Merged: Bills Hire St Louis Rams Offensive Coordinator Steve Fairchild for OC job

[DaBills4life]

Bills Hire St Louis Rams Offensive Coordinator Steve Fairchild for OC job

Bills Hire Fairchild as Offensive Coordinator
Buffalobills.com
01/25/2006 5:22 PM
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The Bills today announced the hiring of offensive coordinator Steve Fairchild.

Fairchild, 47, began his NFL coaching career as the running backs coach with the Bills in 2001. After two seasons in Buffalo, Fairchild joined the St. Louis Rams where he served as the offensive coordinator for two seasons and offensive coordinator/quarterbacks for one. In 2005, the St. Louis Rams offense ranked second in the NFC with a 252.3 passing yards per game average. In 2003, Fairchild’s first season as offensive coordinator/quarterbacks, the Rams ranked third in the NFL averaging 247.6 passing yards per game. He also guided quarterback Marc Bulger to his first Pro Bowl appearance following the 2003 season.


As the Bills running backs coach in 2002, Fairchild helped running back Travis Henry produce a career-best 1,438 rushing yards and his first career Pro Bowl bid.


Fairchild, a native of Decatur, IL, spent four seasons as the offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach at his alma mater Colorado State. Fairchild played his college football at San Diego Mesa Community College under then-assistant coach Mike Martz and finished his college career at Colorado State.

http://www.buffalobills.com/news/news.jsp?news_id=3580

 

[B-LO BABY]

Thank God. I really thought Jauron would bring over a Detriot retread.

 

[Prime]

Bills hired Steve Fairchild as OC

Bills | Fairchild hired as offensive coordinator
Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:59:07 -0800

BuffaloBills.com reports the Buffalo Bills have hired former St. Louis Rams offensive coordinator Steve Fairchild as their new offensive coordinator.

 

[Prime]

My bad. I didn't see the other thread about the samething.

 

[dominizzo]

What a bad move by the Jills

 

[Prime]

What a bad move by the Jills

We all know that you are one of the biggets homers on here, but how is this a bad move? I hate the Bills as worst as you do, but this isn't really a bad move by them. He seemed to know what he was doing because the Rams had a good offense.

 

[Mike13]

Not a bad pick up, its going to be an adjustment for the offense but we will have to see if it is for the better or for the worse.

 

[DaBills4life]

What a bad move by the Jills

No, this guy was a bad move.

"Nothing against Mike Mularkey, the former Buffalo Bills head coach and the man who preceded Whisenhunt as Pittsburgh's offensive chief, but players concede privately that they felt he was often too quick to abandon the run. There were whispers as well that Mularkey enjoyed, perhaps a little too much, his reputation for offensive trickery"

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs05/columns/story?columnist=pasquarelli_len&id=2311962

 

[Prime]

No, this guy was a bad move.

"Nothing against Mike Mularkey, the former Buffalo Bills head coach and the man who preceded Whisenhunt as Pittsburgh's offensive chief, but players concede privately that they felt he was often too quick to abandon the run. There were whispers as well that Mularkey enjoyed, perhaps a little too much, his reputation for offensive trickery"

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs05/columns/story?columnist=pasquarelli_len&id=2311962

Don't know how many times we gotta say this, but Mularkey was a good choice for us. He will only be keeping his mind on the offense and not on the whole team. We are keeping the same offense that Leinhan installed and the only difference is the playcalling. Leinhan did have alot of tricky plays aswell and nobody is saying anything about him.

 

[Basileus777]

It could be a good choice, but I don't know how much he can be credited for the success of St. Louis' offense. Martz ran that offense, it was his system and his play calling.

 

[DaBills4life]

It could be a good choice, but I don't know how much he can be credited for the success of St. Louis' offense. Martz ran that offense, it was his system and his play calling.

Martz and Fairchild go way back. They ran this system when Fairchild was in college and Martz was the Offensive Coordinator and QB coach. The only person that knows the system nearly as good as Martz is Fairchild, plus, with 2nd and 3rd string QB's, Holt and Bruce out, Fairchild called the plays while Martz was gone 11 games last year and he got 350 total yards a game out of them.

Mularkey had nothing else to do in Buffalo except fix the offense, he failed. I wont believe any hype people are trying to make about the guy, I saw it 1st hand for 32 games.