Winston suspension gets doomed season off to right start

The funny part is that anybody thought the Bucs had a shot this year anyways.

what are the Jets doing?

It seems pretty self explanatory what the Jets are doing, right?  They send a whole boquet of second round picks to the Colts to step up to the #3 slot.  And now there are rumors that they're trying to get up to #1.  So it's pretty clear a franchise only does this for one reason, to get a QB.

I get it.  But, still, what are the Jets doing?

The recent success of Jared Goff and Carson Wentz has once again ruined team's brains.  Ditto Deshaun Watson, but he didn't go #1 or #2.  Goff and Wentz did, and in year number two they both paid off.  And so teams are once again in the zone of mortgaging everything to get their one franchise QB.

Hey folks, it might not work!  For every Goff and Wentz I give you Mariota and Winston.  It's a 50/50 shot folks.  Is that worth sending so, so many of your key draft picks to get that coin flip?  It's not like the Jets are deep on their roster and just need a QB to win now.  The Jets aren't deep anywhere.

The Eagles just won with a QB who was essentially out of the league.  There are options for proven QBs, or QBs with potential, who are already in the league that don't require the coin flip gamble with the next five years of the franchise.

This won't end well for the Jets, not just because their strategy is putrid, but also because it's the Jets.  Whoever they draft, they'll consume the guy's career like a tiger rips apart an unknowing woodland creature.

 

Yep.

it doesn't matter if teams tank for the draft

There’s a lot of chatter about teams throwing their season for the draft and how this is an issue requiring resolution from the league office.  As in, the office that typically does a great job of solving problems in a mature, professional, and honest manner.

 

I don’t see why this is a problem though.  So teams are tanking for the draft?  Okay.  So what?  The NFL is not the NBA.  A team with 5 is not a team with 22 starters.

 

The Browns likely tanked and got Myles Garrett.  Okay, good for them.  He might be awesome.  He might not be.  Who knows.  But is anybody going to argue that now the Browns can become a dominant team?  Does anybody want to wager say, ten grand, on if the Browns will have a season above 500 in the next decade?  I wouldn’t take that bet.

 

Last year’s number one pick was Jared Goff, aka that guy who doesn’t know what direction the sun rises and sets each day.  Anybody want to take that 500 in a decade bet on the Rams?

 

Maybe Jameis Winston has it in him to be a true franchise quarterback?  We shall see.  Anybody see the Bucs as a true Super Bowl contender?  I don’t.

 

Jadeveon Clowney seems to finally be taking off, living up to his beast potential.  We shall see.  Anybody see the Tejans as a true Super Bowl contender?  I don’t.

 

Nobody can seem to determine if Eric Fisher is the best or the worst.  Or both at the same time.  Not even Eric Fisher.

 

And of course, the big daddy of all tanks, the Suck for Luck campaign yielded one of the best quarterback talents in a decade to the dumpster fire that is the Indianapolis Colts.  And they’ve promptly destroyed that man’s body.  Luck will need a motorized cart to get from his imperial sized bed to his gold plated bathroom by the time he’s 36.

 

Let teams tank, whatever.  The draft has been proven to be the ultimate game of roulette.  Either you hit or you don’t.  It’s why smart teams stockpile as many picks as possible, led by smart personnel staffs that know how to build a roster.  As in, the teams that are professionally run well enough to not need to tank.  These are the teams that will consistently make the playoffs and win.

 

So it doesn’t matter if teams tank for the draft.  Just let it all continue to play out.  The game will go on.