Should the Patriots tank in 2024?
Should the New England Patriots tank in the 2024 season? Felger, Mazz, and Murray discuss the idea.
Felger: Quick question for you…should the Patriots tank?
Jim Murray: No.
Felger: Should the Patriots tank?
Mazz: No.
Felger: Murray, why do you say no?
Jim Murray: I can’t deal with last year. They’re going to suck, but you can still be competitive and suck. You can’t be like last year where you’re basically like, you know, I know they tried to win some games, they did in Denver and they did inPittsburgh, but they were so bad that at the end it did feel like tanking.
Felger: I thought you were a draft guy and you like the draft picks.
Jim Murray: I do. But you know how much longer are we going to have to put up with this? And it feels like a while. So I need them to compete. You need to be competitive. You need to go out there and try to win games. To actively go out there and tank and try to be like 0-17? No . No, no, no, no, no, no.
Mazz: You know what the irony is?
Felger: May I guess?
Mazz: Yeah.
Felger: They kind of are.
Mazz: Exactly well, and not only that, they’re not going to have to try, they’ll lose on their own.
Felger: But they kind of are.
Mazz: I felt this way as soon as they traded Judon. It had a tank-ish feeling to it.
Felger: Why shouldn’t they tank Mazz?
Mazz: OK, so look, I will tell you that first of all I don’t think they’re going to need to, I think they’re going to be bad enough on their own. I’ll start with that. But then the other thing is you don’t want to get into this culture of like, “we’re going to give away games and seasons”. To me it’s a waste.
Felger: It’s a slippery slope Mazz.
Mazz: It’s wasting everybody’s time and it creates this whole sort of culture that losing is okay.
