July 28, 2025 • 10 mins
Jamie Erdahl and Manti Te'o visit with Head Coach Jim Harbaugh at Chargers Training Camp!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good Morning Football is the production of the NFL in
partnership with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
This man is always going to bring the juice when
it comes to viral moments for social media, and this
is just how Jim Harball lives his life. Everybody coaches
with us. Coach, what's your stance on this moment that
is your moment of training camp right now?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I think I got a bum wrapped there. You know,
it's a.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I mean, it's it's kind of creepy the way they
you know, they they zoomed in on it, you know,
and that if they would have just done the wide
shot you would have it would have been it would
have it would have been self explanatory.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
What was going on. But it's very relatable.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It's like, this is how I look at pizza, but
that's how you look at your quarterback or your offense.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah, well I was.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I was directing receivers behind the screen which way to
pop up and win, pop out and win. It's it's
an anticipation drill, a catching drill, and a quarterback being
able to scan the field having peripheral vision.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So I'm like, ah, they did it to me again,
you know, and uh, you know what I mean, and
Jimmy and coach, and I.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Was like, and then my daughter Grace, who what does
she think of it? She thought it was funny. Like okay, well,
Grady sex is good, then it's probably funny.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Gives the approval and social media talking.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
About your quarterback coach, you know on our show and
jimff I picked you and and Justin Herbert as my
favorite duo in training camp. And there's been a lot
of talk around Justin Herbert. What do you see in him?
When you when you made that comment that everybody has
to play to Justin Herbert's level, what do you see
in him that's maybe different than last year?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I see no difference.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I want I want Justin to just be exactly who
he is, how he is. He does everything at the
highest level. I mean, he's he's at tone setter, He's
he's the example setter. What my comment was, and this
is this is this is from the heart, this is
the truth. Justin Herbert's biggest weakness is all of all
(01:59):
of those that he's counting on on offense, coaches, offensive line, playmakers, receivers,
running backs.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
To get up to his level.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
You know, that's that's that's I wake up every day
to try to get to his level. So if you
you put us as the as the number one due,
I mean it's ninety justin ten ten me.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, I was talking to Khalil on Thursday when I
was here, and he told me a story about how
you guys are in six one fifties for your conditioning test,
and he was telling me that justin Herbert after he
ran the six six, He's like, let me run eight,
and so he ran two more and he was just
telling me that to your point, Coach, that he's just
at a whole different level this year and it's exciting
for the boats.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yeah, I see him at the at the level, you know,
just just the highest level. I mean he's a quarterback
and first five seasons w Stone for more yards in
the history of the NFL, and everything he does is
you know, you just don't change the thing.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
But whatever it is conditioning, it's it's too easy, you know.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Everything we do is we got to try to pull
him back, you know, because he uh, you never have
to talk him into doing anything.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
He's he's been here every day. He uh.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Him and Greg Roman, i mean they're the they're the
architecture of the offense. They know it the best, and uh,
you know, I think, uh, you know that's gonna that's
gonna pay good dividends for us. Everything we're doing now,
we're doing for a second time. And uh, it's it's
clear and obvious that you know, all of us we
gotta we gotta, we gotta put the work in and
(03:34):
get on his level.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
He's such a bright young man. I remember a couple
of years back he won the Campbell Award I think
it's called in college football is essentially the smartest academic
player in the sport that year, and he gave a
speech and it was amazing. But those who are around
him then have to soak in some of that knowledge.
I'm thinking of your rookie running back Amari and Hampton.
What's he been like out here? You smile just at
the mention.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Of his name. Yeah, you know, the first thing that
hit me, Jamie was, uh, I just loved help, you know.
Suggest I said that it's got a ches shoulders and
and he's just so well trained.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
And then as we go through the O t as
you go through the the mini camps, uh, the non
padded practices, I've there been around a running back that
when you do a running play in those those without
the pads, it's always a mush.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
You know, there is no hole.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
It's just you're just really getting a couple of steps
and then defense collapses.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
He's He's the only back I've ever been around that
can find out a hole. Yeah, you know, in that,
in that, in that mush, and I'm not I've yet
to see him running to the back of the pads
of an offensive lineman. H you know, other other indicators
him and he can run, he can pull away. Yeah,
you know, he's Uh, we're super excited about him.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
We'd be remiss not to ask how Najee Harris is
doing and if you've been in touch with him and
what you've heard about his return and availability.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know much. I got a lot
of degrees on the on the or not a degrees.
