks, listen to Jim and his insight

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Speaker 1: from more perspective on the newest Chargers. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: bring in Jim Nagy, executive director of the Sea Your Bowl.

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Speaker 1: As we get into training camp. Jim, I thought you

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Speaker 1: would be the perfect person to break down some of

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Speaker 1: these young guys on the Chargers. Four of the six

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Speaker 1: draft picks were at the Senior Bowl in January, and

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Speaker 1: you go back a few years, there's always a few

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Speaker 1: Senior Bowl guys in the conversation before we start, though.

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Speaker 1: The Senior Bowl. Top fifty came out this morning. I

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Speaker 1: know you guys have been branding despite all the uncertainty

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Speaker 1: around college football right now. Yeah, Top two fifty, thanks

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Speaker 1: for having me on. Yeah, we're excited about it. Our

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Speaker 1: staff has been working really hard. I mean we jumped

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Speaker 1: on this year's draft class literally like two weeks after

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Speaker 1: last year's game when we wrapped up, so we've been

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Speaker 1: working since February. We've evalued over nine hundred guys and

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Speaker 1: really wintle it down to two fifty was really difficult.

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Speaker 1: Our watch list of the last couple of years has

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Speaker 1: been around five hundred. We didn't want to put out

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Speaker 1: that big of a list just because such a weird

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Speaker 1: year we're in right now with COVID and a lot

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Speaker 1: of schools now playing. So yeah, it was It's a

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Speaker 1: big day around the office. Work side, there's a you know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of schools are starting to repost graphics and stuff,

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Speaker 1: excited about it. It's cool. I saw it the sported

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Speaker 1: top two fifty. All right, So let's start with the

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Speaker 1: Senior Bowl MVP Jim Justin Herbert. I mean through the

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Speaker 1: entire draft evaluation process, it started at the Senior Bowl.

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Speaker 1: What did you see from Justin during those key practices,

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Speaker 1: during the week and then obviously in the game. First,

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Speaker 1: I'll say this is about Justin. Um Like, going back

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Speaker 1: to his tape at Oregon last year. You know, the

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Speaker 1: more you watched, you really got a sense for he was.

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Speaker 1: He really carried that that offense, really carried that football team.

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Speaker 1: I mean they when they where they won eleven games

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Speaker 1: and you know, win the Rose Bowl. And you know,

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Speaker 1: he wasn't playing with the same people around him that

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Speaker 1: you know, some of these other quarterbacks were. You know,

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Speaker 1: he certainly didn't have the supporting cast of two. Uh

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Speaker 1: and you know, people questioned his passion and things like that.

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Speaker 1: We saw none of that, Like it couldn't be further

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Speaker 1: And so it's not just the practice week, it's not

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Speaker 1: I mean, this guy's so talented, but he's just scratching

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Speaker 1: You know, like he really um, he's still really moldible

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Speaker 1: So I think Justin has a great support system around

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Speaker 1: him and Jim to your point, he's just he's got

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Speaker 1: this quiet confidence to him, man, and he is so smart.

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Speaker 1: I remember the day he was drafted, he was telling

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited to see his career take off in LA. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right. Next guy Joshua Kelly. And this was a

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Speaker 1: I mean, another one of our favorite guys here, just

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Speaker 1: They're better players than we realized. So, you know, getting

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Speaker 1: special teams player. Our goal is to get all these

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Speaker 1: he helped himself quite a bit down here, and again

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Speaker 1: He's all over the field. But a lot of people

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Speaker 1: excited about Joshua Kelly, Jim the next guy. I've joked

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Speaker 1: it's like Notre Dame West over here because there's like

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Speaker 1: Alohi Gilman, a captain in South Bend, played football at

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Speaker 1: the Chargers here in twenty twenty. Yeah, there is no doubt.

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Speaker 1: Really a fun player to watch on tape. And I

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Speaker 1: I can give any players. They're fun to watch. And

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Speaker 1: Aloe just I saw him play at Georgia last year

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Speaker 1: no doubt about it. But I really think alohe you

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Speaker 1: the circumstances of COVID and not really having any any

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Speaker 1: I think he's going to be an impact guy in

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Speaker 1: You know, when you talk about fit to Jim, although

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Speaker 1: and until next time, I'm Chris Harry