August 06, 2018 08:34AM | Registered: 11 years ago Posts: 35,767
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I get that he could force a trade (next year at the earliest). But it seems weird that someone else would pay him significantly more than the Rams plus give the Rams compensation.
Remember my formula for this discussion. UNLESS WE ACTUALLY KNOW NUMBERS, we don't really know anything, and in the absence of knowing anything, it is possible to turn every "Donald's the problem" statement upside down and make it a :"Rams are the problem" statement...and SINCE we don't know anything, we have no idea which statement is closer to being accurate, or if in fact both are.
So using that formula I will reverse THIS statement:
it seems weird that someone else would pay him significantly more than the RamsHow about:
it seems weird the Rams don;t get AD's actual value and so don't realize someone else would pay him moreI don';t know which is more accurate, your original or my reversal.
So why just automatically assume one possibility as opposed to recognizing precisely that we dont really know.
To explore a little further...did you expect the Rams offer to Jenkins to be 72% of what the Giants offered? It may be true, as some say, that the Rams don't know how to sign premier defensive talent. Do they have a blindspot?
I don't know. But that's just as possible (or as equally wrong) given what we now at this point as the assumption that AD is pricing himself out of the market at the league level.
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While we don’t know exact numbers, we do know at least 2 things.
The Rams quickly extended both Cooks and Gurley to VERY fair contracts without fanfare. Emphasis quickly.
And we know that the Rams have repeatedly publicly stated that they want to make AD the highest paid defender in league history. That means a minimum of $20 million per, (and I suspect that their offer is higher than that).
Now, those are not exact numbers, it’s true, but the combination of the above FACTS makes it appear that the Rams are at least being earnest and reasonable.
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