@tour2ma said:

Yeah haha. This is a big gamble. If Jackson balks, they are stuck looking like real assholes and will have to go to their second choice with hat in hand.

@jiggins7919 said:

Article on who we're looking at:

http://espn.go.com/blog/cleveland-browns/post/_/id/17578/browns-coaching-search-seven-interviewed-none-hired-yet

I could be mistaken, but if it's Patricia we really want, I don't think we can officially hire him, or announce we hired him, until after his season with the Patriots is over. Problem with that is, their season could go on for several more weeks, and there's no guarantee we'll get him. So if we wait that long and he stiffs us...we could be down to the bottom of the barrel. Sound familiar?

Yup.... and just to let him know how much we love him we mount a big push for Hugh Jackson...

@stillmotion said:

Mangini and Flip

OK

WSS

https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/686680414862180352

@jiggins7919 said:

Exactly it- if we want Patricia, we had better hope the Chiefs beat the Patriots. Coaching prospect aside, I wouldn't mind that scenario at all.

@the-gipper said:

I think Dan Quinn will be fine, but really they're all younger, fresher prospects who are still largely unproven. Hard to reach a verdict on any of them yet.

Except maybe Schiano - who is not younger, fresher, and unproven.

@the-gipper said:

I guess that is even worse than I thought because coaches who aren't even that great are turning down the chance to come to Cleveland (and that is the point). We have a bad track record in Cleveland of hiring and firing head coaches. In Chud's case he got less than 12 months before being axed.

@oldbrownsfan said:

OK, now find me a winning coach in that bunch. The best is perhaps Todd Bowles....and his team just cacked up a furball.

Honestly....I am not sure that any of them are that much better than Pettine.

WSS

@the-gipper said:

Never Forget: At Least 6 Candidates Said No To Coaching Division-Leading Browns

It's also worth remembering those who turned down a chance at the job and/or pulled their name from consideration before they could be offered the position.

OK, ready?

Josh McDaniels, currently Patriots offensive coordinator.

Todd Bowles, currently Cardinals defensive coordinator who just reportedly received a contract extension.

Adam Gase, currently Broncos offensive coordinator.

Another who was considered for the job and maybe would have taken it if it weren't for that pesky Super Bowl ...

Dan Quinn, currently Seahawks defensive coordinator.

Others who reportedly interviewed ...

Greg Schiano (!!), currently unemployed after the Buccaneers fired him.

Dirk Koetter, currently Falcons offensive coordinator.

Plus, there were others.

All of this is to remind you that Pettine took a job that had been turned down several times, enough so that it took nearly a month for the team to hire a coach after firing Rob Chudzinski.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24803787/reminder-these-are-the-coaches-who-didnt-want-the-browns-job

http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/throwback/201411/never-forget-least-six-candidates-said-no-coaching-division-leading-browns

@jiggins7919 said:

I don't know.....I think Kansas City has a good chance of beating the Pats and putting Pattycake out on the market.

@oldbrownsfan said:

Who were all these great coaches? Were any of them even good?

@hoorta said:

I don't think it matters.....OC, DC on who we hire. Would you rather another Pat Shurmur or Chud? They were both OCs.

So that clearly isn't the issue.

It is who can be a good HC.....and there seems to me to be an intangible to that that has nothing to do with which side of the ball you coached.

That is like in baseball. Who makes the best managers? Pitchers or position players? And which position? Some say catchers make the best....and there may be something to that. But is is no gurarantee.

Zombo said:

I for one do not have a problem not having a shot at those two. They just didn't excite me. No analytics involved. Just my gut feeling.

@jiggins7919 said:

If Patricia happened to be our #1 candidate - we would likely know via Patricia's agent or him if he would accept the job, so we wouldn't be waiting for nothing.

I'm thinking we've done all the interviews we needed to in order to identify who our #1 is. If no offer comes out to Jackson, Marrone, etc. Then it's more than likely the #1 is McDermott or Patricia and the top men in Berea would have received the non-official "yes" from their guy before they're available.

At this level, the professional relationships are pretty important - don't foresee anybody we wait for stiffing us.

http://espn.go.com/blog/cleveland-browns/post/_/id/17578/browns-coaching-search-seven-interviewed-none-hired-yet

I could be mistaken, but if it's Patricia we really want, I don't think we can officially hire him, or announce we hired him, until after his season with the Patriots is over. Problem with that is, their season could go on for several more weeks, and there's no guarantee we'll get him. So if we wait that long and he stiffs us...we could be down to the bottom of the barrel. Sound familiar?

@oldbrownsfan said:

Says who?

So many people who think they know who is a good coach or not? Laughing at that.

@oldbrownsfan said:

Well I guess nobody really knows who the top Browns candidates were/are. But Gase is the only one they've interviewed who's off the board (only one that matters, the cowboys secondary coach who cares).

IMO I think Gase is a very overrated candidate anyway.

Jackson is probably the best on paper and we interviewed him yesterday and he's still meeting with the Giants. But there'll still be some other good candidates for us to pick from after the dust settles (probably Patricia)

@bbedward said:

I thought Gase and Jackson were on that upper list?

http://fansided.com/2016/01/03/top-5-browns-head-coaching-candidates/2/