Quote
CeeZar
If there is actually a team out there that thinks AD is worth $25M ish/year, surely they would be willing to compensate the Rams accordingly in trade. If AD holds out for money, the Rams can just as well hold out trading him until some team makes a fair offer. Its not like the Rams would be forced to take the first lowball offer that came along.
Two first rounders are a minimum and they'd need to be in the top half of the draft, not from a team that's likely to pick in the 20s. If I'm the Rams, I hold out for 3 first rounders or 2 first rounders and picks from other rounds and/or starters in positions of need. The Rams need to make sure they get fair market value!!
I don;t know why some people act like the 25 M is fixed in stone. I just see it as the opposite position in a tough negotiation. I don't see any evidence that they are sticking to 25 M no matter what. So that particular mantra is a little puzzling to me...I don't think there's any real basis for claiming it.
IF it got to a worst case trade scenario, remember, a tagged player counts against the cap so the Rams would be in a buyers market with their cap being held hostage. Under those conditions, it's hard to predict what a trade would look like, since historically trades have been all over the map (compare the Dickerson trade to the Bettis and Faulk trades).
I bet they take what they can get. Maybe a competition gets going and it drives up the price. It's all fairly open-ended really, with a lot of "who knows" aspects to it.
Plus it's more precarious for the Rams because Donald can actually veto any trade. As mentioned before Tru already did that in 2017.
So I don't see any of that as being written in stone.
So basically I don't see the Rams sitting on Donald with a cap hit on the books waiting on some perfect trade scenario. They would be trading him in the first place because (a) teams tend to honor trade requests like this, and (b) they don't want to be in a situation facing a cap hit with no player and no picks.
I can't predict what a trade would be. Plus I am on the side of never having to find out.
.....
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/29/2018 08:05AM by zn.
