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Buffalo Bills: Who to watch outside the AFC East this season

By Daniel Hahn

Dec 24, 2016; Jacksonville, FL, USA; Jacksonville Jaguars interim head coach Doug Marrone walks the field before an NFL Football game against the Tennessee Titans at EverBank Field. Mandatory Credit: Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 24, 2016; Jacksonville, FL, USA; Jacksonville Jaguars interim head coach Doug Marrone walks the field before an NFL Football game against the Tennessee Titans at EverBank Field. Mandatory Credit: Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports /
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Jan 17, 2017; Carson, CA, USA; Los Angeles Chargers coach Anthony Lynn poses at a press conference to announce his hiring as head coach at StubHub Center. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports /

Los Angeles Chargers

When the Bills began their coaching search, the early assumption was that Doug Whaley was leading the search and Anthony Lynn was his front runner. Flash forward five months, Whaley is gone and Lynn is Head Coach of the Los Angeles Chargers.

I wanted Lynn to be the next Bills coach. I thought that the Bills couldn’t follow the mistakes of their own past and pass over a highly regarded assistant coach for a total outsider. Plus, Lynn isn’t a retread, this would be his first time running a team. He was even touting he could bring in Gus Bradley as his Defensive Coordinator.

In the end, the Bills went a different direction and Lynn is in LA with Gus Bradley. I like what Lynn did in Buffalo and we should be cheering FOR the Chargers in 2017. The main reason is also because of the team we need to cheer against, in the Kansas City Chiefs.

The Chargers are on a limited timeframe to win now with Philip Rivers. They have weapons at the skill positions and while thin, still talented enough on defense to make an impact. They pose a very credible threat to the Chiefs if they can put things together in year one under Lynn.

I know there are some Bills fans that would argue we should cheer against the Chargers, because of Lynn. While I want our ownership group to be proven right by choosing McDermott, I don’t think they are necessarily proven wrong should Lynn have early success.

If Lynn becomes the next hall of fame head coach and the Bills continue to struggle we can obviously be upset about how decisions were made. Yet that’s a long ways off. To do that Lynn will have to do something that hasn’t happened in Buffalo, and that’s draft a franchise QB. He has a few years with Philip Rivers, but that’s a short window.

Let’s hope he uses that window to beat up on Kansas City in 2017!

Ideally both Lynn and the Buffalo Bills find success under these new regimes. I like what Lynn did and he has put in the time and work to deserve extended success in Los Angeles.

Lynn is not the only ex-Bills coach who will be a new head coach in 2017 though, let’s look at our next team.

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