Anyone... who doesn't think that teams will cheat is naive. Obviously, some are more guilty of 'bending the rules' than others; on the 'yourteamcheats' web site, the Jag's are listed as the least offensive among NFL teams. So... we have that going for us.

 

I remember the 'whoa and cry' of some on here when I suggested that the colts had, in fact, intentionally thrown games in order to insure they got the first round draft pick of andrew luck. Some suggested such a thing was ridiculous, others said that would be unsportsmanlike, still others said the league wouldn't allow such a thing. All true... but none of them would necessarily stop a team from such activity.

 

The fact is, if someone wants to cheat... I mean, really wants to cheat, it's very difficult to prevent it. For every obstacle there is a solution, and a counter-solution, and so forth and so on. The best any institution can do is try to limit the amount of dishonesty. In the end, the only real insurance against cheating is the integrity of the teams and players; and we've seen too often how fragile that can be.

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