Todd Monken is busy trying to figure out how to build the Cleveland Browns team he now coaches into a winner. Ask Monken about his former boss with the Baltimore Ravens, New York Giants new head coach John Harbaugh, and Monken doesn’t mind putting that task aside.
“How much time do we have?,” Monken replied on Wednesday at the NFL Scouting Combine when asked what made Harbaugh a good coach.
“He’s elite in a lot of areas. I’ve said this many times, he’s got a gift for confronting anything that gets in the way of winning football without being confrontational. He just does. It’s unique. He doesn’t let it linger. He’ll come right down the hall and say, this isn’t good enough, what can we do to change it? Where are we at?”
Monken, Harbaugh’s offensive coordinator with the Ravens said Harbaugh doesn’t have an off switch when it comes to football and trying to get better.
“The other thing is the offseason’s no joke,” Monken said. “John, it’s football every day, man. It is how are we going to get better? Every year I was with the Ravens, it was offense 2.0, offense 3.0. What are we going to do to improve, take advantage of our player’s skillset? So he’s nonstop. He’s about winning football.”
Monken confirmed that he would have become Harbaugh’s offensive coordinator with the Giants had he not gotten the job with the Browns.
“Of course, I mean of course” Monken said. “I mean, I was hopeful that I would get the Cleveland Browns head coaching job. That’d be silly to say that I wasn’t hopeful of that, but I was excited to go to New York with coach.”
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