The guy who got became the highest paid defensive player 10 days after Aaron Donald became the highest paid defensive player just got traded for a 2nd and a 6th.

I’m just curious what kind of package AD would get.

Titans informed Pro-Bowl guard Rodger Saffold that they are releasing him, per source.

This would have been the fourth year of a four-year, $44 million deal that had a $1 million roster bonus due next week. One more free-agent guard.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 10, 2022

I’m sure they are all kicking the tires on Wagner, but he doesn’t make sense for either the Rams or the 9ers, imo. The Rams apparently don’t really need ILB, because they’ve been doing fine without a really good one in that position since…I don’t even know. They’re fine with Jones, and he’s a fraction of the cost.

The 49ers, meanwhile, have to sign Nick Bosa, and as Khalil Mack a few years ago, Bosa is going to be a guy who will give AD a run for highest paid defensive player in the league. And Deebo Samuel is eligible for a contract extension right now (3 years), and you have to think that guy is due for some $ right now, probably in the neighborhood of $20/year.

I hasten to add I’m no cap guy, and even if I was, I have no idea what the 49ers situation is, but that doesn’t look to me like a likely destination. Assuming Garappolo is traded, that will free up some $, though.

I believe the Chargers have cap space, and if Wagner is going “home” to LA, that probably makes some sense. The Chargers need him, and they need stars because nobody even knows they play in LA (except San Diego).

I’m a long time LA fan and observer.

IMO, the Dodgers own LA. They draw even when they are terrible. There is something about the palm trees, and the beaches, and leisurely summer evenings that just loves baseball, and the Dodgers are unsinkable.

The Lakers have a strong tradition, several championships, and no team in the NBA has more championships than the Lakers. They are Showtime. But when they are bad, they don’t draw attention. But the franchise has a lot of goodwill, so much so that even if the Clippers ever won, they would still take a backseat to the Lakers.

The Rams just aren’t up there. Even USC has a greater following.

This Super Bowl helps, but the Dodgers, Lakers, and USC have multiple championships, and until the Rams have won 3 or more times, they just aren’t going to be on that level. I don’t even think that back-to-back will do it. It will damn well help. But it won’t do it. The Dodgers, the Lakers, and USC are in the upper echelons of their sports as elite franchises.

The Rams aren’t. They had a lot of really, really good teams in the 70s and 80s, but couldn’t get over the hump. Since then, they’ve largely sucked. They had a few good years in another city, including a championship, and a couple of good years since returning to LA, including one championship. But that just isn’t going to surpass the legacy of those other teams. It’s going to take more. A lot more.

This aged beautifully 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/Vsu45Q3xZt

— RAM IT (Super Bowl Champions) (@RamIt2195) March 9, 2022

Garappolo will be traded within the week,  I think, but nothing has leaked. I sure hope the 49ers screw it up.

So AD talked with Rodney Harrison about retirement, thinking it was a personal conversation, and Rodney went ahead and said that on national TV before the biggest game of his life. Wow

— HoldenCantor (@HoldenCantor) March 9, 2022

Sean McVay has done the following:

✅ Gotten Russell Wilson traded
✅ Gotten Jimmy G likely traded
✅ Forced SF to draft a project QB
✅ Made Kyler have a breakdown

This man runs the NFC West.

— rams szn (@rams_szn) March 8, 2022

{twocents} OBJ is going to get incentives. No way is he getting big money with a twice-ripped up knee, and most of the season on IR. And now there is concern his knee could take him down Todd Gurley Avenue.

Sucks for him.

Stafford won’t sign for less than 40. Rodgers just got 50. And Stafford has the same number of SB rings.  They’re going to have to pay him.

I can’t imagine that no team will outbid the Rams for Miller. Somebody is going to buy him for more than the Rams can pay.

{/twocents}

wv wrote:

Helianthus is a local friend of mine, Z.  Professor.  Into native plants, socialism, bats, and the evolution of insect mouth-parts.

After I posted that, I decided to check out their timeline, and came away convinced that a real person is behind the tweets, so I followed back, and now I have created room for a new recommendation from Twitter.

I just thought it was so strange that this user, who is hardly ever active, and has only 12 followers (13 now), has been Twitter recommended to me incessantly for so long.

pic.twitter.com/oCFk8Wfzsw

— Sha (@Keralamuslimtm) March 6, 2022

Billy_T wrote:

WV has mentioned in the past that’s he’s been doing anthropological studies of Left Twitter, but I don’t know his “handle.” Given that you’re both Seahawks fans, you must talk a lot about Seattle? I suppose I could always duckduckgo “leftist Seahawk fans.”

You’re half right.

WV’s handle is CraftBoi3.

He mostly tweets tips about how to make Russell Wilson dolls with crochet, play-doh, and potato-carving versions. Things like that.

This seems weird to me.

This acct followed me about a month ago (and follows wv, who follows back). It has 12 followers, the same amount it had a month ago when it followed me. The acct has been listed under my Who to Follow recommendations ever since. A month or more now. Other basically No Profile accts have followed me over that time, too, but they never show up as a recommendation. WTF?

PS It’s not Biden. It’s the other one.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 12 months ago by Zooey.

That’s counts as bad news, right?

Staff at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine sent a message to Ukrainian media and government authorities warning that the Russian troops that took the plant are now laying down explosives around it in order to "blackmail the whole of Europe."

— MK-ULTRA (@mkultranews) March 4, 2022