Should the Texans tank the rest of the season?

Unless Andre Johnson and/or Arian Foster are injured for a significant amount of time, I am against tanking.

 

Should every team without a legit chance at the Superbowl (about 20 teams) tank every year?

 

And tanking doesn't guarantee anything either.

Most teams success are determined by the entire quality of the draft, not just the high first round pick. Texans haven't had a good top-to-bottom draft since 2006... even more of a reason why they're stuck where they are right now.

 

You probably shouldn't use a team that found a franchise QB as a 6th round pick as an example of why tanking is good.

If anything, that's an example of why you DON'T need to tank to get a franchise QB.

 

8-8 doesn't prevent teams from finding franchise players.

This isn't the NBA.

Also, you act as if 8-8 is pretty easy to accomplish in the NFL... again, don't see a lot of teams finishing @ or near .500 every single year without either a breakthrough or drop-off.

Hell, the current Seattle nucleus was formed as the team lucked into the playoffs, going 7-9 with no franchise QB. I wouldn't even consider Russel Wilson as a franchise QB... but they've certainly succeeded around him despite never tanking to get him.

 

The league and its fanbase would collapse if most teams weren't even trying to compete every year. And players would never want to sign with tanking teams, because if they are not put in a position to succeed, it will affect their ability to make money in their next contract.

 

You people are getting trolled hard by a titty fan.

 

Tanking in the NFL is a bad bad strategy.

Before anyone mentions the colts they just simply sucked

 

And yet even with said "franchise" QB in Matthew Stafford, they'd fall in your category of teams that have virtually little realistic chance of winning a Super Bowl.

And also, for clarification, there has never been a first round that produced 3 franchise QB's from the first 10 picks. Hell, there are only a handful of drafts where there were 3 franchise QB's in the entire draft.

But, you go on rooting with your zany strategies... which only really work in the NBA. I'm done discussing this.

BTW, Grizzlies should probably tank this year. They're stuck in playoff mediocrity, and just likely got passed up by the Rockets, Warriors, Clippers, and Thunder.

Suck for Wiggins.

 

before Brady, the Patriots already played in 2 superbowls one in '85 and other in '96.

 

I don't think we should tank, at least not until after the Colts game. The worst outcome I see is 7-9 and keeping the coaching personnel intact because they didn't lose their team and kept them motivated enough to beat the Cards, Titans, Raiders, and Jags twice.

I've worried about this like we all have for a long time. I thought we kept Frank Bush in the whole season so that he could be sacrificed in the offseason to appease the crowds calling for change. That offseason I worried that when the time came for Kubiak to be fired, that Wade would take over for the simple reason that he would still be under contract. I worry that even now, knowing how low of a rock bottom this team has hit, that a 7-9/8-8 will only result in Marciano losing his job and trading 2x 2nd rounders for Kirk Cousins.

If it's that or tanking, gimme a top 5 pick and a new coaching staff with a good scouting team. I trust McNair enough that he won't be pick a dbag like Schiano or anyone from the Fisher tree, and that's a good start.

 

Between this and the Astros forum, there are just some really shining examples of stupid this week.

 

Tanking is always an intriguing sentiment, but when you have a coach fighting to keep his job, it's not going to be easy. Fortunately, we have Gary Kubiak, who the entire league has "figured out" now. He also doesn't believe in making adjustments or adapting to anything, so we'll probably tank inadvertently.

So there's that...

 

This is EXACTLY how I felt during the week leading up to the SF game............................

And yes, tanking in the NFL is just stupid.

 

Sell outs are a rather antiquated way to judge a franchise’s relevance, given that the vast majority of the tickets were purchased, in some cases, more than 10 years ago. When they bottomed out in 2005, and still “sold out” every game, the stadium was far from capacity.

Sure, football is king, and so there will always be interest. But I don’t think this team is above apathy. Frankly, I’ve been stunned at the depth of too many fans’ level of entitlement, given the franchise's first nine seasons. I mean, this guy wants us to tank less than two years removed from our first playoff appearance with a still-talented roster and a (currently) winnable division? I recognize he doesn’t speak for all fans, but it’s part of the larger fan narrative that’s quickly developing this year: dissatisfaction with victories, impatience, burning jerseys, cheering injuries, irrationally spending way too much time imagining the team’s third string midget scrub of a QB is really Tom Brady in disguise, calling for tanks, firings…

It feels like a tipping point, and I just can’t believe losing 14 consecutive games this year is exactly what the doctor ordered for this (or any) franchise.

 

There is no way you could get a 1st or 2nd round pick for AJ or Foster. I really don't know if you could get anything of value since they make money. Tanking only works if there is an Andrew luck waiting there for you.