1
00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:05,520
Speaker 1: Thanks Stephanie. Adrian, how you doing this Monday? Doing well?

2
00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:10,680
Speaker 1: Appreciate the time. UM wanted to ask you, how did

3
00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:15,960
Speaker 1: things change for you yesterday when Devin went out? Uh,

4
00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:20,400
Speaker 1: when he went out, you know, like, without getting too

5
00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:22,599
Speaker 1: much detail, I was I was in the back a

6
00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:27,840
Speaker 1: little bit more playing field, but overall, I wouldn't say

7
00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:32,760
Speaker 1: schematically it really changed to too much. Of course, you

8
00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:35,559
Speaker 1: had to make some changes here and there, but with

9
00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:37,919
Speaker 1: the way the game was going like, it was fine.

10
00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:43,159
Speaker 1: Hem he's such a glue guy communication wise, for what

11
00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:46,720
Speaker 1: you guys do, How would you just sort of describe

12
00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:54,440
Speaker 1: how challenging that void is to feel when he's not there. Yeah,

13
00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:57,160
Speaker 1: like him that has that much experience and stuff and

14
00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:00,280
Speaker 1: knows the defense at the back of his hand, and

15
00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,920
Speaker 1: you know it's Uh, you can get someone challenging with

16
00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:08,560
Speaker 1: the communication. But with me and Doug being back there

17
00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:11,800
Speaker 1: like it was fine, we probably ourselves on knowing the

18
00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:14,640
Speaker 1: defense just as well. He's the guy that DEVI is

19
00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,040
Speaker 1: a guy that that makes all those checks because he's

20
00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:22,800
Speaker 1: seen different stuff before. But overall we communicated fine, just

21
00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,200
Speaker 1: because we sit by each other in the meeting room

22
00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:27,200
Speaker 1: so we always know what the other one is thinking,

23
00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:29,800
Speaker 1: so there might be times where he doesn't make a

24
00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:32,880
Speaker 1: check that uh, you know, I look at him be

25
00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:34,679
Speaker 1: like hey, because he has a lot of stuff on

26
00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:38,840
Speaker 1: his plate, or the other way around. So overall it

27
00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:48,800
Speaker 1: ended up working out fine. Next question, A good afternoon, Adrian.

28
00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:52,640
Speaker 1: How much did you like playing off the ball as

29
00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:55,520
Speaker 1: much as you did yesterday after Devin went down. You know,

30
00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:58,320
Speaker 1: when I first got in the league, I was a

31
00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:00,800
Speaker 1: little more off the ball. I was kind of a

32
00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:03,680
Speaker 1: post safety, and then I kind of transitioned getting closer

33
00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:06,800
Speaker 1: and closer to the line of scrimmage. So if you're

34
00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:08,720
Speaker 1: a bible to be back there, you know, it took

35
00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:11,200
Speaker 1: me back to my to the early parts of my years.

36
00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:14,120
Speaker 1: It's a different game back there. You got to have

37
00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,360
Speaker 1: a lot more patience and less stuff on fold. You

38
00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:20,880
Speaker 1: can't be super aggressive like you can when you're closer

39
00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:24,679
Speaker 1: to the ball. So changing that my mentality on that

40
00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:29,959
Speaker 1: was was fun, just because like, I hadn't been back

41
00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:34,640
Speaker 1: there so long, been back there for that amount of

42
00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:36,919
Speaker 1: time for so long, and it just, you know, it

43
00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,799
Speaker 1: kind of felt different. And if I know today it's

44
00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:46,280
Speaker 1: going over the tape. But any thoughts on facing Herbert obviously,

45
00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:48,400
Speaker 1: you got a chance to play against him last year,

46
00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:50,079
Speaker 1: and I don't know if we've seen much of him

47
00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:52,680
Speaker 1: from this year, but just sort of some opening thoughts

48
00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:55,160
Speaker 1: on him. Yeah, he's a beach man. I mean, he

49
00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:57,960
Speaker 1: has a rocket for arm and and he can pretty

50
00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,280
Speaker 1: much starw that thing anywhere on the field and when

51
00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:03,360
Speaker 1: he gets out of the pocket, you know, he's a

52
00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:06,880
Speaker 1: mobile guy. He's a he's a great quarterback. I think

53
00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:08,720
Speaker 1: he's one of the rising stars in the league. And

54
00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:12,280
Speaker 1: just with everything, with his ability, we really have to

55
00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,320
Speaker 1: hone in and make sure that, you know, we're on

56
00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,640
Speaker 1: top of everything because like I said, he can throw

57
00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,799
Speaker 1: it anywhere on the field and if it's locked down,

58
00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:21,640
Speaker 1: he can take off and run. So it's gonna be

59
00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:29,480
Speaker 1: a nice challenge. Thank you. Next question, Bob Stacey, Thanks Stephanie, Hey, Adrian,

60
00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:34,160
Speaker 1: thanks for time. Thank you Kean Keenan Allen has been

61
00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:36,440
Speaker 1: one of the better receivers in this league for a while.

