Power Players: Chargers Assistant GM Chad Alexander
NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal
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🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Jourdan Rodrigue is joined by Chargers Assistant General Manager Chad Alexander to discuss what went into establishing a new identity for the Chargers, selecting players who exude what the team wants to be, and being led by Jim Harbaugh. Also, Chad explains why communication on every level is important along with building bridges between departments, coaches and players.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.6 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:09.9 | This is Jordan Rodriguez, and I am so excited to share that we are trying out a new |
| 0:14.2 | capsule series for NFL Daily called NFL Daily Power Players. |
| 0:18.6 | As many of you know, I love football. One of my favorite things about the |
| 0:22.9 | NFL is learning about how teams are built, how decision makers from coaches to executives, |
| 0:28.0 | to scouts, to players, think and the process itself of the sport. How football people do football |
| 0:35.1 | is the coolest thing ever. |
| 0:40.1 | So in these episodes of NFL Daily Power Players, |
| 0:42.3 | we're going to talk to football people and learn from them and pull back the curtain of the sport for you just a little further. |
| 0:46.0 | We'll sprinkle these into your feed from time to time, |
| 0:48.3 | a little surprise, extra treat for our listeners. |
| 0:51.8 | Be sure to check out a fantastic first episode with Carolina |
| 0:55.3 | Panthers executive vice president of football operations, Brandt Tillis. And today, I am so |
| 1:01.5 | thrilled to be speaking with Los Angeles Chargers assistant GM, Chad Alexander. |
| 1:08.0 | Chad has helped build NFL teams for 27 years with two decades in Baltimore in various |
| 1:14.6 | roles in that storied front office and five years with the New York Jets. Now, Chad is GM Joe Hortiz's |
| 1:22.5 | right-hand man as the chargers establish themselves as one of the best teams in the AFC. |
| 1:28.1 | The playoff hunting chargers have obviously had more than their fair share of injuries all |
| 1:33.2 | season, but as Chad likes to say, there are no style points in this league and especially the way |
| 1:38.2 | that these charges are built, and they keep finding ways to win games, even unconventionally. |
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