BREAKING NEWS: Cleveland Browns fire head coach Freddie Kitchens

We didn’t reach “Black Monday” and already there’s been major movement on the NFL coaching front. The Cleveland Browns announced that they relieved Freddie Kitchens of his duties following the team’s 33-23 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals to fall to 6-10 for the year.

A season that began with so many high hopes quickly spiraled out of control. An interim offensive coordinator last season (he began last season as the Browns running backs coach), who was promoted to head coach in the offseason he was given full control over the offense for this year. A group that featured Baker Mayfield, Odell Beckham Jr., Jarvis Landry, Nick Chubb, and Kareem Hunt was unable to live up to their potential.

With each passing week it felt like Kitchens was less equipped for the position that the Browns had placed him in. ESPN’s Adam Schefter and Chris Mortensen were the first to report the news that Kitchens had been fired:

The owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam and general manager John Dorsey released statements on the move too courtesy of The Beacon Journal’s Nate Ulrich:

With the Washington Redskins, Carolina Panthers already in the market for new coaches, making the change this early allows for the Browns to get the jump on other teams that will potentially make the change on their coaching staff as well.