Losing an assistant to the Bills

[Mr. Scot]

(not that this is exactly a new thing)

Specifically, assistant special teams coach Heath Farwell. He'll be replacing Danny Crossman as the Bills special teams coach (PFT)

You might say that an assistant position coach doesn't really mean that much, but hey remember when all our secondary problems were traced to Jeff Imamura?

[Mr. Scot]

A little additional info...

[arbnranger]

I bid him good luck and a fond farwell. 

[Mr. Scot]

Agreed.

Find it interesting that they didn't want him going anywhere within the division, though.

[Camp Fodder]

Buffalo Panthers

[4Corners]

Probably for the best, I imagine it being difficult to take anyone named “Heath” seriously. 

[raz]

you know, richard rodgers may be a good fit as assistant special teams coach.  chase be like, richard you make sure these fellows get enough water.

[Ricky Spanish]

Aside from Gano's struggles last season, Blackburn has been a damn solid ST coach since hired. 

[Mr. Scot]

If the Panthers do decide to replace him, there's well traveled - most recently Detroit - coach Joe Marciano (if he'd accept an assistant job). Fun fact on him: He was a coach on the USFL team that Sam Mills played for in Philadelphia.  More recently he was in Minnesota while Norv Turner was there.

There's also Ron Zook. Yes, that Ron Zook that coached the Florida Gators. He was recently an ST assistant and then ST coach in Green Bay.

And then...there's recently fired Bills ST Coach, and former Panthers ST Coach...Danny Crossman. He's not directly connected to Rivera, but who knows? Maybe McDermott would recommend him.

[TheSpecialJuan]

mm

[Shocker]

Losing this dude is like loosing a scab, no worries

[panthers55]

5 hours ago, stbugs said:

Wasn’t Blackburn’s fault. Gano was awful in 2016 and 2017 playoffs.

Hurney just didn’t feel like Norwell was a better keeper than Gano. Keep Norwell or sign Smith, Gano, Poe and Searcy.

Before you laugh at Norwell. I agree that his contract was way too much, but consider that his total contract was only $5m more than the other guys’ contracts. I’d rather have Norwell and Butker than the waste above. Gano, Smith and Searcy paid for Norwell’s first two years. Effing waste of money.

Now you turn a special team's discussion into complaining about contracts given out by Hurney last year including Gano (one of your favorite subjects to complain about).  Effing waste of a post.

[WarPanthers89]

It suck to lose him. Him and Blackburn made a great team, and we had a very nice special teams unit this year other than Grano sucking it up for the long stretch. As we were able to tell this year, sometimes your team suffers when you lose enough coaches to promotion on your team. 

[Car123]

5 hours ago, stbugs said:

Wasn’t Blackburn’s fault. Gano was awful in 2016 and 2017 playoffs.

Hurney just didn’t feel like Norwell was a better keeper than Gano. Keep Norwell or sign Smith, Gano, Poe and Searcy.

Before you laugh at Norwell. I agree that his contract was way too much, but consider that his total contract was only $5m more than the other guys’ contracts. I’d rather have Norwell and Butker than the waste above. Gano, Smith and Searcy paid for Norwell’s first two years. Effing waste of money.

Gano wasn't awful in the playoffs. He missed a field goal but hit a 58 yarder. It's like players can either be amazing or awful on the huddle.