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Originally Posted by SirClintonPortis
GMs have to adopt the attitude though, if there's a player that will be a game-breaker to be obtained and the current roster isn't worth preserving. However, rather than ask the coach to tank, they blow up the team so that it can't win that many games. The Caps, while in a different sport, did adopt this strategy.
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There are several differences between that example and the posts above:
1) GM's take economic factors into account when blowing up a team, not just performance factors. "Fans" above are simply accounting for performance and praying that the Skins do not perform, just like Cowboys fans do.
2) Football is dramatically different from hockey and basketball in that there are more moving pieces and less of an emphasis on purely individual performance. Therefore there is greater sense in completely blowing up a team in other sports than there is in football.
3) The fans above are not rooting for a rebuilt team. Instead, they are rooting for an entire team to tank so that we can draft just one guy, and a guy at a position with high bust potential no less.
There are ways to acquire a franchise QB other than the draft. You need not look beyond our division (Eagles and Cowboys) to see this. So to root for your team to lose because that is the only way to get a franchise QB is traitorous lunacy IMO.