The Buffalo Bills continue their collection of X-Carolina Panther players. This X- Panther has a very familiar name that will make Buffalo fans cringe. They might get excited, but only in anger hearing the name Bryan Cox. The same name of one Buffalo Bills nemesis in the 1990’s. Bryan Cox may be public enemy number one in the Bills mafia book for all-time. The former Miami Dolphin linebacker was never gun-shy about his hateful feelings towards Buffalo and the Bills. The Bryan Cox the Bills just signed is the son of the biggest Cox that ever came into the beloved city of Buffalo. Bryan Cox Jr. playing for the Bills, a team his father hated. His father’s arch-rival. Are the Bills fans expected to root for the son who comes from the father that they loathed?

In 1993, Bryan Cox Senior’s words echoed all over the air waves about his opinions about the Bills. Cox Sr. said, “I don’t like the Buffalo Bills as a team.” “I don’t like them as people.” “I don’t like the city.” I don’t like the organization.”

In the 1990’s Bills and the Miami Dolphins was a very intense rival. It was Jim Kelly versus Dan Marino twice a year plus they met in the playoffs. The hate was pure like it is today with the Evil Empire, New England Patriots. You had two masterminds coaching on each team. Don Shula earned himself a chain of steak houses with his X’s and O’s. Then the great Marv Levy, one of the greatest historians of the game. Levy could rally his troops even with the great falls with four Superbowl losses. Bryan Cox Senior knew on that day the Buffalo faithful would greet him with loud boos after he shared his thoughts to the media. He double saluted the fans with the flip of the birds walking in like some kind of Wrestlemania as foul language spewed out of his mouth before the Dolphins faced the Bills that Sunday. The jeers from the fans became louder then a heavy metal band playing inside a small room.

Bryan Cox Sr was caught on camera and was fined. Cox that day was jacked up as he had one sack and five tackles. Miami ended up winning that game and Cox had the last laugh of the day. It was not just one incident with Bryan Cox Sr. and the Buffalo crowd and the football team. Bryan Cox was ejected for fighting with Buffalo Bills running back Carwell Gardner and while being ushered off the field as he was ejected from the game, he spat towards fans and may have hissed at them. Bryan Cox Sr spent 12 seasons in the NFL. Besides the Dolphins of course, he played for the Jets and Patriots, both being other teams in the Bills division. When he was not in the AFC East he played in Chicago and New Orleans.

The son of Bryan Cox Junior may have more of his mother’s side than his father in him. Bills GM Brandon Beane and head coach Sean McDermott have always brought in guys with high character. Bryan Cox Junior has played three seasons in the NFL. Cox Junior was undrafted and signed with the Panthers in 2017. Cox Junior played his college ball at Florida University. Three seasons as a Gator he tallied up 98 tackles with ten sacks. Last year Bryan Cox Junior split his season with the Panthers and the Browns. The defensive end has played mostly special teams in his NFL career. Cox did get some starts in Cleveland on the defense. Bryan Cox Jr. is 6’3 tall weighing in at 270 and he will be competing for a back up role with the team. Cox Jr.is familiar with the new Bills defensive line coach Eric Washington who coached him in Carolina. Mario Addison and Vernon Butler, two teammates who played with Cox Jr. last season, signed with the Bills this off season from Carolina; you may have already known that. The common theme of tracing everything back to Carolina.

Most Buffalo Bills fans may not like the idea of Bryan Cox Senior’s son playing for their beloved team. In Chicago they would say on the Southside, “I’d rather my sister live in a whorehouse than be a Cubs fan.” This is how we feel about our beloved teams with the passion. We get outraged when enemies do bad things to our town, city and our team. We hold lifetime grudges. Bryan Cox Jr. is not coming in as a stud. If Cox Jr. makes a few solid plays, the boos will be less. If Cox Junior does well maybe a few cheers will be sprinkled in. If Bryan Cox Senior comes to the game perhaps he’ll be interesting in a little table slamming in the parking lot. When Dennis Rodman came to the Bulls it was hard at first. Then seeing the way Rodman played you fell in love with him in the uniform switch. This move may not materialize into anything. Bryan Cox Jr.may be on the roster for the year and not even hear a peep out of his play or lack of. Plenty of players every year on a football roster you never even know they are still on the team or have been gone for years. If Cox Junior does well, maybe he’d rather not walk the same path as his father and make up for all the bad stuff his old man did on the field especially versus the Bills. That may make Senior cringe, his own blood in Bills uniform breaking out and becoming a pretty good football player. Not some loud mouth punk like Senior spewing at the mouth and hurting his own team with wrestling theatrics on display. Overall Buffalo may win the psychological warfare and drive Senior insane in the brain.