Mike Florio

He's got a $500,000 workout bonus that he's willing to sacrifice in an effort to get this deal.

They've been trying to get a deal done.

And what this does, it creates a market potentially for

For Dexter Lawrence, teams will start calling the Giants now and making them offers.

And if somebody makes the Giants an offer they won't refuse, then we could see a trade.

But the goal ultimately is to get Dexter Lawrence's contract adjusted to better reflect his place in the broader market.

He's at $20 million now.

For this year, his new money APY is 22 or so.

It's still far too low.

He's not even in the top 10 interior defensive linemen.

He wants to get bumped up higher.

My understanding is the contract that Jordan Davis got from the Eagles just before the start of free agency at $26 million a year new money APY.

That was really the catalyst for making this thing happen.

urgent and for getting lawrence and his agent joel siegel to come up with this strategy but i firmly believed it was not accidental on monday it was specifically leaked to send the message not just to the giants but to the rest of the league give the giants a call and see if someone will offer the giants something that will cause them to decide to move on from lawrence in lieu of paying him the contract that he seeks

And I think he's been trying for a while to get his contract readjusted.

The market always changes.

The cap always goes up.

And at a certain point, it becomes glaring.

And the problem with NFL contracts, they are not two-way agreements.

It's a one-way arrangement where the team always has the ability to tear up the deal.