BEREA, Ohio -- The Cleveland Browns will have to earn their stripes this season.
Quite literally.
Hue Jackson had the team's equipment managers remove the brown and white stripe that goes down the middle of the team's helmet for practice. Players instead are wearing all orange.
"There is a certain way that the Cleveland Browns have to play, and we are going to earn our stripes," Jackson said Tuesday at the team's OTA practice open to the media. "The guys that put them on their helmets and get the chance to wear them, it is going to be because they demonstrate the characteristics that we are looking for in Cleveland Browns players.