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Originally Posted by jettio
Chiefs could have been upfront and let Jones know that his best choice would be to just play out his current deal because any offer would not be market value.
If your extension offer has AAV 5 million less than first franchise tag, it is not a market value deal.
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For 99% of situations, you'd be right in saying that the franchise tag value would be a good representation of current market value. That's not the case for CJ's situation because his tag value is a function of a particularly large cap hit the prior season, and that's just a function of the fact that the Chiefs backloaded the cap hit for the 2nd half of his 4yr deal (29.4mm in 2022 and 28.3mm in 2023 after 15mm and 8.5mm the prior couple years).
But it's okay - you don't acknowledge anything, so ignore this like you ignore all other logic.