***Week 12 GameDay Thread - Giants @ Bengals***

[Murdock2420]

(11-29-2020, 07:10 PM)TheFan Wrote: You don't forget how to win. They were winners their entire lives. They won all throughout grade school, high school, and college. 1-2 years won't make them forget that. The best thing that could happen in their careers is getting a HC and position coaches who know how to win and to coach. 

I don't think the players want to lose. I think the coaches don't know how to put them in places to win. They didn't deserve to win this game and it helps our team in the long run to lose it. Both in who we can draft next year (ya know...like we did Burrow this year) as well as hopefully getting new coaches. Having a worse draft position isn't going to help us draft better players. I'd rather have a couple season of 2-4 wins than 10 seasons of 4-8 wins. Having a mid/late draft pick every year isn't how you become a sustaining franchise until you have more key people in place. 

You absolutely do.

Have you never heard the phrase, winning is contagious? 

Well, guess what, losing is the same way. There are teams that walk out every week and expect to win, look at Kansas City. This team doesn't expect to win and it shows. One mistake and things start to just implode and go further and further south. 

See, if you win some of these "meaningless" games down the stretch, the guys start to believe in themselves again and most importantly, they believe in each other. They also start to realize that one mistake doesn't end the game for them. How many games has that fat rapist in pitt thrown a pick and the team doesn't falter, and they over come the mistakes to win. This team has a fumble like Erickson's punt fumble a few weeks back and instantly collapses in all aspects. That is what losing week after week after week does to a team.

Winning out, losing out, none of that will have any impact on Taylor's job. If you think it will, you're only fooling yourself, the Brown family is going to do what they want, not want the fans, or media says they need to do. So, knowing that Sewell isn't going to magically fix the franchise, and that losing won't instantly equal Taylor is fired, what is the actual point to losing games? 

Winning gives these guys a reason to play hard and develop further and in a year where we need to sign FA's you don't want to end the season looking flat, win, show signs of life and you are more attractive to FA's.