I was bound inside watching NFL football this week-end with Pauli. In reality the best four teams all in home games advanced to the conference championship finals. Based on what we’ve seen so far this post season it would be hard to go against homefield advantage next week-end. So… I guess I’ll go New Orleans vs. Kansas City in the Super Bowl. We have three very good quarterbacks in the mix with of course Tom Brady, Drew Brees, and the story of this NFL season in Patrick Mahomes. The New England vs. Kansas City game has the chance to be epic as far as the possible changing of the guard from Brady to Mahomes. These are the four highest scoring teams with three of the best quarterbacks in the game and with the Rams we have a great running team with Tim Gurley and CJ Anderson.
But the thing as a ‘Cleveland Browns fan’ for me was the fact they hired former Oklahoma State offensive coordinator Todd Monken as the offensive coordinator for Baker Mayfield’s offense. I was harkening to this back during the World Series and I think the Browns picked the perfect coordinator for Baker Mayfield. Since being at Oklahoma State….Monken was the head coach at Southern Miss and the offensive coordinator for Tampa Bay. This will just be such a seamless fit. Monken is smart, he coaches aggressively, his players love playing for him, and quite frankly in reality I could see him at some point actually being an NFL head coach in as much as the NY Jets just interviewed him for their head coaching vacancy.
As much as I love OU football and all the new players and defensive coaches they’ll have on the field next season, the Browns with Mayfield and Monken will have my attention from Day 1. In the draft John Dorsey probably needs to add another O lineman and some more depth on the D line and linebackers. But otherwise this Browns team should be compelling in what all the sudden is an intriguing AFC North division.
Here’s Todd Monken on this video explaining why he was dropping some F bombs during an ESPN filming at a practice while he was involved coaching O State’s offense to a 2011 Big 12 championship. By far, the best O State team I’ve ever seen from an OU perspective. They had swagger. They had mojo. They kicked OU’s ass that year 41-10. They had Todd Monken.
Great move by the Browns.