Yes, I believe so. Yes,
like from Ukraine, like not born and raised the United
States. Yes. So English intercourse -
stop that she speaks five hundred
other than both of us.
I'm not trying to be xenophobic here. Okay, I don't think just
trying to understand.
No. No, my point is my point is
if she isn't one is
there's a there's a Nuance to the ERM
retirement, there's a Nuance he's not going to stop working.
Altogether
and cash, out, and be done. That's what retire means.
That's, he's not, he wouldn't retire from coaching either.
Everybody would assume that he would leave the Rams. He would
spend X number of years in broadcasting and then come back
and coach at some point down the road. That's not
retirement. It's resignation. Sean Payton didn't retire
he resigned. So so again again
again, is she
Is she properly applying the word?
Why not? Say he's not leaving,
why not say that? So
I'm just I'm not ready
because y if you're Sean McVeigh because I think this is
all a leverage play that he has every right to engage in Miles
every right to sit back and say ESPN. You want me
bring your best offer Stan? Kroenke? You want to keep me
bring your best offer
and once he has PN offers him 15 million a year, whatever
they're going to offer him. He takes it to crockie and he
says, hey, you know, it's just
basically, you know, five piles of this type
of the your your toilet paper. A lot man, if you wipe your
butt with three million dollars, I think the math is
accurate there. So I
that's what I thought it was setting up. So why would you
give that up so quickly unless you really are on a multi-day
bender.
I mean, yes, he is. Probably on a multi-day bender. I mean,
okay, we're mr. Semantics with I used to be a lawyer here, you
know, talking about retirement versus whatever. Ron has
probably had a few beverage SharePoint over the last few
days. It's
is it? And then the CEO of the company just said that, like,
he's gonna be back. He's yelling onstage. We're going to
run it back. I mean
if Stan kroenke who also used to pay my paycheck like there's
he's gonna give whatever Shawn
McVeigh wants in order to, for sha McBay to stay there. So
like it's not, it may not be a foregone conclusion. We were
probably here at some point that, yes, Shawn McVeigh is
signed, some sort of contract extension. But like, I'm not
retirement versus resign like
the the semantics here, you know, like there's cream in
there and they're watching the mic'd up from the game. That's
what they're in. Like, got wine. I don't really think that
she's, you know, thinking, oh my gosh, they're going to
discuss this on pro football talk
tomorrow. I'm going to make sure I've got resigned.
Retire, right,
then. Maybe it's meaningless. That's my point. Maybe it all
means. Nothing. That's my point. Let me say this. Let me
say this. When, when
Stan kroenke was paying, you does he actually sign
the checks. Do you have checks from him with his net? Does he sit
down and write the checks or to somebody else? Who signs your
checks? The treasurer's did em off like and
like any company, the treasurer does that handles. That you
have direct deposit. You actually get the checks. I had
their deposit as I do now. This is not about me. Can we get too
much? Segment supposed to be
trying to Rattle you a little bit Aaron Donald tells TMZ if
we bring everybody back, I'm back. Well, you I mean if we
bring everybody back, no team brings everybody back. So
I don't know who he's referring to
every a team changes. Well,
but they still didn't bring everybody back. Sony. Surely
laugh, but I know he's, I know, I'm being too literal. What he
did probably leave and don't call me Shirley.
They've got a brick wall and I'm
airplane was out in 1980. Surely you haven't seen that
Von Miller is one of the key names that they need to bring
back obj.
MDS, made the point on Twitter yesterday, the day before
based upon the amount of time. It took him to recover from his
2020, torn ACL. He won't be ready to play it all this year
at all
in 2022. So I don't know. Do they bring him back to the not
bring him back. I'm trying to figure out what he's eligible
for under the CBA. There's a chance he gets nothing.
