鈥?Sashi Brown brought analytics
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losing mattered most.With the Browns not winning and still the NFL’s saddest
franchise, owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam decided it was time to make yet another
change at the top before things got any worse.Unable to produce more than one
win over two seasons, Brown was fired Thursday by the Haslams, who jettisoned
their lead football executive but chose to keep coach Hue Jackson around for
another season despite a 1-27 record.In announcing Brown’s firing, which was
expected given the team’s sorry state, Jimmy Haslam also said Jackson will
return in 2018.“I appreciate Jimmy saying that,” Jackson said following practice
as the Browns (0-12) prepared to host the Green Bay Packers on Sunday. “My focus
of coming here to the Cleveland Browns is to coach the football team and help
get this organization turned around. I haven’t been able to do that yet. That is
something that I think we all want to do 鈥?Jimmy and Dee, obviously.“Hopefully,
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are here, a year from now, hopefully, we can get this thing to where it needs to
be.”Brown positioned the Browns to be better in the future by acquiring more
draft picks, but passing on quarterbacks Carson Wentz and Deshaun Watson the
past two years and other questionable decisions with the roster sealed his
fate.“I want this to be real and clear, the way I know Cleveland and Browns fans
can appreciate: Our win-loss record since I became executive vice president
isn’t going to cut it,” Brown said in a statement released by the team. “We
embarked on a mission to rebuild the Browns for long-term, sustainable success.
We were committed and aggressive in our approach
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dramatic changes and put in place a foundation on which championships can be
built.“Obviously, the Browns have not yet achieved the turnaround we wanted for
a franchise and the best fans in the NFL, who deserve it more than any other in
sports. I know that turnaround is coming.”Hours after Brown was let go, the
Browns hired former Kansas City executive John Dorsey as their new general
manager. Dorsey, who was fired by the Chiefs in June after four seasons, was
partially credited with the club’s renaissance.The Chiefs went 43-21 under
Dorsey’s watch and made the postseason three times. He also traded for
quarterback Alex Smith in 2013, a move that accelerated Kansas City’s
turnaround.Jackson’s survival would indicate he won a power struggle over Brown,
the team’s former legal counsel who had no previous experience running a
team.The football and personnel departments have clashed over roster decisions
and the growing tensions 鈥?along with the abysmal record 鈥?gave Haslam the
impetus to make more changes despite promising continuity when the season
began.Jackson didn’t gloat about keeping his job, and he knows he isn’t absolved
blame for the Browns’ troubles.“Sashi is a good person,” Jackson said. “I have
enjoyed my time working with him. I’m not na茂ve enough to understand that could
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performance-based business, and I get it. This is all I’ve known for the last
17-18 years of my life. I do understand that that arrow is pointing directly at
myself. My goal is to move in the direction that helps this organization be the
best it can be as we move forward.”Haslam said he informed Brown “that we were
going in a new direction” and pointed to the 2018 draft, when the Browns will
have two first-round picks, as “pivotal for our franchise.”Brown’s firing didn’t
cause any uproar among Cleveland’s players, some of whom have been hardened by
the constant turnover.“I’m just trying to digest everything,” said 10-time Pro
Bowl tackle Joe Thomas, who was lost for the season with a triceps injury. “I’ve
got to think through a lot of things first before I start talking about it. I’m
not sure what the firing says about the plan. It’s hard to say if it was a plan
issue or a personal issue. I’ve been here through a lot of hirings and firings.
Some of them have definitely been more of a personal issue.”Brown was able to
build a nice nest egg for any future general manager or front office. The Browns
have two first-round picks in next year’s draft 鈥?five in the first two rounds
鈥?and the team could have as much as $100 million in salary-cap space to help it
rebuild.Brown was named the team’s top executive by the Haslams during an
overhaul following the 2015 season. He gutted Cleveland’s roster, electing not
to re-sign some of the team’s own free agents in favor of younger players and
acquiring future draft picks.However, it’s the decisions to pass on Wentz and
Watson to fix Cleveland’s decade-long problem at quarterback that will always
tarnish his resume.Brown couldn’t fix the Browns. Now, it’s someone else’s turn.
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two-time Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning.
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for 3,737 yards, 28 touchdowns and 12 interceptions in 2017. He averaged almost
340 yards and completed almost 65 percent of his passes this past season.
The pick also shows the Giants want to provide some competition for Davis
Webb, the third-round pick a year ago did not see any action last season. It
also gives the team another arm in training camp.
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