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  • ddaryl
    Everything I post is sexual inuendo
    • Jan 2005
    • 10714
    #1

    The Best Coach Nobody Knows


    looks like April is starting to get some overdue press.... Which could mean he'll be getting offers soon now...

    Great article from http://nyj.scout.com/a.z?s=65&p=2&c=828664










    Tom Marino has worked with some of the best coaches on the game over his career in professional football. Parcells, Belichick, Ditka and Mora all considered some of the most talented individuals to have ever walked the sidelines, but in Buffalo Bills special teams coach Bobby April truly believes he has found their professional equal.




    He has been a highly successful coach for seventeen years at the professional level for the Falcons, Saints, Steelers, Rams and Bills, spent thirteen years as a valued assistant at the collegiate level for Southern Mississippi, Tulane, Arizona U and USC and two seasons as a prep coach, but for some reason beyond my comprehension, Buffalo Bills assistant head coach and special team coach extraordinaire Bobby April, has never been given serious consideration for a head coaching position at either the professional and collegiate level.
    I was briefly introduced to Bobby for the first time some fifteen years ago while waiting by for an elevator during practice week at the Senior Bowl, but had long before that decided that I didn’t like this intense, animated enthusiastic coach with our division rival Atlanta Falcons. The Saints and Falcons had some classic battles during that period of time, but it always seemed in the Falcons victories that Bobby’s special team units proved to be the difference.
    It wasn’t till 1996 when Bobby joined the Saints staff that I came to realize the first impressions are not always accurate. During his four years with the Saints and three years with the Rams, I came to know Bobby as possibly the most intelligent, organized, innovative, loyal, competitive and hard working individuals I have ever met in my thirty-four years in professional football.
    I noticed in his first season with the Saints that during our spring scouting meetings that Bobby was not only in attendance during the kickers, punters and return specialists meeting, but I an the rest of the scouts observed him sitting inconspicuously in the back of the meeting room, taking notes on the seemingly endless parade of prospects and suspects. At times I would observe Bobby working on special team projects, but during our breaks I was amazed with his note taking and the excellent questions he posed to the scouting staff.
    Although Bobby is widely recognized by most of his fellow coaches within the NFL as the top special teams coach in professional football, you wouldn’t know it by his easy going nature and friendly demeanor. He’s got a great sense of humor, communicates extremely well, but when the whistle blows, the proud father of five is all business.
    I’ve observed him in meetings, interacting with his fellow coaches, in practice sessions and most importantly with the game on the line and I have never seen him waiver, not for a single second.
    As much as I tried, I’m probably never going to completely understand why a experienced proven professional like Bobby April has never been given the opportunity to compete as a head coach in the ultimate of all football leagues, but I hope for his sake and the good of the game that his time is soon to come



    Probably next year after we fire Jauron !!!!


    Last edited by ddaryl; 01-09-2009, 11:29 AM.

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  • shelby
    The Vanilla *****
    • Jul 2002
    • 48489
    #2
    Re: The Best Coach Nobody Knows

    Great find, thanks. i don't want anyone to hire April away from us, we need him.

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    • ddaryl
      Everything I post is sexual inuendo
      • Jan 2005
      • 10714
      #3
      Re: The Best Coach Nobody Knows

      Originally posted by shelby
      Great find, thanks. i don't want anyone to hire April away from us, we need him.
      Yes !!! April is the lone bright spot in coaches and if anythng he'll probably get the HC job next season after Jauron screws it up

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      • The King
        Without me it's just Awe so
        • Jun 2004
        • 42380
        #4
        Re: The Best Coach Nobody Knows

        I think the ST thing turns people off to him.
        I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?"
        "Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet.
        You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times."
        It was all         true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach.
        He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can         mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on.


