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Speaker 1: Everybody. Chris Avery with you on a very special NFL

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Speaker 1: Draft edition of Chargers Weekly, coming up interviews with the

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Speaker 1: chargers first three draft picks and their college head coaches.

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Speaker 1: I'll also be joined by the La Times As Dan Wicky,

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Speaker 1: Ryan Abraham of usc football dot Com, and the executive

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Speaker 1: director of the Reese's Senior Bowl Phil Savage. But let's

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Speaker 1: start with the Thursday night phone call that set the

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Speaker 1: wheels in motion for an exciting weekend at the Whole

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Speaker 1: Performance Center. Darwin. Hello, hey, this is a top to

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Speaker 1: let's go with the Chargers. Now are you doing? Man?

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Speaker 1: How are you doing? I'm excited? Hey, I got one

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Speaker 1: question for you. Can you help us with a Super Bowl? Oh? Yeah, sorry,

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Speaker 1: that's what we want to hear. Yeah, sorry, yeah, sorry,

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Speaker 1: that's great. Uh. We're getting ready to send your pick

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Speaker 1: in right here. Okay, yes, heard, awesome. Ham let's do it.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put you on the phone with our head coach,

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Speaker 1: Anthony Lant Okay, okay, all right, congratulations mister James. How

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Speaker 1: you doing, my man? I'm doing good. Good here again,

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Speaker 1: I'm going yeah, you're ready? Ball? Yeah? Man? Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's do it. Okay, all right, I remember what you

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Speaker 1: said in the interview. We can put you anywhere. Ye

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Speaker 1: well yeah, yeah, man, I'm excited for you. Uh, tell

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Speaker 1: your family and everybody everyone. I said hello, and I'll

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Speaker 1: see him so and uh, I'm looking forward to singing

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Speaker 1: when you get it. Okay, Rid The seventeenth pick in

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Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen NFL drafts, the Los Angeles Chargers select

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Speaker 1: Derwin James, defensive back Florida. Stay all right, please be

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Speaker 1: joined by the newest Charger, Darwin James. All charges weekly

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Speaker 1: fresh office flight from Dallas. What are the last twelve

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Speaker 1: to fifteen hours it's been like for you? Have you slept? No?

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Speaker 1: I not really. I haven't got that much slept but sleep.

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Speaker 1: But it's been exciting. I'm enjoying it, man, and ready

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Speaker 1: to get to work. Tell me about the last two

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Speaker 1: hours in that green room right because we're watching the

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Speaker 1: in the green room with your family waited. It was

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Speaker 1: a longer way than we expected. But um man, Man,

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Speaker 1: once I got that call, he didn't really call me,

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Speaker 1: called my agent, and once my agent gave me the phone,

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Speaker 1: it was a memory that I never forget. And um,

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Speaker 1: they're still going through my mind as we as we

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Speaker 1: speak right now. Yeah, well you said it too. You see,

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Speaker 1: you think you're the best player in the draft, and

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Speaker 1: of course you're gonna be fueled by motivation, But at

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Speaker 1: the same time, you gotta look at the situation that

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Speaker 1: I'm in a great system, great situation. I couldn't ask

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Speaker 1: for a better, better coaching staff and great teammates that

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Speaker 1: I have around me. So I'm excited. Man, makes that

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Speaker 1: make my job that much easier. So for fans that

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Speaker 1: may not know, tell us about your game and what

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Speaker 1: we can expect on this defense, especially fitting with that secondary.

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Speaker 1: When we talk about Casey Harold, who I know you

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Speaker 1: I feel like I have a versatile skill set. Um.

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Speaker 1: I can play many positions. Um Um. I love the

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Speaker 1: game of football, love contact, I love I just love

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Speaker 1: So and I feel like I'm a leader on and

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Speaker 1: How does that help the back end? Oh? That helps.

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Speaker 1: I feel like when you have great pass rush you, um,

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Speaker 1: on Jalen Ramsey's Instagram story yesterday. Yeah that's your guy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: him and I saw that, So what was that like?

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Speaker 1: Just to have him throughout that process with you and

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Speaker 1: of you, and um he was. He was very active

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Speaker 1: a friend, right, Yeah, he's like my brother, and I

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to get the play man. Yeah. Last thing

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Speaker 1: super Bowl? So what's your message to Chargers fans, because

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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you everybody was on cloud nine last

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Speaker 1: happy to be a part of this program. Absolutely. Well, Hey,

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Speaker 1: Can't thank you know for spend a few minutes and

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Speaker 1: all right, it's my great pleasure to welcome Jimbo Fisher

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Speaker 1: the Chargers Weekly. He's the head coach of Texas A

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Speaker 1: and he coached Durwin James and coach. I have to

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Speaker 1: imagine you were watching the draft like all of us

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Speaker 1: a big surprise to all of us here, but we're

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Speaker 1: He is very you know, you know, guy's draft goes

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Speaker 1: gonna fit into Gus Bradley's system? But you could play

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Speaker 1: he can play anywhere. I mean, we would played him

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Speaker 1: He played the mic linebacker and um, you you're Nickel

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Speaker 1: He has tremendous range and tremendous ball skills. So very

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Speaker 1: rarely do you have a guy who's physical, smart, tough,

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Speaker 1: You know, we talk about player comps. A lot of

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Speaker 1: I don't know if there's really a comp to him

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Speaker 1: now the Ridskins paired Jonathan Allen, Alabama defensive tackle that

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Speaker 1: they drafted last year with the Ron Payne And at

425
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Speaker 1: this point, what are you thinking, dad for the Chargers

426
00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,600
Speaker 1: because there was a lot of things in play, and

427
00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:49,000
Speaker 1: then oh, by the way, Green Bay trades out of

428
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Speaker 1: their pick and New Orleans comes up for who you

429
00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:53,879
Speaker 1: think could be Lamar Jackson and it wasn't. Yeah, I mean,

430
00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:56,240
Speaker 1: I think you know, you know, to me, it's it's

431
00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,760
Speaker 1: that trade and then the Raider the raider pick or

432
00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,240
Speaker 1: the are like the key you know, moments like I

433
00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:03,399
Speaker 1: think you're starting to think at that moment, like, you know,

434
00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:05,879
Speaker 1: Derwin James is on the board, the Chargers have a

435
00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:09,640
Speaker 1: chance here to get you know, a really really easy

436
00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:12,840
Speaker 1: scheme fit. You know, I'm thinking to myself a little

437
00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,120
Speaker 1: bit like, hey, you know, maybe I should text around

438
00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:16,720
Speaker 1: a little bit. Are they trying to move up? Is

439
00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:18,280
Speaker 1: this gonna be? You know what I mean? Because Derwin

440
00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:20,760
Speaker 1: James is there, like, you know, he's the kind of

441
00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,800
Speaker 1: guy like and kind of my draft prep that I

442
00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:26,120
Speaker 1: thought like and and Treman Evans were like the kinds

443
00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:28,119
Speaker 1: of guys that if they were there at thirteen or fourteen,

444
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Speaker 1: you consider moving up for those guys at a couple

445
00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:32,919
Speaker 1: of spots, you know, because it seemed to me that

446
00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:36,960
Speaker 1: there was a little bit of a talent gap defensively

447
00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:39,600
Speaker 1: after the like those were like top tier defensive level

448
00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,880
Speaker 1: guys and like, you know, the guys like they're trying

449
00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:43,439
Speaker 1: to it's even the dren Pains to me were just

450
00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:46,879
Speaker 1: like a slightly a level slightly lower. So you know,

451
00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:50,440
Speaker 1: the Colton Miller pick is what opens that door right now,

452
00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:54,560
Speaker 1: that guarantees the Chargers James Edmonds or James you know,

453
00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:56,640
Speaker 1: or Lamar Jackson if they wanted to go that route,

454
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Speaker 1: which I don't think they wanted to go that route.

455
00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,119
Speaker 1: So yeah, so then Buffalo traids up to get Edmunds

456
00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:03,440
Speaker 1: and then you have Derwin James. And I think at

457
00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:07,000
Speaker 1: that point I felt the energy over in the building

458
00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,479
Speaker 1: when when seventeen hit and you knew that you had

459
00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:13,440
Speaker 1: a guy who was going to be an immediate impact

460
00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 1: player that you could put really all over goes Bradley's defense.

461
00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:19,960
Speaker 1: It's kind of like, you know, it's um, you know, Chris,

462
00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:23,160
Speaker 1: Like we're both domesticated, you know, married men at this point. Yeah,

463
00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:24,960
Speaker 1: run around. It's like when you go like when you

464
00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:28,160
Speaker 1: hit Costco and like you see like the soundbar there

465
00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:29,960
Speaker 1: for like seventy bucks, and you're like, ooh, I didn't

466
00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,280
Speaker 1: think it'd be that though, it'd be like two fifty,

467
00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:33,640
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You end up walking out

468
00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:36,520
Speaker 1: with something you have no you had no like like

469
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:38,400
Speaker 1: you buy a giant panel board or something like, you're

470
00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,040
Speaker 1: buying something there that you had no idea, you didn't

471
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Speaker 1: even consider when you went to the store. And I

472
00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:45,640
Speaker 1: think that's kind of like they they couldn't have thought

473
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Speaker 1: they were gonna get Drwyn James I was equated to, like,

474
00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:50,800
Speaker 1: remember when you're like you're a junior in high school

475
00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,240
Speaker 1: and you're applying to colleges. You applied all your like

476
00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:56,320
Speaker 1: safety schools. You applied it to schools that you you

477
00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,480
Speaker 1: want to get into but you don't know, and then

478
00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:00,800
Speaker 1: you put in like your dream schools, like the two

479
00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:02,720
Speaker 1: schools that you just you just apply and you see

480
00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,200
Speaker 1: what happens. And I think the Chargers had like their

481
00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:08,760
Speaker 1: dream it was the University of Phoenix. There you go

482
00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:11,240
Speaker 1: little well, but that was it. That was it for

483
00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:13,760
Speaker 1: the Chargers. Though, that's the guy you don't expect to

484
00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,520
Speaker 1: be there, and now you put him in a secondary

485
00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:18,760
Speaker 1: with all of these other guys. Casey Hayward's locked in.

486
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,200
Speaker 1: Now you hope Jason Vrett comes back to the player

487
00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:24,560
Speaker 1: that he was. Trevor Williams had valuable experienced Desmond King.

488
00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,000
Speaker 1: I mean, that's I'm gonna stop here. I mean, Trevor

489
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:30,120
Speaker 1: Williams is a guy who, you know, talking about making

490
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,360
Speaker 1: the most of an opportunity last year, is a guy

491
00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:35,160
Speaker 1: who for most of that season was playing, you know,

492
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Speaker 1: near the level of Casey Hayward, you know, especially early

493
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Speaker 1: in the year, and was like kind of, you know,

494
00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:43,760
Speaker 1: kind of on the fringes of Pro Bowl consideration in

495
00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:47,359
Speaker 1: my mind, like drafted guy, yeah, you know, and to

496
00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,639
Speaker 1: get that kind of production from him and from Desmond King,

497
00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:52,399
Speaker 1: and then you had another undrafted guy and Jalila and

498
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,320
Speaker 1: I who's gotten better and better and better? This? I mean,

499
00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:57,320
Speaker 1: is this the best secondary in the NFL? It's right there.

500
00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,360
Speaker 1: I mean, Jacksonville has a really good one, Jackson Which

501
00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:01,400
Speaker 1: was funny because I talked to Dorwin today. I mean,

502
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,560
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey, did you see Jaylen Ramsey's Instagram story. Yeah,

503
00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,560
Speaker 1: he's wearing He's wearing a Charger's hat. He's repping his

504
00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:10,119
Speaker 1: guy like magic Johnson provide that tampering or was that

505
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:14,320
Speaker 1: someone else? How did that happen? Him and Derwin are tight,

506
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 1: So it was it was really cool to see. And

507
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,879
Speaker 1: at the Pro Bowl Casey in Ramsey were like, you know,

508
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,600
Speaker 1: good nature, jabbing about who's first corner in the league.

509
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 1: You know, I tell you Jacksonville in the Chargers. Those

510
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:31,240
Speaker 1: secondaries that could dictate you know, potentially seeing Jacksonville in

511
00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:34,439
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I'm telling you yeah, there they are. To me,

512
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:36,159
Speaker 1: they're the two that that kind of jump out of

513
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,879
Speaker 1: my mind right now is like, now, look, you know

514
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 1: you don't you don't win games on draft day necessarily,

515
00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,280
Speaker 1: like a lot can change. Um, I think you know,

516
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 1: after the draft last year, kind of the visions of

517
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers throwing the ball in the red zone of

518
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,719
Speaker 1: Mike Williams were dancing through everybody's heads and that just

519
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,880
Speaker 1: never happened. You know, Forrest Lamp was a slam dunk pick.

520
00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 1: You know, it was a guy who should have been

521
00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,680
Speaker 1: taken in the the mid delay part of the first

522
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 1: roundund and slipped to the Chargers early in the second round.

523
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,000
Speaker 1: That was a slam duck pick. Neither of those guys

524
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 1: really contributed last year. So you know, Derwin James has

525
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 1: got work to do. But it seems like this is

526
00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:13,959
Speaker 1: like a really polished football player. And then and the

527
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: thing that I've been impressed with and you know talking

528
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 1: to him and talking to people about him and reading

529
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,600
Speaker 1: about him is like his leader. It's not just like,

530
00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,639
Speaker 1: you know, this was a five star guy. You know,

531
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 1: he was awesome at the combine forty inch vertical you know,

532
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,640
Speaker 1: sub four four five speed like this guy flies. He's

533
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 1: a big dude, but like everybody raves about him, is

534
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,719
Speaker 1: like a locker room presence too, and is like this

535
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:39,080
Speaker 1: is a good guy, a good leader, someone who's gonna

536
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,800
Speaker 1: be kind of like conscious of like your defense for

537
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:43,480
Speaker 1: for a few years. And it's like like if you

538
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,240
Speaker 1: draft like that kind of guy, you know, now we're

539
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,280
Speaker 1: when you start to talk about like building cultures and

540
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 1: stuff like that, that you know, it's already a pretty

541
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 1: strong group back there, you had another one. I think

542
00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 1: that's that's just say a huge lift for a team.

543
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,639
Speaker 1: You know, his freshman year of Florida State was actually

544
00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:02,240
Speaker 1: better than his junior year. Yes, that injury his second year,

545
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 1: I think in the very first game of the year,

546
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:06,240
Speaker 1: the first or second game May Yeah, I think it

547
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,359
Speaker 1: was first or second game of the year, and it

548
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: was a later all meniscus there. I think it takes

549
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:12,720
Speaker 1: a while to get back from an injury like that.

550
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:16,680
Speaker 1: So he was still first team All acc this past season,

551
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,920
Speaker 1: second team All American, and he played better his true

552
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,000
Speaker 1: freshman year. So I think what you're expecting is that,

553
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:27,240
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully a year removed from that injury, you know,

554
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 1: going into the twenty eighteen season, you're gonna get the

555
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,399
Speaker 1: guy that you actually saw the freshman year at Florida State. Well,

556
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 1: he has a chance to be the best defensive player

557
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: in this draft, right, I mean, I don't think that's

558
00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,640
Speaker 1: an unreasonable That's a good question about the safety position

559
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,680
Speaker 1: in how the NFL is, you know, potentially, you know,

560
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 1: we talk about the devaluation of running backs and then

561
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 1: we're seeing a renaissance with that. The safety position. The

562
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 1: mark has been pretty slow in the NFL, in the

563
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,679
Speaker 1: agency it is. And I remember last year kind of

564
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 1: in the bill up to the draft, hearing a lot

565
00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 1: of talk about that because the Chargers were linked heavily

566
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 1: to Lee Cooker. Obviously Jamal Adams was gonna go probably

567
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,160
Speaker 1: in the top, you know, in Jamal Adams slips last

568
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 1: year too, And part of the reason, I think was again,

569
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:11,879
Speaker 1: you know, evaluation that position. And I asked him, you know,

570
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: even though Tom Clasico afterwards pull me to the side

571
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,400
Speaker 1: and was like, I'm telling you it's an important position.

