Greg, welcome to the Bolts! You’re a couple weeks in, how has it been being with the Chargers?
“It’s been great. Just really excited about this staff [Chargers Head Coach] Jim [Harbaugh] is putting together. We’re right now entrenched the past couple of weeks with our staff room, really starting from scratch and really putting a system together and trying to do it the best it’s ever been done, the best we’ve ever done it. So we’re really collaborating on that, it’s a big time collaboration. Throughout that process, we as staff members get to learn a lot about each other, how we think, our experiences, what we’ve done in the past, new ways to do things. All those things are encouraged and it’s a long process because you’re going through things at a granular level.”
What’s your focus early on knowing September is still seven, eight months away?
“Our players are going to be here in early April, so we want to have everything that we need for them at that point ready. By then, we’ve gone through it several times and worked our way through it. But the first thing you got to do is put the system together. You got to try to create the edges of that system, the outline of that system and put everything inside of it. Then you get the flexibility and adaptability to move around according to the different players you have. You don’t want to just say, ‘Hey, we got this player, this is what we’re doing’. Then you get another player who’s totally different, you want your system to be able to accommodate all those possibilities. It’s exciting, it’s an exciting process for us and as coaches, I think we all get to learn, put ourselves through the paces and get to learn and grow being able to do that.”
You’ve been with Coach Harbaugh for a long time. What do you cherish about your relationship?
“I cherish everything about him. He’s a special guy in every sense of the word. He’s a great person first and foremost, so it’s always good when you have…
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