{"id":660768,"date":"2026-01-07T09:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/660768\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:39:15","slug":"browns-request-to-interview-todd-monken-for-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/660768\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns Request to Interview Todd Monken for Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland parted ways with former head coach Kevin Stefanski on Monday. Monken spent one season as the Browns&#8217; offensive coordinator in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The 59-year-old Monken came to Baltimore in 2022 from the University of Georgia after winning back-to-back national championships as the Bulldogs&#8217; offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the Ravens became the first NFL team with over 4,000 yards passing and 3,000 yards rushing in a season. Lamar Jackson threw for more than 4,000 yards for the first time, with a career-high 41 touchdown passes and just four interceptions. Derrick Henry rushed for nearly 2,000 yards (1,921), and Baltimore averaged more than 30 points a game (30.5) for the first time since 2019. The Ravens had the league&#8217;s No. 1 offense in yardage.<\/p>\n<p>In Monken&#8217;s first season with the Ravens, they rose to sixth in total offense after ranking 16th in 2022, and Jackson won his second Most Valuable Player Award.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Baltimore ranked No. 16 in total offense and averaged 24.9 points. The unit had trouble maintaining consistency throughout games and the season and Jackson&#8217;s injuries made it more challenging.<\/p>\n<p>Monken spent three seasons as head coach at Southern Mississippi (2013-15) and has been a coordinator at both the NFL (Buccaneers, Browns, Ravens) and collegiate level (Eastern Michigan, Oklahoma State).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland parted ways with former head coach Kevin Stefanski on Monday. Monken spent one season as the Browns&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,2337,783,7,781,891,20472,6,23813],"class_list":{"0":"post-660768","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-clevelandbrowns","12":"tag-clifton-brown","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-general","15":"tag-homepage-latest-headlines","16":"tag-inline-news","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-todd-monken"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115853155823099522","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660768","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=660768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}