Bills DL coach Bill Kollar in as DL coach

by b0ng on Jan 20, 2009 12:48 PM CST Comment 2 comments

Everybody's favorite McClain writes here:

"The Texans have hired Long-time NFL defensive line coach Bill Kollar to replace Jethro Franklin, who was fired after the season.

Kollar, 56, has been Buffalo's defensive line coach the last three years. He also has coached the defensive line at St. Louis (2001-05) and Atlanta (1990-00). Kollar coached in Super Bowls with the Falcons (1998) and Rams (2001).

During his 19 seasons as a defensive line coach, Kollar has worked for head coaches Jerry Glanville, June Jones, Dan Reeves, Mike Martz and Dick Jauron.

Here's a copy and paste from the Bills website:

20th Year in NFL/3rd with the Bills

COACHING EXPERIENCE: Continues to stress ball pursuit and a penetrating pass-rushing style for the Bills’ defensive line ... Under Kollar, DE Aaron Schobel earned his second Pro Bowl selection following the 2007 season as he led the team with six forced fumbles and tied for the team-lead with eight tackles for loss and set a career-high with 96 tackles; Four of the team’s leaders in tackles-for-loss came on the defensive line (Schobel, DE Chris Kelsay (8), DT Kyle Williams (7) and DT John McCargo (7)) … In his first season with the Bills in 2006, Buffalo’s defensive ends ranked tied for fourth in the NFL with 26.5 sacks … helped Schobel, Kelsay and DE Ryan Denney all post career seasons. Schobel recorded a career-high 14.0 sacks and was voted a starter in the Pro Bowl. He added 95 tackles and led the team with three forced fumbles. Denney recorded career highs with 72 tackles and 6.0 sacks. Kelsay added career highs with 88 tackles and 5.5 sacks. … as the defensive line coach with the St. Louis Rams from 2001-05 his unit quickly emerged as one of the toughest and most relentless front fours in the NFL…in his five years coaching the D-line for St. Louis, he helped DE Leonard Little emerge as a premier sack artist, with 57 sacks in five seasons....prior to his time with the Rams, Kollar served as the defensive line coach for the Atlanta Falcons from 1990-00…in 1998, the Falcons' defensive line tied for the NFL lead by giving up only six rushing touchdowns and set a team record by allowing an average of 75.2 rushing yards as Atlanta won the NFC Championship and earned a trip to Super Bowl XXXIII…began his coaching career as assistant defensive line/special teams coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1984...moved to the University of Illinois to coach the defensive line and special teams (1985-87), then served in the same capacity at Purdue University (1988-89). PLAYING EXPERIENCE: Was a defensive lineman for eight seasons in the NFL... a first-round selection (23rd overall) by Cincinnati in the 1974 NFL draft and played three seasons for the Bengals…moved to Tampa Bay, where he started at every position on the line from 1977-81…played in the 1979 NFC Championship game against the Rams.

PERSONAL: Played college football at Montana State, where he earned an all-America selection and was named the most valuable player in the Senior Bowl…Kollar and his wife, Jan, have two sons, Chad and Clint.

William Wallace Kollar is his name supposedly. So there you go.

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Smithiak are consistent

They don’t interview candidates if they do not plan on hiring them before the interview. Who did they interview for DC? One guy, who was already on staff. Who did they interview for the DBacks? One guy who may have been a prerequisite to getting Alex Gibbs back for a second year. Who did they interview for D Line? Two guys, but they offered the job to the first candidate, Rod Marinelli, who turned us down in favor of Chicago.

Because none of the hires were announced soon after the firings were made, the process was methodical. Each candidate must have been thoroughly researched and was brought in only because Smithiak were already convinced that they would be an asset. The interviews were the final step in the process where the candidate could only talk himself out of a job. None of them did & they were all offered a job either at the interview or soon thereafter. Some would see this as a positive, I still see it as a negative. On the positive side Kubiak may be building up good will in the coaching community that he will not waste your time with a meaningless interview. Because the coaching community is a neverending carousel, this is a good thing. The negative to me is that he may be passing up opportunities to get “free” ideas by interviewing multiple candidates for each position. He may ,however, already be doing that with his research and/or phone interviews.

At any rate our defensive staff is set. All we have left is trainer and strength & conditioning coach to hire.

by oiler-texan diehard on Jan 20, 2009 2:20 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Interesting

Obivously the profile is on th Bills official site, it’s going to concentrate on his positive high lights, but some of it is impressive. One thing I definitely like is that he as extensive experience at the position that we hired him for, not an experienced position coach that we decided to promote and give him his first crack as a coordinator or head assistant. I don’t know that much about him, but one of the most interesting pieces of information is the one that I couldn’t find – his assocation with Kubiak or anyone on his staff. It just seemed random, which I’m not exactly against. Some fresh blood in th organization could do some good, even if it’s to shut up assholes like Richard Justice when all they want to talk about is all the ex-Denver talk.

BTW, the most random thing was the Wikipedia page already describes him s the Texans D Line coach.

Let's get a better fight song.

by Jake on Jan 20, 2009 2:34 PM CST reply actions 0 recs