ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator Anthony Lynn purposely avoided interviews for head-coaching vacancies last offseason in which he felt he was simply being used to fulfill a team's requirement for a minority interview under the NFL's Rooney Rule.
However, that wasn't the only obstacle Lynn faced in his quest to become an NFL head coach. Until Week 3 of this season, Lynn served as the Bills' running backs coach, a position he held with four other teams beginning in 2003. Aside from an experiment during a preseason game with the Jacksonville Jaguars early in his coaching career, Lynn had never called plays until this season.