The Buffalo Bills moved quickly after firing Sean McDermott, keeping their coaching transition in-house by promoting offensive coordinator Joe Brady to head coach. While Brady has yet to name a new offensive coordinator, one thing is already clear and arguably an more important decision than any offensive staff hire that comes next.<\/p>\n
Joe Brady will remain the offensive play caller on game day.<\/p>\n
Love it or hate it it\u2019s been decided, Brady is the guy. In a league where head coaches often delegate play-calling duties in the name of balance, Brady is choosing continuity, confidence, and results.<\/p>\n
An Elite Offense by Any Measure<\/p>\n
Under Brady\u2019s direction, the Bills have quietly become one of the most efficient offenses in football, even without elite receiving talent.<\/p>\n
Advanced metrics tell the story:<\/p>\n
2025:3rd in EPA per play2nd in Success Rate2024:2nd in EPA per play7th in Success Rate<\/p>\n
Those aren\u2019t empty efficiency stats. They reflect an offense that consistently stays ahead of the chains and maximizes each offensive possession.<\/p>\n
Brady didn\u2019t just scheme up success through the air either. He built an elite run game, one that forced defenses into impossible choices and unlocked the full scope of Buffalo\u2019s offense.<\/p>\n
Consistent Production, Year After Year<\/p>\n
Raw production followed right alongside the efficiency.<\/p>\n
Bills yards per game under Brady:<\/p>\n
2023: 4th (374.5 YDS\/G)2024: 10th (359.1 YDS\/G)2025: 4th (376.3 YDS\/G)<\/p>\n
Even in a \u201cdown\u201d statistical year, Buffalo still finished top-10 league-wide. In 2025, the Bills paired that yardage with scoring, finishing with the fourth-highest points per game in the NFL.<\/p>\n
Perhaps the most telling endorsement of Brady calling his own plays comes in the postseason.Brady has now called seven playoff games, and the offense has elevated instead of shrinking. Yes, Josh Allen made mistakes in Denver, but that was blame he accepted fault for.<\/p>\n
Josh Allen in those postseason games:<\/p>\n
70.2% completion rate12 passing TDs, 2 INTs7.0 yards per attempt104 passer rating72 rushing attempts, 350 yards7 rushing TDs<\/p>\n
Through those same games, the offense as a whole averaged:<\/p>\n
3.01 points per drive28.4 points per game<\/p>\n
Those are championship-level numbers. Now Brady needs to pair it with a championship-level defense and give the team and fans what they\u2019ve waited generations for.<\/p>\n
The Ceiling Hasn\u2019t Even Been Reached<\/p>\n
What makes Brady retaining play-calling duties especially intriguing is what hasn\u2019t happened yet.<\/p>\n
The Bills have produced top-tier offenses with subpar or inconsistent receiving talent. Add legitimate upgrades at wide receiver with someone who can create separation on the outside, and this unit doesn\u2019t just remain efficient, it has the potential to become explosive.<\/p>\n
That someone at boundary receiver would hopefully give Brady less reason to run so many bubble screens and jet sweeps. Everyone can agree that\u2019s one facet of Brady\u2019s offense that needs to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Bills moved quickly after firing Sean McDermott, keeping their coaching transition in-house by promoting offensive coordinator…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,98775,2090,2086,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-711729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-buffalo-bills-coaching-staff","12":"tag-buffalo-bills-news","13":"tag-buffalobills","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115973389401273650","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}