Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

In the team's rainy first round home playoff game against the Vikings on December 26 1977 quarterback Pat Haden was having problems handling the wet ball and moving the team. keeping the family's name alive as an NFL assistant coach most recently as defensive backs coach of the Minnesota Vikings until 2006. Unfortunately for Knox by voluntarily leaving the Jets in 1967 he denied himself what would have been the only Super Bowl ring in his career as the Jets won the World Championship in 1968.

He is best remembered as head coach of three National Football League (NFL) teams the Seattle Seahawks the Buffalo Bills and the Los Angeles Rams serving two separate stints with the latter team over more than two decades.