The “Mike Vrabel was effectively the OL Coach” myth

So Ian Rapoport put out a piece examing the coaching candidates and wrote "Mike Vrabel — who joined the Browns as a coaching and personnel consultant after he was fired by the Titans this past offseason — effectively became the offensive line coach, leaving a void in the likely event he lands elsewhere in this cycle."

Which in itself doesn't really make sense seeing as we have two well regarded OL coaches (Dickerson got an OC interview with the Bengals, was a longtime McVay assistant and was hired by Pete Carroll. Istvan is a longtime assistant OL coach of Jeff Stoutland, a top 2 OL coach in the league), one of which we literally saw run the OL meetings in Hard Knocks in Roy Istvan.

Now the Athletic's Zack Rosenblatt put out a piece on Mike Vrabel where he followed him around for 5 months

And these are quotes on what he wrote on Vrabel at the Browns.

"When tight end Blake Whiteheart was on the practice squad at the start of the season, he said Vrabel would meet him (and other practice squaders) at the facility on off-days to watch film. They’d work on things like run-blocking techniques too."

"Midway through the season, Vrabel switched from tight ends to the offensive line room after talking with Stefanski, feeling like he could be more useful with a larger group of players."

"Quickly, he bonded with second-year offensive tackle Dawand Jones. Vrabel was instrumental in building up Jones’s confidence. Jones has struggled with weight at times (he’s listed at 6-foot-8 and 374 pounds) and Vrabel made it a point to get Jones (and his coaches) to celebrate small victories, like when Jones lost 11 pounds one week.

“Nobody’s going to develop in anything they do without some small victories along the way,” Vrabel said."

"Vrabel hadn’t been traveling for road games, but Jones asked him if he’d start coming — with Stefanski’s permission, Vrabel agreed. “Dawand was really working hard and trying to change some behaviors and work on himself,” Vrabel said. “I felt like I had made a commitment (to him) and wanted to be involved.” (Jones fractured his ankle in Week 11 but Vrabel kept going to the road games.)"

"On gameday, Vrabel wore a headset and could listen to coaches but wasn’t involved with play-calling outside of offering Stefanski the occasional opinion or** assisting coaches** on the sideline. He acted as a hype man, for offense and defense, in between plays, and usually helped coach up offensive linemen during pre-game warmups. It was in those moments, and watching him on the practice field, that Stefanski came to a realization about Vrabel."

"“He likes being around here, we like having him around,” Stefanski said. “Sometimes I’ll look over and Vrabes is playing as the defensive tackle on our scout team and our guards are putting their hands on him and moving him. So I’m thinking to myself: What the f— else would you be doing with your life right now?”"

Like with Tight Ends starting the season, he helped out individual players on the OL, helped coach up the OL wherever needed but had no role in calling plays, designing scheme (OL coaches play a large part in run scheme) and didn't run meetings. All things the OL coaches usually do. He was as much "effectively" the TE coach as he was the OL coach.

I hope we can stop using this as a narrative about or OL which, since getting healthy has been much better.