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Ramsdude
You said: "Remember, all these posters who are recommending that the Rams do that, are recommending it precisely BECAUSE they think it's cheaper. That's WHY they are for it." I disagree.
I say all the time that the hang-up might be structure. But that's not what many posters I am responding to who think he can or will be tagged are saying. For them it;s the amount. That's what the posts are saying. So this discussion here was about, can they afford him over the years.
That's one issue to discuss. Can the Rams afford Donald?
Structure is certainly another issue.
Often though some guys who raise the structure issue do so because they think the issue is "who is to blame for Donald not being signed" and they use structure to say Donald is at fault. I think that way of putting it, to the extent it exists, misunderstands the entire structure issue. '
Anyway that aside I am one of those who brings up structure regularly as an issue. Here's the most recent of many many times where I pointed out that structure may be the issue (going back to last year). These are just a few examples.
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zn
April 06, 2018.
Is he asking more than the Rams will pay? Are the Rams lowballing? They can bargain as long as they want but there's a fair number for signing a Donald in 2018. Can the Rams just not realize what he is worth? And so on. At one point the team said it is not amount but structure.
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zn
March 26, 2018
It's also understood that the market has a say in this and the market sets AD's value as somewhere in the 22-25 M range. The real issue will be structure and guaranteed money etc.
This is me in 2017 quoting Demoff from off a podcast, on structure:
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zn
August 09, 2017
How do you pay AD and still construct the team with other guys you sign? Demoff: AD is a special player and deserves a special contract. Though sometimes that’s harder to structure when you have 2 years left as opposed to 1 or as opposed to a free agency year.
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