Quote: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.

Hmmm there are several things wrong with this argument.

 

1)Do you really think NFL players agree with your stance and would purposely try to lose all of their remaining games once they're out of playoff contention?

 

2)What about rivalry games? Should we lose them on purpose too for a better draft pick.

 

3) People respect end of season wins a lot more than a 1-15 record.

 

4) By your reckoning if the team is 0-9 ,should we tank the whole season and go 0-16 in order to guarantee the number 1 pick?

 

5)Can you show some examples of where this gamesmanship strategy has led to a Superbowl for a team?

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