BakoSaint

I don't think a team should ever tank on purpose. Losing on purpose does irreparable harm to a teams culture. However, I think we should focus on purging bad contracts of aging, injury prone, and suspension prone players no matter how big the cap hit and even if they might have a year or two left of good production. I don't think we have a reasonable chance to win a championship in 2023 with our aging players. So I would be more excited and get more enjoyment watching a team of young scrappy underdogs giving it their all to make names for themselves. Maybe lower floor on their production, probably no guarantees, but a lot more upside long term to bringing in the next generation. I don't want Derek Carr. 9-8 with the highest cap problems going into 2024 would not be a ring. So I say don't tank, but do put the season on younger shoulders and try to find more diamonds in the rough like Shaheed or the next Brock Purdy. Underdogs can surprise you and maybe we could go 9-8 and have a clean cap for 2024 and all our draft picks. Or maybe the young underdogs would be the next Ian Books and Adam Troutman's and we lose a lot of games. Put it on the table with young talent and see what happens is what I say. Don't seek out costly veteran band aids like Derek Carr to try to make safer bets to scrape out 9-8. I don't want to watch that. It's not exciting.

We only shut out one team in 2022. That teams QB was Derek Carr. Then Carr got benched. Tanking is bad enough. In my opinion bringing in Carr would amount to stretching our salary cap in order to tank. Lets stay away from Carr and Ryan and not pay to lose games.