Bonsignore: With preseason games upon us, and Aaron Donald’s holdout lingering, what is his end game
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I don't think so either.
And they have been fine without him too, and made the playoffs without him as well.
I think Stafford was the driving force on the Lions improvement and Suh was good but overall how much did he really help?
Suh isn't an elite pass rusher. Donald is. See answer below.
The going rate versus value is a nuanced arguement. I'd argue that 20MIL is the ceiling for sure for a player like Donald. He's really valuable, but you just can't pay "free agent money" because that's always overpaying and doesn't help overall.
The two sides need to figure it out, and I don't want to see Donald go, but according to reports a huge offer was made and his camp turned it down.
When I see you here it makes me think of chocolate chip cookies fresh out of the oven..............
Every top flight guy who hits free agency gets overpaid, it's been this way for years and years.
Donald may be thinking, or his agents actually may be thinking "hey in two years the cap will be about this much so lets ask for a contract based on the cap two years from now".
Which NO team will pay unless they have a knucklehead doing their contracts. You can do a deal, then tear it up in three years and redo it.
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Really? Where did you read that?
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I can't recall......it may have been just something from a poster or whatever but I thought they had an offer on the table.
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All I could find on the subject. "Huge deal"
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...ron-donald-not-present-as-rams-report-to-camp
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No specific's to this, just rumors, I guess!
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Given what is happening to former players that had long careers, I have no problem with AD's tactics.
Get as massive a contract as you can, as soon as you can, invest wisely, and then retire at the end of it with your long term physical and mental health intact.
Get as massive a contract as you can, as soon as you can, invest wisely, and then retire at the end of it with your long term physical and mental health intact.
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I don't know if its true but have heard that ad wants to be highest paid player at his position. if that is true that amounts to 20 mil a year. so that would be 100 mil for 5 years when you could get the 2 years left on his contract plus 2 of tags for about 45 to 50 mil so you would be paying 50 mil for one extra year.