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oobernoober, those are good questions. I'm not sure anyone knows what Hue prefers. He did not chose his staff in Oakland.

My hope is they don't deviate to much from what is already on the field. Haslam made it known before Pettine was hired the type of team he wants.

Excited we got our 1st choice this go around, and SHOCKED that Hue went with the Browns when he had other opportunities (SF,Giants). To be honest, they seem to have a plan and are doing a nice job with the hires so far this time (at least on paper).

Maybe the blind squirrel has found his/her proverbial nut...lol.

I get that sentiment, but we also need to be able to see growth and progress...

Mike Pettine got two years, and in both seasons he was dead last against the run. You can talk about the Johnny stuff, and some of these botched games, but when you come in as a defensive guy and talk about bloodying your nose and all that other garbage, you can't be dead last against the run. You aren't ready to coach at this level when you're last against the rush.

I think Hue is the right guy. He was my wish for the hiring. There are no guarantees in the NFL. We still need players. This guy is very well respected around the league. He's good with quarterbacks. There seems to be a theory that he will get a big say in this draft pick at 2, especially if it will be quarterback..

I love that he has been in this division before.

This is another good step for the Browns. I hope he can survive the first two years. Ray Farmer left quite a mess with this roster. He's going to have quite the challenge to start off.

I really hope he's going to push these guys in training camp. That question needs to be brought up in his presser.

This is a good hire. If we can bring good players, I think this guy can pull this franchise out of this shallow grave they have been in.

Still a lot of work to go but another positve step today.

well 4 of the 5 have played in about any scheme so should not matter much. this hire might get JT to not ask for trade. might even keep mack here....

A coach that a lot of other coaches and players around the league respect. I think this was a great hire.

I like this hire also. He seems to know what he is doing as evident in his time with the Bengals and he had some success with a not very good Raiders team. That he wants to move on from JM is good too so we can end all that drama and nonsense. Hope he changes to a 4-3 and hires a good solid D coach. With these changes and a good draft and FA signings maybe we ca get 4 or 5 more wins next year.

Or this scenario, Bosa at #2 and Hogan the QB from Stanford at #32.

Hogan is horrible.

Hope this also means we go all in for Leonard Fournette next year too lol

Just throwing ideas out, would love to see Bosa in a browns uni especially if the defense is a 4-3.

As for the hire itself, I'll reserve judgement at least until the coordinators are in place, but I will say that this is a very not crappy hire. The guy was a great coordinator, relatable to players and is still very demanding and has some positive head coaching experience. A lot to like so far.

Some positivity is a most welcome thing...

I don't know what type of line scheme the Bengals ran. They actually have a very similar talent situation as us (a very talented group of guys that have played together for a little while now). I am really interested in how our big fellas are going to be affected by his offense.

I mentioned this before, but look at the stats his raiders had offensively and look at the crap he had to work with.

The Bengals going off memory alone, ran very little zone stretch and was primarily an inline man up blocking scheme. Now when Hue was with the Ravens they ran a lot more zone stretch it wide scheme, very similar to what we did under Shanny. The Raiders were similar to Bengals in more of man up in line scheme.

Bone, you just can't listen to the doom and gloom crowd, nor can you listen to the Rah Rah crowd.

This looks fine on paper but paper don't mean much. I am so numb after all the changes over the years that just letting it play out sounds like the smart thing to do.

Well Daman I am very happy with the hire but worry about what we have in place above thehead coach. It appears to be set up for failure but we will see. Hue was a good start.

Crow should like that, he wasn't to shabby in the first half the season last year.

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You like the hire, but don't like the guys that thought to and succeeded in hiring him? I'd think you'd start to warm up to the lead dogs LOL

Similar situation was set up for Chud lol Then they traded the guy we spent the offseason building our O around lol.

Kinda like a restaurant manager hiring a great chef then telling him how to make dinner lol.

Report: Browns Players Ecstatic About Hue Jackson; Could it Encourage Joe Thomas & Alex Mack to Stick Around?

he Cleveland Browns are trending upward again! After the 2015 season ended for the Browns, several players were uncertain about their future with the club. In particular, LT Joe Thomas hinted that if the team hired a certain type of coach, he might ask to be traded. With the news that they are hiring Hue Jackson, arguably the most attractive head coaching candidate on the market, as their head coach has already sent positive waves through the locker room, according to former Browns.com writer Kevin Jones:



That should mean that Thomas is staying put, unless Sashi Brown, the Executive VP of Football Operations, wants to acquire high draft picks in exchange for him this offseason. We'll put that discussion on the backburned for now, though, and start turning our attention to another player: C Alex Mack.

