Quote:I guarantee you that there was a limit. 

 

Had the Jags made a more serious offer, at least enough to make Cleveland pause and take a breath before matching, maybe the Jags would receive more credit on their "offer". 

 

The Jags offer was barely market value. Everyone knew Cleveland would match THAT offer in short order. 

Are you really trying to dredge this up again?

 

It's not that hard to understand. Cleveland said they'd match any offer. Jacksonville made an offer that reflected fair market value and would have made Mack the highest-paid center ever. Cleveland, as they said they would, matched it. A Browns exec supposedly said, off the record, that the only way the Jaguars could have prevented the Browns from matching an offer was to fully guarantee it, which would have been idiotic. With the poison pill provision quietly written out of existence, there was no realistic way that the Jaguars were going to get Mack.

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