August 06, 2018 12:14PM | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 9,665
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I don't look at it as who is the problem.
I look at it as what will be the outcome and why.
One outcome is that Donald ends up with another team, another outcome is he stays with the Rams.
So how do we get to these outcomes?
A.
In order for Donald to end up with another team he will have to: 1. sit out the entire year and not get paid his 7M. 2. then force a trade next year where another team will pay him what he wants AND gives the Rams compensation.
B.
In order for Donald to sign with the Rams he just needs to sign the offer on the table or convince the Rams sweeten the pot a bit.
I think the odds of A. happening are very low compared to B.
I think he's completely capable of doing all those things. But I don't know that it would get to any of that. Either way, I am just not interested in thinking of ways the team can jerk its best player around. ARE THEY jerking their best player around? According to the reversal rule, that's at least as plausible as anything you are saying. Really--it makes a big difference. Once you grasp that everything said in favor of the team against Donald can get logically reversed and turned around, it helps people see how many unwarranted assumptions they're bringing to this.
So I say 20 M for the sake of argument because it illustrates the point that you can have this empty rhetoric about "highest paid defender" and have it not mean anything in terms of the numbers. Look back. That's the only way I use that number, to make that point. I wasn't suggesting it's what they offered because I don't know what they offered.
Saying things like "jerking the player around" is inarticulate. It's all emotion from the players perspective. So you lose credibility as an unbiased analyst. All you keep doing is pushing your Rams are jerking Donald around theme when you don't know for a fact thats its true, and then you cover yourself with the "nobody knows the actual numbers" verbiage. Everyone on this board sees right though it.
This is a business matter. Each side used its leverage to get the best possible deal for themselves. Thats what I'm talking about. I don't care about the highest paid defender, I'm not talking about whats right or wrong. I'm talking about what are the possibilities and what are the outcomes, while you're getting wrapped up in why are the Rams jerking around their best player.
According to Shefter and Rapoport Donald says he not playing without a new contract. I doubt the Rams move much on their current offer so lets see what he does.
#HelmetHornsMatter
“Well, the color is good, I like the metallic blue,” Youngblood recently said while laughing, via NFL Journal. “The horn is terrible. It looks like a ‘C.’ When I first saw it on the logo I honestly thought it was a Charger logo.
“Now when I see it on the helmet, it just isn’t a ram horn. There is no distinct curl like a mature ram horn. I don’t know how the Rams could get that wrong. That is your symbol and it has been for what? Seventy years or more? Longer than I have been alive? It’s just not us, it’s not the Rams.”---Mr. Ram Jack Youngblood
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/06/2018 12:18PM by Ramsdude.
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