Costa Mesa – Greg Roman recalled one of his first meetings with Jim Harbagh, one left a permanent impression on one of them, but apparently not both. Roman, as he wrote the story again on Thursday, was an assistant with Carolina Panthers at the time and Harbagh was an experienced quarterback.
“True story,” Roman said. “He is getting hot one day. This is his final year as NFL Quarterback (in 2001). I am there on the field. He says, ‘You know, Greg, someday when I am a head coach, I am going to hire you.’ Here I was going, ‘Who is this man, telling me that he is going to hire me?’
“True story. He doesn’t miss it, of course.”
Harbagh did not rent Roman only after becoming the head coach.
He did it three times – first at Stanford University, then with San Francisco 49ers and now with Chargers. Roman was hired earlier this month as the new aggressive coordinator of Chargers, with a place of Kalen Moore, who took a similar job with Philadelphia Eagles.
“When I accepted the job in Stanford, I immediately got a job offer from a very good NFL team, with the Hall of Fame Coach at that time,” Roman continued. “I thought about it and I said,” I think I am going to work for the gym. ” This was a great decision. Very good coach. Very good person. ,
Now Roman and Harbagh are together again, work to convert the crime of chargers into something more than a statistical miracle. Their challenge is that the quarterbacks allow to meet Justin Herbert and ideally, overcome their remarkable ability, while at the same time make an engine to win.
Roman and Harbagh look like a natural fit, coaching for six sessions simultaneously. Roman also worked as an aggressive coordinator of Baltimor Revenne since 2019-22, working on employees of Jim’s elder brother Head Coach John Harbagh. Roman did not coach this last season.
Roman and Herbert will look like a mismatched pair. Roman, 51, small and stocky, made more like a wrestler and looks like a football life that he has become since its carolina days. 25 -year -old Herbert is tall and lean, listed in 6 -foot -6 and is easily wrong for a basketball player.
Chargers aim to establish a crime that depends on the running game as much as the passing game. An effective ground game has been absent for several sessions for chargers, something that Roman has vowed to convert in the coming years, while still takes advantage of Herbert’s arm.
So, what is Roman’s vision for the crime of chargers?
“Oh man,” he said, “This is a team that when other teams look at us on the schedule, they go, ‘Oh, God, we have got these people to play? I am going to be blocked from every different direction. Herbert is going back there firing dims. These players are going to drama. They are going to stop the run, they are just trying to stop us.
“We are trying to create that struggle. That is vision. ,
Coaching Higher
Jeff Carpenter of Virginia Tech joined the Chargers Staff as an aggressive quality control/comprehensive receiver coach, one of the four additions for Harbagh employees who announced. A fifth, coach running coach Kail McDonald’s, was allegedly set to join the Chargers from the USC.
Jonathan Goodwin, a former NFL aggressive lineman, was hired as an aggressive assistant/quarterback coach. Nick Hardwick, a former Chargers Pro Bowl aggressive lineman, was hired as an aggressive line assistant. Will Tukufu was hired as an assistant defensive line coach after leaving Seattle Sehox.
In addition, defensive assistant Mike Hysteand and aggressive assistant Phil Searchia were maintained from Brandon Steeli employees.
Additional employee
Benzers hired Ben Herbert as the executive director of the player performance after spending six sessions with Harbow at the University of Michigan. Devin Woodhouse, Ben Rab and Lincoln Dewolf also joined the sports performance staff. In addition, Jonathan Brooks remained on employees.