Todd Monken began prepping for Giants reunion with ‘elite’ John Harbaugh before taking Browns job

INDIANAPOLIS — Todd Monken paused and allowed an ever so slight smile to crease his face. He was looking down from an elevated riser, and for a moment it seemed as if he was either annoyed or unappreciative of the question posed to him by The Post.

Not so. He was actually flattered by it.

It was no secret Monken was earmarked to accompany John Harbaugh to the Giants, coming aboard as the offensive coordinator. The offer was in place, and Monken was going to accept it. Yes, he was a candidate for the head coach vacancy with the Browns, but he was considered a long shot there. 

Had Monken been thinking about what he would inherit with the Giants’ offense and had he already started figuring out how his system would mesh with young quarterback Jaxson Dart?

“Of course,” Monken said, and paused once more.

“I mean, of course,” he said on Wednesday from the NFL Scouting Combine. “I was hopeful I would get the Cleveland Browns head-coaching job, that would be silly to say I wasn’t hopeful of that. But I was excited to go to New York with Coach [Harbaugh].’’