NFC West Notes: Cardinals, Rams, Seahawks

Cardinals

Cardinals WR Larry Fitzgerald explained that he’s spent the past decade preparing for what could come after his playing career.

โ€œItโ€™s professional sports, and you think you have an idea butย you really have no idea,โ€ Fitzgerald said, via Darren Urban of AzCardinals.com. โ€œThereโ€™s retirement and then thereโ€™s being retired. Most guys get retired. [The teams] tell you itโ€™s time to go to pasture. You have to figure it out and they give you your apple and a road map.

โ€œFor the last 10 years, Iโ€™ve been doing internships and those types of things to prepare myself and figure out what I am interested in and what I want to do when I transition out. [But] this is my focus right now. End of July to the beginning of February, the only thing Iโ€™m really focused on is ball.โ€

  • Cardinalsย DE Markus Golden, who is on the PUP after suffering an ACL tear last year, declined to put any timetable on a potential return. Golden said he’s working daily and hasn’t suffered a setback. (Darren Urban)

Rams

New Rams DT Ndamukong Suh says that Aaron Donald deserves more money than he got in his record-setting six-year, $114 million contract with the Dolphins.

โ€œHe deserves more than what I got,โ€ Suh told Jarrett Bell ofย USA Today. โ€œItโ€™s only right that he continues to play at a high level and prove that.โ€

  • Charles Robinson doesn’t think the Rams are afraid of the possibility of DT Aaron Donald becoming a restricted free agent in 2019 by not reporting to the team.
  • Robinson doesn’t get the sense that this has been a bitter negotiation between the Rams and Donald and both parties would like to get a deal in place to ensure he remains in Los Angeles.
  • Robinson adds that “they’re not killing each other behind the scenes.”

Seahawks

The Seahawks signed LT Duane Brown to a new three-year, $36.5 million extension last week.

Brown told reporters on Sunday that there was “no doubt in any of our minds that it would get done.”

โ€œThere was no doubt in any of our minds that it would get done,โ€ Brown said, via the Seattle Times.ย โ€œIโ€™m very, very happy to finish out my career here.

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