08-20-2020, 06:16 PM
(08-20-2020, 03:43 PM)Sled21 Wrote: I don't know if it's considered tanking, but I think the whole season was looked at as an evaluation season to determine which direction the team was going to go. And after the evaluation, it appears a good number of players did not make the cut, so to say, as far as the new team. If you were a poor or unwilling tackler, you were shown the door.
I guarantee you it didn't start that way. That team was not built in mind to "evaluate". The team was already facing serious attendance issues and was trying to sell the fanbase on a brand new coach.
It may have turned into an evaluation, but that is the case for any losing team. When you're start out 0 for whatever, you better start evaluating how you're going to fix the roster, and who you want to keep around to do it.
I'm sorry, these statements strike me as the laziest of excuses. This team went into last season wanting to win as much possible, just like every other team. Just because they ended up stinking people now chalk it up to them evaluating their roster.
IMHO, it's pure bs.
