Because the Jets suck and have the same record (2-5) this season, I went to one of their forums, Jets Nation, to compare their fans to ours. Here is a thread about tanking:

 

http://forums.jetnation.com/topic/129522...ntionally/

 

The OP started it to say no teams tank intentionally. Here are some notable posts:

 

nyjunc: why would any fan want their team to tank? fans are too obsessed w/ the crapshoot of the draft,

 

JiF: This!  The idea of a tank only exist in the mind of the fans. It's like the old, "winning meaningless games in Dec/Jan" gooblygoop that fans complain about.  As if the Jets would even get it right if they had a high pick.

 

Smashmouth: No player in the NFL is going to tank nor be asked to tank that's ridiculous. These guys are playing for their paychecks and future paychecks. Now when it comes to organizations/GM's wanting to tank that's another story And Fidelio said it best they will play young inexperienced players to get a look at them in extended action and in return probably lose games. I would also think Coaches might experiment just a bit more than they normally would in their schemes.

 

UnitedWhoFans: I didn't say teams don't tank. I mean they don't tank intentionally. Maybe the last couple of games, but not where we are right now

 

Of course the Jets are not in a similar situation, but this shows you "tanking intentionally" is a ridiculous idea, just like I always said.

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The DARFT can save us no longer.

 

(not that it really ever has before) 

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i cant believe you said lame duck twice in one sentence and didn't mention a Bortles duck throw

Calling a Bortles pass a lame duck is an insult to lame ducks.

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Is it considered tanking when you don't have the talent to win in the first place?

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Is it considered tanking when you don't have the talent to win in the first place?

 

Of course not. Now we have a lot of talent and just need better coaches.

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Lol, tank as opposed to what? We will tank regardless. This team is not capable of anything else, with the current regime.

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It's not tanking when you just plain suck and have no intention of getting better.   

 

Time to start talking about the 2017 draft and free agency.....

 

Going to an awfully long off season this time around...

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Of course not. Now we have a lot of talent and just need better coaches.

Lol based on what?

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Of course not. Now we have a lot of talent and just need better coaches.

 

We have a lot of talent on paper.  Many are young drafted players who are still questionable.

 

It's possible the coach and the talent aren't nearly as good as we expected them to be.

 

This team would make it impossible to determine whether or not we we're tanking.

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"You do your own thing in your own time. You should be proud."

I read a column that said the Jags should start trading aging veterans in anticipation of a new regime starting a new rebuild.   They suggested trading Sen'Derrick Marks or Dan Skuta. 

Let's see. For Marks, they'd get a 7th rounder and for Skuta they'd get a ham sandwich if lucky. All those trades would do is give Caldwell more cap space to waste on over-rated players like Gipson and Jackson.

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Lol based on what?

 

You know what it is based on.

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You know what it is based on.

Paper.. Cause it damn sure ain't on the field.

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You know what it is based on.

 

message board circle jerks?

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message board circle jerks?

 

The fact that we have a lot of talent on the field is obvious to anyone who follows the Jaguars.

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