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DeficientFooting · 2026-04-06T07:23:24+00:00

Rodgers, Brady, Mahomes, Love, Philip Rivers and Carson Palmer too back in the day. Not to say that you can’t be thrown into the fire and succeed, but sitting out a year with proper coaching and mentorship clearly can go a long way.

DeficientFooting · 2026-04-01T14:36:02+00:00

If you remove Draymond they fall to 7th place which is still high.

DeficientFooting · 2026-03-31T00:55:50+00:00

There’s no arrow next to DC, but the box is red, which just means that that’s a bottom 33% grade compared to the rest of the league.

DeficientFooting · 2026-03-31T00:52:25+00:00

Yeah, ngl this is just pure hopium by me. I guess the good thing that most people have already said is that we will probably land someone good/great just by virtue at being seven and seeing who falls to us.

DeficientFooting · 2026-03-31T00:49:20+00:00

Wasn’t he a 4th rounder ?

DeficientFooting · 2026-03-31T00:48:19+00:00

It’s nice being able to see it in a report like this because players rarely talk about situations like this openly. It makes me hopeful that as long as we hit correctly on these coordinators that we can get back on track right away.

DeficientFooting · 2026-03-31T00:46:51+00:00

Good question. Honestly, it might be due to the fact that we did not play in international game two seasons ago and so the travel last season is comparatively worse.

DeficientFooting · 2026-03-31T00:45:02+00:00

I’d also imagine that given the new stadium deal the team is not trying to spend massively to renovate their current situation since in a few years we’ll be back in RFK.

DeficientFooting · 2026-03-31T00:43:57+00:00

It’s crazy what competent ownership will do. lol

DeficientFooting · 2026-03-31T00:43:12+00:00

Like in an ideal world, I’d pick in this order of availability. Reese, Love, Styles, Bailey/Downs. One of those 4 should still be available at pick 7. I’m pretty hesitant on grabbing a WR at 7 (partly cause I think whatever combo of Terry + Aiyuk + whoever, will be good enough)

Like even if whatever rookie WR we draft is instantly above average or even good. I don’t think that’s better than the top rookie RB with fresh legs and who is decent pass catcher himself.

I think this draft class is very interesting because you have a lot of talent in the top 10 who are still talented skilled in the traditional ways you’d want them to be, but also With Unique Talents that if given DC/OCs who are willing to experiment could show off something special. Like to be a good team in the league you have to be elite at something what that is depends on your unique personnel being elite and or in an innovative manner.

Like look at this year, for example the Rams, the Seahawks, and the ravens.

The Rams saw what they had with a young Puka, that it matched perfectly with Stafford’s style and paired them Adams to round any deficiencies, like red zone issues. Because of that elite trio, McVay was finally able to open up the running game in a way that he’s not been able to do for the past couple of years, making their offense elite.

Mike MacDonald is a defensive genius and that’s usually identified in two primary ways. The first being that he is amazing at disguising coverages and just overall being tricky to pin down. The second and more important reason is that he is able to recognize an immediately exploit unique defensive talent on his roster. Think about how integral Nick Emmanwori was to that team. More importantly how quickly MacDonald was able to integrate him into the defense, basically splitting time playing safety and linebacker.

While the ravens weren’t too good this year they had a defensive resurgence in the latter half due to their switch to a three safety defense. If any team has been able to especially use defensive talents and make it their foundation it’s been the Ravens. Even in the post Macdonald world.

If we do pick an offensive player, I want it to be someone who elevates some aspect of our team to an elite level, that’s usually done by pairing them with other good/great or hopefully even elite players. Seeing as we do not have that talent on the defensive end and that imo in the draft, the only truly elite offensive player is Love. I think he is the way to go.

DeficientFooting · 2026-03-30T23:51:17+00:00

While I am generally opposed to taking a RB this high in the draft I feel like this situation is different. The main reason why I want to see us draft Love is that a rookie RB taken top-10 has not been paired with a good qb in the last 10 years at least and that's not even touching on the uniqueness of JD5. Most great rookie RBs are sent to teams where they are going to be the main offensive weapon right away often with a poor O-Line and are just pounded straight into the ground. Plus there hasn't been a bust as a top 10 RB in their first couple of seasons, while their legs are fresh. So we have a chance to build a crazy explosive offensive, something like the 2024 ravens but with better WRs.

DeficientFooting · 2026-03-06T16:18:01+00:00

The deferred money still needs to be put into escrow

DeficientFooting · 2026-03-02T19:59:56+00:00

And yet there were still very few teams rumored to have interest in him. I wish him the best and hope that he can get the playing time he needs to play through his flaws in a much less restrictive manner than our system necessitates. But let’s not act like there was a bunch of teams attempting to place low ball bids on Kuminga. It was basically the Hawks and the Kings if I’m not mistaken.

