NFL Black Monday 2019: This is who’s been fired

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NFL Black Monday 2019: This is who’s been fired

Head coach Freddie Kitchens of the Cleveland Browns seems on from the sidelines through the first half of the NFL soccer sport towards the Arizona


Head coach Freddie Kitchens of the Cleveland Browns seems on from the sidelines through the first half of the NFL soccer sport towards the Arizona Cardinals at State Farm Stadium on December 15, 2019 in Glendale, Arizona.

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With the shut of the NFL’s common season comes “Black Monday,” the annual purge of coaches and executives whose groups did not make the playoffs.

The Cleveland Browns, New York Giants, Washington Redskins and Carolina Panthers have all fired their head coaches as of Monday afternoon.

Browns fireplace head coach Freddie Kitchens

The Browns announced Sunday that head coach Freddie Kitchens has been “relieved of his duties” as head coach. Kitchens joined the Browns as a working backs and affiliate head coach in 2018 and was promoted to offensive coordinator later that yr, in response to the staff’s launch. He stepped into the pinnacle teaching position in January of 2019.

“We thank Freddie for his exhausting work and dedication to this group however didn’t see the success or alternatives for enchancment to maneuver ahead with him as our head coach,” Browns house owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam stated within the launch. “Our focus is on hiring an distinctive chief for this soccer staff and we are going to take a complete strategy to this course of.”

The Haslams stated they’re “excited concerning the core gamers” and hope to rent a head coach…



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