Can the Bills Fire Joe Brady?

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

On 11/21/2025 at 2:36 PM, ChronicAndKnuckles said:

Be careful. The hive will start swarming when you criticize he who must not be named. 

Yup, only the realest know. He's been mid this year except in two-three games 

[Einstein]

23 hours ago, SCBills said:

The more time that passes from the Houston game, the worse it gets. 
 

Houston players basically laughing at our Offense and NFL tape breakdown guys on social media all but calling Brady a clown. 

 

Yeah Houston had zero respect for our offense.

 

They were going Cover 0 with 10 defenders within the sticks at times.

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

Just now, Einstein said:

 

Yeah Houston had zero respect for our offense.

 

They were going Cover 0 with 10 defenders within the sticks at times.

Would you? 

 

Skill positions are a joke 

[GoBills808]

36 minutes ago, Pine Barrens Mafia said:

Yup, only the realest know. He's been mid this year except in two-three games 

bad take

 

texans game will drop him some but he'll still be #1 w a bullet

 

[machine gun kelly]

On 11/20/2025 at 11:39 PM, The Jokeman said:

That prolific QB played like crap today. Blame the OC fine. I blame the player.

You take 20 bone crushing hits between the 8 sacks and 12 hits, with no WRs getting separation faster, and let’s see how any QB plays. In rank order I blame Beane, then McD for continuing sticking with Brady, and Brady.  Beane also could’ve made a larger effort to push a trade for a separation WR, vs.making excuses.

[TheyCallMeAndy]

All-22 is NOT painting a good picture for Brady, who failed to protect his guys on top of everything else. 

[Low Positive]

8 minutes ago, TheyCallMeAndy said:

All-22 is NOT painting a good picture for Brady, who failed to protect his guys on top of everything else. 

It's a tough watch.

[damj]

We're stuck with what we have this year, but next year he needs to go.

 

Best we could this year is to bring Daboll in to help, but he probably has no interest. 

[DuckyBoys]

I just hope Josh survives 6 more weeks of Brady

[finn]

I wonder if McDermott is reluctant to fire Brady because he is (or has been) a top candidate for a head-coach position. He might think it would be be doubly disloyal to a) fire him; and b) deprive of him a chance to be head coach elsewhere.

 

If so, he needs to get over it. Any team that would hire such an incompetent deserves him. 

[Sierra Foothills]

On 11/21/2025 at 9:31 AM, ngbills said:

I dont think they can fire him at this point uintil the off-season. My hope is maybe they can hire an special asst to the offense or something along those lines. No idea who that person could be but an other brain getting involved in this O is desperately needed. 

 

On 11/22/2025 at 10:09 AM, SoonerBillsFan said:

If he isnt fired this weekend, he isnt getting fired. It should have happened Friday

 

Unfortunately it's looking like it won't happen.

 

When Dorsey was fired 2 years ago it was on November 14th, the Tuesday after a week 10 loss on MNF, and with a game coming up in 5 days.

 

Today is week 12, November 23rd, and the Bills are 7-4 with a game in 7 days.

 

I agree if it was gonna happen, it already would have happened.

 

Succession is the other question... if Brady was fired it would fall to either OL Coach Aaron Kromer, TE Coach Rob Boras, or QB Coach Ronald Curry. Kromer and Boras have both been NFL OCs.

 

7 minutes ago, finn said:

I wonder if McDermott is reluctant to fire Brady because he is (or has been) a top candidate for a head-coach position. He might think it would be be doubly disloyal to a) fire him; and b) deprive of him a chance to be head coach elsewhere.

 

If so, he needs to get over it. Any team that would hire such an incompetent deserves him. 

 

I doubt it. First of all I don't think ultimately that he would value the stock of an assistant more than his own stock.

 

Secondly I think Brady has already fallen far down the list of prospective candidates.

 

I don't think this factors in... JMO.

