If your goal was to get cut then it probably did. Brown wanted out of Pittsburg but I doubt the Raiders were his first choice for a new home. He may well have worked out a deal with the Pats that if he could get out of Oakland then Belichick would immediately grab him. Sounds like the kind of deal Belichick would sign on to.
But why didn’t just go to the Pats in the first place?
Now the Raiders have $30M off the salary cap they can use..............