Cleveland Browns say they 'welcomed' NFL inquiry into tanking claims made by former coach Hue Jackson
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https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33763866/cleveland-browns-say-welcomed-nfl-inquiry-tanking-claims-made-former-coach-hue-jackson
CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland Browns have spoken to an NFL investigator looking into claims by former coach Hue Jackson, who said the team intentionally lost games -- tanked -- in the 2016 and 2017 seasons.
Jackson, now coaching at Grambling State, was fired by Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam eight games into the 2018 season with a 3-36-1 record.
In February, Jackson indicated in a series of posts on social media that the team paid him bonuses incentivizing him to lose and that he was set up to fail. Jackson later softened those claims.
The Browns went 1-15 in 2016 and 0-16 in 2017.
Spokesman Brian McCarthy confirmed the league engaged former Securities and Exchange Commission chair Mary Jo White to look into Jackson's allegations.
"The review is ongoing and is expected to conclude soon," McCarthy said in an email to The Associated Press.
The team released a statement Monday night, saying it has worked with the league on its inquiry.
"Even though Hue recanted his allegations a short time after they were made, it was important to us and to the integrity of the game to have an independent review of the allegations," team spokesman Peter Jean-Baptiste said. "We welcomed an investigation and we are confident the results will show, as we've previously stated, that these allegations are categorically false.
"We have cooperated with Mary Jo White and look forward to the findings."
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Hue... Just go away... You're not helping yourself much
Ya, that 0-16 season the Giants were second worse at 3-13, so the extra two tanking games were free gratis from Baby Huey. What a joke of a coach!
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I hate listening to Charlie Weiss on NFL radio but he destroyed Huey this morning. Said “why two years later” isn’t it actually 3/4 years later? And Weiss said he had book deals offered to him for dirt on Belichick, Parcells and Notre Dame and passed them all up.
Does Hue still have a job? If he’s employed I think I’d like let him go so he can focus on all this past negative energy.
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I hate listening to Charlie Weiss on NFL radio but he destroyed Huey this morning. Said “why two years later” isn’t it actually 3/4 years later? And Weiss said he had book deals offered to him for dirt on Belichick, Parcells and Notre Dame and passed them all up.
Does Hue still have a job? If he’s employed I think I’d like let him go so he can focus on all this past negative energy.
I hate listening to Charlie Weiss on NFL radio but he destroyed Huey this morning. Said “why two years later” isn’t it actually 3/4 years later? And Weiss said he had book deals offered to him for dirt on Belichick, Parcells and Notre Dame and passed them all up.
Does Hue still have a job? If he’s employed I think I’d like let him go so he can focus on all this past negative energy.
The man clearly has mental issues... Baker sadly seems headed down this road...
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The Browns obviously were tanking.
But I have a hard time believing they'd be dumb enough to document it.
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The Browns obviously were tanking.
But I have a hard time believing they'd be dumb enough to document it.
The Browns obviously were tanking.
But I have a hard time believing they'd be dumb enough to document it.
in a way they did by keeping huey as coach lmao
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I hate listening to Charlie Weiss on NFL radio but he destroyed Huey this morning. Said “why two years later” isn’t it actually 3/4 years later? And Weiss said he had book deals offered to him for dirt on Belichick, Parcells and Notre Dame and passed them all up.
Does Hue still have a job? If he’s employed I think I’d like let him go so he can focus on all this past negative energy.
I hate listening to Charlie Weiss on NFL radio but he destroyed Huey this morning. Said “why two years later” isn’t it actually 3/4 years later? And Weiss said he had book deals offered to him for dirt on Belichick, Parcells and Notre Dame and passed them all up.
Does Hue still have a job? If he’s employed I think I’d like let him go so he can focus on all this past negative energy.
Report: Hue Jackson has Landed a new Head Coaching job
https://www.si.com/nfl/browns/news/report-hue-jackson-has-landed-a-new-head-coaching-job
Former Browns’ head coach has landed a new job, this time in the college game.-
Dec 9, 2021
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I hate listening to Charlie Weiss on NFL radio but he destroyed Huey this morning. Said “why two years later” isn’t it actually 3/4 years later? And Weiss said he had book deals offered to him for dirt on Belichick, Parcells and Notre Dame and passed them all up.
Does Hue still have a job? If he’s employed I think I’d like let him go so he can focus on all this past negative energy.
Report: Hue Jackson has Landed a new Head Coaching job
https://www.si.com/nfl/browns/news/report-hue-jackson-has-landed-a-new-head-coaching-job
Former Browns’ head coach has landed a new job, this time in the college game.-
Dec 9, 2021
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Report: Hue Jackson has Landed a new Head Coaching job
https://www.si.com/nfl/browns/news/report-hue-jackson-has-landed-a-new-head-coaching-job
Former Browns’ head coach has landed a new job, this time in the college game.-
Dec 9, 2021
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sucks for grambling state
but then again this is old news
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I am amazed that a younger Huey scored a 8-8 record one year for the Raiders.
