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BumRap
I have had little to say in months re AD and I personally am not obsessed over being right. I am a singular voice who really does not see this as a lose lose situation if we sign AD today or 2 years from now. Rams owe Ram fans a team capable of winning a SB very soon with or without Donald. I may be taking your point wrong but Mean Joe Green is irrelevant in the modern FA era. Suh has not made the impact singularly on a team in the Modern FA era. Donald is dominant yet if we cannot build around him then I wouldn't. If we can then I would but money is a factor. It comes down to keeping paying and building around players and position that help you win it all. Most agree a great D is a core but the most vital singular piece is a QB and like it or not we are no longer looking at a team whose success or failure will hinge on AD because we will have a QB who will need to get QB MONEY and we also may want to retain a DB that can approach top tier as well.
You are plenty comfortable presenting alternate perspectives that hinge on what we cannot know. My perspective in this case is we know AD is on our roster and will play for us until he gets a new deal and beyond or until he is no longer on our roster.
No an elite DT is never irrelevant. It's just that there are so few of them, and I mean in the history of the NFL. Greene, Lily, Olsen, Page, Randle, Sapp, and a few more and that 's it.
An elite DT does something like this, which Donald actually DID do, and no one else last year did or could. He faced multiple blockers more than any other lineman, AND led the league in qb pressures (in just 14 games). That's as if a guy beat you in a swimming contest even though you were in a pool and he was swimming up stream against a strong current.
Guys like that come around maybe once a decade, and teams do not become great by discarding elite talent.
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