Cleveland Browns News: Brett Favre has strong opinion of Kevin Stefanski
By Randy Gurzi
The Daily Dawg Tags bring you all the Cleveland Brown news you need to know, including Brett Favre weighing in on their new head coach, Kevin Stefanski
On Monday, the Cleveland Browns made it official as new head coach Kevin Stefanski put pen to paper on his five-year contract. The first-year coach is taking the reins and there’s a lot of mixed reaction to the hire.
Many fans are worried that Stefanski will have similar issues to what the team suffered through with Freddie Kitchens last season. That’s a bit of a stretch though because the only thing similar to Stefanski and Kitchens is that they both will be rookie head coaches for Cleveland.
Outside of that, there aren’t many similarities. Stefanski, who is a young coach has spent his entire coaching career with the Minnesota Vikings and was able to work with some of the best in the game during that time.
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Quarterback Brett Favre was one of those players as he was with the Vikings in 2009 and 2010 while Stefanski was the assistant quarterbacks coach. And during those two seasons, he left an impression on the Hall of Fame quarterback.
That story and more can be found in today’s Daily Dawg Tags.
Cleveland Browns News
Brett Favre is a fan of new Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski — Ben Axelrod, WKYC.com
"“While Favre’s two-season stint with the Minnesota Vikings in 2009 and 2010 may have been short-lived, it coincided with Kevin Stefanski’s rise as an assistant. In both years that Favre spent in Minnesota, Stefanski served as the team’s assistant quarterbacks coach and suffice to say, the former Penn defensive back left quite an impression on the 3-time MVP.”"
During the interview, Favre called Stefanski one of the “bright minds.” The two worked together for two seasons in Minnesota and the young coach made an impression on Favre — who is a quarterback many compare to current Cleveland starter, Baker Mayfield.
"“28 – Sacks surrendered by the Vikings in 2019, a decrease of 12 from the previous season and a total that ranked as the fifth-fewest in the NFL.107.4 – Quarterback rating posted this season by veteran Kirk Cousins, the best of his eight NFL seasons and a mark that ranked fourth in the NFL.”"
There are some impressive stats in this list but the improved play — and protection — of Kirk Cousins stand out above everything else.
Wade Phillips a candidate to be Cleveland Browns defensive coordinator
When Sean McVay was hired to be the Los Angeles Rams head coach, he brought in Wade Phillips to be the defensive coordinator. Not only did this give him a great defensive mind to run the defense, but he was able to lean on a guy with coaching experience dating back to 1976 — a decade before McVay was born. Now a free agent, the Browns could look to do the same thing for Kevin Stefanski as they’re now being linked to Phillips.
Next. Stefanski walks into an alarming situation. dark
Cleveland Browns fans, shut up about play calling, already
Elliot Kennel has heard the complaints and he wants it to stop. Yes, Kevin Stefanski is going to call his own plays. No, that does not mean it will fail as it did with Freddie Kitchens. These are two different coaches, let’s treat them as such.