11-18-2023, 03:31 PM
(11-18-2023, 02:41 PM)samhain Wrote: The guys playing the game are still professionals. Many are playing for contracts either here or elsewhere. Highly unlikely that ownership waltzes into the Taylor's office and instructs him to lose for picks. The Miami game the got them the 1 overall and Burrow is all you need to see to know this. Players still have egos and livelihoods to guide what they do in a lost season.
It's also potentially toxic to locker room culture. How do you preach winning culture to a locker room that's had a lot of recent success while simultaneously hoping for losing outcomes? They can keep that shit out of here. They're set up to lose plenty without any manipulation as it currently stands.
Browning honestly didn't look that bad. He needs to clean a couple things up on ball placement, and hopefully film study will help some of that. Otherwise, he actually looked rather poised, showed some great mobility, and fought until the very end without a turnover. If they can get the ground game going, he might surprise. He's not a total bum, I remember him at Washington, and he won PAC 12 OPOY.
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