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Why Eagles' Brown wants trade

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06:30 AM ET 04.21 | Sheldon Brown feels taken for granted, the steady Eagles corner told your Eagletarian Monday evening. "I've always been treated like the redheaded stepchild, ever since I was drafted," Brown said. He was explaining how he came to tell ESPN that he wanted to be traded, a move that provoked a strong, lengthy statement from the team Monday afternoon, denying his request and asserting that the contract extension Brown signed in 2004 does not make him underpaid in 2009. "I've always been the nice guy, never said anything. I think they took that for granted," Brown said. Brown said he reached the boiling point when, after a year of trying to get the Eagles to address his deal, he heard that team president Joe Banner had gone on WIP and said Brown's dissatisfaction had not been brought to his attention. Subsequently, Brown said, agent Jason Chayut's attempts to negotiate were shuffled off to recently hired Eagles consultant Andrew Brandt, who kept postponing planned meetings. "My agent has been trying to do it in a respectful fashion," he said. Brown said he made the public trade request in the spirit of "how do we get people to understand that this has been brought to your attention?" Asked if he would skip the upcoming mandatory minicamp or hold out from training camp -- steps that most agents would consider financially counterproductive -- Brown said: "Who knows?" Asked if the dispute might affect his play, should the Eagles stick to their vow not to trade him, Brown said: "It might. You never know. It's certainly something I'm going to be answering questions about all season long."

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