Hue Jackson mess just makes Cleveland Browns look bad, yet again

The Cleveland Browns fired another coach, as they should have, but yet again, the entire organization just looks bad as a result.

No longer coaching the Cleveland Browns, Hue Jackson appeared in interviews both on Cleveland.com and ESPN’s First Take.

The comment section on Cleveland.com dragged Jackson over the coals for not taking all the blame for his 3-36-1 record during his interview with local scribe Mary Kay Cabot.

His tone was a bit different on ESPN, talking about “We didn’t win enough games.”

Here’s what it comes down to: Hue Jackson doesn’t believe he was given enough talent to win games while he was calling the offense.

Cleveland.com columnist Terry Pluto wrote Jackson was in denial in regards as to what was going around him in his final weeks as coach.

He argued the Browns’ numbers with him calling plays was the same as it was last season.

Not true, according to Cleveland.com columnist Terry Pluto.

"“In 2017, the Browns averaged 14.6 points per game. It’s 21.1 points this season, according to Pluto. In 2017, the offense averaged 309 yards per game. It’s 342 this season.He seems to blame ownership for making him hire an offensive coordinator.”"

If there was anything to come out of the ESPN interview he did, it’s that he regrets giving up play calling duties, and it does appear he places that blame on ownership for making him hire an OC, via Cleveland.com.

"“People thought for some reason I couldn’t run an offense and I needed to hire an O.C.,’ said Jackson. ‘But I was never able to actually run my offense the first two years because we didn’t have the players. What everybody saw the first two years was not the Hue Jackson offense.'”"

You have to agree with Jackson that he didn’t have enough players during his first two years as coach. Some of that’s his own doing. Jackson stated on the Cleveland.com interview that franchise quarterbacks like Carson Went and Patrick Mahomes were passed over on the draft.

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This angers fans to no end, because he was close enough to the situation that he might have been able to do something about it. Instead he signed Robert Griffin III months before the draft, all but assuring the Browns’ fate of trading out of the No. 2 spot in 2016.

Griffin got hurt in his first game and the road to historical ineptness was paved down Lou Groza Blvd.

Jackson had no choice but to appear humbled before a national audience like he did on national TV just the other day.

He’s trying to rebuild his reputation in order to get another job.

As for the Browns, this just looks bad. Ownership brought up internal discord. That would’ve been avoided had Jackson just been fired after going 0-16. The Haslams have been criticized before for pulling the trigger too early, but nobody would’ve blamed them here.

However,r Hue was kept, and then restrictions were apparently put on his job, according to Jackson. The head coach of a pro football team could not take the reigns of his offense. In what world does this happen?

All the while Baker Mayfield was stuck in the middle of this running failed quarterback sneaks from the 1-yard line in Tampa.

Jackson played off his inability to take back plays as part of the front office’s collaborate effort. This isn’t the first time that buzz phrase has been used. In fact, it was very popular when Ray Farmer was the GM. And all he did was text the sidelines to undermine the coach in order to get Johnny Manziel into the game.

The next few weeks mark a big one for Dorsey. Picking the players is one thing, but now he’s got to manage. He’s got to set up an organizational structure that holds everyone accountable. The new coach has to be accountable to him. And he alone must be accountable to the Haslams.

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It’s the only way for the Browns to avoid another mess like this, but now the question remains: Will they finally get it right?

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