Kevin Stefanski Given Good News on Future as Browns Head Coach
The Cleveland Browns are off to a 2-7 start, and fans have called for head coach Kevin Stefanski to be fired.
However, it is unlikely that Stefanski will be fired this season. Meanwhile, Browns insider Mary Kay Cabot revealed that he is likely to return in 2026. General manager Andrew Berry is also expected back, according to Cabot.
“The truth is, we have no idea what they are actually really thinking,” Cabot said on 92.3 The Fan. “I know going into it, Jimmy Haslam has indicated, I believe at the owner’s meetings, that he wasn’t holding Kevin and Andrew’s feet to the fire because this was the year they were trying to figure out what they had in one of these rookie quarterbacks. Or, at least at that point, they knew it was going to be one rookie quarterback.
“I don’t think there was this sense of ‘win or else’ this season. It was about fact-finding and figuring out what they had and helping them inform what to do in the 2026 draft. I just don’t think this was a year where the expectations were super, crazy high. But, still, you have to see certain things from your football team. … I do think that Jimmy believes in continuity and alignment in his organization. And, he knows that this is a challenging year with all of the rookies. In a perfect world, he’s going to want to try to maintain that continuity. And, see if they can’t get this thing on the right track with a new quarterback they will probably draft in 2026.
Cabot believes Haslam still has confidence in Berry and Stefanski, and both could very well return next season with a new quarterback.
Stefanski Committed to Turning Browns Around
Cleveland has struggled this season as the Browns are off to a 2-7 start and coming off a disappointing 27-20 road loss to the New York Jets.
Following the loss, Stefanski made it clear that the goal and focus are on turning it around and finding ways to win.
“Obviously frustrated, disappointed on that result yesterday,” Stefanski said on Monday. “And we’re spending time right now watching it with the players and trying to learn from that. You know, hard to win on the road, and certainly hard when you do some of the things we did in that ball game. But we’re committed to this thing, and we’ll just find ways to get better in all areas and we’ll go from there. Big division game at our place this week.”
Stefanski believes the Browns have to be better in all three phases of the game. Despite that being an issue all season, he has full confidence in his group.
The Browns will host the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday in a game Cleveland is a 7.5-point underdog.
Stefanski Linked to Giants Job
Although Stefanski hasn’t been fired, and there are no signs he will be, his name has come up for other jobs.
The New York Giants fired Brian Daboll on Monday after a loss to the Chicago Bears. Following Daboll’s firing, NFL analyst Dan Orlovsky links Stefanski to the Giants.
“The No. 1 name that I would pay attention to if I were the Giants is what happens in Cleveland with Kevin Stefanski,” Orlovsky said on Monday on NFL Live. “If I could hand-pick a guy, it would be Stefanski. He’s an outstanding coach, two-time Coach of the Year.
“I understand people in Cleveland are like, ‘This guy can’t coach’. But there’s a lot of empirical data that would say otherwise. … I would pay attention to see what’s going on in Cleveland.”
Stefanski has been the Browns’ head coach since 2020 and has led them to the playoffs twice.
Packers Star Makes Surprise Admission on Critical Week 10 Mistake
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GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN - NOVEMBER 10: Josh Jacobs #8 of the Green Bay Packers runs the ball for a 6 yard touchdown against Nolan Smith Jr. #3 of the Philadelphia Eagles during the fourth quarter in the game at Lambeau Field on November 10, 2025 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)
There was ample frustration in the wake of the Packers‘ 10-7 loss to the Eagles on Monday night, a game in which the defense dominated but the offense sputtered with repeated bouts of ineptitude. The teams were, statistically, evenly matched on the night, but the two Packers turnovers (to just one for the Eagles) proved to be costly–especially the final turnover by Josh Jacobs.
That was, it turned out, one of the uglier plays of the season for the offense, as the team lined up for a fourth-and-1 from its own 44-yard line with 1:26 to play and one big chance to tie or take the lead on the line. The play was doomed from the beginning. Not only did the Packers line up in an illegal formation, but when quarterback Jordan Love called out the play at the line, the Eagles reacted–pointing out exactly where Jacobs was supposed to go.
“Fourth-and-1, they called out our play,” Jacobs said. “We ran it four times, they called it out.”
Packers Were a Mess on Critical Fumble Play
The result was predictable. Jacobs was stuffed behind the line, made a vain attempt to lateral to Love and the Eagles took over.
“We got a good draw, a push, the clock was going down, we kinda snapped it fast, faster than we wanted to and they made a play,” Jacobs said. “I tried to pitch the ball back to Jordan, that’s where the fumble came. At that point, you’re kinda playing backyard football.”
The outcome of the play was worrisome, but the very fact that the Eagles knew what the Packers were doing all along speaks to a wider issue about the quality and variety of coach Matt LaFleur’s plays.
Josh Jacobs Not Happy Eagles Knew Packers Play
LaFleur’s job security with a disappointing team that is expected to compete for a Super Bowl was a hot topic after the game, and when it comes to his shortcomings, the fourth-down flop was Exhibit A. The Packers are obviously not going to fire LaFleur midseason, but perhaps a change in play-calling duties is in order.
Jacobs certainly doesn’t want to be in a position in which the defense knows where he is going to be before the ball is snapped.
“As a runner it don’t never feel good,” he said. “Whenever they know what we doing it don’t ever feel good because it changes my mind on how I am going to run the ball if I am being honest. It makes me kind of guess what I am going to do. Obviously, people are smart, if we got code words and you hear it a few times, like, you’re gonna eventually react to it. That’s football, but yeah, it’s never a good feeling.
“They called it out. We called our play, they said, ‘Inside zone, it’s coming right here.’ So I kinda like didn’t want to run right there, you know? But that’s kinda how it played out.”
GettyPackers head coach Matt LaFleur.
Josh Jacobs: ‘The Game Is Messy’
While the offense as a whole has been on a downswing, the Packers running game remains a mystery. The team has 1,007 yards on the ground, 20th in the NFL, after ranking as the No. 5 rushing attack last season, with 2,496 yards.
Jacobs said a turnaround is a matter of cleaning up the “messes.”
“Not making any excuses,” he said. “We’ve got to clean up the work. A lot of the game is messy, especially after creating good plays, we just got to be more consistent. Our defense held them down, stopped them real good, played like a championship defense. Offense, that’s on us. We gotta pick it up.”
