SUNDAY’S GAME
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The two watched Sunday’s 27-21 loss to the Pack- ers together in the owners’ suite and will try to determine if they’re a match.
DePodesta is a pioneer in the field of analytics, and the Browns are going more towards a traditional approach now. The previous regime made 24 draft picks and 17 trades, and it resulted in one victory in two seasons, and the egre- gious errors of passing on Carson Wentz and Deshaun Watson.
Dorsey, who’s spent 26 years as a personnel execu- tive, has also made it clear that this is his team now, and he’s not messing around.
“Let’s be real we’re 0-13, OK?” he said. “So let’s get this thing rolling. The only way to do that is to start to build this thing.”
Dorsey also praised Jackson in an interview on the team’s in-house radio show Cleveland Browns Daily on WKNR 850 on Wednesday, saying they speak the same language.
“It’s great,” Dorsey said. “It’s just nice to be back in the environment where you can sit and go through football with real football guys. The interaction we have on a daily basis, it’s 1:52 (p.m.) and we’ve probably seen each other four times today. So there’s a genuine interaction amongst each other.”
Jackson acknowledged Monday that “it was much different” reviewing the film with Dorsey, who played for the Packers for four years and then spent 26 years as NFL personnel executive, helping his teams to 19 playoff berths, 11 divisional titles, three con- ference championships and two Super Bowl wins.
He said the two are “very much” in sync on football matters and “that’s what it’s all about.”
Dorsey, who’s already rolled up his sleeves and gone to work, said he sat in on the team meeting Wednesday.
“I just wanted to listen to Hue and how he went about things, and I’ll tell you what — he does such a marvelous of job trying to just kind of take those guys and express to them the urgency and the concerns,” said Dorsey. “He basically was saying, ‘let’s make some plays, guys.’ It was very refreshing to see what he had to present to the team today.”