Hue Jackson deserved to be canned after two-plus seasons of losing AND looking like crap against the Steelers on Sunday ... so says Browns legend Earnest Byner.
It's nothing against Hue personally -- E.B. tells us the coach couldn't have been a nicer dude and even let him intern with the team recently -- but Byner says it was just time for him to go.
"I didn't like how that team looked," Earnest says ... "You'd have to say this firing has been earned."
Of course, lots of people in Cleveland would agree .