Mike McDaniel will return to Cleveland, the place he labored as a large receivers coach early in his profession, to interview for the vacant head teaching place with the Browns.
McDaniel, 42, can be on the crew facility on Monday to interview for the job, in line with Cleveland.com.
It comes simply 4 days after McDaniel was fired by the Dolphins following a four-year run in Miami, the place he went 35-34 and did not win a playoff sport.
Miami missed out on the postseason in McDaniel’s final two seasons, together with a 7-10 mark in the latest marketing campaign that included the benching of beginning quarterback Tua Tagovalioa for the ultimate three video games.
It additionally comes every week after the Browns fired Kevin Stefanski, whose identify has come up fairly a bit in relation to the Giants’ teaching emptiness.
McDaniel was the Browns’ receivers coach in 2014 below then-offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan and head coach Mike Pettine.
The Titans are additionally anticipated to interview McDaniel on Wednesday.
The Browns have been busy of their teaching search, with McDaniel being the sixth candidate the group has introduced in for an interview.
Offensive coordinator Tommy Rees, defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz, Seahawks DC Aden Durde, Bengals OC Dan Pitcher and Revens offensive coordinator Todd Monken have additionally interviewed for the job.
The Browns, like nearly each crew with a training emptiness, can also be serious about ex-Ravens coach John Harbaugh.
Cleveland.com reported that Harbaugh might be introduced in to interview for the job within the close to future, and the Browns had been one of many seven groups that known as him lower than an hour after he was fired by Baltimore.
Whoever will get the Browns job can be liable for turning round a franchise that went 8-24 the previous two seasons — and work out the quarterback place with rookies Shedeur Sanders and Dillon Gabriel splitting a lot of the time below middle this previous season.
McDaniel spent one season in Cleveland after which adopted Shanahan to Atlanta in 2015 when he took over as offensive coordinator there.
McDaniel would later go to San Francisco to be a part of the 49ers’ teaching workers, beginning as a run sport coordinator and ultimately working as much as offensive coordinator.
He took over because the Dolphins’ head coach in 2022.
