The Browns are in the midst of trying something different.
But some of their actions will still make people say “same old Browns.”
According to Peter King of TheMMQB.com, a number of outgoing Browns coaches were dismayed at two bits of news they heard on their way out the door.
Many of the coaches who will leave with Mike Pettine have a year left on their contract, but the Browns aren’t providing some of the usual benefits. They won’t pay for the outgoing assistants to go to the Senior Bowl, and they won’t allow them to purchase the two Super Bowl tickets which each player and coach are allowed to buy at face value.
Both are potentially costly losses for the former Browns staff. The Senior Bowl is a de facto job fair, where networking is vital for an industry with little in the way of security. And while it’s technically against the rules, the re-selling of those tickets is often a nice little bonus for coaches, as long as they can do it discreetly.
But the former Browns won’t be doing so, which makes you wonder who’s going to be getting those tickets, and possibly re-selling them for themselves.
