1
00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:01,840
Speaker 1: All right, this is Derwin James and you listen to

2
00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:11,879
Speaker 1: the Charges podcast Network. All right, guys, welcome to a

3
00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:15,239
Speaker 1: new episode of Charges Weekly with a long time in

4
00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:17,360
Speaker 1: front of the podcast. Haven't talked to him in a while,

5
00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:22,120
Speaker 1: Shan Merriman. Sean, how are you, my man? I'm doing well, man,

6
00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:25,800
Speaker 1: regarding the circumstances, I'm just glad gyms are about to

7
00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:28,840
Speaker 1: open back up. So that's good. It looks like you're

8
00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:31,240
Speaker 1: about to go to the gym, right I am. I am.

9
00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:33,199
Speaker 1: I to go spar a couple of rounds down the

10
00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:35,400
Speaker 1: Long Beleef for some of my guys for lights out,

11
00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,279
Speaker 1: so uh yeah, man, I'm just I'm happy to get

12
00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:39,879
Speaker 1: back in. And it was it was tough. It was

13
00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:43,080
Speaker 1: tough trying to find place to work out also while

14
00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:46,560
Speaker 1: keeping us social distancing and everything too at the same time. Yeah,

15
00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:48,240
Speaker 1: it's it's been a it's been a challenge for a

16
00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:52,080
Speaker 1: lot of different people. First, happy belated birthday and thank you.

17
00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:54,320
Speaker 1: And you said you're not gonna count this year, right,

18
00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:56,600
Speaker 1: you gotta count it twice next year in twenty twenty one.

19
00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,040
Speaker 1: That's right. I'm still thirty five, man, I'll be turning

20
00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:01,080
Speaker 1: to thirty six. Next year. You know, you can't have

21
00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:05,679
Speaker 1: you can have the beat egg and quarantine. But uh, yeah, man,

22
00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:08,240
Speaker 1: I feel great though. You know, I look back on it.

23
00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:11,279
Speaker 1: I remember coming in and laughing at all the old guys,

24
00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:14,000
Speaker 1: you know, uh, the Randall Goffreys of the world and

25
00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,240
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams. I used to call them old guys. And

26
00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:19,839
Speaker 1: now I'm thirty I'm thirty six, so that always feel

27
00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:22,160
Speaker 1: a little bit weird. Well, dude, you're throwing up one

28
00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:24,920
Speaker 1: hundred pounds dumb bells. Are you making a comeback? Is

29
00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,680
Speaker 1: there something you're not telling me? Is if we get

30
00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:30,520
Speaker 1: a sea lights out and training camp? Look? Well, yeah,

31
00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:34,920
Speaker 1: well training camp, no, if you need me a playoff?

32
00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:38,160
Speaker 1: What a stupid question? Yeah, what a stupid question? Third

33
00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:40,399
Speaker 1: and plus seven. You know, I straight up the field.

34
00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:43,720
Speaker 1: I go get a quarterback for you for sure. Yeah. Well, hey, man,

35
00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:47,160
Speaker 1: so much has happened this offseason. Let's just start with

36
00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:49,280
Speaker 1: the uniforms, because you were one of the few that

37
00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:52,400
Speaker 1: got a sneak peek ahead of time. Um, what was

38
00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,800
Speaker 1: your reaction when you saw them? And then what was

39
00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,440
Speaker 1: your reaction to everyone else's reaction once they were released

40
00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:01,680
Speaker 1: to the world. Well, you know, initially man, I was.

41
00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:03,920
Speaker 1: You know, I was nervous, right because I'm such an

42
00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:06,920
Speaker 1: honest person and I'm up front, so if I don't

43
00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:08,880
Speaker 1: like something, I'm like, oh, you know they were okay,

44
00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:11,519
Speaker 1: but you know you're always gonna go yo. You can't

45
00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:13,040
Speaker 1: go wrong with the powder of blues, right, so you

46
00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,000
Speaker 1: can't mess those up. I knew those are gonna be

47
00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:18,920
Speaker 1: top notch number one, yeah, but I was. I was

48
00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:24,800
Speaker 1: surprisingly shocked, man that every single color combination. If someone

49
00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:27,359
Speaker 1: wants to ask me, just direct, what do you think

50
00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,120
Speaker 1: about the charge uniform? Right, not even being biased, I

51
00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:32,880
Speaker 1: would tell them that every uniform, every set of uniforms

52
00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:35,880
Speaker 1: they have is the best in the NFL, right, like

53
00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:39,280
Speaker 1: just straight up. And I truly believe that because you

54
00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,360
Speaker 1: have a little bit of the old school in that mix.

