Less than 24 hours after the Steelers beat the Browns and sent them back to Cleveland with a 1-5 record, Mike Tomlin criticized Browns general manager Andrew Berry for trading his starting quarterback to a division rival last week.

Berry sent veteran Joe Flacco to the Bengals for a fifth-round draft choice a little more than a month after he won the starting job.

“To be honest, it was shocking to me,” Tomlin said Monday afternoon at his weekly news conference. “Andrew Berry must be a lot smarter than me or us because it doesn’t make sense to me — to trade a quarterback who you think enough of to be your opening-day starter to a division opponent that’s hurting in that area. ... But that’s just my personal feelings.”

The Steelers travel to Cincinnati later this week for a Thursday night

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