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Originally Posted by dlphg9
I wonder how contract negotiations went this year between Veach and Brown. Did they offer the same contract as last year or is the reason that they didn't franchise him because the Mac they'd pay him was like what they gave Taylor and knew that he'd say no, because he was still looking to reset the market?
I think what happened was they wanted to pay him at max 4/80 and they knew he'd turn it down, so they said no to franchise tagging him. They knew they'd have to get a replacement and liked Taylor, so they jumped on him as a LT replacement. I think Browns agent reached out to every team and it took them awhile to hear back and Cinci was probably one of the only teams that told him he could play LT and offered him more than a 1 yr deal. KC would have matched that Bengals deal, but KC already found their replacement and weren't willing paying that much for a RT and LT.
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I think the negotiations last year were troublesome so this year started with them being contentious. They reached out to him early and his asking price was so much that they said "why bother".