Former Chief Lake Dawson the new Browns GM?

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Cleveland Browns President Mike Holmgren May Be Targeting Packers Front Office
by Daniel Wolf
December 25, 2009

With Cleveland Browns owner Randy Lerner officially announcing his newest holiday gift the week after Christmas in president Mike Holmgren's hiring, many reporters and writers have been speculating what moves Holmgren will make once in office.

The obvious moves will be paying Josh Cribbs more money and deciding on what to do at the quarterback position and with head coach Eric Mangini, but what has not been talked about is what Holmgren will do with the vacant general manager position in the front office.

Hard-core Browns fan speculate that their beloved Bernie Kosar will take the role and get trained at the same time, but in reality, that will probably not happen because Kosar is more of a consultant to Lerner than anything else.

Holmgren may look to one of his former teams in the Green Bay Packers where he still has several ties within their front office.

Two guys who Holmgren may consider for the Browns' general manager could be one of the Packers' two Co-Directors of Football Operations, John Schneider and Reggie McKenzie.

Another name may be Lake Dawson, who was with Holmgren in Seattle and now is the head of pro personnel for the Titans.

Schneider has a history with Holmgren going back to 1992 when both were with the Packers. He was an intern for former Packers general manager Ron Wolf, but quickly moved up the ranks.

His greatest skill is Schneider's extensive knowledge of professional and college sports personnel. He was also in charge of the NFL personnel department as vice president of personnel in Washington when Marty Schottenheimer was at the helm.

McKenzie does not have much history with Holmgren, but will also be considered since he was head of pro personnel for the Packers since 1997, until his recent promotion to Co-Director of Football Operations.

McKenzie work for both former general manager Wolf and current general manager Ted Thompson both of whom still have relationships with Holmgren.

Dawson is more of a dark horse since he is younger than the other men (37), but he has shot up through the ranks rather quickly and he was Holmgren's director of personnel in Seattle in 1999.

The Packers may also lose more of their scouting department than they may want since some of their scouts may want to take a promotion to come to the Cleveland to build up the scouting and personnel departments for the Browns.

Many speculations and no one really knows what Holmgren is planning, but it will make for some exciting articles and news in the next several months.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by scott free

No, but Don Johnson sure did...

It's funny how the songs written for various TV stars always tend to have a vocal range of about 4 notes.

Of course, the upside of that is that they're very singable by the general public. If I'm having trouble hitting the high note in the Housemartins' song, "The World's On Fire", then I can back off and sing something by David Soul or Don Johnson and feel good about myself again.

(If you've never heard that Housemartins song, check it out and tell me if you've ever heard a male sing a higher note than the one that's hit in that song. If you have, you must be a dog.)

[Rain Man]

I think Lake was a second-rounder, wasn't he? Third at worst. We got him and Chris Penn the same year, and Penn ended up having the better career, though not with KC.

[ChiefsCountry]

Lake was a 3rd round pick in 1994 Draft with Greg Hill and Donnell Bennett.

[Rain Man]

On the subject of the Browns, they at one point fired an unpopular and unsuccessful coach named Bill Belichick.

Do you think that Belichick would have built the same strong teams in Cleveland over time that he built in New England, or do you think he just ended up in the right situation in New England and would've been Romeo Crennel in Cleveland?

I don't remember if he had as much power in Cleveland, but assume that he did for this discussion.