I have a lot of things on my my wall.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
One of them is not a doctor's degree. One is
not a medical degree.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
But you know that being said, it's been, it's been,
it's been better each day, Okay, Yeah, making making really
good progress.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Coach. I had to ask you this.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
You know, the greatest rivalry in college football like the
back of your hand in Michigan and Ohio State, do
you is there a life it's by it, It's there's
a light of fire there back together weekend.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Is there a room for that in there's pretty good
Michigan whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Or some would say it's not much of a rivalry
in the past five years or something like that.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
That's a whole separate compensation. Is there a room for
that in the NFL?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
To say, hey, within the AFC West, like we feel
something not nice about the Raiders and the Chiefs, Like
do you put do you put life into that? Does
that have legs?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
At this level?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
I mean, everybody everybody's good. There's there's no question that.
Uh you know, our division is really good. But uh,
you know everybody, every every team you know right now
has that optimism that they're they're going to be uh
you know, it's gonna be it's gonna be a successful season.
I mean there's no doubt. I mean the bullies on
the block have been the Chiefs. I mean they won
the division ninth straight time. So you know, it's like,
(06:21):
what are we gonna do about it? I mean, uh,
you know, so we gotta we gotta.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
No coach you.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Jamie alluded to it. Obviously.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Your your college career, your coaching career, starting in San Diego.
You won there, You went to Stanford, you won there.
You went to the league for the Niners one there,
you know, so on and so forth. What is a
sauce coach? I think when I when I walked through
these these halls on this field as a former Charger,
it just looks different. It feels different, the expectation is different.
What's that sauce for you?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I just uh, you know here, Uh, it's for me.
Derwin James, you know, he sets the standard, you know,
on defense and for the entire team. Whenever he calls
up the team and he breaks him down, it's, you know,
be the best on two one two, be the.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Best, you know, so everybody knows what the standard is.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
That's that's it and uh, you know, let's uh let's
uh you know, that's it, and that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You you bring the best coach, Especially I've heard stories
of you from this guy in your recruiting era. You
used to bring your a game when you recruited guys
like MANSI. Do you have a memory of recruiting this
man when you try to get him.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
To vivid memories? What is that? Naji? I mean, Naja
would be the you know, like we nobody we were that.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
I've ever been a part of recruiting, you know that
we were, you know, more than than than Mantai.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, Naji, he was way up there too. Now.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Uh now I'm sitting next to you. We got nase
on the on the team here. But uh yeah, it
was as many trips as they would let.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Me get to uh get to Hawaii. I was jumped.
I was there?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Did I jump to I don't think I did. You
told me you jumped the cliff. I don't know I
was there.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I remember, I remember, I don't. I don't think I did.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
You know, I can't tell a lie, you know, but
uh yeah, you Robbie, uh we Robby out there. Yeah,
we jumped this cliff coach and it was like, I
mean like maybe one hundred yards from your house.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
You know, I'll jump that cliff. I have a bit
of a memory of walking up to that cliff.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Ago. Uh, I don't think that it went a top
five meal top at your house without questions?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
So cool?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yeah, top five And I've had a lot of meals.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I can imagine a lot of meals in recruiting, but uh,
your your your family, it's just such a you know,
just a close knit I mean everybody cared for each other.
I mean just encouragement coming coming from everywhere. I just
wanted some of it. And uh yeah, uh in the
official visit, I mean we met for we met for days.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
How can we make this? How can we make this special?
How can we make this good?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
And uh, class was an in session and a bunch
of the guys on the team.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
You know, so amazing.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
We say that about your family though coaching football, that
one of one and just like people want to be
around you and we appreciate your time and your energy
so much. You got one last sentence you want to
say about the Chargers on back together weekend?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Here?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
What about your team you want people to know about
heading into practice today.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Well, I mean we are we are, we are our
surgeon right now. I mean in terms of of of
practice position groups, I mean, you know, it's it's been
I think we're better at every single position group. The
last two days. Our last padded practice, that was our
best practice. And we followed up yesterday with a really
(09:54):
high energy, great practice and uh, you know today we're
trying to put an exclamation mark on that. It's and
it's been a great day of meetings so far today
some some incredible things just just happening with you know,
with the team and their approach. But I can't have
a good day unless we have a good practice. So
(10:16):
my day is all it's been good. So far, so good,
but it's all dependent on this practice that we're about
to help.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Well, thank goodness, we had this conversation then before practice started,
we got this version of you. We appreciate you so much.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Joy
Good Morning Football is the production of the NFL in
partnership with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
This man is always going to bring the juice when
it comes to viral moments for social media, and this
is just how Jim Harball lives his life. Everybody coaches
with us. Coach, what's your stance on this moment that
is your moment of training camp right now?
