Amended it for you. This shouldn't be true, but it is.
I'm not going to defend Brown, but he's just the lasted example of players not being told what the penalty for their actions until another team signs them, making teams more reluctant to sign him in a year that's already being racked by unprecedented uncertainty. Not wanting to defend Kareem Hunt, but Goodell did the same thing to him. I can't help but wonder who will challenge this policy with a civil suit that I'm sure Goodell & the league would loose.