572
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 1: You don't need to keep asking about it, you know.

573
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 1: I thought Dermin had a good answer, and he's just

574
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:21,440
Speaker 1: kind of like, I don't think you can have a

575
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 1: good defense without a good safety Like I think that

576
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 1: is like one of those like defining kind of watermarks

577
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 1: on a good good defenses. You have to have strong

578
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:34,240
Speaker 1: safety play and you know, and I think the other

579
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 1: part of it too is that this isn't really just

580
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 1: a safety either. That this is kind of a guy

581
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 1: who I think they can be really creative with. He's

582
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,919
Speaker 1: an interchangeable part. He's kind of like that defensive weapon

583
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 1: where you could play him close to the line, he

584
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: could rush the passer. Yeah, it's a really good pass rushing.

585
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,240
Speaker 1: Bowen told me that he's just a good of pass

586
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 1: rushers anybody in the draft really. I mean I talked

587
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 1: to him at the combine and he even said he

588
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,439
Speaker 1: called his shot. He said, the best fit for the

589
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:04,199
Speaker 1: Chargers and vice versus Darwin James. Yeah, and just the

590
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,719
Speaker 1: fact that they were able to get him after everything

591
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: you heard over the last couple of couple of days.

592
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 1: I know fans are excited, and obviously the players on

593
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 1: this team, sorry with Casey Hayward, are pretty pumped to

594
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,119
Speaker 1: have him. Yeah. I mean, I mean he knows Casey,

595
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 1: they have the same agency. Darwin was out here. Just

596
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,159
Speaker 1: all these little things kind of line up Darwin was

597
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 1: out here and his like pre draft workout stuff, working

598
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 1: out in Orange County close to the facility, like knows

599
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 1: the area already, so so some of that stuff. And

600
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,680
Speaker 1: it might not sound like little things, but it's like

601
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 1: like I remember when I've had to move for jobs

602
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:37,479
Speaker 1: and stuff. It's like knowing where the chipol is, like

603
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:39,679
Speaker 1: knowing where I'm gonna get gas or where the grocery

604
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 1: store is. All of those little things. Not having to

605
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 1: learn that stuff over again, it makes life two percent

606
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,400
Speaker 1: easier and it allows you to focus two percent more

607
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 1: on work and on the things that are important. And

608
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: I think that'll help aid in his sort of rookie adjustment.

609
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 1: He's gonna be here all off season. You know, he's

610
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: locked in day one impact guy. It really feels like

611
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 1: this is a guy who walks through the door, plays

612
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 1: right away and is a big part of this defense.

613
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 1: And if he's good, you know, as good as we

614
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:13,640
Speaker 1: think he can be, I mean that that defense, which

615
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 1: was pretty special last year in and and year or two

616
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: in this system, could be just tremendous. All right. Other

617
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 1: first round surprises. After Drwin Alexander goes to the Packers,

618
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 1: they move up to a really good play. Anything else

619
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: stand out to you? Layton Vanderescue as the Cowboys. He's

620
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 1: a guy I really liked, and that was sort of

621
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 1: commend The discussion in the media room here is sort

622
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 1: of like, all right, if it wasn't Derwin James, who

623
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 1: would it be? And I think that's kind of the

624
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: name we've landed on. It is sort of like, you know,

625
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,239
Speaker 1: Layton vanderesh would have checked a lot of boxes too

626
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: for this team. And maybe that's who they liked. Tremendous athlete,

627
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: three down linebacker, can really play any of those three positions.

628
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 1: Great size, great speed, and a really big upside. Maybe

629
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 1: that was the guy the Chargers. Um, you know, I

630
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 1: think I had a Shaan Evans certainly, even if Duran

631
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 1: Paint had that been there kind of and people I've

632
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: talked to him. I think there were other guys like

633
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 1: more and then maybe it was vander esh Yeah, you know,

634
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: Taven Bryant was another guy that went later in the

635
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 1: first round that could have been a potential option there.

636
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: How about Terrell Edmonds going in the first round. I

637
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: was surprised. I mean I was talking to buddy, my

638
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 1: buddy time now from the Lakers we were talking about

639
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 1: just how that's kind of an underrated storyline that nobody's

640
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: really talking about or should be talking more about. Two brothers,

641
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: two brothers going in the first round of an NFL draft,

642
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: never happened before. Unbelievable. Yeah, that's, um, it's a happy

643
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 1: day in that household, I would imagine, Um, it's you know,

644
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 1: it's pretty incredible too. And and I think, you know,

645
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: seeing that third safety kind of go in the first

646
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: round too, maybe does speak a little bit too about

647
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 1: about you know, that the importance of that position and

648
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: maybe there's sort of a market deficiency there and you

649
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 1: can kind of you know, teams at value can exploit it.

650
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: I mean, what about Rashad Penny. I mean that nobody

651
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 1: sold that coming in the first round either. And he

652
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 1: was a guy that I had I had kind of

653
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 1: you know, written in pencil down for the Chargers in

654
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: the second round, a guy they'd seen a ton of,

655
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: obviously from their time in San Diego. But you know,

656
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: to me, not only just a complimentary back to Melvin Gordon,

657
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 1: the guy who could eventually maybe even take that take

658
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 1: the reins as a number one back, but as a

659
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 1: guy who could return kicks well, did we talk about

660
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 1: four down players. He's a four down player. He's the

661
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 1: guy you could play on first, one second down. He

662
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 1: can catch the body of the backfield. He probably could

663
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: have spelled Billvin ten to twelve carries a game, and

664
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Speaker 1: then you talk about the kick return. He was a

665
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 1: special teams player of the Year in his conference. So

666
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 1: those are the types of players that you want to identify,

667
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 1: and I obviously Seattle saw that to take him in

668
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 1: the first round. You could play him first, second, third down,

669
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 1: and obviously he's going to affect the game on special teams. Yeah,

670
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 1: the special teams aspect to me is I think what

671
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 1: made him most intriguing is that when you start looking

672
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Speaker 1: at guys like complimentary players are like kind of your

673
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 1: non you're non marquee guys like they have to be

674
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 1: able to contribute I think in other ways. And that's

675
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 1: a big ten and know what they're trying to build

676
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: over here. You look at a guy like, you know,

677
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 1: Austin Eckler, and a big part of the reason why

678
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Speaker 1: he was able to carve out such an important role

679
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: on this team last year wasn't just the third downback stuff.

680
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: And I think he'll be good at that and even

681
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 1: I mean he was good at it last year, but

682
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 1: I'll even be even better. But I mean that guy

683
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: was a terror on special teams in coverage, you know

684
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Speaker 1: what I mean? And so I think whoever this complimentary

685
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: running back is is gonna in my mind, it has

686
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Speaker 1: to be somebody who can help a little bit somewhere,

687
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Speaker 1: whether it's in coverage or whether it's in returning kicks,

688
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: like you know. I mean, I suppose it could be

689
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: a bigger guy. I know both Scarborough as a name

690
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: that's come up a lot, like you get like kind

691
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 1: of a short yardage guy. Maybe that's it, but but

692
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 1: I think my preference would be to see a guy

693
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Speaker 1: who can do some more stuff on special teams, because that,

694
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: to me, is another pathway to getting a lot better quickly.

695
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: Is get better, you know, better returning the football, you

696
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: get better field position, you score more points, you get

697
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 1: better in coverage units, you know what I mean. It's

698
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: all these little things that they you know, they struggle with.

699
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: Last year, they got better in a lot of airs

700
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Speaker 1: and special teams. Kick returns was not one of them.

701
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 1: I think they were worse than the league, and I

702
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 1: think the lesson though in this first round. Dan, we

703
00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 1: talked four months about the potential successor to Philip Rivers. Yep,

704
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: maybe it's in the first round. Four quarterbacks go in

705
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: the top sixteen picks and the Chargers benefit from that

706
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: by getting a guy like Dorwin James. So you know,

707
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: all this quarterback talk the quarterbacks actually helped the Chargers

708
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: get the guy that yeah at hundred percented. I mean,

709
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: you know, one of the things that's interesting to me,

710
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe it's semantics, maybe it's not, but

711
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 1: it's sort of this notion, right that you don't have

712
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 1: thirty two first round graded players, that there's there's always

713
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: more picks than there are players that gms and teams

714
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Speaker 1: consider first round talents. And you know, I'm sure that

715
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: all five of those quarterbacks weren't graded as first round

716
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Speaker 1: players on everybody's board. Well, of course not, you know,

717
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: you know that just that that's not there. But Lamar

718
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: Jackson goes thirty two overall. And keep in mind too,

719
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: you want that player option. Yeah, right, So that's why

720
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: the first Suns got into the first round at thirty

721
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 1: two weeks, four years at a really affordable rate. And

722
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: then if he's very good, you can keep at a

723
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: fifth year. I obviously you're paying them more, but I think,

724
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Speaker 1: you know, and what's crazy is you know he could

725
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Speaker 1: be the best. Like if if six years from now

726
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Speaker 1: he's the best quarterback out of this group, like I

727
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 1: wouldn't be stunned. I wouldn't be shocked. That's why I

728
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: thought New Orleans moved up to get him, because I

729
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: could just picture him on that fast track in New

730
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Speaker 1: Orleans with Alvin Kamar in the backfield and Michael Thomas

731
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: and mark Ingram just a lot of bells and whistles

732
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: for Sean Payton post Drew Breeze. That's why I thought

733
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: they were going to move up, not for Marcus Davenport. Yeah.

734
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Speaker 1: And it's interesting the Ravens, you know, I think have

735
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: you know, they have Mike vix Hold offensive coordinator. They

736
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 1: have RG three there already, so they have like some

737
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,959
Speaker 1: run option kind of some times there. Yeah, and so

738
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 1: they can do you know, that's a good landing spot

739
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: for him too. You're writing it on the wall from

740
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Speaker 1: mister Flacco. Yeah, I know, right, like Joe, this is

741
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 1: a Joe. I know you met Robert last week, Roberts here,

742
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 1: and we just drafted Lamar I think next year. I

743
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 1: think I read that, like you know, I think his

744
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,479
Speaker 1: guaranteed money ends after this season, so he might be

745
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: looking around. I would least not by right now if

746
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: I was involved. It's it's smart with the Ravens are doing, though,

747
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: because you want to get it two quarterbacks with similar

748
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 1: skill sets, just in case one goes down to build

749
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 1: your system exactly. You know, I look at what like

750
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 1: the Texans did last year with Tom Savage DeShawn Watson

751
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,439
Speaker 1: just didn't make sense because I think everybody probably knew

752
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 1: in training camp, like Deshaun Watson is going to be

753
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:20,479
Speaker 1: the guy. They tried out Savage, it didn't work. Yeah,

754
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 1: Like whose plays you're running? And and that would have

755
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: been a challenge had the Chargers drafted Lamar Jackson, who

756
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:30,760
Speaker 1: is slightly slightly more athletic than Philip Rivers, a little

757
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:35,359
Speaker 1: bit slightly more athletic, little little different skill set, um,

758
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 1: you know, and they would have looked like two totally

759
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,959
Speaker 1: different teams, you know, with those guys on the field,

760
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,359
Speaker 1: and and I do think being able to do kind

761
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,359
Speaker 1: of the same stuff. Now, look, if you love them,

762
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 1: you love them, and you still make that move in

763
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 1: my opinion, But the way things worked out, It's great.

764
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 1: Quarterbacks still in need. Um will still have to be

765
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 1: addressed sooner than later. But you're right the kind of

766
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: scramble for rookie quarterbacks, especially as teams have looked around

767
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 1: and you see the Rams and the Eagles, all these

768
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,399
Speaker 1: teams have cap space and flexibility because they're not paying

769
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: quarterbacks twenty million dollars because they've got guys on rookie deals. Um.

770
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 1: I mean, you're going to see more and more that.

771
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 1: It seems like that seems certainly like the trend right

772
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: now in the NFL is get a young quarterback, get

773
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 1: a guy that you don't have to pay a ton

774
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 1: of money to um and put throw that money elsewhere.

775
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 1: So as we tape this, are we on Are we

776
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: on hour seven? Yet? Not yet? We're actually ten minutes

777
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:26,879
Speaker 1: away from the second round as we tape this. So

778
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna know very soon who the charge of the

779
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 1: second round pick is gonna be. I am I supposed

780
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: to guess right now? Take a guess. Actually, you know what,

781
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 1: Take a guess, and I think what I'm doing this podcast.

782
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 1: After your guess, I'm actually gonna splice in with the

783
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 1: forty second or whatever the pick is, you know, and

784
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 1: then I can react to how wrong I was. All Right,

785
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a new suit from USC. Yes,

786
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 1: I think you get an explosive linebacker. Um, a really

787
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:58,240
Speaker 1: good athlete, really strong, UM, still a little raw. Um.

788
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: You know, he's had a bunch of meetings with this team.

789
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 1: He makes a lot of sense to me. I think

790
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: that's who it'll be. I wouldn't be stunned if it

791
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: was an offensive tackle. Okay, maybe a Tyrell Crosby mar again. Um,

792
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 1: but I'm sure I'm wrong. Let's let's let's go to

793
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 1: the tape, Chris, let's go all right, we're gonna splice

794
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:20,880
Speaker 1: in the actual selection and we'll see, all right. With

795
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:25,320
Speaker 1: the forty eighth pick in the two thy eighteen NFL Draft,

796
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:34,800
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Chargers select oh Channel new WALLSU linebacker USC. Listen,

797
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 1: I promise you that I take that interview with Dan

798
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 1: right before the beginning of the second round. So give

799
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 1: Dan a lot of credit. A quick break and Ryan

800
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: Abraham of USC football dot com, So the Los Angeles

801
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,760
Speaker 1: Chargers schedule is out, and boy, it's nice to finally

802
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 1: know how we'll be spending our Sundays this fall. How

803
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: many Charger games did you make last year? Matt, I

804
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 1: made twenty four preseason games in sixteen regular season games

805
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 1: last year, which are circling for this season. This season,

806
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,279
Speaker 1: I'll circle the Niners and Cardinals as they play the

807
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:08,839
Speaker 1: NFC West, and let's not forget about those rivalry games. Pee.

808
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 1: You seriously don't want to miss this. Visit fight for

809
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 1: La dot com or call eight seven seven Chargers to

810
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 1: share Matt's experience. Season tickets on sale now. Hut up, Yes, sir, Hey,

811
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: this is Tom to us go with the Chargers. How

812
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 1: are you doing? How are you doing? We're gonna keep

813
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 1: you home, yes, sir, appreciate it, sir, thank you, thank you.

814
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: You're excited. I'm excited to appreciate. That's great. Congratulations. Hey,

815
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 1: we're getting ready to send your pick in real quick. Here. Okay,

816
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:41,839
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you. All right, I'm put

817
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:43,439
Speaker 1: you on the phone with their head coach Anthony Lynn.

818
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: All right, all right, thank you, thank you. How you doing, man,

819
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: How are you doing? I'm doing, coach. I'm good, good, good,

820
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 1: see you again. I want just to hear your voice.

821
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna see you real soon, coach, I'm looking forward to.

822
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to. Man, I'm for you. Okay, thank you.

