Let’s see if I’ve got this straight.

The Tennessee Titans fired their head coach, Mike Mularkey, after he guided them to the second round of the AFC playoffs this year.

The Detroit Lions fired head coach Jim Caldwell, who guided them to the NFC playoffs in 2016, and ’14, and nearly got them there again this year.

The New York Giants fired head coach Ben McAdoo after just two seasons, the first of which they went 11-5 and made the playoffs.

The Oakland Raiders fired Jack Del Rio after just three seasons, the second of which he took them to a 12-4 mark and the AFC playoffs.

Mike Tomlin, the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, isn’t going to get fired, but he’s being heavily criticized and is on a hotter seat after his team was exceptional again in the regular season but couldn’t get to the Super Bowl.

All that is going on around the NFL, and yet here’s Hue Jackson, who is 1-31 in two seasons, including 0-16 this year, holding on to his job as head coach of the Browns.

Hmmm.

How can that be?

Good question.

It’s one being asked again and again and again, and it’s only mid-January.

How much more will it be asked during training camp in August?

Probably more times that we can count.

The Browns are taking a huge, huge gamble. They’re betting on Jackson when no one else is, and if they’re right – if the Browns do a dramatic turnaround in 2018 – then owner Jimmy Haslam and General Manager John Dorsey will look like geniuses. They’ll be able to laugh at everyone.

But if the losing continues and the Browns get off to an 0-5 start, then it will be an unmitigated disaster and the criticism that Haslam and Dorsey are getting now will pale in comparison to what they’ll get.

And oh, yes, everyone will be laughing at them.

Wow! Talk about a high-risk, high-reward move.