Rob Chudzinski fired by Cleveland Browns

The Cleveland Browns are starting over. Again.

NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported Sunday that coach Rob Chudzinski will be fired after just one season with the team, according to a Browns source. The firing happened Sunday night, rather than Monday morning.

It's a move nobody saw coming as recently as a few days ago, when it was assumed that Chudzinski was part of a front-office plan to restore a sense of continuity to a franchise that has chewed through coaches like cotton candy since returning to the league in 1999.

Rapoport was told earlier Sunday that team brass had soured on Chudzinski down the stretch because of a lack of effort and accountability on the part of his players. A seven-game losing streak, including a 20-7 loss to Pittsburgh on Sunday to cap a 4-12 season, didn't help.

NFL Media's Albert Breer believes that Penn State's Bill O'Brien and New England Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels likely would top Cleveland's wish list as candidates to become the team's seventh head coach since '99.

The Browns interviewed O'Brien last offseason, but the former Patriots assistant has become a hot name since taking an interview with the Houston Texans earlier this month. McDaniels worked his way out of a head coaching job in Denver, but he comes from the Bill Belichick coaching tree, like Browns general manager Michael Lombardi.

'You look at the great franchises,' Browns left tackle Joe Thomas told the Akron Beacon Journal. 'They don't fire your coach after the first season. You can't do it.'

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