The Brandon Staley Period in Los Angeles is over.
As is the tenure of basic supervisor Tom Telesco
After the Los Angeles Chargers misplaced in embarrassing vogue on Thursday Evening Soccer, taking place 42-0 within the first half to the Las Vegas Raiders earlier than finally dropping 63-21, proprietor Dean Spanos had seen sufficient.
Each Staley and Telesco have been fired:
The language on the finish of that assertion from Spanos — “[o]ur followers have stood robust by way of so many ups and downs and shut video games. They deserve extra. Frankly, they’ve earned extra” — actually stands out.
Later within the day Friday, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that the group was naming outdoors linebackers coach Giff Smith as their interim head coach. As well as, Schefter reported that JoJo Wood, the staff’s Director of Participant Personnel, would deal with GM duties on an interim foundation.
Staley’s tenure in Los Angeles can most likely greatest be described as a string of missed alternatives. Regardless of inheriting a roster led by quarterback Justin Herbert — on a rookie deal — the Chargers made the playoffs simply as soon as throughout his time in Los Angeles. Los Angeles missed the postseason throughout Staley’s first yr, when the Chargers misplaced in a “win, tie, or house” Week 18 recreation to the Raiders.
Staley was closely criticized for his dealing with of that recreation, together with an early fourth-down resolution which failed, in addition to a timeout he took throughout time beyond regulation which finally helped the Raiders arrange a game-winning area aim.
Once more, if the Chargers merely tied that recreation, they had been within the playoffs.
Nevertheless, they did attain the postseason in Staley’s second season, solely to endure an embarrassing loss on the street to the Jacksonville Jaguars. After going up 27-0 within the first half, the Chargers blew that lead, finally dropping by a last rating of 31-30.
Whereas the Chargers did battle accidents this season, and had been with out Herbert for Thursday night time’s recreation, this season was one other string of missed alternatives. The staff misplaced 4 video games by one rating, together with a brutal loss to the Inexperienced Bay Packers the place Herbert may have delivered the game-winning throw to Quentin Johnston, however the rookie dropped a possible landing. That was one in every of many missed possibilities in that recreation, one other coming when operating again Austin Ekeler dropped a throw between the three and the 0 on his jersey that might have been a landing.
As for Telesco, whereas he did carry Herbert to the group, the Chargers have made the playoffs simply thrice within the final ten years, and their final AFC West title was earlier than his tenure.
Throughout a season the place the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs didn’t run away with the division, the Chargers’ failures this season — a yr they might have caught the Chiefs — are much more painful.
With Thursday night time’s loss, Staley finishes his time in Los Angeles with a 24-24 file.
