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Originally Posted by Buehler445
But he spent day upon days telling me that draft position is important (it's not. Good teams don't draft high). Why isn't he raging about all the "meaningless wins" 2014 brought along?
I'm just flipping him shit for throwing stones while just getting done telling me Herm didn't wreck the franchise. I didn't pay a damn bit of attention to what zilla in 2014. Our only 2 hired guys quit and I was killing myself with hours. It sucked.
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Let's be clear about this.
I have never promoted tanking for draft position. But I did say that when you rebuild, yeah, I'd rather lose 14 games playing young prospects than lose 12 games with band-aid middling veterans. Yes, I view those as meaningless wins. The roster Herm inherited was geriatric and it not only took up the entire cap, it led to a multi-year cap mess.
Herm needed to sledgehammer the roster. If anything, he should have done it sooner. Dorsey was given plenty to build upon (7-8 pro bowlers, reasonable cap space). There was no need to sledgehammer that 2014 roster. Just wait it out for one year, wait for some shit to clean up, then make a move in 2015... which they did, and they did it effectively.