{"id":684375,"date":"2026-01-17T15:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T15:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/684375\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T15:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T15:11:14","slug":"cleveland-browns-fans-seem-fine-with-team-steering-clear-of-john-harbaugh-mike-tomlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/684375\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Browns fans seem fine with team steering clear of John Harbaugh, Mike Tomlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the offseason, Cleveland Browns<\/a> fans vote in SB Nation Reacts to express their confidence level in the team or their thoughts on other topics.<\/p>\n

This week, we asked one question to Browns fans, which centered around the two big AFC North coaches who became available: John Harbaugh of the Baltimore Ravens, and Mike Tomlin of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Note: This was before the New York Giants became heavily involved with Harbaugh, but the question still stood in its intention: did Cleveland fans want the experienced rival coach from within the division, or did they want to steer clear of them and find a new candidate<\/a>?<\/p>\n

46% of fans voted that they want a different coach hired, while 37% voted for Harbaugh. 17% cast a vote for Tomlin, although perhaps his number would be higher if there wasn\u2019t a need to acquire him via a trade. Depending on how you interpret the results, Harbaugh may have been the actual favorite among Browns fans, considering that the \u201csteer clear\u201d category is diluted among probably 10+ other candidates.<\/p>\n

On a national level, prior to the stepping down of Tomlin, it was asked whether several playoff-consistent coaches should be fired. 43% of fans said none of the three coaches should be fired, and on an individual basis, there wasn\u2019t a strong consensus about any of them.<\/p>\n

If Harbaugh indeed officially signs in New York, then the question is where does Browns former head coach Kevin Stefanski land?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the offseason, Cleveland Browns fans vote in SB Nation Reacts to express their confidence level in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,85398,2337,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-684375","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-discussion","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115911084635370603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684375","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=684375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}