Hue Jackson of the Browns.

Terry Francona on the Indians.

Tyronn Lue of the Cavaliers.

I don’t know recall when I’ve felt as good about the head coaches/managers of the three major pro sports teams in Cleveland. So perhaps I’ve never felt this good.

In fact, it has been since the late 1980s, when Marty Schottenheimer was coaching the Browns and Lenny Wilkens was in charge of the Cavaliers, that I felt good at all. Though they didn’t win it all, both teams were championship contenders. And that’s what you want – it’s all you can ask for, really – to be in the running on a consistent basis, because that’s the best chance to get a title.

You have to keep banging on the door and then, when the stars are aligned in just the right way and the window of opportunity is wide open, begging you to jump through it, you have to do so.

Those Browns and Cavs teams tried to do just that, but John Elway and Michael Jordan blocked them, and wouldn’t let them pass by. So the teams got stuck in the window, with their dreams forever hanging there, flapping in the breeze.

For those who recall “The Drive,” “The Fumble” and “The Shot,” perhaps that’s what sports hell, or at least sports purgatory, feels like.

The Indians of that era were struggling, of course, as they always seemed to be back then, and by the time they were flexing their muscles in the mid- to late 1990s after Mike Hargrove arrived as manager, the Browns were gone – at least for three seasons – and the Cavs were fading away. Schottenheimer and Wilkens were long gone.

So there was no power 3, just a power 1 that got stuck in that window, too.

I truly believe that head coaches/managers are a big reason for why teams rise, fall and then stay risen or fallen. It all starts at the top, as they say, so if the top is bad, then everything – and everyone – beneath it/him is tainted as well.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again that I think Jackson is going to be a good head coach for the Browns. He’s going to get this team turned around – finally – but it is going to take some time, so the fans are going to have to be patient. You come to this site for opinions, and that is one of my stronger ones.

I liked him the moment he was hired, and my affinity for him has only grown in the time he’s been on the job. Indeed, everything changed for the organization when he arrived. The Browns became legitimate. They had to be taken seriously again.

Francona does more with less than anyone in baseball, and has ever since he came to the Indians. As long as he’s here, the team will be at least competitive no matter the talent base. And when that talent base is good, then they will contend.

No doubt about it, his agreeing to come back home was the biggest coup the Indians have had in a long, long, long time.

And with Lu, the Cavs have a much better chance to win a championship now than they did before he took over. He’s smart – he is great at calling timeouts just when they need to be called, just to name one of his strengths — and he has the players’ respect, just like Francona does and just like Jackson does even though he has been here for only several months.

Sorry, but David Blatt wasn’t that guy. That teams aren’t clamoring for him, let alone being just mildly interested in him, as a head coach now tells you all you need to know about what – how little – he brings to the table.

Head coaches/managers many times are the faces of their teams. Lu, of course, will never be that as long as LeBron James is around, but he’s an integral part of the Cavs finally coming together as a team the way it was envisioned when LeBron, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love were brought together as The Big 3.

Francona is the face of the Indians, something than Manny Acta was never going to be, and Jackson is the face of the Browns already. He really is. And that’s something that Mike Pettine was never going to be, either – not in a million years.

And Eric Mangini? Please! That wasn’t going to happen in two million years, maybe three, but most probably never, ever.

We’ll see how it all pans out over the long haul, but these teams, at least with their leadership, are, as a group, the best they’ve ever been.

And for a city that hasn’t won a major pro sports championship in 52 years, that’s a tremendously hopeful sign.