I love how offended Tom is by the draft boards

My favorite thing is that “Draft Day” is all about the Browns overcoming the pressure to draft a massively hyped quarterback who has serious character concerns, and then only weeks after this movie came out the real life Browns literally drafted that player in Johnny Manziel

I swear… Draft Day is the story of the second worst GM in the league getting lucky and saving his career by fleecing the actual worst GM in the league.

This is probably the best video the social media team has put out

Never have I seen Tom open up like this in all his years as the Chargers GM. Bravo to the person that I came up with this! This is GOLD!!

"The salary cap part of it really works itself out" spoken like a true GM

We need more casual talks with Tom! I could listen to him muse about picks, prospects, and strategy all day.

The “$100 test” in this movie was inspired by the Oakland Raiders testing Jamarcus Russel’s dedication to an NFL career by giving him blank video tapes and telling him to study the film at home. Jamarcus returned them some time later and said he had studied the film.

Eagles fan here. I was expecting to see this on Vanity Fair. Imagine my pleasant surprise when I saw this was from the Chargers. Well done, Chargers social media team, well done (tips hat)

THIS CONTENT IS AMAZING. Never would have thought an NFL team would get their GM to react and share like this 🔥🔥

7:00 Tom's reaction to the birthday party just made my day 🤣 I knew it!! That thing has been memed to death but it's actually legit!

I like how most of the scenes Tom’s like, “that wouldn’t happen”, but when the security guy reports on lack of teammates at Bo’s birthday party he’s, “That’s good info right there.” Aside - bought my draft beer. May have to “test” one. Can’t be too careful. :)

Holy crap they pulled one out of gq’s breakdown series! I love it!

Social media team is killin it! Good shit y’all

So cool to see insights like this into how players are scouted, how teams negotiate trades, stuff like that is the most interesting part of football!

This is why you won the webby. Chargers media is awesome 😂

I love how TT is disgusted by the draft boards 😂😂

After getting drafted JaMarcus Russell was given a blank DVD, was told there was a bunch of plays on there they wanted him to watch. Next day they asked which plays he liked the most, he said all of them.

Watching this as a raiders fan to make sure he knows what he’s doing this year 🤣🤣

9:24 this is cool. Going through the same thing with a college hockey team. Started at the bottom of the ladder taking the jobs no one wanted to do, proving my worth to the team. Been with the team for 3 years now. I was recently promoted to Hockey Operations Manager and part of the scout team.

What a cool guy In telesco we trust!

Yeah I enjoyed this. I feel like since Brandon Staley was hired Tom’s felt more comfortable being more social and open to these kind of videos more.

I'm not a big NFL fan but I loved this movie and I love hearing an actual GM talk about it and explain the different things that go into it.

OMG this was so good to watch a day before draft day!!! The Chargers Social Media team knocks it out of the park again!!!

I love all the times he's like "Wait, go back" because he found some tiny detail that 99% of us would have never noticed lol.

This getting suggested to me today is fantastic

I like seeing interviews with people you don't normally see interviews with, and realizing they have a personality. I remember as a teen watching Tom Brokaw on Letterman and being amazed that somebody you think of as such a serious person actually has a sense of humor. Same with Brian Williams and Fallon. And Ichiro telling the sock joke with Costas. All good stuff. We lose sight of the fact that these are just people, but people who happen to have a cool job.

As a fan of sports movies, and Football, I love that we got some commentary from a GM.

Bravo to this chargers media teams, y'all are killing it with great content. Definitely gaining a good fanbase just based on content other than the product on the field.

Tom the goat for this 🐐⚡️

I'm a chiefs fan and watched this. Pretty good honestly. I really can't wait to see every team in the AFC West this year play each other.

I watched the Lions 2023 draft on that INSIDE THE DEN show they self-produce. On the draft ep, you see the GM in the draft room, alongside the coach AND the team owner, checking in with the coach on his pics for each round... letting the owner know what each player will bring to the table. VERY different from what you see in DRAFT DAY. 😄

What an amazing job the social media Team does! Great content

Thank you so much for this!!

Thanks for this. This was awesome.

This video was full of heart from start to finish

this was amazing need more content like this

This was awesome!!!! More videos like this!!!

This is amazing. More of this and more of Tom

This is a fantastic vid! Please more like this.

This is absolute gold. Really, really fascinating. Well done, Tom!

Congrats Chargers Social Media! Great concept and great video. Telesco is a natural.

Love this team and love our social media team! Keep up the awesome work guys :)

Honestly, this is one the best interviews I have ever seen. Real conversation

Best Media team!!! ⚡️⚡️⚡️🏆🏆🏆

This is probably my favorite video of all time now. Thank you

This video was REALLY top quality content. Great job to all you folks in the social media team!

AWESOME video idea. Loved it!

Absolutely love this episode. I would love to see more episodes with other GMs of all sports.

Thank you Tom! Love that film! 🧸👑🎥🎩

i've seen a bunch of these over at GQ this was the best one so far! Thanks for the great content.

Quality content I love that movie getting toms reaction was priceless lol

This is so great!

Do more of these. This was great. The pancake line is so great for the movie and how they set it up but I can’t imagine that would ever work to convince any man. Tom, thanks for the GM insights. So cool.

im a raiders fan but this was pretty dope to watch, good insight to know more about scouting and the behind the scenes of the draft

This was so good and a great idea to have Tom Do this. I always thought parts of draft day was cheesy but it is Hollywood not a documentary.

Don't watch much sports anymore but really enjoyed this video! Thank you

I just watched draft day movie 🍿 last night. Great timing!!

