You know it’s a weird time in the sports calendar when we’re re-litigating Hue Jackson’s coaching tenure with the Cleveland Browns three years after his firing.
But here we are.
The former Browns coach, who went 3-36 as a head coach in Cleveland, was a guest on ESPN 850 Monday, and he opened up a bit about his experience with Browns owner Jimmy Haslam. And by that, I mean that Jackson accused Haslam of lying quite a bit.
According to Jackson, the Browns actually offered him a contract extension during that winless 2017 season but wouldn’t let Jackson go public with the news. Just your normal, boilerplate secret contract extension.
Jackson said via Cleveland.com:
“I got a contract extension at 1-23, midway through the season. I wanted to go public with it, but the Browns didn’t.”
He continued:
“There’s no doubt I was lied to by ownership and leadership of the team. They were going to be football plus analytics, but it was football vs. analytics.”
Since parting ways with Jackson, the Browns have gone 22-18 and made the playoffs in 2020 for the first time since 2002.
https://youtu.be/VB1zpeaqoQE