Chargers Coach Brandon Staley Gets Mad At Reports In Post-Game Conference 

Brandon Staley won’t say this again, so hunch down and pay close attention.

This ship’s commander is him. Since taking over as head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers, his defence has given up the third-most points in the NFL. He will be calling the shots.

Chargers Coach Brandon Staley Gets Mad At Reports In Post-Game Conference

Nor does he wish to be questioned about it in the future.

After the Chargers’ most recent setback, a 23-20 loss to the Green Bay Packers, Staley got into a heated argument with the media over the defence’s incapacity to slow down opposing offences.

On Sunday, Los Angeles enabled the Packers to amass 397 yards of total offence as quarterback Jordan Love threw for a career-high 322 yards—the first time he had ever passed for 300 yards in a single game.

“Every week we’re talking about fundamentals,” Staley said after the loss, according to the Orange County Register. “Every week we show them officiating videos. Every week we’re talking about it, so all we can continue to do is emphasize it. I know our coaching staff is doing that. I know that the message is getting across. We’re not getting the execution on the field.”

Staley laughed at the notion of changing his defensive strategy or even stepping down as the defensive play-caller when he was pushed further on the matter.

“You can stop asking that question,” Staley told reporters on Sunday. “I’m going to be calling the defences, OK? So we’re clear. So you don’t have to ask that again.”

“I have full confidence, like I have told you, in our way of playing,” he said adamantly. “I have full confidence in myself as the play-caller and the way we teach and the way we scheme. Full confidence in that. We’ve got to bring this group together and do it consistently, and that’s where it’s at.”

Although the Chargers had just returned from a Week 10 defeat to the Detroit Lions in which they allowed 41 points to the Lions, Sunday’s defensive performance was by no means an isolated event.

They had the 31st-ranked total defence and the last-ranked pass defence heading into their Week 11 game against the Packers.

“You guys act like we never play good defence, that’s not the truth. That’s not the truth. You act like we haven’t made any improvements,” he later said.

As the season goes on, Staley’s failure to recognize it could cost him more than victories and defeats.

 

 

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