Cleveland Browns coach Hue Jackson is still finding ways to laugh despite having zero wins this season. Good for him, but the context here makes this not nearly as ridiculous as it might first sound, as it involves returning receiver Josh Gordon.
Hue Jackson had his giggles prompted when asked about the idea of Josh Gordon starting at receiver this weekend, his first game back after a lengthy suspension for violating some National Football League rules.
“Heck yeah, are you kidding me?” Jackson said, via Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Yeah, he’s going to start — right away. I’m kind of surprised you’d ask. You have to play your good players, right?”
“Let it rip,” Jackson said. “Pitch count? With this guy?
“He’s done a good job this week. He’s worked extremely hard. I think he’s excited about playing. It’ll be a big day for him. . . . It’s still going to be a little different for him, I don’t care what anybody says, but we have to transition him through that and help him through it. I think he’ll go play well, though.”
What makes some of what Jackson says weird is that he said, literally the day before, that Gordon still needed to earn his way back to deserving to be with the team.
“Obviously, he understands that the antennas are up everywhere, and they should be,” Jackson said, via Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “He has to do the work to make sure that those things are in his past.”
“The biggest thing is he still has to earn the right to be here,” Jackson said. “He earned the right to get back here. He has to earn the right to be here each and every day. He’s been outstanding thus far here. Again, all of the things talked about were past behaviors.”
Anyway, the Browns coach best laugh now, as he will likely have few reasons to do so by the season's end.
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