theshad
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They hired Pettine almost immediately after Gase dropped out.
The only thing remotely similar to an ultimatum was Pettine telling people during his press conference that the wait caused him to "Almost get to that point."
But nothing was ever remotely reported about Pettine giving them a deadline.
Essentially, the Browns got at LEAST their third choice for this position. Whether that's a good thing or not remains to be seen, but you trying to spin the process as anything other than a clusterfuck has been pretty bad thus far.
It was a clusterfuck, we'll see if it works out though.
Third choice? Gase and...?
Call it what you want but I am happy with the outcome of it, I prefer actually going through an interviewing process with numerous candidates as opposed to what they did with Lombardi (Clearly have him in mind then go through some bullshit interviews to satisfy the Rooney Rule and hire him)
I would have been content with Gase or Quinn also, much more Quinn after that Superbowl but I feel like we got a solid hire anyway.