Fired Cleveland Browns head coach Hue Jackson will face his former team for the first time on Sunday when the Browns take on Jackson’s new team, the Cincinnati Bengals. Jackson was hired to be a special assistant to Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis just a few weeks after he was fired, and he’ll be on the sidelines when the two teams square off.

But Browns starting quarterback Baker Mayfield isn’t worried about Jackson sharing the team’s offensive strategies with the Bengals. Mayfield was asked on Wednesday if he thinks Jackson has given the Bengals an advantage, and before you burst in with your own joke, Mayfield already made it for you.

He had no explanation why, he simply said “just no.” The shade from those two words alone could cover the entire city of Cleveland like an umbrella.

Mayfield probably didn’t intend his response to sound like he was scoffing at the idea of Jackson having any information that would give the Bengals an edge. But another Browns player, Joel Bitonio, had his own underwhelming answer about Jackson facing his old team.

That’s not a bad way to look at it, except for one thing: Jackson is more than just a former teammate. He was the Browns head coach for two-and-a-half seasons. You’d assume that he’d have more intimate knowledge of the team than anyone, right?

A less generous reading of these comments might lead someone to think that Browns players aren’t concerned about Jackson because, well, he wasn’t the greatest coach and can’t give the Bengals any kind of advantage because he couldn’t coach his old team out of a paper bag. His 3-36 record with the Browns doesn’t do a lot to combat that, but Jackson has been in football, either at the college level or NFL, for over 30 years. It’s downright silly to think that Jackson had no useful information to share with the Bengals.

Regardless, interim head coach Gregg Williams doesn’t want his players to care about what Jackson may or may not have told his new employers.

Jackson is the past, and the Browns are only concerned about the future. And … maybe possibly throwing shade at their former head coach. They’re only human, after all.

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Liz Roscher is a writer for Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email her at lizroscher@yahoo.com or follow her on Twitter at @lizroscher.

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