{"id":106504,"date":"2022-02-11T10:01:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T14:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=106504"},"modified":"2022-02-11T10:08:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T14:08:37","slug":"why-would-anyone-watch-the-super-bowl-when-team-owners-literally-pay-coaches-to-lose-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=106504","title":{"rendered":"<h3><b><i>Why would anyone watch the Super Bowl when team owners literally pay coaches to lose games?!?<\/i><\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Hue Jackson suggests he was paid extra for<br \/>\nlosses as Browns head coach<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->Posted by Josh Alper<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/vplayer.nbcsports.com\/p\/BxmELC\/nbcsports_embed\/select\/media\/gUN6HI6A1MI4\" width=\"651\" height=\"365\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">Your browser does not support iframes.<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Former Dolphins coach Brian Flores alleges Dolphins owner Stephen Ross\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com\/2022\/02\/02\/brian-flores-stephen-ross-attacked-the-integrity-of-the-game-standing-up-to-him-cost-me-my-job\/\">offered him<\/a>\u00a0$100,000 per loss during the 2019 season in order to ensure the team would wind up with the first overall pick and former Browns coach Hue Jackson made similar allegations in response to Flores\u2019 lawsuit going public on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson responded to a tweet about the case by saying Browns owner Jimmy Haslam \u201cwas happy while we kept losing\u201d and then wrote \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/huejack10\/status\/1488678199265480705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1488678199265480705%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Flarrybrownsports.com%2Ffootball%2Fhue-jackson-paid-tank-cleveland-browns%2F591408\">trust me it was a good number<\/a>\u201d in response to someone who said Haslam wasn\u2019t offering $100,000 per loss. Jackson, who is now the head coach at Grambling, went 1-31 over his first two seasons with the Browns and was fired after a 2-5-1 start in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In another tweet, the executive director of Jackson\u2019s foundation Kimberley Diemert said they had records that would support Flores\u2019 case and wrote that Jackson and team executives Sashi Brown, Paul DePodesta, and Andrew Berry \u2014 who is now the team\u2019s General Manager \u2014 were paid bonus money to tank in 2016 and 2017. Jackson\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KimberlyDiemer1\/status\/1488672067390169091\">replied<\/a> by saying he \u201ccan back up every word I\u2019m saying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flores\u2019 suit was filed as a class action, which leaves room for others to join the litigation. Jackson\u2019s comments suggest he\u2019d be willing to do that.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com\/2022\/02\/02\/hue-jackson-suggests-he-was-paid-extra-for-losses-as-browns-head-coach\/\">https:\/\/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com\/2022\/02\/02\/hue-jackson-suggests-he-was-paid-extra-for-losses-as-browns-head-coach\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hue Jackson suggests he was paid extra for losses as Browns head coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}