Hue Jackson Is Finally Fired
In honor of Hue Jackson’s career in Cleveland, this comic took far too long to go out.
In almost 2 decades of spectacular failure Hue Jackson might genuinely be the worst coach the Browns had. What a disaster. That he wasn’t let go at the end of last season was astonishing in itself, especially after the Browns abandoned the moneyball route and decided to run their team normally again. But Hue was given one more chance to turn this team into something halfway decent and he still failed. What’s sad is that this was technically his best season as a head coach. By a genuine percentage. How pathetic.
I don’t know if I can remember a head coach with an ego so disproportionate to actual ability. I was excited when Hue took over in Cleveland: he genuinely seemed to turn Andy Dalton into a playoff caliber QB and he got shafted out of Oakland due to Al Davis dying and the new GM coming in. I thought the Browns were lucky to have him. I didn’t think he’d be great, but I thought he was a decent coach. But yeesh. Such an ego.
Coach joins team that is committed to a new style of management, knowing things won’t be good immediately. Is generally given the benefit of the doubt despite still only winning 1 game. Then he gets in a power struggle with Sashi Brown over AJ McCarron of all people. Sashi rightfully nixed a stupid trade and paid the price. We can debate whether Sashi was actually a good GM but this didn’t even feel like he got fired for that. Hue gets a better GM, manages to stick around, willingly gives up playcalling, and then gets in another power struggle with Todd Haley (Also a douche and also fired) and now both are gone. Hue’s tenure is best marked with L’s and telling everyone how not his fault it was. Sure. he’d open up press conferences by saying “That’s on me, etc” but that’s the PR canned answer all coaches give no matter what. Ben McAdoo would say that then spend the next ten minutes dumping on Eli. Even if he had a point (especially in hindsight) about Eli, that’s not what coaches do.
Hue always seemed to genuinely blame everyone else. If he only had a better QB. If he only had better players. If he only had better assistants. If he only had better everything, then he wouldn’t have sucked. Gus Bradley inherited an arguably worse team in the Jaguars and still managed to win 2 games in his worst season. Hue managed that in his best. The one true constant between all 2 1/2 seasons of Hue Jackson’s tenure was Hue Jackson. At what point is he going to look in the mirror and face himself? Well, he would look in the mirror, but when he saw the ugly visage staring back at him he’d just say he would have looked good if he had a better mirror.
Go be miserable somewhere else, Hue. I can’t believe I’m honestly excited to see if Gggreggggg Williams of all people can do something with this team.
I’d just like to point out Greg Williams still has better record as a HC than hue Jackson (.354 to .205)
Greg Williams is gonna be the next permanent coach isn’t he, and we’ll have a repeat of Bountygate because of course we will.
I don’t know how the browns could get worse at this point but that’s the only way I can imagine how.
After Bountygate, I want to see Gregg Williams crash and burn in a spectacular, humiliating manner. I will never forgive him for the dickish way he got his team to the Superbowl.
if being interim HC counts, it’s probably coming sooner rather than later
he should have been banned for life.
Admittedly I didn’t see the whole interview after Hue’s firing, but from what I did see and read, he might actually be a truly delusional person. I realize that most people at that level have monumental egos, but he has *nothing* to stand on as a head coach. Jesus, even Jeff Fisher has at least a few good seasons as an HC to point to.
Everything I have heard…EVERYTHING! has been “If I had my way”, “I wanted this”, “My plan was to”……dude, you went 1-31 in 2 seasons with YOUR game plan. I don’t care if you don’t call the plays. He was the freaking head coach. Everything he has said was basically an admission that he didn’t have the balls to make the calls that needed to be made to attempt to improve the team. I believe he thought he was bulletproof and now that he’s been sacked, he’s pissed and lashing out.
Todd Haley, as much as I don’t care for him, should have probably been the guy to stay and be interim coach. Being an offensive mind, it would have helped Mayfield develop more this year. Plus Williams still has Bountygate stench on him and the word is that they want an offensive minded coach anyways.
