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Cleveland Browns' Hue Jackson shares mutual respect with Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Zimmer
Cleveland Browns coach Hue Jackson and Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Zimmer share a mutual respect from their days as assistants with the Cincinnati Bengals.
Author: Matthew Florjancic
Published: 2:13 PM EDT October 27, 2017
Updated: 2:13 PM EDT October 27, 2017

CLEVELAND -- The bonds formed on a football field are hard to break, and that is not limited to just the players.

Cleveland Browns coach Hue Jackson and Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Zimmer were coordinators together with the Cincinnati Bengals, and the respect runs deep between the two men as they prepare to face off at Twickenham Stadium in London Sunday as part of the 2017 NFL International Series.

“Mike, he is one of my really close friends and I have a lot of respect for him,” Jackson said. “He is one of the best football coaches in pro football in my opinion because he can get guys to play and they played hard. He has a vision for his football team and the way they play on defense is Mike Zimmer style.

“They are really talented, really good football team. I appreciate the things that he says, but I think he knows me extremely well. I don’t like being in the situation I am in and I want to do something about it as fast as I can and we will. We are just not there yet, but we will get there.”
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Zimmer left the Bengals to take over the Vikings ahead of the 2014 season, while Jackson stayed in Cincinnati for another two years before taking the job with the Browns in January of 2016. Despite not sharing the same sideline for four years, the two have remained integral parts of each other’s support systems.

“Hue and I are really close,” Zimmer said in a conference call with the Cleveland media Wednesday. “We have been in the same room a lot of times and been together. He went to my daughter’s wedding. When we are in the same town, we always end up seeing each other.”

For the second consecutive year, the Browns find themselves at 0-7 and firmly in last place in the AFC North Division through the first seven weeks of the season.

Despite the Browns’ struggles over the past two seasons, Zimmer feels Jackson is the man who can turn around the fortunes of a franchise with just two winning seasons (2002, 2007) and one playoff appearance (2002) since returning to the National Football League in 1999.

“Hue is a heck of a football coach,” Zimmer said. “He is tough. He is smart. He is a great competitor.”

Including the 0-7 start to the 2017 season, the Browns are 1-22 since Sashi Brown took over as executive vice president of player personnel on January 3, 2016 and Jackson was hired eight days later.

Over the last three years, the Browns have gone 4-35, and the record has not been much better since Dee and Jimmy Haslam officially purchased the team in October of 2012.

In five seasons under Haslam’s majority ownership, the Browns have posted an NFL-worst 15-56 record. Factoring in the remaining games of the 2012 season after the sale was approved at an NFL Owners Meeting in Chicago, Haslam’s Browns have gone 19-61.

“I know that it is taking him a little bit longer than what he has anticipated, but he is going to get that thing turned around,” Zimmer said. “That is the kind of guy he is. He will never stop or relax until he gets it all right. Really, they are not that far away. They are really good on defense, and they just turn the ball over offensively.”

https://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/nfl/...er/95-486605100

Let's trade. I will post a positive quote from an NFL person and you will then post a negative quote from an NFL person. Let's see who runs out first. Okay? And I am not talking about reporters. I am talking about coaches and players. I'll go first.

Give me a break. You guys have slayed Hue for over a year. You have belittled anyone who said to give him a chance. The phrase "Hue Honks" became popular. Honks is another word for "blow." How freaking despicable are some of you. Supporting Hue does not mean you want to "honk" him. And furthermore, it's insulting to anyone who is a homosexual. But, that's how you guys roll.

Dude, you are in the mental health field and you are one of the meanest people I've ever come across on this board. That says a lot.

Around the NFL




Joe Thomas defends Browns retaining Hue Jackson





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By Jeremy Bergman
Around The NFL Writer
Published: Jan. 24, 2018 at 08:15 a.m.
Updated: March 29, 2018 at 08:58 p.m.

Despite winning just one game in two seasons at the helm, Hue Jackson officially has the support of Cleveland Browns players.

So says Joe Thomas in a Sports Illustrated op-ed, in which the All-Pro tackle details why Jackson, who was retained by owner Jimmy Haslam following only the second 0-16 season in NFL history, is not fully to blame for Cleveland's mega-woes and deserves a third shot.

"I'm more excited about the team's direction than I've ever been before in Cleveland," Thomas wrote, "because many people in the building understand what it means to truly tear down a football team and start over."

Thomas asserted that Jackson, upon being hired by a Cleveland experimental brain trust fronted by Sashi Brown and Paul DePodesta, had "no understanding that management was going to trade all their good players and current draft picks for future picks." The tackle explained that it's hard to blame Jackson for their dismal performance "when everyone in the building knew the front office put us in the best position to lose."

