Every first-time NFL head coach need an experienced guy or two on his staff he can really lean on.

Jaguars coach Gus Bradley has his.

Bradley once served on the staff of Bob Babich at North Dakota State. Now Babich is Bradley’s defensive coordinator.

Babich has spent the past nine seasons with the Chicago Bears, where he served six years as linebackers coach and three as defensive coordinator under head coach Lovie Smith.

He will undoubtedly be a key lieutenant for Bradley as he takes over the Jaguars and looks to shape his team.

But since Bradley is a defensive guy, his other early hire likely ranks as even more important.

Jedd Fisch is the Jaguars offensive coordinator. He spent the past two seasons as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Miami.

He and Bradley know each other from 2010 in Seattle, when Fisch was quarterbacks coach.

Fisch worked as a graduate assistant for Steve Spurrier at Florida. And in nine seasons of NFL work, he’s been on the staffs of Pete Carroll, Mike Shanahan and Brian Billick as well as Dom Capers.

In an August 2011 interview with Steve Gorten of the Sun-Sentinel, here’s how Fisch described those influences on him and the offense he intended to run at Miami: