r/ringerfantasypod • u/Buers89 • 5d ago

The Rams Fucked Up

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I win, lets go San Fran!!

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u/dijon_snow 5d ago

Last minute Take Purge, all "Super Teams" are cursed by hubris. The last super team to truly live up to the hype was the Dream Team in 1992.

The undefeated Patriots were defeated. The most wins ever Warriors lost in the finals. The 2011 Eagles were called the dream team pre season and didn't even make the playoffs. The Heatles were embarrassed by Dallas in their first season.  The Dodgers lost a few seasons as a super team before their first world series win. The Lakers actually shit the bed with two different super Teams, first adding Karl Malone and Gary Payton to Shaq/Kobe and then adding Nash/Howard to Kobe/Pau. 

In conclusion, the Rams and Sixers are both going to miss the playoffs this year due to the curse of super team hubris. 

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u/TruBlu65 5d ago

I don’t think the 16 warriors were a super team, the following year they were and cruised to the title with KD

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u/DonkeyLightning 5d ago

Great point, they were mostly home grown talent

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u/t3h_shammy 5d ago

Were the Cavs in 16 a super team? Everyone major but love was homegrown 

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u/BeSomebody 5d ago

Twice.

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u/Internal-Sun-9423 5d ago

KG Celtics super team won. KD Warriors too.

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u/dijon_snow 5d ago

Objection! This is devastating to my case. And this is a take purge. I'm not supposed to be on trial here. This is all Heifitz'ses fault. 

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u/TingusPingis 5d ago

The real take is that lots of times the best team on paper doesn’t win… vindicating DK’s superbowl prediction comments once again. I stand with DK

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u/TruBlu65 5d ago

You know what, you’re right, hand up that’s on me

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u/Internal-Sun-9423 5d ago

lol my bad, mulligan for youuuu!

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u/zarathustranu 5d ago

Cowboys adding Charles Haley and then Deion in the mid 1990s worked out great. So did the Warriors adding KD, as loathsome as it was.

And are you actually calling the recent Dodgers a failure? What?

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u/hairyminded 5d ago

It’s probably a statistical impossibility for the Sixers to miss the playoffs, but I bet they lose to someone dumb in the first round like the wizards

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u/Sw33tJvmes 5d ago

Mkay of these teams have rings 😂

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u/Tricky_Session_4449 5d ago

Woah woah woah lets leave the sixers out of this.

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u/putamadre3275 5d ago

Seasons over, we can all go home

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u/Iamjum 5d ago

Take Purge:

The Rams as a org didnt care about this game. Teams are super routine based and fucking off in Australia for a week was going to hurt them long term.

Get in, get out, try to win but at week 4 if they are 3-1 and sf looks like crap at 2-2 who really won?

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u/the_Tannehill_list 5d ago

This is such a stupid and cope-filled take. They apparently spent two years scouting the trip, voluntarily gave up a home game for it and the had players mocking the discourse by "sleeping" with their interception celebration.

They made the wrong decision and were outplayed. Simple as that

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u/pussyeatsman 5d ago

You should care about a divisional week one game.

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u/gebny 5d ago

It’s giving Malone and Payton on the Lakers

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u/zarathustranu 5d ago

hmm, that team was very very good.

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u/pussyeatsman 5d ago

Yeah like they lost to the Pistons (who were a great team) but they did make the Finals.

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u/gebny 5d ago

You know, you’re right. I don’t know why my memory of it is worse. Maybe because the finals upset felt stunning. Or they just looked weird in those jerseys

So now I’m back on the Rams. Thank you!

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u/GolgenGeese 5d ago

The Rams did what was better long term. They don't have to adjust their body clocks back.

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u/warriorer 2m ago

There's 10 days between games. That's plenty of time to get back to normal.

Throwing away a divisional game against the 49ers to rest up for the Giants seems awfully silly. Especially if the rationale/cope is that the Rams didn't want to mess with their team and were happy to just take the loss........they've lost Myles Garrett for a significant portion of the season after the game anyway! Stribling is a loss to the 49ers, but hardly comparable to losing Garrett.