Only four teams have played their Week 18 games, but some coaches are already being shown the door. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, The Cleveland Browns have fired offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey and offensive line coach Andy Dickerson.
The Browns played the Baltimore Ravens on Saturday in their season finale, losing 35-10. It was a fitting way to end their 3-14 season, during which they started multiple ineffective quarterbacks and failed to score points at an almost alarming rate.
Dorsey and Dickerson had only been with the organization for one season. Dorsey was hired before the 2024 season after being fired by the Buffalo Bills midway through the 2023 season, his second with the Bills.
To illustrate the Browns’ offensive futility in 2024, you don’t have to look far. For example, you could point to the four quarterbacks who started this season: Deshaun Watson (who started seven games before suffering an Achilles injury), Jameis Winston (who started all seven games after Watson went down before suffer a shoulder injury), Dorian Thompson-Robinson (who started in Weeks 15 and 16) and Bailey Zappe (who started Saturday’s game).
You can also check out Cleveland’s team stats to see what went wrong. They will finish the season with the fewest points scored of any team (258). They scored 10 points or less in their final four games of the season. They scored more than 30 points only once, in their 41-32 loss to the Denver Broncos in Week 13. They scored more than 20 points only three times. They will finish the season having allowed the second-most sacks in the NFL with 66.
Head coach Kevin Stefanski is He is expected to return in 2025, as is general manager Andrew Berry. Watson, who signed a fully guaranteed five-year, $230 million contract with the Browns in 2022, will compete for the starting quarterback job in 2025.