Maybe they are prepared to sign him to a full value deal in free agency. They'll have his bird rights now so in free agency they could max him out. They won't be hard capped next year.
According to the page source and the embedded milliisecond value of the timestamp, you beat him by 6 seconds. poor zeeshan2, this thread should get all the responses. If a mod would merge the two threads, you'd be vindicated, because the bbs would sort you as OP, and J.R. would be second.