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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Fun show for you guys today.

Like I've mentioned a couple different times, on Saturdays throughout training camp, we're going to be doing some camp notebooks for my current training camp tour. First stop, first set of stops is that on the West Coast in L.A. and Oxnard, California, visited with the Rams, the Chargers, and the Cowboys, and had some great conversations with our writers who cover all three of those teams. Jordan Rodriguez, who covers the Rams for us, Daniel Popper who covers the Chargers, and John Moshoda, who covers the Cowboys. Just a great time to visit with the people who know these teams really well. I love doing this trip every year. I love checking in with all of these franchises that you get to visit. And it's just such a good download of

information and such a good reset. And I just kind of wanted you guys to have some insight into

what that feels like, these stops that I make during the stretch. And here we go. This is the first

one. We're going to have a bunch of these coming your way. So please enjoy our conversations

with our three wonderful beatwriters at the athletic.

Joining us now, it is our Rams writer at the athletic and the creator, reporter, host of the play callers, our wonderful narrative podcast series that ran on the athletic football show

earlier this month. If you have not listened to it, I highly encourage you to go

check it out. It's Jordan Roderick. Jordan, how are you? I'm great, Robert. I am learning names,

learning faces, you know, got a checklist on a printout paper roster just to make extra sure. I'm

getting a handle on the 40 rookies on the Rams roster right now. Doing great. It's a fascinating

time when we were watching them practice yesterday and I'm looking at the defensive backfield. I'm like,

oh yeah, Russ Yeast and Kobe Duran and just all these guys whose names you've heard once or twice,

but now are starters for the Los Angeles Rams. It is a really interesting time for an organization

in transition.

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