Of course. That's obvious though. If a team doesn't use its resources well, it will not succeed no matter what. However, that's not what this is about. The closer you pick toward the front, the better players will be available. Now, if a team uses those resources poorly, sounds as if they need better mgmt.
Jimmy left better players on the bench in order to get the draft picks. That is pure and simple tanking to attain better resources. Very intelligent tanking, I might add.
How in the world can fans continuously lie to themselves? If you didn't know what was happening, I'd guess that you were a very young child.
Tanking is not on the players. It's about trading away guys who are going to be gone anyway to get into super bowl contention.
What does that mean? He did seem very confident to me. Not sure if it's the same thing.
Jimmy's strategy with the walker trade was a brilliant ruse. He let vikes think he would play their scrubs when what he wanted was the draft picks. Had he played the vike rejects, we wouldn't be talking about what a great deal the trade was. It was his plan from the beginning. No way that's tanking. Jimmy was just smarter than everyone else.
If the players are going to be gone anyway, it's good business to get something for them. Seems this thread is about semantics. How one interprets the word tanking. It's fair to say both sides are correct as long as tanking is not considered quitting. Your point is well taken.
Many have, often w/o the desired outcome.
Isn't tanking basically losing to win? That is to a T what Jimmy did.
He seemed in command, he seemed to have players listen to him as a leader, not a sub QB of the week.
But it isn’t quitting. Trading Hershel was that quitting, Aikman sure thought so at the time. It’s called playing the game.
Making trades to improve the team is certainly acceptable. Trying to lose with the players you have is a different thing.
Gilbert was a huge upgrade over anyone else which is why it was so typical that the 2 bogans decided to take him out - so so typical of these guys you can read them like a book.
Not in this case, imo. The scrubs from the vikes are not likely to have won us many more games. The draft picks won us superbowls.. jimmy still demanded max effort from those who played.
A trade is one thing, benching starters to play practice squad players is another.
You are A LOT better than him.I merely asked where you were when Jimmy Johnson was our coach. My reply was simply to assure you that I was a fan back then and aware of our circumstances -- it wasn't to say I'm better than you, by any means.
You answered my question where you were back then by simply saying: "Were you?" Incomplete sentence (and an ambiguous reply on your part.) If you were asking if I was even in existence back then the answer is yes, very much so. I was alive since long before the Cowboys were in their infancy. It wasn't intended to compare our status. Thanks anyway for the fruit basket. My digestion is fine.
I guess that's why he lost his last game 63-7 to Jacksonville. Karma.......what a way to go out.
