PITTSBURGH -- Browns owner Jimmy Haslam will address the media after today's season finale in Pittsburgh, and he's expected to reaffirm his vow to bring

Hue Jackson back in 2018 despite a 1-30 record heading into the game.

But sources close to the situation tell cleveland.com that the scenario must still play out in Cleveland, and some of it might depend on what happens in Cincinnati with Marvin Lewis.

Haslam plans to proceed with Jackson, and he's working well with new general manager John Dorsey.

In fact, Jackson and Dorsey were on board with working together during the six weeks the Browns were talking to him before Dorsey was hired.



But how things unfold in the next week or two will determine if Jackson stays or goes.



If Lewis walks away in Cincinnati, the Bengals would be interested in Jackson as their head coach, sources say.



That decision might not happen right away. Lewis and Bengals owner Mike Brown could take their time in deciding their next move, and some say Lewis might want to come back now for another year.



If he doesn't, and if Haslam, Dorsey and Jackson have any reservations about proceeding together at that point, perhaps the Browns and Bengals could try to work something out.



Jackson has three years remaining on his contract, at about $5 million a year.



He's repeatedly said he wants to remain in Cleveland and get the Browns to winning as fast as they can, but all parties must be committed to working together under the right conditions for this to make sense.

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NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reported Sunday that Dorsey "has told people close to him as well that the plan is to keep Jackson, and that is how they'll proceed.''



But then he used some odd phraseology that raises a red flag. He wrote "look for Dorsey to hire an offensive coordinator, which is tops on his priorities for staff changes.''



When Jackson was asked about reports that he'll hire an offensive coordinator after last week's loss to the Bears, "I didn't put that out there.''



If it's true Dorsey -- who reports directly to Haslam as does Jackson -- is making staff changes and mandating that Jackson hire a coordinator, that could create problems.

Rapoport later changed his story to read "look for Jackson to hire an offensive coordinator.''

Furthermore, the Browns have retained two members of Sashi Brown's executive team in Chief Strategy Officer Paul DePodesta and Vice President of Player Personnel Andrew Berry. DePodesta also reports directly to Haslam, which makes for a lot of people in the owner's ear.

With a season-long rift between the coaching staff and the executive team, it will make for some interesting dynamics if they all continue to work together. Some fences will have to be mended and some roles redefined.

So yes, Haslam is expected to say today that Jackson will be given a third year to turn this team around, the first coach in the Haslam era to make it past two season. Jackson is not expected to join the five other coaches who were fired almost immediately after a season-ending loss to the Steelers, including three by Haslam.

For now, he won't join Romeo Crennel, Eric Mangini, Pat Shurmur, Rob Chudzinski and Mike Pettine who were felled by the Three Rivers curse.



But it doesn't mean the story is over yet.