Chargers LB Kenneth Murray Talks Changing His Number From 56 To 9, His Nickname, And The Chargers Will Be Some Dogs This Year

of the standout guys. Now, in my opinion, he's still a rookie, right he still got still got one one year in four game before you're not a rookie anymore. But he show as hell is not playing like it, so UM enjoy watching him. I was happy that they drafted him represented on the defense side of the ball, but he went back to number nine K nine as they called him, and he's calling in college and high school. Um, he was repping that number fifty six. We'll find out

the reason for that. But he was one of the best players in that defensive charge of defense. Keneth Mary Young, fella, what up? What's up? Dog? No much? What's going on? You are? Are you still at the facility? Yeah, I'm still the facility right now? What what the what? Those days look like the o t a s now man, they are they long, But you gotts just come in and kind of watch film. And I've been out of it so long, man, And I know the rules have changed and what they can and can't do for the

all season. So what what what time do y'all have to be? There's eight o'clock in the morning, still eight or nine? Yeah, yeah, it's it's a little bit different to what you're used to, but yeah it's still eight am. We want the meetings and then meetings to work out, and we had like a little hour walk through, so I mean, the vets were pretty much done by one o'clock.

How crazy is that, man, to already call yourself a vet because like last year it came by sofa and I remember you coming in and you came in, you rooke rooke this, ruck that, And now you're walking in an event? Man? Is it is it kind of flying by a little bit? Yeah? Man, it definitely is a little bit. That first year definitely just flew by real fast, and it really is all season it's kind of flown

by as well. So uh, it's definitely, you know, just I keep parbering myself just to enjoy it, because you know, it's a once I have some opportunity, So I'm enjoying it. What what's different now? You know what I'm saying, Like when when I came in the first When you come in the first year and you walk into the locked room and I'm sure you're seeing Bosa and you know all these dudes kind of been around for years, and now you're coming in Man, how is it different walking

into the locker room now that second year? Um, It's completely different because I mean I just feel like last year, especially with COVID, like everything was just so so like rush and just such a different feeling. I mean, obviously, you know, you've been a rookie NFL. Everybody has uh that rookie vibe to him, and you know, not a lot of them have been around for a year and I'm able to know the ins and out to the

game and stuff like that. Um, you know, I'm just you know, trying to do everything faster, trying to play faster the back there, you know, be be a better leader, be more vocal, different stuff like that. So I'm excited. I excited about our feature. I think we hit it in the right duration do you feel more comfortable being like vocal now because you're coming in You know, when you're rookie, you always and I don't know if you felt the same way, but I was like, Okay, I

want to I want to talk more. I wanted to break down the hold I wanted and I did end up doing it. But I remember the first time that I really kind of took that step. Man, I was like, you know, people, are they still gonna look at me as a rookie or is it cool now? Yeah? For me, I felt like mom was like kind of like a process that I went throughout the entire season. Like the beginning of the season, I was like kind of just not really hesitant because like I've always been that guy

to be that leader. But um, you know, since I had the kind of especially defense, I had the mike in my head, I pretty much already talking to everybody. But you know, as a season, when when I became become more comfortable, and I mean at the end of the season, it was just like a normal thing. So was breaking down the entire team, like not just the defense, so um, you know, just trying to be that that person,

trying to be that that that great example. I think that's where it starts um doing it by action first, and I think that's where you're in the respect of the beers. You know, low key, you're still a rookie though, because you got four games. You know you got you know, you got the full game, you got you got the one year four games. So I'm not letting you off that that rookie hook. Yeah, you still got full games. Dog. I know they had to bring it up to you already.

They already somebody saying something, Tom. I've been waiting on that because it was funny because like when I first got here last year, we had some second year players who was like, yeah, like that, I'm a vet now. And we had like an old old that it was my favor it was it was pounds, and he looked at him. He was like, yeah, you're still a rookie. You ain't playing you ain't playing the game in your

second year yet, So like, yo, this is crazy. So like it's funny that you say that, I know, because the old guys they can't wait to remind you. You know what I'm saying. You walk in the feeling good your second year. You got a good year under your Bell and then now that that old head gotta gotta say something. Old head always gotta say something. Remind you ain't know you know that yet? That's funny. It was

pouncing though. What um, how has it been? Man? Have you got a chance to spend more time with the new coach yet? Yeah? No, it's been a process of just been going throughout the off season and we've been in contact and I know everybody's been working through it. And now that we're here the O t A S. We're kind of out just moving around working together. It's

kind of a unit now. So that's been really really good for us, you know, just to get the playbook and take the playbook from you know, zoom meetings to actually acting it out and doing stuff on the field. So that's been good for us. I'm excited about, you know, the coach. I'm excited about the defense really that we're running out because I just feel like it's just plays so much to our strengths and what we do best.

