A couple of days ago, you read a piece in this space about the Browns – and especially head coach Hue Jackson — needing to be careful because there is a tremendous lack of patience among the owners in the NFL.
A bad season or two is a bad thing.
And 0-12 is a very bad season, particularly for starters. It can’t continue. That is, it can’t be like this in 2017. It just can’t. Or else.
That’s all well and good – it is, as we all know, the truth – but there’s another side to this story.
Part of the piece the other day was about head coach Marvin Lewis, whose Cincinnati Bengals have never won a playoff game in his first 13 years on the job and are struggling mightily this season, which means that infamous streak will likely reach 14.
The Bengals’ precipitous fall this season – they’re on track to have their worst record since 2010, and one of the worst ever in the Lewis era – coincides with several things, perhaps the biggest of which is the fact Jackson is no longer with that team after serving as a Cincinnati assistant for the previous four seasons, including the last two as the offensive coordinator.
Hmmmm. Hue leaves, and the Bengals, who, by the way, visit FirstEnergy Stadium next Sunday as the Browns resume play, sink like the Titanic, especially offensively?
So, then, perhaps in Hue Jackson, the expansion-era Browns – finally — have hired a great head coach, who, because of this historic rebuilding effort, is suffering through a horrific season that no one, absolutely no one, could have saved.
Yes, there are two sides to every story.
