Quote:Wanting to lose goes against the whole point of competitive sport.

Wrong! Wanting to win games when the season is already 'out of reach' is bad gamesmanship! The difference between 'sportsmanship' and 'gamesmanship' is that sportsmanship is about playing by the rules. Gamesmanship is a mindset that plans strategy to help win games. The wining teams have the best gamesmanship minded leaders. Sportsmanship is nice... it's required as a matter of fact; but it isn't what wins championships.  

 

You play to win in the 'big picture', not just for the moment. It's the difference of winning a battle... or winning the war. We want to someday compete for a superbowl championship, not just win games at the end of the season when already eliminated from play off contention (the toilet bowl competition)... the net effect of which is to take away a higher draft selection and make that super bowl quest even harder to reach. It's throwing away hope for tomorrow for some cheap gratification today; and nobody respects those end of season wins anyway when you and the team you're playing are both out of contention. All they do is artificially fluff up players stats and lower the 'winning' teams draft selection.

 

But that's okay... go ahead and keep on chanting 'win team win' and the Jags will continue to shine in the 'toilet bowl' for a long time.

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