The Cleveland Browns have officially fired head coach Mike Pettine
The season is over, the final record has been set and Mike Pettine is out as head coach of the Cleveland Browns. The Browns organization chose to fire Pettine following Week 17 after only two years on the job.
In his two years at the helm of the Browns, Pettine never sniffed the playoffs, let alone a .500 record. His best mark was in Year 1 when the team went 7-9. They still finished in fourth place in the AFC North that year.
Pettine’s tenure was marked with controversy from start to finish. Before he was even hired by Cleveland, Pettine’s daughter was caught in a bit of a sports blogosphere uproar when she poo-pooed on the beleaguered franchise.
From there it was a cavalcade of catastrophes from Josh Brown’s run-ins with the NFL to Johnny Manziel’s meandering saga – ineffectiveness, rehab, flashes of potential, domestic issues, random drunken videos, more flashes of something between competency and ineffectiveness.
As for the Browns, so forth spins the cycle of new coaches once again. Pettine was the eighth head coach to guide the team since it was resurrected in 1999. Where will the team go from here, that remains to be seen. Once again, though, the team looks to reboot and gain some kind of traction.