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- Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam responded in a big way following Hue Jackson alleging the team offered to pay him to purposefully lose games.
- Haslam did not hold back in his message to the former Browns’ coach.
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Hue Jackson wasted no time in inserting himself into the middle of the Brian Flores lawsuit situation.
After Flores alleged that he was offered $100,000 to purposefully lose games by Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Rosee, Jackson jumped on Twitter and insinuated that he too was offered money by Browns’ owner Jimmy Haslam to purposefully lose games during his time in Cleveland.
Haslam has since made it very clear that he doesn’t appreciate Jackson’s allegations nor the fact that he’s now in the middle of the Flores situation.
The Browns owner responded to Jackson during an interview with Knox News and absolutely torched the former head coach who owns an 11-44-1 record in the NFL.
“Hue Jackson has never ever accepted any responsibility for our record during that time period,” Haslam explained. “He’s been masterful at pointing fingers but has never accepted any blame. I have accepted a ton of blame, and rightfully so.
“There are a lot of things I could’ve done better. Hue has never accepted blame for one thing.”
Jimmy Haslam Says Hue Jackson Was Never Paid To Lose
Haslam was not finished burying Jackson. He made it clear that he never paid Jackson to lose games before piling on even more.
“Unequivocally, Hue Jackson was never paid to lose games,” Haslam said. “That is an absolute falsehood.”
“I can’t think of any individual that I’ve worked with over the past 45 years that I spent as much time trying to help be successful as I did Hue Jackson,” Haslam said. “His third year, when our roster began to pretty dramatically improve, the eight games he coached we were 2-5-1. After Hue was dismissed, we went 5-3.”
It’s easy to trash-talk Jackson given the fact that he went 3-36-1 as the Browns’ head coach, but this is next-level stuff out of Haslam.
Jackson is used to losing and he’s certainly losing this battle with Haslam at the moment.