Bills fire OC Ken Dorsey
The Buffalo Bills have fired offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey, the team announced Tuesday.
Quarterbacks coach Joe Brady will be the interim replacement.
The move comes after a disappointing 24-22 loss to the Denver Broncos on Monday Night Football that dropped the team to 5-5. The Bills had only 22 minutes of offensive possession while turning the ball over four times.
"Just felt like it was time for a change," head coach Sean McDermott said Tuesday, according to Kevin Patra of NFL Network. "You know, we need to be a confident offensive football team and find consistent production, and that's really what it came down to."
Buffalo's offense still ranks in the top 10 in points and yards per game. However, it's sputtered over the last few weeks. The Bills have failed to eclipse 26 points in a contest since Week 4, going 2-4 during that stretch.
Star quarterback Josh Allen's consistent turnovers throughout the season have hampered the offense. He's thrown an interception in all but two games this year and currently leads the league with 11.
"He can call literally anything on his playbook," Allen said of Dorsey last week, per Katherine Fitzgerald of The Buffalo News. "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."
He added: "And so, again, that comes down to the guys on the field. And, you know, we've got to be better for him."
McDermott hired Dorsey as the quarterbacks coach in 2019 after he spent five years with the Carolina Panthers in the same role. He was upgraded to passing game coordinator in 2021, then promoted to offensive coordinator when Brian Daboll took the New York Giants' head coaching job.
Brady was the passing game coordinator for LSU during its historic national championship-winning season. He was hired the following year by the Panthers to be their offensive coordinator but was fired in December 2021. McDermott brought him onto the staff as quarterbacks coach before the 2022 season.
"Just more than anything, like I just said, is (to) come out with an energy about our offense and what we're doing and move the football and score points," McDermott said of what he wants to see from a Brady-led offense, per Patra. "That's really the offense's job at the end of the day."
The Bills will take on the New York Jets in Week 11.
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