That's what you say when you been drinking a little bit and
you get caught up in the moment that is not an official
announcement. As far as I'm concerned, that Aaron Donald is
going to be back. That's just what you have
to say in that moment when the dust settles, he may have
a different
opinion. All together. That's how I interpret that that is
not by any means an official announcement that he'll be
back. Well, imagine if he'd said, like, hmm. I think I'm
done guys like
crap.
Done. What is it? What's happening? Yeah. No, I don't
think, I don't think any of that is binding there at all.
You know, it's just the way that things are going to work
out and it's specially would Shaman, big grabs. The mic from
JB long as the voice of the Rams and shout out to him for
trying to keep order within all the chaos. That was on that
stage during that rally. I mean, if some, if you're
a coach is screaming at you, run it back like that and the crowd
screaming at what are you supposed to say, but that but,
I think you're right. When the dust settles
things, may change a little bit.
Now, Kevin demo off the rim, c00 said that Shawn McVeigh
will be back. I don't know that they've negotiated a new
contract within that quickly or Stan, kroenke, just gave him
a blank check, I don't know. But I really do think this
curiosity was driven by the reality that McVeigh deserves
more than whatever he's getting. I
don't know the specifics because the best coach is
the highest paid coaches get money from different buckets. So
the official number is always lower than it really is to help them.
Frankly, frankly, help the oligarchs collude when it comes
to the entry level head coaching position.
You don't want the high end to be so high. That it pushes up
the bottom. But whatever. It may be
McVeigh deserves more
and nothing wrong with being Coy about your future. If he
has, PN is going to come along and offer you almost as much as
you're currently making to go work a hell of a lot less and
strike that. Work-life balance
a lot more easily
than you. Otherwise would, especially since you're off
from February until August
if you are working for ESPN as a weekly game analyst. So,
we'll see how that plays out as well.
Well, we saw that Zach Taylor got his extension will talk
about that in a minute. We need to hear the chime mcveigh's
getting his extension before we know that it's done for him.
And for Aaron Donald, I think it's going to linger.
And one way to keep Aaron Donald around miles, I believe is to
is to give him a raise over the 18 million and change, he's due
to make over the next three years all of which are
non-guaranteed and I don't think he wants to be traded.
Although one thing that is very real Pittsburgh and l.a. Are
two different planets frankly and he's a Pittsburgh guy.
Not that. Trying to get back to Pittsburgh or close to
Pittsburgh maybe like to play for the Browns, but
it's just a long way away
and it's a lot of work. It's a lot of effort. You just got to
ask yourself at age 30 after eight years of doing it. Do you
want to keep doing it to yourself? How much longer you
going to do it to yourself? And can you really motivate
yourself to go? Climb the mountain? You just spent eight
years trying to reach the Pinnacle of
The thing about Aaron Donald is that, you know, he just only
knows football. He knows how to work. You knows how to know,
you knows how to work out early in the mornings or to get
himself ready for those kinds of things. And
at age 30,
I can see him in some ways. It's starting to walk away from
that and starting to think. Okay. What is the rest of my
life going to look like, because I've been working up
toward this
since, you know, I was a little chubby when I was, you know, in
middle school and it's getting into high school and my father
told me, hey, we're going to Start working out every day and
we started working out in the basement and
you know, there's still those weights and sometimes when he
goes back to Pittsburgh, he still works out in the basement
is Dad's house. It's like that's what he's been doing.
Practically his entire life trying to work up for something
like this. So
now I really do feel like he's still got more to do
right? And he's already one of these guys, that's a walk-in
Hall of Famer and I've been seeing you talk about it, you
know, maybe he's one of those guys that should be kind of
the only people that's in the Hall of Fame. Mmmmm. We're it's just
no doubt and there's no debate. It's just yeah, this is one of
the greatest to ever play the game
and he's in like that special section of whatever it is. He's
already done that, right, but, you know, if he continues at
the level, he's at and there's no reason to believe that he's
not going to be
at that kind of level. Then he really could get into
the conversation as the greatest defensive player of all time.
If he's not really in that conversation already because at
this point for me and I know
Of its recency bias, but it's like, there's him. There's
Lawrence Taylor and I would tell him to him like this,
Aaron Don's greatest I've ever seen.
So, I mean, he's already that
I don't know how much more there is left for him to
accomplish. But if he wants to keep doing it, we know that he
can go out and still dominate.
Well, and look the reality is that he can't continue to play
at a high level.
What else you going to do? If you don't, you're 30 years old,
what's your next step?
If you walk away from the thing that you're so good at. But
there's a lot of factors that go into it and I think one of
the very real factors is whether or not he's getting
fairly compensated for what he's continuing to do. And we
saw him. Yes, unafraid to take a stand, he
held out multiple times until he got the contract that he
deserved and it worked out for him. But now he's on the back
end of it.
It was front-loaded but 18 and a half million or thereabouts.
Not nearly close to what a guy like him should be getting as
he has the last few years of his Prime. And I won't bet
against the guy like that. He may figure out how to how to
keep playing at that level late into his thirties. Although,
father time is undefeated,
and we've been spoiled by Tom Brady in recent years
for most guys, especially the ones that play the physically
demanding positions things. Start to
come apart, 32 33, 34. So now is the time for him to grab
what he can, especially if If
that effort start the engine every year and do it again,
every year, it starts to wear on you after a while. So we'll
see what he does.