Quote:Tanking is counter productive when you have a young team trying to figure out how to put a team away and win.

 

What would be the best thing for this franchise is to see Bortles and this offense lay into the texans starting with the very first drive and have a game where they put someone away without having so many mistakes that the other team can steal it from them.

 

Having this team figure out how to run this potent offense without shooting themselves in the foot is way more important than moving up a few positions in the draft.

 

And for the multiple players on our roster that we heavily rely on who haven't even played two full seasons worth of games, one game is extremely valuable and significant towards their learning what it takes to win consistently in this league.

 

With young players, even so called "meaningless games" have a significant impact.

 

In the psychology of learning how to win, success breeds success.

"In the psychology of learning how to win, success breeds success."

...I think that is a true statement. That being the case, it probably would've been better if the Jags plane broke down on the runway at JIA and the team didn't show up for the game rather than go out there for the inevitable beat down that they received. Just as 'success breeds success', so also 'losing reinforces more losing'. The team was not in a position to be competitive with the tinhorns; we have virtually no defense, no running game to speak of, poor pass protection from our o-line, and a 'questionable' coaching staff': those factors stacked the odds against the Jags before we even set foot on the field. Even in a season when we had so many factors working in our favor due to other teams maladies, we only squeaked by in our few wins most of the time.

Yeah, if there's anything to this 'psychology thing', then the Jags probably shouldn't have even shown up in Houston.

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