I never claimed they did? Why is this being mentioned?
Again, who claimed that they did? Where are we going here?
I wanted the Cowboys to try to lose because it was in the best interests of the team long term. Garrett is, and should be, a non-factor in that equation. The problem is, that he's not excluded from the equation.
I have been asking you for examples of tanking working ie turning a team around to playoff success and you gave me examples of teams that didn't try to lose ie tank.
I'm using your words to point out that if your "best interest" is indeed playoff success then even though you get better draft slots, tanking doesn't get you where you want to go and it really never has.
The only time I have ever seen it work is when you completely blowup the team a la what Jerry and Jimmy did when first taking over the team.
The mechanics of why this is are not so easy to understand but they are discernable. Football players have to train harder than in any other sport.
QB and kickers are exceptions but you just don't see skinny armed athletes like Kevin Durant of the NBA playing at that type of level in the NFL.
The game itself is much more physically demanding. There is no analog in team sports to the feats of strength on display as interior linemen compete. There is no analog to the collisions between defenders and ball carriers.
In order to compete players have to buy into a program and tain their ***** off. Once you stop trying to do everything within your power to win then it is simply human nature for the players to do the same. What's good for the goose is good for the gander is the cliche that encapsulates the sentiment. They start taking reps off. The stop coming to voluntary activities. The take less time studying film. They don't give their all in practice. They start taking plays off in games.
What you end up with is what you see in moribund franchises like the Jets, Browns, Bucs and the like. They struggle to develop players, their players underperform on gamedays with repeated mistakes and evidence of physical inferiority.
I know you would be all on board for blowing the team up and replacing the coaching staff. You level of despair is to that point but we are not blowing up the team this year and doing it anyway literally just wastes the year even more than you already think it is.
Tanking does not propel an existing program to post season success. It never has and never will as the sport is currently constructed.