When Hue Jackson was sacked by the Oakland Raiders after an 8-8 season, the cult figure amongst some pockets of the Raider Nation probably didn’t expect to be waiting this long for his next head coaching job. Jackson is the fifth Browns head coach since 2009-none of the previous ones had a winning percentage higher than.
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Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: The Cleveland Browns hired a coach.
It’s official. The Cleveland Browns have stopped their head coaching search and Hue Jackson has apparently settled for the first contract put in front of him. Week in and week out, as I always say, the greatest thing you can mark out of a coach is consistency. “Hue was a great head coach”.
“That’s what I think I’m good at and I think the players that I’ve been around, the coaches I’ve been around, they know that because I try to create their environment so people can have success”. Had Jackson stayed, he’d become the next coach of the Bengals at some point in time.
Profootballtalk.com is reporting that Hue Jackson will get rid of Johnny Manziel and not use him as the Browns quarterback.
“I’m really proud of Hue”, Harbaugh said. “He’s going to have those guys fired up and they’re going to love playing for him”.
McCarron, a 2014 third-round pick and three-time national champion at Alabama, spent two years under Jackson, and with the inevitable parting of ways of the troubled Johnny Manziel, McCarron could serve as a possible starter or backup for Cleveland’s likely new quarterback, whether it be either Cal’s Jared Goff or Memphis’ Paxton Lynch, if they do decide to go in a different direction at QB.
“Because I think players know that I’m honest and I’m fair and I’m tough”. That’s how I get judged and I respect that. “I came here to win”. A source close to the situation told ESPN Giants reporter Dan Graziano that the topic of Manziel was discussed at length in meetings between Jackson and Browns ownership. Jackson will become the team’s eighth coach since 1999 once the sides have finalized his deal, the person told The Associated Press on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016, on condition of anonymity because the team has not announced the hiring.
Although Haslam is very excited for Jackson to merge with the Browns, it is uncertain whether everyone will share that excitement.
The Jackson hiring comes straight out of the Bengals playbook and one day shy of 13 years ago when the Bengals tapped Lewis.
In addition to coaching college football for more than a decade, he has also had coaching stints with the Washington Redskins, Atlanta Falcons and Baltimore Ravens since entering the NFL in the 2001-02 season.
But, like Dalton said, he hopes Jackson doesn’t bring too much magic to a division opponent.
In New York, Giants general manager Jerry Reese has final say on the Giants’ roster. “We want to be innovative and cutting edge on everything that we do in this building because eventually, everyone is going to be doing what we are doing”.
The first couple of months next season are going to be the honeymoon period, with the Cleveland Browns fan base buying into the regime change and thinking this is finally the year.
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NFL Network’s and Jackson confidante Mike Silver reported the coach felt “comfortable” with the Browns during the interview process. “The league”s waiver system begins February 8, the day after the Super Bowl.
