(04-18-2021, 05:36 PM)Bullseye Wrote:

(04-15-2021, 04:23 PM)Newton Wrote: Well, though it took us many years to finally hit rock bottom, we appear to have done it at exactly the right time. One of the most promising things to me going forward is the end of the tanking mentality. From here on, we win as many games as we can win, even if it’s a rough season.  We don’t need to root for losses, as we have our franchise quarterback. Nothing else is worth tanking for. Also, I fully anticipate we won’t be close to the bottom of the pack for quite a while.

Along with this, we can finally stop pretending that draft position means nothing, like so many tried to do in those tanking debates.

If we didn't have the top overall pick, there is no way in hell we get Trevor Lawrence.

I think the point I always tried to make about "tanking," by which I assume we mean losing on purpose, is that players won't do it and coaches won't do it.  So there's no point in saying, "We should tank for Trevor" because it won't happen.  We didn't lose on purpose last year.  We lost because we genuinely sucked.  Yes, I agree that we were lucky to suck at the right time, but we didn't tank.  We just got really really lucky to suck at the right time.  And the Jets- God bless 'em- they played like professionals and tried to win every game.

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