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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
Offer sheets matched, by virtue of matching, are fair value payments.
Offers not matched, like Penner, is an overpayment.
Obviously the Avs felt ROR was worth that or would not have matched.
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Matching the offer sheet likely had (almost) everything to do with a 5M cap hit and (almost) nothing to do with the breakdown of the payout.
The 6.5M QO, was obviously a ploy by Feaster to deter the aves from matching. Oreilly knew it. Flames knew it. Aves knew it.