The Las Vegas Raiders hired Gus Bradley as their new defensive coordinator Tuesday with the task of turning around one of the league’s worst units.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The last time the Jacksonville Jaguars lost nine consecutive games, owner Shad Khan fired coach Gus Bradley before they left the stadium.

COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — One or two blown leads during a season can be torture for a coaching staff.

When it happens four times, very little is pleasant around a team.

Gus Bradley has tried to be more aggressive in his strategy as Los Angeles Chargers defensive coordinator, but it has come at a cost.

Injuries and coverage breakdowns have led to the...

LONDON (AP) — Jacksonville Jaguars coach Doug Marrone believes his messages to his players are not resonating.

The Jaguars, who reached the AFC Championship game last season, lost their fourth consecutive game, falling 24-18 to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday. Jacksonville dropped to 3-5 and failed to benefit from playing in England at their home away from home, Wembley Stadium.

The upcoming bye week should provide everyone with an opportunity to do some soul searching — Marrone included.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jacksonville's locker room was abuzz late last season. Four guys played table tennis while others crowded around a small table for dominoes. Two 80-inch televisions were tuned to a sports highlight show, and music blared from one corner of the room.

Doug Marrone, the team's offensive line coach at the time, walked through and shook his head.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anthony Lynn believes the Los Angeles Chargers are onto something big after their resilient season ended just short of the playoffs.

The head coach is determined to keep this group together as it attempts to build on that success in 2018.

Lynn said on Monday that he wants to return next season with the Chargers' complete player nucleus and his coaching staff, including coordinators Gus Bradley and Ken Whisenhunt.

COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Gus Bradley's coaching career is back on track. The Chargers will soon find out whether that track leads out of Los Angeles.

One year after getting fired as the Jacksonville Jaguars' head coach with a miserable 14-48 record, Bradley is wrapping up his first season as the coordinator of a strong defense for the Chargers (8-7), who still have playoff hopes heading into their regular-season finale against Oakland.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Gus Bradley has kept close tabs on the Jacksonville Jaguars from afar.

Friends, colleagues, former players. Offseason moves, personnel changes, steady improvements.

The Los Angeles Chargers defensive coordinator will get to see everyone and everything in person Sunday, when Bradley returns to the place where he spent the previous four years and helped lay the foundation for a franchise is off to its best start in a decade.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan plans to keep adding resources "until we have a breakthrough."

CARSON, Calif. (AP) — After the Jacksonville Jaguars fired Gus Bradley in December, he decided to focus on his family.

Bradley told his wife and four children he would run out the last year of his head coaching contract with school events and family time in North Florida, giving his support back to his biggest fans.

"But that didn't go over so well with them," Bradley said, laughing heartily in his new Los Angeles Chargers shirt.

ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — The Washington Redskins turned to internal candidates to fill two critical vacancies, promoting Matt Cavanaugh to offensive coordinator and Greg Manusky to defensive coordinator.

Cavanaugh was the team's quarterbacks coach and Manusky its outside linebackers coach last season. The Redskins announced the promotions Monday along with the hires of Kevin O'Connell as quarterbacks coach and Jim Tomsula as defensive line coach.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Chargers intend to hire former Jacksonville coach Gus Bradley as their defensive coordinator, the club confirmed Saturday.

Jacksonville's coaching search landed someone from its past and present.

The Jaguars can only hope the old-school combination leads to better results in the future.

Owner Shad Khan hired Doug Marrone as head coach Monday and brought back Tom Coughlin to oversee football operations. Marrone replaces Gus Bradley, who was fired in late November after going 14-48 in three-plus seasons.

Bono and the guys in U2 are big football fans, as in soccer.

So when they sang about "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "New Year's Day," they had no intention of describing the end of the 2016 NFL season.

Yet, the firings of Chip Kelly and Trent Baalke in San Francisco, Mike McCoy in San Diego, and the resignation of Gary Kubiak for health reasons in Denver certainly rang true to those rock classics.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Blake Bortles admittedly felt all the pressure of Jacksonville's lofty preseason expectations.

Knowing the stakes included popular coach Gus Bradley's job, Bortles played tight all season. He tried to do too much and then even more when losses mounted.

"I put way too much of it on my shoulders," Bortles said. "Probably way more than anybody else."

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans delivered their worst performance of the year at the most inopportune time.

The Jacksonville Jaguars played their best game much later than anyone expected.

The result was a 38-17 drubbing that left the Titans (8-7) and Jaguars (3-12) considering what might have been.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Little changed for the Jacksonville Jaguars without fired coach Gus Bradley.

