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January 11, 2015With the resignation of Kyle Shanahan, the Cleveland Browns are in need of a new offensive coordinator. Plenty of names have been floating around, and according to reports, four of them already have interviews scheduled with the Browns.
According to CSNBayArea.com, Cleveland is scheduled to interview Greg Roman, the current offensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers, on Monday. Roman has been with the 49ers for five years and has been their offensive coordinator for four. Under Roman, San Francisco has been ranked in to the top 10 in total rushing yards in all three seasons (8th in 2011, 4th in 2012, 3rd in 2013, 4th in 2014). He graduated from John Carroll University, where he was a three-year letter-winner and two-year starting defensive lineman. Roman also coached with Mike Pettine when they were both with the Ravens as the assistant offensive line coach while Pettine was the outside linebackers coach in the 2006-2007 season. Roman has also been with Stanford University (2009-10), the Houston Texans (2002-03), and the Carolina Panthers (1995-2001).
The NFL Network reported that the Browns have also requested permission to interview John DeFilippo, Al Saunders, and Marc Trestman.
John DeFilippo is currently the Oakland Raiders’ quarterback coach. He had his name in the hat for the Browns offensive coordinator job last year, but Cleveland decided to go with Shanahan instead. DeFilippo has helped his case after coaching up rookie quarterback Derek Carr this past season. He has been with the Raiders for five seasons and was named the quarterback coach before the 2014 season. In January of last year, Broncos quarterback coach, Greg Knapp compared DeFilippo to Broncos offensive coordinator Adam Gase, who is well sought after this season as well. At 36, “he has great knowledge and a great future ahead of him”, said Knapp.
Al Saunders is currently the senior offensive assistant with the Oakland Raiders. He was their offensive coordinator in 2011, before becoming the senior offensive assistant. While in the NFL, Saunders has also coached with the San Diego Chargers, Kansas City Chiefs, St. Louis Rams, Washington Redskins, and Baltimore Ravens. He started his coaching career in 1970, as a graduated assistant at Southern California. His NFL coaching career started in 1983, when he was the Chargers wide receivers’ coach. With over 41 years of coaching experience (31 in the NFL), Saunders has been a part of 15 playoff teams, five division titles, and has one Super Bowl ring as a coach in the NFL. His offensive units have ranked atop the NFL 20 times in total offense, passing, rushing, and scoring.
Before being fired on December 29, Marc Trestman served as the Chicago Bears head coach for two seasons. In his first season with the Bears in 2013, they rewrote the franchise record book on offense. The Bears netted a franchise-best 6,109 yards. The passing offense set-single season records in gross passing yards (4,450), net passing yards (4,281), completion percentage (64.4%), passing touchdowns (32), and passer rating (96.9). He served as the Browns quarterbacks coach during the 1988-89 season. Before coming back to the NFL and the Bears, Trestman served as the head coach of the Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League where he led the Alouettes to back-to-back Grey Cup championships in 2009 and 2010.
Whoever they decide to hire, the Browns will now have their sixth different offensive coordinator in six years. Their last OC to keep the job for more than a season was Brian Daboll (2009-10). Mike Pettine addressed it yesterday in the release about Kyle Shanahan’s resignation, saying “Our focus quickly turns to finding an outstanding coach to lead our offense and I am confident we will bring in highly qualified individuals to help us develop, improve, and achieve the success we are all seeking.”
Hopefully they can find someone who can stick for more than a year.
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NOT. MARC. TRESTMANN. As a Chicagoan, I can tell you what a fraud he turned out to be. Plus, he is an all-passing OC. I don’t think he’d fit with what Pettine and Farmer say they want — and for all the issues about lack of continuity, finding an OC that wants to be pass-first rather than run-first WOULD be a disruption, and that’s what Trestmann would bring.
Raider coaches yikes.
Forte had two excellent seasons as a rusher under Trestman. It could possibly be the fact that their defense was atrocious (30th/31st ranked defense) and had to pass more often to compensate. Trestman knows offense.
Of all the OCs we’ve had, it seems so “Browns” that the one guy that got a second year was that extraordinary offensive mind, Brian Daboll.
Seeing that my first choice Roman may be going with Rex to buffalo
well, his second year was sort of an accident of history. It was only because Holmgren let Mangini stay an extra wasted year in that strange act of solidarity with the head coaching fraternity. Gosh, just typing that conjurs up that strangeness all over again: Holms in the hawaiian shirt on the Berea golf cart, on island time.
In gardening terms the Browns offensive coordinator position is known as an annual.
Hopefully we don’t let him leave until signs? From the moment kid Kyle started his little fit that he wantedmout I’ve been hoping we land Roman.
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Ahhh yes, that orange cast glowing in the Berea sun. What a time to be alive!