everything you say

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spagsbacker
but i do. i want to use the leverage to get a fair deal done with A Donald. That does not make him the highest paid defender in the league. im sorry im not willing to trade that leverage for what....nothing. If Donald's agents refuse to negotiate a fair deal based on the rams not franchising him for next few years, then I play hardball. From all reports, Rams offered and are offering a very fair deal. It is probably even more than i would offer, but his agents seem to be balking. Holding out last year until the day before the season was annoying and caused him to miss the first game. That is a problem. Is he going to do that again this year? That immediately puts the team's record in jeopardy....and this year, even more than ever....every game will count. Im tired of this. I set a hard deadline, and then pull the offer if they do not come to the table.

go rams.

Everything you say presumes that if there's a problem it's Donald, and the righteous and pure Rams have no choice but to play hardball.

There is absolutely no basis for believing any of that.

We don't know why the contract is still up in the air. It could be Donald. It could be the Rams. It could be both. It could be neither.

But someone of a different mind could come along and write up that entire scenario as you just described it and instead make the Rams bad guys. They could be lowballing, they could be trying to force Donald into accepting a lowball, they could just be approaching this blind that way.

That fictional scenario would have about the same status as yours---it wouldn't mean anything because we do not have the information to go on.

All people are doing now, given that we all know nothing, is giving away our biases. In the absence of any real info, some are pro-management, some are pro-player, some have no idea what's going on and say so, some are hanging back until they hear more. But no one knows anything.

So right now a "Donald is wrong and needs to be hardballed" fiction is absolutely no different from a "the Rams are doing this wrong and Donald needs to stand up for what's fair" fiction. They're equally the same. If any of us believe either one, it's on us---it says a lot about the assumptions we make. It really doesn't say anything about the reality.

When we actually do know more, I will be right there jumping on it to see what it means. Till then,.