ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) Sitting in a hot tub overlooking a postcard-perfect panoramic view of the sun setting behind the Smoky Mountains, Perry Fewell never had an inkling his long-imagined opportunity of a lifetime of being an NFL head coach hung on the misty horizon.

"No," the Buffalo Bills' newly appointed interim coach recalled of that July day. "I never envisioned it. I never thought about it sitting in that hot tub at that particular time."

Not this season, not in Buffalo, and especially not with the way things unfolded Tuesday, when the Bills defensive coordinator was promoted after his good friend Dick Jauron was abruptly fired in what could be the start of a major shakeup by team owner Ralph Wilson. (MORE)