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RAMS AND DONALD AGREE TO A DEAL

The Los Angeles Rams won't have to worry about Aaron Donald's contract holdout stretching into the regular season.

Days after coach Sean McVay said there was increased dialogue between the two sides, the All-Pro defensive tackle agreed to a six-year contract extension worth $135 million with $87 million in guarantees, a source informed of the situation told NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport. He also gets a $40 million signing bonus, per Rapoport.

In all, Donald is under contract for seven years at $141 million, according to Rapoport.

Donald, 27, has made the Pro Bowl in each of his four NFL seasons after being drafted No. 13 overall in 2014. He has 39 sacks and 205 tackles over 58 career starts.
 

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Well considering our starters saw next to zero game time in the preseason, I expected us to be rusty. The defence were kept busy in the first half and the Raiders defence were playing well and making it hard for the offence. Reversed momentum on both sides of the ball in the second half and slowly broke the game open. Carr throwing some very poor interceptions didn't help at all. Loved Gurley and Johnsons game. Liked seeing Peters get a Touchdown in his Rams debut. Cooks become more involved as the game went on after a quiet start.
 
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Was a great effort by Johnny Hekker to take the duties ... Kupp was the holder as Hekker normally holds for GZ.

I thought the Rams D were immense didn’t give the Cardinals O any chance to settle. Sam was all at sea I’m afraid.

I can see the Cardinals starting Rosen next week.
 

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Our defence is looking solid, but need to get a few more sacks on the QB. Feel a high powered offence will test or beat us at this stage of the season. Still need a few more games to gel. Was awesome as to go 3/3 at two point conversion attempts. McVay just makes the right play calls at the right time.
 

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Our passing game is on fire today, really loving Goff's consistency and ability to read the defence and flip the plays accordingly. Not quite so for our pass defence. Have one sack so far and came close to a couple interceptions with just over a quarter to go. But have struggled to contain the Chargers WR's at times. Would be in trouble if we were facing a Brady, Bree's or Mahomes today, but doing enough to have a solid lead. Peters left the game early with an ankle injury and has not returned.
 
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Our passing game is on fire today, really loving Goff's consistency and ability to read the defence and flip the plays accordingly. Not quite so for our pass defence. Have one sack so far and came close to a couple interceptions with just over a quarter to go. But have struggled to contain the Chargers WR's at times. Would be in trouble if we were facing a Brady, Bree's or Mahomes today, but doing enough to have a solid lead. Peters left the game early with an ankle injury and has not returned.

... then Talib left the game also with what looked like an ankle sprain. Peters looked like an achilles to me - if so he'll be out for the year. So we lost both Corners but the D still managed to hold them on a crucial fourth down play. I rate the Chargers and feel this was a very good W. Short turn-around to Thursday night v Vikings. Last year as a Redskin Cousins beat us and they will be smarting from their shock loss to the Bills so it's a big game!

Highlight of the match for me was Goff scrambling on third and long and finding Kupp for the TD in the 3Q. Not bad for a 'System QB'. :D
 

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Was a great game to watch. Our defence is meant to be our most scary asset on paper, but its our offence that has been playing big so far this season. Imagine when our deference finally gels, exciting times. Was hoping Goff could break the teams TD record, came up short by inches in the end.
 
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https://www.therams.com/news/rams-sign-k-cairo-santos

The Rams have made a change at kicker.

Though head coach Sean McVay said on Monday that there’s a chance All-Pro Greg Zuerlein could return from his groin injury this week, Los Angeles elected to waive Sam Ficken on Tuesday and sign Cairo Santos.

Originally an undrafted free agent out of Tulane, Santos played 51 games for the Chiefs from 2014-2017. In that time, Santos connected on 84.8 percent of his field goals and 96.2 of his extra points.

Santos, however, suffered a groin injury early in the season last year, and ended up being waived/injured in September. He signed with the Bears in November, kicking with them for two games. He hit one-of-two field goals — though the second came from over 50-yards out — and hit both extra points.


The Tulane product signed with the Jets in the 2018 offseason, but was cut during training camp. He recently tried out for the Browns in September, and had a successful tryout with L.A. on Tuesday.

Kai Forbath — who has spent time with Washington, New Orleans, and Minnesota — also tried out for the Rams on Tuesday.

Santos is expected to serve as Los Angeles’ kicker until Zuerlein is ready to return.

L.A. added two players to its practice squad on Tuesday: edge rusher Ja'Von Rolland-Jones and defensive back Linden Stephens.

Additionally, the Rams have waived outside linebacker Carlos Thompson — who was on injured reserve. And the club has cut defensive end Marcus Martin from the practice squad.
 
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https://www.ocregister.com/2018/05/...g-and-say-yes-to-the-rams-throwback-uniforms/


Yo NFL, do the right thing and say yes to the Rams throwback uniforms
By VINCENT BONSIGNORE | vbonsignore@scng.com | Daily News
PUBLISHED: May 18, 2018 at 5:38 pm | UPDATED: August 1, 2018 at 11:59 am

We get it, the National Football League has a lot on its plate right now.

Among them, trying to make the game safer and sorting out the national anthem controversy and figuring out what constitutes a legal catch or not and adapting to the potential new world of legalized sports gambling.

So we’ll cut the powers that be a little slack if they’re not taking seriously the uproar going on in Los Angeles about the Rams god-awful mix-matched uniforms and a bunch of frustrated fans who turn to everyone and anyone for help.

