Justin Herbert<\/a>, who took the most hits and sacks of his six-year career last season. He\u2019s emphasizing quick throws by Herbert to minimize the amount of wear and tear on the 28-year-old Herbert\u2019s body.<\/p>\n\u201cYou want to protect the ball and confirm something before you throw it,\u201d McDaniel said. \u201cI\u2019m challenging him to expedite that process and not confirm and let his feet talk to him and rip the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n
Herbert expressed some nervousness throwing the ball so early.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that\u2019s where you grow,\u201d McDaniel said. \u201cI thought he had probably four or five firsts in action of things that we\u2019ve been emphasizing since we got here. You\u2019re counting on every player to take those incremental steps. Ultimately, if you\u2019re trying to play it safe, no one will grow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Through three days of training camp practice, wide receiver Brenen Thompson has impressed McConkey, who cited the rookie\u2019s 4.26-second time for the 40-yard dash.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s flying across the field. The way he moves you can tell is just natural, got strong hands,\u201d McConkey said. \u201dHe\u2019s going to be able to help us a lot this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Johnston added, \u201cHe came in with one thing on his mind: speed.\u201d<\/p>\n
One thing McConkey isn\u2019t discussing with McDaniel is his clutch 42-yard catch-and-run from Herbert with 34 seconds left that set up the Chargers\u2019 winning field goal in a 29-27 victory over the Dolphins last season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want some passes, some plays drawn up so I won\u2019t bring it up,\u201d he said, smiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By BETH HARRIS EL SEGUNDO, Calif. \u2014 Mike McDaniel has a new title on a new team. He\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":964963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[241,7,929,1014,262,2444,2443,251,6,2764,9],"class_list":["post-964962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-chargers","tag-chargers","tag-football","tag-latest-headlines","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangeleschargers","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-nfl","tag-social","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117043337866686887","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}