“He has a way of shouting, you know what I mean?” said Edmunds. “He gives his point of view without raising his voice very much, but at the same time, you know exactly what he means when he is speaking, what is the tone of his voice.”
Perhaps he is Frazier’s former player. He spent five years with the Chicago Bears from 1981 to 1985, leading the historic defense of 85 in interceptions with six before breaking his knee in an unbalanced victory over the Patriots in Super Bowl XX. Frazier never played again, accelerating his transition to coaching.
“He’s the type of guy who never gets too high, never gets too low,” said safety Micah Hyde. “I think he being a former player, I think, has a role in that, because as a player, you can’t be up and down. With myself, as I cannot, if I have a good game, I may not get too high. If I have a bad game, I can’t be too low. You have to stay in the middle, because that’s how you keep improving. And I think that’s how Fraze is. ”
“He trusts the boys,” added Poyer, who, like White, Hyde and Milano, joined Buffalo the same year that Frazier joined him (Edmunds arrived in 2018). “He will tell you if you are not doing something right and will give you the credit for doing the right job. He is a coach who helped me to overcome my career – my four years here – I learned a lot about the game through Fraze.”
So we know that Frazier can teach. We know that players relate to him and he relates to players. Can he lead?
I’ll let Milano take care of that.
“He stays calm. That’s one thing I noticed. When things get a little bit difficult on the side, he is the one who is calming down, making adjustments and putting us in the right positions.”
And that, in turn, gives players confidence.
“Absolutely. Calm creates calm.”