Brown’s GM Andrew Berry says he will not act Myles Garrett, not even for two first rounds; Open for contract extension

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Mobile, ala. – For those who want Browns to trade Myles Garrett so that they can fill up on choosing the first round and rebuilding, it does not happen.

Brown’s General Manager Andrew Berry, who spoke with three of the club’s regular beat writers here, including Cleveland.com, said unequivocally that he will not trade Browns’ Future Hall of Famer and reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year.

He was specifically asked, “If someone sees you for dinner tonight and says, ‘We’ll give you two to Myles,’ you say, ‘I’m not interested?'”

“Correct,” he said. “You can put it on the record.”

He also said he is definitely open to the contract extension, that Garrett, 29, revealed after the season finals in Baltimore, which he is looking for. He is under contract through 2026 to $ 25 million a year, fifth highest among the NFL Edge Rushers. In comparison, San Francisco’s Nick Bosa is first of $ 34 million.

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“I don’t want to go into contract discussions. I didn’t want to do it in public, ”Berry said. “But I think you can assume that at some point we expect a third contract with Myles. We want him to retire here. “

With the browns that consistently state that Garrett, a finalist again this year for the NFL Defensive Player of the Year, they may have to make him the highest paid defensive end in the NFL, or at least get him closer to the top of the market’s headline into its ninth NFL season.

Browns have consistently said he is the best defensive player in the NFL, and now they may have to pay him like that.

“If he won the award last year when he played the one he played last year, I don’t see how he is not the best defensive player in the game this year,” Stefanski said at the end of the season. “No matter what metric you want to measure it, if you want to go with the eye test, I think everyone would agree.

“If you want to go with the advanced measurements and look at the pressure numbers and the times he gets the double team and slides going on, it is the piece for me that I think is so impressive and remarkable. He does all this with getting all the attention from the other team. ”

Berry also noted Tuesday that his meeting after the season with Garrett went well. Late in the season, Garrett revealed that Browns needed to show him a plan to win or that he would go somewhere else to try to win a Super Bowl.

“We always have a really good and direct two -way communication with our players,” Berry said. “We really have a good time with Myles openly as a big piece of our future. We look forward to him being on the field. As I said at my (early January) press conference, we see to us that he is going from Cleveland to Canton when his career is over. “

Garrett also recently said that “we are close to than some think we are,” and indicated he will be back.

On December 20, he made it clear that he would insure from Browns that they would do everything to claim this season and that he was not up to a reconstruction.

“I want it to be visible when the season is over and we have these discussions I want them to be able to illuminate it for me, illustrate it for me so that it (winning) can be something I can Look in the near future. Because that’s all we want to do.

“I want to be loyal to a team that showed loyalty to me and believe me by preparing me. But we have to do at the end of the day what is best for us. So if we have the adaptation where this is something that is still possible in the near future, to win, go deep into the playoffs, put a big defense out there, have a time of possession, continuous game overgrowth. To get all guys back. I think it would really keep my mind at rest, keep me living. Not just my, many of the guys on the defense, d-line, around the team. But we have to continue taking steps forward, not only as players, but from the top down. “

Now he will not only be back, but will probably have many millions to show for his efforts.

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