After a year from the game, former Buffalo Bills defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier seems keen on getting back into coaching come next season.
According to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler, Frazier will interview for the Miami Dolphins’ defensive coordinator job.
Frazier, 64, spent six seasons as the Bills’ defensive coordinator from 2017 to 2022, while also adding assistant head coach to his title in 2020.
He then took a leave of absence for the 2023 season, spending time as an analyst at NFL Network in that time.
allowed and yards allowed in three of his final four seasons with the team.
Outside of his time with the Bills, Frazier is best-known as the head coach of the Minnesota Vikings from 2010 to 2013.
He finished his time in Minnesota with a 21-32-1 record, but did lead the Vikings to the playoffs in 2012 thanks to an MVP year from running back Adrian Peterson.
Frazier interviewed for head-coaching jobs with the Las Vegas Raiders and Los Angeles Chargers earlier this offseason, but with those positions filled, he appears to be shifting his focus back to defensive coordinator openings.
The feeling of coming up short in the postseason has become all too familiar for the Bills. In the years since they ended their long playoff drought, the bar has been raised in large part because of Allen’s play.
Despite having the third-best winning percentage in the NFL since Allen was drafted in 2018, the Bills have gone to one AFC Championship in that time and have zero Super Bowl appearances.
Allen’s postseason play has not been the issue — 64.6% completions, 21 passing touchdowns, four interceptions, 83 rushing attempts for 563 yards and five rushing scores — which leads to a natural question about whether the group around him is good enough to take the next step, on top of questions about the defense’s struggles to stop Patrick Mahomes in the postseason.
Allen will be 28 years old and in his seventh NFL season as 2024 starts, a season the Bills are entering with significant questions and minimal cap space to work with.
This isn’t a team that’s rebuilding, Beane reiterated on Tuesday, speaking of a roster that has quite literally been plays away.
But the same results have left a fan base disappointed, and answers in short supply.
