Browns made the right move in recent hires

Browns made the right move in recent hires

Published Jan. 24, 2011 8:52 a.m. ET

By FRED GREETHAM
FOX Sports Ohio | OBR Browns Reporter
Monday, Jan. 24, 2011


I have been asked often in the past couple weeks since the hiring of Pat Shurmur as Browns coach what my thoughts were. Shurmur was far from the big-name hiring most fans thought was coming to Cleveland.

However, it makes sense.

A Jon Gruden or Bill Cowher would not necessarily want to come and just be the coach where a general manager is in place and a president with a storied background was in place. Gruden or Cowher most likely would want much more power or control in their next stop at the NFL level, wherever that might me.

After the dust has settled, it appears the front office is the most cohesive it has been since the team returned in 1999. We

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