On Monday, the Cleveland Browns officially announced that Todd Monken will join Freddie Kitchens’ staff as the team’s new Offensive Coordinator. A year from now, another team could officially announce him as their new Head Coach. And that’s not a bad thing.
Monken, the former Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive coordinator, has had nothing short of a meteoric rise through the coaching ranks over the past several years. I mean, we’re not talking Kliff Kingsbury fired-at-Texas-Tech-to-hired-as-Arizona-Cardinals-Head-Coach-in-less-than-six-weeks fast... but it’s in the same stratosphere. And there’s irony in how Monken built his reputation as a disciple of the Air Raid offense while his climb to relevance in today’s pass-heavy NFL seems to be soaring like it’s strapped to the back of a Tomahawk Missile.