Source: Bills to hire Pete Carmichael as offensive coordinator

Buffalo, NY — The buffalo bill A source has confirmed to ESPN that they are hiring Pete Carmichael as their offensive coordinator.

Carmichael is the first coordinator hired to coach Joe Brady’s staff. He has also been tasked with hiring a new defensive and special teams coordinator.

Brady will call the plays on offense, but Carmichael, who is currently denver broncos The senior offensive assistant brings 15 years of coordinating experience with the Saints.

Brady, who has been the Bills’ offensive coordinator the past two seasons under coach Sean McDermott, worked under Carmichael for two seasons as an offensive assistant with the Saints, which was Brady’s first NFL job.

Brady said he and the quarterback josh allen They are in “lockstep” toward hiring an offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, and they are in communication on that.

The new Bills head coach said some coaches from the previous Bills staff would remain, but declined to say.

“If we have a bunch of Joe Bradys in our room, we won’t develop and we won’t develop, and that’s important to me,” Brady said on hiring his staff during his introductory news conference Thursday. “… Some guys might be more fundamentally driven. Some guys might be energy, juice, rah-rah guys. Some guys might be cool communicators and understand the type of rooms they’re coaching in, and putting that room together is very important to me. And so, making sure I’m looking at it from a clean slate, like he did, and saying, Hey, what I’m looking at is, I only get one opportunity to be a head football coach. I’m in this business. I’m not hiring my friends. I’m making sure I get the best football coach for these players because they deserve it, so that’s what’s important to me.”

NFL Network first reported Carmichael’s hiring.