Monken's The Man. And Your Initial Response Is...

Zac Jackson and Friends

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4.7 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Zac Jackson discusses the anti-climactic end of the Browns' prolonged coaching search. Why Todd Monken? Why should Browns fans give him a chance? What's next? And why do so many feel like they wanted the Browns to go in another direction? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	It's Zach Jackson and Friends! Thank you. I'm not. I'm. It doesn't feel like the day the tide turned for the Cleveland Browns. It doesn't feel like the day the tide turned for the Cleveland Browns.
0:57.7	It doesn't feel like the day you circle on the calendar is the day you started to believe in the Jimmy Haslam, Andrew Barry, Cleveland Browns again.
1:10.0	It doesn't feel like it was ever going to go this way.
1:16.0	Do you feel anything at all with the hire of Todd Munkin?
1:21.5	Does any of these feeling or lack of feeling matter?
1:24.9	Let's explore.
1:26.6	Hello, friends.
1:30.9	Good morning. Good evening. Welcome to Zach Jackson and friends. I am Zach Jackson. I am still in Mobile Alabama for a little while longer. But today I was
1:38.9	talking on the phone to the esteemed Anthony Lima, the co-host of one of the seven best radio shows in Cleveland,
1:46.6	as I was walking down the sidewalk here in Level E and Sunny Mobile, and it was sunny today. So I'll go
1:51.5	ahead and brag about that. And I said to Anthony, of course, this coaching search is going to come
1:57.6	to an end as soon as I go to Senior bowl media interviews and that's where I was walking.
2:02.2	I hung up the phone with Anthony.
2:04.4	I took my other hand and I pressed the crosswalk button to wait and cross one of the three
2:09.3	busy streets here in Mobile and not 30 seconds later it bust.
2:13.5	The Browns had hired Todd Monk. Now the word was out by then.
2:20.2	And then immediately, which says a lot about the outside, which says a lot about the lack of sizzle, which again, doesn't necessarily matter, immediately it was overshadowed by the reports of Jim Schwartz's reaction, potential overreaction, threats to say
2:36.9	he's not coming back, he's done with the Browns, which is understandable. I would say that that's
2:42.6	not done. Jim Schwartz is under contract. Things happen, and there was always a thought, and again,
2:48.7	people have been pretty adamant on this. The Browns did
2:53.6	this search hoping and planning to keep Jim Schwartz's defensive coordinator. A very valid
3:01.3	question right now asked by many of you, I'm sure, is if you're not getting the young gun,
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