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Chargers begin 2023 offseason workout program

The Chargers began their offseason training program on Monday.

The Chargers’ 2023 offseason program is officially underway in Costa Mesa, CA.

Phase 1 of the nine-week voluntary offseason program is two weeks, with the activities strictly meetings, strength and conditioning and rehab work.

Players are not required to attend this portion of the program.

While the team isn’t yet in its final form, these workouts will provide invaluable experience for the players participating in it and should foster unit cohesion as the offseason progresses.

A more complete picture of what the team might look like at the start of the regular season will come into view after the NFL draft as the Chargers look to get their rookies in the fold on both sides of the ball during minicamp and training camp.

Watch: Gardner Minshew continues offseason training with Anthony Tumbarello

Jaguars QB Gardner Minshew has found himself back in Naples, Fla. to train, and as expected, he looks to be in great shape.

With the QB1 job his when the Jacksonville Jaguars return for training camp on July 28, Gardner Minshew II hasn’t changed his mindset one bit. It seems as though the second-year quarterback has worked out tirelessly with the chance to be the Jags’ franchise signal-caller in his sight.

This week it appears he’s returned to Naples, Fla. to train with sports fitness coach Anthony Tumbarello, who has worked with him this summer and prior. In a video from Tumbarello’s Instagram, Minshew was seen doing some speed and agility work at Total Athletic Performance, and as expected, he looks to be in solid shape.

As many can recall, Minshew released a workout video earlier this offseason of him doing some on-the-field work with for Tumbarello. The most noteworthy thing that people took from it was how jacked Minshew looked, as the young signal-caller clearly wanted to add some muscle for his second season.

Minshew finished his rookie season with 3,271 passing yards, 21 touchdowns, and six interceptions. That was good enough to register him the top grade of any rookie quarterback per Pro Football Focus (70.3), which is certainly something fans should hope he’ll build on.

Kevin Stefanski has given his players a virtual library to learn from remotely

New coach Kevin Stefanski created a virtual video library for Browns players to learn his offense remotely during this odd offseason

Learning a new offensive system is tough enough for NFL players in a normal offseason. This offseason is anything but normal, but the Browns players are still expected to pick up on new head coach Kevin Stefanski’s system.

It will be the third offense in as many years for the Browns players, and Stefanski has never been a head coach before. He is molding an offense based on his time as Minnesota’s coordinator and QB coach in recent years, but also on some of his other influences and mentors.

To help explain it all to his players while he’s unable to be in the room with them, Stefanski has arranged a virtual library for all the Browns players to study and learn from remotely.

“Our offensive guys can watch tape from the Vikings, they can watch tape from the Cincinnati Bengals, Packers stuff that we’ve cut up,” Stefanski said during the team’s draft special last week. “We have stuff cut up from the Vikings back in 2009. I’ve got stuff from Kub (longtime NFL coach Gary Kubiak) when he was down with Houston.”

Stefanski stressed that his offense will be a blend of all the influences, and that’s why its critical to have so many different sources.

“We want a really big library of plays because I think so many of our players learn from film, and that’s our job to put a bunch of film in front of them.”

Coach Stefanski then talked about the process of aggregating it all and distributing it out on video access for all the players.

“Our coaches are doing an outstanding job and using video and using certain apps that can test these guys. We’re trying to be as creative as we can because we want to hit the ground running. So when training camp starts up, this is a nice part for us where we can teach these systems to our players and then get together and really take off,” Stefanski said during the draft special.

It’s hopeful