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3 minutes ago, Buffalo Barbarian said:

I was disappointed when he was fired and then we got bums like Kay Stevens and Hank Bullough

 

 

He wasn't fired.  He quit with 1 year left on his 6 year contract & moved on because he was fed up with Ralph's cheapness.  It was during his 2nd season as coach that the Bills became the 1st team to ever lose the #1 overall pick to the CFL.  Knox was pretty PO'd that Ralph wouldn't pay Cousineau and that was the beginning of the end even though he stayed until one year before his 6 year contract expired. https://www.nytimes.com/1983/01/26/sports/knox-quits-as-bills-coach-over-contract.html

 

Tension reportedly grew between Wilson and Knox when top players were not signed. One was the linebacker Tom Cousineau, who went to the Candian League out of college in 1979, then was signed by the Cleveland Browns when he came to the N.F.L. last year. The wide receiver Jerry Butler and the running back Joe Cribbs held out unsuccessfully in training camp last summer in an attempt to force new contracts.

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Just now, Albany,n.y. said:

He wasn't fired.  He quit with 1 year left on his 6 year contract & moved on because he was fed up with Ralph's cheapness.  It was during his 2nd season as coach that the Bills became the 1st team to ever lose the #1 overall pick to the CFL.  Knox was pretty PO'd that Ralph wouldn't pay Cousineau and that was the beginning of the end even though he stayed until one year before his 6 year contract expired. https://www.nytimes.com/1983/01/26/sports/knox-quits-as-bills-coach-over-contract.html

 

Tension reportedly grew between Wilson and Knox when top players were not signed. One was the linebacker Tom Cousineau, who went to the Candian League out of college in 1979, then was signed by the Cleveland Browns when he came to the N.F.L. last year. The wide receiver Jerry Butler and the running back Joe Cribbs held out unsuccessfully in training camp last summer in an attempt to force new contracts.

In his biography Knox, Knox openly states Ralph did not care if he put a winning team on the field. Good post!

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