62
00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,000
Speaker 1: William Strengthly, you know, as a big receiver, makes a

63
00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,120
Speaker 1: lot of plays for them down the field. How well

64
00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:45,160
Speaker 1: do you recall going against those guys and practices and

65
00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,880
Speaker 1: you know what problems do they present? I mean, you

66
00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,480
Speaker 1: can see it like way, just watching the film, Keenan

67
00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,480
Speaker 1: is probably the, if not the best, one of the

68
00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:59,120
Speaker 1: best route runners in the league. And Mike is with

69
00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:03,520
Speaker 1: a fifty fifty ball is more like eighty twenty with him, so, uh,

70
00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:06,880
Speaker 1: he poses a real threat. And then you have those

71
00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:09,960
Speaker 1: guys together, it's just they kind of get whatever they

72
00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,600
Speaker 1: want because you can stretch the fielding. Mike and Keenan

73
00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:16,880
Speaker 1: can kill you pretty much from any position. But going

74
00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:21,320
Speaker 1: against them, you just you just kind of tend to

75
00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,320
Speaker 1: know what they like. You know, like I said, Kenny

76
00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:28,200
Speaker 1: can do pretty much everything, uh there is out there,

77
00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,159
Speaker 1: and you know Mike is gonna go deep a lot,

78
00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,200
Speaker 1: so you just gotta be you gotta be ready for that.

79
00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:37,800
Speaker 1: Um Following up with the Chargers and their offensive approach,

80
00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,239
Speaker 1: I know it's Mike's said, you guys are just getting

81
00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:44,360
Speaker 1: into them, and what do you see scheme wise between

82
00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,960
Speaker 1: them and New Orleans and Ojeele Embardy, who's their offensive coordinator,

83
00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:50,120
Speaker 1: came from the Saints. You've been with Sean Payton for

84
00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,919
Speaker 1: a long time or there there's some common characteristics that

85
00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,640
Speaker 1: you've been able to pick up. Yeah, it's it's it's

86
00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:58,560
Speaker 1: real early, so I can't really give you too much

87
00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,120
Speaker 1: on that, but you can tell that their offense that

88
00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:03,440
Speaker 1: likes to stretch the field and there an offense that

89
00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:06,159
Speaker 1: I mean, our offenses like to put up points, but

90
00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:09,080
Speaker 1: you know they really run, they really want to run

91
00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,400
Speaker 1: the score up. So that's the first thing that you

92
00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:15,440
Speaker 1: see from when you're watching this this early, but as

93
00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:17,600
Speaker 1: you dive deeper layer into the week, you kind of

94
00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:20,680
Speaker 1: can get on the Tennessee's and other stuff like that.

95
00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:26,880
Speaker 1: Thank Adrean. Next question, Chris Ryan Adrian are you good

96
00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:30,440
Speaker 1: that with you awesome? Um wanted to touch on confidence

97
00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:33,160
Speaker 1: and confidence for this team now at at three and four,

98
00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,080
Speaker 1: Bill said, confidence wasn't an issue in the post game,

99
00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:39,200
Speaker 1: but how much, particularly after last year, do you need

100
00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:43,640
Speaker 1: to see results to fully believe in a group and

101
00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,279
Speaker 1: what you guys are capable of. Yeah, I would say

102
00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:48,760
Speaker 1: this group of guys that we got are confident and

103
00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:53,480
Speaker 1: go ask anybody in a locker room. They're fully confident

104
00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:55,280
Speaker 1: on their ability to be able to go out there

105
00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:58,880
Speaker 1: and get the job done. Unfortunately, you know, we had

106
00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,320
Speaker 1: some bumps in the row, but you always like to

107
00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:04,880
Speaker 1: see a game in that win column. So we got

108
00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:08,839
Speaker 1: to win yesterday. You know, it was Uh, it was

109
00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:12,600
Speaker 1: a it was a big win, you know, big score differential.

110
00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:14,960
Speaker 1: So when you get those, you know, you like that

111
00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:19,440
Speaker 1: and that that helps build confidence. And especially uh, when

112
00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:23,320
Speaker 1: you when you've been so close to getting the wins

113
00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,440
Speaker 1: in those big games and having a showing like we

114
00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:30,120
Speaker 1: did Sunday, I think it definitely builds more confidence than

115
00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:32,360
Speaker 1: we already had. I mean it was it was through

116
00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:35,880
Speaker 1: the roof already, but you know, when you have games

117
00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:38,320
Speaker 1: like that, it just makes it even more. I want

118
00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:40,599
Speaker 1: to ask you about rookie quarterbacks as well as obviously

119
00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:43,440
Speaker 1: you're facing a younger quarterback Justin Herbert this week. This

120
00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:45,640
Speaker 1: week you had some games under his Belton's gotten more

121
00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:49,240
Speaker 1: and more confidence himself. But so much was made of

122
00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:52,000
Speaker 1: this rookie class of quarterbacks and obviously a lot of

123
00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:55,240
Speaker 1: them have struggled this year and MATC continues to to grow.

