Rotoworld posted:

Profootballtalk.com reports Browns co-owner Dee Haslam went "nuclear" on the team's front office after it nixed Tuesday's failed A.J. McCarron trade.

Based on a collection of national and local reports on the topic, it appears as if Browns ownership has taken the side of Hue Jackson over the front office. Jackson spent time with McCarron in Cincinnati and was the driving force behind Tuesday's trade talks. Multiple reports also indicate the front office -- known to be at odds with Jackson -- was the driving force behind the trade not going through. Ownership will ultimately decide the front office's fate. At present, it's not looking good for Sashi Brown, Paul DePodesta, and company. Jackson appears to have won the power struggle, for better or (more likely) worse.

Benne posted:

Hue is a way better politician than head coach

Benne posted:

Hue is a way better politician than head coach

AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:

From the last page:
Wait...did the Browns ever beat the Patriots since they were necro'd?

Athanatos posted:

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/game_query.cgi?tm1=cle&tm2=nwe&yr=all

Benne posted:

Hue is a way better politician than head coach

FizFashizzle posted:

Peyton Hillis actually provided like one of my two favorite BB moments.

He beat the Patriots almost singlehandedly when they could not stop him for less than seven yards a carry. It was just man football, and the Patriots couldn't stop it.

Bill went to Peyton directly after the game to shake his hand.

The other BB moment was of course the Wildcat game where he freaked out because he knew exactly what to do to shut it down but couldn't possibly install a new defense mid game.

quote:

When the scoreboard clock finally showed zeros, Patriots Coach Bill Belichick walked slowly across the torn-up field to meet Eric Mangini, his protégé and estranged friend, amid a swarm of players and photographers.

Belichick found Mangini, looked him in the eye and offered his hand.

“I congratulated him,” he said.

It was all he could do. On Sunday, Mangini’s Browns were better. A lot better.

The rookie quarterback Colt McCoy scrambled for a touchdown and did not make any mistakes, Peyton Hillis ran for a career-high 184 yards and 2 touchdowns and the vastly improved Browns, using a little trickery and a lot of offensive imagination, pounded the Patriots, 34-14.

SKULL.GIF posted:

King Hong Kong posted:

Hue also got in an extravagant power struggle during his brief Raiders tenure involving a trade for another Bengals quarterback. It is the one thing he is semi-competent at.

Simplex posted:

There's really shockingly very little about it online. If I remember correctly Al Davis died, Hue Jackson just more or less assumed the GM powers, and then made that terrible Carson Palmer trade. When the Raiders hired Reggie McKenzie to permanently fill the GM position he didn't even wait until the ink was done drying before firing Hue. I feel like that doesn't happen unless they are multiple people in that organization, including Mark Davis, who intensely disliked Hue.

Grittybeard posted:

I don't think I'd call the Raiders thing a power struggle so much as just taking the reigns when there was no one who felt like they could tell him no. Maybe I'm forgetting something and there was some strong voice in that front office who he was fighting with after Al Davis died.

iospace posted:

I know at this point it's largely splitting hairs, but who's seat is hotter, Pagano's or Jackson's?

iospace posted:

I know at this point it's largely splitting hairs, but who's seat is hotter, Pagano's or Jackson's?

King Hong Kong posted:

Hue’s seat is the Chernobyl reactor and the trade attempt was the insertion of the control rods.

Grittybeard posted:

The Browns organization is of course the Chernobyl facility here.

Actually that might not be fair, Chernobyl worked for a while.

Grittybeard posted:

The Browns organization is of course the Chernobyl facility here.

Actually that might not be fair, Chernobyl worked for a while.