Stories Schedule Roster Stats. Filed under: News Notes. Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. Loading comments A former NFL cornerback, he specializes in the secondary and worked as a defensive backs coach for the Philadelphia Eagles and Indianapolis Colts. McDermott and Frazier overlapped in Philadelphia from to , with the former working as a defensive assistant in their last season together. The Bills will be looking to improve a defense that cratered under former head coach Rex Ryan.
Buffalo ranked 19th in yards allowed in each of the last two seasons and was 16th in points allowed in The Bills returned to the top 10 in sacks after a dismal , but they were still a far cry from their dominant front seven that led the NFL in Bucs Nation's Leo Howell wrote that Frazier tends to coach a far more conservative style than Ryan, who built a reputation on intricate blitz schemes.
That falls in line with McDermott's style in Carolina, which involved using a powerful defensive line to free up a speedy linebacking corps. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. For the teams that aren't in the National Football League playoffs, the coaching carousel is spinning at full speed, and one of our old friends has gotten himself a pretty prominent job again.
Leslie Frazier, who was the Vikings ' head coach for three and a half seasons, and the team's defensive coordinator for three and a half seasons prior to that, has signed on to be the Defensive Coordinator for the Buffalo Bills. He had been serving as the secondary coach for the Baltimore Ravens.
Frazier stepped in as the interim head coach for the Vikings following the firing of Brad Childress, and guided the team to a record in the craziness that was the end of the Vikings' season. The team removed the interim tag that offseason, and the team went in Unfortunately, neither Peterson nor the Vikings could replicate that performance in , and the team went
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