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Browns' and Bengals' AJ McCarron trade documents didn't match and more buzz from the botched trade: Mary Kay Cabot

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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- In the aftermath of the Browns' botched trade for Bengals quarterback AJ McCarron, cleveland.com talked to more than a half a dozen league sources with inside knowledge of how it all went down.

Here's some new buzz and some new details on the Battle of Ohio, in which the Browns ultimately waited to late to tell the Bengals they wanted to pull off the deal.

1. The Documents didn't match.

After hearing from the Browns at 3:54 p.m. Tuesday that they wanted to make the trade, the Bengals emailed their paperwork to the NFL at 3:55 p.