Cleveland Browns: Fans are so ‘Through with Hue’ they won’t even read this.

Cleveland Browns fans may be ‘through with Hue’ and it’s not all about his record, so much as it is about his character and how he leads

This is the fourth Hue Jackson-related article I’ve written for Dawg Pound Daily and I’m legitimately afraid nobody will read it.

The other three I wrote were decent enough articles (more on them in a moment), but they didn’t get nearly the views of all my non-Huey posts.

I’m talking way fewer views.

This got me wondering – are Cleveland Browns fans so angry with coach Jackson that they are literally boycotting anything with his face on it? At this point, are there even any Browns fans out there who aren’t Hue-Haters? And why is there such Modell-level bitterness towards Jackson, a man who was given the unenviable and nearly-impossible task of turning a team full of mostly rookies into winners?

Hint: it’s not about the losses.

If it were, there’d be almost as many Shofner-Shamers (Jim went 1-6 head coaching the Browns in 1990) or Shurmer-Shunners (Pat went 9-23 in 2011-12) or Mangini-Mockers (Eric went 10-22 in 2009-10) but there aren’t. It’s not even close. No, right now Browns fans despise coach Jackson for reasons that go way deeper than losing 97-percent of his games.

Hint: it’s about character.

Sure, shoddy play calling and poor game management don’t help his reputation, either, but just about every negative tweet and post I’ve read about Jackson centers around him throwing others under the bus. Sashi Brown, Isaiah Crowell, DeShone Kizer – they all got blamed in some way for the Browns’ failings by Jackson.

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Publicly. Great leaders only point the blaming finger at themselves, but for the last two dreadful seasons Browns fans have been forced to watch coach Jackson’s active it’s-their-fault-finger do its pointing everywhere but in.

And he’s not once had the sack to own it.

My article ‘Head coach Hue Jackson’s (un-)true Browns confessions’ addressed that issue head on. Well, sideways. It’s the imaginary therapy session where Jackson’s therapist calls him out on his character shortcomings. That article barely got half the post views of my other pieces, but at the time I blamed it on ‘crazy’ Browns fans being afraid to read about psychotherapy.

But my most recent Hue-centric article is equally unpopular.

‘Will Cleveland Browns head coach Jackson actually let Haley do his thing?’ might as well have been titled: ‘If you click on this article, you want Hue Jackson to be Browns head coach forever’ because its numbers have been comparatively low, low, low. And this piece even talks about how Browns general manager John Dorsey may have brought offensive coordinator Todd Haley in as an eventual Jackson replacement, something I thought Hue-Haters would appreciate talking about.

But to most Browns fans nowadays any Hue-mentioning article is just a boogie on their finger that needs to be ghosted.

Then there was the article I wrote reminding coach Jackson to jump in the lake.

Cleveland Browns: Make Saturday, April 14th ‘Jump in the Lake Day’, coach Jackson was a gentleman’s reminder to follow through on the promise Jackson made to jump in Lake Erie after going only-defeated in 2017. The views that article got were less than normal, but I just thought maybe it was because Browns fans don’t care about water sports.

Nope – it was because Browns fans don’t care for coach Jackson.

He’s being shunned like the Amish shun their meth-heads and it’s unclear how the man can find his way back home. More than half a dozen wins next season will help some, but it probably won’t be enough to heal the fans’ real wounds.

Until Jackson stands in front of the world and takes full responsibility for not taking full responsibility for the Browns’ recent woes and apologizes for blaming all those others instead, he’ll remain Dawga non grata to most Browns fans.

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Hmmm…now where could coach Jackson hold this much-needed personal accountability event?

Hint: The shores of Lake Erie are beautiful this time of year, coach.

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