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Why Hue Jackson had to go, and 13 options to coach Baker next

When you have a new baby napping in the house, and your two older children are fighting over a toy and the fight gets so loud you worry they're going to wake up the baby, you don't pick which one of them gets to have the toy. You take it away from both of them.

In the case of the Cleveland Browns, the sleeping baby is Baker Mayfield, the two older children are Hue Jackson and Todd Haley and the toy is the two coaches' jobs.

So it was that on Monday, the Browns resolved a petty power struggle between head coach Jackson and offensive coordinator Haley by firing both men in an effort to quiet things down around Mayfield, in whose success the Browns are far more invested than they ever were in either coach.