Josh Who? Stefanski Looks Like a Winner For Sure I Think Probably Maybe

Kevin Stefanski's strongest influence is Gary Kubiak, who just might come to Cleveland as his Offensive Coordinator.

That would be awesome.  Kubiak was the Offensive Coordinator for 2 Superbowl teams, and won the Superbowl in his first year as Denver's Head Coach.

Like Pederson in Philly, Gary Kubiak was an NFL Quarterback, and backed up his boss John Elway.

Kubiak wasn't fired, but retired due to health concerns.  He showed back up in Minnesota in 2019 as an "Assistant Head Coach/Offensive Advisor", just as Kevin Stefanski was confirmed as the Vikings' OC.

Another former Browns' coach, John DeFilippo, flopped in 2018, leading to his late season firing and Stefanski's interim promotion.

"Flip" wouldn't stick to the run, and Kirk Cousins found himself under a lot of pressure behind a weak Offensive Line--plus Dalvin Cook was on IR.

The Vikes thought they had the Offensive Line fixed in the offseason, and that bore out early on.  Then they started getting hurt.

By the time they got to the 49ers game, they were missing 3 starters, just in time for the Niners awesome front 4 to return to full health, so...

Kubiak/Stefanski run a lot, and use play-action off it.  Quarterbacks love it.  Offensive linemen love it.  Running backs love it.  Defenses hate it.  'Nuff said?

It got Kirk Cousins to his best carreer season and the 4th highest QBR in the NFL (plus he won that first playoff game).

Kubiak uses inside and outside zone-blocking schemes, and this is why one writer asserted that Stefanski had "devised a way" to make passes indistinguishable from runs to a defense.

Readers of this Blog get that; it's the zone-blocking scheme that Kyle's father Mike Shanahan ran in Denver when Elway won his two Superbowls (and the same scheme Kyle is running now with the 49ers). 

Hmmm....

Some (rightfully) call Stefanski a "risky" Head Coach hire, but I know that DePodesta knows what he is doing.

The upsides include Kubiak and Andrew Berry.

Andrew Berry was a player, then a scout, and was instrumental in bringing in a bunch of guys who John Dorsey said weren't "real football players"---many of which he got rid of:

Nassib, Ogbah, Peppers, Zeitler, Tretter, Schobert, Higgins, Njoku, Garrett, Ogunjobi, etc?

Berry was also all aboard with the stockpiled draft picks and massive war-chest Dorsey inheritted and semi-squandered:

Berry would NOT have paid Hubbard top RT money, traded for OBJ and Vernon, dumped both Nassib and Ogbah, or...

Well I look forward to having Berry back, and working hand-in-hand with Stefanski and DePodesta.

I really hope Gary Kubiak will be the Browns new Offensive Coordinator.

I have yet to find this connection to Jim Schwartze, but happen to know that Schwartze is currently unemployed, and would like to see him running the Browns' Defense in 2020.

Both Kubiak and Schwartze are former Head Coaches.  They could help Stefanski handle his new role, and certainly run the offense and defense for him...duh.

Schwartze runs a 4-3 scheme, and pioneered the "wide 9" defense.  The Browns had all the tools Schwartze needs until John Dorsey got here and dumped Ogbah, Nassib, and Orchard.

Ogunjobi, Garrett, and Richardson are still here though (I'm writing off Olivier Vernon.  He's 30, chronicly injured, and massively overpriced---genius move by Dorsey...chuh)

Ok sorry too deep in the weeds nevermind:

But Kubiak, Berry, and DePodesta himself were factors in this hire.

Peter Smith puts his 2 cents in on this, zeroing in on how useful an Analytics Dept can be, both ahead of and during games.

.....okbye.

...ok get over the affirmative action bullcrap.  It's a cooincidence that no minorities got Head Coach gigs this year.  The Reverand Al Kaperdick has a right to kneel over this institutional racism, but it doesn't exist.

Think with your BRAIN.

Okbye.