CLEVELAND, Ohio — Freddie Kitchens will call the plays during the regular season, but he’ll let Browns offensive coordinator Todd Monken call some during Thursday’s night’s preseason finale against the Lions, he revealed on his radio show Tuesday night.

“I haven’t really fully decided, but I know Todd will call some of them,” Kitchens said on the weekly show, on the Cleveland Browns Radio Network. “Some of it depends on what we do at the quarterback situation initially, but he’ll definitely get the opportunity. He called some of the other games but we just didn’t advertise it. Just didn’t feel the need to. In case it went bad, I didn’t want him suffering the consequences from it.’’

He added, “but we’ll do something. I always want to continue to let guys develop in this system, more importantly, just in case. You know, you never know.”

Former Browns coach Hue Jackson let Kitchens call plays in the preseason finale in Detroit last year when he was running backs coach/associate head coach. His performance in the Browns’ 35-17 victory gave John Dorsey the confidence to promote Kitchens to offensive coordinator when Jackson and Todd Haley were fired.

“I was going to prepare just like it was my role and I was hoping someone else would see it because I’d never gotten the opportunity anywhere else,” Kitchens said. “I was glad for the opportunity, and I was definitely treating it as an interview for other teams — not necessarily here.”

But this certainly won’t be Monken’s first crack at the task. He called plays in Tampa Bay last season and ran the No. 1 passing game in the NFL with 5,125 yards. They also finished 12 in points scored with 24.8 per game. The one game that head coach Dirk Koetter took back the play calling duties, the offense flopped.

During Monken’s introductory press conference, he acknowledged that he had a good idea what his role would be “but it’s always different once you get the job, right? We have all gone through interviews. The bottom line is like any assistant coach, your job is to do whatever the head coach tells you to do. If the head coach says do this, then you do it. If he decides that he doesn’t want to call it and he says you call it, I will call it. That’s what I did last year.”