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Welcome back, Brandon Staley

Staley's defense put on a clinic on Sunday night

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Oliver Connolly
Dec 14, 2022
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You can be forgiven for wondering what’s been going on with Brandon Staley. The NFL’s defensive wunderkind – a coach who helped re-orient the league around a defensive strategy to slow the wide-zone-then-boot style of offense – has spent his two seasons as the head honcho in LA fielding a defense that, well, sucks.

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