Daily Dawg Tags: Browns coaching staff coming together
Spanning the virtual globe to bring you the latest news about the Cleveland Browns and the NFL – these are your Daily Dawg Tags for Friday, Jan. 22.
Cleveland Browns:
Cleveland Browns coaching staff coming together
"Cleveland Browns head coach Hue Jackson continues to build his coaching staff with several reported hirings coming on Wednesday. As expected, the offensive staff now includes Al Saunders as a senior offensive assistant, Pep Hamilton as associate head coach/offense, Kirby Wilson as running game coordinator, and Hal Hunter as offensive line coach. Ray Horton will also make his return to Cleveland as defensive coordinator."
Cleveland Browns: Hue Jackson earns PFWA coaching award
"Cleveland Browns head coach Hue Jackson has been selected as Assistant Coach of the Year by the Professional Football Writers of America. According to the organization, Jackson was honored for his work in 2015 as offensive coordinator of the Cincinnati Bengals. The site recognized Jackson for his efforts “with the Bengals skill position players (that) paid dividends in a 12-4 regular season.” Jackson shares the honor with Denver defensive coordinator Wade Phillips."
Browns won’t have a general manager (cleveland.com)
"The Browns won’t hire a general manager, but they have interviewed former Dolphins GM Dennis Hickey and former Lions GM Martin Mayhew for their top personnel job, sources said. Former Eagles Director of Pro Personnel Rick Mueller is also on their radar. Instead of GM, the new executive will be Vice President of Player Personnel."
Paul DePodesta: Browns ‘can start being right, more than wrong’ (Factory of Sadness)
"Since 1999, nobody’s gotten it wrong more than the Cleveland Browns. And Paul DePodesta believes that’s about to change. DePodesta said he understands the skepticism that comes withs switching from Major League Baseball, to a prominent role with an NFL team, but the sabermetrics guru added that the Browns “can starting being right, more than wrong,” presumably with analytics helping to call the shots."
Browns reach out to Joe Thomas to persuade him to stay (ESPN)
"Sashi Brown has already reached out to left tackle Joe Thomas in an effort to convince Thomas that staying with the Cleveland Browns is a good idea. Brown, the team’s new director of football operations, said Thursday that he talked with Thomas two or three days after the season finale — or two or three days after Thomas for the first time said he wasn’t sure he wanted to be back with the team in light of its fifth coaching change since he was the third overall pick in the 2007 draft."
NFL News:
Jon Gruden thinks NFL should abolish instant replay (FanSided)
"Over recent years, replay in the NFL has been a widely controversial topic. With everything eligible up for review in the game these days, it means that there’s often lengthy delays and if not worse, bad calls still made on the field despite their being replays. It’s an imperfect system with a lot of flaws and it has created almost as many questions as it has solved problems."
Elway: Peyton Manning ‘is staying in this moment’ (NFL.com)
"As storied as Peyton Manning’s football past has been, his future in Denver remains just as unclear.The 39-year-old Broncos quarterback is at the tail end of the worst statistical season of his career during which he missed six games due to a torn plantar fascia."
The Denver Broncos are a completely different team now (Predominantly Orange)
"The team that beat the New England Patriots in overtime on a snowy Sunday night in Denver is not the same team that will host the AFC Championship game on Sunday. And that’s not a bad thing. The talk has all been about how healthy the Patriots are going to be this time around, and how much of a difference that makes. I don’t know that it will make any more or less of a difference than the health of the Denver Broncos this time around."