Dennis Kayser (born c. 1954) is an American football executive and former coach. He is the senior director of on-field operations for the National Football League (NFL). Kayser was the head football coach at State University of New York at Cortland in Cortland, New York from 1986 to 1989, where he accumulated a record of 26âÂÂ15 and took the Red Dragons to the NCAA Division III playoffs twice.