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Cleveland Browns: 5 replacements for Sashi Brown not named Peyton Manning

By Nick Dudukovich

SEATTLE, WA - NOVEMBER 29: Seattle Seahawks general manager John Schneider pats defensive back Jeremy Lane on the helmet before a football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at CenturyLink Field on November 29, 2015 in Seattle, Washington. The Seahawks won the game 39-30. (Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)
SEATTLE, WA - NOVEMBER 29: Seattle Seahawks general manager John Schneider pats defensive back Jeremy Lane on the helmet before a football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at CenturyLink Field on November 29, 2015 in Seattle, Washington. The Seahawks won the game 39-30. (Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images) /
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SEATTLE, WA – NOVEMBER 29: Seattle Seahawks general manager John Schneider pats defensive back Jeremy Lane on the helmet before a football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at CenturyLink Field on November 29, 2015 in Seattle, Washington. The Seahawks won the game 39-30. (Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)
SEATTLE, WA – NOVEMBER 29: Seattle Seahawks general manager John Schneider pats defensive back Jeremy Lane on the helmet before a football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at CenturyLink Field on November 29, 2015 in Seattle, Washington. The Seahawks won the game 39-30. (Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images) /

John Schneider, Executive VP and GM, Sehawks

John Schneider, is considered one of the architechs of the Seattle Sehawks Super Bowl championship team, and if your a Browns historian, you’ve got to like what you see.

Schneider was hired one week after Seattle hired Pete Carroll to be its coach. The organization supposedly puts forth a collabortive effort in making decisions.

If you’re a Browns fan, you’re aware owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam love doing business this way. They tried the collaborative effort with Ray Farmer and Mike Pettine. When that failed, the Browns tried it again with Sashi Brown in charge of the 52-man roster, Paul DePodesta heading up strategy, and Hue Jackson as the coach of the team.

This should make Schneider very appealing to the Browns’ ownership. With that in mind, his hiring wouldn’t necessarily mean that the Haslams have to blow it all up again.

Since Schneider is the executive vice president of football operations and GM, the Haslams would have to make him the team president if they wanted to hire him away from Seattle. Or at the very least, give him final control over the roster, which is something he doesn’t have in the great northwest. With Schneider’s history in collaboration, perhaps he’d take the job under the premise that Sashi and Hue Jackson get to stick around.

I write this because I live in a world where under no circumstances would Sashi Brown, a lawyer with no scouting experience, would be tasked with putting together the 52-man roster.

Upon his promotion, I thought his sole job was not to screw things up, although he’s proven to be an unmitigated disaster.

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With Schneider on the job, Sashi gets to go back to the negotiation table, while Jackson gets a chance to prove he can coach, if he’s actually given players.

The obvious question is, would Schneider be available?

If you believe that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, then yes.

There was some talk last summer of Schneider invoking a clause in his contract to return to Green Bay as the GM if that job was offered. Green Bay, which is wear Schneider was employed before helping the Seahawks to the Super Bowl, is viewed as his “dream job.”

Ultimately, Carroll has the final say over the 52 -man roster  and Schneider’s dream job may not be available. But another job in the midwest at one of the league’s historic franchises is there for the taking, and he’d certainly be an interesting candidate.

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