{"id":725234,"date":"2026-06-25T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/725234\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:50:08","slug":"todd-monken-i-thanked-lamar-jackson-but-told-him-ill-blitz-him-every-third-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/725234\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Monken: I thanked Lamar Jackson, but told him I’ll blitz him every third down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Todd Monken\u2019s three seasons as the Ravens\u2019 offensive coordinator didn\u2019t result in a Super Bowl title, but his work in Baltimore was impressive enough to help land him the Browns\u2019 head coaching job this offseason. <\/p>\n

Monken gives quarterback Lamar Jackson a lot of credit for that. In an interview with Brian Wacker of the Baltimore Sun, Monken called Jackson a \u201ctremendous person\u201d and said that he \u201cwouldn\u2019t have this job without him.\u201d Monken also said that he told Jackson that in response to a congratulatory text from the quarterback after landing the Cleveland post, but added that those warm feelings will only extend so far. <\/p>\n

\u201cThen I said, \u2018go f\u2014k yourself,\u2019\u201d Monken said. \u201cWe are going to blitz you every third down<\/a>. He laughed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jackson won the MVP in 2023 and finished second in voting in 2024, but the Ravens lost close playoff games in both of those seasons. The quarterback\u2019s injuries helped keep them out of the playoffs in 2025 and Monken said that \u201ceverything has a shelf life\u201d in regard to the Ravens\u2019 decision to clean house on the coaching side after the season. <\/p>\n

Given Cleveland\u2019s interest, Monken may have been moving on either way and now he\u2019ll be tasked with trying to stop a quarterback he was previously trying to lead to a championship. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Todd Monken\u2019s three seasons as the Ravens\u2019 offensive coordinator didn\u2019t result in a Super Bowl title, but his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-725234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}