And maybe the Rams just give him kind of a, you know,
a thank you contract. I don't know. But obj, Robert Woods,
will he be back? He's got a big cap number. They have to have
to create some cap space
II. Just again. This is the Afterglow of winning the Super
Bowl and getting really, really sloppy ass drunk yesterday. So
I'm not putting any stock in any of this stuff. Because once
people get time
and distance from the party atmosphere and reality sets in
again, that's when decisions are going to be made. So what
The keys to the Rams, running it back, since we have a former
Ramsey employee employee of the
rbn with his with his,
would you call it? Would you call it head? The dog had logo?
Is that what you call
important to be accurate with language when saying dog head
as well, but
what's your first pick of what they need to do to run it back.
Well, speaking of Aaron Donald. I think the first thing is you
got to make him the highest-paid. Pensive player in
the league, right? I mean whether this is a leverage
player not with all the Donald retirement talk. There's
there's something
to the fact that he deserves a raise.
And I remember going to the combine in 2017 and the Rams
had just come off their 4 and 12 season. They just hired Sean
the gay and Les Snead even said, yeah. Certainly Aaron,
Donald is a guy who deserves a raise.
I think that after making him
the highest paid defensive player for about three days
before Cleo Mac, you know, became that when he got Added
to the Bears.
Now, that contract was there in 2018.
He needs another new deal and you know, if they decide that
they can make him the highest paid defensive player in
the league. I bet that he would come back in order to play
for that kind of money.
Yeah, and I agree with you and it's in Stan. Kroenke is Court
to take care of this and make sure they're in Donald's
contract. Does indeed pay him accordingly for the next three
years? Because after three years from now, yeah, he'll be
a free agent or franchise tag, do whatever. He's not going to
be physically who he is now unless we're just completely
wrong about him and he'll be the defensive tackle equivalent
of Tom. Brady and just keep going. Keep going. Keep going
deep into his 30s.
My pick is same as same as yours. Just a different job
pay. Sean McVeigh make him one of the highest. Paid coaches
in the National Football League and I'm still not ready to put
a whole lot of stock in
social media posts
from his fiance.
We don't even know that he authorized that he may not have
been sober enough to realize what she was doing. There's
a broader play here and it's about making sure that Sean
McVeigh is taken care of financially. And that's what
needs to happen.
And that's one of the things because obviously, if you're
changing head coaches, you're going to be far, less likely
to run it back Mi.
Absolutely. No, I
I totally agree with you on that and whether we can put
stock into the social media posts are not like I think that
that needs to happen and frankly for a man like Stan
kroenke who owns as much as he does and as much wealth as he
does, I don't think that that's going
to be a problem for him. Especially now that they've
been able to put a Lombardy trophy on his desk. But
the second thing that I would say, the Rams have got to do in
order to make it back in repeat
is effectively replace. Andrew Whitworth and this
You something that's a little bit underrated and, you know,
Andrew Whitworth is not officially come out and said
that he's retired. But hey, he basically said before
the season that this is probably going to be his last ride. He's
40 years old. He just won a
Super Bowl playing against the team that he played for for.
I think 11 Seasons before. Like there is not a better way for
him to go out. So now what does that mean? Well, you've got to
be able to have a left tackle that you trust
the Rams drafted Joseph Noteboom
in 28. 18. And he's only started, I think 10 11 12 games
for the Rams since then he played well, you know this
postseason when we're worth had to go out against Arizona. No
bun started
that game that they had against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
acquitted himself. Well, well there too, but he's a free
agent now. So are you going to say? Alright, no, boom.
I don't really know what your Market is right now, but we'd
like you to come back at a certain rate and maybe if you
play, well, we extend you, we give you some more money. It's
It's that
or, you know, do you look elsewhere. They don't really
have the draft picks of the draft Capital to look for a guy
who's going to be there in the draft
that could come in there and probably start right away,
right? So it's going to be something in free agency
whether it's Noteboom, whether they get something done before
he hits the market or they look elsewhere. They've got to find
out
who's going to be there. Left tackle.
Next thing they have to do
for my perspective, is
address the Robert Wood situation. That's the elephant
in the room, contractually for them. He's coming off of
the torn ACL that was suffered. The day that obj signed his
contract. He's got a salary of 10 million dollars
in 2020 to cap number of fifteen point. Seven million
Cooper cup has become the clear number one guy. Remember, they
were a couple of years where it was 1A and 1B. And at
one point, it was Woods won a
and cup 1 B, then it flipped cup one, a now. It's Here
the cup is number one.
