This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Very excited about today's show. It's the next

installment in our offseason interview series. A man, we talk about a lot on the show, but have

never talked to on the show. Chargers head coach, Brandon Staley. Coach, how you doing?

Doing well, Robert. Thanks for having me. I sincerely appreciate you doing this. Really appreciate

you taking the time. We actually talked a lot about your defense and those ideas and the principles on last week's show because we're doing kind of a defensive trend show. So the timing of this actually worked out very well. I want to kind of take a step back, though, and just talk about the initial few months you've been on the job because you spent one year as a coordinator,

but you've been in the league for several years. I'm sure you have ideas of what being a head coach

will look like. I'm sure in practice, it looks a little bit different. So which part of the job

would you say so far has been the most surprising? Just an aspect that was not like how you imagined.

I think that probably the big aspect is just scheduling.

I think the amount of schedules that you're responsible for, not only just, I mean, I'm

talking like practice, but just all your meeting schedules, all the sports performance

part of, you know, the job.

And then, you know, just long term term like the long term schedules of training camp

you know into the regular season hey a normal week Sunday to Sunday Sunday to Saturday

Sunday to Thursday quick turnaround so just I think the scheduling part and being out in front of

things that way I think it's been you, you know that you're getting into it,

but you also know that like the long-term aspect of the job is an important one and one that you

have to spend a lot of time on. And so I've enjoyed it, but it's, it's probably been, I think,

the most, you know, new to me in terms of the role. The scheduling, the sports performance, all those kind of the bits of minutia, is there anything that you would want to be drastically different than the places you've been? You can feel comfortable sharing what you want, but just an aspect of how you wanted to go about your week that you're, you feel like you're trying something new? I think the one aspect that I've learned since being in the NFL is that you're dealing

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