55
00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:44,560
Speaker 1: And so you start with the numbers on the helmet,

56
00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:47,160
Speaker 1: you have the some of the old goals they had

57
00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:49,680
Speaker 1: back in the day, and then you have like a

58
00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:55,840
Speaker 1: new transformation of the New School, and like the how

59
00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:58,320
Speaker 1: it pops off of the color line, you can tell

60
00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:01,160
Speaker 1: the seeming and and I get back into like my

61
00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:04,080
Speaker 1: apperil what kind of my apparel background, But you can

62
00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,320
Speaker 1: just tell the way the seams and everything was cutting,

63
00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:09,520
Speaker 1: and they really really spent a lot of time going

64
00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:12,200
Speaker 1: over these uniforms and how they were, how they were

65
00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,880
Speaker 1: just built. So I can't wait, man, because that that

66
00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,239
Speaker 1: was always a thing, right as a player, when you

67
00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:20,799
Speaker 1: got the best uniforms in NFL and you come out,

68
00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:23,560
Speaker 1: whether it's a Sunday night or Monday night football a

69
00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,560
Speaker 1: game and you're the only showing twent and your uniforms

70
00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:30,360
Speaker 1: are just popping the way they are, I mean, that's

71
00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,959
Speaker 1: that's an automatic win and in the player's eyes. And

72
00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:36,920
Speaker 1: the thing is they were already the best in the NFL,

73
00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,080
Speaker 1: argued already, right, so to make it better and just

74
00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:43,800
Speaker 1: really by making it in a way simpler and then

75
00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:47,280
Speaker 1: panemage to the past. The numbers on the helmet was

76
00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:49,800
Speaker 1: it was like the cherry on top for me. But uh,

77
00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:52,839
Speaker 1: you see what you said. It wasn't just a pod

78
00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:56,000
Speaker 1: of blues like like the Whites, the Navies, I mean,

79
00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:59,920
Speaker 1: all of them are just so clean. And these guys

80
00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:02,200
Speaker 1: you got, you gotta feel good when you're going out

81
00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,280
Speaker 1: on to the field of Sofi Stadium. These guys gonna

82
00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:08,400
Speaker 1: feel good where in those new unitis, Oh, no question

83
00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:12,280
Speaker 1: about it. I mean, like I said before, you you

84
00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:14,480
Speaker 1: look good, you play good, you feel good, and all

85
00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:18,200
Speaker 1: those things go together, all those things stand true. Hey,

86
00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:21,039
Speaker 1: So I think the biggest thing when we go into

87
00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:24,640
Speaker 1: twenty twenty is the quarterbacks room is completely different. Now.

88
00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:26,760
Speaker 1: You know, Philip didn't miss a starts is two thousand

89
00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:30,080
Speaker 1: and six. You got Tyrode, you got Justin Herbert, who

90
00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:32,320
Speaker 1: the team drafted the six overall, you got Easton stick

91
00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:37,160
Speaker 1: in there. But the quarterbacks room, I look at the

92
00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:41,800
Speaker 1: positives moving forward. You know, Tyrode is an established guy

93
00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:44,039
Speaker 1: in his league, he went to a Pro Bowl, he

94
00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:46,799
Speaker 1: doesn't turn the football over. And then with Justin Herbert,

95
00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,600
Speaker 1: this kid had forty two starts at Oregon. So I

96
00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,599
Speaker 1: think that's gonna help him. You see his intelligence on

97
00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:57,279
Speaker 1: display already. What do you make of this new little

98
00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:01,240
Speaker 1: quarterbacks room as we get into twenty twent show, Well,

99
00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:04,039
Speaker 1: it's gonna be exciting, and one of the most exciting

100
00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,479
Speaker 1: parts of it is the competition level that's gonna be

101
00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:10,480
Speaker 1: that's gonna be happening. Um. You know, when even myself

102
00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:12,520
Speaker 1: during the offseason, when we're talking about so many other

103
00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:16,200
Speaker 1: options or so many different quarterbacks that could could have

104
00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:19,480
Speaker 1: come to the team. UM yeah, I've always said, like, hey,

105
00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:22,960
Speaker 1: Tyro can go type people you know, don't don't overlook Tyrod.

