Browns owner Jimmy Haslam hopes to get even more bang for his buck out of his newly minted $40 million man Myles Garrett. “What we’ve challenged Myles on is, by his practice habits, by his actions, etc.

There were moments after Myles Garrett went public with his trade demand to the Browns where things could have gone south. It ended up in an new deal.

With only 60 percent of Deshaun Watson's landmark five-year, $230 million contract concluded, Browns owner Jimmy Haslam has admitted what everyone already knew.

Browns owner Jimmy Haslam admitted Monday that the club is still trying to recover from the massive failed Deshaun Watson trade. “Well, I mean let’s address the elephant in the room,” Haslam said to a small group of Browns beat writers at the NFL Annual Meeting at The Breakers here.

Browns owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam spoke with a small group of beat writers Monday, when they addressed the Deshaun Watson deal and the 3-14 season.

The Browns' decision to trade three-first round picks, a third-round pick and two fourth-round picks to the Texans for Deshaun Watson, and then give Watson the biggest guaranteed contract in NFL history,

“What we’ve challenged Myles on is, by his practice habits, by his actions, etcetera, to become a real leader of the team,” Browns owner Jimmy Haslam said this week, via Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com (h/t Pro Football Talk's Charean Williams ). “And he has said he’d do that and we’re hopeful that he will be.”

Team owner Jimmy Haslam used the phrase at Tuesday's NFL owners meetings, via Cleveland.com, adding that fans and media can hold "me and Dee accountable," a reference to his wife