Just moving on from Tannehill gives me excitement.
Exactly. That variable overwhelms everything else. There was no reason to follow this team as long as Tannehill remained. His presence pointed to low level and misguided thought process atop the organization. It is not an isolated fault. If you are butchering the logic in that situation it guarantees you are applying poor scope and priorities all over the place.
The world swimming championships are coming up beginning next weekend. They are interesting because of the vast disparity in ability. Some nations barely have swimming pools or competitive swim programs. Their competitors in the world championships struggle to make it from one end of the 50 meter pool to the other. Of course, you've got to be watching the early rounds of preliminaries to see that type of thing. NBC isn't going to be showing it in prime time.
Those are not the Tannehill types. No, the Tannehill type swimmers are the ones who blend. Neither high or low. They show up every 2 years for this event and are borderline to qualify for the semifinals. I remember a few of them but only a few.
Those countries don't have a choice. Their numbers are so tiny. This is the best they have. The Miami Dolphins had 7 years worth of choice but continued to rationalize that guy who is borderline on making into the semifinals, which is the cutoff to top 16.
It is mind boggling that we settled for that, amidst all the pathetic rationalizations. I cannot think of a similar example in 50 years following this sport.
Flores might be high or low. Given current realities he needs to do something relatively quickly to point upward. Like a great player or two. That in itself would be so revolutionary by recent franchise standards it might allow him to survive an incompetent early record. At Ross' age there is no telling what he might do if we have a truly disastrous season or two. It's easy to think clearly but at 80ish the realities of mortality are smack in front of you and therefore a 5-10 year plan not exactly welcome.
There is immense potential given our projected win range. At 5 wins as supposed 50/50 we are not far away from the 3< required for that top pick. That is magnificent, especially in (likely) a Tua draft. I don't understand the lack of posts and threads emphasizing as much. When the 50/50 mark is 7.5 or 8 then we are so far removed from either excellence or rewarded ineptitude, there is nothing to anticipate.
Gase would always pull out too many close games, especially at home, making our bottom line skew upward from actual talent level. If Flores has a normal distribution in those games, or especially if he has a weak distribution, then top pick range and actual relevancy may be within our grasp.
The other pearl is Rosen becoming something special. Not likely but not out of the question, and a fantastic exploration given the price tag.
I can understand why ckparrothead says he will he disappointed if we win too many games. He understands that not many seasons set up like this one. We really don't want Rosen or Fitzpatrick to take a rightful 3 win team up to 5 or 6, ruining everything for the 2020 draft yet totally irrelevant going forward.