Highlights of the conversation with Telesco are below:
On new additions and why style fit was important in Year 2 of Brandon Staley:
“Obviously, a lot of upgrades on defense. When I say upgrades, [it’s] more that fit the style that we need to play with this defense. A lot of changes. We need this training camp on defense just to get used to playing with each other, with the amount of new faces. What we’ve seen the last couple days, they’re going to make our offense better. There’s not a whole lot of big windows to throw into right now. Both sides are going to work but we need a lot of work on defense in training camp because the amount of new people that we have to get ready to go.”
“…As we moved from the Phillip Rivers era and now into the Justin Herbert era, it takes more than a year to try and get to where you want to go. It’s taken a couple of years to try and take the talent level up. It’s a big difference with a team when you’re building around [Rivers], a veteran quarterback, experienced and a different contract as well, to now a younger quarterback. You have to build the team a little differently, so it’s taken us a couple of years to get there but we’re much closer now.”
“There’s different styles of defense in our league. [Former Chargers defensive coordinator] Gus’ [Bradley] defense does a great job, it’s just a different style than [Staley’s] defense. Just like there’s some other coordinator’s out there with different styles. So, different styles of defense require different style of players, that’s kind of the way it work. But last year, it’s hard to turnover a roster in one year, to get everything in the Joe Lombardi style, the Renaldo Hill style and Brandon Staley, it’s just difficult to do. It took some work to try and get there. We’re closer this past offseason. Now, we got a lot of work to do with these guys.”
On the right tackle battle and deciding factors:
“There’s a lot of things we like about Trey [Pipkins III]. He’s got great drive and…
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