Originally posted by SmokeyJoe:
It's the pretzel logic for me.
The guy makes the argument that Kyle wouldn't have traded for Jimmy G, effectively lose on purpose, all in an effort to land a draft prospect (if he were to have liked one).
Then he simultaneously makes the argument that Kyle was willing to be convinced to take Lance instead Jones in a matter of weeks.
On one hand he wants you to believe Kyle is so stringent he wouldn't dare veer off a plan, and on the other he wants you to believe the opposite.
"Effectively lost on purpose."
Yeah, because not trading a 2nd round pick for a team's backup is "effectively losing on purpose."
The head coach and personnel boss of a rebuilding, 0-8 team thinks there's an amazing QB prospect in the upcoming draft, but he just can't stand the thought of a bad enough record for a pick to guarantee he can get that guy. He needs to trade a 2nd round pick - which totally wouldn't come in handy for rebuilding this winless team - and use it on a team's backup QB so he can start him during the season and see if this backup could be a QB of the future instead of this prospect he loves so much.