Quote:Polian got fired because of giving up on jughead too quickly. It's not just what I think, either; it has been speculated by better football minds than my own as well. I don't know that much about Caldwell except he's here now and seems to be doing a heck of a lot better job than any previous GM we've had... except perhaps Tom Coughlin. 

 

I could be mistaking you about this, but you sound a little 'defensive' about the issue of tanking and the colts. Believe me, if the Jags had a chance for Andrew Luck, we would be crazy if we didn't tank to insure we got him. But instead, we facilitated the colts getting Luck by winning a truly pointless end of season game which, had we lost instead, could have put a wrinkle in the colts getting him. To put it bluntly, we screwed ourselves by 'winning' that game.

 

'Tanking' isn't an unsportsmanlike action, it's a maneuver that any good tactician uses. The colts are pretty much guaranteed to dominate the next ten to fifteen years of the AFC south because of 'sucking for Luck'. Too bad the Jags were too...

A. stupid

B. arrogant

...... to take action to prevent that when they had the opportunity. Now we get to sit in the colts dust for a long time... again.

 

Losing games on purpose is cheating, and probably illegal, and would expose the involved team to a multitude of penalties and legal actions if they were caught.  

 

I understand if a team wants to see younger players, or marginal players, for the purpose of evaluation, and are willing to take losses to do so.   But that's not what we're talking about here.  What we are talking about is losing on purpose with the goal of securing a high draft pick.   If I was an owner, and I thought another team was doing this, I would be extremely angry about it, because it would damage the reputation of the league, probably irreparably, not to mention the fact that the team that finished with the #2 draft pick would have gotten screwed out of the #1 pick by cheating.  

 

As far as the Colts losing games on purpose, so they can get the #1 pick, that would require the coach Jim Caldwell and probably Polian to be in on it, and the fact that they were both fired at the end of the season tells me they were not losing games on purpose. 

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