{"id":427371,"date":"2023-02-23T11:40:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T16:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=427371"},"modified":"2023-02-23T11:40:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T16:40:46","slug":"browns-name-bubba-ventrone-as-new-assistant-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/browns-name-bubba-ventrone-as-new-assistant-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns name Bubba Ventrone as new assistant head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n<p>\u0422he Cleveland Browns are hiring Bubba Ventrone as their new assistant head coach\/special teams coordinator in an attempt to improve a middling kicking game, according to NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Browns?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Browns<\/a> are hiring Bubba Ventrone as their assistant head coach\/special teams coordinator, per sources.<\/p>\n<p>Ventrone, 40, played four seasons in Cleveland (2009-12). Now, he returns on Kevin Stefanski\u2019s staff after building one of the NFL\u2019s top units in Indianapolis. A big hire. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qdI4aSRxL1\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/qdI4aSRxL1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/1628777202194997248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cleveland head coach Kevin Stefanski, who also interviewed Jets assistant Leon Washington for the opening, have now added a second new coordinator to their coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p>The Browns previously released Joe Woods of his duties as defensive coordinator and appointed Jim Schwartz.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n<p>Ventrone, who is returning to Cleveland after playing four seasons with the club, served as the Indianapolis Colts&#8217; special teams coordinator the past five seasons.<\/p>\n<p>He replaces Mike Priefer, whom the Browns dismissed earlier this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0422he Cleveland Browns are hiring Bubba Ventrone as their new assistant head coach\/special teams coordinator in an attempt to improve a middling kicking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":427372,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16975],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"He replaces Mike Priefer, who was dismissed on Tuesday","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427371"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=427371"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=427371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}