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Buffalo Bills coach Mike Mularkey will have the joy of having his every decision second-guessed by Chuck Dickerson this season when "The Coach" returns to WGR the day after the opener with Houston.
Starting Sept. 12, Dickerson will make weekly appearances alongside Brad Riter and Paul Hamilton on WGR's 10 a.m. Monday program, "Extra Point."
Andy Roth, WGR's program director, said the decision to bring back Dickerson was made after hearing input from focus groups that are brought to the station annually.
"Everybody had an opinion about the Coach," said Roth. "That made him must-listen-to radio."
Dickerson will do the show from Florida, where he has lived since he left the afternoon program he had co-hosted with Mike Schopp. Naturally, the audience is much higher in the late afternoon than it is in mid-morning. So why is Dickerson stuck in the morning?
"We got a bigger name for the afternoon," said Roth.
Dickerson better not read that. He thinks he is as big a name as there is.
Roth declined to reveal who would join Schopp and Chris (The Bulldog) Parker for the postmortems on Monday afternoon, but did say the station will announce Monday the hiring of "two of the biggest names that have ever been associated with the Bills."
Well, the two biggest names that don't start with the initials O.J. anyway. We can also pretty much forget the biggest name ever, Ralph Wilson.
According to sources, Jim Kelly and Marv Levy are the big names coming to WGR. Both remain friendly with the organization, which suggests they won't fit in well with the station's critical style.
It also means Dickerson and Levy are now on the same team again. The chance they'd do a show together are about equal to the chance that Shane Matthews will be the Bills' starting quarterback, but that certainly would be must-listen radio.
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