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Sierra Foothills

[2003Contenders]

McD would argue that Brady has done a good job for the following reasons:

 

1. The offense ranks amongst the top in the league.

 

2. The rush offense is the best in the league

 

3. The team has battled multiple injuries -- Kincaid, Palmer, Shakir, Brown, etc.

 

4. Turnovers have been a key ingredient in all of the losses. The coaches would argue that is a product of poor execution rather than play calling, etc.

 

There is some merit to these thoughts. However, there is no denying that Brady has made too many head-scratching play calls and horrific game plans (the most recent Texans game being the most obvious).

[Hsker4life]

They should, but the bigger issue is the man who keeps hiring the OCs after Daboll left.

 

Other teams can scheme WRs open. We cannot. 

[Nihilarian]

3 hours ago, TheyCallMeAndy said:

All-22 is NOT painting a good picture for Brady, who failed to protect his guys on top of everything else. 

I've been saying it's more Brady over the lack of WRs since the Atlanta game.

 

But then now I'm concerned, is someone on the team, the staff is selling the Bills game plan each week? 

[Kelly to Allen]

1 hour ago, finn said:

I wonder if McDermott is reluctant to fire Brady because he is (or has been) a top candidate for a head-coach position. He might think it would be be doubly disloyal to a) fire him; and b) deprive of him a chance to be head coach elsewhere.

 

If so, he needs to get over it. Any team that would hire such an incompetent deserves him. 

 

Firing a 2nd oc would look even worse for McDermott. Firing the OC after record setting offensive production & efficiency says something about the self scouting process by McDermott. You obviously should've anticipated an adjustment to your strengths and obviously didn't prepare.... No matter how you look at it, it's a reflection of McDermott. This is his philosophy 

 

 

Edited 28 minutes ago by Kelly to Allen

[Nihilarian]

1 hour ago, finn said:

I wonder if McDermott is reluctant to fire Brady because he is (or has been) a top candidate for a head-coach position. He might think it would be be doubly disloyal to a) fire him; and b) deprive of him a chance to be head coach elsewhere.

 

If so, he needs to get over it. Any team that would hire such an incompetent deserves him. 

This season i don't think he has anyone to fall back on, good enough to take over the offensive game planning/play calling. If this crap continues with Brady, we can expect him to be replaced this offseason. The guy reminds me of Greg Roman now, and as good as he is with the run game, he is equally bad with the pass game.

Is it that he keeps utilizing the same plays/play calls as teams seem to know exactly what to expect play by play? In particular, that WR screen to Shakir that never works.

[Jalan81]

On 11/20/2025 at 11:39 PM, The Jokeman said:

That prolific QB played like crap today. Blame the OC fine. I blame the player.

It can be both and it was. 

[Scott7975]

On 11/21/2025 at 10:31 AM, TBBills Fan said:

Right after he broke a 20 yard run

 

I get why Josh said that, because I was wondering the same thing

 

Josh later said that was because the playcall came in late. He said we should have banged a timeout there.

Two thoughts on that...

1. Is Josh not capable of calling a timeout on his own?

2. Was the play late because McD was taking too long to decide on whether to go for it or not, or was Brady just lost on what to do? Another possibility, McD was giving his input. I say that because I often see him hold a card up over his mic and talk while the offense is on the field. Im not saying he is calling the plays, but I dont recall ever seeing a HC micromanage so much before and I have seen it in other games too.

[ProcessTruster]

4 hours ago, Einstein said:

 

Yeah Houston had zero respect for our offense.

 

They were going Cover 0 with 10 defenders within the sticks at times.

with Kincaid, Hardman and Samuel all out, I would have put all 11 within the sticks.   and if Gabe gets a foot inbounds, we win anyway

[Scott7975]

On 11/22/2025 at 1:09 PM, SoonerBillsFan said:

If he isnt fired this weekend, he isnt getting fired. It should have happened Friday

 

There is no point firing him at this point. Who is taking his place? There is no one noteworthy left to promote from within. They aren't bringing Daboll back no matter how much you want it because there is too much animosity there. It's better at this point to just do it at the end of the season. Besides, now there will be no excuse as to why they didn't look outside, like saying "oh he did a really job the last few weeks of the season lets give him a chance at a full season" type crap.