Mack can opt out of his contract this offseason, due to the unique agreement the Browns had to match a couple of years ago. Last week, Brent Sobleski of Bleacher Report heard that Mack was still undecided about what he was going to do:



The acquisition of Jackson might lead Mack to believe that Cleveland could legitimately turn things around over the final three years of his contract. On top of that, former Browns lineman Jason Pinkston tweeted last season that there was no way Mack would leave the Browns to separate from Thomas, his long-time partner-in-crime now.

Additionally, I'm not sure how much financial sense it makes for Mack to opt out. If he sticks with his current contract, his $8 million salary in 2016 becomes fully guaranteed on April 5, 2016. He is set to make $8 million in 2017 and $8 million in 2018, in which each year includes up to $2 million guaranteed if he remains on the roster at a certain point. And, with the Browns not really having a good reason to move on from a Pro Bowl center, Mack might as well view that money as being as-good-as-guaranteed. He's already the fourth-highest paid center on average in the NFL, so we're talking peanuts if he tries to get more money elsewhere.

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I forgot all about him! He's a moose when he puts the effort in...I remember when he first got paid though he slacked off...and I think he had a back injury at one time? Being that big always scares me...But you are on to something as I remember Cincy double dipped at supremely athele LTs in the draft last year in Jake Fisher and that other tackle from A&M with the hard pronunciation... They may have those guys for insurance with Smith possibly leaving and Andrew With getting old

These are the reasons Hue Jackson was the best coaching hire the Cleveland Browns could hope for

CLEVELAND - The naming of Hue Jackson as head coach was a bulls-eye hire by the Cleveland Browns because …

1. He was their first choice and it was imperative for owner Jimmy Haslam to prove he could close a deal and bring home his first choice.

Jackson is the third head coach hired by Haslam since the truck-stop magnate purchased the Browns for $1.005 billion in 2012.

His previous head coach hires, Rob Chudzinski and Mike Pettine, were way down his list and were hired only after several others rebuffed Haslam.

2. He is a proven offensive coordinator and has experience as an NFL head coach.

Jackson would be a qualified candidate just based on his resume as an offensive assistant coach. But we’ve seen so many NFL coordinators on either side of the ball crumble under the myriad responsibilities inherent in the office of head coach. Jackson showed the ability to handle them in a one-year stint as Oakland Raiders head coach in 2011.

It was a typically trying year for a first-year coach – legendary owner Al Davis died during the season, throwing the Raiders’ organization into a combination of grief and chaos, and Jackson lost his starting quarterback in the sixth game with a season-ending injury. And Jackson steered the Raiders to 8-8, their best record in eight seasons prior and matching their best season in the five seasons since.

3. He has a proven record developing quarterbacks.

Jackson was Raiders offensive coordinator in 2010 and took over as head coach in 2011. Over those seasons, he had Jason Campbell performing the best of his career until a shoulder injury sidelined him. Before that, Campbell was Baltimore Ravens quarterbacks coach the first two seasons of Joe Flacco’s career. And as Bengals offensive coordinator the past two season, Jackson oversaw the development of Andy Dalton.

Jackson immediately becomes the authoritative voice on the quarterback position in the Browns organization at a time the franchise is in position, with the second pick in the 2016 draft, to finally forge a meaningful partnership between head coach and quarterback from the outset of each’s career with the Browns.

4. He has real knowledge of the AFC North division.

As an assistant coach with the Ravens and Bengals, Jackson has nine years experience plotting how to defeat the Browns’ rivals. In those nine years, Jackson’s teams reached the postseason seven times.

5. He subtracts a key coach from a division rival.

Jackson’s hire forces Bengals coach Marvin Lewis to replace his offensive coordinator for the second time in four years.

He promoted Jackson in 2014 after Jay Gruden left to be head coach of the Washington Redskins. Jackson’s took over seamlessly at that time. The transition might not be as easy for the Bengals this time around.

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I wouldn't mind Hogan in round #4...surely not round 2 though huge reaching...Bosa at #2 sounds ideal...at #32 I love Calhoun from Michigan state if he's there (however he may be more 3-4 blended) but at #32 definitely a WR would be fun...perhaps Boyd if he runs well...or whomever is around that isn't a dwarf

Google "Hue Jackson" and "Bootyskin." It's his nickname.

