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I know if he sits he doesn't get paid. He knows that, the whole world knows that.
Where did I say it's not ok for the Rams to play hardball? Most of you are already wanting to focus on the Rams hardball options. I'm simply giving you AD's one option. No one knows how hardcore he'll be about going through with it so let's not get into speculation about how much he's willing to lose.
Instead...let's answer the question. IF he sits, what do you think the Rams do?
They have three options: 1) call his bluff and let him sit, 2) trade him, or 3) cave in and pay him.
Which door do you think they go through?
(I find it very interesting that very few people - one so far - are willing to consider potential outcomes and answer this question.)
The answers to that question is irrelevant... the point is what the Rams
could do.
Money is too important to AD to holdout .... call his bluff see what happens
What the Rams could do is very old news. We haven't had much discussion on what AD could do.
You better believe the Rams as organization have talked about this and have to plan for this. Fans are often too emotional to discuss such matters which is probably why there is so much reluctance to seriously consider and talk about the possibility of it happening.
You believe they would choose option 1. Fair enough. I tend to think option 2 would be the most likely result...but I could be wrong.
The problem with option 1 IMO is his salary would still count against the cap even if he wasn't playing and they would severely hurt their chances of winning a SB in 2019 without him.
2018 - 2019 are the years they're going all in. The timing is perfect because Goff is still cheap, Talib and Peters' contracts expire after 2019, Gurley will need a new contract after that year, etc. Donald sitting could throw a huge monkey wrench in the plans.
I agree with you. Option 2 sounds by far the most likely. What Donald values is playing for what he's worth.
If he gets tagged that would be 6 years playing seriously below his real market value. If he had any pride at all, and he does (he has ferocious pride), he doesn't sit still for that.
He will have already earned 6.9 M in 2018. That's enough to sit out the rest of his life.
And teams just don't do this--have a player counting against the cap, with him not playing, and then don't try to get anything for him in a trade.
I think this whole "management knows how to push labor around" idea doesn't work in the NFL against star level players with options. The Rams must know that. Last thing they want is to try to force an unhappy star to play, when under those circumstances, they get nothing for him, plus having him count against the cap the whole time whether he plays or not.
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