You aren't being dictated to if you have exclusive rights. You retain all the power and can do whatever you feel like at any point. It is just like regular Free Agency but with a safety net. Other teams make offers, only unlike URFA, we don't have to beat their offers, we just CHOOSE (notice we are not dictated to) whether or not we want to match.
By the way you mention after signing the higher tender we have the right to negotiate with him for a year on an extension. What do you think the extension would look like on a guy already making 1.5 million per year? On a young player you are trying to extend there will unquestionably be a raise involved.
So now you have jacked up the initial salary, payed him more in year one for the right to pay him even more in year 2 and 3 (or let him walk). Genius.
So please explain to me how tendering him high results in paying him less or even the same amount of money over a 3 year deal as what we got.
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