The Las Vegas Raiders are hoping Gus Bradley can help facilitate improvement on the defensive end of the football.
Las Vegas has hired the former Jacksonville Jaguars head coach to be its new defensive coordinator, per Vincent Bonsignore of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The @Raiders have hired Gus Bradley as new defensive coordinator
— Vincent Bonsignore (@VinnyBonsignore) January 12, 2021
Bradley officially steps in as full-time DC after the Raiders fired former defensive coordinator Paul Guenther after a Week 14 loss to the Indianapolis Colts. He takes over a defense that ranked 30th in scoring and turnovers, and 25th in total yards allowed.
Bradley has been in the NFL for 15 years, first breaking into the league with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as a defensive quality control assistant in 2006. He eventually became defensive coordinator with the Seattle Seahawks, and eventually oversaw the early days of the “Legion of Boom.”
It has been quite the journey since Bradley was in Seattle. He went 14-48 in four years as Jacksonville's head coach and was eventually replaced by Doug Marrone, who led the Jags to the AFC Championship Game the very next year.
Bradley went to Los Angeles to become the defensive coordinator of the Chargers. The Bolts promptly became one of the better defenses in the league, ranking third in scoring defense in 2017 and eighth in that same category the following year. But injuries on the defensive end have had a drastic impact on L.A. in the last two seasons, and the Chargers ranked 23rd in scoring defense this past season.
Perhaps a change of scenery will do Gus Bradley well as he takes over as DC for the Raiders.
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