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Speaker 1: There it is Yu Chenna Nuosu coming to the bolts

824
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:09,280
Speaker 1: hometown Carson, California. And joining me now is Ryan Abraham

825
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:12,280
Speaker 1: of USC football dot Com. Ryan tell us a little

826
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 1: bit about what we're gonna get with U Chenna here

827
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: with the Chargers. Yeah, Chenna and wis one of my

828
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 1: favorite guys to cover at USC. I think when you

829
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 1: think of the Trojans, you're thinking about bringing in all

830
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 1: these five star guys all the time, not really developing

831
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: players as much. And Uchenna as one of those guys

832
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: that was a development guy. So he came in as

833
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:34,319
Speaker 1: a three star more of a safety. This is back

834
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,400
Speaker 1: when ed Orgeron was the interim head coach and wanted

835
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 1: to bring him in there. I don't think he was

836
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 1: a popular recruit because he wasn't, you know, the big

837
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 1: name guy. But guy, he was someone identified by ed Ordroon,

838
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 1: who's the defensive specialist, as you know, and I wanted

839
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: to bring him in here. And you just saw him

840
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: grow as a player and as a person over his

841
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 1: time at USC and really develop into a leader on

842
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,839
Speaker 1: the team. He's not the most vocal guy in the world,

843
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: but I think he's pretty good inside the locker room

844
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 1: with his players. He's not the guy that's going to

845
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 1: stand up on a chair and yell at everybody, but

846
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: he was someone that everyone respected in that defense, and

847
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 1: just his character has been great well as at USC

848
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 1: had the performance on the field. I think it was

849
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 1: just someone that a lot of the players could look

850
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: up to, especially the younger players. So now he's got

851
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 1: have to reverse that role and be a rookie in

852
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 1: the NFL. But I think he's someone that's certainly going

853
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 1: to bring a lot to the table, going to be

854
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: a great teammate for everyone there in the Chargers organization.

855
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 1: First team All Packed twelve this past season. He's sixty

856
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 1: three two hundred fifty one pounds and he had a

857
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: great year. You know, you mentioned it. Sendy five tackles.

858
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 1: He had eleven and a half tackles for loss, nine

859
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: and a half sacks. What do you view him as

860
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 1: more ran a pass rusher, kind of a do it

861
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 1: all linebacker. How would you categorize his game? Yeah, I

862
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 1: wouldn't say he's like a pure pass rusher guy, but

863
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: he's definitely he's got those skills, I think he'd be

864
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 1: someone that can do a lot on the outside for you,

865
00:39:58,480 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 1: and I think if you I think it was about

866
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 1: halfway through the season he was leading the nation and

867
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,919
Speaker 1: deflected passes as as a linebacker. So I think he's

868
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 1: just got a knack for the football where he can

869
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:11,240
Speaker 1: get it. You know, he can get those titles for loss.

870
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,399
Speaker 1: He can get after the quarterback, but I wouldn't say

871
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 1: that's kind of his specialty. He can drop back into

872
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,439
Speaker 1: coverage too, but being able to read the quarterback's eyes

873
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 1: and be in the throwing lanes when you're not able

874
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 1: to get there, which you know, when you're a rushing

875
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 1: pastor you can't do that all the time. I think

876
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:26,319
Speaker 1: he was really good at being able to get his

877
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:29,320
Speaker 1: hands up and deflecting those balls and they turn in

878
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: the interceptions or killing drives, and that's just something he

879
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,759
Speaker 1: was crazy. You don't see a lot of linebackers that

880
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 1: are able to do that, and I think just his

881
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,399
Speaker 1: knack for the football kind of allowed him to do that. Well,

882
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 1: you know what, he sounds like a chess piece for

883
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 1: Gus Bradley's defense. You know, Desmond King last year had

884
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 1: a note for the football they bring in Derwin James,

885
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: and I love the fact that you brought the deflections

886
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 1: because that's something that it's just it sounds like it's

887
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:56,240
Speaker 1: something so small, but it can make the biggest difference

888
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: in the world, especially when you have playmaking guys around

889
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 1: Desmond King and Casey Hayward. List goes on and on. Yeah,

890
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 1: I know, I think, and you look at what the

891
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 1: Chargers did in the first round get in the safety,

892
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 1: I think there's it seems like you've got the kind

893
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: of unique defense where you have to have certain pieces

894
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,879
Speaker 1: in place, and he seems like he's someone that they

895
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: can use and maybe do a few different roles. You know,

896
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:20,399
Speaker 1: it's not merely just gonna be pigeonholed into one one

897
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 1: kind of thing. And I think when we've seen him

898
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: kind of develop as a player, put on more weight,

899
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: get bigger, and really changed his role at USC, I

900
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 1: think he shows a level of adaptability and certainly coachability.

901
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,760
Speaker 1: So I think when you get someone in the system

902
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:36,839
Speaker 1: like that, it maybe who knows, you know, he could

903
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: go and the plan is to go one direction and

904
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 1: they might have to switch and go another. But I

905
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 1: think he's versatile enough to be able to do that, so, um, yeah,

906
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 1: the batting the balls down the last scurbage. I think

907
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 1: it was a huge part of his role at you know,

908
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:51,919
Speaker 1: at USC this past year, and you know, without that's

909
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: kind of one of those unheralded things. But without that,

910
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: I think the defense really would have struggled. Sounds like

911
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: an athlete, and you know, one of the struggles that

912
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 1: the Chargers had last year was being able to stop

913
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,920
Speaker 1: the run. How do you see him fitting in in

914
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 1: run defense situations? Yeah, I thought he'd done a good job.

915
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:09,839
Speaker 1: I think his tackle numbers are you know, have been

916
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 1: pretty good. I think he was with seventy five, like

917
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: you mentioned this past year and he had fifty three

918
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 1: and twenty sixteen. And you know, sometimes i'll use that

919
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,919
Speaker 1: kind of rugby tackling style and we didn't really see

920
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:25,279
Speaker 1: a lot of bad technique from from eachina. He just

921
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 1: seemed to be one of those guys that studies it

922
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 1: and it's really like a sound tackler. So I think

923
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:33,359
Speaker 1: sometimes you get guys coming out of college that are

924
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 1: more athletic and maybe some of their technique isn't good.

925
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:37,839
Speaker 1: I think you're going to see he probably's not gonna

926
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 1: you have to develop that much technique wise. Now, there's

927
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 1: probably gonna be some tweaks and everything that they're gonna

928
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 1: want you to do, you know, when you get to

929
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,319
Speaker 1: that next level and Chargers organization. But I think he's

930
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 1: going to be a fundamentally sound tackler. You'll see when

931
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 1: he gets into camp and he's been through the ring

932
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 1: or through this process. Ryan, I saw him at the

933
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl, obviously the Combine. We were both at his

934
00:42:56,640 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 1: pro day, and then Uchenna was actually at the Chargers

935
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,760
Speaker 1: local pro day. He didn't work out, but I believe

936
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: you know, he was able to meet with coaches on

937
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:09,320
Speaker 1: the field, and it's that entire process from the beginning

938
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl to the end where these coaches get

939
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 1: to know these players. And you Channa must have made

940
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: a nice impression on the coaching staff here at the Chargers. Yeah,

941
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 1: I think he did. And you know, he's he's a

942
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: local kid. He went to Narbonne High School, uh, you

943
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:24,359
Speaker 1: know over here and just I mean basically he could

944
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 1: probably walk from there too. That's wild. That's wild that

945
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: he's a Carson guy, you know, crazy that that's where

946
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 1: he grew up. You know. So I think and if

947
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:37,839
Speaker 1: you saw the video of his family when the pick

948
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: was announced, I think it was great. I mean, sometimes

949
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 1: you know you're looking for value and you're looking for

950
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 1: the best player available. And the rumblings we had heard

951
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 1: was that there certainly was interest from the Chargers organization

952
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:51,439
Speaker 1: and U China, and maybe it was a second round,

953
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 1: but it could have been a third. I don't know

954
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 1: if he would have been around there, but it seemed

955
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:56,839
Speaker 1: like it was a right fit. And if you can

956
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 1: get someone that's local, he's going to do a lot

957
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: of great things in the community and really fill a

958
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,320
Speaker 1: need and fit a spot for you on that defense.

959
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 1: It just seemed like a really good matchup. So I

960
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:07,759
Speaker 1: was a little worried. I wasn't sure, you know, one

961
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:09,400
Speaker 1: of those things you're hoping for. Hey, I think this

962
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:11,560
Speaker 1: could work out really well. And when the pick was

963
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: a mouse you saw this, the family erupted, everyone went crazy.

964
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: Just it was a really good moment. So, yeah, you

965
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 1: don't get those in football all the time, so it's

966
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 1: really nice when it's great that the family could stay

967
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: here and watch him playing in his backyard. And you know,

968
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 1: we mentioned there's nine and a half sacks combine that

969
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: with what Joey Bosa and Melvin Ingram did last year

970
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 1: with twenty two and a half sacks. You got pass

971
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 1: rushers come, letch you at all angles on this Chargers defense.

972
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 1: So I know that the d is pumped to have

973
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 1: you Chin on board. Rynal would get your quick thoughts

974
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 1: on a couple of the other guys. Sam Donald going

975
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 1: to the Jets and I think Ronald Jones went to

976
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. What were your thoughts on those? Yeah, you know,

977
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 1: for Ronald Jones, he got hurt, and you know, he

978
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 1: wasn't He's really fast, but he wasn't able to kind

979
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 1: of show that at the Combine or the Pro Day.

980
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 1: He had a second Pro Day. The one thing that

981
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: probably one of the weakest aspects of his game something

982
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 1: he worked on is catching the football, and he did

983
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: that at the Pro days, but didn't do all that well.

984
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 1: So I thought he you know, there was you know,

985
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 1: thoughts about him being a first round guy, maybe be

986
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: him the second running back pick, but obviously that didn't happen.

987
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 1: But I think he felt to a pretty good spot.

988
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:16,880
Speaker 1: It was early in the second round, so I'm not

989
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:19,279
Speaker 1: too bad for him there. And for Sam Darnold, I

990
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 1: did a poll on Twitter asking if USC fans would

991
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 1: rather see him go number one overall to Cleveland or

992
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 1: go somewhere else, like to New York, and it was

993
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 1: actually fifty one percent said they'd rather him not go

994
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,399
Speaker 1: to Cleveland, even though it would have been USC's six

995
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 1: number one overall pick, which would have been the most

996
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 1: They're guy with Notre Dame right now, but most of

997
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 1: the most of the the fans, by small majority, would rather

998
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:42,439
Speaker 1: him go somewhere else. I think it's a pretty good

999
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:45,439
Speaker 1: situation for him there. I think Mark Santezar has given

1000
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 1: him some advice, but he's just a blue collar, working guy.

1001
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,719
Speaker 1: I think he's going to work pretty well in New York.

1002
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:54,840
Speaker 1: Obviously it's a it's a media storm over there, but

1003
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:57,239
Speaker 1: from to move from one coast to another, I think

1004
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,360
Speaker 1: he's got the enough support around him he should do

1005
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:01,720
Speaker 1: well there. It was a little bit shocking because actually

1006
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 1: I think it was your picture that went viral on

1007
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 1: Twitter of Jimmy Haslem sitting with the Darnold's parents, and

1008
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 1: I think everybody thought from that point on that it

1009
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 1: was almost a lock that he was going to Cleveland.

1010
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: And then we, you know, we get this. You know,

1011
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: eleventh hour news that it was going to be Baker Mayfield.

1012
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: It was, you know, kind of a shock to everybody. Yeah,

1013
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:22,720
Speaker 1: I was surprised. You know, you heard enough people saying

1014
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 1: it that you trusted, have a lot of great sources.

1015
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:27,280
Speaker 1: It seemed like that was really what was going to happen.

1016
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:30,359
Speaker 1: But yeah, but the pro day was like magical, you're down.

1017
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 1: I mean it was in raining and so, you know,

1018
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 1: it's a perfect situation. Here's the southern California kid having

1019
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 1: to throw in the rain, did really well. The owner

1020
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,319
Speaker 1: of the team is chatting with his parents. Yeah. I

1021
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:42,399
Speaker 1: took that picture and it went viral all over the place.

1022
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 1: It just seemed like it was a done deal. You know,

1023
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield obviously had a lot of production in college.

1024
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:51,919
Speaker 1: It just seemed like most people had Sam Garl ahead

1025
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,279
Speaker 1: of him on their boards. Obviously Cleveland didn't, and that's

1026
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:56,319
Speaker 1: where they went. So I think it probably worked out,

1027
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,320
Speaker 1: you know, good for everyone. But now that's going to

1028
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,839
Speaker 1: be one of those things everyone's watching, how well does

1029
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,120
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield do? How well does Sam Darnel do, And

1030
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: you know, Josh Allen and Josh Rosen as well, So

1031
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 1: lots of five quarterbacks in the first round for the

1032
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: first time since the nineties. That's it's pretty good, but

1033
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 1: pretty good hall for the quarterback. Yeah, it's been a

1034
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 1: wild draft. I know the Chargers are happy. Two nice

1035
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 1: weapons for Gus Bradley's defense. He's Ryan Abraham USC football

1036
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 1: dot Com front of the program. Always appreciate your time, Ryan,

1037
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:24,920
Speaker 1: and we'll talk soon. All right, sounds good, Thanks so much.

1038
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:28,719
Speaker 1: All right, it's my great pleasure to welcome in the

1039
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 1: head coach of USC, Clay Helton, to Charges Weekly and coach.

1040
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:36,359
Speaker 1: It's got to be a worlwind of a forty eight

1041
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:38,799
Speaker 1: hours for you, but such a proud moment to have

1042
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:43,360
Speaker 1: four Trojans go into first three rounds. Oh so so special.

1043
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: I mean not only great players, but really terrific kids.

1044
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 1: I think about those four individuals and the leadership and

1045
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:52,320
Speaker 1: the character that they brought to our program on a

1046
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 1: day to day basis, and it makes you a happy

1047
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,719
Speaker 1: football coach. It really does. To be able to have

1048
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 1: a little piece of watching them grow up and growing

1049
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 1: into the Menday are today well coach worth the world

1050
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 1: to have you, Chenna on the Chargers number forty eight overall,

1051
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: When did you know that you Chenna had the potential

1052
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:13,920
Speaker 1: to be a top fifty NFL draft pick. Well, it

1053
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 1: was really not this season, but the season prior. Clancy

1054
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 1: moved him out on the edge as a sam linebacker

1055
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 1: and are underfront as well as a stand up defensive

1056
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:28,279
Speaker 1: end in our sub packages. And to see him, you know,

1057
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:31,319
Speaker 1: in high school he was a free safety, then moved

1058
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 1: to stack linebacker. Force can do stack linebacker extremely easy.

1059
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 1: But Clancy saw an extreme value with him off the

1060
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:43,279
Speaker 1: edge and setting setting the edge of our defense. And

1061
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:46,839
Speaker 1: he's so football instinctive. In his junior year, I thought

1062
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 1: he was the best kept secret in college football, to

1063
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 1: be honest with you. And when we got done with

1064
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,800
Speaker 1: that season, I was like, Wow, that was a sneaky

1065
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 1: great season. And I said, if he has another one

1066
00:48:56,680 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: of those, man, he could really help himself at the level.

1067
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 1: And you look at what he did as senior year.

1068
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 1: Just one of the more consistent players I've ever been around,

1069
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:09,399
Speaker 1: as far as a day to day practice player, How

1070
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:12,399
Speaker 1: he produced in games, how we led our football team

1071
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: as a team captain, and so really it started two

1072
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:17,440
Speaker 1: years ago, but to see him do it back to

1073
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:21,520
Speaker 1: back years consistently, there was no doubt in my mind

1074
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: that while this is a special kid and definitely a

1075
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: kid that should end up in the top two groups.

