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Originally Posted by moloch41
*Yawn* Rah, Rah- Go team!!! Blah, blah, blah. You're right, I should root for my team to go 4 or 5 games under .500 and not get anything in return for it.
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Yes, you should. Because you call yourself a fan. Look at the Phillies. The game they lost their 10,000 game or whatever was sold out! The Philly fans are great because they cheer even when it's futile. You'll never see bag heads there, and anyone who speaks bad tends to get an icicle in the back.
I look forward to next season just like everyone else, because I know we aren't going to win the superbowl, but we weren't anyway because the AFC is better than the NFC. By your logic we should just go 0-16 until Manning, Brady, and hell, Big Ben retire. We won't get anything for trying, because we won't win a super bowl.
Now, to clarify my points for you Moloch, since you obviously didn't understand.
The draft is a rotating one, as opposed to a snake-like one used in fantasy football. The last pick in the first round(held by the superbowl winner) is the one just before the first pick of the second round(held by the worst team). This goes on through the whole draft. Thusly, when you look at it, the difference between the best team and the worst team is that the worst team gets 6 players one spot "worse" than the best team and gets one player who is supposed to be the best in the draft, but has no guarantee to be such, as well as a huge guarantee-laden contract for that player, which is now approaching top quality free agents' money. The best team also gets a 7th rounder who has less of a possibility to work out, but for pennies on the dollar.
The quality free agents that you missed were Bennett, McMichael, and Draft. Meanwhile the only free agent I can think of for the Raiders was Dominic Rhodes. Oh, I'm sorry, they also got Culpepper. The Lions had TJ Duckett, Shawn McDonald, Travis Fisher, and Edwin Mulitalo. Baltimore's Mulitalo is the only real quality guy I see on those lists.
Lastly, I understand how compensation picks work, do you? They're not done by how big the contract is, or how many offers the guy gets, it's done by production in the first year on the other team. This year we'll get credit for Curtis(hopefully a 4th), McDonald(7th?), and probably no one else. Meanwhile, the top teams tend to have better quality free agents leave, and so they'll get better compensation picks than us. Indy will probably get a 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th, at least due to their free agents.
Any other questions?