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Right but designing your team to not be competitive with others teams does same. It fucks with the careers of many players and coaches.There's a difference between fans wanting a better draft position and actively rigging matches. Going beyond the betting and match fixing side of it, it really fucks with the careers of many players and coaches. Careers in the NFL can be incredibly short, and a HC, GM or owner fucking over your image can cost you millions, and leave you out of the league.
How is the career of David Culley looking right now? A HC that was hired to oversee a team that, extremely clearly, was NOT designed to compete with other NFL teams at a high level this year.
I'm just struggling to understand how fans are seemingly unbothered by management designing a team to not succeed, but are apparently appalled when there's monetary values associated with same. It's kind of just an extension of BountyGate. It didn't surprise anybody in the slightest that coaches were giving incentives to players to hurt other players, but when they actually physically see it, they pretend to be appalled by it.
The outcome is the same. The only difference is now you know how the sausage is made, and its uglier than you thought.
I do agree that Ross paying a coach to lose is bad, and he should probably be forced to sell for that. I also think its about the only important topic that's coming out of this whole process. I don't find really any of Flores other complaints to be overly egregious.
Which again goes back to my point of "what does Ross offering Flores $100K to lose have to do with racism in the NFL"? Answer... nothing. And that's why its not really about racism. It's about negative PR and a settlement demand.