106
00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,880
Speaker 1: Tyrock can play and he's established veteran. Um, he's gonna

107
00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,360
Speaker 1: go out better when you some football games. I thought

108
00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:34,480
Speaker 1: the team was smart into building something for the future

109
00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:37,279
Speaker 1: and having somebody there who's going to be there for

110
00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:40,560
Speaker 1: the next five years. And Tyrod is gonna go out

111
00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,720
Speaker 1: there and he's gonna push justin. You know, he's gonna

112
00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,400
Speaker 1: push Herbert. He's gonna push him a lot. And that's

113
00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:51,279
Speaker 1: what you need in order to uh, you know, grow

114
00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:53,560
Speaker 1: the team and have it going in the right direction

115
00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:56,840
Speaker 1: because without that competition there, there's no one behind this

116
00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,200
Speaker 1: pushing each other. And if you don't think that both

117
00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:01,640
Speaker 1: of these guys are going to make each other, won't

118
00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,520
Speaker 1: make each other better, you know, you're you're wrong. You know,

119
00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:09,080
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a competition every single day and that's

120
00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:11,960
Speaker 1: gonna push Herbert and that's going to make Tyrod uh

121
00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:14,000
Speaker 1: just that much better because he can go out and

122
00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:16,839
Speaker 1: rusting football games for you. He can and I've said

123
00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:18,479
Speaker 1: this a few times during the off season. You know,

124
00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:22,920
Speaker 1: he had stops in Baltimore in Buffalo in Cleveland. Ty

125
00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:24,640
Speaker 1: Rod has never had a set of weapons like this.

126
00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:27,440
Speaker 1: When we talk to Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, Hunter, Henry

127
00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:30,919
Speaker 1: Eckler in the backfield, Um, Justin Jackson, Joshua Kelly, I

128
00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:33,559
Speaker 1: don't think Tyrode has ever played with with a set

129
00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:36,240
Speaker 1: of weapons like this. And you look at a revamped

130
00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:40,279
Speaker 1: offensive line too, Sean, this will be the perfect stage

131
00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:44,240
Speaker 1: forty right to show what he's all about. Yeah, and

132
00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:47,560
Speaker 1: you know this, the NFL is about opportunity, um, and

133
00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:51,040
Speaker 1: it's about situation. Sometimes you have, uh, you know, a

134
00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:54,120
Speaker 1: coaching staff to come in. It doesn't necessarily mesh with

135
00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:56,839
Speaker 1: what you what a player does. And the time you know,

136
00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:00,279
Speaker 1: at the tools. You may be an offensive line, maybe

137
00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:02,880
Speaker 1: have one or two good wide receivers, you don't have

138
00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:04,840
Speaker 1: a great offensive line of block for you that longer.

139
00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:07,159
Speaker 1: You don't have an established running back who could do

140
00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:09,320
Speaker 1: multiple things like Eclacan and catch the ball out of

141
00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:11,560
Speaker 1: the backfield. And if you ever get in distress, you

142
00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:13,280
Speaker 1: can't dump it off to a certain guy. So all

143
00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:17,960
Speaker 1: these things now Tyrod has and this will be the

144
00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,680
Speaker 1: best team and the best opportunity he's had in the

145
00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:23,160
Speaker 1: National Football league all the way around, not just from

146
00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:25,560
Speaker 1: the offense side of the ball, on the defense side

147
00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:27,880
Speaker 1: of the ball. You're you know, the charge of defense

148
00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:31,560
Speaker 1: is the top five defense. Yeah, they're they're top five defense.

