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Levy and Jim Ringo are the only Bills coaches to have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. There have been six "interim" head coaches in Bills history. First, in 1968, head coach Joe Collier was fired two games into the season and replaced by Bills personnel director Harvey Johnson. [4]
Marvin Daniel Levy (/ ˈ l iː v iː /; born August 3, 1925) [1] is an American former football coach and executive who was a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) for seventeen seasons. He spent most of his head coaching career with the Buffalo Bills, leading them from 1986 to 1997.
Prior to the 2015 season, the team hired former Jets' head coach Rex Ryan to become the next head coach of the Bills. [50] The team went 8–8 in 2015 and 7–9 in 2016. [51] [52] Ryan was dismissed with one game remaining in the 2016 season, with Anthony Lynn finishing the season as interim. [53]
After a public contest, the team adopted the same name as the AAFC Buffalo Bills, the former All-America Football Conference team in Buffalo. The AAFC Bills franchise was named after the Buffalo Bills, a popular barbershop quartet, [7] whose name was a play on the name of the famed Wild West showman Buffalo Bill Cody. The franchises are not ...
Pages in category "Buffalo Bills head coaches" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Sean Michael McDermott (born March 21, 1974) is an American professional football coach who is the head coach for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He began his NFL coaching career as an assistant for the Philadelphia Eagles in 2001, serving as defensive coordinator from 2009 to 2010, and was later the defensive coordinator of the Carolina Panthers from 2011 to 2016.
Rex Ashley Ryan [1] (born December 13, 1962) is an American former football coach and analyst. Ryan was formerly the head coach of the New York Jets and Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL), and also held various coaching positions with seven other NFL and college teams.
In January 1962, Saban was named the coach of the Buffalo Bills, another AFL team, signing a one-year contract worth $20,000 ($201,000 in 2023 dollars). [47] The Bills had a 7–6–1 record in Saban's first season and came in third in the AFL's eastern division behind the Houston Oilers and the Patriots. [ 48 ]