Jackson takes job as Ravens QB coach
Just got off the phone with Hue Jackson, the former Bengals wide receivers coach. He said he has taken the job as quarterbacks coach in Baltimore with new Ravens coach John Harbaugh.
I missed it on the wires Monday night. My apologies.
There had been talk of Jackson rejoining the Bengals as wide receivers coach, though Mike Sheppard produced two Pro Bowl players in T.J. Houshmandzadeh and Chad Johnson in 2007.
The thought was Sheppard could move to quarterbacks coach, a job he had done in New Orleans from 2002-04, if Ken Zampese had landed a coordinator's job. Zampese interviewed with the Rams to be offensive coordinator, the third year in a row he has interviewed for a promotion with another team. He previously had talked to Carolina and the Jets.
posted by Mark at 10:45 AM
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Post a Comment*Unbelievable. One of the only ways to reconcile the Chad Johnson situation just slipped through our fingers. Mike Shepard might have produced two pro bowl receivers but they were also a disaster at times, created controversy and perhaps, split the locker room. These problems were not as large with Hue Jackson around and because of the Brown's inability to let an assistant coach go with one year left, we'll have to deal with the same receivers coach. Our owners are incompetent.
And Mark...Nice job missing that. Your fans follow the Bengals more than you do and it's your job.
Agreed.....Mark, you really are a disaster as an NFL beat writer. Please, do everyone, including yourself a favor, and return to writing your left wring feel good puff pieces that you used to do.
Way to check things before posting what you did before, only to be corrected by a fellow poster. And you wonder why people question you and your work??
Sheesh.
Mark--I was the one that sent the comment about Hue taking the Ravens job, I guess since the blog topic was redone my comment won't appear. One question I think is worth repeating, besides my free agency questions that I asked, why couldn't the Bengals have brought Hue back, keep Sheppard if they didn't want to fire him, and label Hue as "passing game coach" or "senior offensive coach" or some title that many teams have been doing lately with fired coordinators or head coaches for a year or two before they move on.
PS---Why are the Bengals undervaluing Landon Johnson?
Bye Bye Chad and Hue...
We don't need people who don't be a part of this team !
Hey 11:03 way to critcize while hiding behind anon. Qustion; if Hue Jackson was so good why did Cry Baby 85 try to punch him against Pittsburgh Jan 06?
Robert Young
Milford
Apparently Mark has a life unlike many Bengals fans.
From what I've read in other articles, Hue didn't want to come back here. It would have been only if it's the only job he could have found.
Maybe putting up with Chad and TJ burnt him out the first time.
Junior,
The last I looked, Mark was getting paid to know this stuff.....please feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
I will stand, as a man, and call Mark out. This is his job, for pete's sake. When casual fans such as myself know things that he does not, that is one thing.
When Mark goes and posts something, and many fans know that it is factually incorrect, that is crossing the line between me THINKING he is inept at his job, and him PROVING that he is inept.
Big difference. Just another nail in the coffin.
Wow, I thought I was a huge Bengal fan, I read about them every day and have been a season ticket holder for years, but Anon 11:03 and Haystacks actually follow the team closer than the beat writer. Man do you two need a life.
By the way Haystacks what is left "wring". Is that when you wring something wet out with only your left hand? At least mark can spell at a 3rd grade level.
LANDON JOHNSON STINKS...ALL HIS TACKLES ARE 5-7 YARDS DOWN THE FIElD....HAS HE EVER BLOWN UP A RB BEHIND THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE?
PLEASE ANSWER ME THAT QUESTION TRUTHFULLY!
"why couldn't the Bengals have brought Hue back"
Hue Jackson probably got tired of dealing with the attitudes that come with the Bengals wide receivers.
Haystacks is going to stand, like a man, by posting under an alias on a football blog. So manly.
The Bengals shouldn't be hiring or retaining coaches to placate certain players. You sign a contract, you do your job; Chad signed a contract, I expect him to do his job.
A simple internet search of Hue Jackson prior to Mark posting this morning would have saved a lot of deleting on his part...perhaps even a phone call to Hue....which leads one to wonder if he can't do that simple task, what else does he miss?
Again, folks, he is the one being paid by the local daily rag to do this job. All I am doing is pointing out the painfully obvious...has nothing to do with having a life, it has everything to do with the local NFL beatwriter being a second rate hack.
And, Mr. Fanclub, have the courage to post things out in the open, and not hide behind anonimity....BTW, left "wring" is even further left than your average tree hugger. Mark fits that description perfectly. He would be a much better fit writing for Rolling Stone.....and I don't think that Mark would disagree.
His behavior leads me to believe that he is simply doing this job to pay the bills, not for the love of the game.
