Quote:I see where you coming from as winning can help the culture. But what happened to that culture the last part of the season? Did we lose that culture from losing the remaining games? Doesn't being blown out by the Clots diminish the winning culture? And really, what kind of winning culture is there? We won  4 games. 2 of the games against the "worst" team in the league, and 2 others against sub .500 teams. I am not putting down what Bradley is doing and creating here. Like I said, i love where we are headed. But, like I said from the start, without talent on the roster, there's only so much you can do. And honestly, we are so down as a franchise, we get excited about a 3 game winning streak and 4 win season? Really?? Like I said, we're going in the right direction. But those wins did nothing but shadow a team with very little talent. The draft is where we'll get that talent (not guaranteed I know, but most of the time, that's where you find it). And with the higher pick, we could have a higher chance. Those wins did very little for our progress going forward. 

 

The Colts are really a good team. They did not just clinch a playoff berth because the rest of the division sucks; they would have clinched it in any AFC division. Also, the Jaguars did not have Cecil Shorts and it was an away game. So getting blown out there does not mean we lost our winning culture.

 

We played very hard against the Bills and did not get blown out. We were missing MJD, Shorts, and Cyprien. So just the fact we lost did not mean we had a losing culture in that game either.

 

The Titans are a division rival out for revenge against losing to a previously-winless team at their house. I would say they had as much motivation to win as we did.

 

Tanking, on the other paw, would be simply not trying to win, and consequently getting blown out in every one of our losses.

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