Rams | Negotiations with Pace at a Standstill - from www.KFFL.com
Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:41:45 -0800
Jim Thomas, of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, reports the St. Louis Rams have until Wednesday, March 16, to sign franchise OT Orlando Pace to a long-term deal before a four-month blackout period kicks in when the team cannot negotiate a long-term deal with him. Pace characterized negotiations as being "at a standstill" with St. Louis. The team has offered him a deal worth $51 million, including a $15 million signing bonus. However, the guaranteed money in the deal is less than what the Seattle Seahawks gave OT Walter Jones.
Seeing as he has turned down this offer, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say we can't afford him.