Hue Jackson Finally Jumps In Lake Erie
Hue Jackson, before the 2017 season, promised to jump in Lake Erie if the Browns didn’t win more than 1 game again. Obviously joking that the Browns wouldn’t be as bad as 1-15 again. Then…they were worse. Bless Cleveland fans, they called him on it.
And to his credit, Hue finally jumped in a couple weeks ago. He made a thing out of it, raising money for his own charity to combat human trafficking. I’m happy to see he actually did it, but it’s not like he promised to do something crazy. Jumping in the lake was a pretty easy bet to fulfill and frankly, and easy way to earn back some good PR with the fans.
Eh. So what. Doesn’t make him a better coach. I have low hopes for the Browns this year. I doubt they are 0-16 or 1-15 bad, but I don’t see more than 4 wins. Not with Jackson as the coach. I think the next step to turn this team good is to find the next good coach. I’ve lost complete faith in Jackson.
Maybe Hue’s been right this whole time. Maybe the problem was DeShone Kizer. Maybe Sashi was getting him crap players he couldn’t use in his rebuilding efforts. Maybe every other player he threw under a bus deserved it. But I doubt it. Watching him seemingly misuse Kizer and then blame him openly left a sour taste in my mouth. He can be mad at Kizer all he wants but to publicly do it is kinda messed up. What kind of message does that send to your players? This guy, who doesn’t seem to be designing or using the offense around his player’s strengths, is then blaming the players for their mistakes. Forcing square pegs into round holes and dishing out gossip like a snitch tends to not work out in the end. Just ask ol’ greasy. (Ben McAdoo)
I’ve long believed that the 3rd year is a major year for any new coach. First year coach deserves all the benefit of the doubt as they clean up the previous regime’s messes and install their own brand. Second year is fair enough. Things should be starting to gel, but not much more success is terribly necessary, if the team seems headed in the right directions the wins aren’t as important. The third year is the kicker. If your team doesn’t show a marked improvement in the win column and overall, then there is a problem. I think Hue deserves to lose his job if the Browns win less than 5 games this year. They won’t compete for the division. They won’t compete for the playoffs. But there is enough in Cleveland to win some games against mediocre competition and maybe steal one or two from good competition. Gus Bradley won 3 games in his worst year with the Jags, and Gus Bradley sucked ass, and that team he inherited was in just as bad a shape as this one was. Hue doesn’t deserve any more benefit of the doubt. He got his GM. He got his QB. Now he has to prove he’s not a pile of trash.
I doubt he does. I predict him gone in week 14 after the Browns have earned 2 early wins and look horrible for 6 weeks straight.
The Browns would have been wrong no matter what they did. They keep Jackson, they’re putting faith in a 1-31 entity. They (rightfully) fire him, and the dumbasses jump out of the woodwork, bleating like the sheep they are about “LOL CONTINUITY” and making the same stupid LOL BROWNS comments as the rest of the world. Lose-lose. Maybe if people were rational and intelligent enough to examine each season individually and come to the conclusion that going from a losing team to a winning team CAN happen in one season (Jags last year, Raiders the year before, Texans/Redskins/Vikings in the recent past) people would stop defaulting to the same crap 99% of the people around them spout.
Big time Jasshole lol
Here’s hoping they have back to back perfect season, they deserved it.
The move is already in place. The GM came in and replaced a bunch of people except Jackson. The new OC is Todd Haley, who has been an ok head coach before. After this year, Jackson gets the boot, Haley is the new guy, and they move on.
Why is he still coaching?
I’m an idiot. I’ve been confusing Hue Jackson (Raiders coach who did not punch an assistant) with Tom Cable (Raiders coach who punched an assistant). Took me a minute to realize that Hue Jackson isn’t a fat white guy :-O.
The Browns fan sings,
“Can you justify your coaching position?”
He feels extraordinarily intimidated.
With a new QB, a few talented wideouts, and a some talent in the backfield, the team has appealing talent to attract an interesting head coach next off season. I don’t think Haley is in play.
I think the Browns are looking at what the Rams and Eagles (and sorta kinda the Niners too) are doing. Hiring an offensive minded head coach to groom their young QB, making the most use out of the weapons they have, and learning how to make the offense as dangerous as possible.
Under Jackson, the Browns have looked as dangerous as a possum on the side of the highway. It may or may not be alive, from one game to the next (mostly not). The Browns actually have quite a bit of talent. Enough to be competitive on a weekly basis I think. I think they could even be a .500 team with what they have right now, with the right coaching staff. I know that sounds stupid. But having the right guys in the right places does wonders for a team. Even Cleveland.
I’ve been off Hue ever since Josh Gordon made the first positive step of his entire career and readmitted himself to rehab when he felt his control was slipping – and Jackson threw him under the bus and said “we’re done with Josh Gordon”. Of course when Flash came back he was more than happy to use that top 5 receiver that he only has to pay chump change. Any person worth their salt would have supported Gordon in that moment.
Yeah, Hue fucked literally the only good players cleveland had
Was “off Hugh” an intentional pun?
Ben McAdoo is the type of guy who drives upstate 50 miles just for cheaper gas.
When is the Browns bye week? That’s when Huey goes kablooie.
(BTW, I was expecting the lake to catch on fire in the last panel….)
We’ve started calling the outlandish comments he makes in his press conferences Hueperbole.