Originally posted by jcs:No less unprofessional than quitting on a team with a 32 point powerpoint presentation so you can work for your dad.
Shanahan wanted out of his Browns contract after the front office started to dictate which quarterback he had to play and how he was going to run his offense.
Mike Shanahan was already out of the NFL by that point.
Nothing unprofessional about telling a s**tty employer to get bent when they renege on the terms of a deal they agreed to.
Shanahan admitted that factions inside the building working against each other caused him to leave.
"It's tough to win when you're not on the same page," he said. "It's tough to win even when you are on the same page.''
Among other things, Shanahan was rankled by former Browns general manager Ray Farmer's impermissible in-game texts to assistants questioning playcalling and use of personnel. Farmer was ultimately suspended four games and the Browns fined $250,000 for the infraction. But there were 31 other things, likely including that Shanahan wanted either Derek Carr or Jimmy Garoppolo in the draft and the Browns drafted Johnny Manziel instead.
"There was a number of things,'' said Shanahan. "Obviously, the texts were one of the few things. When you get a feeling not everyone's going in the same direction, when you have that feeling, it makes it very tough to win. That was the feeling for a number of reasons that I had there."
http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2017/02/kyle_shanahan_on_leaving_cleve.html
One of the big reasons he left was that he wasn't on the same page with the people in Berea, presumably with the front office's desire to see Johnny Manziel over Brian Hoyer despite the fact that the then-rookie quarterback was not ready. In Mary Kay Cabot's article on Shanahan, she says that then-GM Ray Farmer "texted assistants during games to complain about Shanahan's playcalling and use of personnel." We've heard about Farmer's texting before, but that note seems a bit more specific, reporting it as fact versus rumor.
Coming out of the draft, Cabot cited a source that said Shanahan's preference of quarterbacks in 2014 started with QB Derek Carr and was followed by QB Jimmy Garoppolo. The same report says that Shanahan did not prefer to go with QB Johnny Manziel or QB Teddy Bridgewater. Shanahan confirmed to reporters that he liked Garoppolo a lot coming out of that draft, but that the front office went a different direction.
