The Ravens will interview Joe Brady this week, Tom Pelisero of NFL Media reports. The Bills’ offensive coordinator already had a virtual interview with Baltimore.
Brady also had interviews with the Falcons and the Raiders.
Brady, 36, joined the Bills in 2022. He began his tenure with the club as quarterbacks coach and was promoted to offensive coordinator midway through the 2023 season after the club fired Ken Dorsey.
He retained the role on a full-time basis in 2024.
The Bills fired head coach Sean McDermott on Monday, likely leaving Brady to seek employment elsewhere as an offensive coordinator if he doesn’t get a head coaching job.
Brady first generated buzz as the passing-game coordinator for LSU in 2019, winning the Broyles Award as the nation’s top assistant coach as he helped the program win the CFP national championship. Joe Burrow won the Heisman that season, tossing 60 touchdowns to just six interceptions before the Bengals drafted him at No. 1 overall in 2020.
The Ravens will interview Broncos special teams coach Darren Rizzi for their head coaching vacancy, Mike Klis of 9News reports.
Rizzi previously had an interview with the Giants before they hired John Harbaugh.
The Ravens are seeking to replace Harbaugh, a former special teams coach who spent 18 seasons as Baltimore’s head coach.
Rizzi is in his first season on Denver’s staff, but he worked with Sean Payton in New Orleans. Rizzi remained on the Saints’ coaching staff when Dennis Allen replaced Payton as their head coach.
He became the interim head coach when Allen was fired during the 2024 season, going 3-5 in that role.
Rizzi coached for the Dolphins from 2009-18, including nine seasons as the special teams coordinator.
When the Patriots fired Bill Belichick two years ago, most assumed he’d land on his feet with another NFL team.
In the third hiring cycle since his firing by the Patriots, Belichick has been publicly linked to only one job (the Falcons, in 2024).
This year, with 10 total openings, Belichick’s name has not come up. Except, of course, when he brought it up on his own.
In November 2025, Belichick issued a statement declaring he won’t pursue the opening with the Giants “despite circulating rumors.” (None were circulating.) The Giants, as we hear it, weren’t pleased with the pre-emptive announcement, since they had no intention of pursuing him.
If any other team has even kicked the tires on the Tar Heels coach, the interest has been kept tightly under wraps. Nothing has leaked about any inquiries or conversations or even basic background work (like, for example, figuring out the depth of and basis for his lingering animosity toward his former NFL employer) associated with making a potential hire.
The Buffalo job would be the one to watch, given the presence of quarterback Josh Allen and the ongoing rivalry with the Patriots. Belichick is regarded as the greatest game-day coach in league history. Yes, other factors have potentially complicated things, to say the least. Still, given the craziness of the past few weeks in the NFL, it would be foolish to completely rule out anything.
For now, though, the key word as it relates to Belichick’s NFL prospects is “nothing.” In three cycles, he’s had one announced interview. And while he has said he doesn’t want to return to the NFL, few in NFL circles believe it. The more reasonable interpretation would seem to be that it’s his way of dealing with the fact that no NFL team wants him.
The Ravens are set to start moving into their second round of interviews with head coaching candidates.
Dolphins defensive coordinator Anthony Weaver will be part of that process. Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that Weaver is scheduled for a second interview with the team on Tuesday.
Weaver is also expected to have an in-person interview with the Steelers this week. He was an assistant in Baltimore for three years before moving to his current role with the Dolphins for the last two seasons.
The Ravens are interviewing Jaguars defensive coordinator Anthony Campanile on Monday. He is the 16th candidate to meet with the team, so Weaver will likely be getting company in the second round soon.
Dysfunctional teams do dysfunctional things. And, thanks to plenty of the perennially dysfunctional teams, the league is a current dysfunction mess.
The current hiring cycle, which at one point seemed like it could be quieter than usual, has sparked turnover with 10 teams. Nearly one third of the league. Two jobs have been filled; with Monday’s termination of Bills coach Sean McDermott, the number of vacancies is back to eight.
Here’s how one current NFL head coach put it, in a Monday morning unsolicited text message to PFT: “At this very moment, [this is] the worst collective of 32 owners in league history.”
It’s a strong statement, but the proof is, if anywhere, in the pudding. Bad teams stay bad. They think that they can turn it around by firing the current coach and hiring a new one, because for other teams it happens.
But the cycle of hiring and firing and hiring and firing contributes to the situation. When the owner has an itchy trigger finger, the coach spends way too much time looking over his shoulder and wondering whether the next decision that doesn’t pan out will be his last.
There’s no competence test to pass in order to qualify to own a team. The paths remain simple (if not easy): (1) have enough money to buy a team; or (2) get your name in the right spot in the will.
While some of the currently vacant jobs are open for reasons unrelated to membership in the gang that couldn’t own straight, most trace to owners who feel like they need to do something, so they fire the coach. In plenty of cases, three years or less after firing the last one.
Meanwhile, the teams with capable owners will benefit. Rash decisions aren’t made. Patience is displayed.
Aaron Rodgers recently blamed the media for the presence of certain coaches on the “hot seat.” The blame goes to those who don’t know what to do (because they secretly don’t know what they’re doing), so they do the easiest thing — fire the coach.
Even if the coach isn’t the biggest part of the problem. Of course, for the truly dysfunctional franchises, the biggest part of the problem isn’t subject to a pink slip. Because owners can’t be fired for general incompetence when it comes to the on-field performance of the team.
Financially, they’re all performing well. They’re all winning, even when they’re losing. And those who are losing will feel compelled to keep the fans believing that the future will be brighter (or less bleak) by dumping the current coach, and by moving to the next coach in who inevitably will be the next coach out.
