In an interview with Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com, former Browns coach Hue Jackson spoke on his departure from the team, the rumors of conflict between himself and ex-offensive coordinator Todd Haley and how he thinks he could have finished out his tenure in Cleveland a bit differently again.
Jackson said he was "surprised" when owner Jimmy Haslam and general manager John Dorsey both came into his office to fire him after the Browns' 33-18 loss to the Steelers. But he said he was not "totally blindsided" by the decision "because there was just so much noise out there about what was going on with our football team that I thought was not true.