Browns coach raised a lot of eyebrows after what he said about 0-16 year
“That play will be remembered,” Brown coach Hue Jackson said.
He was talking about the most un-clutch play in a historic season of un-clutch plays.
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Wide receiver Corey Coleman let an uncontested fourth-down pass go right between his hands, and the Browns became just the second team in NFL history to finish a season 0-16.
No, there weren’t a lot of positives, but Jackson seemed to find one — about himself.
“I don’t think anyone else could’ve done this job for the past two years,” Jackson told reporters.
With his team losing all but one game over those two years, a logical question would be, “What job, exactly is he talking about?”
No, there’s no other coach who ever had a two-year stretch of one win and 31 losses.
And there certainly isn’t another coach who would post a record like that and still have a job.
The coach was so confident the Browns would be better this season that he vowed to swim in Lake Erie if the team had another season like last year’s 1-15 campaign.
Turns out, the team entered Sunday dreaming of finishing 1-15.
Jackson said his comment about who else could do the job was a reference to the mental wear and tear of being so bad.
“When I said, ‘I don’t think any other coach would do that job,’ I am not trying to sound arrogant, flippant or anything like that,” Jackson said. “I just think these situations are hard when you don’t win. When you are doing everything you can to win and it does not happen that way, I think those situations are hard. I don’t think the average person could go through that. That is what I meant by that. I think that is a tough situation to be in.”
Defensive back Jason McCourty said the team just doesn’t have enough talent on its roster. For a team that didn’t win a game, that seems obvious, but Jackson wouldn’t use it as an excuse.
“I respect what Jason says,” Jackson said. “He is a player on the team who works extremely hard and has been in the National Football League. That is his opinion. I think you guys asked that right after the game. That is how he feels so I have to respect what he feels. I do not want to get into the roster and if we are talented enough. We are 0-16 so I think to make it more than that and say the roster is or is not doesn’t do anything.”
With the first and fourth pick in April’s NFL Draft, plus more than $100 million in salary cap space available, one would think the Browns have all the tools at their disposal for a major turnaround.
But these are the Browns, so nothing is certain.
The only thing we know for sure is that Jackson is still the coach, even as he gets ready for his promised dip into Lake Erie.
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