Browns name Hue Jackson head coach
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Former Cincinnati offensive coordinator becomes team’s 16th full-time head coach

Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam on Wednesday named Hue Jackson, a 29-year coaching veteran with 15 years of NFL experience, as the team’s 16th head coach.
Jackson, 50, comes to Cleveland after four seasons as an assistant coach with the Cincinnati Bengals, the final two of which as offensive coordinator of one of the league’s most productive, balanced units.
“It’s very exciting for us to name Hue Jackson as the head coach of the Cleveland Browns,” Jimmy Haslam said. “He embodies all the qualities that will provide strong leadership for our football team. He is highly experienced, deeply passionate about winning, and relentless in trying to find ways to put his players in the best position to succeed. He possesses that unique ability to reach the entire locker room in a way that demands accountability while getting the buy-in and team-first mentality that leads to positive results. I think our players will love playing for him. Dee and I warmly welcome Hue and his family to Cleveland.”
Jackson is set to land in Cleveland later this afternoon and will meet with reporters at 6:30 p.m. inside the media center at the team’s facility in Berea.
“What a tremendous honor and privilege to be the head coach of the Cleveland Browns and a part of the Dawg Pound,” Jackson said. “I’m so looking forward to it and have so many people to thank. Obviously Jimmy and Dee Haslam for this opportunity, going through the process of meeting Sashi Brown and Paul DePodesta. What an exciting time to have an opportunity to work with people like that.”
RELATED: 5 things to know about Jackson
Jackson interviewed with the Browns’ search committee Sunday after the Bengals’ AFC Wild Card loss to Pittsburgh and again Tuesday in Cincinnati. He was the seventh of seven candidates to interview for the position over a five-day stretch.
“We shared a lot of ideas between each other. We shared a vision for the organization and what we want to accomplish,” Jackson said. “At the end of the day, we have some very real goals we want to attain and we understand it’s going to take a lot of hard work to do that.”
Jackson’s had his hands on many aspects of the Bengals’ last four seasons, which all ended with at least 10 wins and trips to the playoffs. He started on the defensive side of the ball as a secondary/assistant special teams coach -- his first such assignment since he began his coaching career in 1987. He switched to the area where he’s coached most -- running backs -- in 2013 before taking over in 2014 for Jay Gruden, who left to become head coach of the Washington Redskins.
The Bengals went from 15th in scoring offense in 2014 to seventh this season thanks largely to the improved quarterback play of Andy Dalton, who set a career high and franchise record with a 106.3 rating, which led the AFC and was second in the NFL. After losing Dalton to injury in Week 14, Jackson guided quarterback AJ McCarron to a 2-1 record in the final three games of the season, as the Bengals clinched the AFC North title, their second of the past four seasons. The Cincinnati running game produced two 700-yard rushers in Jeremy Hill (794) and Giovani Bernard (730) for the first time since 1988. Tight end Tyler Eifert experienced a breakout season after hauling in 13 touchdown receptions, the most by a Bengals tight end in franchise history and the most by a Cincinnati player since 2001. Wide receiver A.J. Green added 10 receiving touchdowns on 86 receptions for 1,297 yards. Eifert, Green and offensive tackle Andrew Whitworth were selected to the Pro Bowl.
In Jackson’s first year as offensive coordinator for Cincinnati, the run game posted its highest yards per game average (134.1) since 2000. Dalton passed for 3,398 yards, Green totaled 1,041 receiving yards and Hill rushed for 1,124 yards as a rookie.
“Hue Jackson will be a tremendous leader for our football team,” said Sashi Brown, executive vice president of football operations. “He has vast knowledge and expertise, invaluable head coaching experience, and his players have thrived under his tutelage. His track record of relating to players as people off the field while also getting the most out of them on the field will help us establish a culture of accountability and the expectation of winning. Hue understands and embraces the collaborative work that needs to be done to positively impact our results on the field. He will be a terrific partner in our efforts to build a winning football team.”
In his one season as head coach of the Oakland Raiders in 2011, Jackson went 8-8 and finished in a tie for first in the AFC West. The Raiders missed out on the postseason because they were on the wrong side of a tiebreaker with the Denver Broncos but notched their best record since 2002. The Raiders ranked ninth in the NFL in total offense and seventh in rushing offense despite a midseason injury to quarterback Jason Campbell.
Jackson has been an offensive coordinator at six different spots, four in the NFL -- Cincinnati (2014-15), Atlanta (2007), Washington (2003), Oakland (2010), USC (1997-2000) and Cal-Berkeley (1996). A quarterback in his playing days who served as a dual-threat option for Pacific University in 1985 and 1986, Jackson has worked mostly with quarterbacks, running backs and wide receivers during his 29 years of coaching.
Jackson spent 14 years at the college level, going from a graduate assistant at Pacific all the way to offensive coordinator at USC, before receiving his first shot at the NFL. Jackson survived a coaching change between 2001 and 2002, working under Marty Schottenheimer for the first season and Steve Spurrier for the second. Marvin Lewis, Cincinnati’s longtime head coach, was the defensive coordinator on the 2002 squad. Lewis left to become Cincinnati’s head coach in 2003, the same year Jackson was promoted to offensive coordinator.
Lewis first hired Jackson in 2004 following Spurrier’s resignation to coach wide receivers, a spot he occupied through the 2006 season. Before joining the Raiders in 2010, Jackson spent two seasons (2008-09) as quarterbacks coach for Baltimore, helping the Ravens advance to the playoffs both years. He was vital in the development of Joe Flacco, who was named NFL Rookie of the Year in 2008 and became the first rookie quarterback to win two playoff games.
“I’m a very enthusiastic person. I exert a lot of energy in coaching,” Jackson said. “I love coaching all aspects of it: offense, defense and special teams. I’ve had an opportunity to be involved in all of it. At the end of the day, we’re going to do a great job of hiring a great staff.
“I think what our fans will be proud of and excited about is we’re going to be a football team that’s going to play very excited football. We’re going to be passionate about what we do and we understand there’s a lot of work involved in order to meet our goals.”
Bio Blast
Hue Jackson
Age: 50
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
College: University of Pacific
NFL experience: 15 years
2016-present: Cleveland Browns (head coach)
2014-2015: Cincinnati Bengals (offensive coordinator)
2013: Cincinnati Bengals (running backs coach)
2012: Cincinnati Bengals (secondary/assistant special teams coach)
2011: Oakland Raiders (head coach)
2010: Oakland Raiders (offensive coordinator)
2008-09: Baltimore Ravens (quarterbacks coach)
2007: Atlanta Falcons (offensive coordinator)
2004-06: Cincinnati Bengals (wide receivers coach)
2003: Washington Redskins (offensive coordinator)
2001-02: Washington Redskins (running backs coach)
1997-2000: University of Southern California (offensive coordinator)
1996: University of California-Berkeley (offensive coordinator)
1995: Arizona State (quarterbacks coach)
1992-94: Arizona State (running backs coach)
1990-91: Cal-State Fullerton (running backs/special teams coach)
1989: University of Pacific (running backs/special teams coach)
1988: University of Pacific (wide receivers/special teams coach)
1987: University of Pacific (graduate assistant)

