Four of the five teams that are making returns to the playoffs this year have followed a similar route to get there: A new quarterback near the top of the draft, then a new head coach.<\/p>\n
As we hear with any financial services, \u201cpast performance does not predict future results.\u201d<\/p>\n
Just because getting the quarterback first, then the right head coach, worked for teams this year, doesn\u2019t mean that is the norm. However, it is notable that strong coaching candidates are drawn to teams with a young, dynamic quarterback they can build around. Vrabel, for example, would not have accepted the Browns job this offseason had they fired Kevin Stefanski over getting the chance to coach Maye.<\/p>\n
As Cleveland owner Jimmy Haslam processes what he wants to do with Stefanski, and to a lesser extent, Andrew Berry, the success the Bears, Pats, Jags, and Panthers have had after getting the young quarterback first can\u2019t be ignored. Will strong candidates be drawn to the team with the chance to draft a quarterback high? Possibly. A year of NFL film showing strong play as a rookie, as we saw with Williams and Maye last year, could be an even bigger draw for hot head coaching candidates.<\/p>\n
Should the Browns try to replicate the order that Chicago, Jacksonville, Carolina, and New England did? Maybe. In the end, there is no right way to build a winner, but Cleveland desperately needs a winner, which means getting a top-flight quarterback and the right head coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four of the five teams that are making returns to the playoffs this year have followed a similar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,89287,4397,1696,7,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-632725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-panthers","10":"tag-carolinapanthers","11":"tag-cleveland-browns-coaching-staff","12":"tag-cleveland-browns-draft","13":"tag-cleveland-browns-roster","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115791939734603503","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}