{"id":659363,"date":"2026-01-06T21:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/659363\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T21:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:01:11","slug":"browns-1st-hc-search-interview-request-interview-with-their-former-oc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/659363\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns 1st HC search interview: Request interview with their former OC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tuesday afternoon, the first bit of news rolled out with Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator Todd Monken being sought for an interview in Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Monken is in his 37th year of coaching with a strong mix of college and NFL experience, including one year as the Browns offensive coordinator in 2019 in Freddie Kitchens\u2019 lone year as the team\u2019s head coach. Monken spent the next three seasons as the offensive coordinator for the Georgia Bulldogs, including two National Championships, before returning to the NFL as Lamar Jackson\u2019s coordinator with the Ravens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Baltimore had the 11th-ranked offense, according to FTN\u2019s DVOA, this year despite a number of injuries to Jackson. The 2025 season was Monken\u2019s lowest-rated offense while ranking first and fourth the two previous seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Monken\u2019s only spent three years as a head coach, at Southern Miss, with a record of 13-25 during that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday afternoon, the first bit of news rolled out with Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator Todd Monken being sought&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,89287,1864,2337,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-659363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-browns","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-browns","11":"tag-cleveland-browns-coaching-staff","12":"tag-cleveland-browns-news","13":"tag-clevelandbrowns","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115850175668094543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659363","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=659363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}