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Report: Sam Bradford wouldn't sign extension with Browns
Originally written on Waiting For Next Year | Last updated 3/31/15

The Browns reportedly wanted to acquire Sam Bradford from the Rams but the QB reportedly was unwilling to sign an extension with the team. Scott Halleran/Getty Images

By Scott Sargent

Another day, another member of the media confirming that it was in fact the Cleveland Browns who offered a first-round draft pick for former St. Louis Rams quarterback Sam Bradford.

Bradford was ultimately sent to the Philadelphia Eagles in a deal for quarterback Nick Foles. According to Sports Illustrated’s Peter King, however, the machinations of the failed deal run a lot deeper than just the Browns being one-upped by the Chip Kelly.

I think I can now say with certainty that The Other Team in the chase for Sam Bradford—as many have inferred—was Cleveland. The Browns would have been willing to part with a first-round pick in either 2015 or 2016 (I do not know which year) for Bradford, but there were two problems: One, the Browns didn’t have a quarterback to give in return, and Philadelphia was willing to fork over Nick Foles. Two, Bradford would not have been willing to sign a new contract this off-season if he were traded to Cleveland, and he is willing to consider an extension in Philadelphia. So the Philly deal was really the only one that made sense for the Rams and for Bradford, in the end.

So, let’s take this step by step:

Apparently none of the three quarterbacks on the Browns—Johnny Manziel, Josh McCown, or Connor Shaw—counted as actual quarterbacks. Splendid. While Browns fans could play the “grumble grumble national media narrative bias grumble” card, fewer individuals are more plugged in to the Rams than King. If he’s reporting it, it’s true.

Then there’s the contract situation. Bradford was not willing to sign a contract extension with the Browns. Entering the final year of his gigantic six-year, $78 million deal, Bradford is set to be a free agent in 2016. This report insinuates that not only was Bradford willing to sign with the Eagles, but he will most definitely sign an extension with them, effectively washing away the hope that Cleveland could still acquire him on Draft Day. While it’s not worth ever counting out Kelly and his potential to make a head-scratching move, it appears that the former Sooner will be in the City of Brotherly Love for the next several well-compensated seasons. Not bad considering he was pondering retirement as recent as a few months ago.

Meanwhile, the Browns are still without a quarterback. They have plenty of ammunition in the way of draft picks, but even those are up for debate as the NFL is expected to take at least one of them this week. Teams with quality quarterbacks are not willing to trade them and free agency is never the answer. It’s looking more and more like the Browns will be picking another QB come draft time. It is also looking more and more like we’ll be having these exact same discussions a year from now.

Someone asked for a link. Here it is. More negative news for the Browns under Farmer and Haslam.

That whole article sounds like mere speculation to me...

Nonetheless it will be espoused ad naseum that he wouldn't come here because of farmer and Haslam.. again with no concrete proof, but it fits the line of thinking of some.

I think I can now say with certainty that The Other Team in the chase for Sam Bradford—as many have inferred—was Cleveland.

...he didn't want to come to Cleveland, until we're winners ...

Not bad considering he was pondering retirement as recent as a few months ago.

There are those that look at what has happened minus the kool ade and they aren't happy with what they see. One could easily without the use of any imagination what so ever, look and say wow this team is profoundly dysfunctional. The only hope is, is that they turn the page on the dysfunctional and get their acts together.

If we are to change the perception and garner respect we have to be steady so far we are not, and from the outside looking in they don't appear to have learned much if anything at all about why the perception is what it is. And I include a great many of the fans. We need a steady hand in the form of an owner but we are far from seeing that yet.

In conclusion if I were a player this would be the last place I would want to come unless I just wanted a pay check which is indicative of the players we have been able to attract and retain for that matter.

Pretend for a moment your not a fan but are just someone on the outside looking in and it will come to you.

I said it before, i would've been pissed if we gave up a 1st for a QB that tears something getting out of bed in the morning.

We can say all we want about his potential, the dude is a bum. if he somehow makes it as an Eagles QB without getting injured, then hey, good for him.

But his history says otherwise.

