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Mike Vrabel Looked Pissed After the Titans Traded AJ Brown

Kyle Pagan

By Kyle Pagan

Published:

via @NFL_DovKleiman on Twitter

It doesn’t look like Titans Head Coach Mike Vrabel wanted to part with A.J. Brown. I was rooting for a good chair toss:

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Vrabel told Rich Eisen several weeks ago on his show that as long as he was head coach Brown wouldn’t be traded (starts around 3:50). So, this certainly doesn’t feel like it was planned until recently:

According to Howie, the trade was down to the wire, but around pick #15 things started to heat up:

Q: How tricky is it when you’re trying to figure out the trade and the player and you’re working on the contract at the same time against the deadline? (Reuben Frank)

HOWIE ROSEMAN: Yeah, I don’t know. [Eagles Senior Vice President of Communications] Bob [Lange] and [Eagles Vice President of Football Communications] Brett [Strohsacker], you saw me walk out about 40 times, and it was getting tight. It was really getting tight. And we were just trying to balance it all, and I’m very fortunate to have a great staff.

Those guys, you know, they keep me covered when I’m doing something else. And we had a plan, and so it wasn’t like, you know, anything was on the fly. We had a very detailed plan. I thought this whole group did an unbelievable job of organizing and detailing everything.

We made it like coaches on game day, and we knocked it off. Boom, boom, boom. When the opportunities came, it wasn’t hard because we had made these decisions in calm times.

I think the hardest part was trying to balance it all and the timing that was going on and trying to be fair to the Titans as well. Obviously, they had to make a pick and get on the clock if we were going to make this trade.

A lot of credit to [new Eagles WR] A.J. [Brown] and his agents for getting this deal done as well because this wasn’t like we had weeks to do. It really kind of came about quickly here.

Q: How close was it? You said it was tight. Like how? (Reuben Frank)

HOWIE ROSEMAN: Pick 12? 15?

ANDY WEIDL: Yeah.

HOWIE ROSEMAN: Yeah. 15.

Sheesh. Brown. Who would’ve thought going into Thursday the Eagles would totally revamp their receiver corps in one night. Titans players sure didn’t:

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Kyle Pagan
Kyle Pagan

Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com

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