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Green Bay Packers quarterbacks coach Ben McAdoo, shown in 2012 with center Jeff Saturday (63), quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) and offensive guard T.J. Lang, will meet with the Cleveland Browns about their vacant head-coaching job.

(AP)

CLEVELAND,

Ohio - The Browns will interview Packers quarterbacks coach

for their head coaching vacancy,

reported Tuesday.

The interview is set for Wednesday, according to Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

It wouldn't be the first time Browns

CEO

Joe Banner has hired a Packers quarterbacks coach to be his head coach.

He prides himself on finding Andy Reid to coach the Eagles when he was an

unheralded quarterbacks coach for the Packers. In fact, Banner was the

only one to interview Reid that year, in 1999. Reid went on to lead the

Eagles to five

NFC

Championship Games and the Super Bowl in 2004, where

they lost to the Patriots.

Like Reid, McAdoo, 36, served as Packers tight ends coach (2006-11) before moving on to the quarterbacks (2012-13). He's expected to receive other interviews, but those were mostly for coordinator positions, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

McAdoo was thought to be a natural fit to become offensive coordinator of the Dolphins, where coach Joe Philbin fired Mike Sherman on Monday. Philbin, the former offensive coordinator of the Packers, worked with McAdoo for six seasons and was his immediate boss for five.

McAdoo is represented by agent Bob LaMonte, who also represents another Browns' candidate, Broncos offensive coordinator Adam Gase, 35. Gase was the first name to surface in the Browns' search, the morning after Rob Chudzinski was fired.

Gase, who has received permission to interview with the Browns and Vikings, has decided to wait to interview until he's out of the playoffs. The Broncos host the Chargers on Sunday in the Divisional Playoffs.

LaMonte also represented former Browns President Mike Holmgren, general manager Tom Heckert and coach Pat Shurmur, who were all let go by the current Browns regime.

McAdoo and the Packers are coming off a 23-20 loss to the 49ers in the wildcard round of the playoffs. Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who made only his second start after missing seven straight weeks with a broken collarbone, pinned much of the loss on himself.

"Frustrating way to end the season," Rodgers told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "I think a lot of us felt with the way things had gone the last four or five weeks that there was something special about this year, and everything might be aligning right for us to make a run.

"So, I'm very disappointed. Personally, it's frustrating not to play your best game. Tough conditions, but the defense held them to 23 points. We should win that game. I think you have to start with yourself, and I could have definitely made a few more plays. That's why it's disappointing. These opportunities are pretty special, and you've got to make the most of them.''

Rodgers still managed to finish No. 5 in the

NFL

with a 97.8 rating.

In 2012, his first season as quarterbacks coach, McAdoo guided Rodgers to the top of the

NFL

chart with a 108.0 ranking. 4,295 yards with 39 TDs against just eight

INT

s. He was also named the starter for the

NFC

Pro Bowl squad.

As tight ends coach, McAdoo oversaw the growth and development of receiver Jermichael Finley, who in 2011 set or tied then-career highs in catches, yards and touchdowns, and became the first tight end in franchise history to record two seasons with 55-plus receptions.

The following is from the Packers bio:

Upon arriving in Green Bay in 2006, McAdoo helped the Packers’ tight ends adapt successfully to additional blocking and pass-protection duties they hadn’t previously been assigned. The added assistance helped a young offensive line, with as many as three rookie starters at times, allow just 24 sacks all season.

Originally named to the tight ends post Jan. 17, 2006, the 36-year-old McAdoo replaced Philbin, who was then the lone holdover from the previous coaching staff and had been made the team’s offensive line coach after McCarthy had been introduced as head coach. In each of McAdoo’s previous two

NFL

tenures, he has worked with McCarthy.

McAdoo came to Green Bay from the San Francisco 49ers, where he served as assistant offensive line/quality control coach in 2005. In that role, he assisted the offensive line and tight ends.

Prior to joining the 49ers, he had a brief stint at Stanford University as tackles and tight ends coach. He resigned after the ’05 recruiting season to take the 49ers position and reunite with McCarthy, then the San Francisco offensive coordinator, with whom he worked in New Orleans the previous season.

McAdoo entered the

NFL

coaching ranks in 2004 with the New Orleans Saints as an offensive assistant/quality control. He worked directly with McCarthy and assisted the offensive line and tight ends.

Prior to working in the

NFL,

McAdoo spent 2003 as an offensive assistant at the University of Pittsburgh, helping the Panthers earn a trip to the Continental Tire Bowl after an 8-5 season. At season’s end, the University of Akron hired him as an assistant coach, but he stayed only through the ’04 recruiting period before joining the Saints staff.

Earlier, he served as offensive line/tight ends coach at Fairfield (Conn.) University in 2002. After that campaign, the head coach left the team and McAdoo was appointed assistant head coach before the program was disbanded.

He began his college coaching career at Michigan State (2001) as a special teams/offensive assistant, on the heels of coaching four years at the high school level. He spent two years in the Homer Center school district in Pennsylvania and two years in the Indiana (Pa.) area.

McAdoo attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) and earned a degree in health and physical education. Later, he received his master’s degree in kinesiology from Michigan State.

Born July 9, 1977, in Homer City, Pa., McAdoo lives with his family in Oneida.