Woods is number two.
They need Woods. If obj is not going to be healthy.
So I think they just need to fix this and they need to reach
an agreement where he's comfortable with what he's
making
their comfortable paying it to him. They're comfortable with
the cap charge and they can keep both of those guys that's
going to be a key
to getting back to the Super Bowl if they have a chance to
do it. Well, the interesting thing too is if Odell doesn't
get hurt. I mean would they have perhaps moved on from raw?
Robert Woods. Now you basically don't really have that choice,
especially because there is just not enough receiver depth
that the Rams have. And so that would be the third thing that
I would say is that you have to be able to
increase your depth at receiver. And you've got guys
like skowronek in there who frankly, just, he can't cash,
man. I mean, like, there were so many drops and so many plays
in the games that he was in where he just was not
a reliable Target. You have to be able to have guys that you can
On to come in there.
If it just so happens that somebody gets her
because you know, I've seen the think that if Odell Beckham jr.
Does not get hurt in the second quarter, the Rams have a much
easier time on offense in the second half.
I'm not trying to take away anything from what the Bangles
did defensively because we saw what they did in the second
half against teams earlier in the postseason, but Beckham was
getting loose man, and that when you have that second
option there, that's not just Cooper cup and you can rely
on that charge. It it makes a significant difference. So van
Jefferson is emerging. I think he can probably take another
step forward. But whether they have, you know, Woods in there
and he's going to be coming off that knee of course, but with
its Cooper cup,
it's van Jefferson, it can be woods, but they've got to get
another reliable Target for Matthew Stafford.
I was going to go ultra-hot take and say, trade, Jalen
Ramsey, but I'm not ready to go that before
I owe. My brother wasn't my husband, was he not
a liability?
Was he not a liability in the Super Bowl? One of the best
receivers in the game, man. I mean, like, he's gonna get his
and it's not like he wasn't torn down by his face.
I said, I said I was going to,
I said I was going to, I didn't say that I want. Or
I think
Here's what I got to do,
sir. OH, Ivy League guy, trying to break down. My my my
mechanisms for stirring up, crap.
Take care about me. John. Whatever. That means.
They got to take care of obj.
They need to financially, take care of him.
Even if he doesn't play at all in 2022
and otherwise is looking at getting nothing. If no one
signs and they want to wait from to be healthy. He may be
out all the year. They need to sign into a contract that pays
him.
Million minimum for 2022 and let him
stay with the team.
Be around the team work to get back.
He made a sacrifice to come there. He was
a difference-maker down the stretch. He was the best
offensive player on the field before the moment, where
the ACL went non-contact. And we went off yesterday on the fact
that
that every field in the NFL isn't isn't covered in Grass,
not fieldturf, where your foot sticks and down, you go, but
I That that he was a blessing for that team
and they need to take care of him. If you want, guys, like
Aaron Donald to feel good about coming back. Even if obj
doesn't play in 2022, you need to take care of them, have
around the team.
I totally agree with you on that Mike.
And, and I also think that it is a shame. Sometimes that we
have these turf fields when everybody knows that players
wanted to be grass. And
for so fi Stadium, where the thing where the playing surface
is 90 feet below ground level, I can understand. Why it's
a little bit impractical
to have like a grass field? Come up from somewhere in
the heavens. I don't know, but at the same time, like there
always a figuring that out. It's 2022.
You know, let's figure it out. So that all these guys, can you
plan on grass? And it is a player safety issue. And so,
I like there are places where I just don't understand why in
the world is Turf.
Why in the world are the Patriots? Play on Turf?
