Saquon Barkley said the Giants asking him to bring back an offer they could gauge rather than making him an offer was a 'slap in the face.'
Saquon Barkley wasn't happy with the way the New York Giants handled his contract negotiations this offseason before he left for the Philadelphia Eagles in free agency. The star running back said in an interview on The Athletic's 'Scoop City' podcast that it felt 'a little disrespectful' that the Giants asked him to bring back an offer to match after hitting the open market rather than making an offer themselves.
However, he said that 'a lot of teams' sent him 'true offers' when free agency opened, which he thinks might have surprised the Giants based on the contract talks he had with his former team. 'I felt like the Giants thought that I was going to go out there and get $9 , maybe $8 or a stretch at $10 and then I'll come back to them, ‘Alright, we got you if you want to come play at $9 , you come play at $9 ,'' Barkley said.
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