All right, Aaron Donald
similar issue with him. And that was the surprise that
popped up on Sunday during the pregame show. I'd caught wind
of it. Before we started the five-hour Extravaganza. That
riding was going to say something about Aaron. Donald
was really going to stir things up.
And Rodney said, there's a strong possibility, Aaron
Donald retires if they win on Sunday. Spoiler alert, they did
win for any of you out there. I'm sure there's nobody out
there who has like, not watched the game yet and has resisted.
Like I
can't really carve out for hours until Tuesday night.
Going to wall myself off from what's happened.
And if you are, you're not watching this show because
obviously you're going to hear it some point in the course of
this hour who won the Super Bowl, but they won the Super
Bowl.
Aaron Donald saying all the non-committal things about
the future, same as little Sean and Aaron, Donald
I don't, I don't know where this goes.
I don't know where this goes
because he puts so much of himself into his preparations
for
each and every season
that may be the thing that causes him to say. Say, you
know, at age, 30, and I've done everything that I wanted to do.
Maybe I don't do this anymore.
I would totally applaud that. I mean, we've seen a bunch of
player, not a bunch but a handful of Hall of Fame
players, first-ballot Hall of Fame players. Walk away at
a young age
and they're still able to walk and enjoy life and do all
the things with the rest of their life. And and I would applaud
that if Aaron Donald did that and you know, what, Mike, if he
walked away today at age 30,
I am saying he's one of the two best defensive players in NFL
history. He will In the Hall of Fame within five years when he
becomes eligible first ballot everything he's done.
It's just been an amazing career and to me the Super Bowl
ring cap that off. So I would applaud that if he did that and
it would be a shame because I think there's a lot more of
Aaron Donald to see in this game and he continued
can continue to play
at a high level was third and defensive player of the voting
this year and he should have been higher than that. He
should have at least been second behind, TJ W, but he's
still an outstanding.
Defensive player the best defensive player in football.
No One's Gonna question that everyone would tell you that
there's no argument there. Great player, one of
the greatest players in history period into story.
He also should have been suitable. 56 MVP. That is
a topic that we will be discussing later in the program
and ultimately for something like professional football, or
even coaching,
whatever or any other job that is demanding physically.
Mentally spiritually, emotionally, demanding hard
job.
If you don't want to do it, don't do it.
If you're done, you're done. And there's nothing wrong with
that. If Aaron Donald is done, if he's put everything that he
can into the sport of professional football in his
ready to move on Bravo. That's your call. Fans shouldn't get
mad about it. And I'm sure fans of teams like the 49ers in
the Seahawks and the
Cardinals and the Packers and the Buccaneers, and any other
contenders in the NFC, probably happy about it and the Bangles
If the Bangles get back to the Super Bowl and I have to worry
about Aaron Donald anymore. But
if he wants to move on, then then that's his call. And,
you know, one thing that has been lost in all this
Sims. And I talked about this earlier today.
Aaron Donald is a Pittsburgh guy
through and through
and as I've learned very recently living 100 miles,
south of Pittsburgh and being in Los Angeles
for 9 days. It is like you got on a rocket ship and went to
a different planet. It really is. I'm not passing judgment. I'm
saying it is the equivalent of going to a completely
different, galaxy
between Pittsburgh and Los Angeles,
and you're there
for five months out of the year.
Minimum. That's your life. That's where you are. And
that's part of the overall toll that it did it exacts upon you,
as a human being, there's only so much crap, any of us can
deal with
whether it is physical, whether it is mental, whether it is
emotional and Well, you get to a point where you just can't do
it anymore and he's climbed the mountain. He's reached
the Pinnacle. He's a walk-in
Hall of Famer and his sim said Sunday night after the Super
Bowl. He goes straight into that that inner room that is
reserved
for the guys where we don't have to have the debate. And
some would say those are really the only ones who should be in
the Hall of Fame. Any way
that that everything else is filler,
the ones who walk right in without question. The Brett
Favre's, the Peyton Manning's the Tom Brady's the air and
Donald's, the Lawrence. Taylor's maybe that's the only
ones that should be in it anyway,
but that's where Aaron Donald goes Know It. When You See It
Hall of Famer and if that's what he wants to do that's his
prerogative. And and Shireen
if this is also a leverage play
to replace the final. Three years of a contract that is due
to pay out a total of 55 million, more power to him.
It's time
for Stan kroenke
who's been ripping bills off that big ass bankroll. You
know, he's got that George Costanza wallet, that he pulls
out only, it's not coupons for free,
save the Tiger.
Poster from the Exxon station in Fort Lauderdale. It's cash
baby.
Cold Hard Cash. Filling up that hamburger sighs wallet.
It's time to start paying if you're going to
Fork over seven hundred ninety million without blinking to st.
Louis. It's time to start paying your guys who got you
that trophy that you seem
to be so immediately in love with. And if you want to keep
Aaron Donald, you got to pay him. If you want to keep Sean
McVeigh, you got to pay him. And there ain't a damn thing
wrong with Aaron, Donald or Sean McVeigh. Yes, and haste
and you want
to keep me here time to pay me?
Well, and Mike, you pointed out in a post. I think it was
earlier today. I might have been yesterday, but he has
three years remaining on his contract, and the average of
those three years is 18 point three million per year. That's
not enough to me.
Aaron. Donald is in that quarterback money,
right? He makes that big of a difference. There are very few
of those players, especially defensively, who I would say
that about, I would say that about Aaron Donald. You pay him
like a quarterback because he's earned that and he showed it
again in the Super
Bowl to me. The Rams don't win that Super Bowl if they don't
have Aaron Donald.
Yeah,
I, I agree completely and as we'll discuss he was the the
MVP.