Rally Possum for Browns coach in 2019!
Hue Jackson’s worst trait as a head coach, even worse than the either delusional or laughably disingenuous finger pointing, was that he has an almost pathological inability to stick to a defined strategy. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the Raiders game, where he spent the entire game logically going against the book by shielding his shaky rookie kicker from kicking PATs off the infield dirt and challenging the offense to make up for the suddenly injured, gassed defense, up until the moment it became crucial that he do so and he tightened up so hard you could crack walnuts in his ass cheeks.
Also I think the stress may be getting to Dave. This one was so weird that I half expect the next strip will have Dorsey or Mayfield crash through the window like James Bond but then help Greggggggg kill them.
Oh come on I’ve made weirder stuff than this
Exhibit A: http://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/what-have-i-done/
Exhibit B: http://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/sammy-watkins-breaks-his-foot/
Case closed.
“Well, he would look in the mirror, but when he saw the ugly visage staring back at him he’d just say he would have looked good if he had a better mirror.”
This is a gem of an aphorism.
Rally Possum to the rescue. Waiting for the next Bills Mafia comic. Fun Nathan Peterman fact before Sunday he had a QBR of 20.8 then he has an outing where he threw 3 INTs and 0 TDs and his QBR actually went up to 30.8. lmfao
His career interception rate also dropped by 2 percent.
Is there a Browns Head Coach Hydra? It feels like there should be
Holy shit that’s creepy
My favorite stat on the Hue Jackson era — win/loss records of his QBs (at the time of his firing).
In chronological order:
1) Josh McCown: 0-3
2) Cody Kessler: 0-8
3) RG3: 1-4
4) DeShone Kizer: 0-15
5) Kevin Hogan: 0-1
6) Tyrod Taylor: 1-1-1 <<< Only non-losing record!!!
7) Baker Mayfield: 1-4
gaaaaah….
Side note: I really do hope that Dez Bryant makes the saints, only b/c Dez, Pez, Fez and Prez are soarly missed
Awwww, I was wondering if anybody cared about that week of dumb, maybe I could bring it back
Those were very amusing. Think my favorite is the shower one followed by the Pez and the red button.
After looking through all the Dez related comics, those were def bomb. Also, the Dez Bryant Attack of the Clones joke hasn’t aged well, since many people feel like the prequel trilogy is superior to the Disney one lololol.
I like it when you get super silly. ooh yeah baybee. Drinkin mezcal at chez calle with dez fez and prez yall
However bad Hue’s been, I feel like everyone shouod be given a mulligan for whatever happens while they’re with the Browms. Even Bill Bellichick has a losing record with them. On a related note, RIP Mayfield’s career. I was wondering how they were gonna bungle it this time and now we know.
Hue got a mulligan for 2 years and still managed to perform so badly that he still doesn’t deserve another HC job to me
Belichick brought the Browns to the playoffs at one point and the season after that was marred by the announcement of the departure to Baltimore which makes one wonder how much of a distraction it may have caused that time. Different situations.
I live in the Bay Area (NOT a Raiders fan though). Hue didn’t get shafted by Oakland, he went power hungry after Al Davis’ death, traded ALL the draft picks in existence for Carson Palmer (LOL), promptly went 8-8, and then Mark Davis decided to run his franchise in a more normal manner and so Hue was fired and a traditional GM was brought in.
Of course, then Davis got Gruden fever and LOLRaiders
Barring true catastrophe, I still don’t believe in firing mid season. If the HC is doing something illegal or if things have gotten so toxic that the team can’t function, then a mid season firing makes sense. Hue Jackson deserves to be fired and should have been fired at the end of last season, but he wasn’t fired and suddenly you’re out an OC and a HC. Are things going to be better now? Probably not… so why bother? Finish out your crappy season and hire someone else at the end of it.
that should bring in kaepernick at OC
did they get the “Danger: Avoid Hole” sign from Trent Richardson’s locker