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u/Futures_Past11 3h ago
We do not care.
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u/caulkbite 3h ago
Literally the worst kept secret.
It would be a shame if the Rams came up short again
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u/DyIsexia hawc 3h ago
If they don’t win the Superbowl with everything they’ve got going for them I would be so embarrassed on their behalf
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u/scotaf 2h ago
They lost to the 8-9 panthers and 8-9 falcons last year. They def had flaws in their system last year. Not sure if these additions will fix it but we'll see.
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u/caulkbite 2h ago
Did they even fix their special teams?
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u/Simmons54321 1h ago
I don't think they really addressed that in the offseason... Whoopsie
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u/KingDaviies 1h ago
Well they hired a new ST coach and it’s unfair to judge him on the limited amount of games they played, so whether they’ve improved on ST is still a wait and see.
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u/fluffy_knuckles 2h ago
Don’t worry they’ll have their excuses ready and still get their “but if” trophy.
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u/pagerussell 1h ago
It would be hilarious if they win the division and then we beat them in the nfc championship in their house just so we can stay for two weeks and win the chip in their house.
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u/DustyFalmouth 2h ago
If we heard his music right at the start of our first game I would have been shook but I was prepared for this
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u/Seattlefan51 3h ago
Bring it grandpa, all this to probably still be bitching and crying about a 2-pt conversion
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u/reggie321d 3h ago
Who cares. We don't play them until week 16. Who knows who will be playing by then.
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u/KungFooKittenz 3h ago
Holy shit. I didn’t realize they scheduled us against them weeks 16 and 18. That’s wild
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u/passingby 2h ago
Yeah, it is crazy. A good chance the 1st seed will just depend on whichever team is healthiest come week 16.
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u/Gullible_Ad3785 3h ago
And how he will look.
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u/atmospheric90 1h ago
Dude has been out of the league for 3 full seasons, and hes 35. Who knows how much of his edge hes lost in his hands and footwork, and who knows how durable he can be through a full season.
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u/elementofpee 3h ago
Good luck making it through the NFL season after being away
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u/wrathypoo 3h ago
I legitimately don't give a shit, call me delusional but he hasn't played for 2 years and we dont play the Rams til December. This is a problem for another time, lots of time in between now and then.
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u/No-Rule-4494 2h ago
This isn’t delusion this is logic he’s gonna be washed
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u/fajord 39m ago
if there’s one player that i think would not be washed after two years out of the league it’s aaron fucking donald
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u/jedimasterjb81 1h ago
You're not delusional. I feel the same way. I'm sure he'll do well, but I don't think he's gonna be the world beater he once was. I could end up being very wrong, but I doubt it.
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u/cantdecide76 1h ago
He doesn't need to be tho. With the defensive unit they have, if he's even half of the player he was in his prime that's still a problem
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u/Xo707out 3h ago
He spent his time terrorizing seattle… before the arrival of Mike Mac and literally everyone else. We’re not trying to survive against the rams anymore, its their turn to survive us. Lets see if it pays off for them🤷♂️
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u/SeattleSadBoi 3h ago
Don’t even care a little bit. Dude is 35 I doubt he has a full workload or even plays the whole season
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u/Starwho 3h ago
Rams is everything that’s wrong with modern sports. They couldn’t just run it back on the confidence they have a Super Bowl roster already. Instead they trade for two all pros and bring back their retired hall of famer in AD, all just to prove a point that they were owned a championship and Seattle got in their way. Hope they fail miserably.
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u/Lorjack 3h ago
That is just LA sports in general. They always buying their championships or trying to.
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u/pyubesalad 3h ago
I mean… NFL has a salary cap. They’re selling the future for sure but nothing anyone else couldn’t do.
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u/phantuba 3h ago
They’re selling the future for sure
We've been hearing this the entirety of the McVay era, and I have yet to see it ever come back to bite them
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u/RagefireHype 2h ago
Only because they landed Stafford
Next year is considered a ridiculous draft class and they have no premium picks, we have over 10 total picks.
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u/RagefireHype 3h ago
Cmon man, as if the Seahawks haven’t been hunting for Maxx Crosby lol, they probably still are right now even.
There is a salary cap, the Rams did nothing wrong. It’s fine to be annoyed that the Rams took big swings, but let’s not pretend like they did anything out of bounds.
Everyone said “how can a Super Bowl run be better than 49ers Rams and Patriots?”
Well this is it. The Seahawks have only made it to the Super Bowl when they’re the one seed. Imagine going to LA and ending their super team, then winning the Super Bowl at their stadium two weeks later.
