BY LANCE LYSOWSK

NEWS SPORTS REPORTER

WEEK 1

Joe Brady had been unemployed for two weeks in December 2021 when he turned on a television in his home to watch his former team, the Carolina Panthers, play the Buffalo Bills at Highmark Stadium in Week 15. ¶ Brady could have felt bitter. He was fired as the Panthers' offensive coordinator just 23 months after he was one of the play-callers for Heisman Trophy winner Joe Burrow in LSU's national championship victory. ¶ Carolina's best player, Christian McCaffery, went on injured reserve in October and its starting quarterback, Sam Darnold, could not play through a shoulder injury. His replacement, Cam Newton, started a game three days after he signed a contract. ¶ But as Brady studied the Panthers and Bills from his couch on that December aft

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