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Here was the Chiefs’ final contract offer to LT Orlando Brown Jr.

The #Chiefs’ final offer to LT Orlando Brown Jr. was an aggressive six-year, $139-million-dollar deal according to a new report.

Reports continue to come in that the Kansas City Chiefs and LT Orlando Brown Jr. will not agree on a new contract extension ahead of Friday’s deadline.

The latest comes from ESPN’s Adam Schefter, who reports that the Chiefs made an aggressive push to get Brown Jr. signed to a long-term deal. Schefter says the final offer from K.C. was a six-year deal worth $139 million with an average salary of $23.16 million per year and a $30.25 million signing bonus. The contract would pay $95 million in the first five years.

At face value, this sounds like a pretty good deal for both sides. The reason that Brown Jr.’s agent didn’t take it was that it did not offer the long-term security that he was looking for. Only the first two years of the deal were fully guaranteed according to reports from NFL media.

There’s also something to be said about the final year of the contract and how it affected negotiations. This might look like a top-market deal for a left tackle, but the numbers were inflated with a large number in a final year that the Chiefs could get out of because of a lack of guaranteed money. With the contract paying $95 million over five years, it actually amounts to around $19 million in annual salary, which would place him below top deals like Trent Williams, David Bakhtiari, Laremy Tunsil and Ronnie Stanley.

The last year of the deal was essentially fake to pump up the numbers, which isn’t uncommon for most players in the NFL. Not taking that deal is a risk from Brown Jr., though. He’s essentially betting on himself that he can get a better offer after playing the 2022 NFL season on the franchise tag. If he doesn’t perform as well or better than he did in 2021, he might have some regrets about leaving this deal on the table.

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LeBron James was offered a Cowboys contract by Jerry Jones in 2011

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones offered NBA superstar LeBron James a contract in 2011

Back in 2011, the NBA was in the midst of a lockout. The league’s biggest star, LeBron James, didn’t know how long the lockout would last, and he actually started implementing football into his training regimen around October or November of that year.

So much so, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones offered James a contract to play for the Dallas Cowboys. Apparently, the offer was given a lot of thought.

At the time, the Cowboys were in their first full year under head coach Jason Garrett, who had taken over in the interim for Wade Phillips in the disappointing season of 2010.  The 6-foot-9 star would’ve made an intriguing option for Tony Romo and the passing game during the early stages of Dez Bryant’s career and the apex of tight end Jason Witten’s.

“We really started to actually train to be a football player,” James said. “We started to clock our times with the 40s. We started to add a little bit more with the bench press and things of that nature. We started to add a little more sled to our agenda with our workouts.”

His trainer Mike Mancias, a native Texan, and fellow Cowboys fan, began to encourage James on the idea of playing for America’s Team.

“The thoughts came into my mind. But never having the ability to finish my high school career of playing like my senior year, I have dreams all the time about playing football. It’s crazy, because I actually never run on the field in my dreams. It always gets to the point where I’m either in the locker room or getting dressed or talking about it or seeing the fans. As soon as I am about to run onto the field, something else happens in my dream. Something always happens like that.”

James was a two-time all-state receiver in Ohio, even receiving recruiting interest from Notre Dame. However, he didn’t play his senior year due to a wrist injury and went number one in the NBA Draft in 2003.

He’s an all-time great in basketball, but the idea of him playing for the Cowboys is a very intriguing one.

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Broncos offered Brock Osweiler a 3-year, $39M contract in 2016

Brock Osweiler received a massive contract when he left the Broncos in 2016. If he could go back in time, he’d probably re-sign with Denver.

After spending the first four years of his career as Peyton Manning‘s backup and coming off the bench as an injury replacement in 2015, former Broncos quarterback Brock Osweiler became an unrestricted free agent in 2016.

In a recent interview with Sports Illustrated‘s Greg Bishop, Osweiler looked back on that offseason and his (lack of) negotiations with Denver.

Osweiler was advised by his agents to not take any calls from Broncos general manager John Elway after a certain cutoff date leading up to NFL free agency. Osweiler listened to their advice but he now regrets doing so, according to Bishop.

Elway made a three-year, $39 million offer to Osweiler’s agents, the former QB told Bishop. That deal would have averaged $13 million per season. The four-year, $72 million deal that he later signed with the Texans averaged $18 million per season, but he didn’t finish it.

Houston guaranteed Osweiler $37 million over three years. That’s less than what he could have earned with the Broncos if he had fulfilled the entire proposed three-year deal from Elway, but that wouldn’t have been guaranteed.

Financially, it made sense to accept the contract with more certainty. Osweiler made over $41 million during his seven-year career in the NFL, according to Spotrac.com. He’d probably be willing to trade some of that money now to go back in time and get a chance to finish his career with the Broncos instead of leaving the team and Gary Kubiak‘s system.

Things didn’t work out in Houston and he lasted just one season with the Texans before bouncing around with four different teams — including another short stop in Denver — before ultimately deciding to retire. If he could do it all over again, Osweiler probably would have re-signed with the Broncos in 2016.

“I would have called John two weeks before that [offer] and told him, ‘Listen I want to be a Bronco until I die. If you want me, let’s get this done,'” Osweiler told Bishop.

“We might have won the Super Bowl the next year,” Osweiler said.

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