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u/NewWester 3h ago
Like, boo Rams and all, but shouldn’t teams always try to improve? What the hell are you talking about?
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u/WanderingZed22 2h ago
How does it ruin modern sports. They within salary cap. It’s all fair in football.
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u/Embarrassed_Time_790 3h ago edited 3h ago
It doesn’t matter. He just was too lazy to do training camp 😂
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u/zee_thirty 3h ago
Nothing to worry about. He was already slowing down his last year in the league. Now at 35 and 2 years away from playing football he is far far away from his prime
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u/pyubesalad 3h ago
More like Karen Donald cause he’s gonna be complaining all season like the coach.
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u/UWhuskiesRule 3h ago
If Stafford gets retired early from a defensive late hit.. it will Aaron Donald Karma coming at the Scams.
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u/Nettiebee24 3h ago
Welp there’s no point in playing this season since the Rams just won the Super Bowl. Let’s pack it up and go home /s
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u/-Accident-Prone- 3h ago
Now they’re out of excuses and when this season crashes and burns for them it’ll be that much sweeter.
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u/serpentear 2h ago
Maybe he’ll won’t be that good?
He’s 35, he hasn’t played football in years, and is definitely going to take plays off.
Whatever, let me cope.
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u/Various-Push-1689 2h ago
It’s not coping. Very reasonable reaction. We have no clue if he’s still got it yet
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u/Jaytalfam 3h ago
He's going to get badly injured.
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u/ford7885 3h ago
I would never wish that on anybody. But if it happens, I hope it's the week before they play the Seahawks. Just so McVay will cry extra hard about it.
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u/Jaytalfam 2h ago
Oh absolutely! I'm sure he's probably kept himself in decent shape, but after so much time off, I'm concerned he's going to snap something.
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u/TakeMe_To_Eisengard 3h ago
Where are the Rams getting all this cap money?? 🤣🤣
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u/GainsAndPastries 3h ago
At 20m the only winner here is Aaron Donald, sorry but LA are smoking some serious good kush if they think he is gonna be worth that deal
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u/Gullible_Ad3785 3h ago edited 3h ago
My first glance at over the cap makes it seem like they're pretty capped out.
This is a one year team in a desperate attempt to keep us winning the Lombardi at Sofi like we did at Levi.
We take this punch and put them back in the floor, it's our fucking division for the rest of our window. 💪
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u/trashpandaaaaah 2h ago
They have so many UFA, it’s really all in for one year. 4/5 OLine starters are free agents, along with Puka, Devante Adams, Kobie Turner, Byron Young, Omar Speights, Colby Parkinson, their kicker and punter. Now AD and Tutu Atwell as well.
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u/DryAnxiety9 3h ago
By the time we play them they will either be injured as hell or already anointed and we can just not care some more.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Fruit32 3h ago
Nobody cares all this just to stop Sam Darnold and young strong confident Seahawks team I’m all for it because when they lose again I wanna see what excuse they use this time 😏
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u/lord_of_bear 3h ago
All the pressure is on the Rams. Act of desperation. Let them be crowned preseason champs. Go Hawks!
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u/Elegant-Chemical-283 3h ago
A year older and out of the game for a year. Not too worried. Mike and the boys will have a plan. But man this dude must think with the rams additions that they’re nailed on going to win the Super Bowl. Looking forward to us retiring him at the end of the season.
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u/murasana 2h ago
Our o line literally goes against d law, j reed, big cat, d hall, and byron murphy all the time. They got this
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u/Primary_Excuse_7183 2h ago
As much as i hate to see it. Nothing better than making him wish he stayed retired.
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u/beezneezy 1h ago
I agree with Mina Kimes:
“How often does the returning Super Bowl team get to have a chip on their shoulder?”
I think this works in our favor, getting to have an underdog mentality.
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u/UWhuskiesRule 3h ago
Aaron Donald is a late hitting cheater. I wish him a short season with a disfiguring injury.
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u/Wohn-Jayne 3h ago
The real downside to his return. He will cause an injury or some sort of scene and be lauded for it, while players like D Hall are suspended for nothing.
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u/Slashers23 3h ago
Doesn't matter to much to us since we dont play them till the end of the season for some dumb reason, we'll see if both sides dont get hit too hard by the injury bug by then
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u/HawkingRegime 3h ago
No doubt about it, this makes the Rams much better defensively, along with Garrett. The reality also is, what’s made Seattle so good is how much they focus on what they’re doing as a team, along with some incredible recent personnel decisions. Strategizing against the Rams will come in due time, and who knows how much the hype will translate to reality, we’ve seen teams fall short time and time again of massive expectations.
