Browns owner Jimmy Haslam said in announcing the firing of head coach Kevin Stefanski that the results have not been good enough.<\/p>\n
Although Haslam said the responsibility ultimately falls on him, it\u2019s Stefanski who lost his job for the Browns finishing 5-12 this season and 3-14 last season.<\/p>\n
\u201cOwnership takes full responsibility for where we are. To win eight games in two years is horrible. It\u2019s totally unacceptable, OK? And it\u2019s not gonna continue, OK?\u201d Haslam said. \u201cI want the fans to know we are as frustrated as you are. And we hear a lot from our fans, which we actually appreciate. We have great fans, they\u2019re extremely passionate, and they deserve better than what they\u2019ve gotten in the last two years. I don\u2019t need to say anything else. We are going to give you a better product. Our sole goal here is to be a consistent winner. Not make the playoffs in \u201920 and then make it again in \u201923. Not win eight games in two years. That\u2019s not what we\u2019re trying to do. That\u2019s not acceptable. Our fans deserve better.\u201d<\/p>\n
So why isn\u2019t General Manager Andrew Berry losing his job for those horrible and unacceptable results?<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to comment on Andrew because I know there\u2019s questions out there: Why didn\u2019t you change both of them, or why didn\u2019t you change Andrew and not Kevin? I would say this: I think Andrew, over the last year, has done a very good job,\u201d Haslam said.<\/p>\n
Haslam said Berry gave the Browns \u201cOne of the better drafts we\u2019ve ever had\u201d in 2025 and credited Berry for acquiring defensive tackle Maliek Collins and kicker Andre Szmyt.<\/p>\n
Stefanski won the NFL\u2019s Coach of the Year award twice in his six seasons in Cleveland, in part because there\u2019s a widespread perception that the Browns are the worst franchise in the league, and any coach who can win there must be doing something special. But Haslam decided Stefanski didn\u2019t win enough, and that some other coach can do in Cleveland what no coach has done since the franchise came back in 1999, and turn them into Super Bowl contenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Browns owner Jimmy Haslam said in announcing the firing of head coach Kevin Stefanski that the results have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-391384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}