149
00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:35,520
Speaker 1: And so you're gonna have more opportunities now because you

150
00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:38,200
Speaker 1: know they're gonna get turnovers, you know they're gonna put

151
00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:39,840
Speaker 1: the ball back in your hand, you know they're gonna

152
00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:42,400
Speaker 1: give you a great field position. So all these things

153
00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:44,200
Speaker 1: are going to help out Tyrod to give him the

154
00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:49,880
Speaker 1: best opportunity to be successful. And it doesn't matter at

155
00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:52,280
Speaker 1: that point because now you know, Justin Herberg can sit

156
00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:55,320
Speaker 1: back and watch, and there's nothing wrong with that. There's

157
00:07:55,360 --> 00:08:00,000
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with taking your time learning how the NFL

158
00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,680
Speaker 1: fell goals, learnning the speed of the game, learning your surroundings,

159
00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:07,280
Speaker 1: and just getting comfortable your first year and you know Tyrock,

160
00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:09,880
Speaker 1: ty Rock can hold them off for a year or so,

161
00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:12,200
Speaker 1: then great, you know, and then Justin will come into

162
00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:16,280
Speaker 1: play when he's ready, especially in an unconventional offseason like this,

163
00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,120
Speaker 1: Ben where you don't have the off season program that

164
00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,240
Speaker 1: you're typically accustomed to as a rookie. You're doing everything

165
00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:24,480
Speaker 1: like we're doing via zoom right now. Trying to learn

166
00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:27,440
Speaker 1: the playbook. Um, it's gonna take some time for I

167
00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:30,760
Speaker 1: think all of these rookies to get accustomed to life

168
00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:33,640
Speaker 1: in the NFL right now, because what they're doing right now, Sean,

169
00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:35,319
Speaker 1: is they're doing what you and I are doing. We're

170
00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:38,080
Speaker 1: at home on zoom, you know, and they're just trying

171
00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:40,040
Speaker 1: to learn the playbook and trying to learn as much

172
00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:43,600
Speaker 1: as they can remotely. Yeah, and you know what, you

173
00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:46,319
Speaker 1: can pick up a lot of that mentally. You can

174
00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:49,199
Speaker 1: have those mental reps where you go over the playbook

175
00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:51,120
Speaker 1: over and over and over again. But we all know

176
00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:53,560
Speaker 1: it's completely different when you got fire coming at you,

177
00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:57,120
Speaker 1: when you got you got to move out to pocket

178
00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:00,400
Speaker 1: and throwing the run. You know, things happening is showing

179
00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,160
Speaker 1: different blitzes on defense and guys showing different blitzes, and

180
00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:05,720
Speaker 1: you have to be able to make those quick checks

181
00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:08,600
Speaker 1: and have a mythical capacity to do an in game action.

182
00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:11,280
Speaker 1: Right now, it's fine because you know he's picking up

183
00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:13,960
Speaker 1: the mental reps. It's great, and he'll he'll walk in

184
00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,080
Speaker 1: at least understand and here the terminology enough where he's

185
00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:20,520
Speaker 1: not too far behind the curve. But the real action

186
00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:22,640
Speaker 1: is going to be when you get on the field

187
00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:25,480
Speaker 1: and you see how fast that the NFL is. You

188
00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,000
Speaker 1: see how fast you know, you see a Melvin Ingram

189
00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:30,120
Speaker 1: come running at you see a Joey Bosa come running

190
00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:33,400
Speaker 1: at your Derwin James and him, you know, showing one

191
00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:35,720
Speaker 1: coverage and being able to pick the ball off somewhere else.

192
00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,920
Speaker 1: That's where you're really going to get the best learning experience.

193
00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:42,200
Speaker 1: But right now, it's fine to pick up those mental reps.

194
00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:45,080
Speaker 1: And we talked about the defense a little bit. Kenneth Murray,

195
00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:47,840
Speaker 1: you get in the first round and you had a

196
00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:51,720
Speaker 1: cool comment. I thought, I saw an article about retired

197
00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:55,200
Speaker 1: jerseys and you said, I'm against it. I'm all for

198
00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:58,920
Speaker 1: passing it to the next generation. I'm excited to see

199
00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:02,040
Speaker 1: that fifty six actually because Kenneth Murray's a beast. I

200
00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:04,880
Speaker 1: want to get your thoughts on, Kenneth, But also seeing

201
00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:08,400
Speaker 1: fifty six back in the limelight and so far stadium,