1076
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: Coach had nine and a half sacks last year, eleven

1077
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 1: and a half tackles for loss, and the deflections I

1078
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,239
Speaker 1: think are one thing. Actually talk to Ryan Abraham about this,

1079
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 1: that the deflections or something that I think is really

1080
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 1: going to benefit this defense. When you talk about all

1081
00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:43,120
Speaker 1: the playmakers that they have around him, just to disrupt,

1082
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 1: disrupt the offense and make plays on the football, I

1083
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 1: think that's the keyword. I mean, he is just the

1084
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 1: master of disruption on a quarterback. I swear you know,

1085
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:55,920
Speaker 1: whether it's whether it's him forcing a quarterback up into

1086
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:58,320
Speaker 1: the pocket and those big guys, whether it's getting sacks,

1087
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: whether it's he got an unbelievable knack of being able

1088
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:04,399
Speaker 1: to see the set of the offensive line, whether it's

1089
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,400
Speaker 1: a short set, quick game, an RPO in our league,

1090
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: or you know, a true dropback pass. He got a

1091
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 1: great feel for that. And there are times he knew

1092
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:14,440
Speaker 1: that he wasn't going to get to the quarterback, he

1093
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 1: goes ahead and plays the trigger of the arm and

1094
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many balls that kid knocked

1095
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: down disruption is the name of this game. Joey Bosa,

1096
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:26,840
Speaker 1: Melvin Ingram twenty two and a half combined sacks, And

1097
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:28,879
Speaker 1: we've been talking about this with all the guys coming

1098
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 1: in here. You're bringing a guy like Uchenna who had

1099
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 1: nine and a half sacks last year. I think this

1100
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:35,920
Speaker 1: is a player that you could probably use all over

1101
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 1: the field. How would you describe his game and how

1102
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:40,799
Speaker 1: it really correlates to what Gus Bradley likes to do

1103
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 1: with the Chargers. Well, I don't think there's a better fit,

1104
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm so glad that u Chenna got

1105
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 1: to go with the Chargers and to be with Gus.

1106
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 1: You know, that's a brilliant defensive mind and I can't

1107
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 1: wait to see how he uses them. You know, I

1108
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:57,879
Speaker 1: thought Clancy did a great job of using them as

1109
00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 1: a Sam lambback or defensive ent. And even in the

1110
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:02,799
Speaker 1: bowl game when you saw him in a stack linebacker

1111
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:06,600
Speaker 1: position where where you were creating five down situations for

1112
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 1: a high state's offensive line and matching him up on

1113
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 1: a running back, there was no way the running back

1114
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 1: was going to stop him. And you know, he gets

1115
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 1: two disruptions, one sack, just off at off that scenarative.

1116
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:22,160
Speaker 1: So he's got a really bright future and I can't

1117
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:24,279
Speaker 1: think of a better man to be with than Gus

1118
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:28,080
Speaker 1: Bradley coach due Uchennet. He hasn't played a ton of

1119
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:31,239
Speaker 1: football too, so you talk about his ceiling, how much

1120
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 1: better do you think he can be in the NFL

1121
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 1: when you consider just the fact that you know, he

1122
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: really started playing football in high school. Yeah, I'm going

1123
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 1: to tell you he's one of those kids. Sometimes you

1124
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:45,880
Speaker 1: see kids that are maxed out. I can't wait to

1125
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:48,719
Speaker 1: see where this kid is two, three, four years from now,

1126
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 1: because you know, he literally just played off the edge

1127
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: these last two seasons. I mean he went from free

1128
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 1: safety in high school down to stack linebacker to an

1129
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: edge player. And you know, just his athleticism for his

1130
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 1: I think is extremely freakish. I mean, two hundred and

1131
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: fifty pound man that has an athleticism of of Michael linebacker,

1132
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 1: but has the strength and power to be able to

1133
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 1: take one on one offensive tackles on as well as

1134
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 1: out you know, kind of outman running backs. Um, just

1135
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:22,279
Speaker 1: a true freak of athleticism and unbelievable work ethic and

1136
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:25,400
Speaker 1: effort by the kid. Just he's been He's been a

1137
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:27,840
Speaker 1: pleasure to coach. Coach if you could, did you just

1138
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 1: speak to the man that you channe Is. I had

1139
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:33,320
Speaker 1: an opportunity to talk to jimbo Fisher and he spoke

1140
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: glowingly of Darwin James also off the field and just

1141
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:39,279
Speaker 1: being a great locker room presence. It looks like the

1142
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:42,160
Speaker 1: charges are ringing a lot of good leaders in locker

1143
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:44,799
Speaker 1: room guys are really going to mesh well into this

1144
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 1: this roster. Yeah. You know, the thing that I think

1145
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:51,160
Speaker 1: sticks out the most to me is him being named

1146
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 1: a team captain by his teammates. I mean, that's a

1147
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 1: that's a player of vote. And you know, he had

1148
00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:59,319
Speaker 1: so much respect in the locker room, and I think

1149
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 1: it was because he was consummate professional, the way he

1150
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 1: showed up on a day to day basis and showed

1151
00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:07,759
Speaker 1: the work ethic and trying to master his craft, being

1152
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 1: a student of the game, and those other kids seeing it.

1153
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:13,440
Speaker 1: Not only was he able to do it as an example,

1154
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 1: but he did it vocally. I mean, he was the

1155
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 1: rock of our defense. We lost a kid named Stevie

1156
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:20,839
Speaker 1: two at Colabatu went on to Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Our

1157
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:23,440
Speaker 1: rose Bowl year and was really looking for who's going

1158
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:26,040
Speaker 1: to be that next guy up, and oh, Chenna just

1159
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:29,360
Speaker 1: naturally fit. He took over the defensive meeting room, he

1160
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:32,720
Speaker 1: took over our locker room, and really set the culture

1161
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:35,720
Speaker 1: of our football team and going to be very very missed.

1162
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 1: I wish, I wish I had him another year to

1163
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:41,279
Speaker 1: be honestly coaching in the short time that you did

1164
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 1: have him, what was your favorite memory? You know, probably

1165
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 1: my favorite one is when we were fourth and one

1166
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:53,719
Speaker 1: in the Pact twelve championship game and you're playing Stanford

1167
00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:57,000
Speaker 1: and you know that's that's what they do so well,

1168
00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 1: and we had to get a stop in the fourth quarter.

1169
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:03,920
Speaker 1: There's Chenna with a drill that we call it a

1170
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 1: line drill, coming down the line, reading the reading the

1171
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 1: backside tackler, tight ends down block and coming flat as

1172
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 1: you can and getting your head across the battle of

1173
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 1: the running back. And here he is on fourth and one,

1174
00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:17,400
Speaker 1: the biggest play of the year for us, and here's

1175
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 1: the guy that's just done it time after time after

1176
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:22,840
Speaker 1: time after time, right, and to be able to I

1177
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:26,840
Speaker 1: showed our team this spring, here's our line drill. Here's

1178
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 1: Chenna doing it. Probably a thousand times, and then when

1179
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 1: it mattered the most, he carried his drill work into

1180
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:35,359
Speaker 1: the game and did it to perfection and basically won

1181
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 1: the game on that play. But that's who he is.

1182
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: He's a kid that believes in training, believes in work,

1183
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:46,640
Speaker 1: and then carrying it over to when the lights are

1184
00:54:46,640 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 1: the brightest, and that's who the kid is. That's probably

1185
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 1: my favorite memory is that fourth and one stop Coach.

1186
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 1: You're gonna have an opportunity to speak with him in

1187
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:57,720
Speaker 1: just a little bit. Last question for me, what advice

1188
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 1: would you give to Chenna going to the next level

1189
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:04,400
Speaker 1: and just your message for him? How proud you are

1190
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:07,560
Speaker 1: of the guy? Well, he is the love of my life.

1191
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 1: To watch him grow up and be the man that

1192
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:13,879
Speaker 1: he is and become the player that he is. So

1193
00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 1: proud of him, and he's one of those kids. By

1194
00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:18,840
Speaker 1: the best advice I can give him, and I know

1195
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:20,880
Speaker 1: I don't have to worry about it because this is

1196
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:24,440
Speaker 1: who he is is. Don't get comfortable, don't get stagnant,

1197
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:27,719
Speaker 1: find ways to get better each and every day, and

1198
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:31,920
Speaker 1: understand that you are now in a job, and with

1199
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 1: a job comes extreme work and the fear of you know,

1200
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 1: being fired at any point time, and that's what the

1201
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:42,399
Speaker 1: NFL is not for long. So continue to work as

1202
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:45,239
Speaker 1: hard as he's worked in college, and he just that's

1203
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:47,160
Speaker 1: who he is. I don't have to worry about it.

1204
00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:50,480
Speaker 1: He's one of those guys that I can't imagine a

1205
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:52,960
Speaker 1: better situation than to be with Gus Bradley and to

1206
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:56,359
Speaker 1: continue his education on the defensive side of the ball.

1207
00:55:56,800 --> 00:55:59,160
Speaker 1: He's going to be a special, special player for the Charges.

1208
00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:01,479
Speaker 1: Love him today, and he gets to stay home. Coach,

1209
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 1: you got seven games Stubbub Center in Carson and then

1210
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:06,520
Speaker 1: we got one of the Coliseum this year against the Rams.

1211
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:08,640
Speaker 1: So I expect to see him maybe either it Stubub

1212
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 1: or at the College sum in the fall. I cannot wait.

1213
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 1: I'm fired up first, but I think his parents could

1214
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:18,440
Speaker 1: probably walk to the State cool it is. He's grown

1215
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 1: right up there. That's finish the backyard, so I can't

1216
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:23,160
Speaker 1: think of a better place for him. Well, Coach, I

1217
00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:26,000
Speaker 1: know it's a special week for the Trojans. Congratulations and

1218
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:28,399
Speaker 1: we wish you the best of luck this offseason going

1219
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:33,279
Speaker 1: into the fall. Thank you so much. Take care all right,

1220
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:35,840
Speaker 1: Please to have the newest charger on Chargers Weekly, U

1221
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:39,719
Speaker 1: Chenna Nwosu joins me. You, Chenna, welcome to the Chargers. Man.

1222
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:41,520
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, welcome to LA. But how long

1223
00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 1: did it take you to get here from Carson? Forty minutes? Yeah,

1224
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:47,879
Speaker 1: not too bad? Hut All, how was that draft party?

1225
00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:50,400
Speaker 1: Because I saw I don't know how you orchestrated that?

1226
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:53,000
Speaker 1: Was that with PAT twelve network in conjunction? So how

1227
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:55,919
Speaker 1: did that work? Because it was about a twenty twenty

1228
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:57,960
Speaker 1: five minute video right and you got the call from

1229
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:00,520
Speaker 1: the chargers. I felt like when you walk didn't you

1230
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:02,360
Speaker 1: didn't want people to know what was going on and

1231
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:04,840
Speaker 1: take me through that process. So yeah, when the chargers

1232
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:06,239
Speaker 1: got the call, I was actually, you know, run a

1233
00:57:06,239 --> 00:57:07,640
Speaker 1: couple of errands, have to get some water out of

1234
00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:09,920
Speaker 1: the car from my dad. We're getting long water. So

1235
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:11,880
Speaker 1: and when I got the car picked it up. You know,

1236
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:14,440
Speaker 1: chargers called me packed overs recorded me right there. They

1237
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:15,920
Speaker 1: told me they want to keep me home and they

1238
00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:17,960
Speaker 1: want to drift me. So you know, then I was trying.

1239
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:19,640
Speaker 1: I was screaming inside, but I was trying to show

1240
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 1: it on my face. So I called my mom over.

1241
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:24,000
Speaker 1: I told mom, come here, come here, come here. She's like,

1242
00:57:24,040 --> 00:57:26,360
Speaker 1: what what what I'm like, just wait, wait, wait wait,

1243
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 1: She's like, who is it? Who is it? Like, it's Chargers.

1244
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 1: It just started crazy. But it was like I tried

1245
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:32,680
Speaker 1: to tell her my mama, relaxed, relaxual, Yes, don't let me.

1246
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 1: We don't want any want to know. And then we

1247
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 1: went inside was the living out to everybody else, can

1248
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:38,120
Speaker 1: we all sit in the living room please? I just

1249
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 1: want everybody to be together, you know, just in case

1250
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:43,080
Speaker 1: anything happens. Everybody's okay, So everybody gets into the living room,

1251
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:45,640
Speaker 1: I sit down and the Arizona Cardos had their pick

1252
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 1: right before you guys, and everybody's recording it. Arizona Cardo

1253
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:51,640
Speaker 1: select whoever they select. It was Christian Kirku somebody. Yeah.

1254
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:54,160
Speaker 1: Everybody's like, ah man, everybod thought was about the unique

1255
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:56,600
Speaker 1: because everybody cares the living room. So and next time

1256
00:57:56,640 --> 00:57:58,680
Speaker 1: the next pick, you guys had charge. Everybody called me.

1257
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 1: Everybody started going crazy eater off too, because you had

1258
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:02,840
Speaker 1: a face like, man, it wasn't me, you know, it

1259
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:04,760
Speaker 1: wasn't me. Was that your agent that you were that

1260
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 1: you were talking to And he knew right, but he

1261
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 1: was trying to play it off as well as Man,

1262
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:12,280
Speaker 1: you guys were like, he's like, la man when an

1263
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:16,160
Speaker 1: oscar for that. So this was a long process for you.

1264
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:18,280
Speaker 1: I was in Mobile, So you had the Senior Bowl,

1265
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 1: you had to combine, you had your pro day, and

1266
00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: you were actually here, I want to say, like a

1267
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:24,240
Speaker 1: week and a half ago for this local pro day.

1268
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:27,080
Speaker 1: You didn't work out, but take me through that day

1269
00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 1: because I have to feel like that could have been

1270
00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:32,120
Speaker 1: what sealed the deal. Opportunity to beat these coaches definitely,

1271
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:34,280
Speaker 1: you know, just the coaches basically just getting to know

1272
00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:36,600
Speaker 1: me personally, you know exactly. Um So I felt like

1273
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:38,200
Speaker 1: that was always good. You know, just go up here,

1274
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:40,480
Speaker 1: shake hands, so face like it's no you know you

1275
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 1: see behind the under the helmet. Yeah, so just be

1276
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:44,640
Speaker 1: able to put a name to the face talks to

1277
00:58:44,680 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 1: the coaches. You know, it's really figured me out, figured

1278
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:49,560
Speaker 1: them out as well. The connection was there. Yeah. You

1279
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:51,280
Speaker 1: look at this defense what they were able to do

1280
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 1: last year. You got the pass rushers, you had nine

1281
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:55,560
Speaker 1: a half sacks yourself last year, and then all these

1282
00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 1: additions chargers to go defense defense defense. Their first three rounds,

1283
00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:01,120
Speaker 1: actually the first four round as we're taping, this guy's

1284
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:04,520
Speaker 1: are white livebacker safety from West Virginia. You just got selected.

1285
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:06,800
Speaker 1: Take me through to this defense. What do you think

1286
00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:08,680
Speaker 1: of this defense? First impressions? I know you probably follow

1287
00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:10,840
Speaker 1: the Chargers last year. Yeah, his defense has got a

1288
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:13,960
Speaker 1: lot of hunters, you know, just a lot of guys hungry,

1289
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:16,320
Speaker 1: hunger to eat, hunger to work, a lot of guys

1290
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:18,439
Speaker 1: just committ to the game, show passion, love the game,

1291
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:20,360
Speaker 1: and the defense. He knows just something have to play

1292
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:23,160
Speaker 1: around with it, you know, just the way the way

1293
00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:25,640
Speaker 1: this draft is go. You see it's going defense, defense, defense,

1294
00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:28,200
Speaker 1: you know, just that lets you know what type of mindset,

1295
00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:29,760
Speaker 1: what type of team this say is and if it's

1296
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:32,120
Speaker 1: the type of guy that I am. Yeah, it's it's

1297
00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 1: about situation too. I Mean, on one hand, it's it's

1298
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:37,520
Speaker 1: awesome to come home, you being a Carson kids, just

1299
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:38,840
Speaker 1: like a dream come true. It's got to be for

1300
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 1: your family. But at the same time, you look at

1301
00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 1: fit in situation and this team's ready to get into

1302
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 1: contention win a Super Bowl here, how do you embrace that?

1303
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:50,000
Speaker 1: Knowing that this team won nine of their last twelve

1304
00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:52,440
Speaker 1: last year and the accounting on you guys guys like you,

1305
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:55,440
Speaker 1: rather to step in and make an impact definitely, you know,

1306
00:59:55,600 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 1: anyway as possible, whether I'd be special teams and medium

1307
00:59:57,920 --> 01:00:00,160
Speaker 1: on defense, wade and being a backup on def it's

1308
01:00:00,160 --> 01:00:01,960
Speaker 1: anyway you can make an impact, you know, helped the

1309
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:04,080
Speaker 1: team be a better help the team get the Super Bowl. Yeah,

1310
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 1: so I'm prepared to accept that role in any way possible.

