Joey Bosa On Minter Defense & 2024 Season | LA Chargers

now that you've had a training camp to just go through Jesse's defense and everything just how do you feel you are going into the start of the Season feel good about it um I mean I've seen just about everything defensive defensively over the last nine years so you know most of it's just adjusting to new names and it's all a lot of the same stuff there's only so many things I could do at at defensive end but um yeah I mean it's just getting comt with the calls and being able to play fast and not not have to think too hard about it but yeah I think we feel really comfortable with it and uh it's just going to get tighter as the year goes on encouraging was it to see the unit because you khil and Derwin didn't play throughout the preseason but just seeing that unit get all those goal line stops and Red Zone stops and then forcing the turnovers last yeah especially that last last game was really impressive to watch um yeah I just think the coaches are doing a really good job and and it wasn't really scheming up the other team it was just going out and and playing our our brand of football and that's uh you know attacking the ball and I think uh that's obviously a huge separator in who wins and loses in the league is is turnover margin so that's always a a big point of emphasis working with this new coaching how do you feel like this scheme or how do you think they've worked with you to make sure that you get the opportunity to do the things that you're best at uh yeah it's I mean it's a big big part of it as a coach is to put your players in the right position to succeed and yeah I mean I think they want most of the edge guys moving forward and and rushing the passer and and you know making plays in the back field and whether we're dropping or not I think it all ties into the to the same goal is to uh free up guys whether it's us or you know using us as uh a distraction uh I guess to to free up blitzers or you know whatever it may be so I I think they're doing a really good job and obviously it it gets real next week and we'll we'll start making adjustments on the Fly and uh sticking with what works or stick with what works and and you know um adjust from there but I'm I'm happy with the direction we're heading in for a while how are you feeling just physically now I'm feeling good uh my legs are good I I did you know I did a really a lot of work this offseason to be able to you know uh navigate the the road bumps um and that's kind of what it was you know it was uh definitely unfortunate but um all in all it was really not not a huge deal and like I said the work that I've been doing over the past however many months uh it's been a lot of reps and you know you don't lose those things in in just two weeks so uh coming back if anything you know you know it was time off the body um less stress on my legs and you know let some things heal up and and now I'm feeling ready to go may it wasn't like a repeat or reoccurrence of some of the old injuries like because you're you had like a club on your hand or whatever um but just because of the injuries that you've had in the last couple years that when you got her in training camp where you're like oh man again like was there yeah no it's definitely the first day first few days are always really rough especially when it's the unknown um and especially after the practice that I had and that week that I had I was just feeling so so good had a great practice against the Rams and then literally the last play on a pretty solid rep um just pretty unlucky um but you know it it happens and Dr Shin is a magician and put me back together and now my hand stronger than it ever was so um just have a funky looking scar now but um surgery sucks and anytime you have to do that is it's rough and it's not a fun process but it's pretty amazing how fast it it's came around and you know I'm dealing with the club for now but I I don't see that uh lasting very long with Ben Herbert coming in during the off season were there any major changes or adjustments both of you made as as far as your offseason training or even how they how things went during training camp um yeah I def not really much in the off season we didn't really communicate much in the off season um yeah I mean we did our did the work in OTAs and stuff but yeah he's uh he just wants us to succeed what uh he knows that guys have been doing this for a long time and he's uh just here to work with us and and help us get better what whatever that means and um yeah I feel like I've really bought in with all the stuff that he that he's bringing to the table and it's it's really easy to you know give your all and work in and uh and do all the stuff he's asking of you when you feel confident that it's it's going to help you so um yeah it's been it's been easy for me I'm I mean I'm I continue to do the stuff that uh I feel is important for me to do to keep my strength and all these other things but um yeah it's it's been nothing but a positive and it has only helped so far what's it been like just seeing him during the the offseason and training camp those fourth corter finisher drills and all that M cuz you know late game situations and stuff you know more than any being here throughout the career yeah it's uh We've we've struggled a few times in those moments but um yeah anytime you can work together with with your teammates and um not just put in work just for the sake of work but uh you know work smart and efficiently out there um I think it it brings brings us together as a group when you're when you're sweating and grinding together it's always you know it's part of being a team so yeah I think the more the more work the better as long as as we're being smart about it and and you know taking care of the guys at the end of the day I I feel great about it um what are you most optimistic about about the defense going into this year most optimistic um I just I just want to win games and I don't know if there's one thing specifically but you know I'm happy with how our room is looking