This was amazing.

This was awesome

Broncos fan here! Thanks for doing this it was very cool to see a GM’s perspective

Wow! I stumbled on this and it was awesome. Never knew the Chargers GM before, but just hearing him speak about his experience as a GM as well as relating that to the movie was very informative. Kudos the the Los Angeles Chargers for putting this out there. I would love to see more casual discussions with Tom on other football related things. Maybe he could take us into the draft day room at the Chargers after the draft or something and talk about what happens.

This is so good guys

BRAVO!!! This is TOP TIER CONTENT HERE!!! 10/10!!!

This is such an insanely great video

Who else here after telesco got fired. ITS THE HARBAUGH ERA BABY

I’ve seen this movie so many times, and I’ve never thought about if the boards were accurate. Attention to detail from the NFL GMs and successful coaches/players are insane. Very cool video!

This is amazing idk how I missed it till now.

Im diehard Cowboys fan but I'm liking the Chargers 😂. The media team is insane I love it

Rams fan here. Great video. You have a good GM there who picked Brandon Staley, Justin Herbert and managed to somehow get Khalil Mack paired with Joey Bosa. Good luck next year, except for the LA v LA game.

I LOVE that he mentioned Herbert in that moment!!

I would of love to see his reaction on that ridiculous Jaguars trade.

This was great ⚡⚡⚡

This is AWESOME!

12:12 "He's got QB hair" Reminds me of the Money Ball Scene where the scouts are all talking. Sums up why QB is CONSISTINTLY the biggest bust position. "Scouting" like that. I know its just a statement but there are scouts who believe that kind of stuff. Blane Gabbert also had "QB Hair"

As much as we gripe about Tom from time to time (myself included) he seems like a very organized and methodic GM. Things don't always play out the way we want it but it feels like there's always valid reasoning to what he does.

This was really entertaining. GMs are the best when they are willing to speak.

Wow this is absolutely amazing this better blow up

I love this ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️

When this movie came out the thing that I thought made it a little unbelievable was the moves the other GM's ended up making. Like I understand it was just a drama filled story line to tell the story of a GM that negotiated so well that he won the draft undisputed but other gm's would never change their minds the amount of times they did in this movie to set up the kind of thing that ultimately ended up happening. GM's in real life almost never change their minds on draft day, it's incredibly difficult and hard to get them to change their original plan and goal. They all prepare as hard as they can and have a very solid understanding of who and what they want in the draft. To see them changing their minds about a bunch of different players on draft day is just ridiculous honestly.

Great content. 👍

Lions fan here, this is awesome. Kudos to the LAC socials team for this.

This is absolutely fascinating.

Don't know why it got recommended to me... but gladly it did. This was really cool to see, enjoyed his view and informations. Thanks for creating this video and hopefully there will be more :)

This video is AWESOME

Really fun video, I remember when I watched this even I was kinda annoyed by the draft boards being small

This was pretty sweet. I don't even watch football (I'm a hockey guy and somewhat a baseball guy). But I enjoy this type of thing with the folks up higher like GMs

This video definitely didn't disappoint

I love Tom Telesco

Great video

Every team needs to make a video like this. Big applause to Chargers video production team!

THIS IS GOLD!

One of my favorite sports movies.

That was a great video

RN4L welcome Tom can’t wait to see what you can do for our beloved nation

This is a great video.

This is tremendous

That was really cool to watch and a few learned lessons along-the-way... Telesco mentioned they research the guy for a full year in advance and "sometime's two" years in advance. Because the margin is so slight between winning and losing in the league that I have to believe Telesco isn't the only team in the league researching a player 1-2 years out. That's got to be common practice and the guys who outwork the others maybe researching certain players 3-years out. Telesco said now doing the work on the player you're going to pick after making the trade is unadvisable. I think it safe to assume teams do "some" amount of work on even on players they don't expect to pick just because somewhere down-the-line they might be involved in signing that player as a free agent or trading for that player ala the Rams trading for Matt Stafford last year. Information is king and you can never have enough information. He mentions the scouts "do this 24/7 365 days-a-year"... when teams are interested in certain players, you can bet NFL scouts have watched every play that player has ever been on the field for 10-12-15x not only observing the obvious but also looking for little nuances so realistically... scouts have probably watched 500-1000 plays of a player before filing their reports/recommendations while the so-called "draft experts" have watched maybe a half hour of KZfaq video highlights yet the general public actually puts stock into what some yahoo draft expert thinks as if THAT's the guy to pay attention to. This is why players go much earlier than expected or slide, because the NFL teams are operating on much more information and at a much deeper level that a bunch of PFF guys, or ESPN guys who came out with their "Big Boards". My favorite takeaway is when Tellesco under his breath mutters, "Ahh mocks" discounting them as meaningless and he's right. Mocks are just a waste of time yet people get excited about them and actually use them as some sort of means to measure a player's value. Mocks are nothing more than fairy tales and if anyone who believes in mocks must also believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Tooth Fairy. Adults with experience on the other hand just see them as a waste of time. Tellesco NAILED it here. I'm a life-long Rams fan, and will die a life-long Rams fan but watching Tellesco here is making me lean to becoming a Chargers fan in the AFC. I sincerely wish the Chargers have a great upcoming season and with Herbert at QB they have a very bright future for the forseeable future. Good luck and Go Chargers!

I remember seeing the trailer for this and being so excited then watching the actual movie and being so disappointed. Anyone who is even a casual football fan knows that scouts are NEVER unprepared, especially if they're gonna make a trade, even more so if the franchise is considering a trade up to #1.

Like this especially having a real GM very cool