05-22-2020, 12:51 PM
(05-22-2020, 12:34 PM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: Not really, as it was a win-win situation:
- if Finley balls out, you have your QB of the future.
- If Finley plays like crap (which he did), hello 1st round pick.
It was a smart decision, no matter how you slice it, but to call it an out-and-out tank job...
I completely agree. If it was a tank job, they would've just left him in. If it was a tank job, why pull him out again if he was doing exactly what they wanted him to do? I mean Dalton's game against Miami damn near cost us the first round pick.
Not to mention the reality is that NFL coaches never "tank" on purpose. Their jobs are on the line. I take ZT for his word on that - they just wanted to see what they had in Finley, and when they found out it wasn't much they went back to Dalton.
