The Jets don't have a quarterback like Derek Anderson or Brady Quinn. They don't have a guy who has thrown 29 TD passes or a guy who was a first-round draft pick out of Notre Dame. So perhaps the Jay Cutler situation comes to this: Substitute the word "Browns" for the word "Jets" here and understand that perhaps the Browns are better off not getting involved in that trade. The Browns can be happy for all the same reasons the Jets can be happy.
Good for the Browns for not trading two ones, a three and a starter for one player and low-round pick. That price is way too high. If another deal comes along that would net the team draft picks (like this one) and not be a trade merely for the sake of it, then the Browns should consider it. The idea of this trade, though, didn't make sense. It still doesn't.
Were the Browns involved? The team says no, that it did not offer Quinn in a deal. The Chicago Sun-Times reports this, attributed to unnamed sources:
"The Browns might have won the sweepstakes had Cutler's agent, Bus Cook, not also represented Brett Favre. The longtime Packers star didn't mesh last year with Jets coach Eric Mangini, who was fired and landed in Cleveland.
"Mangini reportedly was willing to give up Brady Quinn in a deal for Cutler. Quinn, who played for former Patriots offensive coordinator Charlie Weis at Notre Dame, might have been a good fit in McDaniels' system. But Cook made it clear when talks began that Cutler wanted no part of Mangini, and fears that he wouldn't report to the Browns shut down that deal."
The Browns state Eric Mangini called reports of a trade involving flat not true. I had heard rumblings that Cutler did not want to be involved with another coach from the Bill Belichick tree, and the Browns were advised early of this reality.
Look at it this way too … after thinking about it, Dayana Mendoza now seems pretty happy the way things worked out …
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"Bus Cook, not also represented Brett Favre. The longtime Packers star didn't mesh last year with Jets coach Eric Mangini, who was fired and landed in Cleveland."
this is total b.s.
mangini and favre meshed just fine in new york. staypuft mangini named his son zack "brett" and basically forfeited the season by sticking with brett and abandoning the running game in the final stretch. this supposed staypuft mangini/favre rift is a total fraud.