What is good, everybody, welcome to the Gold Diggers podcast on the Gold Standard Podcast Network.

I'm Rob Stats, Guerrera, she's Mimotia Madoosha, Michelle.

Crazy stuff is happening in the NFL. It really is. I feel like every

second I look at down on my phone when there's a notification, it's something huge. I will say,

do you not have notifications on for Ian Rappaport or out of Schafter? Because I feel like I

text you things. You're like, what? What happened? Like I was like, oh, oh wow huge erin donald news and you're like did you retire i'm like

do you not have all the notifications for shifter and rap before i do and i have them on lists look

i'm not always checking twitter i'm very busy it's not about checking twitter doesn't just pop up

on your phone well i don't not looking at my phone 24-7. I have wrote- You looked at my text.

Yes, I did, because I'm going to do a show with you.

I wrote a long article today about Kyle Shanahan, going to criticize him, because I think he still doesn't get it.

We'll get to that.

We'll get to the Brandon I, you trade stuff because more details emerged about how this all came to be and what might happen and what the 49ers might get for Brandon Ayuk.

So I want to get into all of that.

But we got to start by talking about the Aaron Donald retirement because it's huge news.

He's one of the, he is one of the five greatest defensive players in the history of the national football league.

He plays in the 49ers division, obviously twice a year.

The Rams, I'm sure this didn't catch the Rams by surprise, but it's still a big loss nonetheless.

I mean, it's a huge loss.

And I caught me by surprise.

Maybe not them, but I did feel like they still had another year in them to compete.

At least be, I mean, we would expect them to go to the playoffs again because they did it this year. But with, you know, the offense growing again with Puka and Kiron Williams and Matthew

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