Welcome Gus Bradley New DC

[Fleet]

[Bearded14YourPleasure]

About damn time.

[Bolt-O]

[blueman]

Awesome news! Thought we'd have to wait till the 49ers figured out their HC, but hell yeah we got our guy! He must be jazzed about Lynn and the players here, sweet!

[Bolt-O]

Redskins and Niners wanted him too. It's interesting that Cable was his preference, maybe he sees some of what he likes from Lynn.

[Steve]

I think our personnel fits the Seahawk D that will be used.

[Bolt-O]

Gus Bradley began working before he was hired, meeting with Chargers defensive coaches and discussing in-depth concepts at the team’s now-temporary practice facility in San Diego. That was days ago, the team since waiting for him to come aboard formally.

He has.

Now, the real work can begin.

The former Jaguars head coach and Seahawks defensive coordinator agreed to a contract to become the Chargers’ defensive coordinator, a source confirmed Friday evening. He was the man that first-year head coach Anthony Lynn targeted throughout the process. Lynn now has surrounded himself with two highly experienced play-callers in Los Angeles.

Whisenhunt will call plays on offense.

Bradley will do so on defense.

Ironically, both were interviewed in 2013 before the Chargers hired Mike McCoy as head coach. They’ll share a staff now with McCoy’s successor. This is the third season for Whisenhunt in the role with the Chargers, having handled it in 2013 and 2016. - Gehlken

[Bolt-O]

From SB Nation -

The Jacksonville Jaguars fired Gus Bradley after their Week 14 loss to the Houston Texans. The team placed offensive line coach Doug Marrone in place as the interim head coach. Fast forward a month and the team announced Marrone would get the full time job, Dave Caldwell remained the general manager, they retained defensive coordinator Todd Wash and offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett. Essentially, the Jaguars kept everyone except for Gus Bradley.

The Jaguars effectively told everyone that it was all Gus Bradley’s fault.

Sure Wash and Hackett will run different schemes and Caldwell was clearly given a demotion, but they kept their jobs. The team looked completely different once Bradley was fired and things started to permeate that maybe Bradley was more stubborn and limiting than many had previously thought. Players spoke out that winning wasn't a focus, there wasn’t a lot of accountability and players/coaches might have been handcuffed. Marrone indicated the team decided to shift Allen Robinson around on offense, which begged why on Earth they didn’t try that in the 14 Weeks prior. We even saw Myles Jack suddenly play a lot more, Dan Skuta play more LEO and Dante Fowler Jr. used more being moved around and on stunts on the defensive line.

Even the introductory press conference featuring Tom Coughlin it was treated as a joke that someone had to ask if winning was going to be a focus of the team finally. Coughlin, rightly so, responded indignantly but it was a question that had to be asked because of Bradley’s tenure that didn’t make it a focus. As Coughlin told Peter King of SI’s MMQB, mediocrity had sat in which is what happens when you don’t make winning a focus.

While that may not be the intended message of the Jaguars as a franchise, given how they still compliment Bradley given the chance, it’s clearly the message being sent from the outside looking in. Non Jaguars observers aren’t going to care if the schemes on offense and defense change, because to the ignorant eye the coordinators are remaining the same and the only real difference is you eliminated Gus Bradley.

So to reiterate; the message the Jaguars are sending, intended or not, is that it was all Gus Bradley’s fault.

[captaind]

Welcome, Gus.

This is the final stop of your career.

[richpjr]

And on top of that, Spanos hired another coordinator that is still being paid by his former team!

[Bolt-O]

And on top of that, Spanos hired another coordinator that is still being paid by his former team!

Not surprisingly a factor shared by the other teams interested in him.

[Steve]

But we pay him the full salary for the coordinator, the Jags owe him the rest. We don't get out of paying him.