Brownies meeting w/Stefanski today...

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The Browns' coaching search went back on the road Thursday.
The team is interviewing Vikings offensive coordinator Kevin Stefanski, who took a break from playoff planning to meet with Cleveland's group.
Stefanski was a finalist last year for the Browns' job, which went to Freddie Kitchens but came open again after a woeful 6-10 season.
The 37-year-old Stefanski is the seventh candidate to meet with the Browns, who talked with Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz on Wednesday. The Browns are scheduled to interview Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels on Friday. He's the presumed favorite to get the gig because McDaniels has NFL head coaching experience and success working with star quarterback Tom Brady.
Two years ago, McDaniels agreed to coach the Indianapolis Colts, but he backed out to stay with New England. He went 11-17 as Denver's coach in 2009-10.
Stefanski has never been a head coach, but it seems to be only a matter of time before he's hired — either by the Browns or someone else.
He broke into coaching at 24 with Minnesota as an assistant in 2006. Stefanski has survived numerous regime changes with the Vikings and coached the team's running backs, tight ends and quarterbacks before becoming the offensive coordinator this season.
Stefanski helped guide the Vikings to a 10-6 regular-season record, and they stunned the New Orleans Saints in the wild-card game last weekend. Minnesota's winning touchdown was set up by a 43-yard pass from Kirk Cousins to wide receiver Adam Thielen, who believes Stefanski is ready to be a head coach.
“He'd do a great job in that role,” Thielen said. "He’s got such a great demeanor about him. He doesn’t get too high and he doesn’t get too low, and I think that’s a great demeanor to have as a head coach. I think he controls the room extremely well. I think he brings a positive energy at all times, and I just think that he’s very organized and he’s prepared and would do a great job in that role.
"Obviously, we have a lot of respect for him in this building and don’t want to lose him, but that’s just how this business works, and we’ll see how it goes. He has all the things you need to be a good coach in this league, and I’m sure he’ll get his opportunity at some point.”
On Saturday, Stefanski's offense will match up against the San Francisco 49ers and their defense led by coordinator Robert Saleh, who interviewed with the Browns last week.
Cleveland owner Jimmy Haslam and his search team have also met with former Packers coach Mike McCarthy, who has since taken the Dallas job, Ravens coordinator Greg Roman, Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy and Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll.
http://www.startribune.com/browns-meet-w...566845822/

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This sucks, interviewing for another team's position, when you're current team is still in contention is just wrong.

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@Vanguard83 said:
This sucks, interviewing for another team's position, when you're current team is still in contention is just wrong.

I thought their were rules about this kind of thing - that teams have to wait until a team is eliminated from the playoffs?
Total BS - his head should be only focused on the game, not about what he's going to say in his damn interview. Can we have anymore shit to deal with before this huge game? I mean, Theilen hurt, Diggs sick, Short week, Traveling across the country, DB's running thin.. Am I missing anything??

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@Vanguard83 said:
This sucks, interviewing for another team's position, when you're current team is still in contention is just wrong.

Wasn't that long ago that coaches on SB or playoff teams couldn't be interviewed while their teams were still alive...

Or am I just imagining that???

I think the NFL evolved from that as those coaches were left out in the cold more often than not regarding movement opportunities. 

Maybe they just need to move the whole NFL calendar back a bit to adjust for this...

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His success will be determined by the overall strength of the organization he chooses, not  solely on his abilities as a HC.

IMO too often assistant take jobs as a HC  out of haste and it doesn't work out.

I hope Stef learned  from Shurmurs failure, don't take the first offer.

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Keith Britton

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From @peter_king earlier on @WEEI: "Right now, I believe that Cleveland is going to come down to Robert Saleh, Josh McDaniels or Eric Bieniemy. Right now, from what I hear...someone told me this yesterday, that he thought those were going to be their three finalists." #Browns

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@"BarrNone55" said:

Keith Britton

@KeithBritton86

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From @peter_king earlier on @WEEI: "Right now, I believe that Cleveland is going to come down to Robert Saleh, Josh McDaniels or Eric Bieniemy. Right now, from what I hear...someone told me this yesterday, that he thought those were going to be their three finalists." #Browns

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Saleh should be available by Saturday night.

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I hate it.  They ought to make a rule forbidding EVERY team from filling their HC job until after the Super Bowl.  MAYBE that way, we might be able to hear something about the playoffs when we turn on the TV / radio... instead of just hearing about who the Cowboys hired.

For Steph's sake, I hope they give the job to someone else.  He deserves better than that.  Plus, I would love to see him be motivated even more this Saturday (when they give it to someone else).

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@pumpf said:
I hate it.  They ought to make a rule forbidding EVERY team from filling their HC job until after the Super Bowl.  MAYBE that way, we might be able to hear something about the playoffs when we turn on the TV / radio... instead of just hearing about who the Cowboys hired.

For Steph's sake, I hope they give the job to someone else.  He deserves better than that.  Plus, I would love to see him be motivated even more this Saturday (when they give it to someone else).

Me too.  It’s just
such a buzzkill having so much of the news cycle dedicated to all the shitty
teams and them trying to fix their problems when we should be celebrating the
teams that are doing well.  Coaches
shouldn’t be thinking about their promotions at the same time as their duties
in a playoff hunt.  I also don’t like the
idea that teams are firing coaches earlier and earlier into the season in order
to try and get a leg up on that hot new coach that they want to hire that
everyone else also wants to hire and I don’t like the idea that teams that are
looking for coaches are kind of forced to make a choice in hiring the best
coach that’s available now, or waiting for one from a playoff contender,
getting a verbal agreement and hoping they don’t change their mind after the
playoffs.


Everything would be cleaned up so much if they just shut off
the hiring of all coaches and the interviewing of currently employed coaches during
the playoffs.  After the SB is done
everyone gets a week or two to interview, and then teams are allowed to hire
coaches again.

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@medaille said:

@pumpf said:
I hate it.  They ought to make a rule forbidding EVERY team from filling their HC job until after the Super Bowl.  MAYBE that way, we might be able to hear something about the playoffs when we turn on the TV / radio... instead of just hearing about who the Cowboys hired.

For Steph's sake, I hope they give the job to someone else.  He deserves better than that.  Plus, I would love to see him be motivated even more this Saturday (when they give it to someone else).

Me too.  It’s just
such a buzzkill having so much of the news cycle dedicated to all the shitty
teams and them trying to fix their problems when we should be celebrating the
teams that are doing well.  Coaches
shouldn’t be thinking about their promotions at the same time as their duties
in a playoff hunt.  I also don’t like the
idea that teams are firing coaches earlier and earlier into the season in order
to try and get a leg up on that hot new coach that they want to hire that
everyone else also wants to hire and I don’t like the idea that teams that are
looking for coaches are kind of forced to make a choice in hiring the best
coach that’s available now, or waiting for one from a playoff contender,
getting a verbal agreement and hoping they don’t change their mind after the
playoffs.


Everything would be cleaned up so much if they just shut off
the hiring of all coaches and the interviewing of currently employed coaches during
the playoffs.  After the SB is done
everyone gets a week or two to interview, and then teams are allowed to hire
coaches again.

I do agree that it sucks.  I liked the old way better, they could interview during a bye week, or after they were done with the playoffs.
But the problem with forcing them to wait is that the teams that didn't fire their coaches have a head start on the offseason.  Now that isn't insurmountable as the playoff teams are also delayed, but with the reward of playing longer.  But teams switching coaches want as much time as possible to start building the new staff.