Report: Dolphins plan to part ways with Ryan Tannehill, tank 2019 season for Tua Tagovailoa

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6 hours ago, Tugboat said:

While there's truth to that, i think that's pretty much what "tanking" typically looks like in the NFL.  They realized Manning was going to miss the year, and didn't really do anything to try to shore up that most important position at QB.  They just rolled into the year with like Curtis Painter/Dan Orlovsky.  They didn't even seriously try to patch the hole.  In fairness, that roster was so heavily built around Peyton that it wasn't going to be pretty trying to bandaid the team anyway.  You're not replacing what he was to that team at that point.  But they didn't even really seem to try.  That's as close as you're really going to get to "tanking" imo.

Not so much about actively tanking by telling players not to bother, actually trying to lose games.  More about passively tanking, by just supplying the coaches an inadequate roster.

 

Which seems like more or less what the Dolphins are allegedly going to do.  Just cutting older expensive dead weight that isn't going to be part of the future.  Letting young players play, make their mistakes, learn, and hopefully improve.  And maybe just kinda leaving a fatal hole in the roster at QB that pretty much ensures you're going to lose a lot of games along the way...to conveniently put you in position to take a swing on a top QB prospect next year.

They brought in Kerry Collins and they still had hope that manning could play. Manning tried to give it a go but couldnt play and had another surgery in Sept. Its not like the Colts knew Manning wasnt going to play months or before the draft of FA