The Brown family was on vacation before the trade deadline...

[bengals1969]

(11-05-2019, 09:17 PM)jfkbengals Wrote: You can still get calls, emails, and texts on vacations.

It doesn't matter where you're at, you can sign a deal and return it in an instant on a smartphone.

Skype, Zoom for video conference calls also have been around for a decade or more.
However, they knew the deadline months in advance, so when they picked the date to go chalet-ing they knew it was a big day in the NFL.  Were they in chalet's waiting for a call?  Making calls?  Would you if you scheduled a Switzerland vacay at the trade deadline?

Again it gets back to the Browns have their business humming along just the way they want.  Very high compensation for minimal effort.