Ted Marchibroda, who coached the Baltimore Colts to three consecutive N.F.L. division championships in the 1970s and later installed a high-powered no-huddle offense that helped propel the Buffalo Bills to four straight Super Bowl games, died on Saturday in Weems, Va. He was 84.
His death was announced by the Indianapolis Colts, a team he coached in the 1990s.
Marchibroda spent six decades in pro football, as a quarterback, a head coach for three teams with roots in Baltimore, an offensive coach and a broadcaster.
He never reached a Super Bowl in his 12 seasons as a head coach, but he was remembered as an offensive innovator, and he had a number of future head coaches on his staffs, most notably Bill Belichick, assigned to odd jobs for Marchibroda’s first Baltimore Colts team at age 23.