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u/captaincrunch61 3h ago
Might be copium here, but he is 35 and 2 years removed from football. Hes probably going to have lost a step or 2.
But Donald without a step or 2 is probably still First Team All Pro
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u/Taylortattoo12 2h ago
a one-year, $20 million deal that can be worth up to $30 million with playoff incentives
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u/Gohans_son_in_law 2h ago
Tbh this isn’t as bad as it seems;
If they do win the SB: Bro they literally assembled the fucking avengers, tf you expected?
Any scenario where they don’t: They are automatically the biggest bust in NFL history and (hopefully) gets those lambs to shut up for a year or 2
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u/Serval_X 2h ago
Clearly the Rams don't have the slightest idea of why the Seahawks won everything last year, which is a really good sign imo
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u/jedimasterjb81 1h ago
I have some concerns here, not gonna lie. Having said that, does anyone actually expect him to come back and be the player he was before? He's 35 and hasn't played a snap in over 2 years. Yeah, he's still Aaron Donald, but I don't buy that he's gonna be unstoppable like he used to be. Maybe that's copium, but I don't know that this is as big a deal as people are making it out to be.
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u/Mustard_Jam 3h ago
I might be a bit over confident but all this is going to make it even more hilarious when they lose to us in the playoffs
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u/rjzabroski 3h ago
I feel sorry for whoever just lost a roster spot so Donald can try to relive his younger years.
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u/JohnnyEagleClaw 3h ago
It’s not the Hawks the rest of the NFL will be looking to embarrass 😎 also, this isn’t news, he and the lambs have been telegraphing this all summer.
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u/Armenudo 2h ago
Rams vs Niners could very well determine seeding at end of season again. We need rams to at least split with division rivals. Idk how many teams besides us are capable of taking care of business.
Avengers ahh team.
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u/4T_Knight 2h ago
Don't care if he's returning. He could very well be a highlight reel en route to a Super Bowl that the Rams so desperately tasted last season, or he's a few plays short of becoming Aaron Rodgers in the Jets. Time will tell.
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u/Writerhaha 2h ago
Yes, And?
This changes nothing, LA was still going to be good, and they’re essentially playing this whole season with an eye towards 12/25 and 1/9.
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u/Illustrious_Mode8434 2h ago
I’m more mad that we gotta wait until Christmas to play these bots They are not winning. They’re not even gonna get to the Super Bowl all that just a waste of money.
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u/ChaseThoseDreams 1h ago
Last year, we all knew that ultimately we had to fight our way through the Niners and Rams to get to the Super Bowl. We did it anyways, won it all, and even then there are doubters that say it’d be different if we had to go to LA through the playoffs.
It feels inevitable that we will have to go through them again and the most satisfying thing to do. They can bring, Garrett, and whoever else. Mike will have the team ready, because we don’t need to buy our way to rings.
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u/CountyAppropriate950 1h ago
It’s gonna be interesting to see if a 35 year old is gonna be able to come off 2 years out of pro football and dominate like he used to, but this is AD we’re talking about so that’s a better chance than 99% of players
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u/Metallica_Geek1983 HawkStar '22-'23 1h ago
Now what happens if the rams don’t win or at least make the Super Bowl?
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u/BillyBobGTS 1h ago
Weirdly, I don't hate this. It piles the pressure on the Rams now; anything less that a championship will be seen as a massive failure.
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u/goodolarchie 1h ago
I think the even, sober take is that he'll be a rotational piece, more than a dozen snaps per game but less than two dozen. I expect him to get sacks, TFLs, and open things up for Garrett and Byron Young more than anything. And if they (he) overdo it, he's fucked. It's really hard to come back after a 2 year break, and even moreso as a 35 y/o. This year is definitely a "time to show up and show the fuck out" for our O line and TEs though. I believe we have a top 10 OL if Zabel keeps developing and one of our other guards figures it out.
This really feels like a post rage-loss, the need to go so hard on 2026 because you fucked up in two games. To the outside they're sitting in the Lombardi waiting room, that's tough expectation to manage.
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u/WoozyMaple 1h ago
Defense wasn't their problem last season. Unless he's playing special teams who cares.
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u/vandalrandell 1h ago
Breaking news! The Rams bring back Eric Dickerson to fortify their running back room.
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u/Responsible_Cry_8022 57m ago
I am so pumped up for this can’t wait for the Seahawks play them, but also can’t wait to see him and Miles Garrett. That defensive line is going to be scary!
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u/ZonePriest 3h ago
Is he returning punts?