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Special teams coordinator Mike Priefer served as the acting head coach in the wild-card round against the Pittsburgh Steelers, winning the game.
- Romeo Crennel
- Bud Carson
- Forrest Gregg
- Butch Davis
- Nick Skorich
- Bill Belichick
- Sam Rutigliano
- Marty Schottenheimer
- Blanton Collier
- Paul Brown
There is something about the assistants of Bill Belichickthat NFL owners and executives just can’t stay away from. The Browns are no different. While he was still the defensive coordinator for the New England Patriots, and just before the 2003 playoffs began, Crennel interviewed for 6 head coaching jobs in 36 hours. He wasn’t offered any at the tim...
Bud Carson Came to the Browns after 17 years as an NFL assistant around the league. Directly before taking the Brown head coaching job Carson was the defensive coordinator for the New York Jets. However, back in the 1970s he was the architect of the Steel Curtain defense of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Carson took over in 1988 for Marty Schottenheimer ...
Forrest Gregg came to the Browns in 1974 as the offensive line coach. He had spent the first two years his coaching career in San Diego in the same role. Perhaps he knew what was to come, or perhaps he was just lucky, but the move was a fortuitous one for Gregg because just a year later he was named head coach of the Cleveland Browns. Gregg entered...
Butch Davis rode the wave of his college success at Miami into a deal in Cleveland that gave him the dual role of head coach and general manager. At the time, the move made some sense. Davis had rebuilt the Miami Hurricanes into a national powerhouse after NCAA violations by the previous regime had decimated the program. The Butch Davis reign laste...
When Nick Skorich took over the Browns he didn’t exactly need an introduction to the players, staff, or facilities. He’d already been around for 7 years as an assistant and offensive coordinator. Skorich took over the Browns for a retiring Blanton Collier in 1971. In 1970 the Browns finished with a 7-7 record, only their second non-winning season s...
The Belichick era of Browns football stirs many strong emotions in Browns’ fans. Some saw his personality as off-putting. He ran his press conferences with what appeared to be a bored indifference. This gave fans the impression that he lacked enthusiasm for the job. As it turns out, that’s just how he runs his press conferences. Belichick was also ...
Sam Rutigliano is the picture of the American dream Norman Rockwell could have only imagined painting. Rutigliano was born in Brooklyn, New York to Italian immigrant parents. After a college football career at Tennessee and Tulsa, Rutigliano worked his way up to the top of the coaching ladder. He started his coaching career in 1956 as a high school...
Marty Schottenheimer was and is a football man. After a college career at Pitt, he played professionally for 6 seasons before hanging it up. After an unfulfilling career in real estate after his playing career, Schottenheimer got back in the game as a coach. After half a dozen season as a positions coach, Schottenheimer was given the job of defensi...
To say that Blanton Collier owes his career to Paul Brown isn’t exactly a fair characterization of the man’s great career, but their connection is perhaps the most important relationship in either man’s career. Collier got his start coaching high school football in Kentucky, where he spent 16 years coaching Paris High School. World War II took Coll...
There is no figure greater in the history of football in Ohio than Paul Brown. Brown grew up in Massillon, Ohio, the hotbed of football passion both before and after Brown’s influence. After a college career at the University of Miami, Brown took a job coaching football at his alma mater, Massillon Washington High School. After 5 state championship...
Dec 31, 2019 · Cleveland Browns head coach Mike Pettine, left, and general manager Ray Farmer talks about the 2014 draft at the NFL football team's facility in Berea, Ohio, Friday, May 9, 2014. After a series...
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Aug 27, 2022 · In 1994, he was hired as the head football coach of his alma mater, Brown University, where he spent the next four seasons. Whipple’s the year 1997 Brown team set Ivy League and school total offense records (474.3 yards per game), including a single-game record of 629 yards versus Yale.
Before joining the Browns in January 2011, Whipple worked for two seasons as the offensive coordinator at the University of Miami. He previously coached in the NFL, working as a quarterback coach with the Pittsburgh Steelers from 2004 to 2006 and as an offensive assistant coach with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2007 and 2008.
The History of the Cleveland Browns American football team began in 1944 when taxi-cab magnate Arthur B. "Mickey" McBride secured a Cleveland, Ohio, franchise in the newly formed All-America Football Conference (AAFC). Paul Brown, who coach Bill Walsh once called the "father of modern football", [1] was the team's namesake and first coach.
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Mark Whipple. Mark John Whipple (born April 1, 1957) is an American football coach, who most recently served as offensive coordinator at Nebraska in 2022. Whipple was the head football coach at University of New Haven from 1988 to 1993, Brown University from 1994 to 1997, and stints as the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass), from 1998 ...
