The Chargers, Rams, Raiders, Cowboys and Saints held training camp within a 102-mile radius this summer.
Lindsey Thiry is a national NFL reporter for ESPN. She joined ESPN in 2018 to cover the Los Angeles Rams after two years of covering them for the Los Angeles Times, and has also covered the Chargers for ESPN. She previously covered the Atlanta Falcons. You can follow her on Twitter/X @LindseyThiry.For first-year Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce, who grew up only 25 miles north in Compton, it was the quintessential way to end a nearly three-week stay in Southern California for training camp.
The Rams and Chargers have intimate knowledge of this, given they're based in the area, though the Rams ventured from the scorching heat of their soon-to-be new home at Woodland Hills to the campus of Loyola Marymount University -- two miles east of the Pacific Ocean -- for a two-week stay, while the Chargers broke in their new practice facility down the street in El Segundo."I love it," Rams coach Sean McVay said of their location and the visiting NFL teams.
"You just get so many more repetitions," Jones said."You don't have your dehydration you have in other places with the temperature that way that it is, and you eliminate a lot of soft tissue injury. Just get a lot more work done." So while the Rams, Chargers and Cowboys, through a grandfather clause, held open practices amid festival-like fanfare, the Saints' and Raiders' atmospheres created quite the contrast.
Only six miles north in Costa Mesa, the scene at Jack Hammett Sports Complex -- the site that used to house the Chargers' training camp -- was similar. The Raiders held camp there at the suggestion of first-year general manager Tom Telesco, who held the same post with the Chargers for 11 seasons.
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