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I actually feel pity for Donald. As this drags on what becomes clear is that with this CBA, the teams have the upperhand in setting contract terms. How can the market determine anything when a player gets tagged? And clearly Donald's agent is giving advise on par as the stock advise the Wolf of Wall Street gave. How can that be in the best interest of your client when you've lost him an accrued year of unrestricted free agency. That's what the elite players dream of and this agent bet it all on red and the ball fell on black. Dude, your client lost a year of leverage. How are you helping him? Is your end game renegotiating the CBA so in the future it will be easier for your to collect high commissions? This agent has some questions he needs to answer. And Aaron Donald doesn't need to tale one for the 'team' aka, NFLPA, and be the martyr that misses an actual good deal.
Donald needs to do one thing and one thing only for hilmself and that is to look at real money, not potential, pie in the sky profits of some Internet stock that's 'sure' to go up tenfold. He's losing money now.
Stop letting this agent to create a case study for the next CBA. Don't be a laboratory rat. Take charge and make real money.
My oft-state response to this is to say if they tag him next year, he sits out, counts against the cap, and demands a trade. As we;ve said a lot round here, players like that who demand trades get them. It's either that or the Rams take a cap hit for a guy who is sitting out while getting nothing for him. I think it's a sign of how limited that article is in understanding this situation that the writer (or I should say the fanblogger who wrote it) didn't even get that that is one of the possibilities.
So IMO the article above rehashes old material with its own slant. It's not a balanced view. The real picture, IMO, is that along with everything else that's going on, the Rams are not offering enough.
So both sides seem stuck for now which probably in reality means there's good tough negotiating going on.
It would be more accurate to say that it is your OPINION that he will sit out next year, if tagged. IMO, he won’t sit. Certainly not for very long.
And it is your OPINION that the Rams are not offering “enough”. In your OPINION, only $23-24 million is “enough”. IMO, and the opinion of many others, $21-22 is a fair and generous offer.
Let’s see what is the opinion of the Ram brain trust. Lol.
Btw, I thought that author offered both pro and con perspectives, no matter which side one is on.
