Bill Lazor
Episode 245
9 OCT 2023
He is a Senior Offensive Assistant with the NFL’s Houston Texans. He has 15 years of NFL experience, including serving as Offensive Coordinator with the Miami Dolphins, Cincinnati Bengals, and Chicago Bears. He was also the Quarterbacks Coach for Cincinnati, a role that he’d held with Philadelphia, Washington, and Seattle as well. He had gotten his start in the NFL in 2003 as an offensive quality control coach with Atlanta and later became an offensive assistant with the Falcons. Along the way he had a three-year stretch serving as Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks Coach at the University of Virginia, was offensive coordinator at the University of Buffalo, and spent seven seasons as an assistant coach at Cornell University, for whom he had been a three-year starting quarterback, graduating with 26 passing and offensive program records.
Notable guest quotes:
“Our family (growing up) was very committed to our time in the Catholic church.”
“We all had our religious education through our church. I went to St. Stanislaus Catholic Church… I can still remember you could see the Polish writing kind of faintly behind the English writing on the Stations of the Cross in the church.”
“My mom worked part time as a Pastoral Minister… She worked for the church… maybe when I was in high school… My dad is still very involved.”
“My dad played college football and some semi-professional football.”
“We were fortunate in that the Catholic priest on campus at Cornell served our football team as a chaplain. So, he often traveled with us… We had… services… as part of some of our football weekends.”
“When I was going away to college, Monsignor Kelly gave me a silver cross and he told me the story about how during World War II, the priests would stand on the docks and hand out silver crosses to the soldiers as they were boarding the boats to go to Europe and fight… They wanted to give ‘em these crosses and tell ‘em… just wear this cross and just remember your faith.”
“When you see David, you see the look on his face, it just made you think, what was going through his head? Did he know at that moment how much the power of God helped him in his victory?”
“Because we’ve moved so much as a family with my coaching jobs, we’ve belonged to parishes all across the country, so we’ve seen all different kinds of parishes.”
“The best priests that we’ve had doing these Masses for us for our home games, they would treat it as if this little group that they saw on Saturday nights during the Fall was another parish of theirs.”
“I pray in the morning before I leave my house… I use the monthly book the Magnificat, and I’ve been using that probably since about 2004, and so the Magnificat has just kind of been part of my life for… almost 20 years and I just do the morning prayer from that.”
“I definitely have developed a love for… St. Monica and really, as a father, just often times have asked her to join me in prayer.”
Related link:
Bill’s bio on Houston Texans’ website
