He took a team that was an expansion and turned it into tough and rugged, and our first great Running back in Curt Warner, then followed with John L Williams, he also was partly involved with adding had a guy called Tez to the roster.
He didn't have great drafts really but those are the standouts, Tom Catlin was a very good DC and we had a few guys that he made outstanding he took to a elite level. It's where our legacy of a defensive team came from. Kenny Easley, Green, Bryant and Nash and a few others from the Patera era melded into a fantastic defense.
Knox didn't want to put the game in the hands of a QB for some reason, especially in the playoffs, which I really think was his undoing as being a Championship Coach.
But those Steel Blue Eyes when focused on a player could melt the toughest SOB into the ground, there wasn't a player that I ever saw stand up to Knox during a game, if you fumbled or threw a interception you were going to dread going to the sideline or the film study. But that same toughness carried over to his players on game day, we were a physical offense and more physical defense.
Expansion teams were not suppose to be this good this fast, who were those uppity people in Seattle that thought they could win in this league, and all the while come out of at the time the toughest division in football.
Credit Knox in a large part.
RIP Ground Chuck !
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