Bills hire Joe Brady as head coach on 5-year deal

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Under Joe Brady over the past two seasons the offense has produced a league MVP quarterback and a rushing champion. Michael Reaves / Getty Images


The Buffalo Bills are promoting offensive coordinator Joe Brady to be the franchise’s next head coach on a five-year deal, the team announced on Tuesday. Over the last two seasons, Brady’s offense has produced a league MVP quarterback and a rushing champion. Running back James Cook gained 1,912 scrimmage yards and scored 14 touchdowns last season, while quarterback Josh Allen threw for 3,668 yards and 25 touchdowns against 10 interceptions. He also rushed for 14 scores.

The Bills this season ranked fourth in scoring and total yards. They ranked second in yards per rushing attempt and third in yards per pass. Buffalo fired head coach Sean McDermott on Jan. 19 after nine seasons, following the Bills’ overtime loss to the Denver Broncos in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs. Brady interviewed for almost three-quarters of this year’s head coaching vacancies, including the Arizona Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons, Baltimore Ravens, Las Vegas Raiders and Miami Dolphins.

Brady has been an NFL head coaching candidate since winning the 2019 national championship as Louisiana State’s passing game coordinator. In his lone LSU season, Brady had quarterback Joe Burrow, running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire and receivers Ja’Marr Chase and Justin Jefferson — all first-round draft picks. After one season as Carolina Panthers offensive coordinator, Brady interviewed for five NFL head coach vacancies in the 2021 cycle. Within a year, the Panthers’ offense languished, and they fired him with five games left in the season. Brady’s quarterback was Sam Darnold, while star running back Christian McCaffrey missed 10 games.

Brady, 36, joined the Bills in 2022 as quarterbacks coach. When offensive coordinator Brian Daboll left to become head coach of the New York Giants, he took assistant quarterbacks coach Shea Tierney with him. The Bills replaced Daboll with quarterbacks coach Ken Dorsey, creating the space for Brady to come aboard.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7000201/2026/01/27/bills-joe-brady-head-coach-promotion/

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