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The Los Angeles Chargers will be led by two different men for the rest of the 2023 season following the decisions to fire head coach Brandon Staley and general manager Tom Telesco.
Though the team sits at the bottom of the AFC West with almost no hope of making the postseason, there is still a team to run and games to be played.
So after the Chargers officially moved on from their head coach and GM, the team named outside linebackers coach Giff Smith as their interim head coach and director of player personnel JoJo Wooden as their general manager, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Chargers are naming outside linebackers coach Giff Smith as their interim head coach to replace Brandon Staley and JoJo Wooden as the interim GM, per sources. pic.twitter.com/w1fUdc75Kd
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) December 15, 2023
Smith has no prior head coaching experience but has been with the Chargers since 2016 as a defensive line coach and then outside linebackers coach.
Wooden has been in NFL front offices since 1997 – first with the New York Jets in a variety of roles, and then with the Chargers in 2013 when Telesco was hired.
It’s unclear if either will be considered for the full-time positions at the end of the year, but their job status will certainly be evaluated over the final three weeks of the regular season.
The Chargers as a team, though, are floundering after they lost quarterback Justin Herbert for the season with a fractured finger and just lost 63-21 to the Las Vegas Raiders on Thursday night.
Surely, changes will be coming for this team after Staley went 24-24 in three seasons and Telesco failed to advance past the wildcard round of the playoffs in the Chargers’ three postseason appearances since 2013.
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