The latest Cleveland Browns news and notes from around the NFL in the Sunday Dawg Chow.
Today is the penultimate Sunday of NFL games as the AFC Championship and NFC Championship games will take place. Somewhere between today’s games and the Super Bowl in two weeks, one or more of the networks will show a graphic highlighting how the Cleveland Browns are one of just four teams who have yet to appear in a Super Bowl.
It has been a while, of course, but the Browns have come close five times to making the ultimate game in the Super Bowl era. That may be hard for the younger generation of fans to believe, but it is true! It happened twice in the 1960s, with the Browns coming up short in the NFL Championship Game in 1968 against the Baltimore Colts and again in 1969 against the Minnesota Vikings.
The late 1980s brought a trio of losses to the Denver Broncos, which are still too painful to have a rational conversation about for Browns fans who lived through those defeats.
Let’s get off championship Sunday with today’s edition of the Sunday Dawg Chow.
Kevin Stefanski reveals plans for the Browns new offense under Tommy Rees
The Cleveland Browns are putting the final touches on their coaching staff for 2025 as new coaches are entering coupled with a few departures. Fresh off of introducing Tommy Rees as the team’s new offensive coordinator, head coach Kevin Stefanski sat down with Andrew Siciliano for an interview on the latest episode of the team’s Bark Tank podcast.
NFL Draft Profile: WR Tetairoa McMillan, Arizona
Cleveland needs help at wide receiver, but would they be interested in filling the need in the first round of the draft?
Browns NFL free agency, trade options: Realistic or unrealistic potential QB options
With the Cleveland Browns back in the quarterback market, the options are out there for who the team could potentially get as their signal-caller for 2025. Either it’s drafting someone or signing someone in free agency, Cleveland has to figure out who will be their starting quarterback.
Cleveland Browns: All things considered, it’s probably best that the Browns aren’t going to play in the Super Bowl this year (Browns Zone) – Fifty reasons why it’s just as well that the Browns will not be playing in the Super Bowl this year.
Who will Browns pick at No. 2 in 2025 NFL Draft? Early mock draft predictions ((link unavailable)) – A lot will change, but where do analysts have the Cleveland Browns going with the No. 2 overall pick as of late January?
Mel Kiper’s 1st 2025 NFL mock draft has a big surprise for the Cleveland Browns (Beacon Journal) – ESPN released one of the mock drafts football fans have likely been waiting for last week, and it contains a major surprise. Mel Kiper Jr. announced his first-round prognostications for the 2025 NFL draft. Who does he have the Browns taking?
NFL: How Dan Snyder views Commanders’ title run from afar: ‘He … hates it’ (ESPN) – This past fall, Dan Snyder had dinner in London with longtime associates. For only the second autumn since 1999, Snyder was not the owner of his beloved Washington football team. What’s it like for Snyder, for years the most hated owner in sports, to watch the Commanders succeed without him?
Dallas Cowboys hire new head coach. Who is Brian Schottenheimer? What to know (El Paso Times) – The Dallas Cowboys’ extensive search for their 10th head football coach ended in their backyard when they promoted Brian Schottenheimer from the offensive coordinator spot he held under his predecessor Mike McCarthy.
Chiefs TE Travis Kelce: ‘I used to dream’ of playing QB like Bills’ Josh Allen ((link unavailable)) – Travis Kelce wasn’t always the great pass-catching tight end he ended up becoming. The 12-year veteran started out as a quarterback in high school and went into the University of Cincinnati with the hope of being the next great dual-threat QB. If you ask the Kansas City Chiefs TE nowadays, the initial visualization of his playing career was a lot like the one Buffalo Bills QB Josh Allen has carved out.
