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David Deacon
The rams can control Donald for 6.9 mil this year. Right not the Franchise number for DT is 15.2 Mil. I don't see any signings on the horizon that will change that so lets for arguments sake say it is 15.2 and 17 mil for 2 years of franchising him. I would argue that he makes out better signing a 17 mil per year contract right now for 6 years. That is 12 Mil more that he would earn in the next 3 years and he would have guarantees. Is he going to sign a contract after that the will pay him more than 12Mi over the last 3 years at 17Mil. Maybe but there is time value of money by getting more up front and the safety of the guarantee. 17 per year with $40 mil signing bonus would be hard to beat.
There's a long list of reasons why none of that applies.
Offering Donald 15 M after Suh and Von Miller signed for 19 M 3-4 years ago would be tantamount to slapping him in the face.
Even if the Rams deliberately wanted to lowball Donald, they wouldn't offer such an insultingly low number. Unless their intent precisely WAS to insult him.
As for dithering around with him and keeping him through franchise tags and the like, that's just plain bad management. Especially since the public startements from the Rams are that they want to extend him. The team is watching. If they dithered around with him like that, here's the message: this is one of the 2-3 best defenders in the league, his actions and his play and his numbers reflect that, and he's a leader and one of the Rams hardest workers...yet when it's time to pay him, the team dithers around with him
Like I said. Bad management.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/06/2018 01:28PM by zn.
