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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I think he will be as well, but the projection involved and the respective resumes says that he really had no business beating OBJ in an open market.
But Veach was not going to allow himself to get dragged around by this guy and his ****ing neophyte yes man of an agent again. So he paid probably 15% more than the market likely supported to get the deal closed quickly and move on.
And that's fine in this setting. You're not signing a WR2 like Watkins, a safety or a LBer. It's your LT - if you have to overpay by a little to not get butt-****ed, do it.
But Brown wasn't gonna accept 'overpay by a little' as an answer unless or until the market beat him over the head with it.
Good job, Market. You did the lord's work with that clown and his dipshit agent.
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The consensus is we overpaid for Taylor, but did we really? I mean McGlinchey got more than him to play RT, so realistically he didn't even get the biggest contract on the market at that position, and I'd argue he's just as good if not better than McGlinchey at RT. I think he's the one who kind of set the market so Veach had to go to that $80 million level if he wanted to get the deal done. Considering that they also wanted him to move to LT, they had to boost the offer a little more as well.
If we waited around, could he have gotten him for less? Maybe, but then you're playing that same game you did with Brown. He went in and got it done for what the market said was a pretty fair price at the time. We also don't know what else Taylor had on the table. He was being pretty heavily pursued from all indications, unlike Brown who nobody wanted because he sucks royal ass and is a punk ass bitch.