Quote:Rapoport reported late Thursday that the <a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.nfl.com/teams/clevelandbrowns/profile?team=CLE'>Browns</a> <a class="bbc_url" href='https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/454411732866187264'>have not made a decision</a> on whether they'll match the <a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.nfl.com/teams/jacksonvillejaguars/profile?team=JAC'>Jaguars</a>' offer. Sources in Cleveland indicate the team is "really mulling it over" and that the specifics of the offer has made the decision tougher than originally imagined.

NFL Media's Albert Breer earlier reported that Cleveland <a class="bbc_url" href='https://twitter.com/AlbertBreer/status/454363699768086528'>planned to match</a> any deal for Mack, a notion supported by <a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.nfl.com/teams/clevelandbrowns/profile?team=CLE'>Browns</a> owner Jimmy Haslam's <a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000340195/article/haslam-hints-browns-would-match-alex-mack-deal'>public statements</a>.

 
<a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000340444/article/alex-mack-to-sign-5year-42m-offer-sheet-with-jags'>http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000340444/article/alex-mack-to-sign-5year-42m-offer-sheet-with-jags</a>

If I kept saying I was going to do something then changed my mind I'd say something similar. Not that I make a habit of going back on my word, but you know what I mean. It's like they said this to save face if they decide not to after repeatedly saying they'll match anything. I wonder how much Mack not wanting to be there factors into the equation.

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