11-11-2015, 08:23 PM
I say you play to win for several reasons...
First, if we are 15-0, then we simply don't know how this team will bounce back from a loss, and the team has allowed losses to multiply in recent years. I would honestly feel more comfortable sitting at 14-1 or 13-2 and having had them come back and wreck a team after a loss than not knowing, when it comes to sitting players. If we don't know how the team will react without momentum, then I think you have to keep your momentum going.
Second, we've heard numerous players talk about the "One game at a time" mantra that's working wonders for them, right now. Resting the starters and looking ahead to the playoffs deviates from that, and I don't think that's a good thing that close to the playoffs.
Third, I think the players would have earned at history, and it would suck to.jerk it away from them. Who knows, maybe that extra carrot of cementing their legacy as the undisputed greatest team in NFL history is what they need to get over the hump. Giving up on perfection is the organization telling guys to lower their goals, which I don't think is a good thing.
Finally, from a pure business standpoint, it's a home game, and the fans are paying to watch their team play, and buying tickets in advance to possibly see the team do something historic. Sitting the starters is kind of a ripoff to those people.
First, if we are 15-0, then we simply don't know how this team will bounce back from a loss, and the team has allowed losses to multiply in recent years. I would honestly feel more comfortable sitting at 14-1 or 13-2 and having had them come back and wreck a team after a loss than not knowing, when it comes to sitting players. If we don't know how the team will react without momentum, then I think you have to keep your momentum going.
Second, we've heard numerous players talk about the "One game at a time" mantra that's working wonders for them, right now. Resting the starters and looking ahead to the playoffs deviates from that, and I don't think that's a good thing that close to the playoffs.
Third, I think the players would have earned at history, and it would suck to.jerk it away from them. Who knows, maybe that extra carrot of cementing their legacy as the undisputed greatest team in NFL history is what they need to get over the hump. Giving up on perfection is the organization telling guys to lower their goals, which I don't think is a good thing.
Finally, from a pure business standpoint, it's a home game, and the fans are paying to watch their team play, and buying tickets in advance to possibly see the team do something historic. Sitting the starters is kind of a ripoff to those people.
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