Enough Talk About Losing on Purpose

[Shouright]

Come on folks. When have you ever seen this happen? When has a professional football team ever appeared to lose on purpose for the purpose of getting a certain draft pick?

All this "Suck for Luck" garbage is good in theory, but it just has no real-world application. There's no way any owner, GM, coach, or player is going to condone losing on purpose.

We're wasting nearly an entire forum on a message board with this talk. Enough already. It's not realistic!

What's even less realistic is to imagine that a player who's never played a down in the NFL is going to be our savior. There's no guarantee Andrew Luck is going to be a good NFL player. Surely you know that.

Come on folks. This is getting ridiculous. IMO it's really making the entire message board look like garbage.

I realize this is a terrible season with very little hope, but let's not ruin the credibility of the entire forum by pinning our hopes to some ridiculous plan to lose on purpose to draft a player who isn't even guaranteed to be good.

Find some other source of hope. Something a little more realistic.

 

[dolpns13]

The thing is, TS will not try to lose on purpose. Thats the point.. Keeping Sparano will allow us to lose, while trying to win, thus still saving the little amount of face this organization has left..

Also, one shouldnt blame the message board and the perceptions of reality that are being expressed on it.. Everything you read is driven by the current Miami Dolphins.. Blame them.

 

[Miamifinz]

Come on folks. When have you ever seen this happen? When has a professional football team ever appeared to lose on purpose for the purpose of getting a certain draft pick?

All this "Suck for Luck" garbage is good in theory, but it just has no real-world application. There's no way any owner, GM, coach, or player is going to condone losing on purpose.

We're wasting nearly an entire forum on a message board with this talk. Enough already. It's not realistic!

What's even less realistic is to imagine that a player who's never played a down in the NFL is going to be our savior. There's no guarantee Andrew Luck is going to be a good NFL player. Surely you know that.

Come on folks. This is getting ridiculous. IMO it's really making the entire message board look like garbage.

I realize this is a terrible season with very little hope, but let's not ruin the credibility of the entire forum by pinning our hopes to some ridiculous plan to lose on purpose to draft a player who isn't even guaranteed to be good.

Find some other source of hope. Something a little more realistic.

The only way for any crappy franchise to have hope in today's NFL is to draft a franchise QB. Andrew Luck is one of the best QB prospects in a while, and for us to be in the running for him is a major source of hope for most fans right now. As much as Sparano is awful, a new coach isn't enough, it has to start with the quarterback. I'm not gonna start rooting against this team either, because I don't wait half the year/training camp/preseason to become disinterested 3 weeks in, but if we don't go on some incredible winning streak and make the playoffs, every win we get is a hindrance.

 

[BahamaFinFan78]

I remember our last season with Wanstead being about if we would pick last and win the Matt Leinart sweepstakes. He ended up not coming out (not possible with Luck, I know), but look what he turned out being.

 

[Spesh]

For a team coached by Tony Sparano, the only alternative to losing on purpose is losing on accident.

 

[dolpns13]

Alot was said about Peyton as well and garuanteed he had his fair share of people clamoring that he will be a bust.. Whats the point? So we shouldnt draft a franchise QB because he MIGHT be a bust? With that logic, why even bother drafting anyone at all?

I remember our last season with Wanstead being about if we would pick last and win the Matt Leinart sweepstakes. He ended up not coming out (not possible with Luck, I know), but look what he turned out being.