{"id":703874,"date":"2026-01-25T12:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T12:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/703874\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T12:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T12:27:13","slug":"browns-head-coach-search-cle-interviews-a-former-hc-and-surprise-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/703874\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns head coach search: CLE interviews a former HC and \u2018surprise\u2019 candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cleveland met with a new head coaching candidate this week, as former Chargers head coach Anthony Lynn interviewed for the head coaching vacancy in Northeast Ohio yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Lynn, who\u2019s been serving as the Commanders\u2019 run-game coordinator and running backs coach since the 2024 season, is known for his steady-handedness and leadership ability. Despite his time as Los Angeles\u2019 HC not going entirely the way he had planned, he\u2019s still seen as an incredibly good coach around the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If he gets the job, it would be his second stint in Cleveland as he was the team\u2019s running backs coach in 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Lynn led the Chargers to a 12-4 record and to the playoffs in 2018, their first time being there since the 2013 season. He was also instrumental in the Chargers\u2019 upset win over the Baltimore Ravens in the Wild Card round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland met with a new head coaching candidate this week, as former Chargers head coach Anthony Lynn interviewed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,89287,1864,2337,7,781,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-703874","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-general","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115955737800813289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703874","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=703874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}