Hue needs to be Through

As all of you that are reading this probably know well by now, the Cleveland Browns have been the worst team in the NFL since returning from hiatus in 1999. The list of reasons why this is the case is endless, with the main point being the fact that the browns have had 28 different men line up underneath center in 19 years.

All of this looked like it was going to be coming to an end when the Browns announced that they had hired the hottest coach on the market in the 2016 offseason, which was the former Cincinnati Bengals offensive coordinator Hue Jackson. The league wide consensus on this hiring was that it would be the move that may finally start the turnaround for the maligned franchise.

Here we are two years later and nothing has changed, as since, the Browns went 1-15 in the 2016 season, and now made history for going 0-16, and being the second team to do so ever, joining the 2008 Detroit Lions in infamy.

In the landscape of the NFL today, some coaches can get fired even after making the playoffs, or winning the superbowl. The only exception I can find to this is that Marvin Lewis seems to be indestructible from firing, recently earning a two year extension with the Bengals.

Going back to the Browns, it is inconceivable on how Hue Jackson still has a job right now. Some teams would fire a coach after one year of 1-15. I can guarantee that all other 31 teams would fire their coach after a second year that saw the team downgrade to winless.

One of the big reasons for the team to continue to not be able to find success is the continued misuse of players. Quarterback DeShone Kizer at Notre Dame was in a spread offense and maybe said four-five words to call a play. For the browns, he has been quoted saying most play calls range around 15 words. Also, with Deshone Kizer, he was always in the shotgun and never really had to play under center in college.

Jabrill Peppers at Michigan was mostly a linebacker/run support safety because of his extreme athleticism. For the Browns, he has been playing 25-30 yards off the ball on almost every play as a free safety/last line of defense.

Its okay to draft these types of players, but it makes zero sense to do so if they are not fits in the system you are trying to install on your football team, and it just exposes the players lack of abilities when this happens, and trust me, this has happened a lot this season for the Browns.

Also, Hue Jackson has proved to be a hypocrite numerous amount of times when talking to the media, and some of these quotes are just laughable to look back at after what has transpired since he said them. The ones below are some of my favorites:

• “You have to trust me on this one” after reaching in the third round of the draft in 2016 for USC quarterback Cody Kessler, who spent this past season being a healthy scratch for the majority of games.

• “The run game has got to become our backbone” after the 2017 season opening loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Hue became notorious for completely ignoring the run game in the second half of games this year, and may have ultimately chased away Isaiah Crowell into free agency with this strategy

• “It felt like the Earth moved beneath my feet” after watching Robert Griffin run around in shorts in drills before he made the decision to sign him before the 2016 season, which turned out as one would expect it to.

And the most head scratching of them all is:

• “I don’t think anybody else could’ve did this job” citing his 0-16 record in 2017 and the 1-31 overall record as Browns head coach, saying that he is the only human alive that could have coached a professional football team to a winless record.

I am extremely confident in my ability that I could coach a NFL team to an 0-16, and I am equally confident in whoever is reading this in that they could do the same exact thing. I am also confident in the fact that I would have gotten fired after doing so from said job, which is just why it is so bewildering to me that Hue Jackson is allowed to coach the Browns for a third year. I can only imagine the backlash when the team gets off to another poor start in the 2018 season.

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