Re: I just don't see it that way.....

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roman18
and I see no reason to do so, unless it's pre made,ready to go excuses. I see a team that had gone as far as the original plan could go, the plan of going in with proven vets vs. going the draft building way. they had no more capital left to continue that way and they had no money due to all the vet contracts (good and bad).

Going the way they went was a need, they HAD to do it. Tanking IMO is a deliberate want to lose, what they have done is not that, but in my eyes the only way to live and fight another day.

How and when do you decide to tank anyway, how many games do you need to lose to be sure you are in the spot to get "your guy"? Do the coaches and top guys get together and put a number out there? Do they need 12 sure loses, maybe 15 to be sure....maybe just 10 will do it?...If my head coach is sitting in an office and they go to the steps of getting the rookies they want in this draft, how do they tell them and everyone else to lay down for this season and you'll be repaid next season? How do you lay down in 2023 and assume/think that that attitude isn't being ingrained for maybe years down the road?

And other thought, if players go in playing half assed, they are doomed to injury because the other team is going to get them in bad situations body wise by being late, out of position, not paying attention.

No what they did this past off season proves/shows nothing of the idea of tanking, IMO no way at all.