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The Rams could do that , but according to VB and other insiders, that is NOT the case...they're willing to make him the highest paid defender in the NFL,
You can't say that with any real certainty.
First off there are no "insiders." You have some league people and some reporters repeating rumors.
Second off, unless you know the figures, you cannot with any actual validity claim that any offer the Rams have out there is good enough.
For one thing "highest paid defender" could mean 19.5 M, which
would make him the highest paid, but, his market value is above that.
For another thing, in spite of the speculation from a few reporters, Demoff does NOT say he will be the highest paid defender. He says that he would be AMONG the highest paid defenders. That would average around 18 M or even less. That's even further away from his market value, which in 2018 is north of 20 M.
IMO we have to factor in what Demoff said. We're not really in the discussion unless we account for it. We also have to stop acting like VB and the handful or reporters you like on this said anything real.
Without numbers we have no idea one way or another if the Rams offer is good enough. (Along with the fact that Demoff threw water on the claim that he would be the "highest." )
If we dont know the numbers then we don't really know anything.
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He said that because he is very smart about talking publicly about this... he could have said they are offering to make him the highest paid defender, but that would be akin to taking the negotiation public..he’s being political and showing respect, as he should be.
Take what Demoff says with a grain of salt.
I don’t think VB would say things like that publicly if he didn’t think they were true.
What is the market for DT’s??? You can’t just make up markets ... it is what it is.
Ask Leveon Bell how his contract negotiations are going....
Btw, happy 4th of July!
It's not the market for DTs. It;s the market for top 2-3 defenders. Last contract in that domain was Von Miller, 2016. And yes that gives us a general idea of what he is worth. Neither VB nor Demoff put him in the market for DTs. For one thing not a single other DT in the league is his caliber, and though the league has many good DTs, they are just not up there on AD's rung.
Sorry I just don't buy your assumption, which makes no sense to me, that Demoff would think he was accomplishing something by publicly lying about their intentions. To me that's just being selective. You take his words and make what you personally want out of them. Instead I look at what he says and ask, what possible gain would he get out of lying about this. And there is none. No agent worth anything is going to get bamboozled by a public statement. They're too professional for that.
VB didn't say anything. He qualified all of it, and put it in terms of speculation. It's you who turned it into hard truths, not him. Making something out of VB's comments he did not say is not honoring or respecting his "truthfulness," it's misreading him.
So I keep saying unless we know figures we do not know what;s really happening. I stand behind that hardcore.
I don't want to keep repeating that over and over in exchanges with you , but until we get info, that is where I stand. So I figure we're done...each of us knows what the other thinks. That's not said "accusingly." What I want to avoid (from hereon out) is us 2 having the exact same exchange over and over.
Fair enough?
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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/05/2018 01:28AM by zn.