Rex Ryan Already Throwing His Headset in Buffalo... Because of Pizza

Rex Ryan is the first Bills coach in more than a decade that the public outside Buffalo will care about. Hell, he’s the first coach since Wade Phillips that anyone outside Buffalo will have heard of. Did anyone care about Wade Phillips? He was the guy who replaced Marv Levy. Levy, of course, was the guy to guide the Bills to four straight Super Bowls. Since Phillips – who never won a playoff game with the Bills or any other team – the Bills have had a revolving door of nobodies who never did nothin’.

Remember Gregg Williams? He went 17-31 from 2001 to 2003.

Mike Mularkey? 14 total wins from 2004-2005.

Dick Jauron? He’s the most successful coach since Phillips with a 24-33 record stretching all the way from 2006 to 2009.

Of course, he got fired and Perry Fewell took over. Seriously. That happened. Fewell went 3-4 before being replaced by Chan Gailey.

Gailey went 16-32 from ’12-’14.

The groundwork laid by Gailey made it possible for Doug Marrone to win 9 games last season. That was the first winning season since Mike Mularkey’s first year. Does it go without saying that neither of those guys made the playoffs? It should.

Now the Bills have Rex Ryan. Rex Ryan spent 6 years coaching in New Jersey which automatically makes him more relevant than any other coach the Bills have even interviewed in the last decade. This is the guy who took Mark Sanchez to two straight AFC Championship games. This is a coach that has a Pizza Hut commercial before he’s even coached a game.This is the new identity of the Buffalo Bills and that identity has a cheese-filled crust.