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January 21, 2015Options might be starting to dwindle for the vacant offensive coordinator position in Cleveland. Marc Trestman has landed in Baltimore and Kyle Shanahan has reportedly landed in Atlanta. Adam Gase, Greg Olson, Chan Gailey and others have found homes as well. Even Doug Marrone, who walked away from a head coaching position in Buffalo has found a gig as offensive line coach and assistant head coach. Meanwhile Cleveland has moved on to two more options for their offensive coordinator vacancy – Frank Cignetti and Marty Mornhinweg. According to Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, the Browns are expected to interview Mornhinweg at the Senior Bowl this week.
Browns expected to interview former Jets/Eagles coordinator Marty Mornhinweg this week at the Senior Bowl, per source
— Jeremy Fowler (@JFowlerESPN) January 20, 2015
Mornhinweg was with the Jets last year, as Rex Ryan’s offensive coordinator. Before New York, he was a coordinator with the Philadelphia Eagles under Andy Reid, from 2006-12. Mornhinweg has been in the NFL for 20 years. He started his NFL coaching career with the Green Bay Packers, but has since been with the San Francisco 49ers, and Detroit Lions, to go along with the Eagles and Jets.
It’s worth noting that Cleveland.com’s Mary Kay Cabot has rebuffed the reports of Mornhinweg, citing sources that claim the Browns will not interview the long-time NFL coach, so read into the conflicting reports as you wish.
Meanwhile, Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network and NFL.com reported that Cleveland interviewed Rams quarterback coach Cignetti, also for the offensive coordinator job opening.
The #Browns interviewed #Rams QB coach Frank Cignetti for their vacant OC job today, source said.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) January 21, 2015
Cignetti has been the Rams quarterback coach for the past three years. Before going to St. Louis, he was the offensive coordinator at Rutgers and the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for two seasons at the University of Pittsburgh. With over two decades of experience, Cignetti has coached with Pittsburgh, Kansas City, New Orleans, Fresno State, North Carolina, San Francisco, and Rutger, among others.
And finally, Lane Adkins from the Orange and Brown report says that Oakland QB coach John DeFilippo is at/near the top of the Browns wish list and is expected to be hired by the Browns as either an OC or QB coach in the very near future.
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Actually, their options are many – there’s tons of talented position coaches who will jump at the chance to move up. But these former HCs who are on the clock to rehab their reputations and get another shot at HC money – those are the guys backing away from the uncertainty and lack of QB in Berea. Pettine may just have to pick a lesser known he thinks he can trust and hope he gets it right, much like he did with Jim O’Brien.
Always amazed that this perspective is never granted to the Browns in any capacity from the mainstream media. Someone else took a retread (or whatever acronym one chooses) and the Browns are dysfunctional simply because they didn’t. Conversely, if they had chosen one of these candidates they would have been excoriated for having no vision and not conducting a thorough enough search.
How about Tommy Prothro, or Don Coryell…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpZ3LODBK7E
Why on planet earth would that perspective be granted to the Browns right now?
STEVE TRIVISONNO, CHUCK KYLE, RICK FINOTTI….
Keep those guys, I’m hiring Paul Brown.
Cignetti’s interview question list:
So, how is Bradford feeling?
Is he getting healthy? Will he be ready for training camp?
How are the Rams feeling about him? Are they going to cut him or would a team have to trade for him?
Hmmm, what type of draft selection do you think would be needed if they do trade him?
What about all those nagging injuries? Any of them still bothering him?
Oh, yeah, umm…what type of offense do you want to run if we happened to hire you as OC?
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Not that I’m enamored with Bradford or his injury history, but he’s a more sure bet than what we’ve got and it’s a really good reason to talk to his coach.
Only because Trestman and Gailey are among the names that have been hired now.
“…there’s tons of talented position coaches who will jump at the chance to move up.”
Because this is a thing and concluding all the other teams with losing records who’ve already hired retread coaches somehow know any better than the Browns how to stop losing is logically indefensible.
I think our (potential) OL could keep him healthy.
Screw it, make Joe Thomas the OC. He knows this team better than anyone, and he’s already in the huddle.
This aspect of interviewing is funny but you have to feel a little for the interviewees in on the ruse. Like when teams immediately snag an African-American they have no intention of hiring to satisfy the Rooney Rule, who are then obliged to give the old “It was a good interview and I appreciate the experience” quote.
just in John DeFilippo is the man
He also knows more offensive schemes than anyone, he’s gotta be able to draw up something.
as if by this season’s end O’Brien didn’t look as good as Ray Horton, Dick Jauron or the vastly overrated Ryan blowhard twin. At least this defense kept playing hard, even as the players were dropping like flies.
NO!!!! NOT DEFILIPPO!!!!
(as if any one of us has the slightest idea)
Your blind admiration inspires me.
The only perspective the Browns would be granted by anyone not labeled a “fan” would have to be “they will screw it up again”
You did note the “logically indefensible,” yes?
YES!!! DEFILIPPO!!!!
I did, but big words throw me off sometimes and I didn’t know what you were going after there.
What I know is that if i saw the sun rise and set for 16 years I would logically assume it would rise and set tomorrow.
I can question why the sun rises and set, I can pose theories as to why it rises and sets, but without it actually not rising and setting why would I go about thinking any differently?
I didn’t think they were that big. Sorry.
I was going for the angle that rather than blind admiration one could logically, legitimately argue for the Brown’s approach versus the logic assumed to exist for all the other teams who hired their OC’s prior to the Brown’s as being self evident because they aren’t the Browns.
I admit, I’m looking for reasons to support rather than tear down my team.
I’m not sure any potential OL could keep him healthy. But, he could be an okay QB until he he is put on IR again.
Schwartz: “Why don’t we ever run to the right anymore?”
JoeT: “When you learn to block like I block, then we can run to your side, okay? okay. break!”
Greco: “Grumble, grumble …”
I understand completely not wanting to tear one’s one team down, and in the same breath completely understand why the mainstream media would not grant the Browns a favorable perspective on anything that they do in any manner that they do it.
I don’t think the two are mutually exclusive.
JoeT: “Fine John, you can pull-left on the next play. *whispers*friggin’ baby*whispers*”
Bowie: “Wait’ll they get a load of me…”