Red Raider great Anthony Lynn chases his Buffalo Bills dream, leveraging deep ties and Super Bowl experience for the head coaching vacancy.
Anthony Lynn has earned another chance.
Lynn is a native of McKinney who starred at Celina High School and then at Texas Tech before an NFL playing career at running back from 1992 to 1989, is interviewing this weekend for the Buffalo Bills head coaching vacancy.
Buffalo fired Sean McDermott on Monday morning and now the search is on for a successor ... and there is some irony to the former Red Raiders star's involvement.
Lynn - who went on from Lubbock to help the Denver Broncos win two Super Bowls - owns a lengthy coaching career resume that includes stints as the running backs coach for his hometown Dallas Cowboys, as the head coach of the Chargers and in 2016, as the interim head coach of these same Bills.
In fact, Lynn was a finalist for the Buffalo head coaching job in 2017 that went to none other than McDermott.
Lynn, 57 - who still maintains a home in the DFW area - is presently the Washington Commanders run-game coordinator and running backs coach.
There is a great deal of speculation that the Bills want to hire a Josh Allen-friendly coach, which is why Brian Daboll (former Bills coordinator recently fired as the New York Giants head coach), Joe Brady (the Bills offensive coordinator who presently works with Allen) and Davis Webb (the Denver Broncos assistant who is a former Allen teammate) are among the hottest names on their wish list.
But Lynn is offensive-minded, experienced and knows his way around Buffalo.
Lynn played in Lubbock from 1988 to 1991, and he was an All-Southwest Conference running back in 1990. The 6-3, 230-pounder then advanced to the NFL as an undrafted free agent and ended up playing eight seasons in the pros.