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Its obvious JACKSON sucks as a HC because no good coach would take this job.

great we got a coach no one else wanted.

Just another yes man Haslam

Introductory Press Conference will be at 6:30, just in case anyone missed that fact.

Not knowing who the D coordinator will be I ask this about Paul Kruger. Washed up or mishandled since his arrival?

I think they need a system to unleash the guy if he's in the plans.

Was that suppose to be in purple or.......?

Still trying to figure out what exactly Pettine wanted out of him..

I believe he can play. I don't believe he is a grade A pass rusher. He could be a nightmare if you have another guy on your defense that teams have to worry about.

I hope we hang on to him.

Before this year, I recall Kruger being the best all around LB we had. Just kind of solid in all facets. Granted, he was brought in and paid to be a sack demon, which I think is where all the negativity on him comes from.

Is he overpaid? Yes.
Should we dump him? No.

A certain kid from Ohio State maybe?

Goff is from California and plays QB.

Bosa at #2, I want him desperately. Not because he's from OSU, either. I never care what college a guy is from if he can play. I think Bosa will be an animal in the NFL. If they had Bosa and Kruger lined up on the same side, they'd be a terror for opposing offenses. Opponents would have to choose one or the other.

Just did some quick looking.

Two names that Hue Jackson has worked with in the past.
Al Saunders - Raiders and Ravens. Hired by Dan Campbell as Offense assistant in Miami.
Wilbert Montgomery- Currently on our coaching roster. Worked together in Baltimore.