202
00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:10,000
Speaker 1: it's got to be kind of a cool thing for

203
00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:12,920
Speaker 1: you too. Yeah, it's cool, especially when you got a

204
00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:16,160
Speaker 1: guy that can make some play, you know, that's always

205
00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:18,559
Speaker 1: a cool thing. And and mury Um, you know, we

206
00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:20,920
Speaker 1: got a chance to talk. We're going back and forth

207
00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:25,439
Speaker 1: over over Instagram and direct message or whatnot. And you know,

208
00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:28,640
Speaker 1: I've always he's explosive, man, and that's the fun part.

209
00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:31,320
Speaker 1: It's gonna be. And you look at these guys and

210
00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:35,080
Speaker 1: I always a value especially linebackers at his position, and

211
00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:39,160
Speaker 1: how their how their mental approaches and how they lay

212
00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:40,840
Speaker 1: it all out in the field. Right you have some

213
00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:42,480
Speaker 1: guys just get to the ball that want to make

214
00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:45,800
Speaker 1: a tackle. You know, he's running through guys and you

215
00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,360
Speaker 1: know he and that's when you see this explosive movement

216
00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:52,080
Speaker 1: coming and him finishing guys and swarm into tackles and

217
00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:55,680
Speaker 1: being relentless. This is what I see from him, and um,

218
00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:57,319
Speaker 1: you know what iut jumping a gun because you know,

219
00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:00,520
Speaker 1: the NFL is obviously much different in college. I can

220
00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:03,160
Speaker 1: see right now he's gonna be a player. He's gonna

221
00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:05,600
Speaker 1: be a star in the NFL. And that was a

222
00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:09,080
Speaker 1: hell of a draft pick for many different reasons, and

223
00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:13,320
Speaker 1: not just this athletic ability. He's a tone setter. He's

224
00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:16,640
Speaker 1: gonna he's that spark plug. And I think that if

225
00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:19,920
Speaker 1: you want to make any comparisons to what I did

226
00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:22,840
Speaker 1: and what he's what he's gonna do is he's going

227
00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,520
Speaker 1: to initiate that spark that the defense need and they

228
00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:28,640
Speaker 1: all and really the team needs. He's gonna be that

229
00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:32,360
Speaker 1: spark plug because he's exciting as hell and that's the

230
00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:34,040
Speaker 1: part that I can't wait to see it. And he's

231
00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:35,560
Speaker 1: gonna have to learn a lot. That's gonna have to

232
00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:38,520
Speaker 1: pick up this game speed and he's he's he's gonna

233
00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:41,000
Speaker 1: have to learn the ins and outs to be a

234
00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:44,040
Speaker 1: pro in NFL. But I can tell you right now,

235
00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:45,520
Speaker 1: he's gonna be a guy that's gonna get on the

236
00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:47,800
Speaker 1: field and you're gonna say wow right away, he's gonna

237
00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:49,640
Speaker 1: do something to flash and let you know that what

238
00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:51,520
Speaker 1: he's gonna be in the next you know, for the

239
00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:53,960
Speaker 1: next five or ten years. He has that flash and

240
00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:56,520
Speaker 1: an explosiveness and I can't wait to watch. I always

241
00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:58,800
Speaker 1: feel like it's similar to during his rookie year when

242
00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:00,880
Speaker 1: you so right off the battle, man, this guy's gonna

243
00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:03,800
Speaker 1: be a player. And Sean, now you have and we've

244
00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:05,600
Speaker 1: talked about this throughout the All Seas, until you have

245
00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:08,920
Speaker 1: you have Bosa, Murray and Derwin. You have a guy

246
00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:11,360
Speaker 1: on each level of your defense that that is a

247
00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:14,760
Speaker 1: potential blue chip player. We know Joey and Derwin R.

248
00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:16,840
Speaker 1: I think Kenneth has that potential as well. But to

249
00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:21,320
Speaker 1: have a Pro Bowl, All Pro, blue chip type player

250
00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:23,920
Speaker 1: on each level of your defense speak to how important

251
00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:27,720
Speaker 1: that is for a team. It's very important because you know,

252
00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:31,800
Speaker 1: everybody at every level has to be the tone setter. Um.