See Coach Stanley, he called me tonight when he when he brought him in and we talked on the phone. He was in the car. We're talking the phone for twenty minutes and to be honest, you know, like selfishly just being a former defensive guy, they're still supporting the team and supporting you guys and being able to talk

all my ship on on on social media too. Behind it, I was like happy that they brought in a defensive head coach, you know what I mean because for me personally, the mentality and it's not nothing nothing against um you know, nothing against your last coach. You know, he was a great, great dude. I got a chance to talk to him and stuff like that and be around him a little bit.

But have you noticed the difference in practice, the intensity and the way they run things now now you've got a defensive minded head coaching the well, I think I think for us it's just really just saying like for him, like how he just operates and puts the pieces in place, um um to just to put us in the best position.

I think that's really just the biggest thing because I feel like, especially on defense side of the ball, we got we got dogs, and we we liked some dogs on on the least, and so we just waited to be waiting waiting to be cut off, that that chain loose. So I feel like he he putting us in a position to just just come off the leasing just what we netually do best. So I think that's really where

that intensity is. You don't come from it eventually when we get them pass on because now you got the dogs is out there hunting instead of the dogs, you know, just shitting in the dog I know to do honestly. So I played for obviously Martin, trying to have more when I came into the North Turner and there two great coaches is different styles, and whenever the defense, whenever we were kicking offense ass like it was a bad practice, you know what I'm saying, Like it was, it was

a bad practice. But but then when they were liken us up all great, great way to go, guys, way to go. You know, everybody patting each other on the back. It was a great day. And so you you noticed the difference in the mentality, um, you know from the defensive coach and offensive coach. I mean, it's it's gonna be ran a lot different, yeah for sure. So you know it's really how I go to offense. You know, they when they had a good day, they feel like price is good. But I mean for us, man we're

just trying to ball. We're just trying to run around it here. So Fox Worts Radio has the best sports talk line up in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox sports Radio dot com and within the I Heart Radio app search f s are to listen live. Who you met? And I know you'll got a tight squad on defense, But who you go back and forth

with the most? Because I've seen you and Durham with going like talking, you know, messing around and stuff like that, like who who cracking the most jokes on each other? You go back and forth with man right now? DJ?

Man Man, Me, Me and DJ ain't been going there and we my face, it was really just all that out the linebackers in the in the DBS kind of because we've been we've been beefing with them because they think they're fashion in us and we keep trying to let them know that we make that for a boy one team, you know, we're taking that dub. So so that's really what's been the big beat. But I mean DJ is definitely like the jokes shot out of us, always just trying to you know, light up the mood

and always just trying to you know, have fun. But you know, when business is business, you know, we're restricting the business. Not for sure. Man, he's looking good, he's looking health you know all that too. I meant video really healthy. Man. He said, he's feeling you know, strong and stuff. So I'm excited to have them back, excited to actually get on the field. I mean, like I said, we don't need to get a put a chance to really play together last year. So I'm excited to just

you know, have another dog back there. Bro. So let me ask you why go why what's going back to

number nine? Man? What happened like? Because because look that I'm let me let me, I'm keep one hundred because when you came in and you got fifty six, so I will fit because Lawrence telling Varn't and even outside of me, really you gotta be a dog with in my opinion, got me a dog because if you look around I'm talking about Dirk Johnson from Kansas City, or if you if you start looking at just the dogs over the last ten, fifteen, twenty years, every number fifty

just about every number fifty six was a dog. And then so when when guys came in and I'm not I'm not don't want to throw salt. But when they got fifty six, I'm like really like I would sit back, like really gonna put that on? You know what I mean, Like of course I'm not gonna hate from a distance. But when you got it, when you got fifty six, I was like, okay, because he gonna he gonna represent So what what's what's why did why I go back

to nine? Now? Yeah? Man? For me, manifty six was like like man like because you were and like like you said, like dogs with that number. So like for me, it meant something to me to be or wear that number and be able to go out there and just put on for that number. Um, but I think the significant but nom for me man was just like you know when I got to college, like nine really like

chose me. Like like when I got to college, it was like I went to the equipment room, I just told him like, yo, I want a single digit number, and it wasn't on on something like oh like give me number nine and give me number two because I wore two and in high school. Um. And then they came back probably about a week later like yo, like you're gonna be number nine and soil um you know. Once I forgot was nin was alright, like at least I'm in a a single digital like I al really don't

care not a dope number, um. And so We're going through out like the spring practice, and I was like I was like an earl in roll lead, so like

