The_Philster
04-04-2004, 08:01 AM
By LARRY FELSER, Buffalo News
The football question I get asked most frequently by Buffalo Bills fans these days is: "How is this new coach going to be?"
I have a stock answer: "Ask me again in the middle of October."
Actually, that's the earliest date for an honest appraisal of Mike Mularkey. But people keep asking anyway because there is a certain cynicism about the Bills hiring another NFL assistant without major college or NFL experience as a head coach.
There are two main reasons for the cynicism. The first is that Mularkey's predecessor, Gregg Williams, never won the allegiance of the fans and the fans were proved right. The second is that the three most successful head coaches in Bills' history - Marv Levy, Lou Saban and Chuck Knox - had serious head-coaching experience before they came to Buffalo....
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The football question I get asked most frequently by Buffalo Bills fans these days is: "How is this new coach going to be?"
I have a stock answer: "Ask me again in the middle of October."
Actually, that's the earliest date for an honest appraisal of Mike Mularkey. But people keep asking anyway because there is a certain cynicism about the Bills hiring another NFL assistant without major college or NFL experience as a head coach.
There are two main reasons for the cynicism. The first is that Mularkey's predecessor, Gregg Williams, never won the allegiance of the fans and the fans were proved right. The second is that the three most successful head coaches in Bills' history - Marv Levy, Lou Saban and Chuck Knox - had serious head-coaching experience before they came to Buffalo....
more (http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20040404/1041413.asp)