With the Cleveland Browns one loss from becoming just the second team in NFL history to go winless over a 16-game schedule, their only hope of avoiding that infamous title is to win Sunday against the division-rival Pittsburgh Steelers.
One Steelers player who would like nothing more than to send Cleveland to the history books is former Browns cornerback Joe Haden, who put his old organization on blast earlier in the week (more on that here).
Now, in talking about Cleveland’s decision to release Joe Haden this past summer, Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon isn’t holding back.
“I was definitely confused,” Gordon said Thursday, via Cleveland.com. “I think most of us were on that decision. It just didn’t make much sense at the time but like most of those decisions that go on up top, they call the shots and whatever they see fit to do or fit to make a decision on, it’s kind of how they play it. So you think that there’s some validity to it that I didn’t know about or still don’t know about. I don’t know the reasoning behind it, but it was just confusing more than anything.”
Haden, a two-time Pro Bowler, was scooped up by Pittsburgh almost immediately after the Browns waived him back in August. He’s responded by starting all 10 games in which he’s appeared for the AFC North champions. It’s this performance that has helped Haden resurrect what was a dying career in Cleveland.
In any event, Gordon’s comments are interesting in that he’s not in a position to ruffle feathers in Cleveland after just recently being reinstated following a multi-year suspension from the NFL.