1311
01:00:06,680 --> 01:00:09,600
Speaker 1: How has being just the USC trojan prepared you for this?

1312
01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 1: You know, I talked I talked to Clay Helton. He

1313
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:14,360
Speaker 1: gusted about you for ten minutes. I'll have you listened

1314
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:16,320
Speaker 1: to it. It was great. He said, hug your neck.

1315
01:00:16,520 --> 01:00:18,880
Speaker 1: He said, you love of his life. He said that

1316
01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:22,720
Speaker 1: fourth and one against Stanford the PAC twelve Championship game

1317
01:00:23,120 --> 01:00:27,280
Speaker 1: was his favorite memory from your your time playing at USC. So,

1318
01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:30,160
Speaker 1: just just playing at SC, how did that prepare you

1319
01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:33,640
Speaker 1: for this moment? Just because just the level of maturity

1320
01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 1: you have to have. You know, USC, that's a very

1321
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 1: prestigious school first and foremost. You know, it's private school.

1322
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:39,720
Speaker 1: A lot of people you know, break their banks and

1323
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:41,160
Speaker 1: is trying to get in there. So it's no joke.

1324
01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:42,840
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta come in there with your head

1325
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:44,760
Speaker 1: on strong. You gotta come in there focus, you gotta

1326
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:46,720
Speaker 1: have that mentality, and I feel like that mentality. You

1327
01:00:46,720 --> 01:00:49,480
Speaker 1: know throughout USC, you know, being around guys like coach Helton,

1328
01:00:49,720 --> 01:00:52,520
Speaker 1: you know who's who's very great, coach, very inspiring, teaches

1329
01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:54,400
Speaker 1: you a lot. You know, it's very helping. He's helped

1330
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:56,640
Speaker 1: me prepare for this, for this moment right here, right now.

1331
01:00:57,040 --> 01:00:59,920
Speaker 1: Describe your game. Another guy I talked to, Ryan Abraham,

1332
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 1: talk about, you know, your deflections last year, being able

1333
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:05,440
Speaker 1: to have a news for the football. Um, describe what

1334
01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:08,800
Speaker 1: kind of player you are on the field and your strengths.

1335
01:01:09,280 --> 01:01:11,320
Speaker 1: Definitely on the field, you know, I'm I'm I'm a

1336
01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:13,800
Speaker 1: go getter. You know, I'm I'm just one hundred percent

1337
01:01:13,880 --> 01:01:16,240
Speaker 1: every time, Like my motor is ridiculous. You know, I

1338
01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:18,080
Speaker 1: never give up. I love the game. I show that

1339
01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:20,760
Speaker 1: on the field. I play with a lot of passion. Um.

1340
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:24,439
Speaker 1: The game means so much to me. Uh, It's just

1341
01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:26,360
Speaker 1: it's just everything to me. My strengths. You know, I'm

1342
01:01:26,480 --> 01:01:30,280
Speaker 1: very smart. I'll qualify myself as very smart, very instinctive. Sure. UM,

1343
01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:32,000
Speaker 1: I do a lot of film study, which you know

1344
01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:34,200
Speaker 1: improves my when you improves your game on the field,

1345
01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:37,640
Speaker 1: and you notice that when you play. UM, so you

1346
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 1: know just take coaching very well. Um, use that to

1347
01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:42,520
Speaker 1: my advantage and it's helped me out so far. What

1348
01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:45,120
Speaker 1: have your conversations with Gus Bradley been like about this

1349
01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:49,040
Speaker 1: defense and how how he's gonna use you? Just just

1350
01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:52,040
Speaker 1: this defense is no joke, you know. Just they're very defensive,

1351
01:01:52,240 --> 01:01:54,440
Speaker 1: very strong defensive team. A lot of guys on his defense,

1352
01:01:54,600 --> 01:01:56,960
Speaker 1: you know, got great pass rushers on both edges, you know,

1353
01:01:57,040 --> 01:01:59,800
Speaker 1: both good linebackers, dbs, you know, the whole the whole

1354
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:01,640
Speaker 1: bup of defenses, a stack. You know. He wants to

1355
01:02:01,720 --> 01:02:04,600
Speaker 1: use me more of like an auto the auto position here,

1356
01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:06,600
Speaker 1: you know. So I'm looking forward to that, looking forward

1357
01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:10,440
Speaker 1: to learning more about that awesome Manley. It's fantastic. I

1358
01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:14,320
Speaker 1: saw Rahee Green going to Seattle. You guys play Seattle

1359
01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:16,040
Speaker 1: this year? Yeah, so you got you got a little

1360
01:02:16,200 --> 01:02:18,280
Speaker 1: friendly rivalry r ag. Do you talk to him and

1361
01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:21,000
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones and Darnlad at all? Sure they're still partying,

1362
01:02:21,040 --> 01:02:23,880
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna catch up with them, probably recouping from today.

1363
01:02:23,880 --> 01:02:26,800
Speaker 1: I'm gonahit them up today, see what they're doing. Yeah. Yeah,

1364
01:02:26,920 --> 01:02:29,840
Speaker 1: final thing for you, Channa, what's your message to Chargers fans?

1365
01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:33,000
Speaker 1: Um as you get ready for rookie Minicamp and get

1366
01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:36,400
Speaker 1: integrated into this community which you've already been established in,

1367
01:02:36,800 --> 01:02:40,760
Speaker 1: and they really just integrated into this organization. My message

1368
01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:43,720
Speaker 1: to Charger fans is just I'm ready to work. You know.

1369
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:45,800
Speaker 1: I'm here for the team, here for you guys. First.

1370
01:02:46,120 --> 01:02:47,919
Speaker 1: I'm not a dude who's gonna give up a queer

1371
01:02:47,960 --> 01:02:51,520
Speaker 1: complaint and pout. I'm just a guys, humble guy, you know,

1372
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:53,720
Speaker 1: just waiting for this opportunity to play in my hometown.

1373
01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:56,040
Speaker 1: So I'm giving them all I've got. We couldn't be

1374
01:02:56,040 --> 01:02:57,640
Speaker 1: more excited for you to be a Charger man. Thank

1375
01:02:57,640 --> 01:02:59,160
Speaker 1: you so much for being here, Thank you for having me.

1376
01:03:01,400 --> 01:03:11,240
Speaker 1: Hey Justin? Hello? Oh good, Justin? Justin? Hello, can you

1377
01:03:11,280 --> 01:03:13,920
Speaker 1: hear me? Yeah? Hey, it's a time to let's go

1378
01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:18,800
Speaker 1: with the Chargers. Hey, are you ready to go? All right?

1379
01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 1: We're getting ready to send the per picking right now.

1380
01:03:22,360 --> 01:03:29,720
Speaker 1: Who do you have there with you? He's still there

1381
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:34,720
Speaker 1: at Justin? Hello, Hey, what kind of party you got

1382
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:38,120
Speaker 1: going on there right now? That's great? Hey, I'm gonna

1383
01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:40,920
Speaker 1: put you on the phone with our head coach, Anthony Lane. Okay,

1384
01:03:41,240 --> 01:03:50,280
Speaker 1: all right, great, congratulations. Ruth's Justin what's going on? Man?

1385
01:03:51,320 --> 01:03:54,680
Speaker 1: How good are you doing? Good? Any defensive line and

1386
01:03:54,680 --> 01:03:56,680
Speaker 1: brave enough the winding number twenty seven, We're gonna have it.

1387
01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:02,400
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, You're roll yeah there, all right, man,

1388
01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:07,680
Speaker 1: I'm excited for you appy, you know, with your family. Yeah,

1389
01:04:08,840 --> 01:04:11,400
Speaker 1: tell everybody I said hello, I'll see them when they

1390
01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:15,520
Speaker 1: come in town. And uh, I see you here real soon. Okay,

1391
01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:20,520
Speaker 1: all right man. And with the eighty fourth pick and

1392
01:04:20,560 --> 01:04:24,920
Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen NFL Draft, the Los Angeles Chargers select

1393
01:04:25,080 --> 01:04:29,760
Speaker 1: Justin Jones, defensive tackle Vancy State. All right, the head

1394
01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:32,920
Speaker 1: coach of Ency State, Dave Dorn, joins me on Chargers

1395
01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:36,720
Speaker 1: Weekly Coach, just talking to you offline. Almost your entire

1396
01:04:36,800 --> 01:04:40,200
Speaker 1: defensive line been drafted in the first three rounds. Yeah,

1397
01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:43,160
Speaker 1: that's pretty awesome, um for those young men. And we

1398
01:04:43,240 --> 01:04:46,120
Speaker 1: have one more contavious Street that I think we'll come

1399
01:04:46,160 --> 01:04:48,920
Speaker 1: off the board here today. So excited for those guys

1400
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:51,640
Speaker 1: and they did a great job here, Coach, tell me

1401
01:04:51,680 --> 01:04:54,280
Speaker 1: a little bit about Justin. We selected him at number

1402
01:04:54,360 --> 01:04:57,600
Speaker 1: eighty four. Overall, I know he had a good Senior

1403
01:04:57,640 --> 01:05:00,000
Speaker 1: Bowl and you know, just being a part of that

1404
01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:03,080
Speaker 1: defensive line that was so dominant at NC State this

1405
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:06,440
Speaker 1: past season. You know, Justin's young man, like the other

1406
01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:09,240
Speaker 1: the lineman we're talking about that came in here with

1407
01:05:09,320 --> 01:05:12,280
Speaker 1: a goal to play early. It was you know, early

1408
01:05:12,320 --> 01:05:16,240
Speaker 1: stages of me being here building a program and a

1409
01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:21,720
Speaker 1: really you know, talented guy. It's explosive, that's strong, very passionate,

1410
01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:25,160
Speaker 1: very emotional, high energy player and worked really hard. You know,

1411
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:27,200
Speaker 1: he's like two sixty when he got here and left

1412
01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:30,840
Speaker 1: around three fifteen and improved himselves in a lot of ways,

1413
01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:33,880
Speaker 1: and he's got a lot of growth still. You know,

1414
01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:36,400
Speaker 1: he's still a young guy for what great he was

1415
01:05:36,400 --> 01:05:40,000
Speaker 1: in coach talk about what he does on the field. Well,

1416
01:05:40,160 --> 01:05:42,720
Speaker 1: because you know, one of the struggles that Chargers had

1417
01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:45,240
Speaker 1: on defense this past season was being able to stop

1418
01:05:45,280 --> 01:05:47,920
Speaker 1: the run. I could see Justin coming in here and

1419
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:52,200
Speaker 1: being part of that defensive line rotation right away. Yeah.

1420
01:05:52,320 --> 01:05:55,600
Speaker 1: Well he's disruptive. I mean, Justin's a very titchy guy.

1421
01:05:55,640 --> 01:05:57,160
Speaker 1: I mean he's going to jump off that line of

1422
01:05:57,200 --> 01:05:59,920
Speaker 1: scrimmage and get in the backfield. You know, I think

1423
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:02,040
Speaker 1: that's the best best thing he does. You know, he's

1424
01:06:02,080 --> 01:06:04,600
Speaker 1: really a powerful guy and when he gets off quickly,

1425
01:06:04,640 --> 01:06:07,800
Speaker 1: it's hard for people to stop him from penetrating, you know,

1426
01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:10,880
Speaker 1: and depending on you know, the fundamentals and techniques are

1427
01:06:10,880 --> 01:06:12,280
Speaker 1: going to coach him with. I mean, that'll be a

1428
01:06:12,280 --> 01:06:14,600
Speaker 1: big part of how fast he can play, you know,

1429
01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:16,800
Speaker 1: getting the playbook down and being able to play the

1430
01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:18,800
Speaker 1: way he did here where he was thinking, you know,

1431
01:06:18,920 --> 01:06:20,640
Speaker 1: not having to think a whole lot and just rip

1432
01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:22,919
Speaker 1: and run and go. You spent a lot of time

1433
01:06:22,960 --> 01:06:26,600
Speaker 1: with Justin obviously in that program. When did you know

1434
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:29,960
Speaker 1: that he had the capabilities of becoming an NFL player

1435
01:06:30,840 --> 01:06:34,560
Speaker 1: right away? You know, when he got here. All four

1436
01:06:34,600 --> 01:06:36,440
Speaker 1: of these guys that were on a D line and

1437
01:06:36,440 --> 01:06:38,440
Speaker 1: played as freshman, you know, so we were able to

1438
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:41,920
Speaker 1: see quickly how competitive they are and you know what

1439
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:43,680
Speaker 1: their work ethic was going to be like because they

1440
01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:45,760
Speaker 1: were thrown into the fire and probably played a year

1441
01:06:46,840 --> 01:06:49,160
Speaker 1: earlier than most people would have been able to play him,

1442
01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:51,240
Speaker 1: you know, but we had to at that time. And

1443
01:06:51,680 --> 01:06:53,560
Speaker 1: so it's a sink or swim deal. And all those

1444
01:06:53,560 --> 01:06:56,000
Speaker 1: guys fought their butts off and developed the right way

1445
01:06:56,040 --> 01:06:57,760
Speaker 1: and understood how much work they had to put in

1446
01:06:57,840 --> 01:06:59,760
Speaker 1: to get to where they wanted to go. What kind

1447
01:06:59,800 --> 01:07:02,280
Speaker 1: of are we getting off the field coach. You know,

1448
01:07:02,360 --> 01:07:04,720
Speaker 1: we I talked to Coach Hilton and Coach Fisher about

1449
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:07,640
Speaker 1: Darwin and you chant to come in here as leaders.

1450
01:07:08,200 --> 01:07:10,200
Speaker 1: What kind of guy are we getting adjusted in that

1451
01:07:10,240 --> 01:07:12,720
Speaker 1: locker row? You know, he's a lot of fun in

1452
01:07:12,760 --> 01:07:15,320
Speaker 1: the locker room. He's gonna be a guy that he

1453
01:07:15,440 --> 01:07:17,200
Speaker 1: gets to know a lot of players on the team

1454
01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:19,240
Speaker 1: and has fun with them. But when it's time to work,

1455
01:07:19,280 --> 01:07:22,680
Speaker 1: he's a grinder and he'll hold people accountable. He'll give

1456
01:07:22,720 --> 01:07:24,959
Speaker 1: his best every day and he's not afraid to speak

1457
01:07:25,040 --> 01:07:27,840
Speaker 1: up when he needs to two guys that are slacking off.

1458
01:07:28,760 --> 01:07:32,960
Speaker 1: He's a high, high energy, passionate, energetic type player. You

1459
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:34,360
Speaker 1: know that you see a lot of times on the

1460
01:07:34,440 --> 01:07:37,320
Speaker 1: d line, and he's gonna have that with him all

1461
01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:40,040
Speaker 1: the time. I mean, he's comes from an awesome mom

1462
01:07:40,160 --> 01:07:42,600
Speaker 1: and you know, a really good area. He grew up

1463
01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:44,960
Speaker 1: playing football, you know, down there in Cobb County, a

1464
01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:48,760
Speaker 1: great area to compete. So getting a young guy that

1465
01:07:48,840 --> 01:07:51,280
Speaker 1: has tremendous passions for the game, that loves the game,

1466
01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:53,640
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be playing it for the right reasons.

1467
01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:56,880
Speaker 1: He's gonna be rolling up to the facility probably at

1468
01:07:56,880 --> 01:07:58,520
Speaker 1: any minute now I'm gonna have a chance to speak

1469
01:07:58,520 --> 01:08:01,040
Speaker 1: with him, probably the next hour or two. What's your

1470
01:08:01,040 --> 01:08:03,560
Speaker 1: message to Justin and what advice would you give him

1471
01:08:03,600 --> 01:08:07,040
Speaker 1: about continuing his football career in the NFL. Just to

1472
01:08:07,040 --> 01:08:08,840
Speaker 1: remember how he got to where he is, you know,

1473
01:08:08,920 --> 01:08:10,880
Speaker 1: and trust the process that got him there, and not

1474
01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:14,160
Speaker 1: to lose sight of how hard he worked to make

1475
01:08:14,200 --> 01:08:16,280
Speaker 1: it to where he is and just continue to trust it.