The Edge group and I just want to go out there and you know finally put together one of those Seasons as a team that it's like we're we're serious and uh I mean we've had some good years and and but I just feel like we um have left a lot out there over the years and maybe it's there's million different little variables that it can be but seems like all the pieces are coming together and things are clicking but um doesn't matter how you're really how your offseason goes how good you feel it it matters how you play on Sunday and you know we're going to learn really fast what we're made of and you know once those first few weeks come by we're we're going to either be feeling really good about ourselves or feeling not so good about ourselves and um I'd I'd like it to be um that we're feeling pretty good uh but yeah I'm just excited uh I guess I can't really pick one thing that I'm optimistic about but um I just feel like we're we're playing with a lot of energy and you saw that last weekend with with the backups in there but I think that I mean trickles up to to everybody on the whole defense and the whole team so I'm just excited I just I just want to what I'm most optimistic about is seeing if what we feel is real and uh putting it to the test you mention that Ram practice you know you were obviously playing at a high level um is that the level you expect yourself to be at for week one oh yeah um I really uh when the injury happened it was I mean a million things going through my head uh oh I'm going to lose all my strength this that whatever but I've been really surprised with how fast everything's been coming around um it's a very common injury and a common surgery um I mean any injury so sucks but like I said I put in a lot of work this off season and I feel like um my strength is coming back really fast I mean I'm able to do everything in the weight room pretty much now and my strength feels totally fine I've been had great three practices last few days flying around um conditioning needs work obviously that that kind of slips away a little fast but just uh my legs and my speed and all these all my power and my size has all stayed really consistent over the last few weeks so um yeah I'm feeling confident about how I'm going to perform especially with another full week of well rest this weekend probably get some more running and work in but a full another week of practice I I don't want to say it was a benefit but you can kind of look at it like hey you just took two weeks off your legs I know it's not good for your Technique maybe but it's it does honestly feel like I've rested a lot over the last couple weeks and my legs feel really really solid what's it been like working and rehabbing here maybe you know compared to Costa Mesa uh yeah it's I mean everything's been moving relatively quickly so it hasn't been this like slog of rehab like with a groin or all the things that I that I've dealt with before but yeah no I mean we couldn't make it work anywhere but I mean having a place like this is always a plus um we've been been through it with Marco few times now so it's uh nothing new with him we've we've really I think our relationship has really gotten uh strong over the years and we communicate really well and you know I can come in feeling like I I need to do something and I could look at the sheet and he already has the exact things that without even communicating so it's um it's it's just been a great staff and all the additions that they've added over the last couple years has been great so it's been really smooth how much of this week has just been honing loose ense from training camp but also looking ahead to Vegas yeah yeah I think it was first day was just feeling it um club and all seeing how my body felt um but yeah last couple days I've really been pushing it trying to really run to the ball and get get my conditioning of course and yeah we're always having that extra week to prepare for the first game is great so yeah we've been obviously watching uh Vegas film and uh preparing kind of getting a primer for next week but um for me it was a lot just getting back into the rhythm of things and uh kind of just hitting hitting the basics of what what to expect next week Jose sorry you do you know how long do you plan on wearing the uh um I don't plan on wearing it for very long um I couldn't give you an exact number of days but I uh I feel pretty confident I could be practicing without it right now um but there's no no reason to rush and uh cause any problems not that there really could be other than some pain of bunch of Hardware in there keeping my keeping my bones together so it's not really a risk of much of an injury um but yeah uh once I have complete range and grip strength which I pretty much already do I'll be out of it know when it happened like that something that something oh yeah I said I broke my hand to Stafford when he asked me what happened it was pretty pretty wild I was not expecting that to happen um but I've moved on sorry to make you no go back to no it's fine it's fine I'm over it it's uh really has moved so fast it's kind of freaky and you you you talked with us before about the um you know you felt healthy and you know frustration about injuries like was it I don't know was we saw your you know that kind of frustration in Green Bay last year did you did you feel frustrated when it happen in the moment yeah definitely but it is a bone and it's not like some more finger exercises would have protected my my hand from snapping but um yeah it sucks I mean the first the second you get injured you have a million thoughts go through your head and most of them are negative especially I I just like I was saying earlier I was feeling really good about the place I was heading and I still do um I've I went through the the wo for a couple days and you know got good news and you know moved on and like I've said a few times the the all the work that I put in this offseason will uh prevented me from you know losing any strength and and has really helped getting back into action uh really smooth