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  1. 1. Bills Coaches

    • Buster Ramsey
      0
    • Lou Saban
      41
    • Joe Collier
      0
    • Harvey Johnson
      0
    • John Rauch
      2
    • Jim Ringo
      0
    • Chuck Knox
      20
    • Kay Stephenson
      0
    • Hank Bullough
      2
    • Marv Levy
      35
    • Wade Phillips
      3
    • Gregg Williams
      0
    • Mike Mularkey
      1
    • Dick Jauron
      3
    • Perry Fewell
      1
    • Chan Gailey
      4

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Bob in STL Veteran

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Saban was innovative too. In the AFL days he went mostly vertical passing game in what at the time was mostly a run oriented game. And making a 2 QB rotation work is something no one else has been able to do. Then he showed he could switch gears when he had OJ and switched to predominantly run oriented. Before Saban, OJ was on the verge of being declared a bust. Although I concede he didn't have the sophisticated schemes that Knox did.

 

 

Saban ran in the AFL days too. Saban won with the first 1,000 yard back in the AFL, Cookie Gilcrest.

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Ask me 5 years ago and I would have said Marv too. But his debacle with Jauron and the horrible drafts made me realize Marv wasn't the football man he was cracked up to be. The Super Bowl years were more about Polian's GM skills than Marv as coach.

 

 

Come on. Marv was a coach not a reluctant GM. He never wanted that job and he left it early.

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Knox was the most innovative, both on offense and defense. With offense, showing that the shotgun offense could be extremely productive, esp. on 3rd down where the Bills got a 60% 3rd down conversion rate for the whole year!!! when they started with the shotgun in 1980. Had he won the SB, which he came close to doing with Buffalo in 1980, he would be recognized by everyone as the best Bills coach. On defense he pioneered the 3-4.

 

Regarding the SB, the Bills narrowly lost to the Chargers in the divisional playoffs on the road, with several questionable calls as usual against Buffalo. Had they beaten the Chargers they would have easily beaten the Raiders in Buffalo; they had already beaten the Raiders 24-7 earlier in the season. The Raiders went on the defeat the Eagles in the SB since they didn't have to go through Buffalo to get there.

 

Anyway during the Knox era Buffalo was perhaps the most innovative team in the NFL. We haven't been that for a long time.

<_< Plus the Bills were absolutely horrid before he got here. He righted the ship and it was pretty exciting for a few seasons. I really wish the Bills could have got a coach like him this go around.

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I love Chuck Knox. I wasn't old enough to really start watching the Bills until 1972, so the 60's guys are not in the equation for me. The Knox era Bills, IMO, were the first teams that I ever thought had a chance to go all the way...and a large part of that was Knox. The 1980-1981 Bills, to this day, are my all-time favorite teams... Knox is often characterized as running a dull, plodding offense, and having a stellar defense. The defense was stellar, but the offense was highpowered and imaginative. Ferguson, Cribbs and Butler were awesome...

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knox for sure. anyone who can't see that is a big freaking idiot. saban coached in a pop warner league. and levy went 0-4 with what amounted to the afc pro bowl team.

 

Trouble with Knox was once the team got down by one or two touchdowns you basically knew the Bills were gonna lose. He wasn't that good at comebacks. With Levy, it was different - the Bills were usually in it until the end, as proven time and again.

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I went with Saban.

 

Took the team to two league championships, winning them both.

Highest winning percentage of any Bills coach .679.

 

Had he not left at the end of 1965 season after winning his second consecutive title, it may have been Bills instead of Chiefs playing in the first Super Bowl next year.

 

I went with Marv Levy, but that's a real impressive winning percentage and pretty much speaks for itself.

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I went with Saban.

 

Took the team to two league championships, winning them both.

Highest winning percentage of any Bills coach .679.

 

Had he not left at the end of 1965 season after winning his second consecutive title, it may have been Bills instead of Chiefs playing in the first Super Bowl next year.

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I am in total agreement with you

As a tribute the Saban, the Bills will add the word "NARODZENIA" to their jerseys next season. "NARODZENIA" is the word which Saban is seen shouting in the picture above, and it was an anagram which represented the essense of his unchanging coaching philosophy. When I was a player at Frogmouth State Saban briefly coached our team and tried to instill in us the principles of NARODZENIA but we never knew what he was talking about, and he quit after six weeks.

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I am in total agreement with you

As a tribute the Saban, the Bills will add the word "NARODZENIA" to their jerseys next season. "NARODZENIA" is the word which Saban is seen shouting in the picture above, and it was an anagram which represented the essense of his unchanging coaching philosophy. When I was a player at Frogmouth State Saban briefly coached our team and tried to instill in us the principles of NARODZENIA but we never knew what he was talking about, and he quit after six weeks.

back when i played for Large Mouth Bass University, i used to look forward to our rivalry with Frogmouth, our rallying cry for them was "BOHICA"

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Saban was innovative too. In the AFL days he went mostly vertical passing game in what at the time was mostly a run oriented game. And making a 2 QB rotation work is something no one else has been able to do. Then he showed he could switch gears when he had OJ and switched to predominantly run oriented. Before Saban, OJ was on the verge of being declared a bust. Although I concede he didn't have the sophisticated schemes that Knox did.

 

That's not how I remember that era, though I was just a lad. The AFL sold tickets on a wide open passing game. Blanda, Hadl, Dawson, Namath lit up the skies with passes, in direct opposition to 3yrds and a cloud of dust NFL. The mid-60's Bills were built defense first, supported by a great running game with Carlton and Gilchrest. Kemp/Lamonica bombs to Golden Wheels and Glenn Bass came as a result of respecting Buffalo's ground game. We are recognized as the first truley great defense of the AFL.

 

Back to topic, I voted Knox.

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