{"id":737448,"date":"2026-02-08T06:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/737448\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T06:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:17:11","slug":"chargers-could-hire-former-head-coach-in-assistant-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/737448\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers could hire former head coach in assistant role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Feb. 7, 2026, 4:46 p.m. PT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-chargers\/357\" data-autotag=\"a419627d-6dfd-46c4-8ebe-6ca8a0506ea7\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Chargers<\/a> could hire former Jets and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/miami-dolphins\/345\" data-autotag=\"22ef43a4-dc5a-43ce-87cd-912a7e348a81\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Dolphins<\/a> head coach Adam Gase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mzenitz\/status\/2019981739028836352?s=20\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to CBS Sports&#8217; Matt Zenitz<\/a>, Gase has emerged as a potential candidate to be hired by the Chargers as the team&#8217;s passing game coordinator, previously held by Marcus Brady, who left to join Jesse Minter&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/baltimore-ravens\/366\" data-autotag=\"6f9d8950-4e8a-4277-ba96-ee5ce9eb842e\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Ravens<\/a> in the same role.<\/p>\n<p>When Did Adam Gase Last Coach in the NFL?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Gase last coached in 2020 with the Jets. As an NFL head coach, Gase has a 32-48 record in the regular season. He is 0-1 in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">He came to prominence in the NFL as an offensive coordinator for the Broncos in 2013. Gase&#8217;s offense set the NFL record for points scored that season and helped Denver reach\u00a0Super Bowl XLVIII.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:4|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The 47-year-old&#8217;s coaching career started at Michigan State, where he attended college and served as a student assistant under the coaching staff. Gase then followed Nick Saban to LSU for the 2000 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">At LSU, Gase worked as a defensive graduate assistant and worked in the recruiting department. This propelled him to the NFL as a scouting assistant for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/detroit-lions\/334\" data-autotag=\"a9d615a6-a025-4346-9c29-28956ed45852\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Detroit Lions<\/a> in 2003. Five years later, Gase joined the 49ers as an offensive assistant coach under Mike Martz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Feb. 7, 2026, 4:46 p.m. PT The Chargers could hire former Jets and Dolphins head coach Adam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[95878,241,7,1014,262,2444,2443,6,97083,97084,95882,95898,95930,96089,96242,97085,95951,95896,95888,95895,98627,95899,96099,95884,95883,95894,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-737448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-chargers","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-losangeleschargers","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sstssportsnflchargers","17":"tag-sstsnchargers","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagbaltimore-ravens","20":"tag-tagbig-ten-conference-football","21":"tag-tagchicago-bears","22":"tag-tagdetroit-lions","23":"tag-taglos-angeles-chargers","24":"tag-tagmiami-dolphins","25":"tag-tagnational-sports","26":"tag-tagnfl","27":"tag-tagnfl-hub","28":"tag-tagnick-saban","29":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","30":"tag-tagsec-conference-football","31":"tag-tagsports-coaching-training","32":"tag-tagsports-news","33":"tag-tagtwitter","34":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737448","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=737448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}