Unbelivable: Rams Coach Sean McVay Said Choosing Rams Was The Biggest Mistake He Ever Made…
Rams head coach Sean McVay knew Aaron Donald was retiring two months ago and the defensive future Hall of Famer duly hung up his cleats last week.
McVay was talking to Albert Breer of SI.com and said that after the LA team’s playoff loss to the Lions, Donald told him, “I’m full.”
McVay said, “I’m just like, ‘And you should be. You have every right to feel that way’”.
“What an amazing thing. The words won’t do justice to the way that he so eloquently articulated it to me and just put it in a way that, as a human being, all you’re really looking for is to be at peace and to be happy. He was full. And, man, did you feel that. You’re just so happy because he earned it too,” the head coach added.
McVay likened the loss of Donald to Jason Kelce leaving the Eagles after 13 seasons.
“I think those conversations occur at the appropriate time,” McVay said. “There’s so much emotion that takes place right after a game and after a season that I think . . . And even I was reading earlier, you see Jason Kelce, there’s all these assumptions and things like that and so I think you give guys the chance to really just digest the season, coaches and players alike, and then we’ll address all those things at the right time.”
Would the right big money offer have kept him at the Rams, or in the colors of another team is moot.
He has taken a guaranteed $157.1 million over a Hall of Fame career, which included three Defensive Player of the Year awards to go with his Rookie Defensive Player of the Year, in his ten years in LA.
A terrific career, a deserved rest and would begrudge the big fella that?