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Browns’ new HC Todd Monken spent the previous three years as the Ravens’ offensive coordinator, helping them reach the postseason in his first two years before missing the playoffs last year. Although Monken highly praised QB Lamar Jackson, he feels like Baltimore didn’t play or coach well enough to make it to a Super Bowl. 

“First of all, Lamar is a tremendous person,” Monken said, via Brian Wacker of The Baltimore Sun. “I wouldn’t have this job without him. It’s just, ultimately, we didn’t coach well enough, we didn’t play well enough. It’s really the other things that are involved in all that.”

Monken acknowledged that he didn’t have a connection to John Harbaugh before arriving in Baltimore, but was confident he could retain a coordinator job under Harbaugh if things didn’t work out.

“I didn’t really know John,” Monken said. “But working for John, I thought to myself, even if it doesn’t work out there, John’s probably not gonna be done coaching. He’ll get another job. I’m sitting there going, well, if I do a good job and he gets let go, maybe I’ll be his coordinator. Then Lamar signed, so it all worked out.”

Monken believes they didn’t run the ball well enough in 2025 and played from behind too often. 

“We didn’t run it enough,” Monken said. “It’s not the number of runs. We didn’t attack them downhill. We were lateral. Then we were behind, and we started throwing it. We didn’t think they’d stay at 17 [points]. At some point, we thought, f—, if they score again, we’re three possessions down.”