I counter that most moves that surround a team tanking are negative. Nearly everything about this team is pretty terrible right now. That is what it is to structure your team to lose. You find solace in that it seems to be intentional. I do not.
EDIT: maybe solace is the wrong word. You seem indifferent about how things are done because of the intended end result. I am more concerned with how things are being done despite the intended end result.
Yeah solace isn't the right word.
Acceptance is the right word. I avoided calling it a tank earlier because their were late spring and early summer moves that would tell you whether it was a tank or not. Those moves didn't happen, so it's absolutely a tank.
Where you see an error on the Simmons handling, I see a team that took their time to really evaluate whether they felt he could be a valuable piece and once they believed he wasn't going to be, they traded him for what they could get. Good, bad, indifferent, I don't think this move matters.
Even the Dobbs moves, the latest story was that Dobbs choose Cleveland because he wanted to be on a perceived better team. That's way different than how the situation was initially interpreted by many on this board. Players are human beings and I can fully understand not wanting to be on a 3 win team unless the money was substantially higher.
Even the Anderson trade there are clearly two sides, that the trade was good or the Cardinals should have taken Anderson because he is a generational talent. Anderson was not a universally considered generational talent and I read a number of really good talent evaluators who stated Anderson is not Bosa, he's not Myles Garrett, he's a good but not great NFL prospect. Now if the Cardinals end up with two really high picks and Anderson doesn't become a great player, the Cardinals absolutely made the right move. I guarantee Keim wouldn't have made that trade, he would have just taken Anderson, because Keim was enamored with flashy moves over substance.
lifer.
