Day: June 18, 2016

Bills as NFL's First Female Coach

Kathryn Smith, Bills as NFL’s First Female Coach

Kathryn Smith, Buffalo Bills as NFL’s First Female Coach:

Sports is a field that is highly dominated by men particularly, football. This dominance extends beyond players to trainers. As a matter of fact, nearly all the coaches are men. But this is bound to change after Buffalo Bills announced Kathryn Smith as their teams quality control special teams couch. Her coaching position is historic as she is the first female to be named as a full time coaching.

Kathryn had for long worked as a football administrative coach and helped the assistant coaches before she was given this job. She was very productive and dedicated much of her precious time in helping the assistant coaches and the team as a whole in attaining high standards.

Bills as NFL's First Female Coach
                      Kathryn Smith, Bills as NFL’s First Female Coach

Quality control coaching involves more data analysis than simply coaching. Unfortunately, this is not as simple as it sounds. Actually, it requires high intelligence as the person entitled to this task is expected to get ahead of the other coaches and also acts as a platform for educating the assistant coaches.

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Buffalo Bills Preseason

2016 Buffalo Bills Preseason Schedule Time Date

2016 Buffalo Bills Preseason Schedule Time Date:

The 2016 Buffalo Bills preseason is an upcoming season of the National Football League (NFL). The team is led by their head coach of two years, Rex Ryan, and their general manager of four years Doug Whaley. This season is the 47th season in the National Football League and is the 57th season overall.

As many as nine members of the Bills from the 2015 team have been retained, and they include Mario Butler, Mike Gillislee and Corton Schmidt. Richie Incognito have been given a three-year extension, while Cordy Glenn’s extension is up to five years. Players from Cincinatti Bengals, New York Jets, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Indianapolis Colts have been traded.

Buffalo Bills Preseason
                           2016 Buffalo Bills Preseason Schedule Time Date

This preseason is very important for the Buffalo Bills, because the Bills will attempt to break their sixteen year playoff drought (multiple consecutive seasons of not winning), which is the longest drought active playoff drought among the major American football clubs like Lions, Eagles and Vikings. This drought is longest for the Buffalo Bills too, their last victory being at the 1999 AFC (American Football Conference) Wild Card playoffs.

Preseason Week 1:

Indianapolis Colts vs Buffalo Bills
Ralph Wilson Stadium
Saturday, August 13    
7:00p ET

Preseason Week 2:

New York Giants vs Buffalo Bills
Ralph Wilson Stadium
Saturday, August 20     
4:00p ET

Preseason Week 3:

Washington Redskins vs Buffalo Bills
FedEx Field
Friday, August 26    
7:30p ET

Preseason Week 4:

Detroit Lions vs Buffalo Bills
Ford Field
Thursday, September 1    
7:30p ET

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