The Cleveland Browns fired coach Hue Jackson and offensive coordinator Todd Haley on Monday after a three-game losing streak derailed a promising start to the season.
The Browns also announced that defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, who is in his second season with Cleveland, will be the interim coach. Running backs coach and associate head coach Freddie Kitchens will serve as offensive coordinator. Although there was speculation that Williams' son Blake Williams could be the Browns defensive coordinator, the team said that Gregg Williams will serve in both roles.
Past Six Browns Coaches Fired
Each of the Browns' past six head coaches were fired after that season's second game against the Steelers.
FINAL GAME AS COACH | |
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Hue Jackson | Week 8, 2018 |
Mike Pettine | Week 17, 2015 |
Rob Chudzinski | Week 17, 2013 |
Pat Shurmur | Week 17, 2012 |
Eric Mangini | Week 17, 2010 |
Romeo Crennel | Week 17, 2008 |
The Browns are 2-5-1 this season, doubling the win total from Jackson's first two seasons with the team. Cleveland was 1-15 in his first season and 0-16 last season. The Browns hired John Dorsey as general manager late last season, and Dorsey kept Jackson on as coach despite the team's winless season.
Ever since he topped the 10,000 career yards rushing mark last season, LeSean McCoy set a "12K or bust" objective.
Bust was more like it for the Buffalo Bills running back on Monday night, when McCoy totaled 13 yards on 12 carries in continuing what's been a season-long struggle for the 10th year player.
"I've had bad games, but this? The flow of the season and everything is bad," McCoy said following a 25-6 loss to the New England Patriots. "I'm 30 years old. I've been playing since high school. This stuff has never happened to me. Yeah, it's tough."
McCoy, who has missed one game with a groin injury, has just 257 yards rushing through eight games. That's 20 yards more than he had in his first two games with Philadelphia in 2013, when McCoy finished with an NFL-leading 1,607 yards rushing.
What hurts even more is being part of an anemic offense that is doing very little in supporting a defense that limited Tom Brady and the Patriots to scoring four field goals through three quarters.
Klay Thompson’s incredible 3-point shooting binge Monday in Chicago broke one of Stephen Curry’s records. And Curry was thrilled to help him do it.
Atop the list of early surprises two weeks into the season is the wayward start of the team that produced the best record in the league last season, a squad expected to challenge for Western Conference supremacy despite a handful of cosmetic roster changes. Houston entered the week ranked 27th in defensive
Atop the list of early surprises two weeks into the season is the wayward start of the team that produced the best record in the league last season, a squad expected to challenge for Western Conference supremacy despite a handful of cosmetic roster changes. Houston entered the week ranked 27th in defensive
MILWAUKEE — With Giannis Antetokounmpo sidelined because of injury, Ersan Ilyasova scored a season-high 19 points to help the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Toronto Raptors 124-109 on Monday night in a showdown of the NBA’s last two undefeated teams. Milwaukee improved to 7-0 in a marquee matchup that
Both Ty Montgomery of the Packers and Todd Gurley of the Rams kept Aaron Rodgers on the sideline in the final two minutes Sunday
Ty Montgomery gets the Bonehead Award for Week 8 for keeping Aaron Rodgers on the sideline.
Todd Gurley gets the Egghead Award for Week 8 for keeping Aaron Rodgers on the sideline.
Ensuring Green Bay's clutch quarterback stayed off the field after Greg Zuerlein hit a 34-yard field goal with 2:05 left allowed the Los Angeles Rams to remain the league's only unbeaten team with a 29-27 win Sunday.
Rodgers never got a shot at his 22nd career game-winning drive because Montgomery ignored instructions to take a knee for a touchback and instead took the kickoff out of the end zone .
That was a bad move as far as clock management goes, and it quickly turned into a downright destructive decision when linebacker Ramik Wilson blew him up at the 20-yard line, jarring the ball loose and smothering it.
"That play didn't lose the game," Rodgers said, "but it took away an opportunity to win."
Moments later, Gurley, cognizant that a missed extra point would leave Green Bay within striking distance, stopped running with a clear path to the end zone , allowing the Rams to run out the clock and keep Rodgers stewing on the sideline.
"That's the situational awareness we talk about," Rams coach Sean McVay said. "Unselfishness."
Both Gurley and Montgomery had been told exactly what to do in the very situations in which they found themselves.
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