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Originally Posted by CrazyPhuD
I like winning as much as the next guy, but if we can't actually do something in the playoffs does it really matter what we do in the regular season. See this is the fraud that's placed upon every fan, if you're running your football team as a business you care substantially less about winning in the playoffs. Winning consistently in the regular season is what sells season tickets, the 90s chiefs are a model of this. People will sell out the regular season, and you'll always sell out any games in the playoffs, but if you don't go anywhere what's the point? There's a strong incentive not to suck in the regular season because then you have empty stadiums, less TV revenue and the team may fail. But if you succeed in the regular season and sell out your games is there s strong incentive to win a SB?
I don't think so at least financially, teams are content to make the playoffs and sell out regular season games. But if you do nothing once you get there then what's the point. To me any team that can't win in the playoffs is an extremely mediocre team.
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The whole "get rid of Cassel at all costs" comes on a bit strong, but the rest of it makes a lot of sense... it should actually be really obvious, but somehow isn't. Cassel doesn't have to be great (not that you said he does), but right now I don't have any confidence that he could string together multiple playoff wins, and that's all that matters. This year? 7 wins, 9 wins, playoffs, one playoff win... whatever, I'll take it. Next year, the year after that.... well, I either hope Cassel can continue to improve and get much better in key situations (especially since his number seems to get called an awful lot in key (running
) situations), or he gets the hook.
This team doesn't ruin me any longer when they lose or don't live up to expectations and I'll continue to enjoy watching blah blah, but to watch a team grow from Herm to a regular season contender, just to be one-and-done playoff frauds in future seasons because of the QB position, would be pretty rough.