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Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc
Please. If they tanked, they didn't do a very good job of it. They signed Kerry Collins to play QB, and he was awful, but if you're tanking anyway, why sign him in the first place? You wouldn't.
They kept all their good players, Dallas Clark, Reggie Wayne, Dwight Freeney, Robert Mathis. Heck, Freeney and Mathis made the pro bowl. If you're tanking, you do what the Jets did this year and release them all.
They won 2 of their last 3 games and only got the 1st pick via tiebreaker.
Then, after the season, they fired everyone. Coach, president and GM. If it was a concerted effort to tank, they wouldn't have done that.
Peyton Manning WAS that team. He carried them for several years after the super bowl season. Irsay was just to stupid to realize it until Manning wasn't there anymore.
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They probably thought they'd be fine, but once the season got rolling, it was like, "Welp, this ****ing sucks! Why bother trying?" They were beating the Chiefs down in Week 4 until they let Matt ****ing Cassel put up 17 on them in the 4th quarter for the win. Yeah, don't ****ing tell me they were just really bad at football. Bull. ****ing. Shit.
Don't take it personally. The Chiefs did the exact same thing the following year. Only difference is you dick-sucking assholes were like, "Oh, shucks! We're the worst team! We need Andrew Luck!"
Like I said, the NFL draft system is ****ed. The TRULY worst team is the team that can't escape the basement year after year after year. Andrew Luck should be wearing a Cleveland Browns uniform right now.