Article Saints interested in Brandon Staley and George Edwards for defensive coordinator (6 Viewers)

[guillermo]

If I am not mistaken, Rapoport said Eagles cornerback coach Roy Anderson may be another option for coordinator.

 

[SigFreudianSlip]

I do believe that he was the DC of the Rams in 2020 when they had that terrific defense.

As someone else said we just need an Aaron Donald then and we will be set.

 

[TalleyHo1]

As someone else said we just need an Aaron Donald then and we will be set.

Yeah really.

 

[TruSaint]

Now, you are to blame for KC Loss. If you would have asked this question before the Super Bowl, perhaps KC may have had a chance...{Humor}

Lol

 

[tmorrison]

If Staley is the guy, I hope we go DLine early and often in the draft. Or this could be Spagnuolo 2.0.

 

[j4m2b]

Does it really matter who we get? I mean we freak n stunk last year. If it any worse we will draft a manning

 

[SweetT]

I’m A-O-K with Staley. Make the HC announcement so we can get this show on the road.

 

[WilliamBrees]

I won't let my major skepticism about Staley cloud my excitement about Kellen. He has the right to pick his staff and I'll support whoever he hires. But it's a bit of a head-scratcher why he'd want to return to the same pairing that was so unsuccessful in L.A.

The Chargers are a West coast team with no real home fans. And losing to Mahomes can certainly erode confidence on that team. The Chargers often end up losing to or barely beating the same teams with different HCs.

 

[Stinkers]

Staley is a good/great DC but a terrible head coach. At least other teams won't be poaching him if he does well.

 

[DSnfla]

I don't think that KM being a 1st time HC goes with a 1st time DC no matter how patient the FO will be with him. So I think it's almost a lock that it's Staley. Only other choice would be Martindale, but there have been no links to KM and him.
Unless we make a play for a DC with another team and make him a DC/Ast HC kind of hire

 

[los226]

Seems likely to be Staley which I’m not sure how I feel about it. His defense weren’t that great with the Chargers especially against the run if not mistaken.

 

[BelowZero]

If I am not mistaken, Rapoport said Eagles cornerback coach Roy Anderson may be another option for coordinator.

Seems there's a lot of people in the know that are saying he's a big part of the Iggles success/their secret weapon. From what I've seen said, I wouldn't be against him at all. If KM wants him, ofc.

Staley still seems like the most obvious answer, though. For better or worse? I guess we'll see.

 

[bayoumilitia]

Is George our Rooney Rule guy?

Rooney rule aside. I’d like for us to interview Cain the Broncos D line coach. Vance Joseph guy, they led the NFL in sacks, can you name anyone on their D line? Cain actually had a little stint at LSU also.

Broncos name Jamar Cain as Defensive Line Coach

 

[JackDiesel]

Seems there's a lot of people in the know that are saying he's a big part of the Iggles success/their secret weapon. From what I've seen said, I wouldn't be against him at all. If KM wants him, ofc.

Staley still seems like the most obvious answer, though. For better or worse? I guess we'll see.

There's something to be said about the guy that reigned in CJGJ.

 

[3ParStillDriver]

Seems likely to be Staley which I’m not sure how I feel about it. His defense weren’t that great with the Chargers especially against the run if not mistaken.

There’s nothing to feel good about. People just forget about what occurred when he was the Chargers HC. He was play calling, put that defense together and game planned for it. The defense was so terribly bad. All you have to do is watch the game before he got fired. The play calling was so terrible, the players completely quit on him in the 3rd quarter. Herbert was trying to move the offense, but the defense was awful. I remember watching it and feeling so embarrassed for Staley. Next day he was fired. If anyone at all thinks Staley is a good choice, all they have to do is watch the game the Raiders hung 63 pts on him. The Raiders. This has a very similair feel to hiring Dennis Allen as HC (except now we're going for DC). I'm a little confused how anyone could look at that Chargers defense, especially that game and say "Yes, that's the defense we need".

People are just excited that we may switch to a Fangio base 3-4 system, which is also exciting to me. But we’ve only seen 1 good defense from Staley that had Aaron Donald at DT and several good players littered across the field and that Rams defense was a 4-3 (enforced by McVay).

I'm half wondering if Staley would be viewed as a bridge DC. It's late to be looking for coordinators. So it is possible they're saying "Let's get a DC to help us change to the defense we want, and if he doesn't work out, we can find someone else when we have more time in the offseason". Entirely possible. But I hope thats the view.

It's also possible they're thinking they'll stay in a 4-3 and will enforce that on Staley as McVay did.