Mike Florio

And it never got to this point, but I believe his contract would have been renegotiated on the way through the door because the Ravens were inheriting four years at a total average payout of $29 million.

Why wouldn't you expect something more that puts you better in line with the market, especially if the Ravens think enough of you to give up two first-round picks?

And that's always...

It's a sliding scale, the components of a trade.

What do we have to give up to get the guy?

What do we have to pay to make him happy?

We saw what the Packers gave up for Michael Parsons and made him the guy who's at the top of the market.

So you just better be sure that you're comfortable with the medical side of it.

And the problem is this.

The Raiders dropped this bomb on Twitter last night saying the Ravens backed out of the agreement.

We'll have no further comment at this time.

It creates the impression the Ravens did something dirty, that they...

that they did something they shouldn't have done.

And the Ravens have been silent about it.

I think from a PR standpoint, the Ravens would be wise to find a way to get their story out there directly, not by leaking anything to reporters, but issue a statement that, hey, this deal wasn't done.

None of these deals are done until the physical is passed.

And we decided...

What they could have done, they could have waited until the deal was official today, pending a physical, and all of this could have happened tomorrow.

That would have been an even bigger mess, but that's the thing we've seen from time to time.

We've seen trades fall apart after the deal's done, after it's announced, pending a physical, and the physical isn't passed.