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<blockquote data-quote="Groundhog" data-source="post: 1131428" data-attributes="member: 50079"><p>I don't watch basketball or baseball, so I can't comment. The Browns remain **** because they're an impressively terrible organisation. And you can't argue they haven't improved through the draft anyway. Only used them as a hypothetical, but, actual examples, the Colts went from 2-14 in 2011 to 11-5 in 2012 because they drafted Andrew Luck. The Chiefs were a 2 win team in 2012. The Bengals in the last few years are a good example too! Yes tanking is its own issue, but if you want to be a doormat, you can be a doormat imo. Certainly no one tanked in the NFL this year, it was fairly competitive.</p><p></p><p>The point being NFL teams can turn their fortunes around in a way that the likes of Zebre or Dragons in rugby can't really. If you don't have the player base you don't have the player base. The draft remains the great equaliser in American sport, which is completely not replicable anywhere else, but it can make awful teams competitive in the medium term.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Groundhog, post: 1131428, member: 50079"] I don't watch basketball or baseball, so I can't comment. The Browns remain **** because they're an impressively terrible organisation. And you can't argue they haven't improved through the draft anyway. Only used them as a hypothetical, but, actual examples, the Colts went from 2-14 in 2011 to 11-5 in 2012 because they drafted Andrew Luck. The Chiefs were a 2 win team in 2012. The Bengals in the last few years are a good example too! Yes tanking is its own issue, but if you want to be a doormat, you can be a doormat imo. Certainly no one tanked in the NFL this year, it was fairly competitive. The point being NFL teams can turn their fortunes around in a way that the likes of Zebre or Dragons in rugby can't really. If you don't have the player base you don't have the player base. The draft remains the great equaliser in American sport, which is completely not replicable anywhere else, but it can make awful teams competitive in the medium term. [/QUOTE]
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