I hope you are sitting down. I hope you aren’t in the middle of taking a sip of a beverage, as the ensuing spit-take might ruin whatever computer or mobile device on which you are reading this. Because former Cleveland Browns head coach Hue Jackson feels he deserves another chance to be a head coach in the NFL and he’s not using that as the opening line to a new hilarious open mic stand-up comedy bit. He means it.
As an NFL head coach with two teams, Jackson went 11-44-1 for a winning percentage of .205. That makes him the worst head coach of the modern era and the second worst all-time, behind only Bert Bell, who coached the Philadelphia Eagles from 1936-1941. In Bell’s defense, he was building to something good, going 5-6 in 1938, when all off his good players got drafted to storm the beaches at Normandy and Iwo Jima, so he probably deserves an asterisk or two.
Hue Jackson wants another head coaching opportunity, but it doesn't seem likely that will ever happen after stints in Oakland and Cleveland https://t.co/S5RePf80tL
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) July 10, 2019
Jackson’s futility as an NFL head coach is compounded when you realize that eight of his 11 victories as a head coach came in his single season with the Oakland Raiders, in 2011. With the Browns, he went 3-36-1, including a winless 2017 that should be absolutely impossible in the modern era of the NFL.
“Oh, yeah, I mean I think I can,” Jackson told WFNZ 102.5 FM when asked if he could still lead a team. “I mean, just because the situation in Cleveland (was bad) doesn’t mean that you can’t coach. There’s a lot of great coaches who came before me that coached there and went on and did great things. Sometimes, the situation is different. I think if people dig in and really take the time to look at the overall situation there, maybe they would understand it more. At the same time, I understand what narrative gets put out there, that’s what people know. Hopefully, people will think back to the times when I’ve put myself in that position. I had to be doing something right. To go back and be a coordinator again or be a head coach, I do believe it’s in my future. I’ve just got to go work through the process and see where it goes.”
No we won’t. Any team that even adds Jackson to its staff is asking for a garbage fire.
