Quote:There is no way of knowing if this pick you are tanking for will ever amount to anything. What winning out in the division tells you is that you actually have the ability

to compete for the division and competing for the division is the first step to being a perennial playoff team. That is actual tangible proof that something positive is happening in the organization.

 

You people need to get over this black and white thought that it is the number one pick or bust. We can fall a few spots and still pick the best player in the draft. Rarely does the number 1 overall pick turn out to be the best player in the draft. We could drop back 10 places and still be one of the teams that regrets having passed on that guy

 

Besides, you don't pretend to be worse than you are in order to take someone else's deserved draft pick. That's flat out cheating and if you have to cheat to win you don't deserve to play.

 

Any team employing that loser strategy should have to forfeit all their draft picks the following year.

 

The lack of personal integrity by some people on this board is pathetic.

 

Your baseless moral condescension aside, your post raises questions.

 

1.  You sure that winning in the division is the first step to playoff contention?  What about...I dunno...accumulating the talent that actually enables you to win in the division?

 

2.  You have no idea about who I am or anything about my personal integrity.  While you flail wildly in message board speculation, I notice you remained silent on a post I made earlier about fans who have moral problems with things like drug use who are fans of teams who have had drug users on their Super Bowl winning rosters.  Should those fans end their allegiances to their various teams because they derived on field benefit from having a known rule breaker/law breaker on the team?  Should those teams somehow renounce their championships?   Should the NFL, which has a long standing drug policy in place, vacate those titles won by those teams?  What about teams with players who sleep around with multiple women?  What about teams with guys who don't support any non custodial children?  Do those things offend your moral sensibilities to the point you would cease to support your team?

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