253
00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:33,640
Speaker 1: You got to you got the D line up there

254
00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:35,720
Speaker 1: and you know Inger and Bosa coming off the edge

255
00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:37,720
Speaker 1: and they're going to flush things up the middle to

256
00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:40,280
Speaker 1: the D tackles. You have you know, Murray there, and

257
00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:43,560
Speaker 1: you got you know, still a solid linebacker corps, and

258
00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:47,480
Speaker 1: you have a third level that is bringing just that

259
00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:51,520
Speaker 1: much UM impact back there. So you have a different

260
00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:56,000
Speaker 1: level of accountability on every level of the defense. And

261
00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:59,080
Speaker 1: let me, it's infectious. Man, I can't say it enough.

262
00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:01,560
Speaker 1: And you know, I'll just I'll love to get me

263
00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:03,000
Speaker 1: going out there and make a big play. And I

264
00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,440
Speaker 1: can two, three, four plays later, Sean Phillips is gonna

265
00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:08,800
Speaker 1: make a big play, Louise Castile's making a big play,

266
00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:13,040
Speaker 1: Joxy's er, Jamal Igor you know. So it's it's infectious

267
00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:16,439
Speaker 1: because everybody wants to be in on making that big play,

268
00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:19,960
Speaker 1: and you have somebody at every level that's going out

269
00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,599
Speaker 1: and setting a tone. It's gonna set the tone for

270
00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:25,040
Speaker 1: the entire team because everybody wants to go out there

271
00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:28,440
Speaker 1: and make a big play. Yeah, you know, I mentioned Bosa,

272
00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:33,439
Speaker 1: Derwin and Murray, but unless I forget about Melvin Ingram, Casey, Hayward,

273
00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:37,040
Speaker 1: Chris Harris Junior, lid Van Joseph. I mean, like the

274
00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:38,960
Speaker 1: list goes on and on, Sean and some of these

275
00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,800
Speaker 1: guys are are free agents. Talking about Chris Harris Junior

276
00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:45,760
Speaker 1: and Limbaugh. The Chargers no doubt had the best off

277
00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:48,480
Speaker 1: season in football. I mean, there's no doubt about it.

278
00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:51,319
Speaker 1: This is probably in my in my opinion and just

279
00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:54,720
Speaker 1: being around the organization, it's probably the best off season

280
00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:58,920
Speaker 1: they've ever had us as far as the draft class,

281
00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:01,839
Speaker 1: as far as who they brought in to key people.

282
00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:05,000
Speaker 1: They've brought in big, the big offense lineman there from Carolina,

283
00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:09,120
Speaker 1: from the Panthers. Um they've made They filled every gap

284
00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:11,199
Speaker 1: that they had missing last year in order to be

285
00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:14,640
Speaker 1: a championship team. That's what happened. Um. Every hole that

286
00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:17,400
Speaker 1: they needed to feel in order to take the team

287
00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:20,600
Speaker 1: to the next level, they did that. So I know

288
00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:22,520
Speaker 1: it looks going on paper and you got these names,

289
00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:24,280
Speaker 1: you got these guys can play, so they still have

290
00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:27,960
Speaker 1: to go out and execute. But this isn't a situation

291
00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:30,520
Speaker 1: where you're talking about a team who just just a

292
00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:33,680
Speaker 1: couple of years ago they were at twelve and four, right,

293
00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:36,400
Speaker 1: this is this is practically in a sense, the same

294
00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:38,560
Speaker 1: the same team, you know, minus a couple of guys.

295
00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:42,280
Speaker 1: But they've also made some great additions. So um, of

296
00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:44,360
Speaker 1: course they got to go out and worry about you know,

297
00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:48,000
Speaker 1: the preseason and game one and get through it. Uh.

298
00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:49,800
Speaker 1: And I don't want to talk for them or talk

299
00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:51,480
Speaker 1: too fast because they still have to go out and

300
00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:55,040
Speaker 1: handle business. But you can't help to be excited for

301
00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:57,280
Speaker 1: what's to come. You know, you know what these guys

302
00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:00,280
Speaker 1: are capable of. So the expectations are going to be high.

