The only time people are used to seeing the Buffalo Bills and the LSU Tigers linked together is during NFL Draft season. LSU firing their head coach typically wouldn't lead to their football program being linked to the Bills unless the Bills happen to have an offensive coordinator who helped the Tigers win a National Championship, which is the case here.
Joe Brady, who has been the Bills offensive coordinator since midway through the 2023 season. He was initially the quarterbacks coach but was bumped up to OC after Ken Dorsey was canned amid a rough patch for the Bills offense that year. Brady's promotion helped earn Josh Allen an MVP title last year and there's no debating he's been a massive presence for this team offensively.
The Bills aren't the only team that Brady has helped in recent years though and that's the problem. Brady spent the 2019 season with LSU as their passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach and, under his tutelage, Joe Burrow won a Heisman Trophy, Ja'Marr Chase and Justin Jefferson tore it up on the gridirion, and the Tigers won their first National Championship since 2007.
Bills OC Joe Brady is (unsurprisngly) linked to LSU head coaching job
It makes sense that LSU, who just fired now former head coach Brian Kelly on Monday, would be interested in bringing Brady back to Baton Rouge, only this time in a head coaching role. He's had success there before and he's continuing to have success with Allen and the Bills in Buffalo.
The good news is that while Brady does appear to be a candidate for the LSU head coaching job, he's not the frontrunner according to the oddsmakers. The only person with better odds to land the LSU job over Brady is Jon Sumrall, who is the current head coach at Tulane. Sumrall already coaches a college team in the state of Louisiana so it makes sense that he's believed to be the next in line in Baton Rouge.
We already know what's working in Brady's favor here but working against him is that he's never been a head coach before. That is something that LSU will certainly keep in mind when making this decision and it should allow Bills fans to exhale a little. Why go for an NFL offensive coordinator when you can have a proven college coach that already resides in your state?
Go hire Jon Sumrall, LSU and leave Joe Brady alone.