National Football League

Owner: Pettine and Farmer will be back for 2015

Published Dec. 28, 2014 5:03 p.m. ET

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BALTIMORE -- The Cleveland Browns are on to next season -- and team owner Jimmy Haslam said after Sunday's season finale he'll retain his top football people for 2015.

After the Browns lost, 20-10, to the Baltimore Ravens Sunday, Haslam said he "absolutely" plans to have general manager Ray Farmer and head coach Mike Pettine back.

Haslam took ownership of the Browns in Oct. 2012. He fired Pat Shurmur as head coach and Tom Heckert as general manager after the 2012 season. He fired Rob Chudzinski as head coach after last year's season finale, then fired CEO Joe Banner and general manager Mike Lombardi last February, two weeks after hiring Pettine as head coach.

Asked after the game if he's been given confirmation he'll return as coach, Pettine said he "(has) not heard anything. I'm assuming that's good news."

Haslam conducted an interview adjacent to the Browns locker room a few minutes later. It was the first time Haslam has met the media since July.

The Browns lost fve straight games to finish the season at 7-9.

Both Pettine and Haslam after Sunday's game declined to discuss Johnny Manziel, Justin Gilbert and Josh Gordon, all of whom were disciplined by the team this weekend for failing to meet obligations. The Browns suspended Gordon for a violation of team rules and left him off the trip after he no-showed for a Saturday morning walkthrough.

Manziel, who was placed on injured-reserve last week, was late for treatment the same morning and reportedly fined. The team made Gilbert inactive for the Ravens game after he was late to a meeting.

Haslam said missing meetings and not adhering to team obligations was "disrespectful...to teammates, coaches, fans, people whose livelihoods depend on us winning games" and said the Browns "will not tolerate it" in the future.

Pettine started his postgame press conference by saying discussion of "three guys" wouldn't be fair to players "who just played their butts off" and that he asked his players who played Sunday not to comment either until the Browns wrap their season, publicly and privately, on Monday.

"I'll have a lot to say tomorrow," Pettine said.

Manziel declined an interview request after the game, saying he would meet the media Monday.

Neither Manziel nor Gilbert were on the Browns sideline during the game. Pettine said he would address that decision Monday as well.