Texans and Duane Brown reach contract agreement

[IDEXAN]

Originally Posted by ArlingtonTexan

Simple, In the broad NFL market OLT tackles are not quite paid to the level elite pass rusher are. The other factor is that Mario went to the open market and Brown did not. I am guessing that Brown gets more guaranteed if plays well again and goes free agent. that's why you sign now instead of later.

http://www.spotrac.com/top-salaries/nfl/

DEs

http://www.spotrac.com/top-salaries/nfl/defensive-end/

Tackles

http://www.spotrac.com/top-salaries/nfl/tackle/

I agree with you about all of that, but just not to the extent that Duane has a 55% discount on guaranteed money vs Mario. Even if he gets 30 M instead of 22.5, that's still a 40 % discount to Mario's money. And as we know, Duane has been more durable, he's just not missed much time.

[Premier]

tbh i was a little worried about his wife's influence on where he could end up playing. i get the impression she is one of those d-lister celebs trying to live a very high-profile lifestyle, duanes own version of lala anthony and we know how that worked out for the city of denver.

[Goldensilence]

Originally Posted by Corrosion

Thats not completely true .... They made him a reasonable offer tho less than the brinks truck Buffalo ended up giving him , it was reasonable for the position.

Maybe they made a verbal offer, but nothing that was official?

I think Dutch is right the Texans just couldn't make a real competitive offer. He had a pretty nice resume and I knew going into the off-season he was going to hit a big paycheck, the big argument was/is if he was going to play up to it.