The Browns’ head coaching search will be run by chief strategy officer Paul DePodesta, Ian Rapoport of NFL.com (on Twitter) hears. Apparently, this wasn’t established until just recently. Up until now, candidates were receiving mixed messages about who was directing the search.
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After firing head coach Freddie Kitchens and parting ways with GM John Dorsey, the Browns’ power structure was thrown into flux. DePodesta, it seems, will be leading the charge for owner Jimmy Haslam and it’s not hard to imagine the team’s next GM reporting directly to him.
Mike McCarthy will be the Browns’ first HC interview. The team is mulling the possibility of hiring McCarthy and elevating assistant GM Eliot Wolf, which would reunite the two after a long run together in Green Bay.
Other candidates on the Browns’ radar include Josh McDaniels, Eric Bieniemy, Greg Roman, Kevin Stefanski and 49ers assistants Robert Saleh, Mike McDaniel and Matt LaFleur. Baylor head coach Matt Rhule, meanwhile, turned down the opportunity to interview with the Browns.
Only the Browns would hire a failed baseball executive to run their football team
I honestly feel bad for Browns fans. They’re so loyal and they get this trash year in year out
The A’s were far from a failed program. They revolutionized baseball evaluations
He was an assistant with the A’s
Who never won the world series to begin with
he failed as GM of the Dodgers
The A’s never won the World Series?
I think he meant during Depodesta’s tenure in Oakland. The A’s have quite a few titles as a franchise.
Thats exactly what I meant
The football executives they hired before this sure have worked well haven’t they? Why not try something new?
Every coach that failed in the last 10 years in Cleveland were hired by these baseball analytics idiots. Maybe they think the Browns are the AAA team of the Indians.
Uh, me thinks you’re wrong on that.
Can you show proof?
Because DePodesta wanted the guy in Minnesota last year, but Dorsey chose Freddie.
Nice try. The Haslem haven’t even owned the Browns 10 years, and DePodesta only came on board a few years back
Dorsey was getting them on track
And you’re a successful what, Tank Man?
Heck……why not? Nothing they’ve tried in the past has really worked for the better, anyways.
Isn’t matt the green bay coach?
That’s his brother Mike
Mike is 49ers and Matt is GB
I like Mike and Ikes.
Browns hire Clint Hurdle, announce Kevin Youkilis as the new starting QB.
Earl Weaver. Understood Moneyball before it had a name.
Thank you. Earl Weaver had the Oriole way long before “moneyball”
There’s a wide variety of reasons why it would be interesting to see Earl Weaver coaching anything…
The first, of course, would be rising from the dead.
Title says “Run Coaching Search”, damn autocorrect, they meant Ruin not Run…
Haha! That made me laugh more than it probably should.
The problem with the Browns is they never have any synergy, in anything. Unless they’re making Depodesta the GM, why is he running the coaching search? So what, then they’ll hire a GM, force a coach on him that he didn’t hire, and be mystified why they have dysfunction again? There needs to be an order to things. Decide who is your top guy, hire him, and let him fill it out on down. Or just keep on Brownsing it up.
Well said
Blah blah blah blah blah…….
I’m confident the Browns will have a successful working strategy by the time the NFL celebrates its 200th anniversary.
And I’m confident that you will still be flinging crap about them, even from your grave.
I’m not