Browns head coach Hue Jackson is a great interview.

 

Why?

 

Because he doesn’t use coach-speak, and he’s honest. In addition, he’s a really nice guy – a positive guy — who refuses to throw anyone under the bus.

 

With that, then, his comments provide great insight into his team, and what he really, truly thinks about it.

 

There was no better example of that than the beginning of his daily press conference on Wednesday. He was asked, in essence, “What part of the game does (rookie quarterback) DeShone Kizer need to work on the most?”

 

“Just the National Football League game,” Jackson said. “We are in situational things right now. There is still so much for him to learn, to see and to experience, but obviously, he is doing some good things. as they all are.

 

 

“He is working at it. He has to just stay to the grind every day. It is hard. These guys (veteran Browns quarterbacks such as Cody Kessler and Brock Osweiler) have been through it. Their bodies are different. The environment is different. You get a day off and you come back. It is just the process for them. They just have to work through the process.”

 

 

This is what I – and many, many others – have said about the Browns quarterback derby, which will be on full view Friday evening when the annual Orange and Brown Scrimmage is held at FirstEnergy Stadium.

 

 

And it is that while Kizer will start games this season — a lot of games, actually, because the Browns have to see what they have in him so they will know if they need to go back into the NFL Draft in 2018 and use one of their five picks in the first two rounds to get another quarterback – he will not start the regular-season opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

 

 

He won’t be ready – no rookie is really ready. He needs time to stand on the sideline, watch and learn.

 

 

By putting him in too early, the Browns run the risk of ruining him.

 

 

Only if Kessler, the presumed opening day starter, is playing lights out, and/or the Browns are playing lights out, the chances of which are extremely minute, would Kizer not be inserted at some point this season.