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Good to get some fresh people in here. Eric Washington didn’t exactly impress. 5 years for Oliver to turn into an impact player. Hasn’t developed anyone else. The resources we spend on the DL far outweigh the production.

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Has any assistant coach ever done less with more? Glad another team is forcing us to shake it up.

 

Maybe he'll be a better coordinator than he was a defensive line coach.

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You could make a good argument that Washington was the defacto DC here this year. He was listed along with the other coordinators on the Bills coaches' roster. He took the press conferences that the DC usually takes. He was involved in game planning as the associate head coach. But, you say, he didn't have that title!!! Well, the league only defines the position of assistant coach and head coach. It doesn't dictate that any team has to call someone "coordinator." Other teams have "coordinators" that did the same work that Washington did here, but you usually see it on the offensive side of the ball. So I would argue that Washington was as much of a defensive coordinator as Brian Callahan was an OC in Cincinnati or Mike McDaniel was in SF. 

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6 minutes ago, Low Positive said:

You could make a good argument that Washington was the defacto DC here this year. He was listed along with the other coordinators on the Bills coaches' roster. He took the press conferences that the DC usually takes. He was involved in game planning as the associate head coach. But, you say, he didn't have that title!!! Well, the league only defines the position of assistant coach and head coach. It doesn't dictate that any team has to call someone "coordinator." Other teams have "coordinators" that did the same work that Washington did here, but you usually see it on the offensive side of the ball. So I would argue that Washington was as much of a defensive coordinator as Brian Callahan was an OC in Cincinnati or Mike McDaniel was in SF. 

 

It does now recognise coordinator as a position. But I believe you have to have playcalling responsibility for it to be granted any sort of protection. 

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