List of Buffalo Bills head coaches

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This is a list of head coaches of the Buffalo Bills. The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo, New York metropolitan area, playing seven of their home games in the suburb of Orchard Park, and, beginning in 2008, an eighth home game in Toronto. They are members of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Bills began competitive play in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League and joined the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL merger.

The Bills won two consecutive American Football League titles in 1964 and 1965, but the club has not won a league championship since the merger. Buffalo is also the only team to win four consecutive American Football Conference Championships, though they failed to win any of the subsequent Super Bowls.

The current coach, Wade Phillips has lead the team into the playoffs twice, although never winning a game. Harvey Johnson who coached the 1971 season has coached the poorest statistically, with a winning percentage of 0.071. Lou Saban, the second coach of the Bills, coached the best statistically, with a winning percentage of 0.679.

[edit] Key

      Elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame

# Number of coaches[1]
GC Games Coached
W Wins
L Loses
T Ties
W – L % Win – Loss percentage


[edit] Coaches

# Name Term Regular Season Playoffs Awards Reference
GC W L T W – L % GC W L
1 Buster Ramsey 1961–1961 27 11 16 0 0.407 – – – [2]
2 Lou Saban 1962–1965 53 36 17 3 0.679 3 2 1 [3]
3 Joe Collier 1966–1968 40 14 26 0 0.350 1 0 1 [4]
4 John Rauch 1969–1970 28 7 20 1 0.250 – – – [5]
5 Harvey Johnson 1971 14 1 13 0 0.071 – – – [6]
6 Jim Ringo 1976–1977 23 3 20 0 0.130 – – – [7]
7 Chuck Knox 1978–1982 68 32 36 0 0.470 3 2 1 [8]
8 Kay Stephenson 1982–1985 36 10 26 0 0.277 – – – [9]
9 Hank Bullough 1985–1986 21 4 17 0 0.190 – – – [10]
10 Marv Levy 1986–1997 169 112 57 0 0.662 17 9 8 [11]
11 Wade Phillips 1998–2000 48 29 19 0 0.604 2 0 2 [12]

[edit] References

  1. ^ A running total of the number of coaches of the Redskins. Thus any coach who has two separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
  2. ^ Buster Ramsey. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
  3. ^ Lou Saban. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
  4. ^ Joe Collier. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
  5. ^ John Rauch. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
  6. ^ Harvey Johnson. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
  7. ^ Jim Ringo. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
  8. ^ Chuck Knox. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
  9. ^ Kay Stephenson. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
  10. ^ Hank Bullough. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
  11. ^ Marv Levy. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
  12. ^ Marv Levy. databaseSports.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
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