1476
01:08:16,400 --> 01:08:18,960
Speaker 1: You know. If he just stays in that mode that

1477
01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:22,640
Speaker 1: he's been in to outwork people and give everything he

1478
01:08:22,680 --> 01:08:26,280
Speaker 1: has to his craft, he's going to continue to be successful.

1479
01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:31,000
Speaker 1: Bradley and Justin instant rivals now with the Broncos in Charges.

1480
01:08:31,040 --> 01:08:33,240
Speaker 1: I hope you got the ticket there at NC State.

1481
01:08:33,520 --> 01:08:36,400
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Yeah, I look forward to saying that. That's

1482
01:08:36,439 --> 01:08:38,960
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Well, hey, I know you got other guys

1483
01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:41,200
Speaker 1: on the board here. The potension could go at any minute.

1484
01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:42,960
Speaker 1: I can't thank you enough for your time and to

1485
01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:45,400
Speaker 1: wish you the best luck this fall, coach. All right,

1486
01:08:45,400 --> 01:08:49,040
Speaker 1: thanks for your time to go back. All right with

1487
01:08:49,160 --> 01:08:52,920
Speaker 1: the Charger's third round pick, Justin Jones from NC State. Justin,

1488
01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:55,800
Speaker 1: welcome to Los Angeles. Man. Appreciate that, man, appreciate them

1489
01:08:55,840 --> 01:08:57,360
Speaker 1: I'm glad to be here. I've never been here before,

1490
01:08:57,400 --> 01:09:01,360
Speaker 1: so this is the first time ever in Los Angeles. Yes, sir, yes, sir,

1491
01:09:01,880 --> 01:09:04,800
Speaker 1: it's great. Ya got some big trees and it's really

1492
01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:08,960
Speaker 1: really tall. Man. So twenty four hours ago, you had

1493
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:11,439
Speaker 1: no idea this was happening. To tell me about how

1494
01:09:11,479 --> 01:09:13,439
Speaker 1: it all went down, how you got the phone call,

1495
01:09:13,960 --> 01:09:18,519
Speaker 1: and how the weekend was supposed to unfold. Well, so

1496
01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:20,800
Speaker 1: my family and I, well, we went bowling and we

1497
01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:23,320
Speaker 1: were expecting the call you know, at the ball now

1498
01:09:24,040 --> 01:09:26,160
Speaker 1: families there or whatever, but it wasn't happening. A lot

1499
01:09:26,160 --> 01:09:28,559
Speaker 1: of detail was going on the board and obviously me

1500
01:09:28,680 --> 01:09:31,280
Speaker 1: being you know, excited and everything to get drafted, and

1501
01:09:31,320 --> 01:09:33,280
Speaker 1: I was getting a little frustrated. So you know, I

1502
01:09:33,320 --> 01:09:36,120
Speaker 1: went home and went to the bathroom and got in

1503
01:09:36,120 --> 01:09:38,640
Speaker 1: a shower, and well, I washing up, I get a

1504
01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:40,360
Speaker 1: phone call. I put on a lot of my mom,

1505
01:09:40,400 --> 01:09:42,400
Speaker 1: but it wasn't so I had a rent off. I

1506
01:09:42,400 --> 01:09:44,000
Speaker 1: had to swiped the phone, but this one with the

1507
01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:46,280
Speaker 1: phone with his wife because you know, my fingers is

1508
01:09:46,320 --> 01:09:48,800
Speaker 1: wet iled, I worked like that. But hey, when that

1509
01:09:48,840 --> 01:09:50,760
Speaker 1: happened exactly, so I got my call, I was so

1510
01:09:50,800 --> 01:09:52,840
Speaker 1: excited and I ran downstairs and I had to get

1511
01:09:52,880 --> 01:09:54,360
Speaker 1: my pants. I went back to get my pants and

1512
01:09:54,360 --> 01:09:56,680
Speaker 1: put go back downstairs, put the calls, and you know,

1513
01:09:56,720 --> 01:09:59,200
Speaker 1: my my parents, my family was there, you know, while

1514
01:09:59,439 --> 01:10:01,479
Speaker 1: you know, I was see the newest and everything, and

1515
01:10:01,479 --> 01:10:03,479
Speaker 1: it was just it's crazy. And when the pick finally

1516
01:10:03,479 --> 01:10:05,760
Speaker 1: came up on the on the TV, like, my family

1517
01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:08,400
Speaker 1: just went crazy, like crazy, like you heard it on

1518
01:10:08,479 --> 01:10:11,160
Speaker 1: the call. Yeah, crazy, it's crazy. You saw the video

1519
01:10:11,240 --> 01:10:15,120
Speaker 1: right now. That's what it's all about, man, I mean,

1520
01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:19,200
Speaker 1: just that that joy that comes from a dream that

1521
01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:22,080
Speaker 1: you've had your entire life. What does it mean for

1522
01:10:22,080 --> 01:10:24,000
Speaker 1: you to just be in the NFL right now? Man,

1523
01:10:24,040 --> 01:10:26,160
Speaker 1: It's a dream come true. Man, Like you couldn't You

1524
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:28,519
Speaker 1: couldn't tell me five years ago, ten years ago, I

1525
01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:31,200
Speaker 1: was gonna be here, Like I wouldn't believe you. But um,

1526
01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:34,400
Speaker 1: the fact that I'm here now, man, just a blessing.

1527
01:10:34,439 --> 01:10:36,920
Speaker 1: And it's an opportunity and it's something you got to

1528
01:10:36,960 --> 01:10:38,280
Speaker 1: take advantage of because I was done. A lot of

1529
01:10:38,280 --> 01:10:40,320
Speaker 1: people get to come here and I was a lot.

1530
01:10:40,439 --> 01:10:42,160
Speaker 1: Not a lot of people get to stay here either,

1531
01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:43,680
Speaker 1: So you know, that's that's that's the biggest thing. And

1532
01:10:44,080 --> 01:10:45,680
Speaker 1: you know, I'm trying. I'm trying to do this for

1533
01:10:45,680 --> 01:10:48,240
Speaker 1: a long time, and so that's my goal. Just be

1534
01:10:48,280 --> 01:10:50,120
Speaker 1: the same guy every day and work hard every day,

1535
01:10:50,200 --> 01:10:51,559
Speaker 1: just like I could be here for for a while.

1536
01:10:52,080 --> 01:10:55,400
Speaker 1: You guys had a ridiculous defensive line. It didn't see

1537
01:10:55,439 --> 01:10:58,040
Speaker 1: state for Chargers fence who may not know. Tell us

1538
01:10:58,040 --> 01:11:00,360
Speaker 1: about your game and what we can expect from you

1539
01:11:00,400 --> 01:11:03,160
Speaker 1: on the field. I feel like I'm an explosive player.

1540
01:11:03,200 --> 01:11:05,160
Speaker 1: You know, I'm pretty strong at the point of attack,

1541
01:11:05,200 --> 01:11:07,439
Speaker 1: and I got I got a nice area of pass

1542
01:11:07,520 --> 01:11:09,439
Speaker 1: rush moves. And on top of all that, I feel

1543
01:11:09,439 --> 01:11:11,240
Speaker 1: like I'm a really good team and you know, I'm

1544
01:11:11,280 --> 01:11:13,680
Speaker 1: good at picking people up, with it down, getting people going,

1545
01:11:13,760 --> 01:11:15,080
Speaker 1: you know, and stuff like that. As I'm as you

1546
01:11:15,120 --> 01:11:16,720
Speaker 1: can see, I got a lot of energy, like just

1547
01:11:16,760 --> 01:11:19,760
Speaker 1: for no reason. So yeah, so that's good. It's the

1548
01:11:19,760 --> 01:11:22,519
Speaker 1: biggest thing. Yeah, I'm sure you've caught up with the

1549
01:11:22,600 --> 01:11:24,240
Speaker 1: NFL and the Chargers and what they were able to

1550
01:11:24,240 --> 01:11:26,960
Speaker 1: do on defense last year. Um, one of the struggles

1551
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:29,479
Speaker 1: was stopping the run. Definitely being able to come in

1552
01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:32,800
Speaker 1: immediately be a part of that defensive tackle rotation. How

1553
01:11:32,800 --> 01:11:36,519
Speaker 1: do you see yourself fitting into that puzzle. Uh, I

1554
01:11:36,680 --> 01:11:38,240
Speaker 1: just gotta take a day by day. Obviously I want

1555
01:11:38,240 --> 01:11:39,320
Speaker 1: to I want to come here. I want to make

1556
01:11:39,360 --> 01:11:41,080
Speaker 1: the team, and I'm trying to be in a rotation

1557
01:11:41,160 --> 01:11:42,360
Speaker 1: like you said. But I just take a day by

1558
01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:44,200
Speaker 1: day coming here with dope, Margaret. But the will and

1559
01:11:44,240 --> 01:11:46,120
Speaker 1: it's to learn and you know, it gets get stuff

1560
01:11:46,120 --> 01:11:47,640
Speaker 1: ready to go because obviously you know I'm here now.

1561
01:11:47,800 --> 01:11:49,439
Speaker 1: Now I'm trying to win because yeah, the one thing

1562
01:11:49,439 --> 01:11:51,160
Speaker 1: I will say about me is that I hate losing

1563
01:11:51,200 --> 01:11:53,120
Speaker 1: what and I love winning And that's that's the biggest

1564
01:11:53,160 --> 01:11:55,519
Speaker 1: thing for me. So yeah, you know, three of the

1565
01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:57,840
Speaker 1: first four picks, you know, we're taping this actually on

1566
01:11:57,880 --> 01:12:00,760
Speaker 1: a Saturday for people who are listening now, Three of

1567
01:12:00,760 --> 01:12:03,160
Speaker 1: the first four picks of the Chargers um First of

1568
01:12:03,160 --> 01:12:05,280
Speaker 1: all, all all four came on defense, but three or four

1569
01:12:06,120 --> 01:12:09,120
Speaker 1: were Senior Bowl participants, you being one of them. Yeah.

1570
01:12:09,160 --> 01:12:11,479
Speaker 1: What was that experience like Few and Mobile that really

1571
01:12:11,560 --> 01:12:15,160
Speaker 1: kind of kicked off this draft evaluation process? Yeah, definitely, Uh,

1572
01:12:15,240 --> 01:12:17,559
Speaker 1: we're going into Mobile and not many people really knew

1573
01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:19,720
Speaker 1: about me and me getting the opportunity to go there.

1574
01:12:19,720 --> 01:12:21,599
Speaker 1: It was just it was crazy because I didn't think

1575
01:12:21,600 --> 01:12:23,360
Speaker 1: anybody knew me or heard of my name, you know,

1576
01:12:23,840 --> 01:12:26,120
Speaker 1: So just being able to go there, obviously I was nervous.

1577
01:12:26,120 --> 01:12:27,479
Speaker 1: He was a good compsation and everything. But when I

1578
01:12:27,520 --> 01:12:29,840
Speaker 1: put your hummin on it, it just talks out the window.

1579
01:12:29,840 --> 01:12:32,439
Speaker 1: It's time to go. And I was just doing what

1580
01:12:32,479 --> 01:12:34,320
Speaker 1: I was coached to do, you know, well from coach

1581
01:12:34,439 --> 01:12:36,960
Speaker 1: Nils and the coach Patrick, and you know coach Hucks

1582
01:12:36,960 --> 01:12:40,360
Speaker 1: and you know coach Bill Californ from the Broncos coaching

1583
01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:42,040
Speaker 1: at the Senior Bowl and everything. Just I'm just doing

1584
01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:44,040
Speaker 1: what I coached to do, and you know, just translating

1585
01:12:44,040 --> 01:12:46,240
Speaker 1: into pastricks and translating to run to run stopping and

1586
01:12:46,479 --> 01:12:48,960
Speaker 1: the one on ones and to the team periods and

1587
01:12:48,960 --> 01:12:51,200
Speaker 1: they're just translating that. That was the biggest thing that

1588
01:12:51,240 --> 01:12:53,000
Speaker 1: took from the Cing Bowl, just taking the coach and

1589
01:12:53,040 --> 01:12:56,160
Speaker 1: translating immediately. So yeah, be a part of the defensive

1590
01:12:56,200 --> 01:12:57,639
Speaker 1: line to it. And she said, I have to metch.

1591
01:12:57,680 --> 01:13:00,160
Speaker 1: You guys pushed each other each and every day to

1592
01:13:00,240 --> 01:13:04,559
Speaker 1: get better. How has playing with elite players like that

1593
01:13:04,880 --> 01:13:07,360
Speaker 1: really helped you improve? Because I tell you what you're

1594
01:13:07,360 --> 01:13:09,840
Speaker 1: gonna You're gonna be in the same situation here with

1595
01:13:10,120 --> 01:13:13,000
Speaker 1: Joey Bosa and Melvin Ingram on each side of you. Um,

1596
01:13:13,720 --> 01:13:17,920
Speaker 1: I've improved mentally and physically because mentally, you know, seeing

1597
01:13:17,920 --> 01:13:19,880
Speaker 1: these guys who were just really really good and everything,

1598
01:13:19,920 --> 01:13:21,560
Speaker 1: it obviously motivates you to be the best. And the

1599
01:13:21,560 --> 01:13:22,760
Speaker 1: biggest thing for you is that you don't want to

1600
01:13:22,840 --> 01:13:24,519
Speaker 1: let those guys down because you know how hard they work,

1601
01:13:24,720 --> 01:13:26,519
Speaker 1: So it forced you to work harder just to the

1602
01:13:26,520 --> 01:13:28,000
Speaker 1: fact that they they can have the comfort knowing that

1603
01:13:28,120 --> 01:13:30,080
Speaker 1: that you got their back. It's like they got George

1604
01:13:30,120 --> 01:13:31,920
Speaker 1: and that that was the biggest thing mentally and physically.

1605
01:13:31,920 --> 01:13:33,280
Speaker 1: In the Way Room, like we love the Way Room,

1606
01:13:33,439 --> 01:13:35,800
Speaker 1: like it's fun, like those parties in the Way Room. Really,

1607
01:13:35,880 --> 01:13:37,839
Speaker 1: it was those parties in there, like you know, especially

1608
01:13:37,880 --> 01:13:40,640
Speaker 1: when you know Streets Squad of seven hundred and what

1609
01:13:40,760 --> 01:13:42,120
Speaker 1: kind of parties in the Way Room, Like it's just

1610
01:13:42,160 --> 01:13:44,320
Speaker 1: it's it's crazy, like when Street Squad seven hundred and

1611
01:13:44,360 --> 01:13:45,920
Speaker 1: everybody and every rat comes over there and just goes

1612
01:13:46,040 --> 01:13:48,000
Speaker 1: hype them. When I did six fifty and everybody from

1613
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:50,799
Speaker 1: every rock goes I hype It's like that likes it's crazy,

1614
01:13:50,840 --> 01:13:52,800
Speaker 1: like they we love each other like that, And that's

1615
01:13:52,840 --> 01:13:54,840
Speaker 1: that's how it was. It's just that brotherly family. I'm

1616
01:13:54,880 --> 01:13:56,840
Speaker 1: happy for everybody, even when, like you know, one of

1617
01:13:56,880 --> 01:13:58,439
Speaker 1: our dbs, you know, you hit way eighty five for

1618
01:13:58,479 --> 01:13:59,920
Speaker 1: the first time. You know, he's just kind of coming in.

