This is not hard to figure out.
Hue Jackson didn't win enough in Cleveland. Last year, he didn't win at all. Add it all up and the Cleveland Browns are now looking for a new head coach.
Three years ago, Jackson walked into Berea amid hugs and a standing ovation when he was named as the new coach. It seemed he was the Messiah that the Browns and the Haslams, in particular, were looking for.
He was the hottest coordinator in the game, leading the Bengals offense to big numbers. Too often, the Browns had a box seat for the fireworks that would happen twice a year against them.
The 49ers wanted Hue. The Giants wanted a chance to interview him.
Yet, the Haslams convinced Jackson to take on the wreck that was the Cleveland Browns, the once-proud franchise stuck at the bottom of the NFL.
Jackson walked into a mess. At the time of his hiring, the Browns were going rogue by picking their team with the use of charts, graphs, and analytics. And while the guys working the numbers had high SAT scores, they had no practical football experience.
So after the Browns traded away Hue's chance to coach Carson Wentz to the Eagles for more draft picks, Jackson hitched his wagon to Robert Griffin III. It was a disaster. RG3 cracked his shoulder, forcing Jackson to play Cody Kessler, who had no business being in the NFL. That season ended with just one win, a Christmas Eve thriller over the Chargers.
Was it a sign of good things to come? No
2017 was historically bad. Three young quarterbacks would run Hue's offense, none of them had ever won a game in the NFL. And they never would. The Browns went 0-16 in Jackson's second year as they again found themselves at the absolute bottom of the league, while Hue found himself at the bottom of Lake Erie.
Enter John Dorsey. Finally, there was some football savvy in Berea. A better roster, a great draft, but the Browns still struggled to win.
In the end, that's all that matters.
Hue Jackson is a player's coach who was given more than enough time by the Haslams. This wasn't their fault.
The great Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells always said, 'You are what your record is.'
That record of 3-36-1 is what ended Hue Jackson as the head coach of the Cleveland Browns.