A longtime presence on NFL sidelines, Bradley, 59, has worked as a defensive coordinator for four other squads: the Seattle Seahawks (2009-2012), Los Angeles Chargers (2017-20), Las Vegas Raiders (2021) and Indianapolis Colts (2022-24). He was also the Jacksonville Jaguars head coach from 2013-2016.<\/p>\n
Bradley has helmed a top-10 defense in points allowed on four separate occasions and six times coordinated units that ranked top 10 in yards allowed.<\/p>\n
Saleh has already stated during his opening news conference that he will serve as the team’s defensive play-caller<\/a>, equating his time not doing so with the New York Jets as being the “timeout and red flag guy” and feeling more like a fan. However, Bradley will still be pivotal at turning around a Titans defense that appeared greatly diminished in recent years.<\/p>\n Tennessee finished the 2025 season 28th in points allowed and 21st in yards allowed; the year before, the unit ended up as the third-worst scoring defense despite allowing the second-fewest yards.<\/p>\n There are certainly players for Bradley and Saleh to build around, though, namely All-Pro defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons<\/a> on the interior and tackling machine Cedric Gray<\/a> at linebacker.<\/p>\n With Saleh’s staff coming together, the hope is Bradley and Co. help Tennessee’s defense rebound to prominence — and the Titans do so right alongside it after four straight postseason misses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A longtime presence on NFL sidelines, Bradley, 59, has worked as a defensive coordinator for four other squads:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2061],"tags":[1227,7,88,6,609,252,526,394,2411,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-744460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-no-minute","13":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","14":"tag-tennessee","15":"tag-tennessee-titans","16":"tag-tennesseetitans","17":"tag-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116051289272806725","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744460","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=744460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}