Ex-Cleveland coach Hue Jackson suggests he was paid to fail during his time with the team

The former NFL coach joins suggestions of alleged practices of tanking games to get more promising drafting positions.

Andy Restrepoandyrestrepo10Update: Feb 2nd, 2022 15:01 EST

After ex-Dolphins coach Brian Flores filed a class-action lawsuit, a storm hit the NFL. The allegations arose from racism to losing games un purpose to secure a more profitable drafting position. Today, another ex-NFL coach joins his sentiment, Hue Jackson, who coached the Cleveland Browns has suggested that he was also paid to fail while with the team.

Jackson, who is presently the head coach of Grambling State University, took to Twitter and communicated his backing of coach Brian Flores. While on the platform, he suggested that Browns owner Jimmy Haslam was “Happy while we kept losing.”

Moreover, when a question about the truthiness of his allegation and that of Haslam paying $100,000 per lost game, he responded by tweeting, “trust me, it was a good number. Over his first two seasons, the now Grambling coach had a 1-31 record and was later fired after a 2-5-1 start to the season. In parallel, Brian Flores was fired from the Dolphins coaching job after a 24-25 run with the Florida team.

Congratulations #brianflores for your bravery. We have records that will help your case. DM me. @NFL and @nflcommish knew about this and covered it up. They did this @Browns . Paid Brown, DePodesta and Berry bonus $ along with @huejack10 to TANK for 2016 and 2017.@espn https://t.co/YOnqArWlnL

— Kimberly Diemert (@KimberlyDiemer1) February 2, 2022

The Tanking practice

The tanking of games is a notion that is not foreign to sports fans and experts. The idea behind this practice is said to be put in motion by teams who have no options of winning a trophy and have higher rewards by losing games and ending the season in a worse league standing.