LBS- In an interview with the “Really Big Show” on WKNR 850 Thursday, Dorsey was highly critical of former Browns executive vice president Sashi Brown and his analytics-driven front office staff.
“You know what? You’ve got to get a guy like that (Hue Jackson) players,” Dorsey said, as transcribed by Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com. “And you know what? I’ll come straight out with it. The guys who were here before, that system, they didn’t get real players.” The Browns wen’t 1-27 during Brown’s time running the football operations department, and Dorsey essentially said that had nothing to do with bad luck. “As Bill Parcells would always say, ‘you are your record’ and you know what? There it is, so that’s the truth-teller in this thing,” Dorsey said. “And I’m going to do my darnedest to get Hue (Jackson) players. And that’s all I can ask for, and that’s all I’m going to do. I like the man.” ----- Well, that'll make for an...uhh...interesting workplace environment. Nothing more awkward than the old "we're going to go in a different direction" announcement when that direction is actually just due north of far as fuck away from you and just about all of your co-workers. I mean - regardless of their organization's long standing history of dysfunction - I don't think the players of a team that has won a grand total of one game in last two years thought they were free of blame. Just saying, there's probably a smoother way to kick off your tenure as an executive than by publicly prefacing an Office Space-esque house cleaning. The Browns roster could likely benefit from a little tough love since they've turned losing into a goddamn art form, but "nice to meet you, what exactly is it that you do here annnnd when is the soonest you can start doing it elsewhere?" seems a tad harsh. John Dorsey could have at least pretended his players had some semblance of job security for the rest of the season. After all, their jobs do require them to repeatedly bash skulls with other freak athletes for a non-guaranteed contract once a week. It would only make sense to save the "we don't value you as a person enough to keep our criticisms of you as a player private" speech for the exit meeting. If not out of respect for them than out of an undying need to lure more talented players (who probably don't take kindly to the idea of a boss openly demeaning the "realness" of their peers) to a franchise that almost had to be built on top of the graveyard where optimism was buried...
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