Hawkpower
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Because every win would be a Pyrrhic victory. This is not and will not be a playoff team. These aren't pre-conceived notions, these are real-time observations. Detroit and Atlanta are bad teams and the Broncos were an emotionally focused moral victory. The only good team we played thumped us. We lost to one bad team and almost lost to the other. I don't like seeing them lose, ESPECIALLY not to division rivals, but other than brief happiness, winning is worse for us in the short-long term. We'll likely get smoked by KC, LAx3, SF again, at least. Who cares if we have 8 or 9 wins? This is 2023 pre-season. A winning season for me is the development of what looks to be an outstanding rookie class, the defense for fucks sake learning to tackle and play as a unit, and new team leaders emerging. Every game we win lessens our draft currency next year. Id rather lose 12 games this year than risk having to bundle both firsts to get the QB (or whoever) they want. I'd rather have the luxury of entertaining offers from other teams wanting to move up, or just hammering our picks without a lot of wheeling like we did this year. I've been through more than enough 7-9 win seasons to care about winning a few more meaningless games vs positioning ourselves to climb to the top again.
Winning is never worse, unless our team is a dumptser fire which this team is not.
Yes they have holes on defense, but we also have a ton of picks in which to address this. This team isnt going to only win 3, so why not hope for 9 and a possible playoff berth? The draft position isnt different enough from 9 wins to 5-6 (our floor) to hope for losses imo
The narrative for this season changed the minute Geno proved to be capable. Its ok to hope for all those things you said and concurrently hope for a playoff berth.
No, this team isnt going to win the SB. But imagine the boost a playoff spot would give to this organization post Russ, along with the experience for the young kids
Probably wont happen, but its not as far fetched as you portray either.