This one feels weird. Because over the past two months the Miami Dolphins and the representative for Jarvis Landry have exchanged a couple of contract proposals and the team decided the receiver’s asking price of about $58 million over four years -- or $14.5 million per season -- was too high.
So the Dolphins, who made the first move in those negotiations, never answered agent Damarious Bilbo’s $14.5-million-per-year request. That was too much to pay a slot receiver with other issues, the Dolphins apparently decided.
And then late Tuesday evening Miami put the franchise tag on Landry -- a move that costs a whopping $16 million in 2018.