When the Denver Broncos begin their offseason program on Monday, Super Bowl MVP Von Miller won't be there. He won't be there Tuesday or later in the week. And without a new long-term deal, there's no guarantee he'll be at the team's summer minicamp or even arrive on time for training camp.

That's an indication of the financial distance between the Broncos and Miller. The two sides are not close, with a disparity believed to be in the neighborhood of $20 million total over a span of five years. That's a difference of roughly $4 million per season. Two sources familiar with the negotiation pegged Denver's offer as hovering around $18 million per season (roughly $90 million over five years). With the $4 million disparity in mind, that puts Miller's stance at around $22 million annually (roughly $110 million over five years).

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Interestingly, the Broncos are squaring up in this negotiation in a manner that has come to define this offseason. They're drawing a financial line in the sand, a familiar tune for the franchise. Here's a list of names over the past several months that defined Denver's bottom-line approach: Derek Wolfe, Malik Jackson, Brock Osweiler, Danny Trevathan, Ryan Clady, Russell Okung and Colin Kaepernick. And now, Von Miller has joined the party.

The value of those players has been viewed through a fiscal-minded lens this offseason. Specifically, what general manager John Elway was or wasn't willing to pay for their skills. But salary-cap guru Mike Sullivan has interestingly emerged as a power broker in the roster-shaping process, too. Sullivan has been a strong voice this offseason, both in Elway's ear and at the negotiating table, multiple league sources told Yahoo Sports.

Here's where things currently stand with Miller: The Broncos feel they've put a strong and fair offer on the table for a player who isn't actually on the open market. The Broncos aren't interested in looking at Miller's value on the "open market" because he isn't on it thanks to the franchise tag. To the Broncos, they are using the tag as a tool to retain Miller for this year and potentially the next season, while paying him a fair price for his services. And in the team's estimation, Miller could be retained for the next two seasons at a total price of around $32 million. The $16 million per season for the next two years means Denver's offer of $18 million per year averages out to more for the next two years than the Broncos would be paying otherwise.

The team also sees the $18-million-per-season offer as a good deal for Miller, making him the second-highest-paid defensive player in the NFL, behind Miami's Ndamukong Suh (who has an annual average of $19.062 million). For some perspective, multiple league sources said Denver is comfortable with its offer because it puts Miller ahead of other "overpaid" annual deals signed elsewhere. Among those are Suh, New York Giants defensive end Olivier Vernon ($17 million) and Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Justin Houston ($16.8 million).

That outlook isn't dovetailing with the approach Miller and his camp are taking, particularly as it pertains to pass rushers, sources said. Vernon's deal will be viewed as a market-setter by every high-end edge rusher. The price for top-shelf players who get to the quarterback, or potentially do more, went up significantly this offseason. From the viewpoint of Miller's camp, he is the most versatile elite rusher in the NFL. He's also arguably the most important piece on a defense that captured a Super Bowl for Denver.

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