Gus Bradley tabbed by Las Vegas Raiders to be team's defensive coordinator

The Raiders were No. 25 overall, No. 26 against the pass, No. 24 against the run.Las Vegas was 30th in points allowed, giving up a franchise-record 478 points (the 434 points Las Vegas scored were the fourth most by a Raiders team since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger), while the Chargers gave up 423 points, which ranked 23rd.With the Raiders, Bradley inherits a young and inconsistent unit that includes defensive ends Clelin Ferrell and Maxx Crosby, linebackers Nick Kwiatkoski and Cory Littleton, cornerbacks Trayvon Mullen and Damon Arnette, and safety Johnathan Abram.It starts up front, Bradley said."Get things right up front and then build in everywhere else," he said.Raiders coach Jon Gruden said in his season-ending media conference that he preferred to stay in a 4-3 base defense.Bradley, meanwhile, was an architect of the Seattle Seahawks' "Legion of Boom" secondary as the team's defensive coordinator from 2009 through 2012 and while his defenses played a lot of Cover 3, Bradley said his base has "evolved" since Seattle, with more "multiple" defenses now.His first NFL job was on Gruden's staff with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, serving as a defensive quality control coach in 2006 before two years as the team's linebackers coach."He's a great teacher, very passionate," Gruden told ESPN when asked what about Bradley appealed to him.