The Buffalo Bills have fired offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey after just 10 games in his second season in the role and promoted quarterbacks coach Joe Brady to interim offensive coordinator.
The move comes just hours after the Bills fell to 5-5 in a 24-22 loss to the Denver Broncos on Monday Night Football where the offense had four turnovers and produced scores on just three of 11 drives in the game.
After the game last night, Bills coach Sean McDermott said he remained confident in Dorsey but that the offense needed to be better. He said he’d take 24 hours to evaluate the situation to decide whether a drastic change was necessary.
Now Dorsey is out after just a season and a half.
Brady came to the Bills in 2022 after serving as the Carolina Panthers offensive coordinator in 2020 and most of 2021 before getting fired in December of his second season.
The Bills offense held its second players-only meeting before taking on the Broncos and continued to look lost for most of a pivotal AFC game last night. The loss dropped the Bills’ playoff odds down to 19%, per the New York Times.
Dorsey took over as the offensive coordinator when Brian Daboll took the head coaching job with the New York Giants following the 2021 season. Bills quarterback Josh Allen advocated for Dorsey to get the job and has remained confident in Dorsey throughout this season.
“I think we have a very good rapport in terms of him knowing what I don’t like and what I like,” Allen said last Thursday. “He should be able to point at any given play and we should go out there and try to execute it and execute it to the best of our ability. And that comes down to the guys on the field and we’ve got to be better for him. I know he’s getting a lot of flack. I don’t know, people talk as much as they want to talk, but it comes down to the 11 guys on the field executing.”
The Bills’ execution issues remained against the Broncos when they fumbled on the very first offensive play of the game and…
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