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(10-30-2019, 02:32 PM)Au165 Wrote: We had a deal for a 2nd and 3rd, we sent in the trade to league office, Browns did not. They did things perfectly and the Browns botched it, there is nothing to go around and around with. Your position is complete and total hindsight and is not a realistic way of viewing negotiations. 

It's not hindsight, I said at the time we were asking for way too much for a non-factor QB and that Mike Brown was using his invincibility as a means to ask for way too much and any GM who is actually going to be held accountable for his trades might slip off the hook.

Saying NO to a 2nd rounder for AJ McCarron is about the furthest thing I can think of from "doing things perfectly."  Once you turn down an offer for something you are culpable in any sort of blame should the deal fall apart.  Being able to blame it on someone else is merely damage control.  

In the world of business, as soon as you elect to turn down an offer and/or hold out for more you are officially accountable if things fall through.  Any time you say "no deal" you are assuming risk.  "Did you close the deal?"  Well...no, but I did get him to agree to MORE before the deal fell through and I got nothing...so how about that raise, boss!

(10-30-2019, 02:33 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Careful, man.  You don't want to threaten a Bengal fan's victim card.  Things can't just be bad here.  They have to be worse than any team in history.  If anything contradicts their opinion (like the fact that only a very small minority of teams made any moves) then you are not allowed to even mention it.   

Basically the Bengals front office is the worst in the league for making no deals, but that argument does not apply to any other team. 

Bengals fans and Lions fans...otherwise?  Ehh...we're in a class all our own.