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I think I got a bum wrapped there. You know,
it's a.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I mean, it's it's kind of creepy the way they
you know, they they zoomed in on it, you know,
and that if they would have just done the wide
shot you would have it would have been it would
have it would have been self explanatory.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
What was going on. But it's very relatable.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It's like, this is how I look at pizza, but
that's how you look at your quarterback or your offense.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah, well I was.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I was directing receivers behind the screen which way to
pop up and win, pop out and win. It's it's
an anticipation drill, a catching drill, and a quarterback being
able to scan the field having peripheral vision.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So I'm like, ah, they did it to me again,
you know, and uh, you know what I mean, and
Jimmy and coach, and I.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Was like, and then my daughter Grace, who what does
she think of it? She thought it was funny. Like okay, well,
Grady sex is good, then it's probably funny.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Gives the approval and social media talking.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
About your quarterback coach, you know on our show and
jimff I picked you and and Justin Herbert as my
favorite duo in training camp. And there's been a lot
of talk around Justin Herbert. What do you see in him?
When you when you made that comment that everybody has
to play to Justin Herbert's level, what do you see
in him that's maybe different than last year?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I see no difference.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I want I want Justin to just be exactly who
he is, how he is. He does everything at the
highest level. I mean, he's he's at tone setter, He's
he's the example setter. What my comment was, and this
is this is this is from the heart, this is
the truth. Justin Herbert's biggest weakness is all of all
(01:59):
of those that he's counting on on offense, coaches, offensive line, playmakers, receivers,
running backs.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
To get up to his level.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
You know, that's that's that's I wake up every day
to try to get to his level. So if you
you put us as the as the number one due,
I mean it's ninety justin ten ten me.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, I was talking to Khalil on Thursday when I
was here, and he told me a story about how
you guys are in six one fifties for your conditioning test,
and he was telling me that justin Herbert after he
ran the six six, He's like, let me run eight,
and so he ran two more and he was just
telling me that to your point, Coach, that he's just
at a whole different level this year and it's exciting
for the boats.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yeah, I see him at the at the level, you know,
just just the highest level. I mean he's a quarterback
and first five seasons w Stone for more yards in
the history of the NFL, and everything he does is
you know, you just don't change the thing.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
But whatever it is conditioning, it's it's too easy, you know.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Everything we do is we got to try to pull
him back, you know, because he uh, you never have
to talk him into doing anything.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
He's he's been here every day. He uh.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Him and Greg Roman, i mean they're the they're the
architecture of the offense. They know it the best, and uh,
you know, I think, uh, you know that's gonna that's
gonna pay good dividends for us. Everything we're doing now,
we're doing for a second time. And uh, it's it's
clear and obvious that you know, all of us we
gotta we gotta, we gotta put the work in and
(03:34):
get on his level.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
He's such a bright young man. I remember a couple
of years back he won the Campbell Award I think
it's called in college football is essentially the smartest academic
player in the sport that year, and he gave a
speech and it was amazing. But those who are around
him then have to soak in some of that knowledge.
I'm thinking of your rookie running back Amari and Hampton.
What's he been like out here? You smile just at
the mention.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Of his name. Yeah, you know, the first thing that
hit me, Jamie was, uh, I just loved help, you know.
Suggest I said that it's got a ches shoulders and
and he's just so well trained.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
And then as we go through the O t as
you go through the the mini camps, uh, the non
padded practices, I've there been around a running back that
when you do a running play in those those without
the pads, it's always a mush.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
You know, there is no hole.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
It's just you're just really getting a couple of steps
and then defense collapses.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
He's He's the only back I've ever been around that
can find out a hole. Yeah, you know, in that,
in that, in that mush, and I'm not I've yet
to see him running to the back of the pads
of an offensive lineman. H you know, other other indicators
him and he can run, he can pull away. Yeah,
you know, he's Uh, we're super excited about him.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
We'd be remiss not to ask how Najee Harris is
doing and if you've been in touch with him and
what you've heard about his return and availability.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know much. I got a lot
of degrees on the on the or not a degrees.
