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Freddie Kitchens time in Cleveland is officially over.
Just a few hours after the team’s embarrassing loss to the Bengals, Kitchens was told that the team was letting him go.
Browns fired Freddie Kitchens, per @mortreport and me.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) December 30, 2019
Browns’ head coaches under the Haslams:
🏈2019 Freddie Kitchens
🏈2018 Gregg Williams
🏈2016-18 Hue Jackson
🏈2014-15 Mike Pettine
🏈2013 Rob Chudzinski
🏈2012 Pat Shurmur (Shurmur was HC in 2011 before Haslams bought the Browns).— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) December 30, 2019
During the Browns postgame press conference Kitchens said that the team had given him no indication that he wouldn’t be brought back next season.
#Browns coach Freddie Kitchens says he plans to show up tomorrow and do what he believes the Haslams want him to: keep doing his job: "They have not given me any indication of anything else."
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) December 29, 2019
More Freddie: "I don't know that anyone thought I was a finished product." Says he wouldn't look at coming back in 2020 as a second chance — it's still the first chance. Says he has a good relationship with GM John Dorsey and they have frank conversations.
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) December 29, 2019
The Browns went on to release a statement regarding Kitchens’ firing.
Statement from Dee and Jimmy Haslam: pic.twitter.com/eJKFT2nCPo
— Cleveland Browns (@Browns) December 30, 2019