We would have to wait for the laughter to stop before we could be so conceited as to bring up the idea of a Cleveland Browns coach overseeing Mount Rushmore.
After pointing at Paul Brown, the most of us would leave for lunch.
After all, this is a team that has 11 head coaches (including interims) throughout the course of 21 years, from 1999 to 2019. That featured consecutive seasons ending in 1-15 and 0-16.
Despite being older than the Super Bowl, the Browns franchise has never taken home the championship. Given that the Browns have never participated in the Super Bowl, this is hardly shocking.
Thus, there isn’t much competition in the area of hypothetical Cleveland Browns coaches for Mount Rushmore. Blanton Collier, Marty Schottenheimer, and Paul Brown are present. That is all.
During his 17 years as the Browns’ coach, Paul Brown—who is credited with creating modern-day pro football—won seven titles: four in the All-American Football Conference and three in the National Football League (1950, 1954, and 1955). Brown not only had a winning percentage of.767 (158-48) but also won seven league titles when he was in Cleveland.
Owner Art Modell dismissed Brown after the 1962 campaign and elevated Collier, the team’s backfield coach, to head coach. During his eight years of employment, Collier amassed a winning percentage of.690 (76-34) and led the Browns to five postseason appearances. Notably, in 1964, just before the Super Bowl, Cleveland defeated the strongly favoured Baltimore Colts and Johnny Unitas 27-0 to win the NFL championship.
With a winning percentage of.620 (71-44) over his five years as the Browns’ coach, Schottenheimer guided the team from 1984 to 1988. over that time, the team made it to the playoffs four times, including two heartbreaking losses to Denver in the AFC title games in 1986 and 1987.
And then there was a coaching drought. The period of time lasted until January 2020, when the Browns hired offensive coordinator Kevin Stefanski of the Vikings. The previous year, they had interviewed Stefanski but passed on him in favour of Freddie Kitchens, who was hired as a one-time hiring.
