BuffaloBill Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 Possibly the most important thing that a head coach does is pick coordinators. Who do you name as the best OC, DC and STC in Bills history? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunnerBill Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 I can only go on the coordinators I have seen since 2002... OC - Greg Roman DC - Jim Schwartz ST - Bobby April Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CardinalScotts Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 so much of this is based on players, for the offense a QB. Gilbride with Bledsoe and Moulds/Price combo was fantastic for the defense you have to have a pass rusher or several. Schwartz had a motivated Hughes to go with Mario and the others specials teams what sad is we had tremendous special teams for years and we sucked. Bobby April and there is not a close second who was chuck knox d coord in 1980 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommonCents Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 Chain Gailey best OC. Rex Ryan best DC. Now we just need to find a HC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hondo in seattle Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 (edited) so much of this is based on players, for the offense a QB. Gilbride with Bledsoe and Moulds/Price combo was fantastic for the defense you have to have a pass rusher or several. Schwartz had a motivated Hughes to go with Mario and the others specials teams what sad is we had tremendous special teams for years and we sucked. Bobby April and there is not a close second who was chuck knox d coord in 1980 Just thinking outloud... Bruce DeHaven isn't a close second as ST Coordinator? Ted Marchibroda maybe for OC. Wade Phillips maybe for DC. Edited July 2, 2016 by hondo in seattle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jr1 Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 Marchibroda, Schwartz & April Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 Just thinking outloud... Bruce DeHaven isn't a close second as ST Coordinator? Ted Marchibroda maybe for OC. Wade Phillips maybe for DC. No "maybe" about it. Wade is one of the best DCs ever in the NFL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hondo in seattle Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 Marchibroda certainly had talent to work with but we still have to give him a lot of credit for transforming an anemic offense into a powerhouse. It took a lot of balls to implement the K-Gun full time and give away play-calling to the QB. Some interesting comments from Eric Schweitz back in 1997... "In retrospect, it seems hardly a coincidence that while the Colts under Marchibroda were slowly and steadily improving as an offensive team, the Bills, in his absence, were slowly on the decline. The last year Marchibroda was with the Bills, Jim Kelly threw for 33 touchdowns. The next four years, Kelly would hover around 20 touchdowns and bottom out his last season with a meager 14 touchdowns. Meanwhile, under Marchibroda's tutelage, Jim Harbaugh and Vinny Testaverde, two quarterbacks who had each nearly been drummed out of the NFL altogether at times, would have brilliant campaigns in 95 and 96... Along with Kelly's almost naked drop in production after Marchibroda's departure, one can see a dramatic drop statistically in Thurman Thomas's rushing production. Thurman averaged almost 5 yards per carry in Marchibroda's last year and the first year afterward. Since 92 however, Thomas's numbers have dropped to the 3.7 to 3.8 yards per carry range. Could all these factors be linked in some way? The answer is very definitely in the affirmative. Without Marchibroda, the Bills were left with a creative and innovative void in their offense. While he had put in place a system that would continue to succeed in the short term, in hindsight it becomes obvious that those entrusted to pick up where Ted left off did not do so. " I think the paradigm nowadays is that any OC could have succeeded with Kelly, Thurman, Reed and Lofton - and Marchibroda was merely a replaceable, unimportant cog in the machine. I'm not convinced Ted was our greatest OC but I do think he's under-appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Jackson Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 Marchibroda Wade April Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Barbarian Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 Wade Phillips Jim Kelly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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