Cleveland Browns News: David Njoku dishes on Hue Jackson
By Randy Gurzi
The Daily Dawg Tags bring you all the Cleveland Browns news you need to know, including David Njoku opening up about former head coach Hue Jackson
On Tuesday, Cleveland Browns tight end David Njoku appeared on the Rich Eisen show and discussed the coming season. He said the team is stacked on both sides and also set a lofty goal for himself — 20 touchdowns.
To be fair, Njoku was laughing when he said the number and did say he doesn’t measure success merely by statistics. Then, he started talking about the past which brought up former head coach Hue Jackson.
Jackson didn’t seem to make many friends in Cleveland and it doesn’t sound like Njoku was one either. The third-year tight end said that the team felt disrespected by Jackson who went on a media tour after being fired and blamed everyone but himself for his 3-36-1 record.
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"“We came together after Hue left,” Njoku said, “and took it upon ourselves to work extra hard to finish the year off strong.”“Baker has a voice, as we all do, and he didn’t appreciate what happened,” Njoku said. “It’s not like we’re robots. We felt, in a way, disrespected.”"
Jackson made enough friends in the media that he was able to go and share his opinion for the world to hear but the players got backlash when they responded. The truth is, Jackson continually undermined players and pointed fingers. It’s hard to see how they could have felt anything other than disrespect from him.
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