The story surrounding the controversy of the ownership of the Cleveland Browns continues to grow, as a brand new report suggests that the team didn’t actually want Hue Jackson to be its coach.
In a new report posted by ESPN.com’s Seth Wickersham, shortly after promoting Sashi Brown to the position of Executive Vice President of football operations, many of the higher-ups for the Browns went to work on finding a new coach. This included discussing the ideal traits of the coach, debating various strengths and weaknesses, and coming together to discuss them all.
According to Wickersham, when all was said and done, the top brass for the Browns had clearly voted for Sean McDermott, then defensive coordinator for the Carolina Panthers, to be the newest head coach.
Despite most of the executives of the organization voting for McDermott, Haslam instead wanted Hue Jackson. After discussing it further with various members of the team and being advised to not choose Jackson, Haslam flew to Cincinnati and hired him anyway, and the rest is history.
The report later goes into detail on just how dysfunctional the team was, and just how much more dysfunctional they became once Jackson entered the fold. After posting a 1-15 record in 2016, and then an unimaginable 0-16 the following year.
The report goes on to describe various clashes that Jackson had with both Haslam and, in 2018, both Todd Haley and new general manager John Dorsey. The entire story is worth getting into, but one thing seems to be clear: the Browns were not in a great place for the last three years, but finally seem to have found their light at the end of the tunnel in the shape of Baker Mayfield.
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