I really supposed to be in high school. Um when we were going through spring practice, and so like the couple like it, it it was like the second streammings of spring practice, like I was making dumb plays I'm gonna end up getting like that was I was playing outside back and I was and when they moved me to inside back and for the first time because they were like, oh, here making places, and one of my teammate came up with me like yo, like like you played like the

dog and we're gonna start calling UK nine. So then when the nickname came, it was like oh So then after that, I was like it's pretty dope. So now I started making plays on game day and then like it just literally like became like a household name in Norman. So like everybody you know Oklahoma, everybody pretty much knows about K nine. So when I heard that, coul get

an opportunity to get that back. I was like, man, I gotta make that move because I just felt like it was it was just it showed me, so I gotta go back to it. Man. That's gold, dude, you got you got. You gotta make sure you trademark that. That's what I'm all right now. Yeah, yeah, it make sure you do that man, and brand itself. And you

know you're gonna have a great friend. Let me let me ask you though, too, because I see you always talking about your cars, and I knew you said that you had like a love for it, so let let me so let me tell you when I when I first got drafted, My first car I bought was was a G five hundred Mercedes, the Mercedes truck. I got that car because LaVar Arrington. LaVar Arrington pulled up at my high school on the grass during the game in

the field and what what G five hundred? So I said, you know what, as soon as I get some money, I'm getting that. That was the first. That was the first car. The second car I got was because Alan Iverson. So Alan Overson from my area in Virginia, and I used to see Alan Iverson when he leave the clubs. He would always have two back to back fandoms parked out front. So, like I said, so every time you went to a past a restaurant or a club or whatever,

you saw Alan averson the two Familis parked outside. I was like, You'm tapped my boy and said, yo, I listen, I gotta I have to I gotta get one. So those that's why I got the cars that I got. Man, What what really got you into the cars and stuff like that? You know, like you are now? Yeah? Man? For me, like I was always like a hot Wills kid growing up, Like I was into that, but really like stuck out to me. It's like I've always been like a go getter, Like I'm always somebody that's just

gonna go get what I want. And you know, for me, I didn't get my first part. I was like nineteen them in twenty because like just all this actually I

had to make to play ball. I couldn't really go take time to go, you know, take a driver's test or even my parents at the time they couldn't even afford to get me a car, so um, you know that that was like kind of like taking a toll on me, especially once I got to college because like I said, like I was a go getter, like I always wanted to go, whether it was work out or do whatever. And I was always having to constantly ask

people for rides, and like I just hate it. Like I was like, yo, like I always gotta constantly like depending on somebody else to do. So I was like, man, whenever I get like whenever I get to the league and do my thing, like like this ain't gonna ever be like like like something that I worry about again,

Like I'm gonna drive whatever I want. Um. And so for me, like I just like that was that's what got me in the cars, and I just slowly started to just kind of just have like a secret love for like motor sports, um, and just like all the races around the world, you know, between Formula one and different things like that. So I mean that's why both of my cars are like track cars, like like to me, like outside of football, like that's that's my deal. Like I just like you know how the how how the

motor sprow world is and stuff like that. So um, you know, I mean I'm trying to a car enthusi um, but I mean for me, it's just it just gives me, joy man, It's just something I I can I can do outside the ball to kind of give me something productive to do and something that I enjoyed to do other than football. Have you cheken into your car to the track? It? Yeah, I've actually track one of my cars.

