05-22-2020, 01:42 PM
(05-22-2020, 01:38 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: Exactly. It was a "let's see what we have because the season is already done" move.
Seeing how good your back ups are is not generally a move one makes when they're aiming to win games.
The conversation surrounding playing Finley was not "If we put Finley in, we'll win more games than if we had Dalton in." It was "Well, the season is already lost. I want to know just how good Finley is so we are more prepared for the 2020 draft, given we'll almost certainly have a high pick, especially if we start a rookie QB for a few games."
Maybe you're balking at the word "tanking" but I can't come up with a better way of describing what they did. They did not play Finley with the hopes of winning those games he was playing in.
Finley was only part of it. I think losing AJ, Glenn, Boling and Jonah before the season even started doomed this team from the get go. Having other guys go down as well made it pretty tough.
We didn't have a fire sale of people (Dalton, Atkins, Dunlap were all looked at as viable trade pieces at the deadline and not one of them was moved.) It's hard to call it a tank job when you keep your older vets. Hell, it's tough to call it a re-build when they did that.
