Joe Brady has only been the head coach of the Buffalo Bills for two games, but apparently that was long enough to make a little franchise history.
With Buffalo’s 41-31 win over the Detroit Lions on Thursday night, Brady became the first head coach in Bills history to begin his Buffalo career 2-0. And there have been plenty of chances.
Brady is the 19th different man to serve as head coach of the Bills since the franchise began play in 1960. Three of those coaches — Marv Levy, Jim Ringo, and Forrest
Gregg — are members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, although Ringo and Gregg earned their spots in Canton primarily for their playing careers.
Until Brady, only three of those coaches had even managed to win Game 1. Levy did it in 1986, Rex Ryan followed in 2015, and Sean McDermott joined the list in 2017. But all three lost the following week, leaving 2-0 as a mark no new Bills head coach had reached.
That is, until Thursday night.
If Brady was going to be the one to finally do it, the setting wasn’t bad either. The win came in Buffalo’s home opener, which also happened to be the first regular-season game played in the new Highmark Stadium.
Brady took over a team with plenty of expectations and, while two games certainly isn’t enough to tell us what the Joe Brady era will ultimately look like, it is enough to put his name somewhere no other Bills head coach has been.
Maybe he’ll even need to change up his usual post-game tweet — at least for this week.
2-0.
