Browns President Mike Holmgren, on a conference call with season ticket holders today, said the Browns offer to the Rams to trade up to No. 2 for Robert Griffin III "was every bit the offer that was chosen'' according to Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Browns reportedly had offered three No. 1 picks, but not a second. He said all of the reports have been incorrect. The Redskins pulled off the deal with three No. 1s and a second-rounder. "There are reasons it didn't happen,'' said Holmgren. "There's a very close relationship with the parties that got it done''. He added, "I'm not sure any offer was going to be good enough. We were very aggressive and it didn't work. Rest assured, we were aggressively involved in that.'' Source: The Redzone
Didn't help that they were trying to play hard ball with the Rams for weeks before hand. Just another thing for Holmgren to be bitter about.
He comes across as a lil girl crying about her doll getting dirty...shut up already Mike, obviously Jeff wanted to deal with "his" guys and not you, it's his prerogative, deal with it already...
Word from twitter (just as reliable with just as much fact cfreaking as ESPN btw) is that it was a "make your best offer" scenario and the Redskins won. Browns came back and said wait, here's our "real best offer" and the Rams said too late. I prefer to think the Browns never came close to offering 3 first round picks and a 2nd that's almost a 1st for a player who has never played in the NFL though.
