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September 25, 2024 By  Buffalo Bills

NFL Insider Reveals Coordinator League is Buzzing About as Next Top Head Coaching Candidate

Every season at least one up and coming coordinator emerges as the next top head coaching candidate across the NFL.

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Aug 17, 2024; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen (17) warms up on the field before a game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Acrisure Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports

While only three games into the 2024 campaign, Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator Joe Brady may just be the next top candidate to land a top job this winter.

According to ESPN NFL insider Jeremy Fowler, Brady is a name to watch this offseason, after interviewing for head coaching vacancies last hiring cycle.

“It’s hard to ignore what Joe Brady is doing in Buffalo, dating to last season,” Fowler writes for ESPN. “He has established an equal opportunity offense that finds the open man and can dictate the pace with a run-heavy attack. He interviewed for head-coaching jobs years ago and sort of missed the window, but it appears that will open for him again.”

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Bills quarterback Josh Allen talks with offensive coordinator Joe Brady during drills on day three of the Buffalo Bills training camp.

While less than a quarter of the season has been played, the Bills are authoring a strong case as the best team in the league, so far.

Likewise, Buffalo has found myriad of ways to win offensively; whether it is Josh Allen leading the charge (completing 75 percent of his passes for 634 yards with seven touchdowns to zero interceptions) or leaning heavily into a ground-and-pound attack with running back James Cook (188 rushing yards and three touchdowns), Brady and the Bills have crafted game plans to dictate to opponents based on the defense and what each game calls for.

At age 35, Brady helped guide Buffalo to the league’s fourth-rated offense in 2023 and is off to a tremendous start in 2024. If Buffalo keeps this pace up offensively, Brady may be on the cusp of having his own program to run in 2025.

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Matt Lombardo is a seasoned NFL reporter, with over 12 years of experience covering the league. In addition to his work at Gridiron Heroics, Lombardo covers the NFL for Heavy.com, is an on air sports contributor for FOX29 Philadelphia, and writes an NFL Substack "Between The Hashmarks." Lombardo is the former Senior NFL Insider of FanBuzz, and prior to taking that role was a national NFL reporter at FanSided where he hosted a weekly podcast "The Matt Lombardo Show." A former beat reporter for NJ Advance Media (Parent company of NJ.com and the Newark Star Ledger), Lombardo covered the Philadelphia Eagles from 2011 through the 2017 season before moving to cover the New York Giants for the Star Ledger for two seasons from 2018 through 2020. During his career to date, Lombardo has covered five Super Bowls, four NFL Drafts, multiple NFL Combines, and has had his work frequently featured in publications such as Pro Football Talk, CBS Sports, and more. In addition to his journalism work, Lombardo is a strong on air presence and is a former sports talk radio host on 97.5 FM The Fanatic, Philadelphia's first FM Sports Station and the radio home of the Philadelphia 76ers and Philadelphia Flyers.

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