Browns Owner Jimmy Haslam Just Hit Hue Jackson From The Top Rope And Now We Have A Dead Body On Our Hands

Okay so we all know the story by now. Brian Flores says he was offered $100K per loss as the head coach of the Dolphins in 2019, and then Hue Jackson came down with a severe case of main character syndrome and made it all about him. Found this as the perfect time to piggyback onto someone else's situation and do the ESPN carwash to explain how he actually wasn't the man to blame for his 3-36-1 record in Cleveland. Insinuated on Twitter that he was offered "a good number" to lose games for the Browns, and that the plan was not for him to succeed.

Well folks, now Browns owner Jimmy Haslam has entered the ring with his interview with the Knoxville News Sentinel. 

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“Hue Jackson has never ever accepted any responsibility for our record during that time period,” Haslam said in an exclusive interview. “He’s been masterful at pointing fingers but has never accepted any blame."

That's just a fact. Probably my #1 issue with Hue. It's not even that he turned in back to back 1-15 and 0-16 seasons, it's that he continuously points the finger at other people who were responsible for his record. Jimmy goes on to admit that he himself did make mistakes, and he owns them, but has anyone ever heard Hue say he messed up as well? Not once.

“I can’t think of any individual that I’ve worked with over the past 45 years that I spent as much time trying to help be successful as I did Hue Jackson,” Haslam said.

Well that cuts a little deep. You can tell Jimmy is out for blood with this statement. Because let's not forget that Jimmy has been working for Pilot Corporation since 1976 and became President / CEO in 1996. He's hired people, developed people, worked with people, and helped people in the business world for 45 years now. He might be known now for being the Browns owner but you don't get to a $3.8 billion net worth without managing others. And to reference his entire 45 year working career to say that Hue was the individual that's spent the most of his time trying to help be successful, yikes. 

“His third year, when our roster began to pretty dramatically improve, the eight games he coached we were 2-5-1. After Hue was dismissed, we went 5-3.”

And now we have a dead body.

Hue keeps saying that his first two years, the roster was impossible to win with. That's just not true though. Hue did win with that roster, once. He went 1-31 with the Browns through his first two seasons, and to think that he kept his job…..he should be thanking Jimmy Haslam every chance he gets. Remember, Brian Flores went 10-6 last year. And then 9-8 this season. Anyways, when the Browns roster began to "dramatically improve", Hue still won 2 of the first 8 games that season before getting fired. For reference, interim coach Gregg Williams took that same exact roster and finished 5-3. 

The fact of the matter is that Hue Jackson stinks, both as a coach and now clearly as a person. His 3-36-1 record in Cleveland speaks for itself, but to take this Brian Flores story and piggyback onto it and make it about himself is ridiculous. And I bet Brian Flores agrees. I bet he and his lawyers are upset to see Hue all over ESPN right now because their situations are not even close to the same. Flores led the Dolphins to 24 wins over his three years in Miami. If Hue would've kept up his pace, it would've taken him 24 seasons to get to 24 wins in Cleveland.