Todd Monken is busy trying to figure out how to build the Cleveland Browns team he now coaches into a winner. Ask Monken about his former boss with the Baltimore Ravens, New York Giants new head coach John Harbaugh, and Monken doesn\u2019t mind putting that task aside.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much time do we have?,\u201d Monken replied on Wednesday at the NFL Scouting Combine when asked what made Harbaugh a good coach.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s elite in a lot of areas. I\u2019ve said this many times, he\u2019s got a gift for confronting anything that gets in the way of winning football without being confrontational. He just does. It\u2019s unique. He doesn\u2019t let it linger. He\u2019ll come right down the hall and say, this isn\u2019t good enough, what can we do to change it? Where are we at?\u201d<\/p>\n
Monken, Harbaugh\u2019s offensive coordinator with the Ravens said Harbaugh doesn\u2019t have an off switch when it comes to football and trying to get better.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other thing is the offseason\u2019s no joke,\u201d Monken said. \u201cJohn, it\u2019s football every day, man. It is how are we going to get better? Every year I was with the Ravens, it was offense 2.0, offense 3.0. What are we going to do to improve, take advantage of our player\u2019s skillset? So he\u2019s nonstop. He\u2019s about winning football.\u201d<\/p>\n
Monken confirmed that he would have become Harbaugh\u2019s offensive coordinator with the Giants had he not gotten the job with the Browns.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, I mean of course\u201d Monken said. \u201cI mean, I was hopeful that I would get the Cleveland Browns head coaching job. That\u2019d be silly to say that I wasn\u2019t hopeful of that, but I was excited to go to New York with coach.\u201d<\/p>\n
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