{"id":10983,"date":"2017-01-20T00:16:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T05:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=10983"},"modified":"2017-01-20T04:22:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T09:22:11","slug":"bills-hire-rick-dennison-offensive-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2017\/01\/20\/bills-hire-rick-dennison-offensive-coordinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Bills Hire Rick Dennison as Offensive Coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Bills announced Thursday they&#8217;ve agreed to terms with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/D\/DennRi20.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rick Dennison<\/a><\/strong> to become the team&#8217;s offensive coordinator. Dennison was with the Denver Broncos for the last two seasons in the same capacity.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#39;ve agreed with Rick Dennison to be our offensive coordinator. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6XAjImwdtD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/6XAjImwdtD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Buffalo Bills (@BuffaloBills) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuffaloBills\/status\/822223646580240385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 19, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Buffalo Bills Hire Rick Dennison as Offensive Coordinator<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Kalispell, MT native brings a wealth of Super Bowl experience to Buffalo both as a coach and a player. In addition to winning Super Bowl 50 as Broncos offensive coordinator, he also won two rings as the team&#8217;s special teams coach during their wins in Super Bowl XXXII and XXXIII.<\/p>\n<p>His nine-year stint in the league as a linebacker (1982-90) also resulted in three Super Bowl appearances, all with Denver.<\/p>\n<p>The Bills will be the third team Dennison has worked with as an offensive coordinator. He previously held the position with the Houston Texans from 2010-13. During his four seasons in charge, Houston finished sixth or better in total offense on two occasions.<\/p>\n<p>The move is the latest by new head coach <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/McDeSe20.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sean McDermott<\/a><\/strong> aimed at assembling his coaching staff. The team hired <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/F\/FrazLe20.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leslie Frazier<\/a><\/strong> to be its defensive coordinator last Friday. Frazier\u00a0coached the Baltimore Ravens secondary in 2016 and was Minnesota Vikings head coach from 2011-13.<\/p>\n<p>Dennison served as Ravens quarterbacks coach for one season in 2014 before rejoining the Broncos. That year, Baltimore finished 10-6 and made the divisional round of the AFC playoffs before falling to New England. Quarterback <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/F\/FlacJo00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Flacco<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s rating of 91 was the second-highest of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo&#8217;s quarterback situation for 2017 remains shrouded in uncertainty. Current starter <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/T\/TaylTy00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyrod Taylor<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s 2017 salary of $12 million plus a $15.5 million option is guaranteed for injury only. Taylor underwent sports hernia surgery on January 5th. Should he fail to pass a physical on March 11th, he&#8217;s entitled to the entire $27.5 million sum.<\/p>\n<p>With the Bills hiring Dennison, there are now five NFL teams with vacancies at offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/630770468\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/630770468?et=Qwhj7K2lTo9bPxCBvSKrXw&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=AjTwuafniRDpXfal3t9Jv-7yle7mHTn_LkxvJBvbiuc=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Bills filled their vacant offensive coordinator position Thursday, hiring Rick Dennison who previously was on the Denver Broncos coaching staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":10987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,36],"tags":[682,177,266,1529,40,1549,1159],"class_list":["post-10983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bills","category-nfl-news","tag-afc-east","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-denver-broncos","tag-leslie-frazier","tag-nfl","tag-rick-dennison","tag-sean-mcdermott"],"modified_by":"John Bava","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}