Music blared from the practice field. Guys played table tennis and cards in the middle of a bustling locker room. Most of the hard feelings that followed Bradley's dismissal Sunday were gone two days later.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars are looking to their past to potentially find their future head coach.

General manager Dave Caldwell said Monday that former New York Giants Tom Coughlin "would be somebody we'd be interested in talking to" about the team's coaching vacancy.

Patience runs out this time of year in the NFL.

The demise in less than a week of Jeff Fisher and Gus Bradley as coaches of their respective teams provided examples. Rams owner Stan Kroenke and Jaguars boss Shad Khan grew tired of waiting for the on-field product to match their successes away from football.

The Jacksonville Jaguars fired Gus Bradley on Sunday, ending one of the least successful coaching tenures in NFL history.

HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans maintained control of the AFC South and gained a quarterback controversy with a win over Jacksonville on Sunday.

The Jaguars lost their coach.

Tom Savage threw for 260 yards after Brock Osweiler was benched in the second quarter, and Lamar Miller scored Houston's only touchdown with less than three minutes remaining as the Texans rallied for the 21-20 victory . The defeat cost Gus Bradley his job in Jacksonville.

HOUSTON (AP) — Tom Savage threw for 260 yards after Brock Osweiler was benched in the second quarter, and Lamar Miller scored Houston's only touchdown with less than three minutes remaining as the Texans rallied for a 21-20 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday.

The Jaguars fired coach Gus Bradley after the loss, Jacksonville's ninth straight. He went 14-48 since taking over in 2013.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars have a recurring theme in their eight-game losing streak. And it's not poor play from quarterback Blake Bortles.

The Jaguars (2-11) have had at least one major meltdown on special teams in each of those losses, the kind of gaffes that significantly reduce the team's already-ultra-thin margin for error.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars have a bright spot in the franchise's darkest season.

Coach Gus Bradley's defense ranks fourth in the NFL in yards allowed and has been at its best the last five weeks. The unit has surrendered 258 yards a game over the last five weeks and given the Jaguars (2-10) a chance to win each time out.

"We're becoming the defense that we're supposed to be," defensive tackle Malik Jackson said Wednesday.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — After getting two sacks against Buffalo last week, Jacksonville Jaguars defensive tackle Malik Jackson received a playful text from former teammate Von Miller.

"He said my dance was ugly," Jackson said Wednesday. "He's a hater."

Jackson will get a chance to change Miller's mind in person Sunday when the Jaguars (2-9) host Denver (7-4). It will be the first time Jackson faces his former team, and a chance to "show those guys who I am on another team."

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jacksonville Jaguars linebacker Telvin Smith is back with the team following his brother's death and expected to play Sunday at Detroit.

Smith attended meetings and took part in the team's walkthrough Friday. Smith's brother was shot and killed in their hometown of Valdosta, Georgia, on Sunday. Smith traveled home Monday and missed several days of practice and meetings. Adding to his emotional week, Smith's girlfriend gave birth to their son Wednesday.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Defensive end Dante Fowler Jr. has more 15-yard penalties than sacks, a growing concern for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Fowler has been flagged nine times this season, which is tied for the fourth most in the NFL, and three of those were major infractions. He was called for unnecessary roughness late in the second quarter of Sunday's 24-21 loss to Houston , penalized for hitting quarterback Brock Osweiler well out of bounds.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Brock Osweiler threw two touchdown passes, Kareem Jackson returned an interception 42 yards for a score and the Houston Texans handed the Jacksonville Jaguars another home loss, 24-21 Sunday.

The Texans (6-3) scored on offense and defense and set up another score with special teams, a complete team effort that led to their first road win of the season and kept them perfect (3-0) against the AFC South. They won their fifth in a row against Jacksonville.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — This was supposed to be Jacksonville's year. Promise would become production.

A lengthy rebuild would evolve into the cornerstone for sustained success.

Coach Gus Bradley's always-upbeat approach would pay dividends with a drastically improved roster.

Owner Shad Khan set the tone, saying a winning record was "everybody's reasonable expectation."

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — After watching his offense mostly struggle for seven games, Jacksonville Jaguars coach Gus Bradley lost faith that coordinator Greg Olson could turn it around.

So Bradley made a change. Bradley fired Olson on Saturday, two days after an embarrassing loss at Tennessee in which the Jaguars (2-5) failed to score in the first half for the third time this season.

Bradley addressed the move Monday, calling it difficult but necessary.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars ended up making a coaching change in the wake of an embarrassing loss at Tennessee.

It wasn't the one many expected.

The Jaguars (2-5) fired offensive coordinator Greg Olson on Saturday, parting ways with him two days after a lackluster effort against the Titans, and one day after coach Gus Bradley insisted no staff changes would be made.