daily dose of sports in the burgh.
Trey Wingo (via David Todd reports that the Buffalo Bills have hired former Pitt Panthers head coach Dave Wannstedt.
The Bills have announced they have fired George Edwards as defensive coordinator and given the job to Dave Wannstedt.
Good for Wannstedt, who is a native of Baldwin and who also played for the Panthers (and was later a graduate assistant) before returning to coach them. The Panthers decided after a 7-5 season in 2010 that they wanted more than he could offer them, but after Michael Haywood's firing due to domestic violence charges, a 6-6 2011 season, and the sudden departure of Todd Graham (and his much-mocked "high-octane" style) to Arizona State, it now looks like the Wannstedt years will be remembered fondly in contrast.
Wannstedt was the Bills' linebackers coach in 2011, but now he's moving up.
Wannstedt had previously been the head coach of the Chicago Bears and Miami Dolphins.
For more on the Buffalo Bills, check out Buffalo Rumblings. For more on the Pitt Panthers, there's Cardiac Hill.
0 comments
Edited by Charlie Wilmoth
Charlie was born and raised in Wheeling, about fifty miles southwest of Pittsburgh. For the last five years, he has been the author of the Pirates blog Bucs Dugout. He has a doctoral degree in music composition from the University of California, San Diego, and he... See my profile
OpenCalais - Powered by Thomson Reuters
•
Odds Shark 
Photographs by
dizfunk used in background montage under Creative Commons. Thank you.
