Welcome to the From the Podium podcast.

I'm Jason Gibbs on this news filled Monday from here in Berea.

The Cleveland Browns have relieved Kevin Stefansky of his duties as head football coach.

On this special edition of the From the Podium

podcast you will hear from owner Jimmy Haslam and you will hear from general manager Andrew

Barry let's kick things off right now with owner Jimmy Haslam all right morning everyone

personnel decisions particularly with people at the top of an organization, are always difficult.

And I can tell you, having made a lot of these over the years, that this was as difficult as any we've ever had to make because of the quality of the person involved, organized, worked hard, navigated our ship for six years

through the inevitable ups and downs that we face in the NFL, outstanding father and husband.

And I think even you all who are around a lot probably underappreciate how much time we all spend together.

And there's nothing more fun than winning an NFL game like we did the last two weeks.

I'm beating our archrival, the Steelers two weeks ago, and then winning yesterday on the last play of the game and seeing the joy in the locker room.

And there's nothing more distasteful than losing an NFL game.

And it's finite. You either win or you lose.

And Kevin did a lot of good things here over his time period with us.

It was an extremely difficult decision we made. And I have, I shouldn't say I have no doubt.

I would be highly optimistic that Kevin will be a head coach again in the league.

Now I want to turn our attention and talk to our fans, okay?

And I want you to hear this, okay?

First of all, ownership takes full responsibility for where we are. To win

eight games in two years is horrible. It's totally unacceptable, okay, and it's not going to continue,

okay? And I want the fans to know we are as frustrated as you are, and we hear a lot from our

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