"In spite of playing with half a deck of cards," Thomas suggested, "Hue kept the team together, kept the players focused, kept the coaches motivated and continued to develop players through two of the worst seasons ever. I don't think many coaches could do that."
Thomas, who missed nine games this season and who has admitted his future in football is up in the air, had a front-row seat to Jackson's coaching performance, so it's hard not to take him at his word when he says that "this team fought to the end," despite their anemic record suggesting otherwise. The future Hall of Famer anticipated that criticism as well, adding, "As a player who's been around more coaches and GMs than most players and seen different ways of operation, I can look beyond the record."

Turnover in Cleveland seems to come every offseason, and this one was no different. Brown was axed, in favor of former Chiefs GM John Dorsey, who hired Packers executives Eliot Wolf and Alonzo Highsmith to help transport Green Bay's winning culture eastward. The Browns hired former Steelers offensive coordinator Todd Haley to take play-calling duties away from Jackson and former Bengals OC Ken Zampese to come on as QB coach. With two picks in the first four in the upcoming draft, there is expected to be upheaval at the QB position too, with Sam Darnold, Josh Rosen or "insert prospect-of-the-month" usurping DeShone Kizer as Cleveland's starter next season.

Amidst all that, the head coach has stayed put. Jackson, in starting 2018 as Cleveland's H.B.C., will be the first Browns coach to enter a third season at the helm since Romeo Crennel (2005-08); there were four other coaches in between Crennel and Jackson (see if you can name them). That's the type of consistency Cleveland has been lacking at the head coaching position, and the type of consistency Thomas can't wait to see reflected in the Browns' play next season.

"And now we get to the fun part," Thomas concluded. "We got rid of everybody we had that was really good for two years because we knew that we would be ahead of all the other teams in year three or four. We have more than $100 million in cap space; we could sign three Kirk Cousins if we wanted to. We could legitimately add three Hall of Fame players in free agency if they're out there. We have an upcoming No. 1 pick who could transform the roster by himself. You throw an experienced quarterback in the mix and there's nothing that says the Browns can't make the playoffs next year."

You did not provide one quote that supported your opinion. Please do so or just back off. I won't pursue it. Just back off. If you don't..........we're going to go. Got it?

You really just made a jump from Honk to blow to insulting homosexuals? Reach much?

You jump down the throat of anyone who says a bad thing about Hue, and at this point are jumping from thread to thread arguing or posting insults at people.

Harbaugh credited Browns Coach Hue Jackson with Flacco’s early career development, as Cleveland’s leader was Baltimore’s quarterbacks coach during the 2008 and 2009 seasons.

“Hue did a great job,” Harbaugh said. “Joe was the third-team quarterback going into training camp and ended up being the guy and did a great job. I think a lot of that had to do with the job that Hue did. Hue was just tremendous.

“A detail coach, tough, had a great relationship with Joe, a great relationship with the guys and with Joe, and really the whole offense and helped tie the whole thing together. I just feel like that is so important to have the right guy mentoring a rookie quarterback. Whether he plays right away or he does not, a lot of that has to do with circumstances as much as anything sometimes, but Hue did a great job for us there. I will be forever grateful to him for the job he did.”

https://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/nfl/...se/95-601587586

I'm insulting people? LOL What the hell are you doing?

I still wanna see those quotes from coaches who call Hue Jackson "You" Jackson.

Here is my guess. There aren't any. I think you knew that, but decided to post that crap anyway, because it furthered your position.

Show me a quote, Cle.

Here is another one:



Y'all wanna stop this fight as a TKO, or you wanna keep takin' a whuppin?

What happens first?

- Browns Super Bowl win
- Hue Jackson gets another full-time (i.e. not interim) head coaching job in the NFL

I'd put my money on the Browns Super Bowl win and I'm not even being facetious.

Mike Brown is a thing that exists.

j/c:

I still have not seen any quotes from the coaches who called him "You" Jackson.

I'm saying that is fabricated information.

I do have more positive quotes from players and coaches about Hue, though.

Y'all wanna keep fighting or just stop talking?

Wait, let me guess........you will change the subject a bit in order to trash Hue in another way.

Let me put it to you guys this way. You won! You are awesome. You got a man fired. Congrats. Do you really feel the need to keep piling on his grave?

Here is an amazing thing...........people want to pretend that all the negative noise in the media, sport's talk radio, and social media has absolutely no influence on the decisions that Jimmy Haslam makes.

Y'all won. You got a man fired. Congrats.

You keep yapping, but you still have not provided one real quote from a coach who has called Hue......."You" Jackson.

I have a ton of quotes on reserve in addition to the one's I have already posted about the respect Hue has in this league.

Will you concede, or are you going to continue in this fruitless pursuit?

Up to you...