Browns head coach Hue Jackson is a media member’s dream.

 

This man is as quotable as he is kind and respectful. He will talk about any subject, any time.

 

That is, unless his boss tells him not to do so.

 

That appeared to be the case Monday during Jackson’s press conference as the Browns returned from their bye and began getting ready for Sunday’s game against the Detroit Lions at Ford Field.

 

Presumably on orders from Browns owner Jimmy Haslam, Jackson wasn’t going to talk about any of the wild events of last week, or about Executive Vice President of Football Operations Sashi Brown’s presser earlier in the day.

 

Instead, he talked football, and only football. No drama. None at all.

 

Here are his opening comments, which were so un-Jackson-like that you had to hear them to believe them: “Let me first start this off, I know Sashi addressed you guys earlier today so I am going to leave that at that. I am not going to take any questions about anything that happened here last week. You may try. I am not going to answer, I am going to be very honest with you.

 

“What I want to talk about is our football team. We have eight games left to play. Myself and our coaching staff, we came here to win, and we are all accountable to getting that done, trying to win. That is what my focus is and what my staff’s focus is – let’s go find a way to win a game this week. We are playing Detroit, and that is what is the most important thing. I think the bye week was good for our players. They had a chance to get away and really think through the things that we need to do to get better. I think for the coaching staff, it was good to go through everything. We went through everything from A-Z, offensively, defensively and special teams.

 

“There are some things we have to do better as a coaching staff. There are some things we have to do better as players. We get it. We know what our record is and we own it, but what we are going to try to do is finish this thing off the right way starting in Detroit next week. Huge game for us. I think our players are excited. They were in the building, very excited about being back and we are looking forward to playing.”

 

And we were looking forward to hearing Hue continue his little jabs at Sashi, but Jimmy apparently put a stop to that – at least for now.