LA Chargers 2024 Draft Q + A: Steals and reaches, Brenden Rice, and how Trey Pipkins fits in now🤔 

Thanks to everyone who kept up with the channel during offseason/draft coverage! Pleasure to be a (small) part of it all with you guys. Who was your favorite bolts pick?⚡️ -Alex

Totally agree about reaching for Still. And he may still (pardon the pun) pan out, but the value of the draft imo was round 4 to early 5. Missing out on Van Pran, Nourzad and Limmer was excruciating, even though i loved the draft as a whole

A real question why are so many people stumping for this draft? Honestly I can't see that they did anything different than anyone before. They went for need , reached for players & drafted projects. Instant starters because of need not because of talent that's a poor business model.

Quentin would be a kick off ace ….I also see him working on his game … Chargers may have 5 young great wrs

Asian grading scale lol

Excited to watch Joe Alt this season. Haven’t been into O-Line since seeing Slater and Sewell dominate and now I understand the importance of it. Hoping he destroys Crosby and anyone else from touching my QB

Was really hoping for UDFA Drake Nugent

I feel like there should be a strong conversation about moving Zion back to RG. He felt so much better in 2022

Alex, what do you think about putting stills back at safety? Maybe that was their plan?

Shoulda got nabers and jpj

Would pipkins be good at guard?

I think Jim Harbaugh said nice things about Pipkins to get his trade value up. I’m catching up to Jim Harbaugh’s way of doing things. Maybe he’ll trade him for a guard. 😊

How you can say that lad will be #1 Wr he's not one & basically goes against this whole new regimes agenda if they wanted a #1 they would have drafted one. They didn't.

I think the chargers will surprise a lot of u.. they will pass the ball more than u think

Had Minnesota offered 11 and 23 like we thought might happen, would you have preferred taking Alt (5) + McConkey (34) or JC Latham/Fuaga (11) + Terrion Arnold (23) + McConkey (34)? Or even RT (11)+ McConkey (23) + JPJ/Frazier (37, and keeping pick 110)?

Ladd is my favorite pick. I think the nfl is moving towards smaller dynamic receivers. Every team has big corners and play a ton of two high. Against a good pass rush the bigger guys just don't uncover fast enough and against big corners contested catches are just not the way to live and die by, and in the playoffs it becomes even harder to come down with them. The thing you can't guard no mater how fast or big you are or play is agility. I think the zay flowers, tank dell, joshn downs, ladd archetype is going to be more and more valuable going forward. There's a reason brady always had a slot guy with juice across his tenure and those guys were always his go to. So while slot types typically get devalued because it's so much harder to find guys who win on the outside, winning on the outside with aj brown or new england randy moss is a luxury it's not your meat and potatoes. This offense is gonna eliminate the outside stuff in favor of way higher percentage plays over the middle (using the width of the field horizontally instead of vertically against the boundary). And the slot/z receiver is critical to punishing defenses that are overly aggressive against the run. When you have to worry about a slot receiver with that kind of agility it just makes it so much harder to come downhill on a running play because you have to respect him in motion in the end around, or getting in the space lbers vacate or getting that half step/second behind that means the've 100% lost the rep vs him. I think Ladd has one of the higher potentials to be an all time great slot/z receiver. He's got enough wiggle, plenty of juice, and he's already ahead of the curve in terms of understanding leverages and running routes using deception. Guys like that tend to only get better and better. He's still got some ways to go but he's ahead of the curve.

Thanks Alex for the roster breakdown! Much appreciated!

Actually, Jim hasn’t said a negative thing about any of the players. 😂 he just praises all the players.

Tyler's asian scale lol! I missed your takes, glad you made this episode. Good stuff.

I have a bad feeling about QJ I know we’re all hopeful buttttt… idk

Who’s our backup center? Always sucks to see the protection fall apart when our starter goes out

Great Q&A Alex , and you guys had an awesome draft night !!!

Everything QJ does well, Cornelius does better. From RAS, to speed, to moving in space to ball tracking, to special teams. Cornelius will send QJ to the practice squad.

Alt and Colson ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Should have draft Trey Knox