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the only tanking that can exist is in the construction of the team. You can « tank » if you are a head coach that’s been hired in a crap team and you explain your strategy to the owner.
Flores tanked last year, he traded almost all of his good players to gain futur assets but the team on the field gave everything they had to win games, the talent just wasn’t there. But it wasn’t there purposely. He didn’t tank to get the first pick but he knew he would get a top 5 pick. And with his trades he got if I remember 3 1st round pick. He sacrificed a year to be able to rebuild the team and it worked.
I don’t want the Patriots to throw away games but I would not have been opposed to Bill trading some player to gain assets. I’m afraid that we are gonna finish in the middle without enough quality draft picks to rebuild this year. A thing that is overlook in my opinion is that I don’t think New England is a top market for free agent anymore. Even with all our cap space, i don’t think we can attract game changing free agent.
Seems clear Flores traded talented players that he didn't want on his team. He built a team with the players he wanted, to build the culture he wanted.