New Cleveland Browns general manager John Dorsey didn't waste any time pointing out who's to blame for the franchise's current woes.
A week into his new gig, Dorsey skewered previous regimes while speaking to Aaron Goldhammer of WKNR 850 on Thursday morning.
"You know what? You've got to get a guy like (head coach Hue Jackson) players," Dorsey said, according to Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com. "And you know what? I'll come straight out with it. The guys who were here before, that system, they didn't get real players."
The Browns fired executive vice president of football operations Sashi Brown earlier in December. He came aboard at the same time as Jackson and went 1-27 over the past two seasons.
Though Brown was tasked with supplying the coach with players, much of his staff - which made up the "system" Dorsey referred to - remains with the organization, including chief strategy officer Paul DePodesta.
Nonetheless, Dorsey made it clear he believes the team's failings lie with the roster composition, rather than Jackson's coaching.
"As Bill Parcells would always say, 'You are your record.' There it is, so that's the truth-teller in this thing," he said. "And I'm going to do my darnedest to get Hue players. And that's all I can ask for, that's all I'm going to do. I like the man."