303
00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:03,800
Speaker 1: And Sean, you mentioned two years ago twelve and four.

304
00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,200
Speaker 1: You didn't lose a game on the road until the

305
00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:11,360
Speaker 1: Patriots game in the playoffs last year. The two biggest things,

306
00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,880
Speaker 1: no mistake about the fact that it was turnovers and

307
00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:18,840
Speaker 1: actually getting the ball turning it over on defense. When

308
00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:21,400
Speaker 1: you bring over Chris Harris, when you when you have

309
00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:24,040
Speaker 1: a guy maybe like Tyrode who has been very good

310
00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:26,800
Speaker 1: with taking care of the football. Those are two things

311
00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:28,880
Speaker 1: that they really need to concentrate on to get back

312
00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:32,240
Speaker 1: to who they were in twenty eighteen. Yeah. Absolutely, And

313
00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:35,000
Speaker 1: we go back to talking about the defense, right. I mean,

314
00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:38,240
Speaker 1: when you have this type of defense and these players

315
00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:40,040
Speaker 1: who can get you the ball, it's not going to

316
00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:42,000
Speaker 1: give up a lot of points. They're gonna give you

317
00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:45,400
Speaker 1: great field position. As an offense. That has to make

318
00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:47,360
Speaker 1: you feel good because you don't have to go out

319
00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:49,960
Speaker 1: and hit a home run every play. You don't you

320
00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:52,120
Speaker 1: have to go out and not even manage. You just

321
00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:54,640
Speaker 1: don't don't do anything, and that's going to shoot yourselves

322
00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:56,680
Speaker 1: in the foot, That's what that's going to be about,

323
00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:59,080
Speaker 1: especially when you have this kind of team and you

324
00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:02,320
Speaker 1: have ty Rocket already has a great history of not

325
00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:04,640
Speaker 1: doing that, right, He already has a great history of

326
00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:07,360
Speaker 1: doing it. And then you know, any any point in time,

327
00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:10,280
Speaker 1: he can go make plays with his legs if certain

328
00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:12,000
Speaker 1: things are not there, and you dump it down to

329
00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:16,680
Speaker 1: Eclo who does his best work in space. So you know,

330
00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:18,920
Speaker 1: if you look around it just the parts of this

331
00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:22,760
Speaker 1: team and how they're built, you can't you can't help

332
00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,440
Speaker 1: to be excited for what's to come. So I know

333
00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:27,200
Speaker 1: you got to get to the gym, man. The last

334
00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:31,400
Speaker 1: thing for you, um, with everything going on this offseason,

335
00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:36,560
Speaker 1: the importance of veteran leadership and having guys. I even

336
00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:39,160
Speaker 1: look at the Chargers draft, man, all the guys that

337
00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:43,920
Speaker 1: they selected, you know, were Senior Bowl guys, Guys who

338
00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:46,880
Speaker 1: are captains on their team, who who have a large

339
00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:51,480
Speaker 1: body of working college. How important is veteran leadership in

340
00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:56,280
Speaker 1: familiarity with the coaches and all all those sorts of

341
00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:59,760
Speaker 1: things in a season like this where everybody's gonna be

342
00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:03,200
Speaker 1: playing and from frankly a disadvantage with the lack of

343
00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:06,280
Speaker 1: an off season program. Yeah, well, like you said, that

344
00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:09,720
Speaker 1: veteran leadership has to step up and what they have

345
00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:13,159
Speaker 1: to do is hold everybody accountable. I mean accountability. I

346
00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:15,680
Speaker 1: think in my opinion, looking at this team from the

347
00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:19,960
Speaker 1: outside end, it's going to is accountability. You know, these

348
00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:22,639
Speaker 1: veterans that that's been around, has been there. Any of

349
00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,280
Speaker 1: these rookies or guys is coming to the team, you

350
00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:27,680
Speaker 1: have to hold people accountable that they're going to do

351
00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:30,240
Speaker 1: what they're supposed to do. Because it was such a

352
00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:33,879
Speaker 1: weird off season. Your workouts aren't the same. You're the team.

353
00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:37,560
Speaker 1: Camaraderie isn't the same, and you have you're not You

354
00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:39,480
Speaker 1: weren't able to do the things you would normally do.

