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Cleveland Browns 2021 Regular Season: RIP

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adam81king said:
I smell a lifetime contract!!!
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Probably safe to say he's not going anywhere. He's not going to get another HC or OC gig, and the Browns will make sure he's paid.
 
adam81king said:
I agree with you...but I have a lifetime of Cleveland sports trauma to make me skittish without it happening officially.
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So do I, but quite honestly, this is different. We have never -- at least since the 60's -- had a time where we had both a very competent front office and a very competent head coach. And ever since Jimmy H. found that combination, we haven't heard anything from him or Dee pertaining to team operations. By every indication, he's got exactly what he wanted all along - great, competent subordinates to handle professionally the running of the team so he can sit back in the owner's box and watch the wins and accolades roll in.
 
The Human Q-Tip said:
Probably safe to say he's not going anywhere. He's not going to get another HC or OC gig, and the Browns will make sure he's paid.
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Why not? He went to a Super Bowl his first year as HC, I know the wheels fell off the next year. But their MVP QB got hurt and things weren't the same, he was fired without giving him a chance to get it back.

Look, Callahan is 65 and might not ever want the pressure of a head coach, but I am curious when i look at his work why he was never given another HC or OC gig. Nebraska failure?
 
Lee said:
Look, Callahan is 65 and might not ever want the pressure of a head coach, but I am curious when i look at his work why he was never given another HC or OC gig. Nebraska failure?
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His exit at Oakland was bad, particularly with veteran players, and he just wasn't any good at Nebraska. He had no success beyond taking Gruden's team to the Super Bowl in year 1, and it was average to bad thereafter in Oakland and Nebraska. Also, he's a great o-line coach, and a good OC. So that's what teams think of him for.
 
2 For The Brew said:
Ran into a Steelers fan in Home Depot this past weekend (jammed due to the flooding / tornadoes around here north of Philly). Told me after the Steelers went down 28-0 he blacked out, and it took four text messages to revive him.
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That fanbase can't handle any kind of adversity whatsoever. I hope they experience a decade of sports misery.
 
Lee said:
Why not? He went to a Super Bowl his first year as HC, I know the wheels fell off the next year. But their MVP QB got hurt and things weren't the same, he was fired without giving him a chance to get it back.

Look, Callahan is 65 and might not ever want the pressure of a head coach, but I am curious when i look at his work why he was never given another HC or OC gig. Nebraska failure?
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I believe I saw something like he is the highest paid position coach in football (or very close to it). The time to jump to stay a HC was after he did an interim stint as the Redskins HC in 2019. Instead he went right back to Offensive line coach for the browns.

Im pretty sure his time has passed. Just looking at his career, other than the interim stint for the redskins, he hasnt been anything above a offensive line coach since 2014. Thats right the redskins made their offensive line coach Interim head coach.


I cant imagine he has any interest in suddenly leading a franchise. Short of the browns needing him to step up for some reason
 
Hasn't spoken to The Browns media since last October but boy there's always so much noise being written about him. Crazy for a dude who's widely considered to be a great teammate huh? You'd think with the way OBJ has conducted himself since he's been in Cleveland that the narratives about him that clearly aren't true can finally die but we'll see. Media gonna media I suspect.

 
Los216 said:
Hasn't spoken to The Browns media since last October but boy there's always so much noise being written about him. Crazy for a dude who's widely considered to be a great teammate huh? You'd think with the way OBJ has conducted himself since he's been in Cleveland that the narratives about him that clearly aren't true can finally die but we'll see. Media gonna media I suspect.

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What separates you from them?

You're posting and sharing it. It's working. Why would they stop?
 
Lee said:
Why not? He went to a Super Bowl his first year as HC, I know the wheels fell off the next year. But their MVP QB got hurt and things weren't the same, he was fired without giving him a chance to get it back.

Look, Callahan is 65 and might not ever want the pressure of a head coach, but I am curious when i look at his work why he was never given another HC or OC gig. Nebraska failure?
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Don't know. But I just can't see another team wanting to take a 65 year old offensive line coach and make him a head coach given that nobody else in the NFL has given him a HC gig in the last 15 years.

Why not just get someone younger who hasn't yet failed as an HC?
 
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bob2the2nd said:
I believe I saw something like he is the highest paid position coach in football (or very close to it). The time to jump to stay a HC was after he did an interim stint as the Redskins HC in 2019. Instead he went right back to Offensive line coach for the browns.

Im pretty sure his time has passed. Just looking at his career, other than the interim stint for the redskins, he hasnt been anything above a offensive line coach since 2014. Thats right the redskins made their offensive line coach Interim head coach.


I cant imagine he has any interest in suddenly leading a franchise. Short of the browns needing him to step up for some reason
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I said this at the time, but it says a lot for Stefanski not only that he wanted Callahan, but that Callahan actually wanted him. Then for Callahan to come out now and praise a guy more than two and a half decades younger than him that effusively really says a ton about our Head Coach. Not just that he knows football, but that he knows how to lead and manage people as well.
 
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