UPDATED: The offer Nate Solder received from the Giants was not, as reported, similar to the offer he received from the Patriots:
An earlier Tweet by a New York reporter indicated that the Pats' offer was in the same neighborhood as the four-year, $62 million deal he got from the Giants that made him the NFL's highest-paid offensive lineman:
Curran had earlier reported that a week before Solder took the Giants offer, the Patriots had made a "solid" offer to Solder, the left tackle who turns 30 in April.
"It was a tough decision," Solder told the assembled media, including NJ.