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BEREA, Ohio – Saturday night, Kevin Stefanski became the first Cleveland Browns head coach since Forrest Gregg in 1976 to win NFL Coach of the Year. Stefanski accomplished the feat despite unprecedented obstacles for a first-time head coach, which began with a virtual offseason and included a shortened training camp. Despite those, Stefanski guided the Browns to their first playoff appearance since 2002, snapping the NFL’s longest postseason drought. Cleveland then won its first playoff game since 1994, while ending a 17-game losing streak in Pittsburgh. How did Stefanski do it? Here’s ...

EAGAN, Minn. — Ryan Ficken is finally getting his chance as a coordinator in the NFL. The Vikings announced Monday that Ficken, who has been with the organization for 14 seasons, is Minnesota's new special teams coordinator. The Vikings also announced that Josh Hingst has been brought on as the head strength and conditioning coach. Ficken has been with the Vikings since the 2007 season and has spent the past eight years as the Vikings assistant special teams coordinator. He coached under Mike Priefer on special teams from 2013-18, and was under Marwan Maalouf from 2019-20. Maalouf's contrac...

Copied! The Browns knew all last week leading up to their AFC Wild Card Round matchup versus the Steelers they'd have to rely heavily on their backup players. As each day seemingly yielded more bad news surrounding additions to the Reserve/COVID-19 list, the Browns continued to tout their "next man up" mantra that has been used all season. No week, however, signified the importance of that mentality more than last week. "We have had a 'next man up' mentality all season long, and that applies to the head coach, to coordinators, to other coaches on the staff and to every player on our...

Kevin Stefanski was born the year Andy Reid started his coaching career: Timeline Updated Jan 13, 2021; CLEVELAND, Ohio – Andy Reid is the fifth oldest head coach in the NFL this season. He’s 62. This is his 22nd season as an NFL head coach, and Sunday’s division-round game against the Browns will be his 15th playoff game. Kevin Stefanski is the third-youngest head coach in the NFL this season. He’s 38. This is his first season as a head coach and Sunday will be his first time coaching a playoff game (Even Mike Priefer has been a head coach for more playoff games than Stefanski).

Print this article YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — There is finally joy in Mudville this week. After nearly 30 seasons of Cleveland Browns fans sharing an inescapable sense of disappointment and defeat, they finally found themselves staring down the improbable: defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Wild Card round of the NFL playoffs — and doing it in Heinz Field, no less. Sunday’s win over their neighboring rival (a rivalry whose significance had diminished over the years because of the Browns' string of abysmal losing seasons) marked the team’s first postseason win since the 1994 season. In ...