Mangini Tabs Rob Ryan as DC

[Hostile]

Adam Schefter
Rob Ryan hired as Browns’ defensive coordinator

Posted: Adam Schefter


Eric Mangini has yet to be introduced as the Cleveland Browns’ head coach, but he made his first move by hiring Rob Ryan as his defensive coordinator.

The Oakland Raiders’ coaching staff is being picked clean today as Tom Rathman was hired as the San Francisco 49ers’ running backs coach earlier today. Ryan joined the Raiders in 2004 after spending four seasons with the New England Patriots (2000-03) where he and Mangini served on Bill Belichick’s staff.

New York Jets quarterbacks coach Brian Daboll is considered the leading candidate to to join Mangini and become the Browns’ offensive coordinator, according to two league sources.

 

[NextGenBoys]

What a great hire. I've always been a huge fan of both of the Ryan's.

If they can get a good OC, this team could be for real. I'm not ready to say Super Bowl real, but as long as you make the playoffs, anything is possible.

 

[Hostile]

What a great hire. I've always been a huge fan of both of the Ryan's.

If they can get a good OC, this team could be for real. I'm not ready to say Super Bowl real, but as long as you make the playoffs, anything is possible.

They don't have a GM and they are just doing this willy nilly. Who is going to accept the GM job there when he has no input on the staff or hires?

It is a good job, but wow.

 

[TheCount]

Great hire, I hope all the staff jump ship from the Raiders, they are an embarassment to how a team should be run.

 

[dallasfaniac]

Who is going to accept the GM job there when he has no input on the staff or hires?

Millen?

 

[wileedog]

They don't have a GM and they are just doing this willy nilly. Who is going to accept the GM job there when he has no input on the staff or hires?

Pioli had been rumoured for a while for the Browns job, and then Mangini gets hired. Today its all about Pioli to the Cheifs.

Coincidence?

 

[Hostile]

Pioli had been rumoured for a while for the Browns job, and then Mangini gets hired. Today its all about Pioli to the Cheifs.

Coincidence?

Pioli removed his name and so did Eagles GM Tom Heckart.

I'm reading speculation that Mangini friend and Ravens director of pro personnel George Kokinis is the likely guy.

 

[WoodysGirl]

They don't have a GM and they are just doing this willy nilly. Who is going to accept the GM job there when he has no input on the staff or hires?

It is a good job, but wow.

DON’T OVERLOOK McCREIGHT IN CLEVELAND
Posted by Mike Florio on January 8, 2009, 4:00 p.m.

With the Browns hiring Eric Mangini to be the team’s next coach, with Scott Pioli and Tom Heckert out of the running for the G.M. job, and with Rich McKay never heard from again after the Falcons lost to the Cardinals, there’s an assumption in some circles that the only remaining candidate for the position with the Browns is George Kokinis, the Ravens’ director of pro personnel.

But, as a league source points out, do not rule out T.J. McCreight.

McCreight currently serves as the team’s director of player personnel, and he has been interviewed for the job. While the so-called “Baltimore Browns” (i.e., current Browns employees who worked for the franchise that was known as the Cleveland Browns before moving to Baltimore in 1996 and becoming the Ravens) desperately were opposed to the notion of Pioli getting the job, we’re told that they prefer McCreight over Kokinis.

“If Kokinis gets the job, he and Mangini are going to be cracking down on all the leaks and coasters who blamed [former coach Romeo] Crennel when convenient and trashed [G.M. Phil] Savage on his way out the door,” the source says.

We’re also told that, even though there’s now a presumption that Kokinis will take the job, the chances of him leaving Baltimore are right at 50-50.

So if Kokinis doesn’t take the job, then McCreight becomes the primary candidate by default.

Said the source, “[Owner Randy] Lerner is going to have a problem if Kokinis doesn’t get/take the job because he doesn’t have a qualified G.M. candidate to pick from unless he opens up the search. Who is going to take the job with Mangenius already sitting at the desk?”

Hell, that’s easy. We know who’d take the job.

Floyd Reese would take the job.

But, beyond Floyd, it might be hard to find candidates who’d happily step into a situation with cap problems and staph issues and some disgruntled high-profile players like Kellen Winslow and Braylon Edwards.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

He's making some nice choices, we'll see how it works out.

 

[DaBoys4Life]

Browns have a solid squad I wonder what mangini will do with them...i think the NYJ had a lot of nerve firing him considering the history of the franchise.

 

[dozin_theknick]

DON’T OVERLOOK McCREIGHT IN CLEVELAND
Posted by Mike Florio on January 8, 2009, 4:00 p.m.

With the Browns hiring Eric Mangini to be the team’s next coach, with Scott Pioli and Tom Heckert out of the running for the G.M. job, and with Rich McKay never heard from again after the Falcons lost to the Cardinals, there’s an assumption in some circles that the only remaining candidate for the position with the Browns is George Kokinis, the Ravens’ director of pro personnel.

But, as a league source points out, do not rule out T.J. McCreight.

McCreight currently serves as the team’s director of player personnel, and he has been interviewed for the job. While the so-called “Baltimore Browns” (i.e., current Browns employees who worked for the franchise that was known as the Cleveland Browns before moving to Baltimore in 1996 and becoming the Ravens) desperately were opposed to the notion of Pioli getting the job, we’re told that they prefer McCreight over Kokinis.

“If Kokinis gets the job, he and Mangini are going to be cracking down on all the leaks and coasters who blamed [former coach Romeo] Crennel when convenient and trashed [G.M. Phil] Savage on his way out the door,” the source says.

We’re also told that, even though there’s now a presumption that Kokinis will take the job, the chances of him leaving Baltimore are right at 50-50.

So if Kokinis doesn’t take the job, then McCreight becomes the primary candidate by default.

Said the source, “[Owner Randy] Lerner is going to have a problem if Kokinis doesn’t get/take the job because he doesn’t have a qualified G.M. candidate to pick from unless he opens up the search. Who is going to take the job with Mangenius already sitting at the desk?”

Hell, that’s easy. We know who’d take the job.

Floyd Reese would take the job.

But, beyond Floyd, it might be hard to find candidates who’d happily step into a situation with cap problems and staph issues and some disgruntled high-profile players like Kellen Winslow and Braylon Edwards.

Quite the combo.