Rams have to do something to get Aaron Donald more help this off season or else he’s gone
November 1, 2022
Rams have to do something to get Aaron Donald more help this off season or else he’s gone
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If we miss the playoffs, I think he retires this year. I don’t think he was bluffing when he said he was really close to being done with football
We couldn’t over pay for rentals in our current standing. We needed big long term pieces and they just weren’t available to us. Standing pat was better than blowing picks on rentals in our current position.
Season is over. No obj. No pass rush. AD possibly retires. Reload in next years draft and get healthy.
I don’t think he leaves that much money on the table. The reason why he wrote the letter was a negotiating tactic. But if this was year 2 of the current deal, then I may be more inclined to believe that. I think we got one more year with him and then who knows if he comes back. Either way, I’m so glad we got one with him and he got to celebrate the way he did.
And… that’s why they should have been sellers at the trade deadline to free cap space and get draft picks. This is not a situation where the roster that won a Super Bowl is underperforming, this is just a bad roster.
If 99 wanted another ring he should have taken a team friendly deal.
You can get a bag of money or a ring and he chose money.
Brady was never the highest paid player in the league so don’t even start with that “deserves” shit.
Nah I think he sticks around until Stafford leaves. And honestly he deserves nothing but out respect no matter what he does.
It’s been like that for years, another frustration of the Snead way of building a team. They got Floyd but my suspicion is that Donald made Floyd look a lot better and that Floyd maybe didn’t help Donald so much. Miller was the real deal. So basically Donald had legit high level pas rush help for half a season. Should’ve tried to build a line around Donald like the Giants did around Strahan with Tuck, Umenyra etc. rather then take him for granted and use it as an excuse to draft TEs WRs RBs and DBs
We are no longer a contender pretty much, and our team has too many gaps to fill in order to become one (namely Oline, an edge rusher, a better RB and maybe even another WR to help Kupp). Having the hardest schedule also definitely didn’t help
I’d rather keep the picks and try to build a better team for next season.
He’s not fucking leaving. Y’all’s issue is the o-line, the defense has been fine, more help would be nice, but the offense is healthy is minced meat for a Ramen dish…
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You are dumb
We have a ring?
He said he is committed to one more year, two total. He’ll be back again next year for his final season.
Why would he leave? The organization has done nothing but pay him top dollar and shown they are more than willing to trade away the future to win with him right now. They literally offered Carolina two 1st rounders for Burns…
I’m torn on whether to be happy we didn’t overpay for a rental in what’s probably not going to be a Super Bowl season or upset because it means a year is wasted.
The team’s been pretty good for quite a few years now. Having a SB win and another appearance has to be enough to give everything a couple more shots. It’s not like the beginning of his career where we were just constantly bad year after year.
Would anybody blame him?
Regardless of what happens I fucking love this guy and wish him the best! He has given me the best Rams Football of my life!
I think he’s already gone . He has the look of disgust on his face this season lol
I don’t see any scenarios thrown around where the Rams FO accommodates AD and sorts out a nice trade to the Steelers in a year or two. If Family is what is driving his desire to retire, maybe being back home with his kids and parents will be win/win. AD hells Rams get picks to rebuild, Rams get him home. Of course the best version is he’s a Ram for life and retires after 2023 season with another SB ring!
Let’s trade him for some picks. Bleeding hearts don’t win, see Kobe’s and Kershaw last years. It’s a business
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I’m just so happy he got a ring and we did everything we could as an organization to make sure that he did. Despite being a good team for the last 5 years there would have always been a narrative of the rams wasting his career, whether justified or not. My opinion is that it wouldn’t be justified because we were “all in” for so many years and SBs are so hard to win, there’s never a guarantee. Nonetheless it would have been the narrative.
But nope. The Rams put him in a position to make a play to win the Super Bowl and he did it. I sure hope we don’t have to go into a rebuild or be a bottom dweller this and these next few years, but even if the worst case scenario becomes reality, Aaron Donald is an absolute LEGEND and will always be remembered as such. And with that, the Rams’ legacy as a team gets a huge boost as well.
It’s only been 8.5 months since we won it, I don’t think everyone truly grasps how special that run, and that team, was. And to win it all in your new state of the art home stadium? Couldn’t write it any better, from so many perspectives.
