{"id":41920,"date":"2026-01-18T14:07:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=41920"},"modified":"2026-01-18T14:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:07:35","slug":"browns-30-year-old-coach-candidate-getting-buzz-after-3-hour-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=41920","title":{"rendered":"Browns&#8217; 30-Year-Old Coach Candidate Getting Buzz After 3-Hour Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2242222490-e1768740769755.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=679\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2242222490-e1768740769755.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=679 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2242222490-e1768740769755.jpg?quality=45&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2242222490-e1768740769755.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Browns' 30-Year-Old Coach Candidate Getting Buzz After 3-Hour Interview\" width=\"679\" height=\"382\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For the Cleveland Browns, maybe the choice is a pretty stark one: Do you want the 59-year-old who has head-coaching experience and a proven track record in your own building, or do you want the young whippersnapper who has been given the \u201cgenius\u201d label despite a very limited resume? Do you want Jim Schwartz as the next head coach of the Browns, or Grant Udinski?<\/p>\n<p>OK, it is not that simple, actually, and there will be more candidates in the mix. But as the process begins to move to the second round of interviews, it\u2019s become clear that the Browns like the experience factor with Schwartz but are more than intrigued by how the 30-year-old Udinski would be in the role.<\/p>\n<p>It is experience vs. upside, at least at this point, for the Browns.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Grant Udinski\u2019s Interview Went All 3 Hours<\/h2>\n<p>Udinski had his first interview with the Browns on Saturday, and according to reports, he and the team talked for the entire window. As Jaguars columnist Ryan O\u2019Halloran wrote, \u201cPer league source, #Jaguars offensive coordinator Grant Udinski\u2019s virtual interview with Cleveland Browns for head-coaching post today lasted the allotted three hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is certainly buzz around Udinski as a candidate for the Browns, given that he helped fuel a turnaround for Trevor Lawrence with the Jaguars as the offensive coordinator last season, and was part of the Sam Darnold resuscitation as a quarterbacks coach in Minnesota the previous year.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Browns Could Use Grant Udinski\u2019s \u2018Next-Level Thinking\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Jeremy Fowler of ESPN said of Udinski that in Jacksonville, \u201cThey say he has a way of utilizing the next level offensive thinking he has but then also dumb it down to the other coaches and players. He tends to see the game a different way. Some guys struggle relaying that to the players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Cleveland radio host Ken Carman of 92.3 FM added that if Udinski is the next big thing, why not get him now? \u201cI can\u2019t stop thinking about how intrigued I am by him. There\u2019s something about a young guy where all these NFL guys are saying he\u2019s gonna be a star. If he\u2019s gonna be a head coach next year what am I waiting on?\u201d Carman said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5659521\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2236604673-e1765972868427.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300\" alt=\"Browns' 30-Year-Old Coach Candidate Getting Buzz After 3-Hour Interview\" width=\"753\" height=\"424\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5659521\" data-lazy-load=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5659521\">GettyDefensive coordinator Jim Schwartz of the Cleveland Browns<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>What if the Browns Are Being Used?<\/h2>\n<p>Of course, there\u2019s another wrinkle that those around the Browns might be missing here. This process has been very beneficial for Udinski in getting his name out onto the coaching rumor mill, and he certainly has the attention of the league. At this point, taking the Cleveland job might not be a very smart thing on his part\u2013he might do much better as the Jaguars OC again next year, then hit the market with Ben Johnson-type anticipation next winter.<\/p>\n<p>If you are Udinski and you\u2019re looking at the Browns, you see a team with the worst two starting quarterbacks in the NFL according to Pro Football Focus, Shedeur Sanders and Dillon Gabriel, with an offensive line in which everyone\u2019s a free agent and limited investment has been made in young players, and a receiver group that is also among the league\u2019s worst.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how much of offensive genius Udinski is, no one can turn chopped liver into filet mignon.\u00a0 It is entirely possible that this process has done all it needs to do for him, and he won\u2019t take the Browns job. In that case, maybe the decision to hire Schwartz will be an easy one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Browns held a lengthy interview with candidate Grant Udisnki on Saturday, and there&#8217;s buzz around him possibly landing the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleveland-browns"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Browns&#039; 30-Year-Old Coach Candidate Getting Buzz After 3-Hour Interview - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=41920\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Browns&#039; 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