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CLEVELAND (AP) — The Browns are protecting Freddie Kitchens like he was a franchise quarterback Johnny Manziel Jerseys 2019 , not a coach.While Kitchens waits for his interview to possibly become Cleveland’s head coach, the Browns have denied requests by other teams to interview their interim coordinator who brought out the best in rookie quarterback Baker Mayfield during the final eight games.Several teams have inquired about Kitchens, who took over the offense in late October, said the person, who spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity because the Browns are not commenting during their coaching search other than to confirm completed interviews.Because Kitchens is still under contract, the Browns can rebuff any interview demands for coordinator’s jobs. They can’t deny any candidate a chance to interview for a head-coaching position.The 44-year-old Kitchens emerged as a potential head coach in Cleveland after revamping the offense and building a strong bond with quarterback Baker Mayfield, who set the league rookie record with 27 touchdown passes. In his last eight games, Mayfield completed 68 percent of his passes for 2,254 yards with 19 touchdowns and eight interceptions.Kitchens took over game-planning and play-calling duties on Oct. 29, when coach Hue Jackson and offensive Todd Haley were fired. Cleveland’s offense played with a faster tempo and was far more creative with Kitchens calling the shots.Browns general manager John Dorsey understands Kitchens’ value and might be able to keep him as a coordinator if he doesn’t hire him as coach. It’s also possible the Browns’ next coach will want to hire his own coordinators.Dorsey said earlier this week he planned to interview Kitchens for the team’s vacancy at some point as the Browns make an important hire following a surprising 7-8-1 season.Dorsey interviewed his third candidate on Thursday, meeting with Minnesota interim offensive coordinator Kevin Stefanski.Like Kitchens, Stefanski inherited an offense that was having problems. The 36-year-old was promoted from quarterbacks coach to coordinator last month when Vikings coach Mike Zimmer fired John DeFilippo with three games left and Minnesota in playoff contention.Stefanski has worked his way up the coaching ranks and become one of the NFL’s rising young assistants. He was nearly hired by Giants coach Pat Shurmur as his offensive coordinator last year Orange Terrance West Jerseys , but Zimmer made sure to keep him on his staff.He’s the son of long-time NBA executive Ed Stefanski, now with the Detroit Pistons. Stefanski broke into the league as an assistant under former Vikings coach Brad Childress in 2006 and has been with the club since, surviving two head coaching changes while climbing in power.Stefanski’s interview followed Dorsey meeting with interim coach Gregg Williams, who went 5-3 to finish the season, and former Indianapolis and Detroit coach Jim Caldwell. Dorsey also reportedly requested interviews with several assistants, including Patriots linebackers coach Brian Flores, Saints assistant head coach Dan Campbell and Colts defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus and offensive coordinator Nick Sirianni. Baker Mayfield is cut from a different cloth than most NFL quarterbacks. For one, he’s willing to make any throw at just about any time. It hurt him a little bit in Houston and Baltimore this year, but decision-making is a part of who he is—it’s an unrelenting, unwavering confidence in his own ability, and the idea that he can make anything happen with his smarts and arm. And you know what? It’s got him where he is today. He’s undersized, he’s not particularly mobile Terrance West Jerseys 2019 , and he was the first overall pick in last season’s draft. He led a team that literally could not win to seven of them while throwing the most touchdown passes by a rookie in the history of the sport. That confidence, and the personality that went with it, is integral to who he is. And it’s integral to why John Dorsey selected him first overall. With that in mind, there’s justifiable faith that Dorsey knows what he’s dealing with as he looks for the next head coach of the Cleveland Browns. He’s seen Mayfield’s personality from afar at Oklahoma. He pored over it during the draft process. He’s seen it up close over the course of a full NFL season. He watched Mayfield’s relationship sour with Hue Jackson, and then watched the aftermath play out in national media. Dorsey knows more than any of us could pretend to about the slights and criticisms Mayfield has faced over the years—real and imagined—and is more wedded to his success than ever before. There’s a point I’m getting to