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AlbaNY_Ram
It seems to me that the Rams understood the reason AD missed camp and agreed with his approach. You might think that AD violated the terms of his contract (and maybe you have a point) but even if he did he did so with the Rams' blessing. Everyone in the Rams organization is happy with the end result- Kroenke, Demoff, Snead, McVay, Phillips, Donald, and (based on everything Ive seen) his teammates. To me it makes sense to take the cue and get on board with it ... It's just business, and when it's win/win maybe you just accept the process?
I think you're just completely right.
This is from Breer's article, which is so far the best one out there describing the process that led to the signing:
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“Aaron has earned the right to be on the Rams Mt Rushmore,” GM Les Snead told me on Sunday. “And the goal, what’s best for the organization is to make sure that occurs. That principle allowed to keep things very positive through the daily grind of trying to come to a long-term solution; We all took that approach, because the endgame was always make sure Aaron Donald is a Ram for a long, long time.”
The Rams were unwilling to talk, as a matter of course, during Donald’s 2017 holdout. They backed off that this time around, almost viewing Donald staying away more as injury risk management than any sort of wildcat strike. Simply, it was an acknowledgement by the team that this was a special circumstance for a special player, and that it didn’t make much sense to try and make a point by not talking.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/05/2018 05:35AM by zn.
