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Browns coach Hue Jackson met the media on Thursday and Wednesday’s trade involving the second overall pick of the draft was a major topic of conversation.

Jackson said that he thinks both Carson Wentz and Jared Goff are “going to have fine careers” in the NFL, but that making the deal and netting extra picks in each of the next three drafts “was the best thing for our organization.” Jackson believes that the trade will help the Browns become “a team that has sustainable success” even if it meant passing up on the chance to take a quarterback that others have ranked as the best in the draft.

“No one said we don’t have a quarterback,” Jackson said, via the Canton Repository. “And I never said we will not add a quarterback. We’ll see how the draft will unfold. … The best quarterback in the draft is, who … the best quarterback according to what everybody said? I’m not like everybody else. Our organization is not like everybody else. Everybody keeps talking about that position because of last year. Last year is over.”

The Browns quarterbacks right now are Josh McCown and Robert Griffin III and, with 12 picks at their disposal, chances seem good that the group will grow before the draft concludes next week. That player may not be the answer at quarterback they’ve been searching for in Cleveland, but it doesn’t appear the Browns thought the quarterback they’d get at No. 2 was going to fit that definition either.