{"id":754768,"date":"2026-02-15T22:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/754768\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T22:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:35:14","slug":"browns-coaching-search-dc-job-down-to-3-internal-candidate-eliminated-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/754768\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns coaching search: DC job down to 3? Internal candidate eliminated already?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Over the past two weeks, rumors and reports have connected Monken\u2019s search to a wide variety of names:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Since then, we have reports of Tarver, Banda, Undlin, Pleasant, and Rutenberg interviews. There has not been a report that Cooley actually interviewed for the position, and Bullen has reportedly decided to stay with the Giants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">ESPN\u2019s Jeremy Fowler is indicating that Monken has narrowed his search to just three names:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Monken will have interviews completed with Tarver, Undlin, and Rutenberg this weekend, setting up a decision for the Browns new defensive coordinator position soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If those are the three finalists, who do you want Monken to hire as the new DC? How do you feel about Banda not making the cut, according to Fowler\u2019s report?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Share your thoughts with us in ht ecomment section below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the past two weeks, rumors and reports have connected Monken\u2019s search to a wide variety of names:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[89287,52261,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-754768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-cleveland-browns-coaching-staff","9":"tag-cleveland-browns-rumors","10":"tag-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116077037274164266","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754768","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=754768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}