1619
01:14:00,040 --> 01:14:01,800
Speaker 1: We all got to go came from the rack and

1620
01:14:01,960 --> 01:14:03,720
Speaker 1: hide him up for that, because it's important, you know

1621
01:14:03,720 --> 01:14:05,439
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Oh, it's important for everybody to feel

1622
01:14:05,439 --> 01:14:06,760
Speaker 1: like they love it that they love you know what

1623
01:14:06,800 --> 01:14:08,439
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And when you when you do that for

1624
01:14:08,479 --> 01:14:10,479
Speaker 1: your teammates, you know, when they go on the field,

1625
01:14:10,479 --> 01:14:12,000
Speaker 1: they don't have a problem giving that offer you because

1626
01:14:12,040 --> 01:14:14,040
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna give you off for your family. Yeah,

1627
01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:16,840
Speaker 1: that's just what it is. What's your message to Chargers fans?

1628
01:14:17,560 --> 01:14:20,120
Speaker 1: I'm ready to go, man, I'm ready to win some games. Man,

1629
01:14:20,200 --> 01:14:24,080
Speaker 1: Like I'm ready. Yeah, it's last thing for you. Bradley

1630
01:14:24,120 --> 01:14:26,720
Speaker 1: Chubb's a Bronco. You canna see him twice? Are you

1631
01:14:26,760 --> 01:14:29,439
Speaker 1: gonna give Russell Koon Joe Barks say give them some

1632
01:14:29,520 --> 01:14:33,760
Speaker 1: tips on how to defense Chubb. Oh, got to man,

1633
01:14:34,320 --> 01:14:39,600
Speaker 1: you Charger now, God man, he's a problem. He's a

1634
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:42,360
Speaker 1: good player. He's a really really good player. And thing Wood,

1635
01:14:42,360 --> 01:14:44,680
Speaker 1: the thing is, the thing is with him. Is that

1636
01:14:44,760 --> 01:14:46,800
Speaker 1: even in practice, like you never know what he's gonna

1637
01:14:46,800 --> 01:14:49,800
Speaker 1: do next. And he's a he's a he's a v's

1638
01:14:49,920 --> 01:14:54,400
Speaker 1: master to the master the whole, you know, like just

1639
01:14:55,160 --> 01:14:56,600
Speaker 1: making a look like it's something that's not you know

1640
01:14:56,640 --> 01:14:59,360
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like he's really good at that, and

1641
01:15:00,640 --> 01:15:03,280
Speaker 1: he's he's a really good player. Man. He works hard,

1642
01:15:03,439 --> 01:15:05,519
Speaker 1: he deserverything he got, and he's he's a really good player.

1643
01:15:05,680 --> 01:15:08,040
Speaker 1: Might be a fun rivalry with you guys, as you

1644
01:15:08,080 --> 01:15:10,679
Speaker 1: already talking about it too. Oh really loves his vesage

1645
01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:12,240
Speaker 1: to you. He was like, we see you twice? Is there?

1646
01:15:12,280 --> 01:15:13,880
Speaker 1: I said, dang, I feel to get beat twice? Man,

1647
01:15:15,560 --> 01:15:18,280
Speaker 1: I love it justin kid thinking. You know, for your time, man,

1648
01:15:18,360 --> 01:15:20,080
Speaker 1: welcome to Los Angeles and we'll see you on the

1649
01:15:20,120 --> 01:15:25,559
Speaker 1: field here soon. Appreciate that the twenty eighteen NFL Draft

1650
01:15:25,600 --> 01:15:28,400
Speaker 1: officially in the books, and believe it or not, four

1651
01:15:28,520 --> 01:15:31,719
Speaker 1: of the seven draft picks participated in the twenty eighteen

1652
01:15:31,760 --> 01:15:34,800
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl, joined out by Senior Bowl Executive Director Phil

1653
01:15:34,800 --> 01:15:38,080
Speaker 1: Savage and Phil, it looks like the Chargers like what

1654
01:15:38,160 --> 01:15:40,880
Speaker 1: they saw down in Mobile this past January. Well, it

1655
01:15:40,920 --> 01:15:44,280
Speaker 1: certainly appears that way and our little hashtag down here

1656
01:15:44,479 --> 01:15:47,639
Speaker 1: is competing to connect, and these players get a chance

1657
01:15:47,680 --> 01:15:50,960
Speaker 1: to compete against some of the best in the country,

1658
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:54,080
Speaker 1: and the scouts can make those comparisons here in Mobile

1659
01:15:54,160 --> 01:15:56,880
Speaker 1: and then of course the players get an opportunity to

1660
01:15:57,080 --> 01:16:02,680
Speaker 1: also connect to thirty two potential employers, and obviously the

1661
01:16:02,760 --> 01:16:04,960
Speaker 1: Chargers of one of the one of the thirty two

1662
01:16:04,960 --> 01:16:08,760
Speaker 1: teams that are usually here in full four. So it

1663
01:16:08,840 --> 01:16:10,800
Speaker 1: was good to see some of the guys that they took.

1664
01:16:11,479 --> 01:16:15,240
Speaker 1: I was impressed with what the Chargers were able to

1665
01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:19,400
Speaker 1: accomplish the gift of Durwin James there in the middle

1666
01:16:19,400 --> 01:16:21,920
Speaker 1: of the first round. And then two of my favorites

1667
01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:25,720
Speaker 1: were Chinnon and Wosu and Justin Jones. I just think

1668
01:16:25,760 --> 01:16:29,680
Speaker 1: that they I thought that they were potential starters beyond

1669
01:16:30,479 --> 01:16:34,519
Speaker 1: being taken in the first round, and I actually featured

1670
01:16:34,560 --> 01:16:38,400
Speaker 1: them on our website leading into the draft. Well, Phil,

1671
01:16:38,520 --> 01:16:41,000
Speaker 1: let's go one by one here, and I want to

1672
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:43,320
Speaker 1: start with Drwin. I know he wasn't at the Senior Bowl,

1673
01:16:43,520 --> 01:16:45,800
Speaker 1: but what are your thoughts on him falling to the

1674
01:16:45,840 --> 01:16:48,080
Speaker 1: Charges at number seventeen. Overall, I can tell you there

1675
01:16:48,120 --> 01:16:50,639
Speaker 1: was a lot of excitement in the building when Durwin

1676
01:16:50,720 --> 01:16:53,639
Speaker 1: was still on the board. Yeah, you know, with Florida State,

1677
01:16:53,720 --> 01:16:56,280
Speaker 1: I spent a good bit of time over there because

1678
01:16:56,320 --> 01:16:58,760
Speaker 1: it's not that far away from Moville, So I was

1679
01:16:58,800 --> 01:17:02,400
Speaker 1: obviously very familiar with Darwin in his career at FSU.

1680
01:17:02,600 --> 01:17:05,080
Speaker 1: And you know, I think he's one of those players

1681
01:17:05,080 --> 01:17:08,200
Speaker 1: that has such rare height, weight and speed that you

1682
01:17:08,280 --> 01:17:11,559
Speaker 1: feel like, even as accomplished as he was at FSU,

1683
01:17:11,760 --> 01:17:15,080
Speaker 1: that his best football is ahead of him. Man. Of course,

1684
01:17:15,120 --> 01:17:18,400
Speaker 1: with the league now playing a lot of three safety

1685
01:17:18,520 --> 01:17:22,439
Speaker 1: defenses in their nickel package, so three of the five

1686
01:17:22,560 --> 01:17:26,479
Speaker 1: defenders in the back end having a safety background, I

1687
01:17:26,479 --> 01:17:29,080
Speaker 1: think that Gus Bradley and the staff there will be

1688
01:17:29,200 --> 01:17:31,960
Speaker 1: very creative in how they can utilize him because he

1689
01:17:32,040 --> 01:17:35,719
Speaker 1: really is capable of playing in the deep metal down

1690
01:17:35,760 --> 01:17:37,920
Speaker 1: in the box. He can blitz off the edge. I mean,

1691
01:17:37,960 --> 01:17:42,200
Speaker 1: he's really a forceful defensive player. Well, Phil. In the

1692
01:17:42,240 --> 01:17:46,479
Speaker 1: second round, the Chargers selected USC linebacker u Chenna NOOSU

1693
01:17:46,680 --> 01:17:50,320
Speaker 1: forty eight overall, and this is a team captain at USC,

1694
01:17:50,520 --> 01:17:54,200
Speaker 1: a very highly productive player in his senior year, and

1695
01:17:54,240 --> 01:17:58,120
Speaker 1: he gets to stay home his hometown Carson, California. Phil, Yeah,

1696
01:17:58,160 --> 01:18:01,720
Speaker 1: he's really a good football player, very solid. He could

1697
01:18:01,760 --> 01:18:04,680
Speaker 1: play that outside backer post where he can stack at

1698
01:18:04,720 --> 01:18:08,120
Speaker 1: the point of attack, and he does have some rush potential.

1699
01:18:08,160 --> 01:18:11,160
Speaker 1: But the thing that's really interesting about him is that

1700
01:18:11,600 --> 01:18:14,600
Speaker 1: while this year he did have the twelve and a

1701
01:18:14,640 --> 01:18:18,679
Speaker 1: half sacks, the more impressive number was that he had

1702
01:18:19,360 --> 01:18:21,200
Speaker 1: actually had twelve and a half sacks in his career.

1703
01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:24,480
Speaker 1: But the more impressive number was the nineteen pass breakups.

1704
01:18:24,479 --> 01:18:27,759
Speaker 1: He really has a knack for getting to a certain

1705
01:18:27,800 --> 01:18:30,519
Speaker 1: point and then realizing the ball is about to come

1706
01:18:30,560 --> 01:18:33,479
Speaker 1: out and getting his hands up, and he had a

1707
01:18:33,479 --> 01:18:37,559
Speaker 1: real knack for that, which is a disruptive play of

1708
01:18:37,560 --> 01:18:40,559
Speaker 1: course in football. But I thought that he was one

1709
01:18:40,640 --> 01:18:44,120
Speaker 1: of our better defenders here and just I forecast him

1710
01:18:44,120 --> 01:18:46,679
Speaker 1: for a team that would run this kind of system

1711
01:18:47,160 --> 01:18:49,920
Speaker 1: where he could play both as an outside backer in

1712
01:18:49,920 --> 01:18:53,000
Speaker 1: a stand up position and rush some because of that

1713
01:18:53,080 --> 01:18:57,479
Speaker 1: ability to affect the pocket. You know, the name of

1714
01:18:57,520 --> 01:19:00,960
Speaker 1: the game really disruption. I talked to Clay Elton and

1715
01:19:01,280 --> 01:19:04,040
Speaker 1: other people about just those pass breakups that you mentioned,

1716
01:19:04,280 --> 01:19:06,839
Speaker 1: and to get a player like that on a defense

1717
01:19:06,880 --> 01:19:10,920
Speaker 1: that has ballhawks like Desmond King and Casey Hayward, Jason

1718
01:19:10,960 --> 01:19:13,360
Speaker 1: Varette coming back it's just one of those things that's

1719
01:19:13,360 --> 01:19:16,639
Speaker 1: just another added bonus for this defense. Yeah, no doubt

1720
01:19:16,680 --> 01:19:19,760
Speaker 1: about it. And again, the other thing is he will

1721
01:19:19,800 --> 01:19:22,280
Speaker 1: be able to help on special teams because he can

1722
01:19:22,320 --> 01:19:26,960
Speaker 1: be a core guy on your kickoff, kick return, punt,

1723
01:19:27,080 --> 01:19:31,760
Speaker 1: punt protection, all those things. So I really expect him

1724
01:19:31,760 --> 01:19:34,599
Speaker 1: to make an impact and be a contributor. Right away,

1725
01:19:35,080 --> 01:19:37,559
Speaker 1: we'll move to the third round. NC State defensive tackle

1726
01:19:37,640 --> 01:19:40,759
Speaker 1: Justin Jones. He was so excited to be selected. Phil.

1727
01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:42,960
Speaker 1: I spoke to him over the weekend and he actually

1728
01:19:43,000 --> 01:19:46,360
Speaker 1: discussed his opportunity to go down to Mobile and get

1729
01:19:46,360 --> 01:19:48,880
Speaker 1: his name out there. What did you see from Justin

1730
01:19:48,960 --> 01:19:52,479
Speaker 1: on tape? And then during that week at the Senior Bowl. Yeah,

1731
01:19:52,520 --> 01:19:55,160
Speaker 1: of course, Justin was part of a defensive line that

1732
01:19:55,280 --> 01:19:59,639
Speaker 1: had four seniors. Sharon, Bradley Chubb we know, went fifth

1733
01:19:59,640 --> 01:20:03,839
Speaker 1: over all to the Broncos. Bj Hill was drafted, Justin

1734
01:20:03,960 --> 01:20:07,639
Speaker 1: was drafted. In Contavius Street, who unfortunately suffered a knee

1735
01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:11,640
Speaker 1: injury in one of the private workouts this spring, was

1736
01:20:11,760 --> 01:20:15,639
Speaker 1: also selected. But Justin, you know, I went and saw

1737
01:20:15,680 --> 01:20:20,080
Speaker 1: them played Louisville during the season and in a live game,

1738
01:20:20,160 --> 01:20:23,680
Speaker 1: and we decided to invite he and bj Hill and

1739
01:20:23,960 --> 01:20:26,479
Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb. Of course, Chuck turned us down because he

1740
01:20:26,560 --> 01:20:28,439
Speaker 1: was obviously going to be a top five pick and

1741
01:20:28,439 --> 01:20:30,960
Speaker 1: it didn't want to take the chance. But I thought

1742
01:20:31,240 --> 01:20:37,120
Speaker 1: justin really maximized his opportunity here. He flashed in a

1743
01:20:37,120 --> 01:20:39,960
Speaker 1: big time manner. He was very effective and the one

1744
01:20:39,960 --> 01:20:42,599
Speaker 1: on one rushed stuff, and you know, he was our

1745
01:20:43,479 --> 01:20:47,360
Speaker 1: defensive line practice player of the week because he did

1746
01:20:47,520 --> 01:20:51,320
Speaker 1: jump out there. I thought he distinguished himself and really

1747
01:20:51,360 --> 01:20:54,240
Speaker 1: took advantage of the chance to be here in Mobile

1748
01:20:54,280 --> 01:20:57,000
Speaker 1: and compete against some of the offensive lineman that he

1749
01:20:57,120 --> 01:20:59,519
Speaker 1: went again. So he was one of the guys again

1750
01:20:59,600 --> 01:21:01,840
Speaker 1: that you know, you felt like there's no ways going

1751
01:21:01,880 --> 01:21:03,840
Speaker 1: in the first round, but it could be a real

1752
01:21:03,920 --> 01:21:06,040
Speaker 1: value for a team in the second, the fourth round.

1753
01:21:06,040 --> 01:21:08,760
Speaker 1: The Chargers get him in the third, so that made

1754
01:21:08,760 --> 01:21:11,519
Speaker 1: a lot of sense to me. Yeah, he'll immediately be

1755
01:21:11,600 --> 01:21:14,479
Speaker 1: in the mix there in that defensive tackle rotation in

1756
01:21:14,600 --> 01:21:17,160
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. We'll move to the fourth round. The Chargers

1757
01:21:17,200 --> 01:21:20,000
Speaker 1: select Kaiser White from West Virginia and Phil He was

1758
01:21:20,040 --> 01:21:24,919
Speaker 1: announced as a linebacker, although he played safety primarily in college.

1759
01:21:25,080 --> 01:21:27,559
Speaker 1: I think the team likes his prospects in making that

1760
01:21:27,600 --> 01:21:32,080
Speaker 1: switch because of that size, speed, and of course the physicality. Yeah,

1761
01:21:32,200 --> 01:21:36,240
Speaker 1: Kaiser of course played safety at West Virginia, but he

1762
01:21:36,320 --> 01:21:38,639
Speaker 1: was really more of a close to the line player.