355
00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:43,080
Speaker 1: So you have to be able to hold everybody accountable

356
00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:46,639
Speaker 1: to get back on the same page and work hiresly

357
00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:48,479
Speaker 1: to catch up on all the things you missed out

358
00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:51,840
Speaker 1: on this all season. Sean, it's been too long, man.

359
00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:54,560
Speaker 1: What are you got going on with? You know, lights

360
00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:56,600
Speaker 1: out of extreme fighting. I know that right now we're

361
00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:59,200
Speaker 1: all kind of in an up and near phase, but

362
00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:01,600
Speaker 1: I'm sure you got some things cooking when the time

363
00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,760
Speaker 1: is right. Yeah, you know, going back and forth the

364
00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:09,520
Speaker 1: Marior guards said, uh, the Governor k Newsom and just

365
00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:12,680
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what's the what's the next step

366
00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:14,200
Speaker 1: for us, you know, because we had a fight that

367
00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:18,240
Speaker 1: was there was postponed back in March at the Commerce casino,

368
00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:20,399
Speaker 1: and so when we open back up, we have to

369
00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:24,400
Speaker 1: follow the casino guidelines and and and and making sure

370
00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:26,959
Speaker 1: it's safe for fans to come and making sure it's

371
00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,359
Speaker 1: safe for people to travel and walk through the casinos

372
00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:31,480
Speaker 1: and in the place that we're having our fight. So

373
00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:33,720
Speaker 1: we're going through it as well, man. I know the

374
00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:36,359
Speaker 1: NFL is kind of figuring out. Hopefully they start up

375
00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:39,040
Speaker 1: one time and everything goes according to plan. Uh when

376
00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:41,680
Speaker 1: September comes. So for us, we're looking in the next

377
00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:45,159
Speaker 1: few months, having having our first fight and since the

378
00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:49,320
Speaker 1: since the COVID hit, and and trying to get back

379
00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:52,399
Speaker 1: to normal. Man, you see that, you know we need sports.

380
00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:55,800
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't we really need sports sorces so

381
00:18:56,119 --> 00:18:59,920
Speaker 1: embedded into our culture and um, everything that we have

382
00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,159
Speaker 1: going on a daily life. It's almost a relief. And

383
00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:05,240
Speaker 1: I can't wait to get people out the house and

384
00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:08,400
Speaker 1: get them coming to some lights out fights and get

385
00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:11,200
Speaker 1: them get them going again. And also seeing you on

386
00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:14,000
Speaker 1: the sidelines of SOFI Stadium. Man, that's what I'm looking

387
00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:17,240
Speaker 1: forward to is September, get this thing roll in, having

388
00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:19,399
Speaker 1: guys like yourself out there to support the team. Man.

389
00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:21,520
Speaker 1: Always appreciate your time. You're always so generous with it,

390
00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:23,359
Speaker 1: and I look forward to seeing you soon in the

391
00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:27,560
Speaker 1: latest Sean absolutely, brother, appreciate you. Thank you all right, guys,

392
00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:29,159
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for us, so big. Thanks to

393
00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:31,080
Speaker 1: Sean for joining me, and of course thanks to you

394
00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:34,360
Speaker 1: all for listening. A quick reminder that during this unprecedented

395
00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:38,040
Speaker 1: time Select Physical Therapy is focused on patient safety. Their

396
00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:40,760
Speaker 1: centers remain open and offer a clean, safe environment for

397
00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:44,000
Speaker 1: you to receive rehabilitation services. You don't need a doctor's

398
00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:46,680
Speaker 1: referral to begin care and they now also offer tell

399
00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:49,440
Speaker 1: a rehab You can easily connect with a licensed therapist

400
00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:52,800
Speaker 1: through web based technology that is HIPO compliant, right from

401
00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:55,320
Speaker 1: the comfort of your home. Select Physical Therapy is the

402
00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:59,399
Speaker 1: preferred sports rehabilitation provider for the LA Chargers. Visit Select

403
00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:02,440
Speaker 1: Physical Theory abe dot com to schedule an appointment today.

404
00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:06,120
Speaker 1: Have a great weekend and until next time. I'm Chris

405
00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:09,840
Speaker 1: Harry M