Beach chairs are back! (Kromer hired as OL Coach)

[2020 Our Year For Sure]

12 minutes ago, Buffalo Barbarian said:

 

Did he coach last year ?

 

 

Nope, not sure why

[Hapless Bills Fan]

36 minutes ago, Augie said:

Which leads to…………..why????

 

Good question.  Looks like he's been out of football last year.

 

According to Kromer's wikipedia page, he was not retained as of February 2021. 

 

The guy the Rams hired, Kevin Carberry, worked with McVay when he was OC of the Team Formerly Known as Redskins.

He'd been working at Stanford as run game coordinator and OL coach.

 

So who knows what happened - either Kromer had some friction or they felt the line didn't meet expectations, or Carberry needed a job and McVay preferred him, or Kromer needed a year away for personal reasons would be three guesses.

[Warcodered]

2 minutes ago, Sheneneh Jenkins said:

Wonder the 1st thing on the mind that pops up of the one in the chair incident when they see this info....

Flashbacks?

 

[ndirish1978]

[buffblue]

Probably a dumb question, but does anyone believe this hire indicates an emphasis on more of a run oriented offense?

 

I remember him being highly regarded because of how well we ran the ball back then, but I don't want the Bills to become more focused on maulers who can't pass protect when your best asset is Allen. 

 

Admittedly I don't know much about Kromer's blocking scheme...

[YoloinOhio]

 

[Bray Wyatt]

6 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

Good question.  Looks like he's been out of football last year.

 

According to Kromer's wikipedia page, he was not retained as of February 2021. 

 

The guy the Rams hired, Kevin Carberry, worked with McVay when he was OC of the Team Formerly Known as Redskins.

He'd been working at Stanford as run game coordinator and OL coach.

 

So who knows what happened - either Kromer had some friction or they felt the line didn't meet expectations, or Carberry needed a job and McVay preferred him, or Kromer needed a year away for personal reasons would be three guesses.

there is a link in this thread that says he didn’t want to fire his son so he bit the bullet and they mutually parted ways 

[Buffalo Barbarian]

14 minutes ago, Rubes said:

And this from Wood a couple years ago...

 

 

 

 

a guy like this could be a good OC

 

 

[YoloinOhio]

 

[ndirish1978]

 

[Process]

Three slam dunk hires (Dorsey, Brady and Kromer).

 

Good job McBeane. 

 

Now if Frazier would just "resign" already...

[Buffalo Barbarian]

9 minutes ago, Warcodered said:

Flashbacks?

 

 

What the hell, thats a crazy scene.

 

 

[Rubes]

3 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

 

 

C'mon, Yolo. Page 3. Keep up!

 

[ndirish1978]

We needed more toughness on the Oline. I expect this Oline to throw people through walls. 

[John from Riverside]

Hell yes

[FLFan]

32 minutes ago, Logic said:

I see a lot of glee about Kromer’s hire because the Bills had a great run game when he was here last. Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems like a lot of that credit should probably go to Greg “best run coordinator in the league” Roman, who was the Bills OC at the time.

 

I’m not saying Kromer shouldn’t get ANY credit, but unless he’s bringing Roman’s highly creative, varied, unique, league leading run playbook with him, I’ll temper my expectations a little bit.

I would certainly hope no one is bringing Greg Roman’s playbook here.  Our QB is Josh Allen not Tyrod Taylor. (Or Lamar Jackson). We need to improve the effectiveness of our running game, but this should be a passing team with the elite QB talent we have.  

 

Kromer is is an excellent OL coach.  He can help improve the effectiveness of our running game by providing competent coaching to the OL and input to the OC.  I am pretty sure he knows how to teach pass blocking too.  

[Draconator]

Nice hire!

[Hapless Bills Fan]

7 minutes ago, Bray Wyatt said:

there is a link in this thread that says he didn’t want to fire his son so he bit the bullet and they mutually parted ways 

 

That would be a little odd since his son is, in fact, not fired but still on the Rams coaching staff

[Warcodered]

4 minutes ago, ndirish1978 said:

 

 

[The Wiz]

14 minutes ago, Warcodered said:

Flashbacks?

 

I like this version better.