I don’t buy the notion that players don’t want to tank..

[Shotgun]

2 hours ago, TheCasillas said:

Tanking comes from play calling, game planning, coaching, and substitutions. It doesn’t come from the players.

Yes it comes from moves like trading your best player in the middle of the season.

[pantherj]

Think about it this way. You are at your job and you're being filmed at all times from multiple angles. You are earning 6 or 7 figures a year. There are several people watching every second of the footage of you, and they are hyper critical of any mistake you make, or any sign of laziness. Are you going to sit back and take it easy? Only a very small percentage of people would loaf off. Same with players.

[GOAT]

thats cuz you a keed.

[Move the Panthers to Raleigh]

Tank, giving up, or whatever you want to call it. I just hope they keep doing it for the rest of the season

[Newtcase]

I don't think the players tank but I do think they take on a me first attitude.  What can be achieved when you're on a terrible team?  Avoid injury, stay employed, try to improve value?  It's hard to expect players to risk their career for a team that's going nowhere.  So yeah, players take plays off, play soft, give less than 100%, in general protect themselves and their future to the extent acceptable.  This might give the appearance of players tanking but it's just human nature.

Countless examples yesterday but the most obvious was Jaycee.  That dude made half a dozen business decisions against Mixon.  

Edited November 7, 2022 by Newtcase

[top dawg]

4 hours ago, Wundrbread33 said:

I could see cornerstone players potentially thinking this way, but most guys can’t afford to put shitty tape out there, and NFL rosters are so competitive you have to keep grinding to stay in the league. 
 

So maybe not all, but by and large most players are trying to ball out every Sunday regardless of winning, because their career hangs in the balance. 

Star players are messing up their money too. We're talking possibly millions in their cases. Tape tells a lot, and I don't think that front offices are going to want to pay players that are half-assing out there simply because they're in a less than optimal situation. NFL types except players to be professional at all times, and even if they give you a pass and try to acquire you, they won't be paying you what you're worth.

[Captroop]

Yesterday wasn't a tank job. That's just a team that's had it's heart ripped out.

Last week was make or break for us. And it broke us. I contend yesterday would have been a lot different if we had won in Atlanta. The swagger and energy of sitting at #1 in the division, reason to fight, reason to play hard, reason to win. Instead we had the ignominy of our heart-breaking loss being followed up by taking sole residence in the basement of the NFC South.

I have a hard time believing the team I watched "play" yesterday was the same team that was on the field the last 2 weeks. No fight. No urgency. Feet for hands. Yesterday I watched a team that looked like they'd lost all reason to hope.

 

DJ, man. I just wish you'd kept your f***ing helmet on.

Anyway. The tank is on. Hooray.

[Luciu5]

3 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

A player who willingly participated in a tank would be cutting his own throat.

The tape is their resume. I know I wouldn't risk an extra a few million in my next contract just because I'm on a bad team. Foreman could get a pretty decent next contract from somebody if he can get back to having 100+ yards a game. 

[Aussie Tank]

We’re gonna be tanking for 18 months if all these pro Corral fan boys get their way