Bills hire Joe Danna as safeties coach

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The Bills have made an addition to their defensive coaching staff.

The team announced that they have hired Joe Danna as their new safeties coach. They fired Jim Salgado after their playoff loss to the Bengals last month.

Danna was the Texans safeties coach last season and and spent the previous five seasons filling a variety of secondary roles on Jacksonville’s coaching staff. He’s also worked as defensive backs coach with the Jets, Falcons, and Dolphins since 2008.

The change with the safeties coach is the only known one for the Bills in the wake of their disappointing ouster from the postseason during the divisional round.

4 responses to “Bills hire Joe Danna as safeties coach

  1. How was a Safeties coaching change a necessity? Having no pass rush puts pressure on your secondary, esp if you have several injuries. Bills need new DC, its shown its ugly head in the playoffs for two straight years, the strategy aint working. Frazier should have been axed. If they fire him immediately after the game, maybe they could have had Vic Fangio, maybe Jim Schwartz (not sure if he got hired before that game).

  2. They need to fire Leslie Frazier but wont because they’re afraid to, and even the optically challenged can see why.

  3. Not sure McD would want a DC with such a high profile like Fangio or Schwartz when he’s a defensive guy himself and has a strong opinion on how the D should be handled… Considering Frazier just stands there on the sideline squinting and scowling at the field the entire game, I get the feeling he’s more like a Bieniemy type and McD is calling the defensive shots.

  4. No Dice says:
    February 2, 2023 at 1:19 pm
    Not sure McD would want a DC with such a high profile like Fangio or Schwartz when he’s a defensive guy himself and has a strong opinion on how the D should be handled… Considering Frazier just stands there on the sideline squinting and scowling at the field the entire game, I get the feeling he’s more like a Bieniemy type and McD is calling the defensive shots.

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    Well then, its clear, they need to fire McD and hire an offensive minded coach with along with a creative DC. The Pegulas got the scratch to hire almost anyone. They would not have done so, but say right after the loss at home against Cincy they fire McD, its possible they could have taken a run at Payton?

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