So how do you fix tanking?
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First, to all of you who called fans who hoped we'd lose our final games once we're eliminated from the playoffs, Not True Fans.....FU. Obviously it's a strategy in front offices.
Now, how do ya fix it so teams won't try to make themselves lousy so they can draft towards the top of the order?
You can't just eliminate the draft because all of the good players will want to play in glamorous locations.
Do you just come up with a draft order for year one....and whichever team drafts #1 will next year draft dead last and have to wait 3 decades before they rotate back up to #1 again?
First, to all of you who called fans who hoped we'd lose our final games once we're eliminated from the playoffs, Not True Fans.....FU. Obviously it's a strategy in front offices.
Now, how do ya fix it so teams won't try to make themselves lousy so they can draft towards the top of the order?
You can't just eliminate the draft because all of the good players will want to play in glamorous locations.
Do you just come up with a draft order for year one....and whichever team drafts #1 will next year draft dead last and have to wait 3 decades before they rotate back up to #1 again?
The NBA went to a draft lottery to combat tanking. I would suspect the NFL might do the same.
It's hard to prove out and out tanking, so a lottery makes sense.
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Relegation...just like soccer.
Interesting concept. IMO the problem would be having enough quality teams in the 'lower league" to move up. I suppose in some ways the NFL already has that with playoffs teams and non-playoff teams.
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Let's use this season as an example. We were eliminated from the playoffs with the Steelers & Bengals left to play. Now, there's no way that a die-hard Browns fan (of which we on message boards are) wants to entertain the thought of losing to either of those rivals. However, that same Browns fan knows that winning those two games do not help our draft position, which could make our team better in the long run. And you know the GM (Berry) was privately hoping the team would lose the games and move him up that draft board. So, theoretically, we could've tanked the last couple of games to improve our draft spot. But if dusty's suggestion is adopted then there is never an advantage in tanking.
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Relegate the owners lol.
Maybe...in the end, there is probably a pretty small list of people who could buy a team. In the end, by and large I don't think owners really make that much of a difference in the overall scope of things. That doesn't mean there aren't good owners and "bad" owners. In the end, I don't see the "bad" owners hiring a head football coach from their high school to head up the team. To me it comes down to "culture", but IMO that is hard to measure.
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Relegate the owners lol.
Maybe...in the end, there is probably a pretty small list of people who could buy a team. In the end, by and large I don't think owners really make that much of a difference in the overall scope of things. That doesn't mean there aren't good owners and "bad" owners. In the end, I don't see the "bad" owners hiring a head football coach from their high school to head up the team. To me it comes down to "culture", but IMO that is hard to measure.
by and large I don't think owners really make that much of a difference
But they can have an impact. Let's take our owner, he constantly hired the wrong people. And he meddled into the football people's jobs. Our owner and his hiring of lousy people kept us down for almost all of this century.
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If a team owner or any member of a NFL team suggests losing games on purpose (tanking) should be fired. If a team feels they need to lose more games to get a better draft pick for the following season is just plain stupid. There is no absolute sure bet that a draft pick at any position is going to change your team . There have been very highly rookie players with star status and what happens, he flops. The team is stuck with a hefty contract due to the player, and he aint earned it. So im thinking if a team tanks on purpose, then your a loser from top to bottom.
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If a team owner or any member of a NFL team suggests losing games on purpose (tanking) should be fired. If a team feels they need to lose more games to get a better draft pick for the following season is just plain stupid. There is no absolute sure bet that a draft pick at any position is going to change your team . There have been very highly rookie players with star status and what happens, he flops. The team is stuck with a hefty contract due to the player, and he aint earned it. So im thinking if a team tanks on purpose, then your a loser from top to bottom.
The team is stuck with a hefty contract due to the player, and he aint earned it.
Since the advent of the rookie pay tier system, that hasn't been an issue.
That was 2011... you're literally over a decade behind when discussing rookie deals.
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The team is stuck with a hefty contract due to the player, and he aint earned it.
Since the advent of the rookie pay tier system, that hasn't been an issue.
That was 2011... you're literally over a decade behind when discussing rookie deals.
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