Brandon Staley on Chargers early struggles, Justin Herbert, injuries, battling cancer
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
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🗓️ 3 October 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Los Angeles Chargers head coach Brandon Staley talks with Mike Silver about the challenges of the first few weeks of the 2022 season, his extraordinary path to becoming an NFL head coach, how his first year in the NFL was affected by a global pandemic, his reputation as the most analytics-driven coach in the league, why Justin Herbert is such a special player, meeting Rafael Nadal and other tennis heroes at Wimbledon, and more. #Volume #herd
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| 0:00.0 | I remember the first time that I got some intel on my next guest. I was talking to Sean McVeigh, |
| 0:10.0 | who had just interviewed this guy to be his new defensive coordinator, wasn't a hot name, |
| 0:20.0 | and I was like, hey explain to me why you like him so much, and he goes, he's kind of like me, |
| 0:26.0 | but I'm defense, and that was in a way a compliment and in a way a clear sign that Brandon |
| 0:35.5 | Staley is a little nuts. So now he's known to the world, but that was my introduction to all |
| 0:44.6 | things, Brandon Staley, and we have him here today. How are you, Ben? |
| 0:47.5 | Yeah, thank you, Mike. Thanks for the introduction. You know, you are the coach of the Los Angeles |
| 0:56.8 | Chargers, a team that a lot of people are very high on, but coaching is never easy, and your |
| 1:04.6 | early season has been a rough stretch. You have some of League's best players, and a lot of them |
| 1:11.2 | seem to be dealing with pretty significant injuries. You know, what kind of challenges have you |
| 1:16.8 | faced these first few weeks? Yeah, Mike, I think the first three weeks of the NFL kind of represent |
| 1:22.8 | what the NFL can be. So we've had three really tough games, I think, to open up with Vegas, |
| 1:29.3 | you know, with the team that they have, you know, I think going against them in the first game, |
| 1:34.8 | especially with how last season ended, you knew that as an opener that that was going to be as big |
| 1:39.9 | as it could get in an opener, to be at home in front of our fans, there was a lot of emotion, |
| 1:46.0 | a lot of energy in that stadium, and you know, it was a really tough game. It was a fourth quarter |
| 1:50.7 | type of game, a two-minute type game. We were able to close it out. I really liked the way we |
| 1:56.0 | competed in that game as a team. It wasn't a clean game by any means, but I really liked the way |
| 2:01.6 | we competed, and I really liked the way we finished on defense and then on offense. And then, |
| 2:06.9 | you know, you got to turn around four days later, you know, in the first game against, you know, |
| 2:11.2 | the first Amazon game against the Chiefs and, you know, at Arrowhead. And so, you know, I think |
| 2:18.1 | to open up a season, you know, it doesn't get any, you know, tougher than that. I thought that we |
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