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The Browns front office is either incompetent or purposely sabotaged the deal.

Further indication of the dysfunction between the Browns front office and the Coaching staff, members of the Browns front office and coaching staff differ on the opinion of what went down with the AJ McCarron trade talks.

The coaching staff feels that the deal was sabotaged and that the Browns front office tried to rally to get the deal done on the orders of owner Jim Haslam.

Members of the Browns Player Personnel department feel that while the Front Office did not want to execute the trade, the did so in earnest but “screwed up the paperwork” thus causing the deal to fall through.

The Browns dropped the ball on a trade Tuesday for Bengals backup quarterback A.J. McCarron.

The two clubs agreed to the trade just before the 4 p.m. deadline, but the Bengals still managed to email their signed paperwork into the NFL on time. The Browns did not.

The Browns appealed to the NFL to allow the deal, but the NFL rejected it.

The Browns had agreed to send a second- and third-round pick in the 2018 draft for McCarron, a fifth-round pick of the Bengals in 2014 out of Alabama.

The Browns have 12 selections in the upcoming draft, including two first-rounders and three second-rounders.

The Bengals emailed their signed paperwork to the NFL before 4 p.m. and the Browns did not. The Bengals also copied the Browns on the signed document they emailed to the NFL.

Separate documents from each team signed by that team constitutes a trade. Since the league never received anything with the Browns’ signature on it, the trade was not consumated.

The Bengals have said that the two teams talked throughout the day, and that the Browns didn’t seem certain they wanted to complete the deal. The Browns then contacted them close to the deadline to say they’d do it for the two and three.

I am told from a member of the Browns Personnel department that the Front office did not want to trade for McCarron while head coach Hue Jackson did. I was also told by members of the Browns Personnel and Coaching staffs that Browns owner Jim Haslam stepped in and wanted to complete the deal for Jackson.

So, either the Browns front office sabotaged the deal on purpose (which I have a hard time believing) or they just were incompetent in their ability to execute a trade. In either case, this should be the end of the line for this front office that took over the worst roster in the NFL and has made it even worse—something that is virtually impossible until now.