ESPN analyst Tim Hasselbeck, who signed with the Bills out of Boston College in 2001 but didn’t make the final roster, said he spoke to the players and was told Schonert had become a divisive element on the team by openly contradicting head coach Dick Jauron’s philosophies in team meetings.
“I know personally, from talking to players on that team,” Hasselbeck said, “that Turk was actually talking to the players and blaming some of the lack of success the offense was having on the fact that this [offense] was being forced down his throat.
“When you have a coaching staff that isn’t pulling in the same direction to ultimately win football games, and you have coaches backstabbing other coaches, going behind their backs and saying, ‘Hey, I don’t like this idea, but this is what the head coach wants,’ you end up creating a situation where no one trusts anybody.”
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