A Look Inside the Dysfunction of the Cleveland Browns

[GreasySpread36]

Hue won three games in two and a half years and that hasn't stopped him from bitching to anyone who will listen about how none of it was his fault.

Whatever his other deficiencies, Todd Haley is a football coach. Hue Jackson is a politician masquerading as a football coach.

 

[Amherstcavsfan]

There's part of the 25%

So he was able to speak, directly, with Joe Banner, Ray Farmer and Hue Jackson but we expect 25% of it to be true....because?

 

[Phills14]

2 things stood out to me in the article

But the team had soured on Bridgewater after his interview dinner and workout with team brass; something about Bridgewater's handshake rubbed Haslam the wrong way, he told team executives.

So Haslam was totally cool with a confirmed alcoholic with a coke problem but Teddy's poor handshake was disqualifying?

and

Marketing executives wanted employees to see how fans were engaging with the Browns on social media, so they projected the Browns feed onto a giant wall at the facility. It was like broadcasting talk radio over the entire building, and one day in particular, it was worse than that. One of the marketing staffers entered a search for #dp -- for Dawg Pound. The problem was, that hashtag carried a few different meanings, one of which triggered an array of porn to be broadcast onto a wall for the entire office to see for more than 20 minutes, until a tech employee killed the feed.

It took them 20 minutes to cut the feed off?????

 

[Jack Brickman]

I will say it's at least encouraging that the Haslams understand they don't know everything. That at least leaves room to grow and learn. We've kind of seen the opposite with the Cavs where Gilbert just keeps making the same mistakes over and over. Haslams is at least open to new ideas, even if he's been too quick to pull the plug a few times and too late with Jackson.

 

[Selby]

It took them 20 minutes to cut the feed off?????

It takes some people longer to finish than others.

 

[shoes22]

I don't think instability is really the chief culprit -- hiring the wrong people is. I think Jimmy's excessive concern over instability was likely what led him to retain Hue after going 1-31. And it was him finally agreeing to ditch that "stability" and fire Hue midseason that turned everything around.

I don’t think the biggest culprit for the Browns dysfunction is instability OR hiring the wrong people, necessarily. It’s Haslam routinely overruling the executives he’s put in place and doesn’t listen to their input.

If 4 other execs wanted to hire Mcdermott over Hue and I’m the only dissenting opinion, I should probably trust their judgment over my own. Haslam only has himself to blame for the depths this organization has reached the last few years.

 

[AZ_]

In fairness, Sean McDermott isn't exactly lighting the world on fire in Buffalo

 

[Soda]

I'm kind-of shocked by the skeptics here. It isn't like the other franchises/owners can't see what is going on and, moreover, it's not unusual for ex-staff to share these types of experiences with people who've also done it before.

A vast majority of this stuff was reported on previously; this is the first time all of this has been chronicled in one article with excruciating detail. They even alluded to the "hush hush" situation resulting in the need for league-mandated Sexual Harassment training (looking at Scheiner). There were some new bits; I didn't know the draft room was a sponsor perk and that the team went and interviewed Presti, Epstein, etc.

 

[Norm]

It takes some people longer to finish than others.

Was gonna post something about how we got some people with stamina. That, or just a bunch of older folks with a good supply of Viagra

 

[Huber.]

So he was able to speak, directly, with Joe Banner, Ray Farmer and Hue Jackson but we expect 25% of it to be true....because?

"Sources and Sources close" wrote the vast majority of the article outside of a few quotes. It's mostly hearsay with few named sources. The type of information that normally gets laughed off but since it's Jimmy it's accepted

 

[JDailey23]

I can’t believe Baker wasn’t mentioned as “the problem”.

 

[bigfoot5415]

It takes some people longer to finish than others.

From what I heard, it was someone scrolling through the #dp comments on social media and a few things popped up. Didnt think it was extended time or anything.

 

[Jack Brickman]

I can’t believe Baker wasn’t mentioned as “the problem”.

I think most people would be smart enough to know that even trying to put out that narrative would get them laughed at.

 

[AZ_]

 

[Phil Mixtape]

I have no illusions about how trash this organization has been, and have been pretty outspoken about such. That doesn’t make every melodramatic article that comes out about said dysfunction true.

“Multiple sauces!!” Yeah, okay. Believe what you want, it’s irrelevant, doesn’t imply anything we didn’t already know about the past.

I actually didn't know about #dp, that's hilarious on so many levels, unreal.