It Wasn’t an Easy Day to Be Browns Executive VP of Football Operations Sashi Brown

On the Failure to Get Bengals QB A.J. McCarron:

“It is a lot simpler than what has been written truly. This is just a matter of getting to a deal too late in the process. I think both sides, both Cincinnati and us tried our damnedest to try to get the paperwork in at the last minutes, and we are talking about minutes and seconds before the trade deadline ended. We were on the phone with the NFL at the time to try to make it happen. It did not happen. I do think Cincinnati in earnest tried. I know we did everything humanly possible to get it done. It just didn’t happen. It is truly that simple.”

You have to be kidding right? There’s no way that it’s as simple as a couple people standing in the room and just simply “getting to a deal too late in the process.” Someone messed up somewhere, and Brown has to take the blame for the situation as he’s the guy in charge. It might be simple – a simple mess-up that he’s got to take the blame for.

On Brown and the Front Office ‘sabotaging’ the trade for McCarron:

“I will go back to kind of the point I made earlier – when you are in this situation, things are going to get written that way. We are big boys enough. That is wholly untrue. I think we were all in there together – Hue, myself and couple other staff members that work on these things at the time we were trying to get the trade done so I am not worried about that internally. Externally, I can just put it to bed that is just not the case. Nothing we would ever do to try to make up a trade, to sabotage a trade just wouldn’t make any sense.”

It goes back to the first question and him claiming that everyone is on the same page, they are not, and that’s why the word ‘sabotage’ has been thrown around so many times. Brown again has to be at the forefront of the blame for the situation, and while it appears to them that messing the deal up wouldn’t make sense, where there’s smoke there’s fire, and something wasn’t right about this whole deal.

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