There's really nothing more to this than awkward timing, as you can rest assured that the person pumping out online party favors for Cleveland Browns' players isn't the same person pulling the trigger on player movement. Chances are John Dorsey's primary concern when trading a high end guard for a complimentary pass rusher wasn't the calendar, so it's not like anyone within the organization missed the joke while making it. Still, a sequence of posts that are inherently ironic makes for a pretty funny reminder of how fickle a career in professional sports can be. If Kevin Zeitler first found out he was being traded before all the NFL insiders did, which is questionable at best these days, he potentially could have gotten the call at the exact same time in which he was receiving a notification of birthday wishes from the organization that was telling him to go pack his bags to celebrate it in New York without booking a return flight. Pretty impossible to be at all naive to the cutthroat business of football when the facade that your franchise's interest in you is as much personal as it is professional gets stripped clean off, thus making the day of your birth one in which the sports' world goes about callously debating your value as nothing more than an athlete. Oh well, being sent to make the overly cautious corpse of Eli Manning look somewhat conscious instead of being a huge part of the rise of Baker Mayfield and the long overdue renaissance of competent football in Cleveland isn't exactly the best birthday present, but I've seen worse...
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