New Chargers OC Greg Roman Reflects On First Weeks On Job

The 2024 NFL season is slowly approaching. The new year is set to begin on March 13th, and your Los Angeles Chargers are already ahead of schedule on that front. 

This team, at least from their coaching staff, looks nothing like they've looked in 2023. The Chargers have flipped their coaching staff upside down, including new offensive coordinator Greg Roman. 

Roman, who is more than familiar with head coach Jim Harbaugh, is set to put the Chargers offense back on track. Roman has succeeded with and without Harabugh in the past, and 2024 should be no different. 

The 51-year-old coordinator was hired in early February and has wasted no time accommodating himself. In a recent interview with Chargers senior writer Eric Smith, Roman reflected on his first weeks on the job. 

"It's been great. Just really excited about this staff [Chargers Head Coach] Jim [Harbaugh] is putting together. We're right now entrenched the past couple of weeks with our staff room, really starting from scratch and really putting a system together and trying to do it the best it's ever been done, the best we've ever done it. So we're really collaborating on that, it's a big time collaboration. Throughout that process, we as staff members get to learn a lot about each other, how we think, our experiences, what we've done in the past, new ways to do things. All those things are encouraged and it's a long process because you're going through things at a granular level."

^{—Greg Roman, via Chargers.com}

The Chargers hired so many new coaches from different experiences, including Roman. 

Roman will bring an edge to this Charger offense they missed last season: the run game. He's excelled in that department everywhere he's gone; Los Angeles should be no different. 

Before he gets the details of that dialed down between his players, he details how he will get this group of men together and what he expects from them. 

"Our players are going to be here in early April, so we want to have everything that we need for them at that point ready. By then, we've gone through it several times and worked our way through it. But the first thing you got to do is put the system together. You got to try to create the edges of that system, the outline of that system and put everything inside of it. Then you get the flexibility and adaptability to move around according to the different players you have. You don't want to just say, 'Hey, we got this player, this is what we're doing'. Then you get another player who's totally different, you want your system to be able to accommodate all those possibilities. It's exciting, it's an exciting process for us and as coaches, I think we all get to learn, put ourselves through the paces and get to learn and grow being able to do that."

^{—Greg Roman, via Chargers.com}

Much is expected from Roman and the team in this crucial 2024 season.