Kevin Stefanski FIRED As Browns Head Coach | Where Does Cleveland Go From Here?
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Mike Renner and JP Acosta react to the Cleveland Browns firing Kevin Stefanski as their head coach following Week 18. The guys discuss potential replacements, expectations for Cleveland next season and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into another live edition of Pursing the Pile, brought you back Fandall, |
| 0:18.7 | Brought you back Fandall Sportsbook, Make Every Movement more. |
| 0:19.8 | We're coming to because news dropped Monday morning. |
| 0:22.1 | Kevin's the Fansky, former head coach of the Cleveland Browns. |
| 0:25.5 | Now out, now on his own. |
| 0:26.8 | We postulated this yesterday with the Falcons Pod, |
| 0:30.0 | saying that he might be the strongest candidate for their head coaching opening. |
| 0:33.7 | That now makes four head coaching openings across the NFL. |
| 0:36.2 | We think it's one of a few |
| 0:38.1 | names to drop here. But 45 and 56, multiple time coach of the year there for the Cleveland |
| 0:45.5 | Browns obviously had some of their best success since the franchise started again back in the late |
| 0:51.0 | 90s there in Cleveland. but the past two seasons, |
| 0:54.9 | eight and 26, obviously hard to continue with your messaging when you're just not winning football |
| 1:01.1 | games. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, it feels like Stefansky sort of burnt out towards the end in Cleveland. |
| 1:06.6 | I think all the stuff that happened with the Watson trade and everything that sort of stemmed from |
| 1:12.0 | that really became an anchor on Stefansky specifically. And it just felt like both sides needed |
| 1:18.3 | to mutually part ways. And that's okay. Sometimes, sometimes that stuff happens. |
| 1:24.6 | Sometimes you just need to have a change of scenery. I do think Stefansky is a pretty good |
| 1:29.8 | coach. It's just, you know, like the Browns beat down on you, especially if you're not good and |
| 1:36.3 | especially if you have a contract tied up with a quarterback who actually is not good at football. |
| 1:41.6 | Yes. I mean, that's the overarching thing here. |
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