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Nov 25, 2018; Cincinnati, OH, USA; Cincinnati Bengals special assistant to the head coach Hue Jackson talks with Cleveland Browns head coach Gregg Williams after the Browns defeated the Bengals at Paul Brown Stadium.

Sports Illustrated and many other sources have called attention to a Tweet by Kimberly Diemert, the executive director of the Hue Jackson Foundation, alleging that the Browns gave bonuses to coach Jackson, general manager Sashi Brown, and chief strategy officer Paul DePodesta of the Browns, and that the bonuses were paid to “Tank” the team. The Browns accumulated $59 million in salary cap, and drafted first overall two consecutive years, with several extra picks in the tenure of Jackson and Sashi Brown. If you did, are you not implicating yourself as well as the team? Is that really what you mean? Alternatively, if the bonus was earned because you endured through trying circumstances in a rebuilding process, that is not news and should not be used to try to take down the Cleveland Browns.

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