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"It's like the first coat of paint, second coat of paint, we're at like the third or fourth coat of paint right now. Feels good that we're getting better at football."

"I'm throwing a lot at them technique-wise; I demand a lot of them, and they have been really good about trying their hardest to implement the techniques along with learning all the offense."

"I think going into the offseason, I had a good idea of what I needed to work on. I don't think it was that hard to figure out what I needed to work on."

"It feels good to be back, back where it all started. Like I'm back home. Obviously, there's a lot of different faces in the locker room, some familiar faces ... it just feels good."

"I felt like it was just a great opportunity just to get a fresh start. I wanted to go somewhere where the coaches have the same mindset to win."

"I knew what they were about. I knew what they wanted accomplished. I knew they wanted to play high-caliber, winning football here. That's exactly what I want to do."

"I'm just happy to be back with him. I went to Michigan for a reason, he was that reason. He picked me again."

"I felt like I had a really great interview during the Combine. I had a good time with Coach [Jim] Harbaugh and the staff."

"As much success as we've all had in different places doing different things, none of that really matters. All that really matters is right now and creating that here."

"It's the players though, they're the ones that bring the operation to life and really giving us a lift. Just feeling like there's a new lift and energy in the building."

"When I get the ball in my hands, I'm able to do tremendous things with it."

"I just want to go to a place I'm wanted and be used and hopefully have a good rookie season."

"You know they're committed to winning. It makes it easy to go from one great organization to another organization that you believe is going to be great."

"I report to the Spanos family and ownership. I also feel like I report to the fans. I report to the players. I'm accountable to all those in the organization."

"It's fun. Especially when you're up, it's fun knowing that they're going to throw the ball. You can get after them a little bit."

"You've got to have fun with it. We work too hard to not have fun. We want to win, but winning is fun. When you have fun on game day, it can give you momentum and a little bit of life."

"He really plays the receiver position as an art form, and I think when you play it like him, what makes Keenan special ages well. The older you get, his physical gifts aren't what makes him special, it's how he plays receiver."

"He's such a complete player. That's when he's most dangerous, when he's running the football, catching the football in the screen game."

"You can look at the stats and it'll show you, but it's just all the guys buying into what we're trying to do here, and you can see the results in how we've stopped the run."

"It's on us to be more consistent. It's a tough situation but we've got the guys and are continuing to work. We just have to find a way to make it work."

"I just expect for him to bounce back. There's going to be some tough games for players. I think it's noticeable for Justin because he doesn't have very many of them."

"I spent eight years there so there's a lot of relationships you love and appreciate there, a lot of people you're close to and you'll be close to for a long time. It'll be fun to see all those people."

"Whether I was running the ball or throwing the ball, I felt pretty comfortable out there. There's so much going on during the game that you're not going to be worrying about it too much."

"This guy is one of the best edge players of a generation and he is still that guy, he is still that guy ... he's one of the elite players in the game. He always has been and he always will be as long as he is playing."

"That won't be the last hostile environment we play in, that won't be the last blitzing team we play ... just being able to communicate is probably the most important thing you can do."

"He's a guy that we trust. I think he's made a lot of plays these last two weeks. I'm really proud of his performance."

"Tuli is a baller, man. He's a gamer. When the lights cut on, he's ready to go. And that's all we can ask for from a guy that just turned 21 a couple weeks ago."

"He was just fantastic... It was one of those complete performances. Part of Chargers history today."

The Bolts hit the practice field Wednesday in advance of Sunday's road matchup in Minnesota

"I thought there were some really good things we did offensively. Still room for improvement, still things to correct."

"It's a long process of OTAs to training camp to preseason ball and now you finally feel like you're here and ready to roll. I'm really excited."

"Mentally and physically, I'm feeling good ... I'm not putting any limit on my knee. I'm ready."

"The body of work with what Cameron has done ... our faith and belief in him and his consistency with it. Moving forward, we thought he was the right guy for the opportunity."

"Every year, I want to play great. I want to help my team. I think that, more than ever, I just want to win some games."

"We've been able to, in all three phases of our team, kind of engineer it the way that we want it. I think we've teamed up in a good way and really have gotten better every single season."

"I'm really appreciative of this time, 12 days to get better. I still consider this camp, it's not over yet. It's not over until that first game."

"I think that we were able to finish training camp today the right way ... I'm proud of the way these guys have competed in training camp.

"This room, in a way, we're really under looked in there. I feel like we have some guys. This year, we have to show it, though. We can talk about it, but we have to show it."

"The competition level on both days has been high in all three phases. I think both of us feel like we got better."

"When you work with a good team like New Orleans, you're going to feel really good about where you were after two days."

"I'm working each and every day. There are going to be some good days and some bad days, but I just have to keep working, keep going."

"He has grown a lot. Kenneth is physically more talented than most people. This is really going to be the year that, I think, he can break out."

"Just making sure that we're organized, that we give these guys a really clean game plan so that they can go execute and that we can evaluate them."

"To be there down the street from my house, you could imagine how many family members I'm going to have there. There's going to be a lot."

"He's a guy that has been here for three years now, so a lot of reps have been invested in him, and he's invested a lot into the defense. You can see some of those dividends paying him now."

"We have a lot of time to grow, but we've made major improvements from every season."

"It's one of those things, you spend a long time during the offseason not in pads, so guys just have to get used to it. It's going to get better each and every day. You just have to be patient with it."

"I'm feeling good. I feel like our team is getting better each and every day ... We're just competing really hard. We're making each other better."

"I definitely want to be like the best version of myself. I think I've improved as a player since then, just in the way that I see the game and in my technique. I definitely think there was a lot to improve upon that year."

"Any time that you put the pads on, you kind of start training camp with the physicality and the blocking and the tackling. That's where it all began, so it was good."

"That starting five has really good chemistry together. That's exciting for us. There's going to be really good competition for those six through 10 spots."

"First of all, I think it's an awesome set up. It's really, really cool. I love the environment. It's been a lot of fun, it's been good."

"We have a really good football team, and what we have to make sure is that we take the field right every single day with that mindset, to compete at a Super Bowl standard."

"I was just really appreciative of the entire offseason. The attendance was fantastic, and that says so much about the leadership of our team."

"The offseason is kind of like baking a cake. I know it's a weird analogy, but you can't skip one step."

"Take it day-by-day, one day at a time. Keep the main things the main things; blocking, tackling and takeaways. Don't get ahead of ourselves."

"It's really good. I think we take this first lap through OTAs. It's a little bit fast, it's that first lap — there is going to be some stuff that is good, plenty of stuff that we have to clean up."

"I really appreciate all these guys being here ... I think it says a lot about the culture that we have. Your culture is your best players and the example that they set."

"I feel like chemistry is built through trials and tribulations, and I really believe that that really is going to shape us in a way better way moving forward."

"We're just going to try and make this a big-time teaching camp for them so that when they get started with the veterans on Monday, they feel like, 'Hey, I'm one of us.'"