Bobby April

[justasportsfan]

I miss the guy. Watching our ST so far makes me miss Danny Smith , the ST coach who sucked under Greghead Williams who is now the redskins ST.

I hope it gets better.

[T-Long]

Re: Bobby April

What I am confused about it how these guys can't be successful. Break out the tape and see what Bobby April did with his special teams over the years. Take notes and then implement them yourself. It seriously can't be rocket science. Trying to mimmick an offense or defense obviously is a different story, but you are just looking at kickoff and kick returns.

[Pride]

Re: Bobby April

I think the issue is that we have so many young guys, that the coaches are swapping in players left and right to see who they are going to keep. I don't know that these guys are used to playing with one another a whole lot.

[justasportsfan]

Re: Bobby April

what I am seeing so far is exactly what happned in the Music City Miracle. Coverage breakdown.

[Night Train]

Re: Bobby April

I hope so too but I've seen this before with all the ST shuffling of guys who will be cut before the opener. Then the season starts and the coverage is actually decent.

Grade = Incomplete. To be continued.

[justasportsfan]

Re: Bobby April

I hope so too but I've seen this before with all the ST shuffling of guys who will be cut before the opener. Then the season starts and the coverage is actually decent.

Grade = Incomplete. To be continued.

I agree. Grade icomplete. Thing is, Aprils coverage unit didn't have this much breakdowns. HIs system worked no matter who was in there.

[Jaybird]

Re: Bobby April

The trick to Special teams in maintaining your lanes.. You cant all go sworm to the ball... I see this happening on every return. It must be the constant rotation of players

[ServoBillieves]

Re: Bobby April

"All right you 5, set up your wedge in front of Leodis on this one alright?"

Coach we can't do that anymore

"Alright, you 4 then."

[trapezeus]

Re: Bobby April

i'm going to hold out hope that once we are down to our 53 roster, that ST gets some more emphasis for the guys who no longer have hope of cracking the top O and D units. They gel as a unit later than the O and D.

It sucks to not have the top rated unit, but again, i'll sacrifice that for the time being to just have an entertaining game where we actually think that we might win the game.

[chernobylwraiths]

Re: Bobby April

I miss the guy. Watching our ST so far makes me miss Danny Smith , the ST coach who sucked under Greghead Williams who is now the redskins ST.

I hope it gets better.

Wasn't Danny Smith the special teams coach under Wade Phillips? Didn't Danny Smith replace Bruce Dehaven after "forward lateral"? Didn't Phillips get fired because he refused to fire Danny Smith?

[justasportsfan]

Re: Bobby April

Wasn't Danny Smith the special teams coach under Wade Phillips? Didn't Danny Smith replace Bruce Dehaven after "forward lateral"? Didn't Phillips get fired because he refused to fire Danny Smith?

Bruce dehaven was the ST coach in the Music city miracle. Refused to fire Ronnie Jones.
Danny Smith st coach ubder Greg 2001-03

[stuckincincy]

Re: Bobby April

The trick to Special teams in maintaining your lanes.. You cant all go sworm to the ball... I see this happening on every return. It must be the constant rotation of players

I wonder how much last season's rule change - no more 3 man wedges - affected the Bills' STs? I don't have a shred of evidence either way.

They have been tops for so many years - perhaps it's just time for their prowess to wane a bit. I honestly don't know.

[TMu11]

Re: Bobby April

According to 103.3 the Edge (Radio Station for those not familiar) April was always able to convince Management to keep players on the roster for ST specifically, which is usually not done by other coaches. He was able to have his pick of talent, rather than whatever was left.

[stuckincincy]

Re: Bobby April

According to 103.3 the Edge (Radio Station for those not familiar) April was always able to convince Management to keep players on the roster for ST specifically, which is usually not done by other coaches. He was able to have his pick of talent, rather than whatever was left.

IIRC, April left STL because then-HC Martz put ST on the back burner and wouldn't let April staff it properly.

[Jan Reimers]

Re: Bobby April

Bruce Dehaven was certainly a good ST coach for us for many years, and probably gets too much blame for the coverage breakdown that led to the Music City Forward Lateral. I doubt that he has forgotten how to coach.

I think that once the final roster is set, and he knows what he has to work with, our coverage will get better.