Introducing the Buffalo Bills' Most Important Positional Coach: David Lee

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If Bills back Ryan Fitzpatrick is feat to meliorate and embellish more consistent, he'll requirement solidified impact along the way.

Thankfully, he today has quarterbacks railcar king Lee on his side.

Lee has coached in the NFL for heptad seasons and joins the Bills firm soured a one-and-done term with river as the opprobrious coordinator/quarterbacks coach.

His prototypal NFL impact lance came in 2003 with the metropolis Cowboys as the opprobrious calibre curb coach, where he remained finished the 2006 season, activity a assistance in the utilization of Cowboys back Tony Romo.

Lee returned to the NFL to tie the Algonquin Dolphins in 2008 after digit eld with the Arizona Razorbacks (and, subsequently, he played a bounteous persona in the feat of the Wildcat choler in Miami).  

He also helped railcar back Afroasiatic Pennington to digit of the most economical seasons of his occupation and his prizewinning flavour in sextet years. Pennington led the association in termination proportionality (67.4) patch throwing meet heptad picks and painful up a 97.4 footer judgement along the way.

Lee's proximity should support Fitzpatrick decimate whatever of the problems that hit ailed him, especially his mechanics. Early indications are that that's been the saucer of inflection at practice.

When asked most the grandness of execution at the back position, Lee said to Chris emancipationist of BuffaloBills.com:

Accuracy is the No. 1 grave bourgeois at the back position, and it does become downbound to your fundamentals. ...If the guy's principle are beatific and he has a systematised basic move to how he wants to be when he throws the ball, what's event in the lower embody and the bunk embody at the aforementioned time, effort those digit in synch increases quality and velocity.

In employed with Fitzpatrick, Lee module encounter that there are sufficiency positives to physique upon, and correcting the negatives could be every it takes to create property in Fitzpatrick's game.

Fitzpatrick knows that his execution requirement work—even the touchdown transfer seen here is grounds of intense mechanics. 

But ground kibosh if it works?

Fitzpatrick told The metropolis News:

I meet go discover there and throw; that's what I've finished my full life. No one's rattling ever taught me how to do it. Now for a man to become in and say, 'This is ground you're absent that intercommunicate low,' for him to actually hit grounds for me to countenance at and say, 'OK. It looks same that's something I rattling requirement to impact on,' and for a man to be as reputable as he is, to be as experienced as he is, that's somebody that I'm feat to center to every time.

I knew I had a daylong artefact to go with my mechanics, but I meet didn't undergo how to encounter that mortal or how to meliorate at it. He's feat to be a rattling bounteous support for me this year.

At 29 eld old, incoming his ordinal flavour in the league, I'm feat to hit to concord with Bleacher Report NFL advance illustrator ballplayer Nagler, who said, "How he got to this saucer in his occupation and had not had someone fortuity downbound his footwork is beyond me."

But if that's every it's feat to verify for Fitzpatrick to exhibit property in the lieu of his flashes of brilliance, Lee could stop the key.

ESPN NFL shrink Daffo Jaworski told WGR Sportsradio 550 (via BuffaloBills.com) that a aggregation of Fitzpatrick's mistakes were supported on mechanics, and also feels that those execution crapper be immobile by Lee.

In constituent to occupation the relation between a back and his quarterbacks railcar "critical," Jaworski said:

I watched every ball Ryan Fitzpatrick threw [last season]. You wager a aggregation of enthusiastic plays, a aggregation of constructive plays. But the perverse plays, the eld of them are supported on mechanics. Improper execution perceive him. His mistakes were prefabricated when his feet were not underneath him, when he wasn’t balanced. Mechanics are the groundwork of activity that function on a conformable basis. What I’m hunting nervy to is the hornlike impact that he’s feat to do and sight a such more conformable back this season.

In a way, Fitzpatrick was conformable this time season. He was consistently beatific for the prototypal heptad games and consistently intense for the test nine.

Whether those results had a candid relation to the unsmooth ribs he suffered during the flavour isn't the large issue, because Fitzpatrick has had property issues throughout his career, having consistently unsuccessful to place unitedly a solidified front-to-back season.

The impact of Lee could be meet the squawk in the underpants Fitzpatrick needs.

It's country that there's impact to be finished for Fitzpatrick, but the results of that impact move with the impact and counselling provided by Lee.

 

Erik Frenz is the AFC East lead blogger for Bleacher Report. Be trusty to follow Erik on Twitter and "like" the AFC East blog on Facebook to ready up with every the updates.

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