Three years after the Philadelphia Eagles lost their offensive coordinator to the Indianapolis Colts, the latter lost its own CO to City of Brotherly Love, with the Eagles on Thursday signing Nick Sirianni as their next head coach. After Sirianni’s departure, however, Colts coach Frank Reich will not look out of the building for his next assistant. According to ESPN’s Chris Mortensen, Indianapolis is expected to promote defenders’ coach Marcus Brady, the offensive coordinator for the 2021 season.
Hired by Reich as part of the coach’s original team in 2018, Brady, 41, has spent the past two seasons serving as coach of the Colts’ QBs, supervising Jacoby Brissett and Philip Rivers at the center. Now, he will be tasked with helping Reich prepare for the game, not to mention facing an off-season that includes a drastic overhaul at QB with Rivers’ retirement. Since Reich led the Colts, he also served as the team’s game referee, indicating that Brady will not have these responsibilities.
Not cast out of Cal State Northridge Division II in 2002, Brady spent seven seasons as a defender in the Canadian Football League before starting his coaching career. Montreal Alouettes wide receiver coach from 2009-2011, he was promoted to offensive coordinator with the team in 2012, then spent the next five seasons in the same position with the Toronto Argonauts. After a year as an assistant coach for the Colts’ QBs in 2018, he was promoted to the position of chief coach of the QBs in 2019.