All right, why did Carolina
go from grass to Turf? Like, I understand that he's stadiums
are used in a A purpose way. But I think you said this
yesterday, Mike, like beef,
these men are part of your investment and keeping them
healthy should also be part of your investment. So playing on
grass, should be a big thing in that. I think that's one of
the great things that the Raiders did
when they built their stadiums. They made sure that grass
surface was going to be a part of it. Even if you have become
completely desensitized to the humanity of your players, and
I'm sure that plenty of owners general managers, and coaches
view, those players as interchangeable parts that are
constantly coming and going because they are even if you
view them that way, as not human, as robots as pieces in
a bigger machine. If you have a machine with really expensive
parts, and you only have so much
money per year to spend on those parts you'd like to
Thank you. Going to engineer the machine in a way to keep
those parts from breaking unnecessarily. That's what is
astounding to me.
And it's a classic case of being Penny, wise and pound
foolish. I think teams are just cheap. They are cheap
and it's a shame
and and, and hey, that's stadium.
Is the Pinnacle of opulence. They could have found a way
to put a grass field in there. If they wanted to somebody
emailed me yesterday. Well, you know, there's issues with
Waters with water and
there's So, Lake outside of the city, there's having freaking
Lake.
I think they'd find enough water
to water the grass.
If I Stay a problem, right? The water would not be the problem.
It's like, where do you? How do you put the grass under
the field? Like, do you have like a little some sort of
underground, Greenhouse
that you roll the field in and out of and like, have to dig
some sort of Alcove tunnel in order to make that happen.
I think, you know, I'm not an engineer
so I don't really know how I figured out. You're
a biologist, but maybe I am think that thing is an architectural
and Engineering Marvel. They would have figured out if they
really wanted to, by the way, before we close the books on
the Rams.
There was an announcement today from Matthew and Kelly
Stafford, that they'll be covering the medical expenses
of Kelly Smiley. She's the photographer that plummeted
from the stage yesterday, prompting the Frat. Stafford
references on Twitter where
and and look, I know exactly what Matthew Stafford was doing
in that moment because I will admit that at least once or
twice in my life. I have done that
before. There's been some sort of Calamity
that I was in no mood to be involved with. So I just walk
the other way. I'll admit it because it helps me prove that
yes indeed. That's what he was doing. I'm out of here. I'm out
of here.
Hey, he saw it happened. He said, well, I'm out of here.
Not my problem. I'm gone. That's exactly what he was doing.
I was, he probably was, but I was told by someone at
the rally and if you look at the video, you can, Tell dick he's
going to another photographer and what he said
apparently is. Hey, somebody just fell I have no idea what
to do. And in that situation where we can see stat with at
Stafford was hammered as he was like this is not a good look by
any means,
but if you look right there, he takes a sip of water and then
he's going toward the Rams team photographer. So it's okay.
Okay, just trust your Source, but I trust your Source
if he wasn't deer going for help.
If he was going for help,
I can I can live with that. The video suggests otherwise
that it was like
I'm out of here.
Sorry. I'm out of here,
not my issue. But and this is where we need to really help
get based on how much you know, that's true. He was doing he
would have fallen
he would have fallen off the stage as well.
This is where I hope that when it's time to decide who gets in
and who gets excluded from the great beyond that, it's on
an average with your spouse because
he married. Somebody who brings up the average as did I. So
he's probably like me thinking. It's a package deal. When it's
time to have your final judgment from Saint Peter. You
better hope. So I guess I got to find find out that too.
Because right now, man, I'm just,
I'm all alone and it probably isn't great.
Yeah, trust me. Trust me. There's a very good chance that
she's going to be,
she's going to be waving
to me. Maybe they would, maybe
see my hope is that she is so good that it secures a pass
because how could it truly be heaven for her
if she's deprived of the presence? See
that, that would?
That would be,
how was her trying sweeping were in Los Angeles? Because
that can tell you something.
I'm trying everything I can, hey. Hey, between her and my
son, they convinced me to stay. I was ready to leave. I was
ready to leave. After I went to the NFL experience on Sunday
and saw all those people there with the masks, you know, be
performing the the rule of the role of jazz catchers
and not actually being over their faces.
I was ready to go and and they both separately worked on me to
stay
because they wanted me to get covid and die. But you know,
because I have a good life insurance policy, but
nevertheless because of them, I