{"id":726074,"date":"2026-02-03T11:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T11:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/726074\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T11:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T11:05:21","slug":"former-jaguars-head-coach-gus-bradley-returns-to-afc-south-with-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/726074\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Jaguars’ head coach Gus Bradley returns to AFC South with rival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Jacksonville Jaguars’<\/a> head coach Gus Bradley is returning to the AFC South.<\/p>\n

According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter<\/a>, Bradley will be joining Robert Saleh in Tennessee as the Titans’ defensive coordinator.<\/p>\n

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Bradley and Saleh worked together this past season in San Francisco. Saleh was the 49ers’ defensive coordinator, while Bradley was the assistant head coach.<\/p>\n

SI’s Albert Breer reported earlier in the day on Monday that the Arizona Cardinals<\/a> were also interested in Bradley.<\/p>\n

Saleh has already said that he will be calling the plays for the Titans’ defense, so this is a non-play-calling role for Bradley.<\/p>\n

Bradley was the Jaguars<\/a>‘ head coach from 2013 to 2016. During that span, he had a record of 14-48<\/a> with no playoff appearances. The most wins that Jacksonville had in a season under Bradley was just five.<\/p>\n

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The last time Bradley had play-calling duties as a defensive coordinator was during his three years in Indianapolis from 2022 through 2024. In that final season, the Colts<\/a> ranked 24th<\/a> in points per game allowed.<\/p>\n

With Saleh calling plays, what we saw from the Colts<\/a> in 2024 with Bradley at the helm may not mirror exactly what the Titans do defensively this season.<\/p>\n

Bradley’s son, Carter Bradley, is on the Jaguars<\/a>‘ roster as the third quarterback.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Jaguars Wire: Titans hiring former Jaguars’ head coach Gus Bradley<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Jacksonville Jaguars’ head coach Gus Bradley is returning to the AFC South. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[4191,7453,390,35284,2792,7,13139,6496,2004,212,125,2401,213,6,6043,1161,526,4045],"class_list":["post-726074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-adam-schefter","tag-albert-breer","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-carter-bradley","tag-defensive-coordinator","tag-football","tag-gus-bradley","tag-head-coach","tag-indianapolis","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jacksonvillejaguars","tag-jaguars","tag-nfl","tag-robert-saleh","tag-san-francisco","tag-tennessee","tag-the-titans"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116006376558631506","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726074","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=726074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}