You know, Hue probably was burned out on Chad since those two apparently had to be separated in the locker room of a playoff game just two years ago. But, here is the bigger question: does anyone realize that we could have (and should have) had Tom Coughlin as the Bengals' head coach before they hired Marvin "I've lost my team's respect" Lewis?"
"I will stand, as a man, and call Mark out."
On a blog. Yep. Manly.
Hue didn't come back because he didn't HAVE to. ANY job is better than a job with the Bengals, period. I'm sure he didn't want to deal with prima donna WR's or incompetent ownership anymore.
"does anyone realize that we could have (and should have) had Tom Coughlin as the Bengals' head coach before they hired Marvin "I've lost my team's respect" Lewis?""
Does anyone remember that Tom Coughlin also had players calling him out and was close to losing his job with the Giants not to long ago?
For essentially one person to cover a whole NFL team is pretty insane.
How many reporters do the Giants and Jets have on their beat?
Once your team is out of the playoffs, the beat writer likely takes some time off. To chastise them for missing something during their downtime is cheap. That's the issue with blogs, they put the news on 24-7, which is great for fans wanting every morsel of info., but put an incredible onus on one person to cover it all.
If you want to blame anyone for this, blame the Enquirer for not putting two or three full-time writers on this blog.
Oh, and it's laughable that Johnson hangs up on Curnette but will sell his soul to every national TV and radio hairpiece with a microphone.
Where have these disruptive stories come from? ESPN, not the local media.
But hey, anything to get facetime nationally right?
Wonder if Chad spoke to TJ or Carson at all those Super Bowl parties they were at.
still waiting for someone to figure out how to play a race card with this ... I thought the over/under was around 15 posts ....
I missed it on the wires Monday night. My apologies.
Dont worry, all you have to do is apologize and still keep your job (part of the Bungles culture)
"have the courage to post things out in the open, and not hide behind anonimity"
Wow and coming up with a Google blogger account with a fake name to call people out, now THAT takes a true man. BTW if "Haystacks" is your real name then my apologies for your parents
I can't believe you have the free time to Google every former Bengal's coach.
BTW its anonymity not anonymity, (again 3rd grade level)
Sincerely,
Corn muffin Calhoun
To Anon 9:38 p.m., amen to that.
Your post is so damn funny and unfortunately so true. Post of the year.
And, the Hue news item was on ESPN the night before Mark's post, that's how I found it.
Meanwhile, anyone else get the feeling that:
A) the 4-3 or 3-4 switch isn't going to be decided by Zimmer, but rather by which players the Bengals can (or cannot) re-sign/sign/draft.
B) With Chad doing his antics, TJ not signed beyond 2008 and he might want a new big deal and Henry being, well, Henry---that are WR situation goes under the radar as being more shaky than expected? I see a WR in round 2 or 3.
"Unbelievable. One of the only ways to reconcile the Chad Johnson situation just slipped through our fingers. Mike Shepard might have produced two pro bowl receivers but they were also a disaster at times, created controversy and perhaps, split the locker room. These problems were not as large with Hue Jackson around and because of the Brown's inability to let an assistant coach go with one year left, we'll have to deal with the same receivers coach. Our owners are incompetent."
Don't know much about the NFL, do ya?? Fact is, teams cannot deny an assistant coach or coordinator under contract unless it is a promotion. Jackson was our WR coach and had an offer for the Falcons Offensive Coordinator job, which would be a promotion. Learn your facts before popping off and sharing your unintellegent wisdom on NFL and Bengals......Mark should charge you for such an idiotic post, and wasting our time having to read it!!!
What kills me is how everyone calling Mark inept is just as inept as he is. People whine and cry saying the Bengals stink since they didn't get Hue back. What should they have done, brought him back and give him a position higher than Zampese??? Hugh took the job in Baltimore because it is a step higher than a WR coach. When you were just an offensive corridinator you don't want to go back and start totally over.
I wish he would have came back here but I challenge someone here to say that they should have fired Zampese or Bratkowski to give Hugh a job he'd accept. Keep in mind I hate Bratkowski and I can't even make that argument with a straight face.
Hayseed, Why is that you think you know more than Mark? In this one instant, you happened to be in a position that you were able to learn about Mr. Jackson's new job before Mark. While it is his job to report on the team, where does it say in his job description, he has to be the first to know every single fact? It doesn't! Is he supposed to man his computer every single second and wait for every report to come his way? I am guessing that as a divorced father, he was probably getting a chance to spend valuable time with his kids, which if you have paid attention, is a precious commodity to Mark. Even if he wasn't doing that, it does not mean every single second of his life has to be devoted to dealing with twits like you.
So don't break your arm patting yourself on your lame-ass back. Just enjoy being the negative presence that you are and go back to your laptop, put your pants around your ankles and crawl back under the rock where you belong, loser!
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