Report: Some feel Hue Jackson could end up with Bengals

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(11-12-2017, 10:15 AM)HarleyDog Wrote: Not entirely true. Although he is a very successful assistant coach, he has not been successful at the HC level. Don't forget he was fired as HC of the Raiders after only 2yrs. Combine that and his Browns tenure, this is exactly why I don't want him back here as a HC. It would be the perfect recipe for more of the same. It would be equal to giving ML an extension, if not worse.

But you have to look at why.

Year one he was doing a great job only to lose his QB midseason.  He pulled off a mammoth trade for a QB who hadn't played all season and didn't know the offense, so they clearly came up short.  The QB's deal was re-worked, but it still exacerbated the salary cap hell the team was in due to it's late owner.  As such, veterans who were core parts of the good first half of the first season were allowed to walk, and others had to be purged.  Meanwhile, the draft picks that were needed to stock the holes left by those departures, and fix the remaining holes, were gone courtesy of the QB trade.

I don't consider the Oakland situation as much a failure of Hue as the culmination of what Al had done to wreck the franchise.  Mark Davis HAD to get a GM and let him blow up the whole thing to get out of the salary situation.  If you are a brand new GM and have to blow up the whole team in order to get the salary cap in line, wouldn't you also go out and get a new HC who wants to run the type of scheme you believe in as well?