AP

Browns coach Hue Jackson already said he had a “great meeting” with free agent quarterback Robert Griffin III.

But he said Tuesday morning at the AFC coaches breakfast at the owners meeting that the thing that impressed him the most about Griffin was the sense of humility he walked in with.

“Absolutely, you have to be (humble), you have to have a side to you that says, ‘Look, it’s not them. It’s about me, too,'” Jackson said, via Mike Garafolo of FOX Sports. “That goes a long way with me. I don’t know what a lot of other people want. Because until that happens, can you start to rebuild if you still think it’s about them?

“You’re kind of walking with that guck on you. That doesn’t come off as fast.”

Guck is a pretty apt description of Griffin’s last few years in Washington, as he struggled to regain his pre-injury form and then seemed to struggle to fit in. But if he’s convinced Jackson he’s scraped it off his shoes and is ready to lead again, it could be why the Browns seem most interested in adding him and giving the former No. 2 overall pick another chance.

And that, to Jackson, was as important as anything else he could have seen from Griffin.