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        • justasportsfan
          Registered User
          • Jul 2002
          • 71618
          #5
          Re: The Best Coach Nobody Knows

          Might be another type of coordinator who might be in over his head as a HC like Dick, Mularkey and GW.
          sacrifice1
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          • ddaryl
            Everything I post is sexual inuendo
            • Jan 2005
            • 10714
            #6
            Re: The Best Coach Nobody Knows

            Originally posted by MBBedard
            I think the ST thing turns people off to him.
            I agree that most do not consider Special Teams Coaching a direct path to HC postions...

            but there is no denying the success this guy haves on a consistent basis, even with a team and inconsistent as the Bills have been this past decade

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            • madness
              Registered User
              • Apr 2003
              • 13690
              #7
              Re: The Best Coach Nobody Knows

              Originally posted by shelby
              Great find, thanks. i don't want anyone to hire April away from us, we need him.
              Especially to take over if Jauron flops out of the gate!
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              • shelby
                The Vanilla *****
                • Jul 2002
                • 48489
                #8
                Re: The Best Coach Nobody Knows

                Does anyone doubt Dick will have another limp season?


                {sorry. that was bad.}

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                • madness
                  Registered User
                  • Apr 2003
                  • 13690
                  #9
                  Re: The Best Coach Nobody Knows

                  Originally posted by ddaryl
                  I agree that most do not consider Special Teams Coaching a direct path to HC postions...

                  but there is no denying the success this guy haves on a consistent basis, even with a team and inconsistent as the Bills have been this past decade
                  He does have the skills I desire in a HC. He understands the game, relates well with his players and gets the most out of them (not Dick on getting the most out of them part), holds players accountable and out in the open(no Dick here), is very well prepared come game day, makes great adjustments on the fly (definitely not Dick) and...

                  coaches with emotion! (absolutely, positively not a Dick in sight).
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                  • ddaryl
                    Everything I post is sexual inuendo
                    • Jan 2005
                    • 10714
                    #10
                    Re: The Best Coach Nobody Knows

                    Originally posted by shelby
                    Does anyone doubt Dick will have another limp season?


                    {sorry. that was bad.}

                    everyone loves a good joke at the expense of Dick.. so in all honesty that was good. I give it 2 heads up

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                    • ddaryl
                      Everything I post is sexual inuendo
                      • Jan 2005
                      • 10714
                      #11
                      Re: The Best Coach Nobody Knows

                      Originally posted by madness
                      He does have the skills I desire in a HC. He understands the game, relates well with his players and gets the most out of them (not Dick on getting the most out of them part), holds players accountable and out in the open(no Dick here), is very well prepared come game day, makes great adjustments on the fly (definitely not Dick) and...

                      coaches with emotion! (absolutely, positively not a Dick in sight).

                      maybe mid season will see the switch to April..... but he does have the intangibles... Unfortunately the 10 years of bungling head coaches in buffalo have left Bills fans with no taste for another inexperienced HC

                      however I'm sure many Bills fans would suck it up one more time for April

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                      • bigbub2352
                        Registered User
                        • Feb 2005
                        • 5386
                        #12
                        Re: The Best Coach Nobody Knows

                        I think Vic Carucci said it best if DJ stumbles early this next year he will be the interim HC so lets hope for a slow start...
                        XTRA CRISPY XTRA SAUCEY
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                        • ddaryl
                          Everything I post is sexual inuendo
                          • Jan 2005
                          • 10714
                          #13
                          Re: The Best Coach Nobody Knows

                          Originally posted by bigbub2352
                          I think Vic Carucci said it best if DJ stumbles early this next year he will be the interim HC so lets hope for a slow start...
                          I won't wish for a slow start... but April over Dick any day

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                          • Night Train
                            Retired - On Several Levels
                            • Jul 2005
                            • 33117
                            #14
                            Re: The Best Coach Nobody Knows

                            Originally posted by MBBedard
                            I think the ST thing turns people off to him.
                            Marv was a ST's coach.
                            Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit
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                            • ddaryl
                              Everything I post is sexual inuendo
                              • Jan 2005
                              • 10714
                              #15
                              Re: The Best Coach Nobody Knows

                              Originally posted by Night Train
                              Marv was a ST's coach.
                              did he make the immediate jump to HC from ST coach ?

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