Necessity is the mother of invention. But it’s also the mother of crazy, rash, lunatic solutions to scary-sounding problems. Just ask the Soviet Union how it dealt with foreign debt.
NFL teams aren’t nation-states, but they are billion-dollar organizations that stand to gain and lose quite a lot on the backs of day-to-day decisions. Not making the playoffs when you are expected to can lead to a lot of important ones, and weighing all options to hopefully land on rational solutions is key to running a solid franchise.
But rationality is booooooooooring. Every team that has ever failed, spectacularly or whimperingly, has felt the nagging inclination to pull out the big
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