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    Bill Plaschke: Brandon Staley is still the coach in Chargers' biggest bet yet

    LOS ANGELES — The Chargers held a press conference for their coach Wednesday morning and you'll never guess who showed up. Brandon Staley! He's still here. He's still their leader. He's still the boss. He didn't get whacked. He didn't get dumped. He didn't get canned. If you listen to him, he didn't even get scolded. "When I talk about alignment," he said, "there's no better alignment that I ...
    by Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times Jan 19, 2023 5 minutes
    Los Angeles Chargers head coach Brandon Staley on the sidelines on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021 against the Kansas City Chiefs at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.

    LOS ANGELES — The Chargers held a press conference for their coach Wednesday morning and you'll never guess who showed up.

    Brandon Staley!

    He's still here. He's still their leader. He's still the boss. He didn't get whacked. He didn't get dumped. He didn't get canned. If you listen to him, he didn't even get scolded.

    "When I talk about alignment," he said, "there's no better alignment that I have than with the Spanos family."

    Turns out, the Spanos family never discussed firing him, never wondered about firing him, never even considered it, and Staley knew it.

    While all of Los Angeles was screaming for his job, while the NFL experts were guessing about his replacement, while Sean Payton's phone was buzzing through Manhattan Beach, Staley was preparing

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