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Cleveland Browns Mythbusters: Freddie Kitchens edition

By Christopher Markoch

BALTIMORE, MD - OCTOBER 11: Cleveland Browns helmets rest on the bench prior to a game against the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium on October 11, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)
BALTIMORE, MD - OCTOBER 11: Cleveland Browns helmets rest on the bench prior to a game against the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium on October 11, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images) /
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CLEVELAND, OH – DECEMBER 23: Baker Mayfield #6 of the Cleveland Browns warms up prior to the game against the Cincinnati Bengals at FirstEnergy Stadium on December 23, 2018 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images)
CLEVELAND, OH – DECEMBER 23: Baker Mayfield #6 of the Cleveland Browns warms up prior to the game against the Cincinnati Bengals at FirstEnergy Stadium on December 23, 2018 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images) /

Myth #3: Hiring Freddie Kitchens means the Browns job was not attractive

Baker Mayfield is the Cleveland Browns quarterback. Therefore, this job is attractive. The people that are making this claim are asking the question the wrong way. The question is why weren’t other candidates attractive to the Browns? Let’s speculate a bit.

Bruce Arians was begging for the job. Until he decided that the Browns job was not the only job he was interested in after all. Arians has an attractive resume, but perhaps the Browns made the reasonable assumption that Arians, who said he had emptied the tank in Arizona, might only be a placeholder coach for … wait for it … Freddie Kitchens. If that’s the case, why not just hire Kitchens now and let him build the team the way he sees fit.

Mike McCarthy seemed interested, and it’s even rumored that he would have been the next Browns head coach, but he didn’t want to be forced to retain Kitchens.

Let’s see. Your first act as head coach would be to get on the wrong side of your franchise quarterback. Hmmm. Because that worked so well in Green Bay? We will probably never know if the Browns or McCarthy were truly serious. But if you watched the Browns offense over the last eight games of the season and compared it to the Green Bay offense of recent years, you wouldn’t have to do a “double check” to see which one was going in the same direction as most of the league. Just ask Aaron Rodgers.

Next. Potential coordinators and staff under Freddie Kitchens. dark

Josh McDaniels apparently wanted an interview but couldn’t get one. To this I say, there is a reality in life. If you turn down promotions, they stop getting offered. If you keep rejecting proposals, they move on to someone else. In life, you can only say “No” so often before people stop giving you the chance to say “Yes”. McDaniels has been slavishly loyal to Bill Belichick, Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. All I can say to him is I hope it pays off.

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