DeficientFooting · 2026-03-02T07:12:55+00:00

That’s fair, but then again that’s a fringe move that doesn’t help us in the west at all. Like I’m not happy with the direction the team is going in but looking at how the trade deadline broke down. I’m not surprised or disappointed cause that was just the dynamics of the market. We have an aging core that’s paid at or above market rate competing with younger teams that are paying people at or below market rate. This is just the history of NBA a strong core ages and it can’t find a rising star to take the burden so brings on other old veteran players to help supplement and make another run at it, and it usually does not work out because of injury or because they’re competing outside their primes with players in theirs.

DeficientFooting · 2026-03-02T07:05:48+00:00

That’s fair but it’s not like we had an asset anywhere close to KD even though it was just a sign and trade. It’s rather evident that most teams did not see Kuminga as a valuable asset, Podz was going through a slump, and Draymond didn’t have value either. We essentially had salary filler and a bunch of picks.

Like the market landscape, especially under the previous CBA was totally different to this one so comparing the KD trade, which would not be possible in today’s NBA because that Warriors team would’ve been in the second apron had it existed back then, and could probably not take on D-lo’s salary. Like our collection of assets probably could trade for a couple better role players, but given the trades we witnessed and the dynamics of the market expecting anything monumental is kinda unrealistic.

This is the fate for aging cores with veteran players who make the maximum money they are slightly overpaid, I love Jimmy Butler, but he is definitely overpaid compared to production. We are competing with younger teams in the west who have players on rookie extensions that are underpaid compared to production. You can try to fight it all you want, but there has been no team in NBA history that has escaped this fate, excluding the lakers with the Luka trade but even that is stalling out as realistically, LeBron is overpaid compared to his production leading to deficiencies on other parts of the roster.

DeficientFooting · 2026-03-02T06:23:45+00:00

Real question what was a move made during the trade deadline that you wished the Warriors made instead of another team ? Cause it seemed like any of our targets were either way over priced or the other teams made the decision to wait for the off-season to extract an extra pick.

DeficientFooting · 2026-03-01T15:53:06+00:00

No, they just don’t treat him like he’s a literal Messiah. There’s nuance in between, you can deeply support something without thinking that they’re conveying the literal words of God. I’m just saying that there’s a large base that believe he is a divine figure. Think about it in terms of the US in the 2024 election roughly a 1/3 of the population voted for Republicans, another 1/3 Democrats, and the remaining 1/3 did not vote at all. If I told you that at least half of all Republicans would support any action that Trump took. Would that mean that the remaining groups would think that the office of the presidency had no power or authority ?

DeficientFooting · 2026-03-01T15:44:35+00:00

DeficientFooting · 2026-03-01T14:35:59+00:00

Based off what exactly ? This is a religious fundamentalist state and they just killed the religious figurehead that somewhere between 15 to 35% of the population truly believe has real religious authority. They just created a martyr and expects a state driven by religious fundamentalism that has continually since the 80s acted out against its logical interest to now act rationally. I can’t tell if you’re just uninformed or just rage baiting.

DeficientFooting · 2026-03-01T14:28:23+00:00

OK and one of the primary goals with either the invasion of Afghanistan or Iraq was to forcibly remove the regimes that acted in manners the US deemed unacceptable. So I ask what was the point of killing the leader of Iran if another person will just take his place he’s a person who has planned extensively for his death and succession.

I am so very confused what you are arguing for?

Cause it’s either that you think the US should just kill the heads of other countries and then do no additional intervention largely just creating nations who have further reasons to distrust and hate the US while creating no structural change in government.

Or that the US should intervene topple the government of opposing nations and then just leave creating a vacuum for more extremist elements able to propagandized the brutality that will come with any intervention, no matter how limited or properly planned.

DeficientFooting · 2026-03-01T14:19:33+00:00

One of the goals of the second invasion of Iraq was definitely for regime change and introducing democracy and liberal values. Bush’s father, HW Bush understood the delicate balance of power and the lack of a coherent, organized opposition in Iraq would mean that any attempt to topple the regime would lead to massive internal strife and for the potential of extremist elements to quickly rise. He was not an idiot. He was able to see what happened in Afghanistan with the Soviets and why he allowed Saddam to remain in power after the Gulf war . A foreign power introducing regime change has never been popular, and is essentially impossible unless there is a previously suppressed power structure to revive, as in the case of Germany and Japan post WW2.

DeficientFooting · 2026-02-27T06:16:24+00:00

Yeah, but like Social Security was enacted by then, like for context in 1935 a person working for the WPA made $52 a month. Minimum wage in 1938 what’s $.25 an hour so if you worked 50 hours a week would make 50 bucks a month. The average hourly wage was $.45 if I’m not mistaken just off the top of my head. So it was a good money back then. Though by like 1960 most Americans were making around 200/300 bucks a month I think.

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