VERY bold take considering we’ve yet to get shut out this year in the reg season.

It can absolutely always get worse

It’s actually the dictionary definition of conjecture but go off I guess lmao

You’re complaining about lack of ball/player movement on offense, which is a valid gripe. But this isn’t a chemistry problem. By all accounts, pretty much everyone on our team likes each other.

It’s a roster construction/offensive scheme issue.

We have two, maybe three guys on the entire roster (Melo, Hayward, Miller) who are above-average primary or secondary playmakers, and our offensive system places zero emphasis on player motion, cutting, or reversing the ball around the horn to force defensive shifts (ie, three things good offensive teams like the Nugs, Kings, Warriors, and Heat have lead the league in for years).

We’re trying to bake a cake (have a good offense) while subbing out sugar (playmaking) for salt and frosting (motion/passing) for mayonnaise and wondering why it tastes like shit rn

This should be required watching for anyone feeling bewildered at the situation rn. Level-headed analysis with a ton of actual insight into the team & staff. Covers basically every question people have had on here the last 48 hours

If I had to completely guess, Cliff isn’t giving minutes to NSJ bc he thinks Nick isn’t defensively ready to play rotation minutes.

To that I say: Cliff, we’re literally last in Def Rtg in the league and 27th in Net Rtg. Holding a kid out bc you don’t trust his defense is no longer a valid argument

Honestly I bet it’s a good bit easier than being the OC & QB coach at the same time, as many do these days

If he actually wanted to stimulate the economy he wouldn’t ask the city for a casual couple hundred mil in public funding lmao.

sharp bug > 20th century version of Hammer pants

Yeah the open secret is there’s only three ways to get an elite player at a position of scarcity (and OL is 100% one of these), ranked below in order of “ease” to acquire:

1. draft one

2. trade for/sign one that’s either unhappy with another org or sign one who’s been/being forced out as a cap casualty

3. pray there’s an incompetent FO out there that doesn’t value their own players correctly.

Stop this.

And the ones that do, trade them for king’s ransoms if they have any sense (see: Laremy Tunsil).

“Don’t force them to do a brand new protection scheme when the one they were doing last year was perfectly decent” is a pretty solid place to start, tho.

Yeah bc in-season scouting of potential draft picks is totally not a thing /s

Guy’s clearly talented, but he’s been in school for 6 years. He should be manhandling the kids he’s going against.

And that’s my hang-up. When you add in his injury history, feels like we’d be getting more of a DJ Johnson outcome than a Frankie Luvu outcome.

Outstanding culture guy, though. If we ended up with him, I wouldn’t be mad about it in a vacuum…just feels like we have far bigger problems than ILB rn. Depends on who we’d be giving up to get him I guess. Way too early to worry about regardless.

sharp bug > mouse

dude started his NFL career with back to back 400-yard games.

So yeah, it was obvious pretty early on dude was different

sharp bug > sleeves

1. Why can’t we ever

2. Have

3. Anything resembling a functioning NBA bench

sharp bug > 7 dunkin donuts in a two-block radius

Melo clearly isn’t the problem There’s a list a mile long of what’s wrong with this team, and this is just one line item

Lol if that’s all you took from my comment, feel free to get bent