Hard Knocks Chargers Preview

HBO's Hard Knocks chose to follow both Los Angeles teams. It will be interesting to see how the Chargers are shown on the Emmy winning show.

Transcript

00:00 Hi, I'm Eric Williams and I'm here with Fernando Ramirez. I cover the Rams for Sports Illustrated. Fernando covers the Chargers.

00:07 We're here to talk hard knocks with the season beginning. Both LA teams are going to be on hard knocks this year.

00:12 Fernando, what are a couple things you want to check out as far as the Chargers in the first season?

00:18 You know, Eric, I'm very interested to see the Tyrod Taylor era, the Justin Herbert era. No more Phillip Rivers.

00:25 So I kind of wish we could see a little bit of Phillip Rivers and the way he is with his teammates.

00:31 That would have been fun, especially with Chris Harris Jr. joining.

00:34 You know, Phillip and him would always talk back and forth. Seeing them, seeing some of the defensive guys like Melvin Ingram,

00:40 Derwin James, a little bit of that and seeing really how they integrate both

00:45 the Chargers and the Rams. Like are they gonna go half of the time Chargers, half of the time Rams?

00:50 That's gonna be very interesting. What are some of the things you want to see from the Rams?

00:55 Just to kind of go off what you said, Fernando,

00:57 I think the first thing I want to see is how they're gonna handle this COVID situation with all the safety restrictions and regulations.

01:03 What are the meetings gonna look like? What is practice gonna look like for both teams?

01:06 You know, handle that individually and then if they do get positive tests,

01:10 how do they deal with that kind of on a day-to-day basis and on a minute-to-minute basis? In terms of the team itself,

01:17 Jared Goff, you know, how are they gonna continue his maturation process?

01:22 If you remember, Goff was a rookie when they did the first hard knocks with the Rams and had trouble remembering which

01:27 direction the Sun set. So I'm hopefully he's grown from that.

01:31 I'm sure that he has. Obviously, he's had a lot of success over the last couple years.

01:35 So I'm interested to see that transition. New offensive coordinator Kevin O'Connell and how those two interact.

01:42 And then defensively, Brandon Staley, new defense coordinator, how he interacts with Aaron Donald and Jaylon Ramsey and the

01:49 changes they're gonna make defensively moving on from Wade Phillips.

01:52 And then the last thing I think is Jaylon Ramsey's contract that you know, you will get it kind of an inside look,

01:57 I hope, in terms of the negotiations with GM Les Snead and

02:01 Jaylon's representation. So those are a couple things I'm going to be looking for in terms of the Rams.

02:06 Hey, you can follow us at Sports Illustrated. You can follow me on the Rams site.

02:10 You can follow Fernando on the Chargers site. Please check us out and we look forward to talking to you next week.