Well I didn't track. It wasn't actually my car. I tracked, but I went to the portion driving experience here in l a Um and like that was kind of like my determining fact on whether I was going to buy or the portion I have right now. So I did that and like the whole day, they let me just take on the track and do whatever, and I just fell in love with it. I gotta I gotta do it. See, I see what we gotta do is go to the

Irwin deal. So Erwin deal. Gotta track is a short track, but we can go out take the cars out there, because you know, I have a have a car on the can In Series in NASCAR and my my driver at the time, Jesse and Woody. So I I started getting in the NASCAR like back in two thousand seven, two thousand and eight, so I would sometime go to you know, go to the track, short track. I don't

care if I was in idahole the Idaho to a wade. Um. You know, I go up in the Meridian up in Seattle, So sometimes I go up there and raise those man. So but the closest one I think to you is is Erwin Deal. So we I'm gonna set up man all season in the all seats before you go. Let's go hit up Irwin Deal and go tear it up. And then I'm gonna take you to the dirt tracks. Ye see, now we're going to dirt done done. Man. We got we got lone. So so what's so what

you got playing man for for the upcoming season? Man? How do you see the first time that the fans are gonna be there in that crazy looking stadium? I know it's it's gonna be insane what you see for this team coming up this year? Man. To be honestly, I think we like a lot of people under estimators right now. Um. I think I think we got all the pieces that we need to be successful. Um. So I think really it's just gonna board down to us

and just going out there and execute. Um. But I think, like I said, we got every piece that we need, and I think we got the coaching staff with the mindset. Um, that's gonna get us at that point. Um. So I'm excited man, especially you know from a defense standpoint, I feel like, you know, the scheme is just fitting everything to our strength and fits me to my strength. It's gonna allow me to just go out then fly around. Um,

and you know that's what I want to do. Like the first thing my coach asked me, like, yo, like what you want to play? I'm like, man, coach, like, just put me somewhere I can fly around, Like like that's all I wanted to. Let me fly around and just go out there and make plays like like, that's that's what I see from us, just going out there balling weekend and week out, um, and just going out there and being a win a winning franchise. But I mean, last couple of years that ain't really been what we

wanted to be. And I think just setting that standard and then everybody know this is the standard. That's what I want to tell about. But hey, and you think Herbie can take you out there, man, just her but he like that's my dog. Man, he a dog. Um, you know he'd be slinging that thing back there. So you know, they're gonna do their thing on offense, and we're sure gonna do I think on defense. So how's this personality defense? How is he a dog? Is he that?

He had? He quiet? But if you talk to him, like, let's say you make a play. I'm at one time we were we were it was during the season and h one of my one of our team, and she was safe I think jelil uh and he he had made a play and you know, he was talking bad, little always talking, so he's talking mad stuff and he was like doing his hands. He was like oh, like

blah yeah. And so then like like two plays later, Herbie put a dime on him, and I like, Herbie just runs out of the huddle and like right or to his face like so it was like after that, I was like, we looked at everybody looking around like, yeah, we got us a dog. Like he a dog? So you know, he not He's not really like the most talkative dude, but like I said, it's his personality. But

for show like like he he a dogs. So you know, I love Herbie and I definitely think, you know, you know he's gonna be one of the greats um and I'm just proud to be on the same team with him. I'm trying to go out there ball on his defense so that way we can just I didn't win a super Bowl, old man. Last thing, tell me about you about your YouTube? About your YouTube channels you got going because I mean checking out sometimes. Yeah, So I got

a YouTube channel with me and my girl. Um, you know, it's just kind of something that we're just doing the off season, um and doughout the season once I get some more content throughout the season two, just to give like that that aspect as well. But um, it's just kind of just a lifestyle video, just kind of get a behind the scenes or what it's like to be in the NFL and different things you do throughout the

off season. So, UM, you know, dexcited about that, excited about you know that growing and um being up and coming. So yeah, it's definitely something that that we're working. So y'all out there watching doing and subscribe to the channel. Um, it's called the Murray's I've got what it's called. But we're about to change the name Murray's Family or something

like that, something like. But we're about to say A nine involved because I just got my my nickname back, so I get to go back to, you know, being me. So that's that's that's where it's gonna be, my dog. Man, I'm looking forward to seeing that nine flying around. I don't be out there a year check y'all man, you know, keep flying around man representing um. You know me personally.

I was happy to hell when they drafted you and just the opportunity they got now with you being and taking that that that whole defense and like I said, and we talked over d M and you know when I hit you up, be local as you uh, vocal as you can, man, because they need that. You know, they got some dogs in that defense. But it's nothing wrong. We have a vocal one man. So good luck this year. Stay healthy. I know you're gonna ball out. Man. We're

gonna have some fun this year. Appreciate that, alright, my dog alright, appreciate you coming on. All right, thanks guys for listening to another Lights Out podcast. Me Seawan Merriman, uh and that was cool man, really really smart dude and he loved the game of football and just wanted to play. Uh. It's gonna be fun watching with coach Stalley do with that data charges defense this year. Um, I got a chance to speak with him on the phone,

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