I have a lot of things on my my wall.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
One of them is not a doctor's degree. One is
not a medical degree.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
But you know that being said, it's been, it's been,
it's been better each day, Okay, Yeah, making making really
good progress.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Coach. I had to ask you this.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
You know, the greatest rivalry in college football like the
back of your hand in Michigan and Ohio State, do
you is there a life it's by it, It's there's
a light of fire there back together weekend.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Is there a room for that in there's pretty good
Michigan whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Or some would say it's not much of a rivalry
in the past five years or something like that.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
That's a whole separate compensation. Is there a room for
that in the NFL?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
To say, hey, within the AFC West, like we feel
something not nice about the Raiders and the Chiefs, Like
do you put do you put life into that? Does
that have legs?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
At this level?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
I mean, everybody everybody's good. There's there's no question that.
Uh you know, our division is really good. But uh,
you know everybody, every every team you know right now
has that optimism that they're they're going to be uh
you know, it's gonna be it's gonna be a successful season.
I mean there's no doubt. I mean the bullies on
the block have been the Chiefs. I mean they won
the division ninth straight time. So you know, it's like,
(06:21):
what are we gonna do about it? I mean, uh,
you know, so we gotta we gotta.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
No coach you.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Jamie alluded to it. Obviously.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Your your college career, your coaching career, starting in San Diego.
You won there, You went to Stanford, you won there.
You went to the league for the Niners one there,
you know, so on and so forth. What is a
sauce coach? I think when I when I walked through
these these halls on this field as a former Charger,
it just looks different. It feels different, the expectation is different.
What's that sauce for you?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I just uh, you know here, Uh, it's for me.
Derwin James, you know, he sets the standard, you know,
on defense and for the entire team. Whenever he calls
up the team and he breaks him down, it's, you know,
be the best on two one two, be the.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Best, you know, so everybody knows what the standard is.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
That's that's it and uh, you know, let's uh let's
uh you know, that's it, and that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
You you bring the best coach, Especially I've heard stories
of you from this guy in your recruiting era. You
used to bring your a game when you recruited guys
like MANSI. Do you have a memory of recruiting this
man when you try to get him.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
To vivid memories? What is that? Naji? I mean, Naja
would be the you know, like we nobody we were that.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
I've ever been a part of recruiting, you know that
we were, you know, more than than than Mantai.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, Naji, he was way up there too. Now.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Uh now I'm sitting next to you. We got nase
on the on the team here. But uh yeah, it
was as many trips as they would let.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Me get to uh get to Hawaii. I was jumped.
I was there?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Did I jump to I don't think I did. You
told me you jumped the cliff. I don't know I
was there.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I remember, I remember, I don't. I don't think I did.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
You know, I can't tell a lie, you know, but
uh yeah, you Robbie, uh we Robby out there. Yeah,
we jumped this cliff coach and it was like, I
mean like maybe one hundred yards from your house.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
You know, I'll jump that cliff. I have a bit
of a memory of walking up to that cliff.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Ago. Uh, I don't think that it went a top
five meal top at your house without questions?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
So cool?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yeah, top five And I've had a lot of meals.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I can imagine a lot of meals in recruiting, but uh,
your your your family, it's just such a you know,
just a close knit I mean everybody cared for each other.
I mean just encouragement coming coming from everywhere. I just
wanted some of it. And uh yeah, uh in the
official visit, I mean we met for we met for days.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
How can we make this? How can we make this special?
How can we make this good?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
And uh, class was an in session and a bunch
of the guys on the team.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
You know, so amazing.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
We say that about your family though coaching football, that
one of one and just like people want to be
around you and we appreciate your time and your energy
so much. You got one last sentence you want to
say about the Chargers on back together weekend?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Here?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
What about your team you want people to know about
heading into practice today.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Well, I mean we are we are, we are our
surgeon right now. I mean in terms of of of
practice position groups, I mean, you know, it's it's been
I think we're better at every single position group. The
last two days. Our last padded practice, that was our
best practice. And we followed up yesterday with a really
(09:54):
high energy, great practice and uh, you know today we're
trying to put an exclamation mark on that. It's and
it's been a great day of meetings so far today
some some incredible things just just happening with you know,
with the team and their approach. But I can't have
a good day unless we have a good practice. So
(10:16):
my day is all it's been good. So far, so good,
but it's all dependent on this practice that we're about
to help.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Well, thank goodness, we had this conversation then before practice started,
we got this version of you. We appreciate you so much.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Joy
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