124
00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,560
Speaker 1: From a defensive perspective, why do you think it is

125
00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,520
Speaker 1: so challenging for a rookie quarterback to come into the

126
00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:05,560
Speaker 1: league and have success and you do things differently for

127
00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:08,159
Speaker 1: a younger quarterback than you would for somebody who has

128
00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:16,440
Speaker 1: more experience. For that, I'm gonna answer the second part first,

129
00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:19,800
Speaker 1: I don't want to necessarily say you do anything different,

130
00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:21,840
Speaker 1: You just kind of It really just comes down to

131
00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:24,880
Speaker 1: the film, because you got a guy like Herbert Lasher

132
00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,160
Speaker 1: who was tearing up the league. You know, I know

133
00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:30,960
Speaker 1: my home sat for a year, but his first time

134
00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,440
Speaker 1: really playing, he tore up the league too. So it

135
00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:38,640
Speaker 1: doesn't really it doesn't really matter like if they're a

136
00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:40,600
Speaker 1: rookie or not. You just kind of watch the tape

137
00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:42,680
Speaker 1: and see what they can handle and what they can

138
00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:47,240
Speaker 1: So it changes from week to week. And I would

139
00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:50,800
Speaker 1: say for most quarterbacks coming into the league, you know,

140
00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:52,920
Speaker 1: it's just a different it's a different game. You know,

141
00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:56,600
Speaker 1: you got way more defenses. You know, colleges they can

142
00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:59,840
Speaker 1: get crazy with the defenses sometimes, but you're going against

143
00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:05,120
Speaker 1: like coordinators who down stuff up totally different than the

144
00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,440
Speaker 1: way you do in college. So I would say that

145
00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:10,680
Speaker 1: would probably be the most challenging for those guys. But

146
00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,960
Speaker 1: you know, Um, the disguise part of it really plays

147
00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:22,840
Speaker 1: a part into that. Thanks. Next question Zach Cox, Hey Adrian,

148
00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,720
Speaker 1: how are you that man doing well? I want to

149
00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:30,480
Speaker 1: ask you about Hunter Um. Given the history you guys

150
00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:32,480
Speaker 1: have together from from all your time with the Chargers,

151
00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:35,640
Speaker 1: just how how good has it been for you to

152
00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:38,280
Speaker 1: see the success that he's been able to have over

153
00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:40,800
Speaker 1: these last couple of weeks. Four touchdowns in the last

154
00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:43,679
Speaker 1: four games, Now, yeah, that's my guy. I'm happy for him. Man.

155
00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:47,040
Speaker 1: You know, he puts in the work every every week,

156
00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,600
Speaker 1: every single day, and just to see that, like be

157
00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:52,520
Speaker 1: able to come into frush and on game days, it's

158
00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:54,920
Speaker 1: really great for him. Like he's one of the top

159
00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:59,200
Speaker 1: tight ends of the league, and you know, he's finally

160
00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:01,600
Speaker 1: starting to show that he's finally getting a chance to

161
00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:04,760
Speaker 1: show that and this is gonna come much more each

162
00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:08,320
Speaker 1: and every week. So I'm happy for him. Great, Thank you.

163
00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:18,080
Speaker 1: My final question bub there go, I wanted to follow

164
00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:20,720
Speaker 1: up with bad Hunter m as well. I remember when

165
00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:24,400
Speaker 1: you guys came here as as remember the Chargers in

166
00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,600
Speaker 1: the playoffs, he had torn his ACL and then he

167
00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:30,880
Speaker 1: had rehabbed and he actually got himself in position to

168
00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:34,400
Speaker 1: at least be available for that game. What are some

169
00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:36,320
Speaker 1: of the things that he's shown you through the years

170
00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,960
Speaker 1: in terms of what he's battled through as a teammate

171
00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,560
Speaker 1: and you know, with regards to respect for him, and

172
00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:45,920
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I would say from that example alone

173
00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:47,800
Speaker 1: just shows you the grit that he has in the

174
00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:51,320
Speaker 1: determination because a lot of players in that position, you know,

175
00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:53,640
Speaker 1: you don't know if they'll be able to play that year.

176
00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:56,440
Speaker 1: You don't know if they'll be able to to to

177
00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:59,880
Speaker 1: withstand the pain and of being able to play like that,

178
00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,920
Speaker 1: because honestly, like, how's a fast recovery and seeing him

179
00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:06,800
Speaker 1: recover like that was pretty amazing. But along with that,

180
00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:09,280
Speaker 1: he's just a he's just a great guy, like a

181
00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:13,080
Speaker 1: hard worker, an he's smart and just all the characteristics

182
00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:15,440
Speaker 1: that you want and a good football player. You like,

183
00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:18,360
Speaker 1: throw that in and that's Hunter, And like his hands

184
00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:22,640
Speaker 1: are magnets. It's pretty nifty play the other day that

185
00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,040
Speaker 1: kind of took the ball to himself. Yeah it was.

186
00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:27,760
Speaker 1: It was, I mean it more times than that. I

187
00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:32,599
Speaker 1: don't know if I've really ever seeing him like this.

188
00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:36,040
Speaker 1: I know he has because everybody has just straight up

189
00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:39,240
Speaker 1: drop a ball, but like you don't you don't see

190
00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:43,959
Speaker 1: that with Hunter, thank y'all.