Report: DeHaven returns to Buffalo as special teams coordinator

Welcome back Bruce!

for awhile, during the golden years of 88-95, we did have a great special teams unit, in terms of kicking and punting, so I say it is a welcome sight… Go Bills! Now maybe they can bring back the Jaws theme to kickoffs

[sarcasm] Bobby April is the greatest ST coach ever and letting him go dooms us to failure1
Nooooo …. [/sarcasm]

Good move. Glad to see the bridge with him was repaired after the Music City (not a)-Miracle …

Good hire. Not surprising in the least. He was the only name I was looking for to fill this spot.

the td pass to denney or kelsay?

Looks like Seahawks fans hated hated hated him.
http://www.fieldgulls.com/2010/1/14/1252116/bruce-dehaven-is-gone

Good Hire. He did an excellent job here during the Glory Days.

Get to relive the Music City Massacre every day I hear his name mentioned………..

headdesk

Firing him after the “Miracle” was a load of you know what

Weird. Wasn’t DeHaven the guy Ralph wanted fired, but Wade refused, so Wade wasn’t rehired? I’m sure any meetings between Bruce and Ralph won’t be awkward at all.

I totally forgot he was to old……………………………….Boooo to DeHaven ;)

Was sorry to see him leave Buffalo before.

Glad to see him back in Bills country!

In the same class as Bobby April, IMO.

Welcome back? I don’t know. He was an allright coordinator over a decade ago here, but hasn’t had much success since the glory years. I think there’s some legitimacy to that…

I suppose we can expect solid coverage units and below average return units. Oh well, couldn’t expect much more than this hire…

I Like it. After he left Buffalo he worked for Bill Parcells, MIke Holmgrem. So on his resume you have Levy. Parcells and Holmgrem not bad at all. Plus I liked April but lets not forget he let go more than once in his career. In the end it comes down to what the head coach gives you. How many players does he keep just for special teams purposes. The last head coach kept a lot of these type of players.If Gailey does too the teams will be fine.

as the strength and conditioning coach. Nix identified the rash of injuries as a big problem to fix, very early in his first press conference. I am very anxious to see how they address the strenght and conditioning coach.

We cannot win football games when everyone is on IR, we are already low on talent that the talent we do have must be on the field.

Because he was a BIG reason why DeHaven had success here in his last go-round. Our return teams during those years were anything but spectacular. If memory serves we had quite a few stretches without anyone breaking one.

We have not been back to the playoffs since we fired him!

Okay, seriously, why did he get fired again? One play, that in my opinion would’ve been avoided entirely if Flutie was starting that game?

Seriously, I would’ve been on here giving Wade Phillips, or Ralph Wilson if the rumors are true and Ralph made Wade start Rob, SO much crap if … here had existed, and I’d had a functioning computer, back then, but the Immaculate Deception? (As I will call it to my dying day, because I KNOW that Dyson was a half-yard forward of Wycheck when that throw happened, no matter what the damn cameras say…) Was a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence. (Even if it did set up a ‘nice’ moment in World Championship Wrestling the next Monday, when Jeff Jarrett, known denizen of Nashville wrestling, was wearing his real-life friend Frank Wycheck’s jersey, in the HSBC Arena — in Buffalo, natch — and amazingly he got out of the arena alive!)

What, no screaming about this being an inside hire?

(kidding)