Buffalo Rumblings
There’s an interesting parallel between Curry and current OC Brady
Brian Daboll begat Ken Dorsey, who begat Joe Brady. Daboll was the last Buffalo Bills offensive coordinator who was an external hire for the job, coming to the Bills from the Alabama Crimson Tide, where he coached recently-crowned Super Bowl champion quarterback Jalen Hurts and recently paid Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa.
Since then, it’s been promotion after promotion for the Bills at OC, allowing continuity for quarterback Josh Allen in relationships while each coordinator added his own flavor to the offense. At one point, there was a conversation like this surrounding Ken Dorsey, with the idea being that he might be a hot name in head-coaching circles after overseeing a Bills offense with a future MVP at the helm.
But then Dorsey was fired in November of 2023 and a quarterbacks coach named Joe Brady — formerly of the Carolina Panthers and most famously of LSU renown as their passing game coordinator in the year of Joe Burrow, Ja’Marr Chase, and Justin Jefferson — was internally promoted to take his place. And now here we are again wondering if Brady might still be their offensive coordinator in 2026 after the team dodged the final bullet of the hiring cycle when Brady withdrew his name from consideration for the New Orleans Saints’ head coaching job.
Let’s assume, for the purposes of this exercise, that the team did want to promote from within to take Brady’s position should he leave next offseason to run his own team. Who are the potential candidates on staff?
One of the most notable is current quarterbacks coach Ronald Curry. Curry has been with the Bills for the least amount of time, having joined the team in February of 2024 after eight seasons with, ironically, the Saints given the nature of our current conversation.
He spent seven years as a player in the NFL after being selected in the seventh round in 2002 by the then-Oakland Raiders as a wide receiver out of North Carolina. As a player, Curry was productive with his opportunities playing for the Raiders, but injured his same Achilles tendon in back-to-back seasons in 2004 and 2005.
After signing an extension with the Raiders in 2006, Curry was released in 2009. He was rostered by the Detroit Lions and the at-the-time St. Louis Rams in that spring and summer before his playing days were ended after being cut by the Rams in September of that year.
Like a lot of NFL players who wish to get into coaching, Curry’s first job in his march to Bills QB coach was at a high school, and it was immediately after his playing career ended. Mooresville Christian Academy employed Curry as their Athletic Director and head coach starting in 2010.
His jump would come directly from high school to the NFL in 2014, where he had stints with the San Francisco 49ers and New Orleans Saints as offensive assistants. In both locations, he saw a...
