The Chargers and Rams will costar in the 2020 edition of "Hard Knocks," HBO and NFL Films' annual training-camp docuseries.
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00:00HBO has announced that they have decided on the team that will be featured on this year's
00:05docuseries Hard Knocks.
00:07And actually, it's not just one team.
00:09It's two.
00:10The Los Angeles Chargers and Los Angeles Rams are both scheduled to make their appearances
00:16this summer on the HBO critically acclaimed series.
00:20For that analysis, let's bring on Jason Horshorn, who, Jason, I mean, the Chargers and the Rams,
00:25I know they are in the same city, they're in the same stadium.
00:29But to have two teams on Hard Knocks, it's pretty, it's going to be very interesting.
00:34Yeah, it's kind of like the battle for Los Angeles.
00:36Obviously, these two teams have come back into this market very recently.
00:40And even though the Rams have already made a Super Bowl since their return, they're still
00:43fighting for attention, fighting for fans.
00:46So pitting both of them against each other in a way in Hard Knocks makes a lot of sense
00:50for both the teams and for HBO.
00:52A lot of unknowns and first times for Hard Knocks, which I love watching this series.
00:57I just, I don't know what I'm going to think about it with two teams.
01:00I mean, there's so much information given on each episode to now worry about players
01:05from two different franchises.
01:07It just seems like a lot.
01:10It does.
01:11And both teams have a lot of narratives that would normally fill up a Hard Knocks season.
01:14The Rams obviously released Todd Gurley during free agency.
01:18That would have been the lead story in a Hard Knocks series if that happened.
01:21But then you also have the Chargers replacing Phillip Rivers after 16 years with the organization.
01:26And that would also be in a block kind of story.
01:28So you have all these things coming together.
01:30It's probably good for the series that they have so many different things to cover.
01:34But you're right.
01:35There's just a lot of terrain to cover in such a short amount of time.
01:39Who are some of the, every year on Hard Knocks, you know, there's a personality that emerges
01:44from one of these, one of these players that the fans fall in love with.
01:47Who do you think that would be from the Chargers?
01:49Well, there's a few guys that could be.
01:51Austin Eckler is this very humble player, was a former undrafted free agent.
01:56And now one of the stars of the offense.
01:57I think he would make a lot of sense as a centerpiece.
02:00You also have players like Melvin Ingram, maybe not an A-list star in a normal sense,
02:04but one of the most colorful characters in that locker room has said a bunch of things
02:08that I can't repeat on camera.
02:10And I definitely would make for an interesting subject matter on the show.
02:13Obviously the Rams have plenty of guys like that as well.
02:15So there's gonna be no shortage of things to cover for Hard Knocks this year.
02:19All right, Jason, appreciate that analysis.
02:21I'm looking forward to Hard Knocks.
02:23Very interesting to see it this year with two teams, the Rams and the Chargers.
02:26Thank you.
02:27Looking forward to it as well, Bill.