Joe Brady for QB Coach? [Now Hired]

[Belgium_Bill]

14 minutes ago, TheyCallMeAndy said:

Just wait until it adds Fitzpatrick. 

Love Fitz, but you know what karma he brings as a back-up, that's Josh blowing his ACL by week 4 of next season 😉 

[Mark92]

Love this move.  Big Baller Beane is up to his old tricks.

[YoloinOhio]

JA is a coach magnet and is going to be a FA magnet too.

[Bruffalo]

This would/will be an awesome hire.  It's like the Trubisky of coaches coming in.  Any time you can get a position coach with recent OC experience I think that's a pretty good win.

 

Were the Carolina offensive woes really his fault?  I don't know that we can say they were based on the QB play.

 

[Malazan]

17 minutes ago, Belgium_Bill said:

Love Fitz, but you know what karma he brings as a back-up, that's Josh blowing his ACL by week 4 of next season 😉 

 

1 hour ago, TheyCallMeAndy said:

That’s not a bad nickname 

 

“May I present the King maker, drought breaker, defender of the north and conquer of the East. Josh Allen of Buffalo, first in his name.” 

 

No, we'll just add 'curse-breaker' to his titles and it will all be good. 

[Mango]

2 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:

 

 

This makes it sound like we ran 11 personnel based on QB deficiency. Or at least makes it sound like Allen needs to be coached how to run it. But like....did Nolan watch our OL for the first 80% of the season? It was a major liability. 

 

Josh may very well need to improve here, but erring on the side of heavy sets seemed have been needed based on OL issues, not QB play....

[Mat68]

Wasnt a fan of bringing him in as an OC.  What he did at LSU and with Sean Payton, Brady is a homerun as QB coach.  If something happens with Dorsey they got a guy on deck.  

[Not at the table Karlos]

1 hour ago, JimBob2232 said:

Except for LSU and Penn State and William and Mary.  Guy is 32 years old and has 2 years on NFL experience and suddenly isn’t “a college coach”.  
 

i get what you are saying - but a little stability for him would go a long way. Been successful everywhere (except Carolina) - but needs to stay put somewhere and build a resume. I think he would do just fine in college. 

He was in NO with Sean Payton for 2 years as well. 

Edited February 2, 2022 by Not at the table Karlos

[JohnBonhamRocks]

Hmmm Joe Brady most recently worked with friend-of-Josh-Allen-and-QB Sam Darnold who the Panthers would have to pay upwards of $18M for next year…

 

Then again it looks like his salary is also his dead cap hit. Any way for Beane to wizard around that?

 

At the very least he is a FA next year.

[Hapless Bills Fan]

3 hours ago, Rubes said:

Sounding more official...

 

 

 

 

ESPN reporting it

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33201753

 

1 hour ago, WotAGuy said:

Bills are lining up sham interviews as we speak. 

 

 That's only for OC and DC interviews, and HC

2 hours ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

I would be shocked if Buffalo doesn't promote Ryan Wendell to OL coach. 

 

I was thinking that would be intriguing, given his history in NE playing for the legendary Coach Scar.

 

But now I wonder if they want to bring in someone relatively more experienced to support a new OC.

[First Round Bust]

exciting hire for sure - the collaborationn of Dorsey-Brady-Josh-Webb and new OL coach (TBD) is energizing - in the worst case if Dorsey here only 1 year then Brady rises to OC a nice succession plan....not expecting anything on the D-side of the balll unless Frazier gets hired (Mia, Hou, Minn)...he interviewed with Mia at least once and Hou last year - not sure about this year ?  he coached Minn already doubtful he goes back there...

[RunTheBall]

God I love this place. Where else can you go from FilthyBeast’s self-loathing “eveyone and everything sucks” posts to other guys worrying about replacing Ken Dorsey, who hasn’t coached 1 snap yet as OC, because he’s going to get a head coaching job next year, all in a couple of threads!

 

I like the Brady hire. I echo other’s sentiments that we get a Munchak or Callahan as O-line coach we will be flying in to next season on offense.

 

I don’t think it’s just Allen, but he’s a huge draw. I think this is a very well respected coaching/front office throughout the league and it doesn’t hurt to have an owner who just fracks a little more to pay them top dollar.

 

 

[Dzom003]

4 hours ago, Reed83HOF said:

I had to log in just to give you props lmfao. Absolutely hilarious 😂 😃 

 

[Doc]

2 hours ago, SectionC3 said:

I dont know this for fact, and it’s distant info, but tierney may have physically left for NJ with daboll.  So this would have been done last week. 

 

Sounds plausible.  Whatever happened though, the Bills upgraded.

 

2 hours ago, CaptnCoke11 said:

So what coaching openings remain on the staff?  

 

OL.  Praying for Munchak.

 

And soon to be: STC.

[TheBrownBear]

Awesome hire.  I think we are in good hands with Dorsey/Brady for the time being.  

[billieve420]

I like someone on the staff who has called plays before. This will be beneficial to Dorsey as he gets acclimated.

[Mark92]

I can see a lot of interest from free agents willing to take less to play with Josh.  He's our Bell Cow to the promised land.  

[appoo]

7 minutes ago, Mark92 said:

I can see a lot of interest from free agents willing to take less to play with Josh.  He's our Bell Cow to the promised land.  

 

I'm a bit surprised there's not rules against this sort of thing. It's even more of a disadvantages to the have-nots, that a well marketed star can take 80% of what he can get on the open market to play for a championship, all the while knowing he can make up for it with his endorsements

[Hapless Bills Fan]

4 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:

 

 

I know a bunch of guys here are big fans of "Bruce Exclusive", but this just strikes me as weird.

 

First of all, if Joe Brady taught any of the Carolina QB to function out of empty sets with 5 man protections, it's news to me.

According to guys like Sharp Football who track this stuff, Carolina ran less than 1% of its plays out of 5WR sets and most out of (1,1) or (1,2) sets

 

For another thing, Josh seemed to function out of an empty backfield with 5 man protections just fine in 2020.  To the extent that he didn't in 2021, it seemed to have a lot more to do with the quality of the OL and the way opponents were defending us.

[The Wiz]

7 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

I know a bunch of guys here are big fans of "Bruce Exclusive", but this just strikes me as weird.

 

First of all, if Joe Brady taught any of the Carolina QB to function out of empty sets with 5 man protections, it's news to me.

According to guys like Sharp Football who track this stuff, Carolina ran less than 1% of its plays out of 5WR sets and most out of (1,1) or (1,2) sets

 

For another thing, Josh seemed to function out of an empty backfield with 5 man protections just fine in 2020.  To the extent that he didn't in 2021, it seemed to have a lot more to do with the quality of the OL and the way opponents were defending us.

Part of the problem was Brady wanted to have a heavier passing game but Ruhle wanted a heavy run game. 

 

Ruhle then used him as the scapegoat because their run game sucked.