CLEVELAND, Ohio - Firing Sashi Brown is understandable. Siding with Hue Jackson is unbelievable.
Jackson winning a power struggle is his only victory this year and tells you all you need to know - or, really, what you already knew -- about the Haslam ownership.
Jimmy Haslam doesn't want to be seen (again) as a hair-trigger owner more versed in demolition work than solid ownership. So keeping Jackson allows him to claim a nuanced (relatively speaking) path forward from 1-15 and 0-12.
And now we know the answer to the question begging for an answer ever since the failed trade for AJ McCarron: why is Hue Jackson smiling?