After a dismal 3-13 season, the Cleveland Browns announced they fired head coach Mike Pettine and general manager Ray Farmer Sunday.
The changes marked the most recent effort to clean house for the Browns. In the last 10 years the team has hired and fired five separate coaches.
"We've made this difficult decision because we don't believe our football team and football operations were positioned well for the future," Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam wrote in a letter posted to the team's website Sunday.
“We are all disappointed with where we are and clearly understand your frustrations … We are confident we will build a winning football organization.”
According to a report from the NFL Network, the Browns let Farmer go before the team faced the Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday. The Browns lost that game 28-12 and ended the season 3-13.
Jimmy Haslam met with Pettine after the game and broke the news to him, the NFL Network reported.
According to ESPN, the team will find a new coach, who will then help choose the next general manager.
"We want to get the right person," Haslam told ESPN. "I don't know if it's going to take two weeks or two months."
Farmer joined the Browns as an assistant general manager in 2013. He was promoted to general manager in February 2014, just weeks after the team named Pettine its 15th full-time head coach, according to the Browns.
In Pettine’s two seasons as head coach, the Browns have gone 10-22.
