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

On the Jimmy Garoppolo Situation:

“I wouldn’t get into all the discussions we had. I know the McCarron thing is a little unique just because it has been so widely reported and there actually was trade paperwork sent to the league, but as you know under league rules, I can’t comment in our interest in another player and we would not comment frankly just respectfully to other teams about what comments we did or did not have with the Patriots or anyone else, and you should not read into that one way or the other.”

In other words, the rumors that Brown and the front office being away from the building the day the deal was made at 5pm and them being totally off guard about it sounds about right. In other words – they blew it.

On if the Browns have to change their process given the success of Wentz and Watson:

“You take your hat off to both of those young players who are off to hot starts to their careers. I think whenever we look at an opportunity in the draft, first you come knowing that there are going to be opportunities that you miss on to add talent to your roster. I think good organizations – I have talked about this before – do go back and look at those decisions and those evaluations. What did we miss? We are perpetually doing that here internally. What is all of the information we had? How do we gather it? Was it accurate? How did we analyze the information and put it all together to make a decision? Some of those are more strategic and tactical, and some of those are purely in terms of the actual operational issue of evaluating the player. We look at it both ways. I think we have some really good processes in place. I am pleased with the guys that we have pulled out of the draft. I think that they are performing well almost to a man. At the end of the day, we always can get better and we will always look to get better certainly, including at the quarterback position, absolutely.”

AKA – we screwed up passing on those guys, and we should have drafted one of those guys and maybe we wouldn’t have lost 23 of the last 24 games.

On Browns Awful Wide Out Core:

“I think when we look at it, obviously, (WR) Corey (Coleman) has been hurt and we have missed him, but we certainly, as we look at that group, understand that it hasn’t performed as well as we had hoped. Bringing in (WR) Kenny (Britt), and he is off to a slower start than I think we expected and wanted, but not just singling him out, I think the entire group can get going. (WR) Ricardo (Louis) has had a couple of good weeks and settled himself down and has made some big plays for us. I think as we get Corey back and come off the bye week, we will get that group going. (Senior offensive assistant) Al (Saunders) and (assistant wide receivers coach) Bob (Saunders) do a good job with the wide receivers, coaching them and bringing them in. We have had some new players that we have added late at the waiver wire and claimed those players, and we will continue to work them in. If (WR) Josh (Gordon) is able to get back and onto the field, which we expect will happen, that will be a big boost to that group, as well.”

In other words, we’re hoping to get Coleman back and hoping Gordon might be ready to play football again, and if so, maybe we can resemble a team that might be able to catch the ball in the second half.

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