New Buffalo Bills defensive coordinator Bobby Babich plans to lean on his long-standing relationship with head coach Sean McDermott as he adjusts to the job.
The son of longtime NFL defensive coach Bob Babich, Bobby was plucked out of the collegiate ranks in 2011, leaving Division 1 FCS program Eastern Michigan to join Ron Rivera’s upstart staff in Carolina. Babich’s official title with the Panthers was “administrative assistant to the coaching staff,” developing a rapport with new defensive coordinator Sean McDermott throughout his two years in Charlotte.
He’s one of just a handful of coaches who remain from McDermott’s initial staff, working up the ranks throughout the last seven years; he was named safeties coach in 2018 before ascending to linebackers coach in 2022. After taking interviews for several defensive coordinator vacancies around the league in the 2024 offseason, Buffalo named Babich its defensive coordinator to prevent teams from poaching him, a fitting culmination of his ascent up the staff.He never truly wanted to go elsewhere.
“I think a lot of things happen for a reason. I think that the position that we’re currently in, it’s funny, you look back to 2011, I’m a 26-year-old who thinks he knows football, and I didn’t know football. Now I’m here in this position with him. I would hope, and I do believe, that that relationship that we’ve had for now 13 years would help that.
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