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The first day the Patriots can sign him to a long term deal without losing the franchise tag.
Wishful thinking. I think Asante was smiling because he's guaranteed at least $7.8M and could be looking at a signing bonus or guarantees of upwards of $15M. The last offer we made him was $7.5M in signing bonus. I find it hard to envision us bridging that gap unless Asante wants a lot less than he could easily get on the open market. I think they like him a lot, for a price, but they also know he isn't in the same league as the players you cited. His success is predicated to a large extent on the performance of an elite front 7. And that is where BB has chosen to make his top tier financial investments to date.
I have a feeling he won't sign, he wants TONS.
Let's have him this year, hope he does very well again, and then let him walk next offseason and we'll get a late 3rd as compensation the following year. That's the most likely scenario IMO.