Did you know that USC defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn and new Trojan defensive line coach Eric Henderson worked on the same coaching staff before?
Luca Evans of the Orange County Register talked to other members of the 2017 Los Angeles Charger coaching staff, which Lynn and Henderson were both part of. Anthony Lynn, D’Anton’s father, was the head coach.
Gus Bradley, now the defensive coordinator for the Indianapolis Colts, was the defensive coordinator for that Charger team.
Evans explained the nature of the relationship between D’Anton Lynn and Eric Henderson, with Bradley offering his endorsement of this pairing at USC:
“The Southern California News Group spoke with members of the 2017 Chargers’ staff – the lone year in which the two overlapped – for a picture of how Lynn and Henderson will work in tandem at USC. All remember the two as bright, inventive minds who routinely were trusted with more responsibility than their job titles entailed. And the key point: their philosophies and coaching strengths have always been complementing, not contrasting, two men with strong personalities who will challenge each other but do so without job-title conceit.
“’There is no ego with Eric Henderson,’ Bradley, now the Colts’ defensive coordinator, told the SCNG. ‘And there’s no ego with D’Anton Lynn. So will it work? There’s not a doubt in my mind it will work.’”
USC fans couldn’t ask for a better evaluation of these two new defensive coaches.
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