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Originally Posted by molson
They shouldn't have any less chance of getting high picks than the Eagles or Raiders. But if getting the #1 pick is the only way those teams can ever win (which I don't think is true at all), and the league continues to award structural advantages for being bad, then nobody should complain if teams try to lose, or offer coaches money to lose, or more simply, just not show up for games in the future and forfeit. That should be a legitimate means of how teams operate and hire and reward coaches if those teams. It just would have to happen out in the open.
The league survives and thrives just fine if OK franchises get the best college players some of the time. If some teams are just inferior forever if they're treated the same as everyone else, that's their problem. Maybe the Lions should just get the first two or three picks every year until they win a playoff game if that's just a critical thing, if they need that advantage to do that and everybody decides its just so unfair to them that they've run their own team into the ground for 6 decades.
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I can't see the solution being to put game-changing players like Peyton Manning and Joe Burrow on an 8-8 team (or 9-8 these days) and telling cities at 4-13 good luck turning it around with Paxton Lynch or Johnny Manziel.
edit: As well as the 24th best choice in every other round as well...