There is apparently all this interest in the search for a new Browns quarterbacks coach, and for the life of me, I can’t figure out why.

I mean, it’s not as if the guy is going to have any real power, just as offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt has no real power. He is just a figurehead.

The quarterbacks coach is really Kevin Stefanski, the head coach. The offensive coordinator is really Kevin Stefanski, the head coach. Yes, Stefanski is running the offense, every aspect of it, especially the quarterback.

And he has a right to do that, for as mentioned, he is the head coach, and he has the final say on everything with the team.

But I really wish that Stefanski would hire a guy and then give him some real power to make changes as he sees fit with quarterback Deshaun Watson. The Browns are going to go only as far as Watson goes, and again, that is as it should be with all good teams, since the quarterback is the most important position in team sports. But if Watson gets into a bad habit and needs help, is Stefanski really going to have enough time to fix him? He’s too busy being the offensive coordinator and the head coach. Yes, Stefanski is spreading himself too thin.

From 1978-80, Browns head coach Sam Rutigliano had a quarterbacks coach by the name of Jim Shofner. Although Rutigliano gets a lot of the credit for the success of quarterback Brian Sipe during that time, especially in 1980 when he won the NFL Most Valuable Player award, but it was actually Shofner who had the most input on Sope and his development. It was Shofner who was most responsible for helping Sipe with that MVP award, which came as a result of the quarterback lea the Browns to an 11-5 record the AFC  Division title in 1980.

If you mentioned that to Kevin Stefanski, he would laugh. I sometimes don’t know if he is just stubborn, or if he really, truly believes that he knows more than anybody else and can do all three jobs better than letting the other two people do their jobs without interference.

Whatever the case, I hope he knows what he’s doing, because whether he wants to admit it or not, his own success, and his own job job security as a head coach, depends on Watson succeeding, the Browns offense succeeding and the team succeeding. So, he had better get it right.

Steve King

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