COSTA MESA, Calif. -- He starts every morning with a cup of hot coffee he takes with him to the Los Angeles Chargers' training camp facility.
"Nothing cold in the Staley household," Chargers coach Brandon Staley says. "It gets me in the right focus on my way in early."
Focus is important, especially now as this season turned to one of stress, and so the hot coffee is there, along with Staley's unwavering optimism.
"I really love doing this," he said. "I feel like nine games in, I have a pretty good sense of who we are as a team, and where we are, where we need to go.