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If we miss the playoffs, I think he retires this year. I don’t think he was bluffing when he said he was really close to being done with football
We couldn’t over pay for rentals in our current standing. We needed big long term pieces and they just weren’t available to us. Standing pat was better than blowing picks on rentals in our current position.
Season is over. No obj. No pass rush. AD possibly retires. Reload in next years draft and get healthy.
I don’t think he leaves that much money on the table. The reason why he wrote the letter was a negotiating tactic. But if this was year 2 of the current deal, then I may be more inclined to believe that. I think we got one more year with him and then who knows if he comes back. Either way, I’m so glad we got one with him and he got to celebrate the way he did.
And… that’s why they should have been sellers at the trade deadline to free cap space and get draft picks. This is not a situation where the roster that won a Super Bowl is underperforming, this is just a bad roster.
If 99 wanted another ring he should have taken a team friendly deal.
You can get a bag of money or a ring and he chose money.
Brady was never the highest paid player in the league so don’t even start with that “deserves” shit.
Nah I think he sticks around until Stafford leaves. And honestly he deserves nothing but out respect no matter what he does.
It’s been like that for years, another frustration of the Snead way of building a team. They got Floyd but my suspicion is that Donald made Floyd look a lot better and that Floyd maybe didn’t help Donald so much. Miller was the real deal. So basically Donald had legit high level pas rush help for half a season. Should’ve tried to build a line around Donald like the Giants did around Strahan with Tuck, Umenyra etc. rather then take him for granted and use it as an excuse to draft TEs WRs RBs and DBs
We are no longer a contender pretty much, and our team has too many gaps to fill in order to become one (namely Oline, an edge rusher, a better RB and maybe even another WR to help Kupp). Having the hardest schedule also definitely didn’t help
I’d rather keep the picks and try to build a better team for next season.
He’s not fucking leaving. Y’all’s issue is the o-line, the defense has been fine, more help would be nice, but the offense is healthy is minced meat for a Ramen dish…
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You are dumb
We have a ring?
He said he is committed to one more year, two total. He’ll be back again next year for his final season.
Why would he leave? The organization has done nothing but pay him top dollar and shown they are more than willing to trade away the future to win with him right now. They literally offered Carolina two 1st rounders for Burns…
I’m torn on whether to be happy we didn’t overpay for a rental in what’s probably not going to be a Super Bowl season or upset because it means a year is wasted.
The team’s been pretty good for quite a few years now. Having a SB win and another appearance has to be enough to give everything a couple more shots. It’s not like the beginning of his career where we were just constantly bad year after year.
Would anybody blame him?
Regardless of what happens I fucking love this guy and wish him the best! He has given me the best Rams Football of my life!
I think he’s already gone . He has the look of disgust on his face this season lol
I don’t see any scenarios thrown around where the Rams FO accommodates AD and sorts out a nice trade to the Steelers in a year or two. If Family is what is driving his desire to retire, maybe being back home with his kids and parents will be win/win. AD hells Rams get picks to rebuild, Rams get him home. Of course the best version is he’s a Ram for life and retires after 2023 season with another SB ring!
Let’s trade him for some picks. Bleeding hearts don’t win, see Kobe’s and Kershaw last years. It’s a business
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I’m just so happy he got a ring and we did everything we could as an organization to make sure that he did. Despite being a good team for the last 5 years there would have always been a narrative of the rams wasting his career, whether justified or not. My opinion is that it wouldn’t be justified because we were “all in” for so many years and SBs are so hard to win, there’s never a guarantee. Nonetheless it would have been the narrative.
But nope. The Rams put him in a position to make a play to win the Super Bowl and he did it. I sure hope we don’t have to go into a rebuild or be a bottom dweller this and these next few years, but even if the worst case scenario becomes reality, Aaron Donald is an absolute LEGEND and will always be remembered as such. And with that, the Rams’ legacy as a team gets a huge boost as well.
It’s only been 8.5 months since we won it, I don’t think everyone truly grasps how special that run, and that team, was. And to win it all in your new state of the art home stadium? Couldn’t write it any better, from so many perspectives.