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Ex-Browns Coach Suggests He Was Also Paid Extra to Lose Games

‘IT WAS A GOOD NUMBER’

Jackson joined fired Dolphins coach Brian Flores, who alleged in his bombshell lawsuit on Tuesday that he was paid more to lose.

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Former Cleveland Browns coach Hue Jackson has joined fired Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores in alleging that he was paid more if his team lost games. Flores filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the NFL on Tuesday and, among other bombshell allegations, he claimed that Dolphins’ owner Stephen Ross bribed him to “tank” the 2019 season for $100,000 per loss so the Dolphins could “secure the first pick in the draft.” In a tweet responding to Flores’ lawsuit, Jackson claimed that Browns’ owner Jimmy Haslam “was happy we kept losing.” He added, “trust me it was a good number.”

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