Names have floated around as potential defensive coordinator in Buffalo at the same rate as when the team had a head coaching vacancy last month. One of those names was former Baltimore Ravens linebacker coach Vic Fangio.
You can formally scratch his name off the Bills list. Fangio signed on over the weekend to become defensive coordinator at Stanford under head coach Jim Harbaugh, who apparently rejected a Buffalo offer to become head coach in mid January.
Fangio was speculated to be a candidate for the Bills defensive coordinator, though it’s not known if the organization actually contacted him.
Defensive Coordinator vacancy reaches another week – continue reading…
Last season, Buffalo’s defensive ends may as well have been placed on the official endangered species list. They were rarely seen, and almost never heard from. Any semblance of a pass rush was a rarity. Non-threatened quarterbacks held pocket picnics waiting receivers to spring open. It was practically a mini bye week for opposing offensive linemen.
