After compiling a dreadful record together with the Cleveland Browns, Hue Jackson is without an NFL gig for the 2019 season. Given his 3-36-1 record in 2 and a half seasons in Cleveland and the odd 8-8 year with the Oakland Raiders in 2011, it’d seem Jackson will be tough to convince an owner to give him a second shot.
Raiders boss and the Browns , however, told WFNZ Charlotte on Wednesday he believes he can still be a head coach.
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“Oh, yeah, I mean I believe I can,” Jackson explained, through Professional Football Chat. “I mean, just because the problem in Cleveland [did not work out] does not mean that you can not coach. There’s a lot of coaches who came before me that went on and coached there and did things. Sometimes, the situation is different. I think if folks dig in and really take some time to examine the overall situation there, maybe they’d know it more. At precisely the same time, I understand what storyline gets put out there, that is what people understand. Hopefully, folks will come back to the times once I’ve put myself in that position. I had to do something right. To go back and become a coordinator again or be a head coach, I think it is in my future. I have just got to undergo the procedure and see where it belongs .”
Jackson interviewed for the Cincinnati Bengals coaching gig this offseason and the Arizona Cardinals offensive coordinator job. He landed .
Once viewed as the prime candidate to succeed Marvin Lewis in Cincinnati, Jackson’s public reputation got ripped to shreds during his stint at Cleveland. The stench of this 0-16 year will follow him everywhere. The record is poor enough to make it hard for an owner to sell to the public. Even worse compared to three wins in Cleveland could be quarterback Baker Mayfield’s very public rebuke of Jackson’s design — something owners could take note of and weigh heavily — and the troubling back-and-forth meetings revealed during HBO’s Hard Knocks final training camp.
Yet it only takes a staff, and one owner to be certain that the circumstances had more to do with Jackson’s poor tenure than his ability to coach.
“Here’s a man who knows how to conquer,” Jackson said when asked his narrative. “There is a lot of individuals who would run from it all. I am not going to run out of it. At the end of the day, our employees and the individuals who headed Cleveland, that does not mean those coaches can not coach or they do not know what they are doing. Maybe that just was not the right match, the right situation for this group, and they simply should have the right chance to have success.”
Jackson would probably need to do heavy picture rehabilitation, beginning with landing a lower-level coaching gig for a group to even think of giving him another shot. In a league where trainers are continuously recycled, perhaps there is a chance for the 53-year-old to build back up his crippled image. It will take a lot of time, and also a huge market job to the public for it to take place. Even then, it’d be a stunner when Jackson landed a second head coaching gig in the NFL.
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