Losing Football Games the Easy Way

I'm not enamored with the idea an NFL team should tank its season to nab the Number One Draft Pick. 

Asking a football team to post less than their best effort is asking them to get hurt real bad real fast. What would be the difference anyway between playing your best and going 1-15 and playing your worst and going 0-16? You are going to put sucky film about yourself out there for other teams to go "Yeah, this guy is some trash!"?

And I don't know how you can say the NFL is NOT Fake when teams are tanking. "No, No, they are playing hard it's just if they get a chance to throw the game they will!"

Not to mention it dulls the competitive edge. What are you getting from a game against a team that is tanking? You get infected by the idea you can not only take plays off but take games off.

I hope that hasn't already happened to Washington.

The Commanders need to play hard and be professional in order to win any game. Including this one. I doubt the Offense under EB is going to get lazy with any team, especially the Cardinals. 

But the Defense is another story. NFL teams in general don't tackle well early in the season. They just don't do enough of it in preseason. This Commander franchise in particular under this coaching staff starts turtle slow on Defense. 

And if they tack getting lazy or letting down onto starting slow, well we are talking a Titanic Level disaster on Defense.

That's not even counting the natural shock of playing with an Offense that scores points. Finding yourself back on the field quicker than you are used to. That takes sharper focus. Do they have that sharper focus? Do they have the depth?

Do they have the fire and professionalism of the Offense?

Because there is no way they will beat the hell out of the Cardinals or anybody without that burning desire to play good football.