Bills Confim Firing; Head Coach Jauron Speaks About Schonert
The first team offense’s inability to score an offensive touchdown in a five-game preseason ultimately forced Dick Jauron’s hand on Friday. Just 10 days before the season opener at New England Buffalo’s head coach fired offensive coordinator Turk Schonert.“We’ve removed Turk Schonert and relieved him of his responsibilities as offensive coordinator,” said Jauron. “We’ll move forward as quickly and as well as we possibly can from here. It’s nothing that we had planned on and was nothing enjoyable in any way shape or form. But that’s what occurred.”
“I think that it’s pretty obvious when you make a decision you know when you should do it,” he said. “I wasn’t thinking about firing him three days ago. I wasn’t thinking about it two weeks ago. But when you start thinking about it I think you need to move on it and do something. So when I started thinking about it I gave it a good deal of thought and did it. Clearly I believe it’s the right thing to do. It’s just a decision I needed to make I felt and made it.”
