Cleveland Browns: Please stop the Mike McCarthy madness

Connecting Green Bay Packers Mike McCarthy to the Cleveland Browns as a head coaching candidate needs to stop. It simply isn’t a good idea.

The Cleveland Browns find themselves in a great spot right now. They’re playing better than we have seen in years and they just had their third rookie win his second NFL Rookie of the Week Award.

After a huge game in a win over Atlanta, running back Nick Chubb joined cornerback Denzel Ward and quarterback Baker Mayfield as members of the team to win the award at least twice (Mayfield has done it three times to lead the way).

All that is said to highlight that the future is bright with the Browns, who will be searching for a head coach in 2019 and most available coaches will listen simply because they have a quarterback who can win. The search will be wide and many names are being thrown out there — but one shouldn’t be. That name would be Mike McCarthy.

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Currently the head coach of the Green Bay Packers, McCarthy sits on a throne of fire right now. That seat somehow got hotter as McCarthy punted the ball away in a close game on Thursday Night Football with just over four minutes to play and only one timeout. Naturally, the Packers lost as McCarthy’s inability to manage the clock once again bit his team.

For Browns fans, that has to be a huge red flag. No one misused timeouts and mismanaged games like the recently fired Hue Jackson. Do fans really want to go down that road again? Or do they want to bring in another guy who slows down his own team as McCarthy does?

Take for instance the way McCarthy used running back Aaron Jones over the last two weeks. After he tore the Dolphins up to the tune of 145 yards, McCarthy gave him just 11 carries. Underutilizing running backs is par for the course with the Packers coach, and that too reaks of Hue-like management.

Jackson repeatedly claimed he would get Chubb and Duke Johnson more carries, and never did. Then once he was fired, Chubb won his second award and Johnson has scored three touchdowns in two games.

Fans are loving the risk-taking Browns we have seen the past two weeks. They’re aggressive, they’re confident, and they’re a good team. Mike McCarthy coming over would be a step in the wrong direction as he would hold them back — like he has been doing to Green Bay this season.