1763
01:21:38,760 --> 01:21:41,280
Speaker 1: So this is all going to be nuanced in terms

1764
01:21:41,280 --> 01:21:43,320
Speaker 1: of what position really plays. The truth of it is

1765
01:21:43,360 --> 01:21:45,240
Speaker 1: he's going to be He's going to be a run

1766
01:21:45,320 --> 01:21:48,599
Speaker 1: support player and a short area cover guy on tight

1767
01:21:48,720 --> 01:21:51,120
Speaker 1: ends and wide receiver. You know. One of the things

1768
01:21:51,120 --> 01:21:54,160
Speaker 1: that he and his agent wanted to accomplish here Mobile

1769
01:21:54,280 --> 01:21:56,040
Speaker 1: was to show that he could play in the deep

1770
01:21:56,080 --> 01:21:58,280
Speaker 1: part of the field, and he got a chance to

1771
01:21:58,320 --> 01:22:01,320
Speaker 1: do that here. I thought, actually he was pretty effective

1772
01:22:01,560 --> 01:22:04,840
Speaker 1: in doing that. But with the Chargers announcing that they're

1773
01:22:04,840 --> 01:22:07,760
Speaker 1: going to have him play linebacker, I would assume that

1774
01:22:07,840 --> 01:22:10,760
Speaker 1: he'll try to add some weight and he'll play sort

1775
01:22:10,800 --> 01:22:14,280
Speaker 1: of on that weak side as an off thetball linebacker.

1776
01:22:14,360 --> 01:22:17,400
Speaker 1: He can scrape, run and hit. He's got very good

1777
01:22:17,439 --> 01:22:20,360
Speaker 1: instincts in terms of getting to the football. And again,

1778
01:22:21,000 --> 01:22:23,559
Speaker 1: even though they announced him as a linebacker, the idea

1779
01:22:23,680 --> 01:22:27,439
Speaker 1: that these defensive coordinators are getting very creative in terms

1780
01:22:27,439 --> 01:22:30,479
Speaker 1: of how to utilize the pieces and parts and the

1781
01:22:30,520 --> 01:22:34,720
Speaker 1: strengths of their different players. To me, Kaiser can be

1782
01:22:34,800 --> 01:22:38,840
Speaker 1: part of that three safety package, even though he will

1783
01:22:38,920 --> 01:22:41,760
Speaker 1: be probably the guy that's down and closer to the

1784
01:22:41,760 --> 01:22:44,320
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. And Phil, We're starting to see a

1785
01:22:44,360 --> 01:22:47,160
Speaker 1: lot of these like positionless players in the league. You

1786
01:22:47,160 --> 01:22:49,599
Speaker 1: talk about you Chenna using him in different ways. Of course,

1787
01:22:49,680 --> 01:22:52,360
Speaker 1: Durwin James, you could play him pretty much all across

1788
01:22:52,400 --> 01:22:56,760
Speaker 1: the field, and then Kaiser of course linebacker safety. What

1789
01:22:56,840 --> 01:22:59,160
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on the way that the league is

1790
01:22:59,200 --> 01:23:02,759
Speaker 1: moving to some of these players that can really play

1791
01:23:03,160 --> 01:23:06,280
Speaker 1: multiple positions. Well, I think the truth of it is

1792
01:23:06,280 --> 01:23:09,720
Speaker 1: is this is the residual impact of the spread offense

1793
01:23:09,840 --> 01:23:13,759
Speaker 1: taking over college football, the idea of having a true

1794
01:23:14,439 --> 01:23:18,559
Speaker 1: mic inside linebacker, the idea of having a true free

1795
01:23:18,600 --> 01:23:21,600
Speaker 1: safety center fielder, and that's really kind of all they do.

1796
01:23:21,680 --> 01:23:24,080
Speaker 1: They specialize in one role. You just don't see it

1797
01:23:24,520 --> 01:23:27,759
Speaker 1: anymore because these guys have to play out in space,

1798
01:23:27,840 --> 01:23:30,360
Speaker 1: they have to tackle out in the open grass. And

1799
01:23:30,960 --> 01:23:34,800
Speaker 1: you know, you're seeing safeties become linebackers. I think, you know,

1800
01:23:34,840 --> 01:23:37,640
Speaker 1: there's probably some linebackers that will end up being safeties

1801
01:23:37,680 --> 01:23:41,280
Speaker 1: and vice versa. You're seeing corners worth some safeties and

1802
01:23:41,360 --> 01:23:45,120
Speaker 1: sliding inside, and so I think it's just again the

1803
01:23:46,080 --> 01:23:48,840
Speaker 1: impact of the spread offense and the fact that the

1804
01:23:48,920 --> 01:23:51,600
Speaker 1: game is played out in the open field much of

1805
01:23:51,600 --> 01:23:54,080
Speaker 1: the time at that level, and that's where these players

1806
01:23:54,400 --> 01:23:57,240
Speaker 1: are coming from as they try to transition to the NFL.

1807
01:23:57,840 --> 01:23:59,639
Speaker 1: All right, we'll move to the fifth round. Here another

1808
01:23:59,680 --> 01:24:03,519
Speaker 1: local guy for the Chargers, UCLA center Scott Quisenberry. And

1809
01:24:03,600 --> 01:24:07,040
Speaker 1: with Scott, we're talking about a player with forty four starts,

1810
01:24:07,360 --> 01:24:10,280
Speaker 1: the ability to play both garden center, and a player

1811
01:24:10,320 --> 01:24:12,439
Speaker 1: that's probably gonna come in right away and add some

1812
01:24:12,600 --> 01:24:16,200
Speaker 1: depth to the interior of the Chargers O line. Yes,

1813
01:24:16,320 --> 01:24:19,400
Speaker 1: Scott is a very secure player. You know, he was

1814
01:24:19,840 --> 01:24:25,479
Speaker 1: a coach's favorite there at UCLA, and of course because

1815
01:24:25,520 --> 01:24:29,080
Speaker 1: of his older brother David and the family's journey not

1816
01:24:29,240 --> 01:24:32,200
Speaker 1: only on the field but off the field with you know,

1817
01:24:32,320 --> 01:24:35,599
Speaker 1: David overcoming cancer and just the fact that they had

1818
01:24:35,640 --> 01:24:39,559
Speaker 1: a lot of experience in terms of the college career,

1819
01:24:40,080 --> 01:24:42,920
Speaker 1: what goes on in All Star season at the combine

1820
01:24:42,960 --> 01:24:46,639
Speaker 1: the protas, I think he's a bit ahead of the curve. Again,

1821
01:24:46,880 --> 01:24:49,200
Speaker 1: I use the word value in the fifth round. I

1822
01:24:49,280 --> 01:24:54,160
Speaker 1: mean this is someone that at worst will be a

1823
01:24:54,240 --> 01:24:58,120
Speaker 1: swing backup as a center guard and could potentially end

1824
01:24:58,200 --> 01:25:00,800
Speaker 1: up being a starter one day. So I thought that

1825
01:25:00,880 --> 01:25:03,439
Speaker 1: was a nice pick by the Chargers. And he was

1826
01:25:03,479 --> 01:25:06,879
Speaker 1: also at our local pro day at the Hoope Performance

1827
01:25:06,880 --> 01:25:09,599
Speaker 1: Center about a week and a half before the draft,

1828
01:25:09,680 --> 01:25:11,400
Speaker 1: so it was a great opportunity. You know, you have

1829
01:25:11,840 --> 01:25:14,080
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl, which is the start of this evaluation

1830
01:25:14,160 --> 01:25:16,559
Speaker 1: process essentially, and then you got the combine, the draft,

1831
01:25:16,560 --> 01:25:18,559
Speaker 1: the pro day, and the team got to spend some

1832
01:25:18,600 --> 01:25:21,000
Speaker 1: time with Scott at the facility, So that was great

1833
01:25:21,040 --> 01:25:23,719
Speaker 1: as well. We'll move to the sixth round. The Chargers

1834
01:25:23,880 --> 01:25:26,679
Speaker 1: drafted wide receiver Dylan Cantrell from Texas Tech, a bigger

1835
01:25:26,720 --> 01:25:29,519
Speaker 1: receiver six three two twenty six. He wasn't at the

1836
01:25:29,560 --> 01:25:32,360
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl field, But any thoughts on Dylan, Yeah, you know,

1837
01:25:32,479 --> 01:25:35,479
Speaker 1: I really was not as familiar with him other than

1838
01:25:35,720 --> 01:25:38,439
Speaker 1: you know, seeing him at the combine if I'm not mistaken.

1839
01:25:38,520 --> 01:25:41,839
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a big body kind of receiver

1840
01:25:42,920 --> 01:25:46,400
Speaker 1: that can create some mismatches, you know, in the form

1841
01:25:46,479 --> 01:25:48,960
Speaker 1: of those back shoulder phase down the red zone, those

1842
01:25:48,960 --> 01:25:52,120
Speaker 1: sorts of things. So I don't know as much about him,

1843
01:25:52,160 --> 01:25:56,200
Speaker 1: but I know that on our serious XM NFL radio

1844
01:25:56,439 --> 01:26:00,360
Speaker 1: broadcast and coverage of the draft that Gil Brand, who

1845
01:26:00,400 --> 01:26:03,880
Speaker 1: obviously the godfather of scouting and lives in Dallas. He

1846
01:26:03,960 --> 01:26:05,639
Speaker 1: said that there were a lot of teams that were

1847
01:26:05,640 --> 01:26:08,600
Speaker 1: really intrigued by what Britt Dylan can potentially bring to

1848
01:26:08,600 --> 01:26:11,599
Speaker 1: the table. And then finally the seventh round, at two

1849
01:26:11,760 --> 01:26:15,719
Speaker 1: fifty one, the Chargers select Northwestern running back Justin Jackson

1850
01:26:15,880 --> 01:26:18,000
Speaker 1: and Phil This is a player rushed for a thousand

1851
01:26:18,080 --> 01:26:21,240
Speaker 1: yards all four years in college. He left Evanston as

1852
01:26:21,240 --> 01:26:24,519
Speaker 1: the all time leading rusher in Northwestern history. A bit

1853
01:26:24,560 --> 01:26:27,479
Speaker 1: surprising that he was on the board at this point. Yeah,

1854
01:26:27,520 --> 01:26:29,800
Speaker 1: I tell you, this is one of the players that

1855
01:26:29,880 --> 01:26:33,760
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed going to evaluate back during the fall.

1856
01:26:33,880 --> 01:26:37,840
Speaker 1: I did go up to Evanston and check him and

1857
01:26:37,880 --> 01:26:40,400
Speaker 1: a couple of other guys out, and you know, we

1858
01:26:40,520 --> 01:26:43,120
Speaker 1: ended up not inviting him to the recent Senior Bowl.

1859
01:26:43,160 --> 01:26:45,200
Speaker 1: He ended up going to the East West Ryne game.

1860
01:26:45,280 --> 01:26:47,040
Speaker 1: I thought that there was a good chance that he

1861
01:26:47,080 --> 01:26:51,160
Speaker 1: would be drafted on the third day, but his production

1862
01:26:51,360 --> 01:26:54,519
Speaker 1: speaks for itself. And the thing that's interesting about him.

1863
01:26:54,560 --> 01:26:57,120
Speaker 1: Pat Fitzgerald, the head coach here, is one of my

1864
01:26:57,160 --> 01:26:59,839
Speaker 1: good friends in football, and he said, you know, Justin,

1865
01:27:00,120 --> 01:27:03,120
Speaker 1: even though he's been basically the star of our team.

1866
01:27:03,200 --> 01:27:06,040
Speaker 1: He has sat in every special team's meeting for four

1867
01:27:06,120 --> 01:27:09,280
Speaker 1: years because he understands that going to the NFL he

1868
01:27:09,400 --> 01:27:11,479
Speaker 1: probably won't be able to make it just as a

1869
01:27:11,560 --> 01:27:15,320
Speaker 1: running back. He's going to have to contribute on special teams.

1870
01:27:15,320 --> 01:27:18,040
Speaker 1: So they were very impressed with the fact that he

1871
01:27:18,080 --> 01:27:20,960
Speaker 1: could really see the future in terms of, you know

1872
01:27:21,040 --> 01:27:26,200
Speaker 1: what of maximizing his chances at the NFL level. And

1873
01:27:26,240 --> 01:27:29,200
Speaker 1: so I was always super impressed by Justin. I feel

1874
01:27:29,200 --> 01:27:32,320
Speaker 1: badly in many ways that we ended up not having

1875
01:27:32,439 --> 01:27:35,040
Speaker 1: him in our game, because he probably should have been here.

1876
01:27:35,880 --> 01:27:40,280
Speaker 1: But I like this choice in the seventh round. I mean,

1877
01:27:40,280 --> 01:27:42,280
Speaker 1: you're kidding meeting. It's one of the all time leading

1878
01:27:42,360 --> 01:27:45,160
Speaker 1: rushers in Big Ten history, and there's a couple of

1879
01:27:45,240 --> 01:27:48,559
Speaker 1: names that have come from that league over years. It's fantastic, Phil,

1880
01:27:48,600 --> 01:27:50,679
Speaker 1: I know it's a it's got to be a proud

1881
01:27:50,760 --> 01:27:54,280
Speaker 1: moment for you when the draft concludes, starting with Baker

1882
01:27:54,280 --> 01:27:57,280
Speaker 1: Mayfield at number one overall and Josh Allen. I don't

1883
01:27:57,280 --> 01:27:59,559
Speaker 1: know if you could just speak to the pride that

1884
01:27:59,600 --> 01:28:02,080
Speaker 1: you had to see these guys go through that process

1885
01:28:02,080 --> 01:28:06,559
Speaker 1: of mobile and then have their names called over the weekend. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, when when you're with a club, you only

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Speaker 1: get to celebrate sometimes ten times over the weekend. We

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Speaker 1: got a chance to celebrate eighty four times over the

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Speaker 1: weekend because we do feel like that it's an important

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Speaker 1: step in the path to the draft. And you know,

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Speaker 1: at one point in the draft the first five rounds,

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Speaker 1: the initial pick in the first five rounds was a

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Speaker 1: guy that was here at the recent Senior Bowl. Through

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Speaker 1: five rounds, we had seventy two total selections, which represented

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Speaker 1: like forty one percent of the entire draft. And you know,

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Speaker 1: that may not sound like an impressive number, but when

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Speaker 1: you consider the fact that one hundred and six juniors

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Speaker 1: came out and seventy of them were picked, and then

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Speaker 1: the fact that you have some of the top seniors

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Speaker 1: you know, elect not to play or maybe had in

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Speaker 1: the injury they were trying to work for back in January,

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Speaker 1: we were really pleased with the way it turned out.

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Speaker 1: And you know, the thing that I can almost under

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Speaker 1: guarantee for the guys that dous to come here is

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Speaker 1: that you're you're increasing your chance to be drafted, but

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Speaker 1: even if you're not selected, you're going to be signed,

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Speaker 1: because ultimately one hundred and ten guys that we had here,

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Speaker 1: every single one of them will be signed to a

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Speaker 1: contract here over the weekend and will ultimately end up

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Speaker 1: in an NFL camp as soon as next weekend. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's it's fantastic. The Chargers obviously took note, and Phil,

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Speaker 1: you do fantastic work down there, and I know you

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Speaker 1: had a busy week of radio, so I can't thank

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Speaker 1: you enough for your time and spending a few minutes

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Speaker 1: with us on Chargers Weekly. Okay, Chris, I appreciate it,

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Speaker 1: and please congratulate Tom and Kevin. Kelly, of course was

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Speaker 1: on my staff in Cleveland. He's your college scouting Oh yes,

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Speaker 1: but he and Tom Talasco and those guys do a really,

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Speaker 1: really solid job and I know they worked very hard

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Speaker 1: to put all this together and that'll do it. My

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Speaker 1: thanks to all of our guests as well as all

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Speaker 1: the hard working people in the Chargers digital department, and

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Speaker 1: of course thanks to you all for listening. Find us

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Speaker 1: on Apple Podcasts, and while you're there, please leave review,

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Speaker 1: help spread the word. We hope you enjoyed this episode

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