coach pretty much the same as any other week.At what might be his last Monday news conference Eric Dickerson Jersey , the first-year coach calmly, politely answered every question thrown his way. What he might like to say is another matter."I always tell the coaches this: There's always a bubble over a player's head and as you sit there trying to talk to him, if you really understood what that bubble was saying back, you'd be amazed," Wilks told reporters with his usual straight face. "There's a bubble over my head and if you really knew exactly how I felt inside and what it was saying, you would question my faith at times."Asked to reveal one of the thoughts from inside the bubble, Wilks said, "My mom's in town, so I don't want to say those words."Wilks is dryly funny and likable, which makes watching him toil through this season difficult. There hasn't been much improvement from the opening of training camp. Some things, the run defense for instance, have gotten worse.But Wilks soldiers on with an inconsistent rookie at quarterback, a one-time All-Pro running back who never broke loose and an extremely popular wide receiver nearing the end of a spectacular career. Otherwise, the Cardinals have a core of mostly anonymous receivers and an offensive line of rookies and castoffs from other teams after the starters, who weren't much more effective, went down with injuries. Only rookie center Mason Cole remains from that first group.The defense has hung in there much of the season but has been gashed for 215 and 269 yards rushing the last two weeks Torry Holt Jersey Salute to Service , its worst two games of the year in that department. Five days after being signed off the street, C.J. Anderson rushed for 167 yards 鈥?one shy of his career best 鈥?in the Rams' 31-9 win in Glendale.Wilks called Arizona's run defense "a virus" under his skin. He blames it on players being in the wrong places and, most of all, missed tackles.This coach is all about defense. He was defensive coordinator for a season with Ron Rivera in Carolina. Before that, he coached defensive backs for five seasons. So he takes the defensive issues personally.But it's been the offense that's been an even bigger problem. Arizona ranks last in the NFL in every major category, and with one game left it's hard to see that changing much.The only Arizona TD against the Rams was a trick play that saw rookie Josh Rosen throw backward to Fitzgerald, who tossed to a wide-open David Johnson for his first career scoring pass (in 15 NFL seasons). He has 115 career TD catches.Fitzgerald bumped chests with offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich when he left the field to chants of "Larry, Larry.""Because he told me he was going to call it, so I was happy he did, and I had the opportunity to throw something," Fitzgerald said.Otherwise, the offense didn't do much, and one play won't make Wilks' job more secure. He acknowledges getting support from around the league."Coach Rivera is always a guy that I'm very close to," Wilks said. "There are times that (Bengals head coach) Marvin Lewis has reached out to me this year. (Jets head coach) Todd Bowles, (Bills head coach) Sean McDermott. Those guys who have gone through the process and just words of encouragement."Now comes a trip to Seattle, which has already clinched a playoff spot. Just how much the main cast of characters will play for the Seahawks remains to be seen. Arizona finished 1-7 at home Authentic Jack Youngblood Jersey , its worst since moving from St. Louis 30 years ago. A loss on Sunday would leave the team 3-13, tied for the worst since the franchise moved and the worst since 2000.When it's over in the Pacific Northwest, Wilks will fly back with his team to hear his fate. After the final whistle blew as the Los Angeles Rams beat the Seattle Seahawks, 36-31, DL Aaron Donald had a problem.A problem with Seattle Sehawks C Justin Britt.The problem really didn’t originate in this game or with Britt, but that’s where we should start: at less than 1:30 left to go in the game with the Seahawks down five points with the ball needing a touchdown and looking to start a drive from their own 25-yard line.On the very first play of the possession, Seahawks QB Russell Wilson was pressured by EDGE Dante Fowler, Jr., who is having quite the start to his Rams career, into forcing what looked like an intentional grounding. Wise to play through the whistle and play as if it were a fumble, Donald picked up the ball and began to return it down to about the 20-yard line.Until Britt laid a cheap shot on him as Donald was giving the ball back to the refs:In the sense of things overall, it’s a cheap shot on one of the Rams’ best players. And it comes at the end of a particularly chippy divisional rivalry.So you can understand why Donald was, in the moment, heated.And if you need to know the sincerity of how dirty it was, peep Rams CB Nickell Robey-Coleman letting Britt know that’s just not how the game’s played even when you’re 5’8”, 180 lbs. standing up to someone who’s 6’6” Limited Jared Goff Jersey , 315 lbs.That was never a scrap NRC was gonna win, and Donald wasn’t about to let him have at it anyway:And if things had ended there with unnecessary roughness flags offsetting on both, it would have been the billionth time things got scrappy in a game like this.But what’s perhaps lingering further and into Overreaction Monday was Donald putting his helmet back on and seeking Britt out on the Seahawks sideline after the game was over:Now some have suggested this was equally unprofessional of Donald. Some have gone so far as to suggest he deserves a suspension. Put more succinctly by ESPN blogger Lindsey Thiry, many considered it to be “not good.”But I’d consider things from a perspective prior to Week 10.I’d consider that Donald is having his best statistical season as a professional football player after two holdouts in two successive seasons in which he was vilified by a plurality (albeit a minority) of Rams fans. Like many players before him but few as talented or as valuable, Donald waited for his payday and a deserved one at that. And waited. And waited. And waited while teammates of his that were nowhere near as deserving got their bread. And players across the league got theirs. And Aaron Donald watched all the way until the final days prior to the season when the Rams finally #paidtheman.But it’s worth remembering the precipice he was on.This game can end for players in a single moment. Pittsburgh Steelers RB Le’Veon Bell has been delayed his payday to who knows what end. New Orleans Saints WR Dez Bryant tore his Achilles practically as soon as he was signed and may have ended his career with as much. But maybe most relevant was the Seahawks’ own safety Earl Thomas who found a hard wall between himself and a new contract elsewhere erected by the Seahawks’ front office right up until he broke his leg and let the Seahawks know how he felt about it:And I reference that specifically because this is how John Fraley put it over at Field Gulls, the SB Nation community for fans of the Seahawks:THAT is what Aaron Donald put his helmet on to go confront.Not Justin Britt. Not a dirty play. Not an enemy or a rival or an opponent. He went to confront the very real proximity of all of it coming crashing down.And that’s way more “not good” than facing down Britt on the sideline.Besides, Donald wasn’t going to hurt Britt. Hell, he clearly didn’t even want to fight. If Aaron Donald wants to throw hands, Aaron Donald is gonna throw hands.He wanted to let him know, and any and everyone paying attention at home, that it ain’t going down like that. Not Aaron Donald. Not the 2018 Rams.This is a physical game. The Rams currently have 12 players on injured reserve. We see injuries across the league on a weekly basis that end seasons, that end careers. We might have seen one today for WR Cooper Kupp albeit without the pernicious sin of dirty play.What we saw from Aaron Donald at the end of the game was a player confronting the emotional-laden mortality of his professional career. And it’s why if you watch the clip again, you can see Seahawks QB Russell Wilson initially arrive to intervene before backing off.Unlike Britt, Donald wasn’t going to do anything to threaten his career.He wasn’t doing anything nor was he going to do anything “not good.”With his own conduct putting Donald’s physical readiness on the line, Britt had already made sure the time for that had passed.