Highsmith described seeing the UCLA volleyball team at the airport — Rosen’s girlfriend was on the team — and approached the coach to get a sense of Rosen’s character. The coach referred Highsmith to Rosen’s girlfriend, and without talking to her, he evidently had heard enough.
Highsmith said via cantonrep.com:
“I don’t know what all this means, but there was something about him that bothered me.”
Well, Rosen has added context to the already-bizarre story, and it didn’t make the Browns look especially rational. Rosen said in an appearance on the The Rich Eisen Show, via CBS Sports:
“I thought it was interesting that he didn’t talk to my girlfriend,” Rosen said. “Maybe he was scared of someone actually saying something good about me? I don’t know, I thought it was funny.”
Also, Rosen was just as befuddled as everyone else by the entire situation.
“It’s amazing that you can pull a red flag from something with literally zero information,” Rosen said. “Like, he literally pulled absolutely no information from his encounter and it managed to be a red flag.”