Would this be considered tanking?

[jayboogieman]

 

[rayzor]

i think that's what happens when you make Jeff Saturday your head coach.

[travisura]

It's almost impossible to determine intent here. This is a kickoff return, and in real time it's a bang-bang type play. I don't think this rises to the level of an intentional action in order to lose the game.

[4Corners]

I like Jeff Saturday a lot (UNC) but it was a mistake to make him the head coach and he should not be retained. Mind boggling move from Irsay. 

[Waldo]

It's just a poorly run team. They don't have to tank they just have to be themselves.

Even if they get a great QB they will still run him into the ground. I wonder if we will ever see another Manning type move where a prospect says 'nope' again. They really should sometimes...

[LinvilleGorge]

I mean, naming an interim head coach that has no coaching experience beyond the HS level is about as blatant as tanking gets. 

[rayzor]

15 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

I like Jeff Saturday a lot (UNC) but it was a mistake to make him the head coach and he should not be retained. Mind boggling move from Irsay. 

if it was a decision made after 1pm it's pretty much the result of him being drunk. after 2pm it's the result of him doing coke. afternoons are not the time that he should be making any decisions.

[Khyber53]

Never chalk up to malice what is probably just incompetence.

[LinvilleGorge]

17 minutes ago, rayzor said:

if it was a decision made after 1pm it's pretty much the result of him being drunk. after 2pm it's the result of him doing coke. afternoons are not the time that he should be making any decisions.

If before noon it's the result of him still being drunk from the night before.

[rayzor]

4 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

If before noon it's the result of him still being drunk from the night before.

he's got to be in a permanent state of hangover.

[Mr. Scot]

12 minutes ago, Khyber53 said:

Never chalk up to malice what is probably just incompetence.

Or drunkenness...

[Sgt Schultz]

37 minutes ago, Waldo said:

It's just a poorly run team. They don't have to tank they just have to be themselves.

 

13 minutes ago, Khyber53 said:

Never chalk up to malice what is probably just incompetence.

Both are absolutely true.  As I have said to the "we should tank" crowd, you can never engineer more losses than some bad teams naturally will produce. 

For the umpteenth time, the year the Dolphins went all-in on tanking, they wound up drafting fifth, not first. It just doesn't work out the way people think.

This clip has a Three Stooges look to it.  All they needed was for someone in blue to pick the ball up and run it into the wrong end zone.  You really can't orchestrate this level of buffoonery.

[outlaw4]

I'd call that contender for "C'mon, man!" of the 2022 season.

[ForJimmy]

1 hour ago, rayzor said:

he's got to be in a permanent state of hangover.

Can’t get hungover if you stay drunk…