here, and it’s simple: we’ve seen what it looks like when Mayfield does not have confidence in his coaching staff. It’s fine. It’s better than what we’re accustomed to seeing on Sundays from the Browns quarterback. But we’ve also seen what Mayfield looks like when he does have confidence in his coaching staff. It looks like it might be transcendent. It looks like there isn’t much of a ceiling on what he, and the Browns, can accomplish. Cross-sport comparisons are tough, and the NBA is very different from the NFL. But Cleveland is not a stranger to rookies putting up historic numbers after being selected first overall. The obvious name that you think of is LeBron James. Would that Baker’s career in Cleveland end up as successful as James’. Even with James leaving twice he’s had many years of taking the Cavaliers to the NBA Finals, winning one. Many are already wondering if Mayfield can reach his stature on and off the field for Northeast Ohio. But another rookie with a mercurial personality put together a ridiculously good first season in Cleveland for a team recovering from an epic free-fall. Kyrie Irving. Now look, let’s be as clear as possible, Mayfield is not Kyrie Irving. It’s more difficult for NFL players to force their way out of town than it is in the NBA. There’s no indication Mayfield is anything other than all-in on Cleveland. No one is suggesting anything else. The reason I’m bringing up Irving has nothing to do with the players themselves Orange Bernie Kosar Jerseys , but in how the organizations that they are playing for handled, and should handle employing them. In Irving’s case, a rookie season in which it was established that the Cavs had drafted one of the premier scoring guards in the league was followed by the team drafting a scoring guard who thought he was better than him. His pick-and-roll partner, Antawn Jamison, left and was replaced by, well, okay, he wasn’t replaced, but Tristan Thompson took his place, and this was before he determined that he would need to start shooting with a different hand. The team’s first foray into free agency involved signing another ball dominant guard that had an inflated sense of how good he was. In the meantime, Byron Scott was replaced by Mike Brown, a defensive-minded coach that Irving never clicked with (Kyrie later took some responsibility for this Bernie Kosar Jerseys 2019 , even apologizing). Irving took abuse from the national media who wondered why he couldn’t drag a dysfunctional Cavs team running an outdated offensive system to the playoffs. When the Cavs were asked how they were building around Irving, the team said that they weren’t; they were building with him. No one, not even Irving, probably, would say that he handled these times well. The team was losing, and he was young, and he still says weird stuff on nearly a daily basis. But the Browns can’t repeat the mistakes that led to Irving’s alienation, and the Cavs’ stagnation, in the years before LeBron James came back. Which means it’s time for another simple point: the Browns better make damn sure their next choice of a head coach is someone who’s both aware of Mayfield’s larger-than-life personality and confidence, and someone who embraces it like Dorsey and the fanbase already have. They better make sure that it’s someone that will both challenge and respect Mayfield. It should be someone creative. It’ll need to be someone willing to have Mayfield’s back when the extra-curricular stuff comes up. There might, at some point, need to be some tough truth-telling when adversity hits. The Browns seem to have that in Freddie Kitchens Cleveland Browns Ricardo Louis Jersey , the team’s offensive coordinator. Perhaps they can get it elsewhere. I’d caution, though, against taking it for granted. Mayfield’s ceiling looks higher than someone like Matt Stafford, but we’ve seen how his game has fluctuated depending on the coaching staff his team put around him. Stafford’s generally a go-with-the-flow guy; Baker, generally to his credit, doesn’t do that. Perhaps Dorsey has a plan in mind that will keep Kitchens in Cleveland as a head coach or offensive coordinator. Maybe Bruce Arians is the plan. If he doesn’t have that plan in place, he’ll have to feel very good about what the alternative to Kitchens is—not just on his terms, but on Mayfield’s. I’m not here because I can break down x’s and o’s. The last time I wrote here I ended up being wildly wrong about some things. I’m not predicting Mayfield’s time in Cleveland will end up like Irving’s (although, hey, Irving’s time wasn’t really that bad). But I do think that Mayfield should be catered to. His personality demands it. His play on the field has earned it. The Browns ability to win could very well rely upon it.