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AlbaNY_Ram
Turf Show Times speculates that a fair contract for Donald would be 6 years, $110M with guaranteed money in the $65M to $70M range. [www.turfshowtimes.com]

I assume that Donald's demands are within shouting distance of that number. But no matter what Donald is asking here's what I don't get: if the Rams determine that Donald is not worth what he's asking why would the Colts (or any other team for that matter) be willing to meet his demands and give up a first, second, and third round pick on top of that?

This is the way contracts work. Vanguard, top players set the prices with their contracts. Every year contracts go up. So qbs this year got 25 M (avg. for 2nd contract for young starters) whereas just a couple of years ago it was 19 M.

The last high, trend- and standard-setting contract for a top DT was Suh, getting 19 M a year. 110 M for 6 years is less than what Suh got (in terms of avg. yearly amount).

(1) Donald is better than Suh PLUS (2) the yearly increase kicks in. So unless Donald gets on avg. a couple of million or 3 more than Suh, it's not a fair contract. That's just the ordinary basic logic of the situation. Unless Donald gets an avg. yearly amount higher than Suh did, he is being lowballed.

I would say that this is one of those times that TST doesn't know what it's talking about. I mean this is just basic. The market sets the standard and then contracts go up annually. If TST does not know that an AD offer has to be higher than what Suh got, then, I wonder what the heck they're thinking.






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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/25/2017 05:11AM by zn.