San Diego Chargers Name Hal Hunter as the new Offensive Coordinator

There’s an argument to be made that he was responsible for the development of Travis Henry. 2000 was Henry’s first year and 2001 he was a workhorse 1400 yard back. Albeit a very average one (-1.9% DVOA and 19th in the league in DYAR).

Fairchild was hired with the Bills in Gregg Williams’ first year as HC (I was surprised that it wasn’t under Wade Phillips). The OC was Mike Sheppard. Sheppard was the OC in the San Diego from 1997-1998 under Kevin Gilbride. Then in 2002 Gilbride took over in Buffalo as the OC.

In 2003, Fairchild took the OC job for the St. Louis. Mike Martz was the Head Coach. Martz was Norv’s QB coach in Washington. Fairchild would not have called his own plays for the Rams. Although he probably did in 2005 after Martz stepped down as HC.

He went back to Buffalo in 2006, but the coaching staff had twice turned over. Dick Jauron had arrived and he brought in Fairchild (which would be an obvious connection if Gilbride had been the OC there and they wanted some continuity, but Mike Mularkey brought in his offense in the interim while he was HC). Perry Fewell was the DC under Jauron and is now the DC for the New York Giants, who have Gilbride as the their OC.

This isn’t SD related at all, but in the time where Fairchild as the Bills OC (and I assume he called plays since Jauron is a defense guy) he oversaw the changeover from the Losman-McGahee-Price Bills to the Edwards-Lynch-Evans Bills. He was also the OC when they brought in Fred Jackson, but only worked with him for a year. They finished 7-9 both years (and 7-9 the year after he left with most of his changes still in place).

The organization didn’t promote the QB coach that has failed to teach Rivers how to properly play fake…

I hope the front office plans on finding talent somewhere this offseason

I never had much use for Fairchild as a play caller but you won’t have to worry about that.