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Report! Show you are about the team. All holdouts are a problem. U signed a deal, so show up and the rest will work itself out imo.
Except he's basically NOT under contract because both the Rams and Donald agree he has earned a NEW contract. Demoff said it: he's a special player who deserves a special contract.
The Rams wiped out your argument because by THEIR choice, this is a mutual situation where both sides agree to an extension.
And if he got injured like Easley before a contract was finished, it really would be him and not the team, all by himself, no contract.
Cause the team would not make a huge contract extension for an injured player.
So it's easy for us to lecture him about "team" when he knows full well he would not be getting that extension if injured.
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I mostly agree with your perspective here. The injury issue is huge and the reason why AD is being advised to sit out right now. That makes tons of sense to me.
However, when there is a contract, you are under the contract until you're not. Someone verbally agreeing that it needs to be modified is not a modification itself. So he's under contract.
But IMO that doesn't mean much when you're talking about whether or not he can sit out. The contract already anticipates that being a possibility and has built in consequences. At that point, it's up to him to make a business decision and determine if suffering those consequences are worth it.
It's a business decision. All this crap about "team first" is just that, crap. Teams are looking out for their bottom line when it comes to contractual issues too. Why wouldn't players?
