While my gut tells me it's a bad look for a football coach to graciously accept a trolling from hands that he's weeks removed from tying behind the backs of the players that made it a point to mock him yesterday, I'm just not sure what else Hue Jackson was supposed to do in this situation. After all, if there were ever a circumstance in which to ignore your surroundings and eat your feelings by diving face first into some humble pie, it would be after definitively losing a breakup with the Cleveland Browns. We're talking about a man whose defense was in the process of being torn to shreds by his former offense, that just so happened to find life in the death of his otherwise hopeless head coaching tenure. Simply put, the time for letting personal pride get in the way of an all-too-fitting farce had long passed when Damarious Randall offered Hue Jackson a physical token of his professional failures. Of course, given what we know about the former Browns' Coach that was non-ironically compared to Michael Scott by one of his players before accepting the role of Dwight Schrute on the Bengals' staff, it's entirely possible that Hue Jackson didn't have the self-awareness to understand that he was being both emasculated and made sport of. However, even if he did, what was he supposed to do? Break from tradition by not accepting the offer of something he did nothing to earn?
Also of note, Baker Mayfield is on the fasttrack to being the most beloved Brown of all time...
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