This is slightly off topic but applicable to this situation. One thing that drove me nuts about our team's previous FOs & staffs that seems to have slowed a bit with the current FO & staff is the loose lips of the Browns & many NFL teams.

Whether I like the Sam Bradford situation or not, I find it amazing that franchise owners have no issues with their inside information being leaked to the press.
I like the fact that going into the draft the Browns were difficult to predict their pick because Farmer & Pettine play it close to the vest and many of the suppositions of area writers turn out to be wrong.

I hope that is because Browns FO people are keeping their thoughts in house.

Sorry to have hijacked this topic a bit.

We've had worse hijackings LOL

Anyway, I've yet to see where that writer got his info. He's not saying that he has an inside source or that he spoke to someone that wanted to remain anonymous or anything like that.

What I'm saying is that there is nothing that says with any certainty, that anyone working for the Browns leaked anything.

to me, this is another in a long line of bogus stories.

We've had worse hijackings LOL

Anyway, I've yet to see where that writer got his info. He's not saying that he has an inside source or that he spoke to someone that wanted to remain anonymous or anything like that.

What I'm saying is that there is nothing that says with any certainty, that anyone working for the Browns leaked anything.

to me, this is another in a long line of bogus stories.

I like the secrecy ... that to me is a real strong point of this administration.

Nonetheless it will be espoused ad naseum that he wouldn't come here because of farmer and Haslam.. again with no concrete proof, but it fits the line of thinking of some.

Where is his proof? I mean he can now "SAY" with certainty that the other team was the Browns. Great. In what way was he able to confirm this.

I love it, you repeat all the same negative things and omit the positives..

To name a few:

Picking up two good RB's

Picking up a Oline guy that may turn out to be a stud

Winning 7 games for the first time since what, 2007?

It's really easy to name the bad (or supposed bad) things, but it seems that when an agenda is involved, the Good just slips by.

If they have more turmoil next year and win 10 games, I'm going to laugh at those that only talk about the negatives.

Sometimes things are so obvious it doesn't need to be said. Players don't do those things, nor do coaches its the unspoken contractual agreement between players, coaches and the NFL. A player won't say hey they are unstable for many reasons mainly at some point they may one day need to cross that bridge again and players just don't say bad things about organizations in general. That however doesn't mean privately they hold that organization to a low opinion.

It's not some huge leap of faith to look at this organization and realize they are not a well respected organization.

1- Haslam fires the entire staff and installs his people.

2 1 year later he fires them ALL, and starts over but just as importantly he said he was going to bring continuity to the franchise. From there its tough as hell to even get a HC to come here. The word is out and in PRIVATE, Chud and company have damaged Haslam to the point of having trouble landing coaches.

3 Haslam pulls rank on his GM and orders Farmer to move up in the draft and take JF.

4 Haslam via Farmer instigates textgate. Sure Farmer took the fall but all but the most naive among us knows to a reasonable certainty that Haslam was the trigger man. Oh sure we can fain ignorance in some misguided attempt to defend their actions but we know don't we?

5 they say that the reason for firing Chud was player accountability then the following season we watch as player after player thumbs their noses at accountability. In the end I think they actually realized the error of their ways in that regard because come week 16 they handed out suspensions left and right. But what about the other 15 weeks of the season when this was going on.

Can you say with evidence that Haslam was the ring leader, yah based on the preponderance of the evidence he is the culprit and he is the reason why players are leaving they want to keep, and he is the reason we can't get top flight players and coaches to come here. You can add Bradford to the list. If your waiting for a player to come out and say it you'll never hear it but their actions and in this case Skrine, Jordan, and Bradford all passed up the opportunity to come to Cleveland and we all know why.

The only real question is can we admit the obvious to ourselves?

St. Louis Rams coach Jeff Fisher said Wednesday that no players were involved when the Cleveland Browns made their pitch to acquire quarterback Sam Bradford.

http://espn.go.com/blog/nflnation/post/_...-johnny-manziel

Yeah, I recall reading that Jeff Fisher required a QB to make the deal work. Something we couldn't provide.