{"id":82415,"date":"2023-12-15T17:49:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T00:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=82415"},"modified":"2023-12-15T17:54:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T00:54:01","slug":"chargers-fire-head-coach-staley-gm-telesco-after-loss-to-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=82415","title":{"rendered":"Chargers Fire Head Coach Staley, GM Telesco after Loss to Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"767\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/A0A6985-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/A0A6985-2.jpg 767w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/A0A6985-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/A0A6985-2-52x70.jpg 52w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/A0A6985-2-112x150.jpg 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><figcaption>Chargers Head Coach Brandon Staley has been fired in his third season. (Photo by Duane Barker).  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Tim Peterson <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Inglewood) &#8211; The Chargers fired head coach Brandon Staley and General Manager Tom Telesco Friday morning after a 63-21 loss to the Las Vegas Raiders Thursday night at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. <\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Giff Smith, the team&#8217;s outside linebackers coach has been named interim head coach and JoJo Wooden, the director  of player personnel, will be the interim GM. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chargers were 22-24 overall under Staley, who was in his third season as head coach, and 5-9 this year after the rout by the Raiders Thursday night. The Chargers made the playoffs once during Staley&#8217;s run &#8211; in 2022 and that ended in a 31-30 Wild-Card loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars after the Chargers blew a 27-0 lead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Staley was a defensive coordinator for the Rams before being hired by the Chargers as head coach in 2020, but the success he had with the Rams, never carried over to the Chargers. The defensive woes came to a head Thursday night in Las Vegas and Chargers Owner Dean Spanos made the move. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spanos issued a statement on Twitter (X) which included &#8220;These decisions are never easy nor are they something I take lightly. We are clearly not where we expect to be, however, and we need a new vision. Our fans have stood strong through so many ups and downs and close games. They deserve more. Frankly they&#8217;ve earned more.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (Inglewood) &#8211; The Chargers fired head coach Brandon Staley and General Manager Tom Telesco Friday morning after a 63-21 loss to the Las Vegas Raiders Thursday night at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories-news-notes-around-professional-football"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82418,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82415\/revisions\/82418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}