"Pete Metzelaars' return to the Buffalo Bills is a homecoming in more ways than one.

Beside being back with the franchise for which he starred for 10 years, Metzelaars is back coaching at his playing position -- tight end. Metzelaars, the Bills' all-time best tight end, spent the past eight years working with offensive linemen with the Indianapolis Colts.

"I'm excited to get back involved really in the pass game," Metzelaars said Monday after being introduced as the team's newest position coach. "When you're an offensive line coach and they start talking pass routes or pass patterns, you just turn it off and move on. All you're concerned about is: 'Who are we blocking?' Now I get to be involved in that aspect of it. How are we putting it together? How are we attacking these people? What do they do? Where can we attack them? How do we need to attack them? So I'm very excited to be kind of reintroduced and reconnected with that whole aspect of the game.""