Are anti-tank measures coming?

[salmar80]

You can’t break &%$@ culture easily. Miami gunna be bad for a long time.

This team begs to differ.

I think "easily" is the key word.

Bengals' draft history is every draft afficionado's wet dream. Soooo many high picks, so little success until now.

[go pak go]

Yeah I think we are starting to see a pretty big shift in teams and success.

Just look at the NFC. Every team except Dallas, MN, DET and WASH have been the conference champion at least once in the last 20 years. I think you can even extend that to like the last 15 years. So that is a hit rate of roughly 12 teams out of like 15 years of different NFC Champions.

The AFC is different. They definitely were more powered by the "big 4" of NE, Peyton Manning, BAL and Pittsburgh. The AFC also has many more perrineal "bottom feeders"

But even here, we are starting to see more shifts out of that.

I attribute it to a new era of QBs but I also attribute it to the game trends moving faster. Coaches and system changes are moving faster. Teams are becoming more adaptive and owners are figuring out to be less "hands on" and let the football guys run the operation. I also think the salary cap rules of rolling money and deferring money to the extreme is helping.

There are just so many ways to build a team now. It will be interesting to see "programs" continue moving forward.

[wallyuwl]

I would do a Draft lottery of the bottom 3-5 teams. Those are the super premium picks. I would even lean just bottom 3. Equal odds. No incentive for a bottom finish. No one else is tanking to finish with the 14th pick instead of the 16th, etc.

I don't think the current systems needs to be changed. There is little evidence that teams tank. It can be suspected, even alleged, but not really proven.

But if they do change it, I think something like this is appropriate. But I would make it somewhat like the NBA's system where the team with the worst record still has the best change of getting the #1 pick, second worst the next best chance, etc. But maybe not make the probabilities drastically different for 1-3.

[Cdragon]

You can’t break &%$@ culture easily. Miami gunna be bad for a long time.

This team begs to differ.

I think "easily" is the key word.

Bengals' draft history is every draft afficionado's wet dream. Soooo many high picks, so little success until now.

Have too see if they win it all and, or, how long they last. You occasionally get the pop up team and the mallet comes down to whack that mole. The 2017 Jags made it to the AFC Championship game and fell back into the dust immediately.

[BF004]

I would do a Draft lottery of the bottom 3-5 teams. Those are the super premium picks. I would even lean just bottom 3. Equal odds. No incentive for a bottom finish. No one else is tanking to finish with the 14th pick instead of the 16th, etc.

How about a 6 team playoff for first pick? Lions and Jags get a first round bye.

Any set to be free agents can opt out of the game.

Could play them Thursday and Friday nights during the wild card-championship round.


I think those would be fun as hell. Players get a game check/help their team next year as incentive to play