Hue Jackson is proof that an organization can overcome poor coaching and leadership at the HC spot and still be mildly successful.I don’t know why this man upsets me so much but I am so tired of these stories. I guess it is the overly self assured types that have no effing clue what they are doing
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I am amazed that a younger Huey scored a 8-8 record one year for the Raiders.
Hue Jackson is proof that an organization can overcome poor coaching and leadership at the HC spot and still be mildly successful.I don’t know why this man upsets me so much but I am so tired of these stories. I guess it is the overly self assured types that have no effing clue what they are doing
I am amazed that a younger Huey scored a 8-8 record one year for the Raiders.
Hue Jackson is proof that an organization can overcome poor coaching and leadership at the HC spot and still be mildly successful.I don’t know why this man upsets me so much but I am so tired of these stories. I guess it is the overly self assured types that have no effing clue what they are doing
I could see Hue and Baker doing the "Cry Babies" podcast tour together...
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I am amazed that a younger Huey scored a 8-8 record one year for the Raiders.
Hue Jackson is proof that an organization can overcome poor coaching and leadership at the HC spot and still be mildly successful.I don’t know why this man upsets me so much but I am so tired of these stories. I guess it is the overly self assured types that have no effing clue what they are doing
I could see Hue and Baker doing the "Cry Babies" podcast tour together...
I could see Hue and Baker doing the "Cry Babies" podcast tour together...
Both are outstanding case studies of foot in mouth syndrome.
How does a NFL HC - lousy or not go from a NFL HC gig to Grambling? Mike Reilly was lousy in the NFL he still became a HC at two respected D1 programs for over a decade.
And Baker former #1 pick with some good and some bad tape…he’s just four years removed from being the top pick in the draft now teams are thinking about Drew Lock and Geno Smith and running it back with Darnold and others thinking Mariota is a better option.
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Did Hue bring this up again, or is this all happening because what he said (and I thought backpedaled off of) months ago?
Hue is an idiot, but I don't (and correct me if I'm wrong) think he's starting this talk up again.
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Did Hue bring this up again, or is this all happening because what he said (and I thought backpedaled off of) months ago?
Hue is an idiot, but I don't (and correct me if I'm wrong) think he's starting this talk up again.
Did Hue bring this up again, or is this all happening because what he said (and I thought backpedaled off of) months ago?
Hue is an idiot, but I don't (and correct me if I'm wrong) think he's starting this talk up again.
same old bull ? story... the league just got around to announcing that they are assigning the case to nfl official Mary Jo Wright...
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Did Hue bring this up again, or is this all happening because what he said (and I thought backpedaled off of) months ago?
Hue is an idiot, but I don't (and correct me if I'm wrong) think he's starting this talk up again.
Did Hue bring this up again, or is this all happening because what he said (and I thought backpedaled off of) months ago?
Hue is an idiot, but I don't (and correct me if I'm wrong) think he's starting this talk up again.
Exactly. Hue didn't say anything....bunch of these dudes are just triggered by his mere name being mentioned. Truth is.....of course the Browns were tanking but that's not unusual. The unusual is the announcement by the league because from a legal standpoint...the Browns did something that was too obvious to be ignored
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The best thing Hue ever did was jump on lake Erie
The high picks were nice too
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Did Hue bring this up again, or is this all happening because what he said (and I thought backpedaled off of) months ago?
Hue is an idiot, but I don't (and correct me if I'm wrong) think he's starting this talk up again.
Exactly. Hue didn't say anything....bunch of these dudes are just triggered by his mere name being mentioned. Truth is.....of course the Browns were tanking but that's not unusual. The unusual is the announcement by the league because from a legal standpoint...the Browns did something that was too obvious to be ignored
Exactly. Hue didn't say anything....bunch of these dudes are just triggered by his mere name being mentioned. Truth is.....of course the Browns were tanking but that's not unusual. The unusual is the announcement by the league because from a legal standpoint...the Browns did something that was too obvious to be ignored
Triggered. Hardly. It takes a bigger man I guess to tell folks you weren’t good
He STARTED this whole thing.
What did the Browns do that was highly unusual? Start a young QB? Stockpile draft picks? Drop passes Week 17? Miss kicks? Block FGs?
The coaching/leadership dysfunction was on full display when “Hard Knocks” came into the building. I’m surprised he didn’t come out an attack HBO for putting him in a negative light.
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Did Hue bring this up again, or is this all happening because what he said (and I thought backpedaled off of) months ago?
Hue is an idiot, but I don't (and correct me if I'm wrong) think he's starting this talk up again.
Did Hue bring this up again, or is this all happening because what he said (and I thought backpedaled off of) months ago?
Nope. He opened up his flapper yet again.
I'm surprised that he's still at Grambling after his recent attempted hire.
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