Including the NFL’s New York City headquarters, which holds the key to turning the whole embarrassing situation into a feel-good story with a happy ending.

But rather than oblige, the NFL responds with a tone-deaf shrug of the shoulders as if to say: Them’s our rules, partner. Deal with it.

Even though, you know, we’re only the second-biggest market in the country, and after kicking us to the curb for 21 years you’d think the NFL would bend over backward trying to do everything possible to ensure a positive, healthy, long-term reconciliation.

Especially when, in this case, that “anything” is so incredibly easy and makes so much sense.

All it would take, really, is a teeny-weeny little tweak to the current rules.

As in, chilling out and letting the Rams wear their blue and gold throwback uniforms the next two seasons. Or until they roll out their permanent new unis upon opening their new stadium in 2020

That’s it. A simple, painless yes to a request that will have a minimal, if any, effect outside of a bunch of very appreciative fans in Los Angeles.

It’s a gesture about as harmless and innocuous as a cop pulling someone over for day-old expired tags, then letting them off with the promise they’ll head directly to the DMV to renew their registration.

That minimal amount of effort and rule-bending would send a powerful message from the NFL to its hardcore, devoted customers. The ones that rob Peter to pay Paul to buy season tickets and team gear and stadium hot dogs and beer more than four times above the normal costs.

The ones that tune in to games on TV each week in numbers that dwarf every other professional sports league and drive up network rights fees and help pay players and coaches and front office executives and league office personnel exorbitant amounts of money.

To those fans, the ones paying everyone’s salaries and making sure the money train keeps churning down the tracks, the NFL would be saying: We hear you. We’re listening. We get it. And we’re going to do right by you.

But I digress.

Like I said, the NFL has a lot going on. So maybe they just haven’t gotten around to opening up all those emails from the Rams explaining their fans frustrations about the current uniform situation. The ones pleading with the league to give them more leeway to wear their throwback uniforms until they roll out a fresh new brand and color scheme in 2020.

Or maybe, being all the way across the country in New York, the NFL just doesn’t appreciate the level of frustration fans feel upon watching their favorite team playing in mismatched uniforms that look like they were haphazardly yanked out of boxes from various different eras and thrown together right before kickoff.

For whatever reason the NFL seems to be poo pooing the whole thing as no big deal. All the while hanging its hat on a bunch of silly, archaic rules that make the young fans they’re trying to impress – and the old ones they want to hang onto – scream.

When the Rams returned to Los Angeles in 2016, after spending the previous 21 years in St. Louis, they came back with the uniforms they’d been wearing since 2000. Nothing against St. Louis, per se, but that uniform and color scheme wasn’t just a slap to the face of Los Angeles Rams fans who suffered for more than two decades without their beloved franchise, they were universally despised for lack of pop and the link they represented to the most woeful era in Rams history.

On every level – from emotional to aesthetics – the uniforms were a terrible eyesore.

The Rams, understanding the need for change to mark their new era in Los Angeles but also the immediate importance of appeasing their local fans, inquired to the league about wearing their throwbacks through the process of making a complete uniform makeover.

The plan was to unveil the new look at the grand opening of their new stadium in 2019 – now 2020 after weather issues pushed back the opening by a year – but also create an immediate connection in their former home.

Could the Rams have rolled out the new uniforms sooner? Yes. But they felt strongly it didn’t make sense to do it while playing at their temporary home at the USC color and logo dominated Coliseum.

Makes sense.

In the meantime, they pleaded with the NFL to relax its rule stipulating teams can only wear their throwback uniforms twice a year. This is important to note, as the Rams understood the vast majority of their local fans identify most with the uniforms they wore in Los Angeles and Anaheim from 1973 to 1994. Just as importantly, they knew how much fans truly despised the St. Louis era uniforms.

If the league could just find it in its heart to do the right thing, the Rams surmised, everybody would be happy. Including, you know, fans that would happily shell out big-time money to update their team-gear collection with their beloved colors. Only this time with names like Goff and Gurley and Donald on the back rather than Dickerson and Youngblood and Slater.

Talk about a no-brainer.

But the NFL just shrugged its shoulders.

No can do.

The frustrated Rams did get league approval to replace their St. Louis era helmets with their late 1960’s navy blue with white horns helmets and decided to go exclusively with white jerseys – albeit the St. Louis style – at home. It wasn’t perfect, and upon close inspection, the helmets clash with the jerseys and pants. But it was a bit of an improvement.

At home at least.

On the other hand, when they played on the road against teams that wore “away” uniforms at home – the Cowboys and Jaguars come to mind – it meant the Rams donning their St. Louis era blue jerseys with the throwback white and blue helmets and either blue or white pants.

The result was a uniform scheme that looked like someone went shopping at multiple thrift stores and threw everything together at the last minute. It was embarrassing, to say the least, and not worthy of a high school team let alone one from the NFL.

No matter how much the Rams protested to the league about taking the field looking like some low-budget, third-rate team wearing hand-me-down uniforms yanked from bygone eras, the NFL simply shrugged its shoulders.

A year later, nothing has changed. And with the 2018 kickoff just over 100 days away, it looks like the Rams and their fans will have to suffer through another season in uniforms the whole world is laughing at

That is unless the NFL would just do the right thing.

It’s a harmless, painless OK. A no-brainer if there ever was one.

Just let the Rams wear their throwbacks the next two years.
 

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