The Buffalo Bills appear to have a new head coach.
Joe Brady is Staying in Buffalo
ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported on Tuesday that the Bills are working on a deal to finalize the hiring of offensive coordinator Joe Brady as their new coach.
Schefter also reported that Brady is signing a five-year deal.
The Bills parted ways with head coach Sean McDermott on Jan. 19 and have been running a coaching search for eight days, but their new head coach was sitting right down the hall.
Brady joined the Bills organization in 2022 as the quarterbacks coach. He then stepped up to the offensive coordinator position in the middle of the 2023 season after Buffalo decided to part ways with Ken Dorsey. Brady stayed on as offensive coordinator in 2024 and 2025, and there was a good chance he was going to land a head coaching job this cycle, even if it wasn’t with the Bills.
Brady interviewed with the Raiders and the Ravens, but Baltimore decided to land Los Angeles Chargers defensive coordinator Jesse Mitner, and Las Vegas is still looking for a head coach.
Josh Allen Might Have Played a Role
Quarterback Josh Allen likely played a significant role in Brady’s decision to stay with the Bills, and it will be interesting to see how the two perform together now that they have a head coach partnership.
Bills owner Terry Pegula spoke with the media last week and said Allen would be helping with the coaching search. Peguala noted that Allen didn’t have any say in Buffalo’s firing of McDermott, but he would have a say in who the next head coach would be.
The two biggest names emerging during the coaching search were Brady and former New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll. Daboll previously served as the Bills offensive coordinator from 2018 to 2021, during which he worked closely with Allen.
It always felt like Brady and Daboll were going to be the two main guys for the job, and now Brady will get a taste of his first head coaching experience.
Brady Bet on Himself
Last year’s coaching search showed that Brady had several potential head-coaching options, and the New Orleans Saints were among them.
Brady spent two seasons from 2018 to 2019 as an offensive assistant with the Saints before moving on to LSU as a passing game coordinator. Given Brady’s history with the city of New Orleans and the Saints, he was poised to secure their head coaching job. However, he ended up pulling out of the running at the last minute.
Brady waited a year to become a head coach, and he landed one of the best jobs a first-time head coach could dream about. Not many newcomers get the chance to work with one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time and a team ready to make a Super Bowl run. Still, Brady is fortunate enough to have both. He will likely go through some growing pains as he learns to be a head coach, but Allen will support him along the way.
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