The Cleveland Browns Anonymous
The Cleveland Browns Anonymous
How to Hire a Head Coach – Episode 1: You Lose More Games Than You Win. It's the fundamentals stupid.
Earl Weaver coined this great phrase, You lose more games than you win. Which means being a Head Coach is NOT about bright schemes, trick plays, or any of the other 'sexy' talking points. It is about fundamentals. Practicing relentlessly in the pursuit of perfection as Vince Lombardi once said. It's blocking, tackling, catching the football, great special teams, and a culture of winning. Look at the successful HEAD coaches. Tom Coughllin, Sean Payton, Kurt Cignetti, Lombardi, Earl Weaver, Chuck Noll.
Does the Brown's organization even know what a great Head Coach looks like? It may be in their own backyard. Like Bill Cowher once was. Like Mike Vrabel was last year, and now we have Jim Schwartz, who is interviewing with the Ravens !!!?? Just more dumb Brown's if they go for solid fundamental Head Coach, instead of chasing the sexy rabbits jumping out of holes. Mike McDaniel? You have got to be kidding.
0:30 Mike and Brook open the episode by reacting to Wild Card Weekend and contrasting stable organizations with dysfunctional ones like the Browns.
2:30 Mike lays out the core theme — how real organizations hire head coaches and why structure and culture matter more than schemes.
4:25 Curt Cignetti’s first press conference is played as an example of a coach who wins everywhere and immediately sets expectations.
6:45 Mike compares Cignetti to Earl Weaver and Vince Lombardi, arguing discipline and fundamentals are why great teams don’t beat themselves.
17:45 Mike tells the Bart Starr–Vince Lombardi leadership story and explains why culture is the foundation of everything — and why the Browns keep failing without it.