Quote:How can you not see the glaring, almost blindingly, obvious disparity between your example of the Marshmallow experiment -- which champions patience and inactivity -- and your call for the team to tank -- which calls for immediate action and denies the team their alloted time in which they can make a sound decision? This is so bad, and so far off of whatever point that you're trying to make that I wonder if it simply came about just because you stumbled across the article.

 

Those of us that want the team to win now are preaching patience in that the evaluation of college players is not complete. Yes, it's fun now to watch but fun now does not correlate to pain later. There's simply no guarantee of it. There are still offseason workouts, interviews, even bowl games still to be played and all of that can, and will, have an effect on the future.

 

So which one of us is denying instant gratification?

 

There is a direct reward for staving off short term NFL success.

 

Direct. A team's draft position is inversely situated to the win/loss success they experience.

 

I won't bemoan the team putting out its fullest effort to win, that's the prerogative of the current players, and unfortunately it would take active decisions by the team's decision makers to stop it if the team wanted to tank, which I wouldn't expect. Teams just don't usually do what the Colts did. I just think as a fan it should be obvious that a team is much better off seriously hitting rock bottom like the Colts did than winning just enough to ruin draft position for years the way the Jaguars have constantly done.

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