[safer]

The article mentioned that they have offered contracts to both Tree and Joyner. Hopefully they are not that far off and can get something done sooner rather than later. I think both of those guys are integral parts to this defense.

Agreed, and Joyner, to me, is now at his best position; safety.

[HopHead Ram]

He does seem comfortable back there. I do love his flexibility though, wasn't his pick 6 from the slot corner position?

[Touchdown TB]

I hope the Jackass gets 3 sacks, a forced fumble, and a pick 6 Sunday. Maybe that Jackass can earn some of all that cash he wants.

He (Donald) has already earned the '$$$$$$$$

[safer]

I don't know if we cheated him into the box or he was slot-corner on his pick-six. He's a very smart, heads-up guy but I thought he could get exposed in slot corner when he faced the quicker guys. Love how we play him now.

[Will0120]

He does seem comfortable back there. I do love his flexibility though, wasn't his pick 6 from the slot corner position?

Yup, IIRC, he was the nickle corner playing the flat zone. Read it perfectly and ELEVATED to make that pick. It's a thing of beauty. I thought those unlikely interceptions only happy in my Madden games

[max]

I hope the Jackass gets 3 sacks, a forced fumble, and a pick 6 Sunday. Maybe that Jackass can earn some of all that cash he wants.

I hope so too. But he's already earned a better contract. All he had to do was come into camp like JJ Watt did, and Donald would probably have had his money already.

The jackass routine backfired on him.

[PARAM]

The jackass routine backfired on him.

How? Well it's irrelevant really. We'll see IF he signs a deal in the near future and for how much. Then we'll know how bad (or not) his jackass routine backfired on him.


I will say this.......McVay has had to deal with his best player in a touchy contract negotiation. Glad to hear he went to Atlanta. Glad they won his first game as a head coach. Glad they extended Hekker and Westbrook. Glad they offered Tree and Joyner extensions.....they'll have to come back with a bit more for each and hopefully they will. Glad it appears the Donald situation is almost in the rear view mirror. I will be even more glad once the front office gets these deals done, proving they aren't as incompetent as some fans would like us to believe.

[aeneas1]

But he's already earned a better contract.

yes he has, by playing at a pro-bowl / all-pro level every year he's been in the league - but earning it and getting it are obviously two different things.

All he had to do was come into camp like JJ Watt did, and Donald would probably have had his money already.

only someone who is hell-bent on not liking donald, as a person or because he held out, would believe this.... there's absolutely nothing to suggest that the rams were ready to pay donald what he was looking for before the start of the season, if that was the case the rams would have gotten the deal done and donald would have never held out. instead the rams chose a different route, and donald stayed home.

The jackass routine backfired on him.

really? what exactly backfired? was it the rams not standing their ground and fining him for the days he was absent? was it the rams flying to his camp en masse at the eleventh hour, dragging mcvay away on gameday at the eleventh hour, to beg donald to return? was it the sudden scramble to redo existing contracts, including cutting at least one player's 2017 pay, which has led more than a few to believe that the rams are trying to come up with money fast to get donald paid? or do you still believe that the rams stopped calling donald a few weeks ago, and he showed up egg-faced begging the rams to take him back?

[HopHead Ram]

Why do we constantly have to seek a winner and a loser in this situation. To paint a picture that AD came crawling back defeated is wrong just as the assumption that the Rams flew to Atlanta to beg AD to come back. We read way too much into the events that transpired. All that matters is that AD is healthy, There is no acrimony between the two parties and his absence had zero effect on the week 1 outcome. There is absolutely zero reasons to be upset with AD at this point because nothing he did adversely affected the Rams.

[Elvis]

Why do we constantly have to seek a winner and a loser in this situation. To paint a picture that AD came crawling back defeated is wrong just as the assumption that the Rams flew to Atlanta to beg AD to come back. We read way too much into the events that transpired. All that matters is that AD is healthy, There is no acrimony between the two parties and his absence had zero effect on the week 1 outcome. There is absolutely zero reasons to be upset with AD at this point because nothing he did adversely affected the Rams.

Pretty much only max is making this into a big deal.

You're right, both sides have done a great job of not letting this get out of hand.

It's not over yet so we can't be drawing a bunch of big conclusions just yet either but if Donald does sign the big deal most of us think is coming down the pike, then both sides will have gotten what they wanted with very little disruption or acrimony...