{"id":724974,"date":"2026-02-03T00:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/724974\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T00:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:36:18","slug":"tennessee-titans-to-hire-gus-bradley-as-defensive-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/724974\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Titans to hire Gus Bradley as defensive coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A name that had been bandied about as a potential defensive coordinator for new head coach Mike LaFleur was Gus Bradley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Well, that idea is over as Bradley, after being spurned as the defensive coordinator by the San Francisco 49ers, he has decided to follow Robert Saleh to the Tennessee Titans and be their defensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is an interesting decision by Bradley, but does it speak volumes about the Arizona Cardinals, the team and the franchise and where they are at?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">My good friend, Kyle Posey was happy to get away from Bradley and felt like it was a dodged bullet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So, maybe this was a blessing in disguise of not getting a defensive coordinator that maybe the game has passed him by a little bit and the Cardinals will be forced to hire someone potentially better?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Although, it does beg a lot of questions of why you would rather just be a defensive coordinator in name and not in execution?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Is the Cardinals situation that bad? Or does Bradley just not trust himself enough?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A name that had been bandied about as a potential defensive coordinator for new head coach Mike LaFleur&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2078],"tags":[375,390,84773,85477,14996,2604,1327,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-724974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-cardinals","10":"tag-arizona-cardinals-coaching-staff","11":"tag-arizona-cardinals-discussion","12":"tag-arizona-cardinals-news","13":"tag-arizonacardinals","14":"tag-cardinals","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116003902883929125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}