Brian Daboll won’t be bringing Ken Dorsey with him to New York, as the Buffalo Bills announced Tuesday that they have promoted Dorsey from quarterbacks coach to offensive coordinator.
Dorsey, 40, spent 2019-20 as the quarterbacks coach in Buffalo before adding passing game coordinator to his job title in 2021. He is one of the men credited, along with Daboll, with the development of Josh Allen, who has become an All-Pro caliber QB since being drafted in 2018.
There had been rumors that Daboll, the former Bills OC before his hire as Giants head coach last week, wanted to bring the former QB with him to be his OC in New York.
However, according to SNY’s Ralph Vacchiano, Bobby Johnson, the Bills’ offensive line coach, is expected to still come to New York to serve in the same role on Daboll’s staff, as Big Blue hopes to complete Daboll’s staff “by the beginning of next week.”
With Dorsey out of the OC mix, NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reports that the now three finalists for the Big Blue OC position are Pep Hamilton, Mike Kafka, and Chad O'Shea.
Hamilton and Kafka both spent 2021 in the role of passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach, the former in Houston and the latter in Kansas City, while O’Shea has been the Browns’ wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator since 2020.
Hamilton is a 25-year NFL and college assistant who also served as a head coach in the XFL in 2020. He spent three seasons (2003-05) as an offensive assistant with the Jets, and has 11 seasons’ worth of experience in the NFL and NCAA as either an assistant head coach or offensive coordinator.
Kafka is a former fourth-round pick of the Eagles whose coaching career began in 2016 with one year as a graduate assistant at his alma mater, Northwestern, and he has spent the last five years on Andy Reid’s staff with the Chiefs, including 2020 and 2021 in his current role.
O’Shea also began his coaching career at his alma mater, spending 1996-99 at the University of Houston and three years at Southern Miss before joining the Chiefs as a volunteer assistant in 2003. He spent three years in KC and three in Minnesota before 10 as Bill Belichick’s wide receivers coach in New England, and he was Miami’s offensive coordinator in 2019 before joining the Browns in his current role.
Follow Lou DiPietro on Twitter: @LouDiPietroWFAN
Follow WFAN on Social Media
Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitch