Two things to note.
1. It's not my plan … and therefore it's not a figment of my imagination (I realize you meant figment, typos happen to me a lot too). I'm just buying into the plan … not making it up.
2. "Bound to fail" is not correct. The plan was followed by several teams in the Suck for Luck sweepstakes, and it did in fact go wrong for the Dolphins as the coaching staff tried to win, and Matt Moore engineered a winning patch of 6 of our final 9 games. But, it did succeed for the Indianapolis Colts, who executed it flawlessly.
Tanking is a thing, not just in the NFL either. Ask the Philadelphia 76'ers … they've mastered it. Drafting well is another thing entirely.
I'm all for building a team the right way. Since Don Shula … we haven't done it. Many of us have noticed a missing ingredient for success since Dan Marino retired. Building the team through the draft is THE reason for tanking. To get better draft picks, to re-set the team to build through the draft.
Tanking may or may not happen, I have no control over that. But to suggest that tanking is a figment of my imagination would be to ignore the rhetoric and signals the team is clearly sending. You may not agree with it, you may not like it, you may not like how I feel about it … but let's not be an ostrich and ignore the fact that the team is sending out those signals.