Jared Verse realizes calling out Aaron Donald was not wise. The top 2 NBA free agents are in LA. Angel City’s new manager takes over. Plus Dodgers.

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[Music] jared Verse realizes calling out Aaron Donald not very smart the top two free agents for the NBA are in Los Angeles and will not be leading Los Angeles and Angel City’s new manager takes over and everybody makes nice nice good morning i’m James this is your daily dose of sports and snark for the greatest sports city in the world Los Angeles this is the Fate Angelino’s morning report it is June 7th 2025 back in Portland for work which totally sucks but hey we’re going to start the day off right with some LA sports and if you like being in the know about LA click to clack the like button click to clack the subscribe button there’s a notification bell hit that it’ll let you know when we drop new content sharing is caring let people know we exist and by all means comment now before we go through the news and notes quick look at the scoreboard uh St louis 5 Dodgers zero ick meanwhile Sparks 95 Dallas 79 today especially this morning the Dodgers are playing the Cardinals again at 11:15 chicago by the way is at Angel City FC that match is at 7 so with that out of the way what do you say we get to the news we don’t know if Jared Verse puked but he damn sure ate a lot of humble pie in his lifting sesh with former Rams Dlineman and surefire Hall of Famer Aaron Donald now we don’t want to be too hard on Verse we’ve been talking about this for the last few days verse god love him ambitious as hell wants to be great and that is to be commended but we all knew he picked the wrong battle ever since the rookie of the the defensive rookie of the year challenged Donald the quintessential workout warrior to a lifting sesh because let me tell you guys something i don’t believe Aaron Donald retired because he started to get tired of football no I believe Aaron Donald retired so that he can lift weights even more often you never want to be apart from your one true love football was taking him out of the weight room so verse he challenged Aaron Donald on social media posts donald said fine verse met up um nobody in the room said that Verse lost they didn’t have to verse lost he lost big there is a clip for example of Verse sitting on a bench clutching his chest trying to catch his breath while Donald is still doing push-ups and trashtalking with each rep quote “This ain’t just one day this is every day for me this is retired me just imagine when I was playing,” unquote we don’t have to imagine we know the stories donald when he was still with the Rams met up with a Makea-Wish kid and they lifted until the until the Makea-Wish kid started puking and by the way Verse and Donald took another pick after the workout uh Donald was shirtless staring right at the camera big smile totally locked in verse on the other hand had a million mile vacant stare like he just dropped LSD that was one of the most hallucinate he was hallucinating for the camera guys donald was flexing verse was hallucinating now Verse did come correct he admitted after the sesh that he learned his lesson quote “I tried to test the legend and he responded with the workout from hell.” And if you think his teammates are going to let this one slide you’ve got another thing coming too Atwell quote “You look tired my boy.” Kobe Turner posted a bunch of crying emojis with quote been waiting all day for this unquote and I want to repeat this i like Jared Verse i like him a lot he’s going to do a lot of great things in LA but only pick the battles that you know you can win dude I don’t know what the hell made you think you could take out Aaron Donald in a lifting session you had to find out the impatience of youth also with the Rams Sports Illustrated created a list of defensive triplets you’ve heard of offensive triplets right the quarterback the wide receiver the running back well the defensive triplets the best lineman best linebacker best defensive back on each team and when you put it all together for the Rams they were ranked down at 23rd and this is completely irrelevant don’t read into it the Rams do not have the 23rd ranked defense in the NFL it’s irrelevant because that is not how the Rams build a defense we’ve been talking about this on this show for years the Rams prioritize a pass rush they want a terrific defensive line then they want linebackers who are sure tacklers but not necessarily the type of linebacker that can take over a game remember they had an elite linebacker once with Shawn McVey that was Bobby Wagner and how did that team do they only won five games exactly bobby Wagner for all his greatness when he was with Seattle can’t take it away from him having him in LA square peg round hole it is not the way they build a defense and by the way they just want DBs who are just going to limit the big plays so for the record if you look at the so-called triplets for the Rams you can understand why they would rank them down 23rd it’d be Verse Omar Spates Cam Kinchins but again it’s a window into where the Rams invest their assets for defense verse first rounder but Spates wasn’t drafted at all kinchins was taken off the bargain bin for Pete’s sakes but but look at that pass rush braden Fisk and Puna Ford would fill that Dline and it would be a damn good defensive line but then you sit there and you go “Well wait a second what do they do with Byron Young right he’s a defensive end.” Well you would shift him to linebacker but he wouldn’t make that list because he’s not a full-blown linebacker so Sports Illustrated’s rankings completely irrelevant let me know what you think in the comments thread of course speaking of that great website of obvious lists cbsports.com they have ranked the top 10 free agents for this summer in the NBA and lookie lookie here LeBron James and James Harden rank one and two now if that doesn’t scream old folks home I don’t know what will a 40year-old and a 35 year old one and two man that market that free agent market is just so fire it’s going to make their cream of wheat piping hot in the morning and here’s the punchline cbsports.com thinks there’s only a 10% chance of James leaving the Lakers maybe 20% of Harden leaving the Clippers so I guess what I’m trying to tell you is this is going to be a summer with a distinct lack of woouge bombs not a lot of bombshell signings so do yourself a favor don’t type Lakers rumors in a Google search you’re totally wasting your time the the best possible guy who could switch teams in the off seasonason is Minnesota’s Julius Randall who was drafted by the Lakers and if you thought they wanted him so bad they would have never let him go in the first place and I don’t think he wants to come back to LA to be frank alex Strauss took over uh control of Angel City FC on Sunday the first training session was Tuesday now the timing was still decent enough in that Angel City had been on an international break madison Hammond told the LA Daily News quote “Everything is coming at a good time it’s been a crazy couple of weeks internally and on the field but at the same time we’re going to get back on track we need a little bit of time,” unquote now of the articles I’ve read about Strauss who came over from Frowline Bundesliga nobody mentioned anything about lineup or formation changes or strategy we have no idea what this guy is going to do matter of fact much like anything else you read about Angel City it’s ultra positive it’s rainbows and unicorns whenever you read about Angel City so sickeningly sweet it would make your teeth rot so I’d be lying to you if I said I knew exactly what makes Strauss the cat’s meow at least Angel City isn’t completely sucking this year so there’s that justin Robleski made a spot start for the Dodgers last night he was called up as a result Landon Knack who started Thursday against the Mets he was optioned down to the Midwest Manure Pit and by the way former Dodger catcher Yazmani Grandal is apparently on the verge of retirement the 36-year-old is in the Boston minor league system he’s uh not doing too good when he was in LA about what a decade ago oh he was fire but again stop me if you’ve heard this cliche father time is undefeated but you let me know what you think in the comments thread talk to me for example are you surprised that Jared Verse actually did follow through on battling Aaron Donald in a weightlifting contest for that matter are you disappointed that LeBron James and James Harden are likely to stay in LA and if you enjoyed the content don’t forget to subscribe to Faithful Angelinos we’re talking LA sports every single day here thank you for watching i’m James and we’ll be back tomorrow faithful Angelinos is a Kian Cortell Queso production take care

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